Awww This Is Sweet. I'm Always A Sucker For Found Family Stuff.

Awww this is sweet. I'm always a sucker for found family stuff.

Additional idea: Soos has learnt (probably from dealing with Stan let's be honest) that when handling stubborn, proud, people the best way to go about things is to let them think they've won.

He accepts her insistence on paying rent (maybe she insists that at least during the off season she still pays rent because they don't really need any help in the gift shop) but puts all of it into collage funds for her to "conveniently" discovery once she's 18.

Pacifica Pines AU

Asking for folks to share their Dipcifica headcanons with me lead to a ficlet written with @gobblewanker and @verysorrytobother which lead to this AU.

Pacifica starts dating Dipper when they’re 16, after several summers of adventures and personal growth. She’s become close friends with Mabel and her pals by now and is on friendly terms with the rest of the Pines family.

Their relationship is the last straw for her parents, who insist she immediately dump Dipper and start looking for a wealthy young man in hopes of restoring their fortune to its former glory. Despite the ultimatum of comply or be cut off, Paz stands her ground.

She spends the first few nights sleeping on a booth at Greasy’s, picking up late night and early morning shifts so no one will be suspicious. Despite it all, she’s still quite proud and refuses to seek out charity.

One night, Pacifica accidentally locks herself out of the diner and resorts to sleeping on a bench, in danger of a rainstorm or kidnapping by gnomes (or something far more frightening).

As luck would have it, Stan happens across her while on a late-night toffee peanut run. Although she weakly protests, he insists on bringing her home to the Shack.

Stan and Ford confront the Northwests (and Stan breaks Preston’s nose. Ford threatens to go to the police about their abandonment of Pacifica to dissuade Preston from pressing charges).

Dipper gives up his bed until they’re able to set Pacifica up in her own room.

The arrangement isn’t supposed to be long term at first, and Pacifica insists on paying rent. (Soos will only accept $5 a month and nothing more).

Eventually they come to an agreement that Paz can “work off” her room and board in exchange for help in the gift shop. She still works at the diner, since she makes great tips (and she secretly kind of enjoys it) but now she doesn’t have to take dangerous late-night shifts anymore.

Pacifica continues to stay with Soos and Melody (and the Stans) even after the twins return home to California for the year. There’s no way they’d turn her out on the street with the weather changing, even if business is slower outside the summer months.

Stan and Ford visit Dipper and Mabel’s family in California for the holidays. Pacifica accompanies them.

One day she slips up and calls Stan “Grunkle Stan.” She’s mortified, but Stan lets her know it’s no problem. Soon both he and Ford are her honorary grunkles.

Her parents attempt to regain custody when they realize Pacifica does not plan on coming home. The legal battle is messy, but the Pines are able to help her gain emanicipation (Stan may or may not have bribed the judge).

When Pacifica leaves for college, the Shack is where she returns home to on breaks.

Her relationship with Dipper stays strong, and they marry after graduating college. Pacifica officially changes her name to Pacifica Elise Pines, but at that point it’s just a formality. She’s been part of the family since the night Stan brought her home.

From todays anatomy practice, faces still hard. Getting better though, I think ^^

Here is tonight’s little sketch during the streaming. Thanks all for coming!

Bonus another sketch I did earlier this week.

Re: Wings: Maybe this strays too far from the theme, but I can see Pacifica with bat wings. Because bats are traditionally associated with evil, but are not inherently so, like her status as a Northwest. :V

Ohh, that's an interesting idea symbolically yeah! :o

At first I was thinking of making her have peacock wings, because they're flamboyant and stereotypically kept by rich people in gardens. But then I realized female's don't have interesting feathers. So, I started thinking of different kinds of songbirds. The stereotypical dainty and pretty bird kept in a too-small cage and more of an ornament than a companion.

Not sure if I'll go for animals other than birds, if I do I could imagine her looking quite elegant in white bat wings (albino or ghost bat maybe?). If her parents don't have bat wings, it could maybe even be a plot point that she's somewhat 'nocturnal' and way more comfortable in the dark, but her parents are forcing her to be out in daytime and bright light anyways so they can show her off, and it's creating some very unhealthy routines.

Oh man this is so awesome and sweet, but also kind of strangely ominous? Because my overdramatic self immediately jumped to "AU where the events of the series is just Stan and Ford as children playing pretend and imagining a better future because their current life sucks."

Overdramatic cartoony villains, a new monster each time they play as the story gets gradually more and more convoluted, Stan gets to be the hero and save Ford and stuff, Ford gets to travel the universe and learn things nobody else knows, and they're the cool big kids who protect their family.

Also: the art is just amazing. It's beautifully summery and resurrects childhood memories I didn't even know I had.

IN MEMORIES THE PINES STILL PLAY ON A SUNNY SUMMER’S DAY

Could you maybe possibly draw some Pines twins with wings please?

Decided to sketch this suggestion while listening to my lecture recordings and, uh... Might have gotten a bit carried away with ideas. This might have to be a new AU.

(This was an awesome suggestion, thanks anon! ^^)

Mabel and Dipper both have parrot wings. Specie depends on personality traits, not genetics, but they have such a strong and healthy bond that they still ended up similar. (Mabel has standard macaw wings because bright and colorful, while Dipper has African grey wings because those are among the most intelligent birds in existence.)

Stan has magpie wings, due to their perchance for stealing and also because they look dull normally, but are surprisingly colorful in the right light. Magpies are also surprisingly clever.

Ford has owl wings, or rather, a wing. Bill broke off one because heavy handed symbolism about taking away his freedom by taking his ability to fly. He's pretty morose about it. (After Weirdmageddon, Fiddleford helps him make a functioning prosthesis [because regaining his freedom and independence with the support of family and friends])

(Wendy has woodpecker wings, Fiddleford has canary wings [songbird so connected with music, and also because he was basically Ford's 'canary in the coal mine' in regards to Bill], Gideon is a dove, I don't know the rest.)