Everything about Dipper's first reincarnation. Please. I recently learned that he has reincarnations after godcor, and I want to k ow everything!
Mod O here! I have a few things in mind for the incarnation I once wrote (and drew) as his hypothetical first:
He’s a second-born twin to a girl with Mabel’s soul. Their parents happen to be the physical and spiritual leaders of their tribe - the Head and the Soul. Typically these leaders are a married couple, with an heir by blood or adoption who grows up to fill one role, with whoever they marry taking on the other.
Imamu (r!Dipper) and Furaha (r!Mabel) actually grow up to be the Soul and Head (respectively) of the tribe as brother and sister instead of the traditional practice of one taking a role and marrying someone to fill the other. They are supremely well balanced for the act, and are remembered for generations after as the greatest leaders the tribe has ever had - they probably even become legends, in fact.
In this particular incarnation, Furaha is actually ace and Imamu is bi. He marries outside the tribe, but I don’t know what course that takes, other than there is love there and they choose each other, and that he’s fully an adult by our reckoning by that time. I want to say early 20s? In a culture where it’s not abnormal to marry at 16-18, he’s a late bloomer in that realm, but he’s happy with the person he finds when he finds them. Furaha doesn’t marry but she’s the best auntie to her own niblings.
Imamu is, as I said in the tags on my fic, a bit of an arrogant little snot as a teenager. He’s special, and he grew up knowing it. He’s got magical powers of light and fire and bears spectral wings when he feels like it, and the gods (i.e. the ascended Flock) clearly favor if not adore him.
Despite all he has going for him, though, he goes through some tough life lessons at some point during his late teens, and he comes back down to earth, so to speak. I’m not sure he ever achieves perfect humility, but he’s no longer convinced that the world revolves around him, and he’s a better person for it.
Basically he lives a long and good life. There are rough spots of course, hardships and heartaches to balance triumphs and contentedness, but as far as a life goes it probably works out to a net positive. He dies wrinkled and white haired and surrounded by children and grandchildren, and within minutes of his twin sister.