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Character Name: Dipper Pines
Series: Gravity Falls
Timeline: Episode 2x01 “Scary-oke”
Canon Resource Link: boom
Character History: Dipper and his twin sister Mabel lived fairly ordinary lives for a while. Kids teased Dipper about the birthmark on his forehead shaped like the big dipper until he grew out his bangs to hide it, but the nickname stuck. He and Mabel had birthday parties together and amazing twin themed Halloween costumes. It was all pretty normal. Then his parents sent him and Mabel out to spend the summer with their Great Uncle Stan out in a little town called Gravity Falls. Dipper wasn’t happy about the situation at first. Grunkle Stan ran a tourist trap called the Mystery Shack, and he recruited Mabel and Dipper as employees immediately. But then he found a mysterious journal about the mysterious happenings around Gravity Falls that told him to trust no one and things started getting more interesting. He noticed some strange things about Mabel’s new boyfriend that led him to believe the man was a zombie… but Mabel wouldn’t believe it. He rushes out to intercept their date and learns that actually, the boyfriend is a bunch of gnomes that want to make Mabel their queen. Mabel defeats the gnomes with a leaf blower. After that, though Dipper is willing not to trust anyone from the town, he notes that he can trust Mabel, and she’ll always have his back.
Stan tries to take Dipper and Mabel fishing, but Dipper and Mabel run off with Soos to try and capture a picture of the horrible lake monster instead. Dipper is extremely prepared, bringing 17 disposable cameras just to be sure that he’s entirely safe from the usual problems that people face with taking photos of the supernatural. There’s no way he’ll be caught with a camera that doesn’t work if he has that many back-ups, right? It turns out in the end that the monster is just a mechanical invention driven by Old Man McGucket, the town kook. Dipper and Mabel feel bad about ditching Grunkle Stan and go back to spend the day with him.
After a wax statue Mabel made of Grunkle Stan gets murdered, Dipper is on the case to figure out who did it. Dipper is very excited about having a mystery to solve, especially when the police doubt his abilities. He narrows down the suspects to one reporter, but he has an alibi. At the funeral, Dipper realizes that actually the other wax sculptures are cursed and coming back to life and they’d tried to murder the real Grunkle Stan and gotten the copy. He and Mabel use fire to melt the sculptures, but it takes Dipper’s wits to get the leader, Wax Sherlock Holmes, out onto the roof where the sun melts him.
Dipper and Mabel went to see a show by Stan’s rival, the psychic Gideon Gleeful. Dipper wasn’t impressed, but Mabel thought it was pretty cool. She became friends with Gideon, which was all right until he pressured her into dating him. When Dipper saw how miserable it was making Mabel and how reluctant she was to hurt his feelings and break it off herself, he offered to do it for her. Gideon blamed Dipper for the break-up and tried to kill him, but Mabel interrupted and broke Gideon’s magical telekinesis gem. Gideon vowed revenge on the entire family.
Dipper pretends that he and Mabel are 13 so that they can go hang out in a haunted convenience store with Wendy, the store clerk, who Dipper has a big crush on, and her friends. It’s pretty fun up until the ghost, of course, turns out to be real and hates teenagers. Though Dipper’s loathe to embarrass himself in front of his crush, he admits that he’s only 12 and does a stupid dance in a lamb costume to make it go away. Wendy is the only one who sees, and she keeps his secret and tells her friends he fought the ghost.
After failing a manliness test, Dipper runs into a pack of manotaurs (like minotaurs, but with extra manliness) and asks them to train him. At first they refuse, but Dipper tricks them into deciding they will train him after all. They send him to kill the multi-bear, and Dipper wins a fight against it, but after hearing its request to die while listening to its favorite song, Dipper decides against it. The song is the very un-manly “Disco Girl,” and Dipper also loves it. He tells the Manotaurs no, and they declare him unmanly, but Grunkle Stan says that standing up for himself is actually pretty manly, and Dipper grows his first chest hair.
