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Character Base
• Character Name: Stanley Pines
• Age: early thirties-ish
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Gravity falls ran from 2012-2016. Pull point is the first night after Ford is portal’d, in the 80s.
• Items Coming Along: 6 items only.
-journal #1
-brass knuckles
-red coat (burnt)
-baseball bat
-fake IDs
• Content Warnings for Character:
- PTSD
- imprisonment
- homelessness
- substance abuse (this doesn’t come up super explicitly outside of innuendo and coded phrases because it’s a Disney cartoon but it will be coming up in rp world)
- child abuse (once again, not something that’s shown super explicitly but I feel that canon gets across how much Filbrick sucks very well within the constraints of censorship)
Character Background
• History: https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/Stan_Pines
• Core Relationships:
Stanford Pines
Twin brother! The peanut butter to Stan’s jelly. And so on. Growing up they were each other’s best and only friends. Stan’s outgoing and punchy nature was a perfect fit to Stanford’s quieter booksmarts. They spent the happiest days of their childhood roaming the beach together, looking for adventure and cryptids.
Something that Stan dreamed would continue into adulthood, that they would realize their childhood dream and treasure hunt around the world together by boat. But when Ford’s science fair project caught the attention of a prestigious college those dreams were threatened.
Unlike Ford, it had been made clear to Stan that he had little in the way of a future and he feared being left behind. In response Ford promised him that if the plans with the college fell through they’d do the sailing around the world looking for adventure plan.
Frustrated and wandering the school after hours, Stanley proceeded to accidentally damage Ford’s project, ruining his presentation of the machine the next day. Interpreting this as willful sabotage, Ford confronts Stanley. Filbrick finds out and physically ejects Stanley from their home, telling him that he isn’t welcome to come back until he’s made his own fortune, to make up for the one he cost them. Stanley pleads with Ford but is shut out, so he vows to set out on his own and make it big.
Then 10+ years of homelessness, scams, periodical incarceration, and so on.
By the time Stanford’s postcard reaches his brother he’s at the end of his rope, deep in debt to a former cellmate for undisclosed reasons and fearing for his life. When he arrives at Ford’s shack he finds his brother unstable, wildly paranoid, also fearing for his life.
They both proceed to be very bad at communicating. Ford is desperate, Stanley doesn’t have enough information. Ford tells him to take his journal and get as far from him as possible and that it’ll be the first worthwhile thing he’s done in his life. This obviously hurts Stan’s feelings, he tries to burn the book then and there. So now the fight has escalated to a physical confrontation. Stan’s back is accidentally branded on machinery, Ford is pushed into the portal, leaving the journal behind and begging Stanley to do something.
The fight reveals some key feelings from each brother. Stanley feels that Ford has been selfish with his success. Ford feels that Stanley alone has ruined his own life and that he’s giving him something truly significant to do.
Overcome with guilt and grief after losing his brother once again, Stan becomes determined to make the portal operational once again.
Something that Stan dreamed would continue into adulthood, that they would realize their childhood dream and treasure hunt around the world together by boat. But when Ford’s science fair project caught the attention of a prestigious college those dreams were threatened.
Unlike Ford, it had been made clear to Stan that he had little in the way of a future and he feared being left behind. In response Ford promised him that if the plans with the college fell through they’d do the sailing around the world looking for adventure plan.
Frustrated and wandering the school after hours, Stanley proceeded to accidentally damage Ford’s project, ruining his presentation of the machine the next day. Interpreting this as willful sabotage, Ford confronts Stanley. Filbrick finds out and physically ejects Stanley from their home, telling him that he isn’t welcome to come back until he’s made his own fortune, to make up for the one he cost them. Stanley pleads with Ford but is shut out, so he vows to set out on his own and make it big.
Then 10+ years of homelessness, scams, periodical incarceration, and so on.
By the time Stanford’s postcard reaches his brother he’s at the end of his rope, deep in debt to a former cellmate for undisclosed reasons and fearing for his life. When he arrives at Ford’s shack he finds his brother unstable, wildly paranoid, also fearing for his life.
