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CHARACTER INFO

Name: Stanley Pines
Canon: Gravity Falls
Canon Point: Post-Canon (CRAU: Deer Country)
Age: Old. Probably late 60s by now but all this world-hopping makes it hard to count. Same age as Ford, if he winds up apping!
Species: Human...ish. Human originally, then Deer Country messed around with that and now he's closer to a human-shaped squid person with fun blood powers. In Deer Country they're called "Sleepers" and kind of like Demi-Gods!

History: Wiki Link and as a bonus, a bullet point list of important events from the last place (middle of the app, under "Additional Adjustments to include").

Personality:

✽ What is your character's main motivation? What drives them and keeps them going?

• "Everything I've worked for, everything I care about, it's all for this family!"


• The thing Stan cares most about in this and every life is his family. Usually this is blood relation, but sometimes this means getting added to the no-fly list to try and get your Son-ployee's birthday removed from the calendar. He would do anything, literally anything for his family, no matter how much he tries to insist otherwise.

✽ What is their biggest regret? Why?

• The biggest regret is probably still breaking Ford's science fair project when they were 17. An argument could be made for that time he knocked Ford into a dimensional portal for 30 years, and it isn't that he doesn't regret that, but he eventually brought Ford home whereas he can't unbreak Ford's project 50 years later. Stan's response to screwing up big-time tends to be attempting to fix things as best as he can. With the science fair project, Stan attempted to quickly fix it and failed. Then, when the problem became that Ford was mad about it he tried to find a silver lining and cheer him up, but it backfired bigtime and made it seem like he did it on purpose so Ford would go sailing with him like they dreamed about. Then, when the problem became that their father kicked him out until he could make a fortune to replace the money Ford would have earned from his invention, he did literally everything he could to try and make that fortune so he could go back home. In short, almost all of his other life regrets are related to this one screw-up that he can't ever really do anything about. Everything boils down to the perpetual motion machine.

✽ What is their worst fear? Their greatest comfort?

• WORST FEAR: Recently we were given a canon answer to this! However, given the pattern of how Stan tends to lie and joke around, the three separate bullet points about his "smaller than average fingerprints" and losing at poker to Dipper are probably fake to distract from the real fears. The IRS finding out about him committing identity fraud for 30+ years would essentially end his life - not in a death penalty way, but it would effectively put an end to just about everything that matters to him in his life. Even post-canon, it would cut his happily ever after with his brother short, and we can't have that! Soos finding his body is also probably more about the fact that Soos sees him as a father figure and he already lost the first one, and can reasonably be expanded to assume he wouldn't want anyone he cares about to find him permanently dead somewhere.


• GREATEST COMFORT: I'm going to sound like a broken record, but - his family! Nothing is more comforting to Stan than sitting around a TV with everyone he loves curled up around him. He spent a lot of his life alone and likes to act like he doesn't need anybody, but the truth is that Stan really needs people. It's only somewhat recently that he's regained familial love that isn't conditional to some degree, and he's needed that for his whole life.

✽ Top three strengths?

1. HIS CRUNCHY BURNT GOOEY MASHMALLOW HEART: For all that Stan insists that he's a rude jerk who doesn't care about anyone, he cares so much about the people he does care about. It's this quality that makes him the kind of person who will gladly throw himself in harm's way if his family is in danger, or sacrifice his memories to save them from a horrible triangle demon.


2. PUNCHING!: Stan spent his childhood taking boxing lessons and his young adulthood using those boxing lessons to get himself in and out of trouble. He still has an excellent amount of upper body strength and a mean left hook and is just generally strong for his age no matter how much he whines about getting old and being out of shape. Look at this man holding himself up by his chicken legs on scaffolding while he punches eagles!


3. CREATIVITY (FOR BETTER OR WORSE): Ford was always the smart twin but Stan has a lot of artistic talent, even if it often comes out in odd ways. According to the Lost Legends graphic novel he wanted to be a comic book artist when he was a kid and worked on one in secret, only to get rejected. He was always treated as dumber than Ford because no one in his life considered creativity a worthwhile, marketable talent (except maybe his mom, who always called him her little free spirit). After he got kicked out, he didn't have a high school diploma or money, so he tried selling all sorts of products that were based more around catchy puns than whether or not they actually worked. And of course, once he got to Gravity Falls and had to pose as Ford, he turned Ford's house into a tourist trap full of taxidermy abominations that he made himself! He considers the last few more scamming than art, but there's no denying that it takes actual skill to craft these things and come up with material to use on tourists. Eventually he took this up again in Trench, even though he didn't need to do that kind of work anymore! Ford is book smart and science smart, sure, but if you need a creative solution to something Stan is your man.