Stan hosts a party at the Mystery Shack, and Dipper plans to use it to talk to Wendy and eventually ask her to dance. He makes a long plan for this, and then uses a magic copy machine to create copies of himself when the plan starts breaking down. He and the copies vow not to turn on each other and start fighting, That all breaks down when Dipper ditches his elaborate plans and just talks to Wendy like a normal person, so of course the other copies decide that they should be the real Dipper instead. He dissolves them all with water except for Tyrone, the first copy, who manages to escape the sprinkler. He sees the error of his ways, though, as does Dipper, and the two of them decide to have a soda on the roof. Unfortunately, this causes Tyrone to dissolve, but at least a valuable lesson about not over-planning and just acting natural has been learned.
Pacifica Northwest, descendant of town founder Nathaniel Northwest, criticizes Mabel for being silly and Dipper decides she needs to be taken down a peg. Dipper read in the journal that Nathaniel might not have actually founded the town. He follows the clues in the journal, but it’s Mabel’s silliness that really solves each of the clues. They find their way to a secret chamber where they find a man encased in peanut brittle. The police catch up to them and explain that they’ve stumbled onto a conspiracy: the town was actually founded by the man behind them. The eighth and a half President of the United States: Quentin Tremblay, a man kicked out of office for being too silly who founded Gravity Falls. The police officers say they have to ship the body and the twins off to Washington, but Mabel frees the President by eating the peanut brittle and the President uses the powers of technically never having resigned to order the police to take a vacation. He rewards Dipper and Mabel with a key that unlocks any door in America and a -12 dollar bill. Mabel is satisfied and feels better about her silliness, but Dipper still wants revenge on Pacifica, so he tells her the truth about her ancestor, who not only didn’t found the town but also was kind of an embarrassment.
The Mystery Fair rolls into town and Dipper uses the opportunity to get closer to Wendy. However, a series of mishaps lead to Dipper accidentally hitting Wendy in the eye with a ball from a carnival game and his romantic rival, Robbie, managing to ask Wendy out first. Dipper’s despondent over the loss until he runs into a time traveler and steals his time machine. He and Mabel try and go back in time to fix it, but the same thing happens over and over no matter what he tries. Finally, he finds the one thing that works, but it leads to Mabel losing the pig she won that she loved so much. Dipper and Mabel fight over the time machine, causing a series of paradoxes, but eventually Dipper comes out triumphant. He tells himself that she’ll get over losing the pig, but after traveling forward in time a few times and seeing that no, she won’t, he redoes the day again and lets Mabel get her pig. Mabel’s happiness is that important to him.
Tensions are building between Dipper and Robbie while Wendy goes away for the weekend. Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight, and Dipper is terrified. He runs away, but when he accidentally brings a video game fighter to life, he takes advantage of the situation and gets the warrior to fight him, telling him that Robbie killed his father. However, the video game warrior takes things way too far and nearly kills Robbie. Dipper admits that he was lying, which makes him the bad guy, and the video game warrior fights him instead and… brutally defeats him. On the bright side, this makes him go back to his video game. Dipper decides not to fight Robbie, and Robbie can’t bring himself to hit Dipper anyway. Wendy sees them and comments that she hates when guys fight, so they agree not to fight anymore but to hate each other quietly.
Dipper and Mabel are playing chess, with Dipper handily defeating her as usual, when the twins realize that Mabel is one millimeter taller. She teases him mercilessly, along with Grunkle Stan, and it drives Dipper to use supernatural means to increase his height. He makes a flashlight using a crystal that can shrink or grow anything it lands on to make himself taller, but when Mabel finds it, she wants to use it on herself. They start fighting over it until Gideon sees them and gets the flashlight and shrinks them. He tries to use them as ransom against Grunkle Stan to get the Mystery Shack, but eventually decides it’s easier just to shrink Grunkle Stan himself. Dipper and Mabel rush off to save him, still bickering all the time which leads them to almost miss their chance. Finally, they talk about their problems and Dipper tells her how much the teasing bugged her and she tells him that it’s hard how he wins all the time and sort of rubs it in her face. This allows them to get along again and they defeat Gideon by tickling his armpits.