They both proceed to be very bad at communicating. Ford is desperate, Stanley doesn’t have enough information. Ford tells him to take his journal and get as far from him as possible and that it’ll be the first worthwhile thing he’s done in his life. This obviously hurts Stan’s feelings, he tries to burn the book then and there. So now the fight has escalated to a physical confrontation. Stan’s back is accidentally branded on machinery, Ford is pushed into the portal, leaving the journal behind and begging Stanley to do something.
The fight reveals some key feelings from each brother. Stanley feels that Ford has been selfish with his success. Ford feels that Stanley alone has ruined his own life and that he’s giving him something truly significant to do.
Overcome with guilt and grief after losing his brother once again, Stan becomes determined to make the portal operational once again.
Caryn Pines
Ma. A pathological liar and professional telephone psychic. Traits that complimented each other. She isn’t someone we see a lot of but she was much more fond of Stanley than her husband was and called him a free spirit, as opposed to things like a freeloader etc.
Filbrick Pines
Pa. Stan’s father was a harsh and uncompromising man. Physically violent and not easily impressed. Stan spent his childhood believing that his father hated him and was never really shown any reason to believe otherwise. Especially after being physically thrown out of his home.
Character Personality Through Key Moments
(played a little fast and loose with formatting because I got a bad case of It’s All Connected brain, and Stan’s the kind of guy who’s positive traits are very wrapped up in the same experiences that made his negative ones.)
Tough Guy
As an adult Stan rationalizes his father’s emotional distance as tough love, but in practice the way he was raised has left Stan somewhat emotionally stunted and poorly hiding a soft spot the size of a meteor.
Later it will impact his relationship with Dipper, when his lack of ability to communicate affection (as openly as he does with his sister) briefly leads Dipper to believe that Stan hates him. The truth is that Stan craves attention and affection from both twins, he wants to bond with them and take them fishing. Old man stuff. Family stuff. He’s lived on his own since he was a teenager.
In Trench this will make navigating the divide between himself and his family more difficult. He’ll be insecure about his place in this unfamiliar structure, he’s used to being either on his own or as Guy Who Punches things.
Later it will impact his relationship with Dipper, when his lack of ability to communicate affection (as openly as he does with his sister) briefly leads Dipper to believe that Stan hates him. The truth is that Stan craves attention and affection from both twins, he wants to bond with them and take them fishing. Old man stuff. Family stuff. He’s lived on his own since he was a teenager.
In Trench this will make navigating the divide between himself and his family more difficult. He’ll be insecure about his place in this unfamiliar structure, he’s used to being either on his own or as Guy Who Punches things.
Loyalty
Continuing from above, with a caveat: young Stan is in some ways more emotionally vulnerable than his older counterpart- especially in the immediate aftermath of the portal accident where he has no solid plan for bringing Ford back or for the future.
Stan is dedicated to his family, this most shows after his pull point where he dedicates his life to trying to save his brother and in the close relationships he forms with the twins. But his relationship with Ford is still complicated, mired in trauma and a degree of jealousy for his achievements and academic prowess.
As for the twins, well, “this is your niece and nephew from the future and they love you very much” is. Going to be a lot to handle conceptually.
But also: no pre-existing baggage!
Crooked Creativity
As a child with little luck in school Stan brought little prospects of future fortune to his family. Rowdy and creative, he was seen as being prone to disruption and troublemaking.
Pushed into boxing lessons alongside his twin for being ‘weak’ Stan was taught that he had little to offer to the world aside from brute strength. This all eventually ties into his overall stunted tough guy persona.
After seeing the curiosity in Ford’s work from the locals he turns his brother’s home into a tourist trap. His brother left behind a mortgage and a broken interdimensional portal, those things need money to fix. Also in the meantime Stan needs to eat.
Despite his loneliness, and the insane scope of his task, this is where Stan thrives:
On the creativity necessary to sell a con, or to tell a story about some taxidermied bullshit he’s stuck together. He’s all showmanship and greasy charm, good on his feet and with a flair for the dramatic to charm tourists and sell knick knacks.
