Neverhuman Au Asks For @thelynnonbard

Neverhuman Au asks for @thelynnonbard

sorry for taking ages

Stan is Stan, he was just never human in the first place (hence the name of the au HA). Stan is a Fae, a changeling slipped into the crib. Unfortunately, Stan has no knowledge of this (sometimes experiencing strange things, but thinking them as normal); only discovering what he truly is after Ford is lost to the portal.

The ‘Taking the Deal’ took place about a few months after Stan loses Ford. Stan makes the deal with an ancient Fae that has claimed the Gravity falls forest as it territory called ‘The Many Sights aka MS or Milly’. After Stan ventured into the deepest part of the forest dubbed ‘The Deep’ trying to escape some old enemies of his that have tracked him down (they do not come out of the forest alive >:3c) and he gets gravely injured.

He discovers he was never human to begin with and has a breakdown, he encounters MS. MS and some forest residents have ill intentions towards Ford for some things he did.

Stan makes a deal with MS to repay for Fords harms to the forest, becoming like a step in keeper/guardian to the forest while MS takes a nap.

Stan stability of keeping his human form is emotional and mentally based. As long as he thinks himself as human it’s pretty simple, believing he was human the first 30 years of his life it came easy. He can control the shifting but as easily when loses focus he loses control. like when he finds out the truth, his forms starts slipping for the first time, glowing green eyes, he starts glowing from the inside ( at the start Stan only has 2 eyes aka 2 sights, and gains 4 more when becoming keeper of the forest, ill get more on that another time)

This also happens when Ford returns and the possibility being kicked out of the shack at the end of summer, Stan starts having a slight identity crisis, pretended to be his brother for so long, trying to remember and get used to who he was before, Stanley is in the sense dead to the world’s eyes, so his form starts slipping, eyes glowing green, 4 more appearing (I actually want to draw this scenario out, hiding them at first with sunglasses etc.) though Stan has not yet fully turned into his full Fae form, fearing to be unable to return to his human form once he does.

Like I said, Stan is Stan and he loves his brother

Before finding out he’s a fae, Stan ate human food fine, though he started realising he has more energy when he is near natural habitats (forests, rivers, fields etc). After becoming aware, he doesn’t need to eat human food to survive, but he still does because of taste. Stan is able to just survive feeding on the forest energy.

However since he is the guardian of it, the forest states affects Stan’s health, if it’s in a good state, he’s good. However since he is connected to it, that now if he spends too long away from the forest (a couple of months) he starts to weaken and he has to return to it. However the type of Fae Stan is known for eating other supernatural creatures (and other Faes to become more powerful and gain the devoured Fae sights) and sometimes humans, though Stan hasn’t resorted to that…yet

Well young and just founded the blind society Fiddleford did get suspicious, but at first only because of Stan taking his brothers place. But he once accidentally walked upon with Stan and all his 6 eyes exposed. Fiddleford was terrified by the sight and shortly wiped his memories of that event while he was still the leader of the Blind Society. Though still years later and now with his memories slowly returning, he may fear for the beast with one eye, though there’s another one with 6 sights close by.

Fords starts to suspect something is off about his brother. At first, he brushes off for not seeing each other for decades, but after awhile starts noticing things. Like the radioactive waste barely had any effect on Stan, disappearing in the middle of the night, suddenly wearing sunglasses inside, claiming it’s a hangover even though he doesn’t smell of alcohol or one time the group encountered a gremgoblin, but left when Stan confronted it. Ford starts to investigate and coming to the conclusion that Stan is not what he seems, maybe possession or some kind shapeshifter.

Ford starts an entry with invisible ink about Stan in the journal. However, felt bad about even writing in the journal about Stanley. He rips out the page though still kept it (which actually neatly ties in with this comic where the twins find the page).

But eventually Ford finds out (one night he follows him). Stan tries to explain everything to Ford as much he can, and about the deal he made so Ford wouldn’t be in danger from some creatures. Ford doesn’t take it too well and it’s like you said yourself in the last ask, it does strain their relationship even more than before.

Hope that answers your questions

also have some code

14-15-23 25-15-21 11-14-15-23 2-21-20 14-15-23 25-15-21 23-15-18-18-25 23-5-18-5 20-8-5 21-18-7-5-19 18-9-7-8-20 15-18 23-18-15-14-7 3-1-14-20 20-5-12-12 9-6 25-15-21-18 14-1-20-21-18-5 23-1-19 12-25-9-14-7 4-9-4 25-15-21 20-18-21-12-25 3-1-18-5 20-18-21-12-25 12-15-22-5 15-18 23-1-19 9-20 1-12-12 1 12-9-5 19-9-24 19-9-7-8-20-19 10-21-19-20 12-15-15-11 9-14-19-9-4-5 15-14-12-25 25-15-21 3-1-14 20-5-12-12 14-15-23

Rescue and Adoption

In the heart of the fairy mound, there were two identical cradles, each with an identical infant inside.

“One of these babies is the one you bore,” said a fairy. “The other is the changeling we left. You may leave our hall with whichever child you claim as your own. Choose wisely.”

“But they are both my children,” the human mother protested indignantly.

The fairies whispered amongst themselves in surprise and confusion. At last, one asked, “How do you mean?”

“I came to get back the child you stole from me, the one who is mine by blood. I never agreed to give my adopted child back to you.”

Perhaps her words touched the fairies’ hearts; or perhaps her stubbornness impressed them; or perhaps they simply found the argument amusing, novel enough to merit a reward.

She left the fairy mound, an infant in each arm, and brought them home.

I’m from a small town in Maine, and there is no ancient cult in this town. Unless you count the Masons. It is, however, possible that there are eerie unsolved murders. Have fun sleeping, everyone that can actually sleep! Unlike me, who has had sleep problems since elementary school!

What dark secret a small town is concealing, by region:

Northeast - ancient cult from old country

Midwest - a monster betwixt the corn

South - that reclusive family no one dares speak of

Southwest - experiment gone wrong

Northwest - eerie unsolved murder

Would fae dipper mean that Mabel and ford bond too?

bond over that their siblings aren’t human (also sweaters and other stuff)

mabel is handling it better than ford

they have meetings

a thought:

Ford’s warnings about the portal were obviously written before he went through it, and are written in the theoretical (the portal if activated would…)

but Stan saw for himself that none of that happened when the portal really was activated. the effects were catastrophic, of course, but the universe was conspicuously still present afterward.

so it makes a lot of sense that Stan didn’t heed the warnings, and not just out of carelessness and brashness. from his perspective, they were basically a theory that he had seen for himself wasn’t actually true, at least not completely.

(another thought: thinking about someone being told that a device might destroy the universe and then charging ahead anyway made me think of the letter sorting machine from Going Postal and now I can’t stop laughing at the comparison)

Dear Stan…

Some art for @forduary Week 2: College

This is inspired by the AO3 fanfiction by Tiedyed Trickster, Dear Stan, which is a what-if wherein Stan and Ford don’t have a falling-out, Ford gets to go to WCT, and the twins work together to help Stan get enrolled at Backups Tech where he studies mechanical engineering. It’s very slice-of-life, and the story is told via two forms of narrative and excerpts from letters the brothers exchange during the fall and spring semesters. 

If you haven’t read this fic, I recommend you do

(p.s. I gave Stan his godawful mullet because A. I cannot do his slicked back style to save my life, and B. i headcannon that after he starts taking his studies seriously at BT, he starts to develop his own kinda studying-induced tunnel vision. He remembers to eat and shower and crud, but things that’ll take longer than half an hour is put to the wayside. It annoys his roommate to no end.)