Dipper continues to struggle with getting older and figuring out how long he has to be a child still in Summerween, when he has to choose between hanging out with Wendy and her friends or going Trick-or-Treating with Mabel and her friends. He also has to help Mabel run the Mystery Shack when she and Stan make a bet about how she could run it better than he could. He falls into a bottomless pit with the rest of the family and they all tell stories until they end up falling right back out where they came. Dipper gets a job as a lifeguard to hang out with Wendy but ends up getting fired after he again puts Mabel’s needs before his own and saves her merman boyfriend.
When Mabel and her friends are having too many loud sleepovers, Dipper decides he wants his own room, and when they find a secret room in the Mystery Shack, he and Mabel both decide they want it. Stan says he’ll give the key to whoever sucks up the hardest. Mabel is winning when the two accidentally switch bodies. Both attempt to sabotage the other, and their efforts are yet again complicated when Mabel’s friends come over again for another sleepover. Body exchange shenanigans continue until finally everyone’s in their own body, and Mabel admits she didn’t even want the room. Dipper gets the room, but soon feels lonely without Mabel and moves back to his old room.
He overhears Wendy trying to break up with Robbie, but then Robbie plays her a CD of a song he wrote for her and Wendy gets back together with him. He immediately suspects the CD contains brainwashing elements and Grunkle Stan, surprisingly, agrees with him on account of having past experiences with a girl dumping him for a musician. He finds out that when you play the song backwards there’s a weird subliminal message. He rushes to find Wendy and show her, and Robbie defends himself by claiming he hadn’t actually written the song and didn’t know about the message. Wendy’s furious at being lied to and dumps him on the spot. Dipper asks her if she’d like to go bowling some time, but she snaps at him as well for being insensitive and runs off, leaving Dipper feeling bad for being a jerk.
Gideon summons a mysterious demon that looks like a triangle with an eyeball to go into Stan’s mind and steal the combination to the safe that holds the deed to the Mystery Shack. The demon, Bill Cipher, agrees, in exchange for a favor to be discussed later. Dipper, Mabel, and Soos follow him into Stan’s mind and try and get to the memory first. Dipper, who’s feeling disgruntled over Stan’s treatment of him, finds a memory of himself and watches it to see what Stan really thinks of him. The memory says he’s useless and he rushes off, too angry to watch the rest. Meanwhile, Bill gets the door and Soos and Mabel try to fight him. Dipper refuses to help after seeing Stan’s true feelings about him. Mabel shoots the memories out of Bill’s hand and into the bottomless pit before he can give Gideon the code to the safe, and Bill angrily sends them into an arena. Dipper tries to find the exit but instead finds the same memory and sees the rest of it: where Stan says he’s only hard on Dipper because he’s trying to toughen him up and prepare him for the world. Stan also reveals that since it’s all a mindscape, anyone can do anything with their mind. He joins the fight and helps Soos and Mabel defeat Bill. Bill gives them a warning and says he’ll be watching them, then leaves. They wake up victorious… except that Gideon has used dynamite to break into the safe and steal the deed.
The team moves in with Soos’ abuelita and Stan… gives up. However, Mabel and Dipper aren’t ready to give up and they try and recruit the gnomes to their cause. It backfires, and on top of all that, Gideon gets Dipper’s journal. Mabel and Dipper get on a bus that’s supposed to take them back to their parents, but Gideon, furious that it turns out there are three journals, not two, and assuming Dipper still has Journal #1, goes after them in a giant Gideon-bot. Gideon kidnaps Mabel and Dipper manages to get into the control room and fight him. When he brings the robot down, Mabel saves Dipper with her grappling hook, and Grunkle Stan reveals that Gideon’s “psychic powers” were really just him spying on the town and using that information to act like he knew everything. Gideon was arrested, and Grunkle Stan got the Mystery Shack back. Dipper decides he can trust Grunkle Stan enough to show him the book, but Stan just laughs at him and takes it, claiming it’ll help inspire him with more attractions. Mabel comforts him and tells him he can be a hero without the book, which makes Dipper feel better, but he still wants it back.
