i know you have stan figure out ford is his estranged twin whom he lost memories of but the âjust doesnât realise he has a twin despite working to open the portalâ angle is so funny to me . alternate au path đ
guy doesnt call home or anything for thirty years, never meets the twins at birth & their parents are still like⌠messy divorce or super estranged great uncle who wont answer our calls. ⌠great uncle it is. divorce leads children to the worst places.. (gravity falls)
dipper: are you even our grunkle?!?
stan, âknowingâ full well he just stole someone elseâs identity that is probably their âactual grunkleâ: well. you see.
. also him looking @ the twins being twins & going why do i have such deep-seated sadness & anger at this fact. at the very concept of twin siblings⌠WELL! guess i will never know!
oh okay okay wait what if. parent's are like "messy divorce or living with their grandpa for a summer" but shermie is like. hey wow i'm so sorry but actually i [insert reasonable and inflexible excuse here] so I cannot take care of the kids for the summer. however i have this brother he's a scientist and has an insane amount of PhDs and he lives in this lovely little town in Oregon and I'm sure he would love to host the kids for the summer 𼰠(this is shermie's master plan to get Stan to actually fucking talk to the family again it's been so long man cmon). And pines parents are like Okay We Trust You Let's Go Ship Our Children Off To Oregon and bada bing bada boom Stan has two kids now
even funnier is if shermie is just as insane as his brothers even though he doesn't act like it so he just. didn't tell stan the twins were coming. he assures the parents that he's been in contact w stan this whole time and has worked everything out but no he's just going to let stan get some surprise grand-niblings for the summer.
also. stan, looking at dipper and mabel's deep Twin Bond: this creates no strong emotions in me and I don't have any particular feelings about the concept of being a twin. anyways back to this portal i've been frantically trying to repair for three decades for some deep-seated-yet-unknown reason. surely these things have no relation!