dipper & mabel arenāt 1:1 parallels of stan & ford - sure, it might be easier to spot similarities between dipper & ford and mabel & stan, but there are some really important traits that dipper & stan / mabel & ford share
one of the biggest ones for me that i wish people talked about more is their inherent attitudes towards trust
ford is not a naturally paranoid person, doesnāt have much experience with other people, and is a really bad judge of character. thatās a big part of why he was so easy for bill to manipulate - bill could just show up and be like āiām a muse !!ā and ford would believe him, because thatās the type of person he is. i donāt think he ever actually got better at figuring out whoās trustworthy and whoās not, either - ātrust no oneā is just an inverse of ātrust everyoneā born of trauma
mabel is, in practice, the same way. i canāt really give a particular reason that ford is so trusting - it just seems to be part of his personality - but for her itās that she sees the best in everyone, no matter who they are or what theyāve done
stan & dipper are the opposite. theyāre both inherently distrustful of other people. again, they have different personalities and different reasons for this - stan is a professional conman and is fully prepared for anyone he speaks to to be the same way, while dipper is more like āwhat if theyāre actually 4,000 termites in human clothesā - but the end result is the same. theyāre significantly less likely to take things at face value than their twins
anyways in relativity falls mabel should be the one who built the portal i said what i said