Federal agents come to investigate mysterious happenings at the Mystery Shack, and Stan chases them away, but Dipper is excited to have someone finally willing to listen to him about the weird things going on. Stan takes the business card the agents gave him, but during the big re-opening party that night, Wendy helps him steal it back. He calls the agents, but soon is interrupted by Grunkle Stan, who is pretty pissed. The agents show up during the party, and Dipper shows them the journal, but they don’t believe that any of it is legit. Dipper starts reading a spell in the journal which… proves it’s legit but also brings an army of zombies out of the ground. The party clears out, but Mabel and Dipper end up cornered by zombies… right up until Grunkel Stan comes up and starts bashing zombie heads in. He reveals that he knew about the paranormal stuff, but was denying it to try and keep the kids safe. When they’re about to give up hope, Mabel notices that there’s secret text visible under the blacklight and it tells them how to defeat the zombies: perfect three part harmony. The only solution? A karaoke number done by the whole family. They defeat the zombies and Grunkle Stan says Dipper can keep the journal so long as he only uses it for self defense and doesn’t seek out trouble. Dipper agrees so long as Stan doesn’t keep anymore secrets. They both agree, but they both have their fingers crossed. Dipper has a whole new host of secrets to explore, though, with the text revealed by the blacklight, and a new mission: figure out who the author is.
Abilities/Special Powers: Dipper doesn’t have any supernatural powers, though he does have a journal filled with notes on all the weird things in Gravity Falls and he has on occasion successfully used that knowledge to cast spells and do other weird things. But most of his abilities come down to being very smart and very dedicated when he sets his mind to something. He’s good at breaking codes and figuring out mysteries and making terrible life choices.
Third-Person Sample: “No, no, no, why isn’t there anything?” Dipper fell backwards onto the grass, holding his journal over his head. Randomly appearing in a mysterious other-worldly dimension that looks like something out of a fairytale he could handle. He’s pretty sure it wouldn’t actually even make it to the top 10 list on his summer vacation stories. But the journal always has something to say about any situation he comes across, and right now, it’s letting him down. Could he have traveled somewhere the author hadn’t reached?
The possibility was alarming, and also exciting. He’d come to depend on the journal to help him solve a lot of the mysteries around Gravity Falls. It had all the information he needed to defeat whatever weird creatures he ended up going up against. The author’s wisdom would really come in handy right about now. Then again… maybe Dipper could start a journal about this place. He could be an author.
Dipper sat up and tucked the journal back into the pocket of his vest and looked around. If the journal wasn’t going to help him, he’d have to do this the hard way. Just another mystery he’d have to get to the bottom of. He stood up and adjusted his hat, face set as he started up towards the mansion. It was pretty clear, if there were clues to be found, that would be the place they’re hiding.
First-Person Sample: [Dipper is staring down at the screen with an expression of utmost concentration.]
When did I get a phone?
[It seems like the kind of thing he’d remember. And yet, here it is, and he has no recollection of how it got here. He leans in and squints, puzzling over the strange mystery phone until he notices the little light that signals it’s recording. His eyes widen again and he pulls away.]
Oh… it’s on! Uh… hi. I’m Dipper. I’m not sure who I just called, but… [He hesitates, looking conflicted for a moment, before he leans in intently.] Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. I think I’m trapped in some weird alternate dimension! It reminds me a lot of the story of Alice in Wonderland, and I keep getting this weird feeling around the mirrors! Like I’m being watched or… something. [He looks around for a moment, distinctly uncomfortable, then smiles at the camera again.]
Anyway, I’m pretty experienced in dealing with the supernatural, and I’ve never seen anything like this. [He’s been doing it for a whole… start of the summer.] Has anyone been taking notes? Think maybe we could… compare them?
[He sounds so hopeful. This place is even weirder than Gravity Falls, and he didn’t think he’d ever be able to say that about anywhere. Surely someone’s been paying attention. Right?]