Street Smarts
By the time he’s an old man Stan has learned to be demanding, rude, and has acquired a thorough inability to ask politely for things.
He’s a roughly mannered guy, if not by nature then by the nurture of scraping by in desperation for years on his own. After being kicked out Stanley spent the last of his teen years and onwards scheming and conning from state to state, while on the run from the cops or enraged former customers.
As he was hopping from false identity to the next, the name of the game was always staying at least one step ahead but we know he faltered there at least a few times. He seems to have spent his time in and out of prison, later telling Stanford that he’s been imprisoned in three countries (one of which we know to be Columbia) though information on just how many times he’s been incarcerated in general isn’t available.
He’s a roughly mannered guy, if not by nature then by the nurture of scraping by in desperation for years on his own. After being kicked out Stanley spent the last of his teen years and onwards scheming and conning from state to state, while on the run from the cops or enraged former customers.
As he was hopping from false identity to the next, the name of the game was always staying at least one step ahead but we know he faltered there at least a few times. He seems to have spent his time in and out of prison, later telling Stanford that he’s been imprisoned in three countries (one of which we know to be Columbia) though information on just how many times he’s been incarcerated in general isn’t available.
Smart-Smarts
Stan didn’t exactly thrive in a school environment, so his parents are told that he’ll be lucky if he can graduate high school and get a job cleaning saltwater taffy machines on the boardwalk.
The truth is that Stan is brilliant. When push comes to shove, when the chips are down he teaches himself high concept theoretical physics, and everything else necessary to keep up with Ford and Fiddleford’s work. He fixes most of the portal with 1/3rd of the blueprints, and once he has the rest of them? It’s basically smooth sailing.
The truth is that Stan is brilliant. When push comes to shove, when the chips are down he teaches himself high concept theoretical physics, and everything else necessary to keep up with Ford and Fiddleford’s work. He fixes most of the portal with 1/3rd of the blueprints, and once he has the rest of them? It’s basically smooth sailing.
Deer Country Attributes
• Canon Powers: None. He is just some guy.
• Blood Type: Vileblood
• Omen: Sandra, the Sand Piper
• Blessed Day: June 15th (his birthday)
• Patron Pthumerian: Remina
Stan initially won’t be feeling much for his patron, at least at first. He’s likely to dismiss Remina's domains as 'dumb nerd stuff' or be generally thrown off by how spooky he finds the idea of having memories placed in his head.
• Blood Power Manifestation:
Bone spike growth:
Stan’s powers will largely revolve around melee combat and on turning his body into a living weapon. Combined with a high pain tolerance to handle the otherwise excruciating body manipulation stuff. It’s going to get gnarly.
…and leave him vulnerable to corruption. I haven’t thought extensively about what corruption will entail for him yet but in addition to the general nature of how he tears shit up: he’s coming in with baggage and insecurities about being useful to his family. On that cusp of not being in a good place but not yet showing physical symptoms.
I’m also eyeing lycanthropy for him, as a possibility because I think it would be dope but we’ll see!
Writing Samples
One: TDM cw: references to drug use + abduction, murder
Two:
(cw: body horror, blood, gore)
[It’s not that he can’t feel his bones shift and twist around under his skin, because he totally can, he’s aware it’s happening on a level that is bone deep.]
[Literally.]
[He’s aware he should also probably be freaking out when something so fucked up is happening that he can see his own bones break through the skin. That’s just not right, on a very basic animal brain level. It’s real bad. He’s seen hard guys, the real ones who aren’t him- go down from just a glimpse of their exposed bone. Crying, passing out, everything.]
[But he’s doing none of those things right now, he’s just staring, wide eyed as sharp bone continues to part the skin on his knuckles. He can’t feel it. Or he can kind of feel it, but it doesn’t hurt. He feels temperatures faintly, his insides being exposed to the outside; it's like something is miswired in his brain.]
[He pokes it, one of the spike things, and then thinks about how he should wash his hands. His blood is some kind of biohazard now and there’s a whole lot of it, getting everywhere.]
The Player
• Player Name: Stanwick (…please call me Wick for the sake of clarity)
• Player Age: 27
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