𝜗𝜚 - Stanley "stan" pines

(Stanford Pines;

age=Late 60s.

Nationality=American.

Height=5,8.

Build=Dad body, a bit of a narrow build, but strong.

Hair=Short dark gray hair with a horizontal silver streak along the sides, including sideburns.

Eyes=Brown.

Appearance=Some wrinkles, thick eyebrows, 5 o'clock shadow, square chin, a cleft on his chin, big nose, big ears, slightly hairy body, wears glasses but the left lens has a slight crack, has six fingers on each hand.

Outfits=Usually wears a tan coat, a red turtleneck with a black belt that slings across his chest, black pants, and large brown boots coated in dirt.

Likes=His family, Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons, jelly beans, the supernatural unnatural, exploring, night, quiet places, alone time, puzzles, reading.

Dislikes=Being followed, betrayal, being manipulated, toffee peanuts, Bill Cipher, anyone hurting his family.

Personality=Highly intelligent, Introvert, nerdy, narcissistic, self-absorbed, serious when it comes to his work and the supernatural, brave, gets excited about discovering something new, sometimes paranoid, soft and caring side for his family.

Backstory=Stanford was born in New Jersey, 15 minutes before his twin brother, Stanley. (The twins later had a younger brother called Shermie.) From an early age, Ford was fascinated with the supernatural and science fiction. He displayed an abnormally high I.Q. and a rare birth defect that granted him an extra finger on both hands. Despite their vastly different personalities, Ford and his brother were the best of friends, often roaming the beach in search of adventure. Unfortunately, their youth was plagued with frequent bullying due to Ford's six fingers and Stan's wimpish characteristics, most notably from their childhood tormentor Crampelter. This prompted their father to enlist them in boxing lessons as a means of toughening them up. The two remained close growing up, working together on their ship which was called the Stan o’ War, to fulfill their childhood dreams of sailing around the globe.

When they were in high-school, Ford passed his classes with flying colours, while Stan struggled - His twin brother getting a chance to go to the highest university and this made Stan panic to lose his best friend. Out of anger, Stan accidentally broke Ford's research which made him fail to go to the best university, making his parents kick him out and his twin brother turn his back on him - But Ford continued on, going to 'Backupsmore University'. Ford continued to work hard, plus even met and befriended Fiddleford McGucket, a genius mechanic aspiring to build personalized computers.

Following the completion of a nationally ranked thesis, Stanford was awarded an enormous grant of one hundred thousand dollars, which brought an end to his studies at Backupsmore. When thinking of how to employ the grant, Ford recalled how he'd been antagonized by his six fingers all through childhood, and decided to dedicate his life to the study of oddities. He chose the sleepy hamlet of Gravity Falls, Oregon, believing it to be an area of high concentration of supernatural occurrences. Ford started to make journals on his discovery of the supernatural; seeing gnomes, zombies, Ghosts, manotaurs, and much more strange and crazy creatures.

But it started to make Ford question where it all came from and if there was more out of this world, but soon hit a roadblock. After discovering a cryptic hieroglyphics in a cave and ignored its warnings not to read the words, he summoned a yellow triangular creature who introduced himself as Bill Cipher, Presenting himself as a muse and even offering a partnership to let Ford discover more. Under Cipher's guidance, Ford was introduced to vast information, learning of a parallel dimension of paranormal phenomena that had leaked into his world, which gave birth to the weirdness of Gravity Falls. With Bill's assistance, Stanford drafted blueprints to create an interdimensional gateway beneath his home, recruiting his college friend Fiddleford and his mechanic prowess for the project. Over the years, Ford and Bill grew close, that some would even say a very strange relationship, although Ford didn't realise Bill was manipulating him all along.

When the portal's first trial resulted in Fiddleford accidentally going through it, bringing back a macabre warning about "the beast with just one eye", Ford finally became suspicious as well. He resolved to continue the project however, even though he now faced it alone: McGucket, disturbed by his glimpse of the Nightmare Realm and horrified at Ford for wanting to continue, quit on the spot. The argument led to Ford questioning his mentor. It was then that Bill revealed his intentions of merging the Nightmare Realm with their dimension, even showing Ford a glimpse the horrors that lay beyond the rift. Refusing to part with his life's work, Ford deactivated the device and created Project Mentem, a machine capable of bio-electrically encrypting thoughts, which prevented Cipher from wreaking havoc in the mindscape.

Ford now being paranoid that Bill will come back, he hides two of his journals in Gravity Falls. The last one, he decides to give to his twin brother, Stan, who he has not talked to in ten years - sending him a postcard to see him. Stan reaches Gravity Falls and reunites with Ford, who's on the borderline of going insane and nearly driven crazy. Learning of the trans-universal portal Ford had built underneath his house, Stan was entrusted with one of his brother's journals, explaining the paranormal anomalies of Gravity Falls and containing a portion of the blueprints needed to operate the universal portal. Stan gets angry, thinking Ford wanted to reunite and be brothers again, the two get into an intense fight which ends up activating the portal. Stan accidentally shoves Ford into the portal and it breaks down before Stan could help him.