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Other Characters: Killian Jones/
unhand, Carol Danvers/airforceful, and Georgia Mason/choosetruthCharacter Name: Dipper Pines
Series: Gravity Falls
Timeline: Episode 2x01 “Scary-oke”
Canon Resource Link: boom
Character History: Dipper and his twin sister Mabel lived fairly ordinary lives for a while. Kids teased Dipper about the birthmark on his forehead shaped like the big dipper until he grew out his bangs to hide it, but the nickname stuck. He and Mabel had birthday parties together and amazing twin themed Halloween costumes. It was all pretty normal. Then his parents sent him and Mabel out to spend the summer with their Great Uncle Stan out in a little town called Gravity Falls. Dipper wasn’t happy about the situation at first. Grunkle Stan ran a tourist trap called the Mystery Shack, and he recruited Mabel and Dipper as employees immediately. But then he found a mysterious journal about the mysterious happenings around Gravity Falls that told him to trust no one and things started getting more interesting. He noticed some strange things about Mabel’s new boyfriend that led him to believe the man was a zombie… but Mabel wouldn’t believe it. He rushes out to intercept their date and learns that actually, the boyfriend is a bunch of gnomes that want to make Mabel their queen. Mabel defeats the gnomes with a leaf blower. After that, though Dipper is willing not to trust anyone from the town, he notes that he can trust Mabel, and she’ll always have his back.
Stan tries to take Dipper and Mabel fishing, but Dipper and Mabel run off with Soos to try and capture a picture of the horrible lake monster instead. Dipper is extremely prepared, bringing 17 disposable cameras just to be sure that he’s entirely safe from the usual problems that people face with taking photos of the supernatural. There’s no way he’ll be caught with a camera that doesn’t work if he has that many back-ups, right? It turns out in the end that the monster is just a mechanical invention driven by Old Man McGucket, the town kook. Dipper and Mabel feel bad about ditching Grunkle Stan and go back to spend the day with him.
After a wax statue Mabel made of Grunkle Stan gets murdered, Dipper is on the case to figure out who did it. Dipper is very excited about having a mystery to solve, especially when the police doubt his abilities. He narrows down the suspects to one reporter, but he has an alibi. At the funeral, Dipper realizes that actually the other wax sculptures are cursed and coming back to life and they’d tried to murder the real Grunkle Stan and gotten the copy. He and Mabel use fire to melt the sculptures, but it takes Dipper’s wits to get the leader, Wax Sherlock Holmes, out onto the roof where the sun melts him.
Dipper and Mabel went to see a show by Stan’s rival, the psychic Gideon Gleeful. Dipper wasn’t impressed, but Mabel thought it was pretty cool. She became friends with Gideon, which was all right until he pressured her into dating him. When Dipper saw how miserable it was making Mabel and how reluctant she was to hurt his feelings and break it off herself, he offered to do it for her. Gideon blamed Dipper for the break-up and tried to kill him, but Mabel interrupted and broke Gideon’s magical telekinesis gem. Gideon vowed revenge on the entire family.
Dipper pretends that he and Mabel are 13 so that they can go hang out in a haunted convenience store with Wendy, the store clerk, who Dipper has a big crush on, and her friends. It’s pretty fun up until the ghost, of course, turns out to be real and hates teenagers. Though Dipper’s loathe to embarrass himself in front of his crush, he admits that he’s only 12 and does a stupid dance in a lamb costume to make it go away. Wendy is the only one who sees, and she keeps his secret and tells her friends he fought the ghost.
After failing a manliness test, Dipper runs into a pack of manotaurs (like minotaurs, but with extra manliness) and asks them to train him. At first they refuse, but Dipper tricks them into deciding they will train him after all. They send him to kill the multi-bear, and Dipper wins a fight against it, but after hearing its request to die while listening to its favorite song, Dipper decides against it. The song is the very un-manly “Disco Girl,” and Dipper also loves it. He tells the Manotaurs no, and they declare him unmanly, but Grunkle Stan says that standing up for himself is actually pretty manly, and Dipper grows his first chest hair.
