The two Dipper copies that stole Robbie’s bike, and then disappeared into the forest. They never looked back.
They can’t know what happened to the other copies, but they can guess. Alpha Dipper doesn’t have a place for them in his life long term.
(I’m convinced Trelane came to the same conclusion and wittingly committed suicide by drinking that soda.)
They’ll never see Mabel again. (Again? No, that’s Alpha Dipper’s memories. They’ve barely met her.) The only twin they have is each other.
They’re not going back to Grunkle Stan. Not even when Weirdmageddon happened, when gnomes and manotaurs and unicorns were all seeking refuge at the Mystery Shack did these boys try to get help from him. They survived the end of the world on their own, somehow.
They’ll never see their parents or their home in California. They’ll never go to school.
Most likely, they’ll never grow up. They’re copies of Dipper at age 12, and that’s what they’ll always be. They don’t eat, or drink, or sleep. They’re not human.
And yet, just from this picture, we know they’re determined to live.
They’re out in the rain, in raincoats and a makeshift tent. There’s no way they’re staying perfectly dry in that. Perhaps they’re discovered a way to stabilize themselves so that liquids don’t dissolve them anymore – perhaps stabilization happens naturally once a copy has existed long enough. They’re real and they very much intend to stay that way.
Perhaps they stole the stole the stuff they’re seen with. Perhaps there’s still someone in the human world they trust enough to help them out. If so, I can see it being Soos. He’d do anything for the Pines family, even its weird little outgrowths. A book here, a banjo there, a couple of raincoats. No one will notice.
These boys are part of the Gravity Falls weirdness now. They’re cryptids. Two eternally young boys with the same face, sometimes encountered in the forest, gone before you know it. There are stories about them. Some are true, others are not.
Maybe some day, 50 years along the line, when Dipper is both a grandfather and a grunkle himself, he’ll stumble upon them in the thickets around Gravity Falls. They haven’t changed.
ford should have guessed that bill was a filthy fucking cheater right from the start, because in their first game of chess bill had the black pieces but he took the first move. the white pieces always take the first turn in chess. bill cheated
ok but
neither of them moved a pawn first so it’s possible ford just has no idea how to play chess
I think it’s… the animators who don’t know how chess works :p
Alternative idea: Since the knight can jump pieces, and Bill’s opening move is technically legal, we can conclude that Bill has at least a rough understanding of how to play chess.
However, the queen, Ford’s opening piece, cannot jump pieces and therefore can’t be used as an opening move. Ford and Mabel share the same understanding of chess.
So the game probably went like this:
Bill: *internally* yeah okay he’s a nerd this is probably a good enough opening to catch his fancy
Ford: *internally* fuck fuck fuck I don’t fucking know how to play chess I only know how to play Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons. Fuck. I’m just gonna bullshit this and hope he doesn’t notice
Bill: *internally* okay don’t say anything just play along and maybe let him win a few times, don’t tell him he’s using the horses wrong don’t say anything. You can do this, Cipher, you need this guy to build you a portal.
Ford: *internally* he hasn’t noticed, I must be really good at this completely by accident.
Later, Dipper asks Ford to play chess with him and it’s just:
So an anon asked for Stans hugging/Ford being a protective bro and there I am, thinking “haha yeah I am totally nailing this request!!” until I….stop to look at it when I’m finished.
well i guess this is it 