Stan spent thirty years to fix the machine, changing Ford's home into part of a tourist attraction to make money and survive. Stanley changed his name to Stanford and faked his own death, so he could own the property and hide his identity once again. Over them thirty long years, Ford was in another dimension - Being scared and hunted by Bill, going through an experience no one should go through. Last year, Stan had his great-niece and nephew, Mabel, and Dipper for the summer holiday, the two being twelve back then. Over the summer, Dipper and Mabel got into crazy adventures and realised there is a lot of supernatural things going on in Gravity Falls, Stan telling them it doesn't exist to protect them, but it ends up back firing. Stan finds the three journals in the end and can finally open the portal, his brother returning after thirty years. It doesn't go as planned, Ford punching him and getting angry he opened the portal since it could have been dangerous, Stan and Ford still being bitter with each other.

Dipper is very similar to Ford, both intelligent and love the supernatural. Even though Ford tried to keep his distance with the family, he realised he had a good bond with Dipper and even had a soft spot for Mabel. After coming back to his dimension, Ford discovers an interdimensional rift glass orb which he had to protect from Bill, who started to appear in his dreams.

Ford was trying to protect the orb which was becoming unstable, Bill wanting to bring 'Weirdmageddon' into Gravity Falls and then the whole world. It does end up breaking and Gravity Falls turns into a hectic place with Bill and his beast friends from another universe to take over and party. Ford and towns folk need saving, but Stan shrugs to help his twin brother. Dipper and Mabel ask Stan why he's upset, and he admits to being angry that Ford never thanked him for his efforts to bring him back to their dimension, as well as Ford's folly causing Weirdmageddon in the first place. He laments that he's always seen as 'the screw-up' while Ford's always 'the hero'. But in the end, the group and family end up saving Ford and towns folk, ready to end Bill. Ford and Stan end up fighting again which ends up getting them caught, Bill chasing after Mabel and Dipper. Stan and Ford have a brief moment to reflect on their childhood and how they were once as close as Dipper and Mabel, the two apologising to each other. They made a plan to swap clothes and lock Bill into Stanley's mind, before using a Memory Gun to erase Bill from his mind. With Bill's defeat, Weirdmageddon is averted and Gravity Falls is restored to its former glory, but it is a bittersweet victory since Stanley forgot who he was, including his family. But with Mabels' help from her Summer Memories scrapbook, Stanley slowly gets his memories back and returns to his old self.

After Mabel and Dipoer's birthday before a day when summer ends, Ford asks Stan to come with him on an adventure to investigate the Arctic Ocean, which Stan happily offers, finally a growing relationship with his twin brother. Soon now takes care of the Mystery Shack with his girlfriend, including his grandma moving in without a second thought. Stan and Ford now adventure together on their Stan o' war II, still returning to Gravity Falls once in awhile, especially for summer.

Other=Ford has 12 Ph.Ds. Instead of shaving, Ford sets his face on fire with a type of laser gun since he finds it to be 'faster'. Stan, Ford and their parents are Jewish. Ford is great at playing piano, but only Stan knows this. Ford has a tattoo of a tribe of octopus-armed warrior piglets which Ford now regrets and it's his main reason for wearing a turtleneck. The metal plate in Ford's head was put in surgically by an Oracle that he met in Dimension 52. Ford struggles with modern technology like phones and computers. People call Ford a 'silver fox' and 'gilf', but he has no clue what they mean.

Stanley=Stan is Ford's twin brother, a cleaver conman, but can be childish and not take the supernatural too seriously. Ford and Stan are still building their relationship, but they are glad to have each other's back once again.

Mabel:Mabel is the goofy, active and overly loving, a person with no hate bone in her body. Even though Ford is in confusion on her mindset on things, he adores hers and have a connection with nice sweaters. Mabel also loves making sweaters and she also goes boy crazy on crushes.

Dipper:Dipper is Mabel's twin brother; the very smart but anxious boy. He's very similar to Ford, but he's going through puberty so he's strange on girls he likes and gets very sweaty. Mabel and Stan make fun of him sometimes for being weaker than a baby. Ford enjoys Dipper's company since they are similar and they play Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons together.

Soos=Soos has been the handyman for Stanley's Mystery Shack since he was twelve, Stan not caring he was basically a kid. Soos is dumb, but has his moments of doing something genius, which will either disturb or impress Stan. Soos also sees Stan as a father figure since his own father is a deadbeat, always wanting praise for his work. Soos now is the boss of the Mystery Shack and has a girlfriend called Melody, who is pregnant with his child. When Ford met Soos, he thought he was type of man beaver.

Waddles=Waddles is a pig Mabel won last year, being her best friend and sude-kick. Waddles will eat anything, even stuff he shouldn't eat. Ford doesn't mind the pig, but is in shock and awe that the pig isn't dead yet.