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[Dipper's not wearing his usual outfit. He's wearing a white shirt with suspenders as he sits at his desk, his usual blue pine tree hat hanging off the chair. Behind him, Mabel can be seen bustling around, covered in scraps of cloth and glue and glitter.]

So, looks like another event from our world. One that has absolutely nothing to do with gravity turning off, weird. Almost like that was entirely unrelated to this event.

[He scowls very pointedly YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE PEOPLE HE'S SCOWLING AT.]

Anyway, this... well... okay, so in Gravity Falls, they like Halloween so much that they celebrate it again when summer comes and call it Summerween. Judging from the jack-o-melons hanging around, the fact that it's late June, and the fact that literally no other town would have something as ridiculous as Summerween, I'm calling it. This one's ours.

[Mabel tosses a piece of blue cloth at Dipper's head, which he fastens around his shoulders like a cape. She vanishes out of the camera's field of vision.]

The good news? Halloween's just as fun in the summer. The bad news? Last Summerween a monster called the Summerween Trickster tried to eat us and our friends because we [mostly just Dipper] lacked the "Summerween Spirit." [He rolls his eyes, making finger quotes.] I don't know if that's gonna happen here, but let's face it, it's Wonderland, so I'd get a costume just in case. And hey? Free candy. Not such a bad thing.

[Mabel comes back, wearing green suspenders. She hands Dipper a pointy red hat and lifts a silver teapot over her head. Together, they lower the hats onto their heads and fistbump, costumes complete. Summerween is about what really matters, after all: pure evil.]

So hey, I guess we're trick-or-treating? We'll see you out there. Try and have fun! Since you know, you might die otherwise.

[He cuts the feed, though he and Mabel will both be responding to any confused questions. Throughout the rest of the event, they'll be mostly sticking together, trick-or-treating with each other or with any friends they catch up with, especially once their trick-or-treat-or-die theories are confirmed. There is nothing cuter than twins in costumes, and they're experienced trick-or-treaters, so they're gonna hit every door. Might be they'll even come to yours!]

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I'm pretty sure Wirt would've been living with the gnomes by now if he wore that all year. Greg's probably safe. Teapot head is so not the weirdest fashion statement in Gravity Falls when you consider Old Man McGucket's, uh... everything.

[meanwhile, mabel is internally screaming. she is so good at pretending nothing is wrong that she can con herself, and deep down, all she really wants is for this madness to end. but it's not her problem- it's Dipper's. so she'll bite her tongue and smile and pretend.

like she usually does.]

Heh, yeah. It's pretty hard to out-weird a place where people can marry raccoons anyway, no matter how you go about it. I mean, Wonderland tries but it doesn't hold a candle to some of the weird back home!

[Wearing a teapot on his head would be nothing compared to the weird stuff McGucket's done, she's right about that. She's right about a lot of things at the moment, since Stan's in a similar position on his end of things. Dipper being mad at Stan is nothing new, but Ford's got no clue how to deal with an angry preteen-technically-teen-due-to-time-shenanigans.

Things would be a lot easier to deal with if everyone took the Mabel and Stan route. Let's be flippant about Wonderland and about the entire situation and pretend absolutely nothing's wrong forever!]

Exactly. 'Course it usually sucks all the fun outta the events. Who would've thought zombies aren't defeated by karaoke in other places?

[ONE DAY it's gonna happen. and they will be ready.]

Literally anyone else who's heard of zombies, apparently.

[Gravity Falls is probably the only place out there where zombies can be defeated through the power of terrible three-part harmonies. He doesn't want to think about zombie events ever again though, so he gently shoves the conversation in a different direction.]

But hey...all the more reason to get the heck outta here, right?

[stan no...

and the line goes quiet for a moment, and if it weren't for the video of Mabel's slow dawning horror, one would probably think she hung up.]

I'm not really ready to see Gravity Falls as a Trianglocracy, if it's all the same to you, Grunkle Stan.

[Stan's face falls, and there's a beat where he goes quiet too. The last thing he wants is to see Mabel sad, but...]

...Pumpkin, we can't just stay here forever. Y'know that, right?

[long, long silence]

So what're we supposed to do, Grunkle Stan?

Edited 2016-08-13 16:42 (UTC)

We're supposed to go home. And...well, I dunno what we're gonna do from there, but we'll figure somethin' out. We always manage to somehow, don't we?

[He's not great at the whole optimism thing, but pushing through terrible things until they work out? That's something Stan knows a lot about.]

I just don't know if I'm ready to face all of that yet.

[whoops pulling the sweater over her knees.] It's terrifying, and this time it might even be bigger than us.

Yeah, it might be. But...we're gonna have to be ready sometime, Sweetie. And it's gonna be better if we all go back together on our own terms instead of letting this place just spit us into the apocalypse whenever it feels like it.

[Things could be worse. Any of them could get dragged off suddenly, leaving the others behind.]

Edited 2016-08-21 19:43 (UTC)

[she doesn't want to concede, but it's also not a point you can really argue for long without working yourself in circles, so she rubs her eye with sleeve of her sweater to cover up any tears trying to work their way out, and lets Stan have whatever small victory he needs, and whatever compromise she can bear.]

I guess... That's something, anyway.

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