✽ Top three weaknesses?

1. KLEPTOMANIA AND COMPULSIVE LYING: These get to be listed together because they sort of stem from the same place. Stan doesn't just steal and lie. Stan steals and lies even when he doesn't need to, just for fun. There have been times when he needed to lie, cheat, and steal to survive in the world of course (and that's given him a fourth strength - the ability to read people pretty well and not get fooled by con artists). Since Ford got a lot of attention for his academic strengths, Stan tended to get his attention in more...negative ways, for negative reasons. Word of God says that Stan picked his first pocket when he was four, and what could a four year old need so badly that he had to pick a pocket for it? He was good at it though, and good at compulsively lying like his mother and finding creative ways around the rules, but all these things he's good at are "bad" and "wrong" so he got a reputation for being a liar and a cheat and just riding on Ford's coattails. At this point in his life though, Stan's accepted this about himself - even if occasionally it leads to him getting cursed by a witch to lose his hands.


2. LOW SELF ESTEEM: Stan's been told he was good for nothing his entire life, and when that kind of talk is standard in your house you start to believe it after a while - especially when you start fucking up your life and the lives of everyone around you. He cares a lot about what his family thinks of him, and he has a lot of unresolved father issues because Filbrick Pines died before Stan could ever make that fortune and earn his love and respect. Sometimes this issue yo-yos in the opposite direction though, of Stan being too prideful because something in him is yelling that he's the only one who will ever stick up for him. Even Ford hated him for a while! They've only somewhat recently patched things up and they still run into issues sometimes where Stan will be a little too self-deprecating with his jokes, or hide how he's really feeling because he doesn't fully trust his loved ones with his heart. This is something getting better with time though, especially now that Ford is committed to sailing with Stan and spending the rest of their lives making up for lost time. Another thing to note is that this is also the source of the biggest blind spot in his ability to spot a scam - if a pretty woman has nice things to say to him, he is going to wind up married in Vegas or in a literal spiderwoman's den. Finally, this has led to a tendency for Stan to hide his efforts at things unless he's proven it was successful, because he doesn't want to hear what he assumes everyone thinks - "Of course he failed, it's Stan! What were you expecting?"


3. LOW-KEY ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY: This is complicated because he's from a children's show, but Stan can go overboard in a number of ways. We see him on-screen have a wild night in Vegas to the point that he has to hitch-hike back to Gravity Falls with his goldminer statue wife and it's canonically not the first time he's had a bad night in Vegas. Sometimes his fondness for stealing is truly a compulsion that gets him in trouble. He quit cigars before the kids got to Gravity Falls, and there's something about "stripping for edible flour" and accidentally inhaling enough taxidermy glue to get high, rob himself, and black out in the newest thisisnotawebsite updates, plus a couple of times on screen where he's shown drinking through difficult situations he thought were hopeless. He once lost $100,000 by going double or nothing on a game show once, and another time we see him desperately trying to win a scratch ticket even though he's living out of his car with presumably very little to his name. The impression I get personally from this is that Stan can white knuckle his way to stopping a lot of things if he has to (since in all of the drinking examples he comes up with a solution VERY shortly after this is shown, and he does quit smoking cigars and switch to soda for the summer), but there have been points where he's gotten miserable enough to lean into short term relief. I'd say the major exception is that gambling is always going to tempt him a little more than it should.

✽ What was their last lie?

• According to the actual canon source material, his last lie of the series is "Kids, you knuckleheads were nothin' but a nuisance and I'm glad to be rid of ya." This is said while crying, hugging the children tight, and wearing a pink sweater Mabel made him that says "Goodbye Stan" in 80 degree weather. This isn't an estimation; immediately before this lie he lies and says he had to wear the sweater because it's cold and Soos points out that it's 80 degrees and Stan tells him to can it.