Stan hosts a party at the Mystery Shack, and Dipper plans to use it to talk to Wendy and eventually ask her to dance. He makes a long plan for this, and then uses a magic copy machine to create copies of himself when the plan starts breaking down. He and the copies vow not to turn on each other and start fighting, That all breaks down when Dipper ditches his elaborate plans and just talks to Wendy like a normal person, so of course the other copies decide that they should be the real Dipper instead. He dissolves them all with water except for Tyrone, the first copy, who manages to escape the sprinkler. He sees the error of his ways, though, as does Dipper, and the two of them decide to have a soda on the roof. Unfortunately, this causes Tyrone to dissolve, but at least a valuable lesson about not over-planning and just acting natural has been learned.
Pacifica Northwest, descendant of town founder Nathaniel Northwest, criticizes Mabel for being silly and Dipper decides she needs to be taken down a peg. Dipper read in the journal that Nathaniel might not have actually founded the town. He follows the clues in the journal, but it’s Mabel’s silliness that really solves each of the clues. They find their way to a secret chamber where they find a man encased in peanut brittle. The police catch up to them and explain that they’ve stumbled onto a conspiracy: the town was actually founded by the man behind them. The eighth and a half President of the United States: Quentin Tremblay, a man kicked out of office for being too silly who founded Gravity Falls. The police officers say they have to ship the body and the twins off to Washington, but Mabel frees the President by eating the peanut brittle and the President uses the powers of technically never having resigned to order the police to take a vacation. He rewards Dipper and Mabel with a key that unlocks any door in America and a -12 dollar bill. Mabel is satisfied and feels better about her silliness, but Dipper still wants revenge on Pacifica, so he tells her the truth about her ancestor, who not only didn’t found the town but also was kind of an embarrassment.
The Mystery Fair rolls into town and Dipper uses the opportunity to get closer to Wendy. However, a series of mishaps lead to Dipper accidentally hitting Wendy in the eye with a ball from a carnival game and his romantic rival, Robbie, managing to ask Wendy out first. Dipper’s despondent over the loss until he runs into a time traveler and steals his time machine. He and Mabel try and go back in time to fix it, but the same thing happens over and over no matter what he tries. Finally, he finds the one thing that works, but it leads to Mabel losing the pig she won that she loved so much. Dipper and Mabel fight over the time machine, causing a series of paradoxes, but eventually Dipper comes out triumphant. He tells himself that she’ll get over losing the pig, but after traveling forward in time a few times and seeing that no, she won’t, he redoes the day again and lets Mabel get her pig. Mabel’s happiness is that important to him.
Tensions are building between Dipper and Robbie while Wendy goes away for the weekend. Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight, and Dipper is terrified. He runs away, but when he accidentally brings a video game fighter to life, he takes advantage of the situation and gets the warrior to fight him, telling him that Robbie killed his father. However, the video game warrior takes things way too far and nearly kills Robbie. Dipper admits that he was lying, which makes him the bad guy, and the video game warrior fights him instead and… brutally defeats him. On the bright side, this makes him go back to his video game. Dipper decides not to fight Robbie, and Robbie can’t bring himself to hit Dipper anyway. Wendy sees them and comments that she hates when guys fight, so they agree not to fight anymore but to hate each other quietly.
Dipper and Mabel are playing chess, with Dipper handily defeating her as usual, when the twins realize that Mabel is one millimeter taller. She teases him mercilessly, along with Grunkle Stan, and it drives Dipper to use supernatural means to increase his height. He makes a flashlight using a crystal that can shrink or grow anything it lands on to make himself taller, but when Mabel finds it, she wants to use it on herself. They start fighting over it until Gideon sees them and gets the flashlight and shrinks them. He tries to use them as ransom against Grunkle Stan to get the Mystery Shack, but eventually decides it’s easier just to shrink Grunkle Stan himself. Dipper and Mabel rush off to save him, still bickering all the time which leads them to almost miss their chance. Finally, they talk about their problems and Dipper tells her how much the teasing bugged her and she tells him that it’s hard how he wins all the time and sort of rubs it in her face. This allows them to get along again and they defeat Gideon by tickling his armpits.
