i’m sooo curious on bill meeting dipper’s parents. i think i remember you mentioning at one point they kinda sucked and treated dip especially bad. i’m sure that’s caused a lot of his long term mental health/self esteem issues and i can’t help but think his husband wouldn’t be too thrilled about that. also they don’t even know he’s married so that’s a whole other thing lol
In the Familiar AU, Dipper's parents shipped him and Mabel off to Grunkle Stan back when they were twelve, actually!
This was initially excused as the twins 'needing to get used to having magic'. Which makes sense! Magical puberty is a heck of a thing, and getting some training's useful to cut down on random magic surges.
But by the end of the summer, they hadn't made any plans for picking the kids up. This when Stan twigged to the real situation.
And by the end of that year, Dipper knew his 'paranoid' assumption was absolutely correct.
So the twins grew up in Gravity Falls, with only very occasional visits back 'home'. Contact's been sporadic, and Mabel's been the one who's clung more to their parent's attention. Dipper hasn't spoken to them unless forced to in years.
So yeah! Bill's not exactly thrilled with the parents - but lucky for them, they haven't met him yet! And they definitely don't know about the marriage. Much less anything else.
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Sheriff Jimmy Solidarity is not a toy.
He doesn’t know where people got that idea from. It’s insulting, really, to be compared to something as simple as a child’s plaything. Something small carved from wood or sewn together from scrap fabric or something even just a rock or some sticks stuck together. Jimmy is a more complex being than that.
Well, he’s lying somewhat. He knows where people got the idea. Easy mistake to make, automaton, toy. He gets it! The Sheriff is not an unreasonable man.
He doesn’t get it
It was all fine and well until that stupid, tiny, ugly, scrawny god showed up and decided to start poking a bit of fun. Oh, here’s a man who runs on gears, isn’t it funny, let’s call him a toy and get everyone else in on it. Haha, they have a laugh, they’re meant to move on.
Jimmy knows that people tend to move on from stupid jokes like that. But he can see it, every time someone comes and tells him no, he isn’t a toy, not at all. He can see that little spark of glee in their eyes, not even bothering to hide it.
That’s the thing of it, isn’t it! Jimmy knows a lot about people! He had to, being made to be the Sheriff after all. He’s able to recognize facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language, even small shifts, and identify the proper corresponding emotion. The whole range of them! He’s able to hold proper conversations with anyone on any subject and he can retain that information. Some things get lost, but if he can put the data somewhere external it’s not really much of an issue, is it? His memory capabilities are better than most people’s! How’s that for a toy, huh?
You’d never even guess, not unless you were familiar with robotics. Or, well, his gears make noises and so does his cooling system and coal engine, and sometimes his clock goes off which is embarrassing, but really. Just visually. Jimmy wasn’t conscious when he was being built, but he knows the process was extensive. A lot of thought and care went into the protector of Tumble Town, yessiree.
Jimmy knows he shouldn’t let it get under his skin, so to speak. The toy comments. The little giggles. It’s all just harmless jokes, and Joel the worst and smallest god is just that. Some stupid god, too big for his britches. He knows this, but still.
Emotions are way too complex and mismanaged (and yes, he has feelings, there was a decent amount of magic involved in creating him, let’s see a toy have half of that). Sometimes he blocks off that bit of his programming, just for a bloody rest of it. How people live with these things all the time, he doesn’t know.
Jimmy supposes it’s a point of pride. Being so carefully and lovingly crafted for a specific purpose, only to be compared to a child’s plaything. It might be hurtful if it weren’t so damn infuriating. As if that stupid god has a quarter of the programming knowledge Jimmy has.
If he did, he’d still be the same. Gods don’t change.
Oh, he wishes he could give back as good as he got to that little god. After all, Joel is no better than a child what with the tantrums he throws. What if Jimmy went around treating Joel like he were a small child? Really get to him. Maybe put up a few witty comics on the Stratos walls. Jimmy has a few ideas shored up for them.
Unfortunately, Jimmy is bound to the letter of the law and “eye for an eye” and “petty revenge” is not the way of it. Probably for the best, or else everything would just be pure chaos. Exactly the opposite of what Jimmy was made to enforce.
So he can do the next best things. Firstly, he can dish out appropriate consequences to that god. Jailing him, however temporarily it was. Suing him over nonconsensual use and profit of his image and name. Even if nothing comes of it, it’ll show the god that he isn’t lying down and taking it, no sir. And Joel can laugh and evade the consequences all he likes, it just proves Jimmy right in the end. That he is a pathetic, ill-tempered egomaniac. Either way, the Sheriff wins.
Secondly, he can refuse to show any respect to the god. Why should he? He isn’t getting respected back. So, sure, the others can boost his ego and give him little prayers all they want, Jimmy won’t stand for it. Joel may be a god but he’s the worst one.
In the end, Jimmy knows he’ll come out on top, no matter what anyone else thinks. With their giggles and jokes and little statues meant to insult him. Jimmy doesn’t need them.
He knows who and what he is. He is the protector, architect, and current acting mayor of Tumble Town. He is The Sheriff. And Joel can crow on and on about how gods are above the law, and maybe he���s right but Jimmy has the last laugh.
He’s well aware of what he is, and he is not naturally made, with engineering and programming and magic all. And he, by that, is exempt from any god’s rule.
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