• If we count the new thisisnotawebsite content though, it's probably this extremely good doodle that speaks for itself really.

Inventory:

1. THE RED HERRING: It's a red cane with a bird skull for a handle, but with a flick of a wrist it reveals a concealed gun. Was part of his tourist trap costume, but would also carry it around as a hidden weapon. Made by Ruby from RWBY.
2. TRENCH CLOTHES: The vibe was Victorian gothic, but pirate was more his speed (art by Jami).
3. CIGAR BOX WITH ~15 PHOTOS FROM HOME: Functions as an emergency memory loss kit - does not work on event-specific or setting specific causes of amnesia (in other words, if Stan has a memory lapse related to his canon memory loss it will help with that, but if idk some monster bite makes you forget who you are it won't work. It's functionally more of a comfort item.)
4. LEATHER BRACELET: Gift from Ford, made of leather straps and cords, silver latches, moonstone beads, and unicorn hair. "The bracelet will allow Stan to summon a single photograph from the box of them he keeps at home. The photograph is chosen randomly; only photos stored in the box can be summoned; and the bracelet only carries one charge, which will be replenished on the next full, new, or half moon." Almost never takes it off.
5. COIN PURSE FULL OF...SHINY ROCKS, SEASHELLS, AND LITTLE BONES?: The City of Trench had a barter economy, so this is effectively his wallet. He'll probably try bartering with it again, but the exchange rate probably isn't the same. The bones would have been worth the most in Trench, due to their association with protection magic.
6. POLLUX: Will explain more under abilities, but all Sleepers have Omens that protect them - Stan's is a seagull.

Abilities:

CANON:

• A normal human with normal human levels of ability, but I'm going to note that Stan is an incredible lucid dreamer. He has an immense amount of control in what his canon calls the "mindscape", to the point where he was able to consolidate every inch of his subconscious into one room to fool an intruder. This isn't considered a "power" in Gravity Falls canon, but a skill that could be potentially learned by anyone. There are spells that could make someone enter another person's mind, but Stan has never used them and thus doesn't have the ability to dreamwalk. It only affects his own mind, and it isn't foolproof (he can still have nightmares, for example), but it will be a fun surprise if anyone can dreamwalk or if any relevant events come up. A skilled dreamwalker could potentially run circles around him, but before he and Dipper were split up he was actually giving Dipper a place to practice dreamwalking!

CRAU:

• SLEEPER PHYSIOLOGY: Like Dipper (who I'm hoping has desensitized everyone to this CRAU), Stan is part squid these days. The world of Deer Country changed him on a physical level, but if he is ever really severely hurt or killed, he reverts back to squid form! Eventually he will resume a human form and be a little disoriented for 24-48 hours, but otherwise be fine. In the context of this game, I think this would mean reviving in the garden as a squid, and then handling the price to return once he has human limbs again, but definitely let me know if that clashes with anything. Sleepers in general are a little more durable than a standard human and can heal from mundane injuries more quickly.
• BLOOD MAGIC (COLDBLOOD PHYSIOLOGY): Becoming a Sleeper gave Stan blood magic as well, but his works a little differently than Dipper's! He's a coldblood, which ironically deals with anything that can burn you (extreme cold, extreme heat). Stan is physically very cold to the touch and runs a little pale, though not abnormally so unless you get him blushing for some reason. His blood is blue, but when he bleeds his blood actually immediately freezes. Stan is also now immune to both extreme heat and extreme cold because of his new blood type.
• BLOOD MAGIC (COLDBLOOD FLAMES): There are many ways coldblood magic can present itself, but for Stan it presents exclusively as electric blue flames. It likely stems from one of two things - the association with Bill Cipher's flame magic, or the association with the blue flames of the memory gun that still burn in parts of his memory that he doesn't have photographs or video of (in other words, his damaged memory presenting as a strength). He probably could use it for fighting if he absolutely had to, but ultimately he's still more comfortable with normal weapons (though being able to flame punch stuff is pretty great). More often than not he uses his flame powers in much more mundane ways, like treating himself like a human welding torch, lighting a campfire with his bare hands, keeping drinks warm, or even making the family "Staninis" by grilling sandwiches between his palms. He adapted to his skillset quicker than the rest of his family did theirs because it's a very physical skillset and Stan has high bodily-kinesthetic intelligence in general, so a lot of how his powers work feels intuitive. He's also capable of some creative pyrotechnics (since he ran another tourist trap in Trench), but the bigger the flame the more exhausted he is after he casts it.
• OMEN (POLLUX - SEAGULL): All Sleepers have an Omen inside of them - a smoky animal that represents who they are as a person, sort of like a daemon in the Golden Compass series. Unless summoned they tend to remain inside the Sleeper's chest and they serve as a sort of guardian. They're able to protect the Sleeper to a degree in that they can sense danger, send messages, or reflect their Sleeper's internal state. Stan will sometimes send Pollux to scout for him, aka let her fly around and see if she spots any immediate danger or Dipper getting up to something he shouldn't be getting up to.
• CORRUPTION/BEASTHOOD: The tradeoff for getting cool new blood powers is that Stan is always at risk of corrupting if he doesn't keep his mental health in check. His presents differently than Dipper's because it's something that is unique to each Sleeper's problems, and Stan's are heavily based around his burning memory.

