Tag: reverse portal au

busket:

i’ve talked a lot about reverse portal! stan but not ford

some differences between him and canon ford

  • he’s not as beefy or agile, a bit of a wimp
  • wears lab coats and button up shirts instead of turtlenecks and trench coats
  • he quit his research of monsters and stuff after stan entered the portal
  • he has grown to be a little afraid of the things he used to study. the paranoia we saw in canon!ford before he entered the portal never totally left with rp!ford
  • constant guilt lol

he is also p sheltering to dipper and mabel. when they eventually show him the journal, he panics and takes it away. but eventually the kids win back his trust and he lets them hold on to it for a little longer, for self defense only

Stan takes one look at the other man, and before he knows what he’s doing, he’s got the squirming man in a bear hug, lifting him up, pressing him close. “Ford! Oh, Ford, i knew you’d come for me! i always knew you wouldn’t give up on me!” Ford quits his fidgeting, goes oddly still in Stan’s arms (well, arm- singular) and mumbles something. Stan doesn’t know if he was meant to hear it or not, but years of constant danger have made his hearing sharp, so he catches it- “i didn’t”. ((it’s gf!ford))

busket:

“…can we still hang out for a while?”

busket:

au where stanley was pushed in to the portal instead of stanford

stanford continued on his research in gravity falls, keeping the first journal but leaving the other 2 hidden. he couldn’t bring himself to dismantle the portal knowing stanley was in there, but couldn’t risk the destruction of the universe to power it up and bring him back. he spends 30 years indecisive about if he should save him or try to forget. against his best judgement he agrees to let dipper and mabel stay for the summer, even though the “mystery shack” is still just his house and research lab. 

seeing them together convinces him that he should save stanley. as he starts up the portal, his conviction wavers, still worried that the portal would tear the universe apart. but events similar to nwhs causes dipper and mabel to loose faith in ford and they come across the portal themselves and unwittingly perform the last events to open the portal and bring them back. stanford tries to stop them, convinced it will bring the end of the world, but the twins do not press the emergency power down button and stanley exits the portal. 

first he’s happy to see stanford again and happy to be out of the portal, until he quickly realizes that ford is not the reason he’s back, and becomes furious believing that his brother didn’t even try to save him