History Fanfic / WeirderThings

* CrowbarCombatant: Patrick wields a red crowbar as a weapon à la [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]].

* BattleCouple: Patrick and Wendy become one later on in the story. Even before they start dating, they are kicking butt side by side on different occasions.

* PosthumousSibling: [[spoiler:Chapter 23 reveals that Patrick's younger brother Shawn died from cancer at a very young age. Since then, Patrick has been having nightmares about that moment, which gives Bill a chance to send a Marra to haunt Patrick's dreams.]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Due to taking Dipper's role in the story, Patrick is the one with a crush on Wendy. In fact, Chapter 20 reveals that her hair is the only physical thing Patrick says he likes about her. Turns out, Wendy feels the same way about him.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:When Mabel regrets her selfish behavior after fleeing from Mabeland, Patrick assures her he would never trade her for the world.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: An unintentional variant. [[spoiler:In Chapter 32, which is a retelling of "A Tale of Two Stans", during Stan and Ford's scuffle over Journal #1, Veronica tries to take the book from the quarreling brothers, only for Stan to punch her in the face out of reflex, giving her a black eye. Stan is shocked by his own action, but Ford soon shoves him off while he's distracted.]]

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Patrick Pines found himself shuttled off to Gravity Falls, Oregon with his twin cousins to the tourist trap of Stan Pines. In this bizarre and wonderous town, Patrick will find danger, adventure, and even romance as works with Dipper and Mabel to discover the mysteries of Gravity Falls.

* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler: Dipper and Pacifica experience one in Chapter 9, when Dipper is launched off a malfunctioning mechanical bull and crashes into Pacifica, locking their lips together. This results in Dipper getting beaten up. He tries going back in time to prevent himself from kissing Pacifica, but fails every time.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In Chapter 16, while Stan and Veronica are hiding from the pterodactyl and Stan tries to put Waddles out in the open for the beast to seize the pig, Veronica gets into an argument with him and brings up [[spoiler: the night he was disowned]]. This causes Stan to back down and regret what he did.

'''Veronica:''' So you decided to put him outside, just like [[spoiler: your father did to you]]?!

** In the canon series, Wendy was hardly involved in any of the storylines despite being a main character. Here, she is given a much bigger role in the story and joins Patrick and the twins on their adventures starting with Chapter 3. She even gets her own chapter where she [[spoiler: turns into a werewolf]]. She also serves as Patrick's LoveInterest before becoming his girlfriend.

** [[spoiler: Patrick is able to pull Wendy away from the delusions of Mabeland by reminding her that her brothers will suffer if they don't take down Bill.]]

* BigGood: During Weirdmageddon, [[spoiler: Father Time is revealed to be responsible for Patrick's existence, having inserted him into the timeline to ensure that Bill is defeated]]. And afterwards, [[spoiler: he's the one who restores Stan's memories as thanks]].

* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Wendy's father Manly Dan has a dislike towards Patrick since he started [[spoiler: dating his daughter]]. Then again, Patrick did punch him in the third chapter to start a BarBrawl.
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: [[spoiler: Patrick and Wendy experience this in Chapter 29, when Wendy gets upset at Patrick for helping Mabel pair Robbie and Tambry together, causing Patrick to think she dumped him after telling him it's over. Fortunately, Wendy assures him he was never dumped after witnessing him encounter an illusion of her summoned by the Love God.]]

* FatherTime: [[spoiler: As in the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' version. He makes an appearance as the father of Time Baby, and as the one who set the timeline up so Patrick could be the one to save it. He also gives Patrick the push he needs to get Mabel, Dipper, Wendy, and Soos to leave Mabeland.]]

* JerkJock: [[spoiler: One of Wendy's ex-boyfriends, Bryce, is a football player for Gravity Falls High School. Back when they were dating, Bryce turned out to be a complete asshole who used Wendy to get other girls interested in him, lied to her, stole money from her, cheated on her, but worst of all, hit her many times. It is for those many reasons Wendy broke up with him. When they meet again in Chapter 37, Bryce tries to take Wendy back, only to meet her new boyfriend Patrick, who comes to her aid and scares Bryce into backing off when he tries to hit her.]]

* MoleInCharge: A heroic example. [[spoiler: Veronica uses her position as Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations to keep the government away from the bulk of paranormal activity in Gravity Falls and to cover up her and Stan's attempts to reopen the portal.]]

** [[spoiler: After she becomes a werewolf, Wendy is so traumatized by her attacks on the Pines and mauling some farm animals that she turns herself in to the police, believing she deserves to be locked up.]]
** [[spoiler: She goes through this again in Chapter 29 when she realizes how badly she treated Patrick after hearing from an illusion of herself that she broke up with him.]]
** Replace "I" with "we" at the end of Chapter 37, which is what Patrick says when [[spoiler: Bill unleashes Weirdmageddon upon the world]].
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: Wendy becoming a werewolf is a reference to ''Monster Falls'', an [=AU=] where the characters of ''Gravity Falls'' are depicted as some fantastical creature, with Wendy depicted as some kind of wolf.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: Patrick's grandmother, Veronica, is a kind old lady who knows her way around a shotgun. [[spoiler: She's also a fully trained government agent.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: [[spoiler: Dipper hectors about how horrible Mabeland is and how they need to leave...only for the place to conjure up his fantasy of getting to work as Ford's apprentice.]]

** [[spoiler: Patrick and Wendy become one in Chapter 20 after many romantic moments between them in the story and a RelationshipUpgrade happens in Chapter 20.]]

* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Patrick protecting Wendy from an evil werewolf and moving heaven and Earth to cure her is what helps bring Wendy and Patrick together. In fact, the two end up sleeping together that same night, where Wendy starts to realize that she's falling in love with Patrick.]]

** In Chapter 5, which is a rewrite of "The Inconveniencing" combined with "Windmill Vandals", [[spoiler: she saves Patrick from being cut down by one of the titular Vandals, only to get kicked off by its horse]].
** In Chapter 15, [[spoiler: after she turns into a werewolf, Wendy attacks the one who bit her just when he's about to kill Patrick, leaving his back bloodied and gashed]].
** In Chapter 18, [[spoiler: she looks ready to beat up Gideon after his fight with Patrick]].
** She fully transforms into this in Chapter 24 when [[spoiler: she slams a Bill-possessed Patrick against the wall, violently asking what he did with her boyfriend's body. She even gets into a fist fight with Bill on the stage, at least until he gains the upper hand and knocks her back onto the floor with Dipper and Mabel]].
** At the end of Chapter 28, [[spoiler: a young Wendy saves a young Patrick from being bullied by a young Robbie by pelting him with water balloons]].

* WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler: During the FinalBattle with Bill, he blows up Patrick's laser shotgun.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: When Mabel regrets her selfish behavior after fleeing from Mabeland, Patrick assures her he would never trade her for the world.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: In the final chapter.]]