Sample: TDM top level! | PSL with Dipper!

CORRUPTION STAGES

STAGE 1

ᛥ BASELINE: ⋙ His canon disposition and average power levels! Stan is friendly and outgoing, loud and brash, and very lively. He doesn't always outwardly act like it, but he very deeply cares about his loved ones and would do anything for them, even if it means making sacrifices for them.

STAGE 2

ᛥ INSOMNIA: ⋙ A frankly common Pines family trait - no one is sure if it's low level corruption or just sort of who they are as people.

ᛥ HYPERFOCUS/HYPERVIGILANCE: ⋙ When stressed out, Stan tends to focus on what he actually can do instead of processing whatever is stressing him out so much. It's a very "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" attitude that isn't always good for him.

ᛥ FATIGUE: ⋙ As a part of corruption, and because his blood type requires more rest than others, fatigue will set in early if he's corrupted.

ᛥ POST-DEATH: ⋙ If Stan dies as a Beast he will revive at minimum Stage 2 or higher.

STAGE 3

ᛥ ALL STAGE 2 SYMPTOMS: ⋙ Previous symptoms will either remain in place or become worse.

ᛥ MEMORY LOSS: ⋙ As corruption becomes worse for Stan, he will start to have short-term memory issues (as opposed to his more typical retrograde amnesia issues). It will be small things at first, like walking into a room and forgetting what he was doing there, and will get progressively worse as he corrupts more.

ᛥ LOST TIME: ⋙ This may also come with lost time, where Stan zones out a little too much and forgets what happened while he was zoned out. It will mostly just unsettle him, like driving past a dozen highway exits in a blink when you're tired.

ᛥ DIFFICULTY FOCUSING: ⋙ More fatigue will inevitably lead to this, but at lower stages he will still be present enough of mind for it to frustrate him.

STAGE 4

ᛥ ALL STAGE 2 + 3 SYMPTOMS: ⋙ Previous symptoms will either remain in place or become worse.

ᛥ GENERAL CONFUSION: ⋙ As the pervious side effects become worse, Stan will experience moments of confusion where he regresses to how he was when he was recovering his memory the first time. He will be generally more agreeable and easily suggestable, and may not recall certain dangers of the setting. HOWEVER, if he has just regained his human form after reviving, he will experience this type of confusion for 12-24 hours after revival and steadily improve to Stage 2.

ᛥ ASH COMPLEXION: ⋙ His skin will gradually start to take a grey-ish tone as his corruption worsens. For his family in particular this may be reminiscent of the time he almost turned into an ink blob on them, and given what Dipper learned about others who experienced that, may be a sign of what's to come.

ᛥ NUMBNESS: ⋙ Once his skin begins to change, he will no longer be able to feel any sensations in it, good or bad. It will make him slow to react when others touch him, though at this point he will still be able to be touched.

STAGE 5

ᛥ ALL STAGE 2 + 3 + 4 SYMPTOMS: ⋙ Previous symptoms will either remain in place or become worse. Changes from here on will happen rapidly and Beasthood is almost certain.

ᛥ EYE COLOR CHANGE: ⋙ His eyes will change from brown to electric blue! This seems innocent enough at first, but a close observer will see that the iris and pupil flicker and waver - as though made of flames. In addition, more eyes may begin to appear, sweeping up toward his temples. At this stage, they also glow in darkness like candles.