Dipper continues to struggle with getting older and figuring out how long he has to be a child still in Summerween, when he has to choose between hanging out with Wendy and her friends or going Trick-or-Treating with Mabel and her friends. He also has to help Mabel run the Mystery Shack when she and Stan make a bet about how she could run it better than he could. He falls into a bottomless pit with the rest of the family and they all tell stories until they end up falling right back out where they came. Dipper gets a job as a lifeguard to hang out with Wendy but ends up getting fired after he again puts Mabel’s needs before his own and saves her merman boyfriend.
When Mabel and her friends are having too many loud sleepovers, Dipper decides he wants his own room, and when they find a secret room in the Mystery Shack, he and Mabel both decide they want it. Stan says he’ll give the key to whoever sucks up the hardest. Mabel is winning when the two accidentally switch bodies. Both attempt to sabotage the other, and their efforts are yet again complicated when Mabel’s friends come over again for another sleepover. Body exchange shenanigans continue until finally everyone’s in their own body, and Mabel admits she didn’t even want the room. Dipper gets the room, but soon feels lonely without Mabel and moves back to his old room.
He overhears Wendy trying to break up with Robbie, but then Robbie plays her a CD of a song he wrote for her and Wendy gets back together with him. He immediately suspects the CD contains brainwashing elements and Grunkle Stan, surprisingly, agrees with him on account of having past experiences with a girl dumping him for a musician. He finds out that when you play the song backwards there’s a weird subliminal message. He rushes to find Wendy and show her, and Robbie defends himself by claiming he hadn’t actually written the song and didn’t know about the message. Wendy’s furious at being lied to and dumps him on the spot. Dipper asks her if she’d like to go bowling some time, but she snaps at him as well for being insensitive and runs off, leaving Dipper feeling bad for being a jerk.
Gideon summons a mysterious demon that looks like a triangle with an eyeball to go into Stan’s mind and steal the combination to the safe that holds the deed to the Mystery Shack. The demon, Bill Cipher, agrees, in exchange for a favor to be discussed later. Dipper, Mabel, and Soos follow him into Stan’s mind and try and get to the memory first. Dipper, who’s feeling disgruntled over Stan’s treatment of him, finds a memory of himself and watches it to see what Stan really thinks of him. The memory says he’s useless and he rushes off, too angry to watch the rest. Meanwhile, Bill gets the door and Soos and Mabel try to fight him. Dipper refuses to help after seeing Stan’s true feelings about him. Mabel shoots the memories out of Bill’s hand and into the bottomless pit before he can give Gideon the code to the safe, and Bill angrily sends them into an arena. Dipper tries to find the exit but instead finds the same memory and sees the rest of it: where Stan says he’s only hard on Dipper because he’s trying to toughen him up and prepare him for the world. Stan also reveals that since it’s all a mindscape, anyone can do anything with their mind. He joins the fight and helps Soos and Mabel defeat Bill. Bill gives them a warning and says he’ll be watching them, then leaves. They wake up victorious… except that Gideon has used dynamite to break into the safe and steal the deed.
The team moves in with Soos’ abuelita and Stan… gives up. However, Mabel and Dipper aren’t ready to give up and they try and recruit the gnomes to their cause. It backfires, and on top of all that, Gideon gets Dipper’s journal. Mabel and Dipper get on a bus that’s supposed to take them back to their parents, but Gideon, furious that it turns out there are three journals, not two, and assuming Dipper still has Journal #1, goes after them in a giant Gideon-bot. Gideon kidnaps Mabel and Dipper manages to get into the control room and fight him. When he brings the robot down, Mabel saves Dipper with her grappling hook, and Grunkle Stan reveals that Gideon’s “psychic powers” were really just him spying on the town and using that information to act like he knew everything. Gideon was arrested, and Grunkle Stan got the Mystery Shack back. Dipper decides he can trust Grunkle Stan enough to show him the book, but Stan just laughs at him and takes it, claiming it’ll help inspire him with more attractions. Mabel comforts him and tells him he can be a hero without the book, which makes Dipper feel better, but he still wants it back.