ᛥ COMPLEXION: ⋙ In addition to his skin looking like literal ash, it will now flake and smolder like actual ashes, with small points of blue flame appearing. At this point he cannot be touched without receiving burns.

ᛥ FANGS + CLAWS: ⋙ Under his dentures fangs will begin to grow, to the point where the dentures will no longer fit. Dark claws will spout from his smoldering hands.

B E A S T H O O D

ᛥ BEAST FORM: ⋙

ᛥ LITERALLY ON FIRE INSIDE: ⋙ What's left of Stan is literally burning from the inside out, visible through his eyes (which are now entirely fire) and through the brand on his back. It cannot be extinguished without killing him. He's literally smoldering and will leave scorch marks on everything - the ground, buildings, you and your friends, everything that comes in contact with him.

ᛥ FIGHT OR FLIGHT: ⋙ Without his memories but stuck in a terrifying monster form, Stan will alternate between fight and flight often. He will attack if threatened directly, but will also run if that's what he has to do to survive. It will make a fight against him a difficult one for close CR. He's probably more scared of you than you are of him. ...Maybe.

ᛥ SMOKEY: ⋙ Due to the smoke that billows off of him, he could accidentally be mistaken for a very large omen. This is not a mistake you will survive to make twice.

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⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes! Will be met with grumbling, unless it's a member of his family, or close CR he considers family. Is very physically affectionate with family! (Hugs, noogies, high fives sixes, etc)

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure, but ask for anything severe! He will probably fight back though and he can pack a punch.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Absolutely, but it will only be reciprocated to characters who either are or appear to be in his general age-range (there's wiggle room here, I just don't want to be a creep).

SEXUAL CONTENT: Ask first! Same principle as above though, no babies allowed.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Ask first! Less for permission and more so I can give you cool things to see and stuff. Also, please ask first if any of it has a memory loss component.

MAGIC/POWERS: Sure! But ask if anything is going to be particularly violent!

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Uses a hearing aid and has dentures. Has an assortment of made-up illnesses that he will try to claim as well, such as "money lung" and "Achilles' everything". He also has a number of old scars that he has wild stories for. There is a brand on his upper back in an intricate design that he received by getting kicked into something hot by Ford while they were fighting in their 30s. In Deerington, he received burn scars across his torso and upper arms in a ring and around the outside of his wrists, from magical constricting rope burn.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Nothing that should actually be avoided ICly. He's a little sensitive about how much he resembles his father, so any reminders of that will make him a little tense, and sometimes realizing he has a missing gap in his memories can be uncomfortable. He also has some pretty intense claustrophobia!

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: Yes, definitely, absolutely.

FOURTH WALLING: I'm 100% comfortable with 4th walling! Definitely ask first for anything major though - I don't want to mess up my castmates.

THREADHOPPING: If it's an open post from me, go for it! If it's someone else's open post, it's up to them imo.

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Discussions of child abuse, blood-sucking (like, explicit vampirism) and extreme blood loss, disordered eating, homophobia/transphobia, panic attacks, exposed bones (like, poking out through skin in a serious fracture)

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: Warnings for fatphobia would be great, and I'd definitely rather not go there in my own threads. No sexy blood-sucking ever please. If I think of anything else, I'll come back and add it!

ANYTHING ELSE: Nope! That about covers it, I think!

User Name/Nick: Billie Sue
User DW: loser_day
E-mail: timefortags[at]gmail.com
Other Characters: N/A

Character Name: Stanley Pines
Series: Gravity Falls
Age: 66, fifteen minutes younger than his twin brother Ford.
From When?: Post-canon, a week or two into his voyage with Ford.

Inmate/Warden: Warden - It's something that might come as a surprise (particularly to Stan himself) given the amount of time he's spent in prison over the years, but he would make a better warden than inmate. He's gotten himself into a lot of hot water in his lifetime, but it puts him in a unique position to relate to others who are down on their luck. He can be stern, particularly when it's for someone's own good, and he's not afraid to put his foot down and say what needs to be said. He also knows the difference between getting into trouble because you don't have any options left and getting in trouble because trouble can be fun sometimes. He's learned a lot of life lessons the hard way, and will gladly point at himself and say "See this?? You don't wanna be this."

He's definitely capable of helping an inmate graduate, especially if it's someone he's become emotionally invested in - he's a big ol' softy at heart, so even though he has his own reasons for becoming a warden he will still genuinely care about whether his inmate graduates or not. Plus, if he can't help then he's going to feel like a failure for the millionth time in his life, and he can't have that!

Item: A palm sized hand bearing compass, since he's just come from ocean adventures. In order to use one of these little puck-shaped models, you have to hold it up to your eye to read it (like so), but instead of showing the bearing it will give him information like where his inmate is, etc.

Arrival: N/A - Warden

Abilities/Powers: He doesn't have any magical abilities, and for all intents and purposes he is a regular human being. He is, however, a lot stronger than he looks and throws a mean left hook. On top of that he's much more clever than he gives himself credit for. He's been shown to be able to lucidly dream and manipulate what his canon calls the "mindscape", and he used this ability to trick Bill Cipher into his own demise. He's also street smart and very hard to trick - it's hard to con a conman!

Personality: A significant portion of Stan's personality is defined by him being Ford's twin brother. They were two halves of a whole, and Ford was Stan's only friend. However, Ford is brilliant and next to him Stan was always treated as an idiot who could never compare - to the point where he really started to believe it. He just accepted that he was never going to be good at school, so he stopped trying. Their father Filbrick was very difficult to impress, and it frequently felt like Stan was in a competition against Ford he could never win.

Still, Stan always held his father in high esteem and respect, which has led to a lot of issues over the years. Even though his father kicked him out of the house before 18 and told him he wasn't welcome back until he made a fortune to make up for the fortune he'd cost Ford by breaking his project, Stan never blamed him for it. Instead he just tied up all of his self-worth for decades in his ability to make money, and any time he failed at that he'd think about how his father was right about him all along.

As one could imagine from this, Stan doesn't have very high self-esteem. He acts like he does, sure, but he doesn't actually consider himself to be good at many things. On top of that, the things he is good at all involve lying and cheating and stealing, or at least that's how it feels. He doesn't expect to succeed at most things, and has a tendency to hide his endeavors if he's really trying at something that's important to him. He doesn't want to show his efforts before he's actually pulled it off - that way if he fails, no one will know but him.

Now, he wouldn't want you getting the idea he's some kind of sad sack! Stan's loud and boisterous and even when he was a kid his mother defended him by saying he has "personality". He's quick with a joke and has a way of telling stories about himself in a way where they make people laugh instead of worry. He doesn't like to take himself too seriously, and that's only become more true as he's gotten older. He cares a lot less about embarrassing himself or making a fool of himself, as he's embraced the attitude of "I'm old and I can do what I want!" - at least when it comes to things like eating a gallon of ice cream for dinner or yelling his opinions loudly with no filter.

He also has a very...skewed sense of morality, let's say. A significant portion of his life was spent on the road and doing anything he could to make a quick buck, so he doesn't have a lot of respect for the law. He's committed so many crimes that he had to start making up names for them (ask him about "burglebezzlement" sometime!). Stan's not about to go around murdering anyone, but he has zero qualms with stealing, whether it's pick-pocketing or looting a government agency for their toxic waste.

And why would he need toxic waste? Because Stan would do anything for his family. His years on the road were about accomplishing an impossible goal so he could finally return home, and then he went from that to spending thirty whole years trying to save Ford from the inter-dimensional portal he was knocked into. He dropped everything and made an entirely new life for himself centered around saving Ford. Did it involve a little identity theft and tax fraud? Sure did! But he would do anything, anything for his loved ones. He'd even have his entire identity wiped away to save them, if that's what he had to do.

However, on the rare occasion that Stan can see he's being taken advantage of by family or unappreciated by them, he quickly flips to furious and hurt, and he's very capable of holding grudges until the situation is made right. He can't stand it when he goes through the effort to try for someone only to have them dismiss it. However, once amends are made? It's like nothing ever happened. For someone who holds grudges as much as he does, he's very quick to forgive.

Overall, he comes off as a light-hearted idiot who doesn't care about anyone but himself, but as the show says in code many times, Stan is not what he seems.