Federal agents come to investigate mysterious happenings at the Mystery Shack, and Stan chases them away, but Dipper is excited to have someone finally willing to listen to him about the weird things going on. Stan takes the business card the agents gave him, but during the big re-opening party that night, Wendy helps him steal it back. He calls the agents, but soon is interrupted by Grunkle Stan, who is pretty pissed. The agents show up during the party, and Dipper shows them the journal, but they don’t believe that any of it is legit. Dipper starts reading a spell in the journal which… proves it’s legit but also brings an army of zombies out of the ground. The party clears out, but Mabel and Dipper end up cornered by zombies… right up until Grunkel Stan comes up and starts bashing zombie heads in. He reveals that he knew about the paranormal stuff, but was denying it to try and keep the kids safe. When they’re about to give up hope, Mabel notices that there’s secret text visible under the blacklight and it tells them how to defeat the zombies: perfect three part harmony. The only solution? A karaoke number done by the whole family. They defeat the zombies and Grunkle Stan says Dipper can keep the journal so long as he only uses it for self defense and doesn’t seek out trouble. Dipper agrees so long as Stan doesn’t keep anymore secrets. They both agree, but they both have their fingers crossed. Dipper has a whole new host of secrets to explore, though, with the text revealed by the blacklight, and a new mission: figure out who the author is.
Abilities/Special Powers: Dipper doesn’t have any supernatural powers, though he does have a journal filled with notes on all the weird things in Gravity Falls and he has on occasion successfully used that knowledge to cast spells and do other weird things. But most of his abilities come down to being very smart and very dedicated when he sets his mind to something. He’s good at breaking codes and figuring out mysteries and making terrible life choices.
Third-Person Sample: “No, no, no, why isn’t there anything?” Dipper fell backwards onto the grass, holding his journal over his head. Randomly appearing in a mysterious other-worldly dimension that looks like something out of a fairytale he could handle. He’s pretty sure it wouldn’t actually even make it to the top 10 list on his summer vacation stories. But the journal always has something to say about any situation he comes across, and right now, it’s letting him down. Could he have traveled somewhere the author hadn’t reached?
The possibility was alarming, and also exciting. He’d come to depend on the journal to help him solve a lot of the mysteries around Gravity Falls. It had all the information he needed to defeat whatever weird creatures he ended up going up against. The author’s wisdom would really come in handy right about now. Then again… maybe Dipper could start a journal about this place. He could be an author.
Dipper sat up and tucked the journal back into the pocket of his vest and looked around. If the journal wasn’t going to help him, he’d have to do this the hard way. Just another mystery he’d have to get to the bottom of. He stood up and adjusted his hat, face set as he started up towards the mansion. It was pretty clear, if there were clues to be found, that would be the place they’re hiding.
First-Person Sample: [Dipper is staring down at the screen with an expression of utmost concentration.]
When did I get a phone?
[It seems like the kind of thing he’d remember. And yet, here it is, and he has no recollection of how it got here. He leans in and squints, puzzling over the strange mystery phone until he notices the little light that signals it’s recording. His eyes widen again and he pulls away.]
Oh… it’s on! Uh… hi. I’m Dipper. I’m not sure who I just called, but… [He hesitates, looking conflicted for a moment, before he leans in intently.] Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. I think I’m trapped in some weird alternate dimension! It reminds me a lot of the story of Alice in Wonderland, and I keep getting this weird feeling around the mirrors! Like I’m being watched or… something. [He looks around for a moment, distinctly uncomfortable, then smiles at the camera again.]
Anyway, I’m pretty experienced in dealing with the supernatural, and I’ve never seen anything like this. [He’s been doing it for a whole… start of the summer.] Has anyone been taking notes? Think maybe we could… compare them?
[He sounds so hopeful. This place is even weirder than Gravity Falls, and he didn’t think he’d ever be able to say that about anywhere. Surely someone’s been paying attention. Right?]