Barge Reactions: Stan has spent thirty years in Gravity Falls, Oregon, which is basically a weirdness magnet. Sure, he didn't actively go out seeking any of the weirdness, but he knew it was there and knew how to deal with it (which was usually by ignoring it and keeping his mouth shut so that mind-erasing cult wouldn't zap him).

He isn't afraid of weirdness - "cautious" would probably be a better word for it. He very much likes being alive and having all of his limbs, so if he can opt out of something that seems dangerous he probably will, unless 1. there's money involved or 2. someone goads him into it (probably Ford). If it seems safe enough, or if there's something there to tempt him, he might be willing to explore a port.

Because of Ford and the portal, Stan's aware that other dimensions and the multiverse exist, so he won't be too jarred by the presence of non-human species or alternate worlds. Plus again, there were plenty of sentient non-humans in Gravity Falls. Some of them even holed up with him during Weirdmageddon!

I'm aware going in that there was a Stan Pines in TLV long before me. Stan will not remember his previous time on the barge; However, in canon he had his memory completely erased and was only able to have it restored by seeing photographs and video of what he lost. On the off chance he encounters someone who knew him the first time around, or someone tells him he used to be on the Barge, he probably won't be as surprised as he should be - he won't remember and no amount of evidence on the Barge will make him actually remember, but he knows he has a couple of gaps in his memory, so he'll actually readily believe it without much fuss. It won't be the same as actually remembering though, so he would have to make that CR over again.

Path to Redemption: N/A - Warden

Deal: Initially, Ford started out as an inmate because he didn't survive an encounter with a giant squid they had on the sea. Stan is going to be from the same timeline, but he survived the encounter. The Admiral approached him to make a deal to bring Ford back and Stan, seeing no other options and with nothing left to lose at that point, agreed.

History: Wiki!

Sample Journal Entry: Test Drive Meme!
Sample RP:

Five minutes ago, Stan watched his brother sink into the ocean.

Okay, well. Not five minutes ago, but it sure feels like it. Five minutes ago he was clutching the rail, yelling Ford's name into the sea. His stomach still feels like it bottomed out in his home dimension and didn't come with him to this space barge. It was so recent that if he stills he can feel the sway of the waves.

After that is sort of a blur of questionable decisions (but then again, is that really anything new for him anymore?). The important thing is that he's on this dumb prison boat and he's going to graduate someone if it's the last thing he does. He just spent thirty years saving Ford, and they only just made up - he can't just let go now, after all that! Not if there's a way for him to do something about it anyway.

He's eyeing his hand-bearing compass, musing over all of this and trying to-- well, get his bearings, when the entire barge shakes. Stan startles and immediately reaches for the nearest wall to steady himself. Then, an announcement rings out--

"Attention, passengers--"

"OH COME ON!" Stan bangs on the wall as hard as he can. "I just got here! Can't you let a guy settle in a bit?!"

Stan doesn't hear the rest of the message over his own yelling, and it doesn't dawn on him until afterwards that maybe that wasn't his best reaction. Either way, he knows the answer is no - he can't settle and he can't keep wallowing. They're taking on water.

Special Notes: N/A!

"Hi! You've reached Stan Pines' magic phone box thing or whatever. Leave me a message and maybe if I care enough about what you've got to say I'll actually get back to you. I probably don't, but hey! Test your luck! (Followed by obnoxious laughter until the BEEP)"

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CLOSED FOR BUSINESS

So, we thought A Tale of Two Stans was going to make things easier, but really it just raised more questions than it answered! Like how the heck is baby Shermy old enough to be a grandfather? And how long was Stan on the road anyway? When did Ford graduate? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

This is the only timeline I've been able to come up with that makes any kind of sense at all, but it strays from the typical fandom one that puts Stan and Ford in their late 50's, so I thought I'd put it here for my own reference. It may or may not get jossed in the future, but it should be workable even if we learn that Stan was lying the whole time and all of my grunkle for grandpa dreams come true.

ALSO if anyone notices any incorrect calculations please PM me and let me know - math's never been my strongest subject but I tried my best to make this hot mess make some kind of sense.

ANYWAY LET'S GET GOING.

Accurate through ROADSIDE ATTRACTION, 2x16

( The Mighty Stan^2 Timeline! )