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Weirder Things
is a Gravity Falls fanfic by Cowboy Alchemist. Presently completed.
Patrick Pines finds himself shuttled off to Gravity Falls, Oregon with his twin cousins to the tourist trap of Stan Pines known as the Mystery Shack. In this bizarre and wonderous town, Patrick will find danger, adventure, and even romance as he works with Dipper and Mabel to discover the mysteries of Gravity Falls.
This fanfic contains the following examples:
- Accidental Kiss: 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.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the canon series, Agents Powers and Trigger were introduced in the Season 2 premiere. Here, they appear in the retelling of "Land Before Swine", which was in Season 1.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Pacifica and Dipper more or less become a couple in this story.
- Adapted Out:
- Some of the episodes, such as "Boss Mabel", "Bottomless Pit!", "Carpet Diem", "Little Gift Shop of Horrors", and "Roadside Attraction" are left out of the story, with the latter being replaced by the "Face It" story from the Lost Legends comic. Some of the events of "Carpet Diem" are referenced in "The Curse of the Were-Wendy" and "Dreamscaperers".
- Rumble McSkirmish is replaced by the Hammer from Regular Show in the "Fight Fighters" chapter. In fact, the Guardians of Obsolete Formats take his place during Weirdmageddon.
- Ma and Pa Duskerton, the ghostly couple in "The Inconveniencing", are replaced by the Windmill Vandals from Courage the Cowardly Dog, although they do appear in a flashback in Chapter 32.
- Affably Evil: Just like in the show, the Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity eats people, but he's upset at Patrick for rudely ignoring him.
- Alliterative Name: Patrick Pines.
- Amazon Chaser: Another reason Patrick falls for Wendy is because of her lumberjack skills. In fact, he calls her "the coolest girlfriend ever".
- Armor-Piercing Question: 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 the night he was disowned. This causes Stan to back down and regret what he did.Stan: Look, that little jerk destroyed one of my attractions. I was going to make hundreds-no, thousands! All that pig's done is mooch off our family and get in my way!
Veronica: So you decided to put him outside, just like your father did to you?! - Ascended Extra:
- 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 turns into a werewolf. She also serves as Patrick's Love Interest before becoming his girlfriend.
- Downplayed with Pacifica. The chapters in which she's the most involved are the retellings of the canon episodes in which she's featured, but she has cameo appearances (or mentions) in a couple of other chapters, such as "The Deep End" in which Dipper briefly gets distracted at the pool by the sight of a blonde girl in a swimsuit... before finding out it's his sworn enemy Pacifica. The last chapter before the final arc is also a retelling of Face It!, the story featuring her in Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.
- Battle Couple: 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. As a matter of fact, Mabel refers to them as "America's favorite power couple".
- Big Bad: Just like the canon series, Bill Cipher serves as the main antagonist of the story.
- Big Brother Instinct:
- Patrick deeply cares about his cousins and would do anything to protect them.
- A twin variant happens in the rewrite of "Irrational Treasure". After seeing Pacifica pick on Mabel, Dipper actually jumps to her defense instead of just standing there.
- 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.
- Patrick's grandmother Veronica was just as protective of her cousins Stan and Ford as Patrick is to Dipper and Mabel.
- Big Good: During Weirdmageddon, 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, he's the one who restores Stan's memories as thanks.
- Bookends: In the first chapter of the story, Patrick finds his crowbar leaning against the broken Whack-a-Mole machine in his and the twins' bedroom. In the final chapter, he puts the crowbar back by the machine before leaving for home.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Wendy's father Manly Dan has a dislike towards Patrick since he started dating his daughter. Then again, Patrick did punch him in the third chapter to start a Bar Brawl.
- Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: 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.
- The Cameo: Booker Bridges, the protagonist of the Owl House fanfic The Seventh Son by the same author, appears in the retelling of Face It! to help Dipper, Patrick and Pacifica blend in with the crowd in the Crawl Space. Luz and Amity also appear, though their names aren't spoken.
- Country Matters: In Chapter 11, the Summerween Trickster calls Wendy the C-word after she exorcises him out of Patrick's body. This is, of course, the only time that word is ever used.
- Crowbar Combatant: Patrick wields a red crowbar as his primary weapon à la Gordon Freeman.
- Decomposite Character: Patrick takes on Dipper's role in several incidents (going to the Dusk 2 Dawn Mart with Wendy's friends, getting the lifeguard job at the pool, etc.), as well as being the one with a crush on Wendy.
- Demonic Possession: Patrick experiences this twice; first by the Summerween Trickster (who is a demon in this story), and later by Bill.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the canon series, Ma and Pa Duskerton died from double heart attacks after hearing the teenagers' rap music. Here, they were killed by the Windmill Vandals by having their heads chopped off.
- Disney Death: Patrick suffers one in Chapter 18 after fighting the Gideon-bot as a giant and falling off the bridge. After shrinking their cousin back to normal size, Dipper and Mabel try in vain to use CPR on him, but give up and break down in tears. Thankfully, Patrick awakes and reminds the twins that "Pines stick together".
- Evil Overlooker: In the cover picture above, Bill Cipher is shown looming over the characters in the form he took at the beginning of Weirdmageddon.
- Extra Digits: Just like Ford, who has six fingers, Patrick was born with six toes on both feet. He was mocked about it by the other kids when he was younger, which caused him to have anger issues.
- Fan Verse: The story is shown to share a universe with the author's other works, such as The Seventh Son and Living in a Frog World.
- Father Time: As in the Regular Show 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.
- Forgotten First Meeting: The end of Chapter 28 reveals that Patrick and Wendy first met when they were very young when Patrick was being bullied by Robbie while visiting Veronica in Gravity Falls, which was also on the day of Soos' 12th birthday. Of course, Wendy had met Patrick's teenage self first after he'd accidentally time travelled to that particular day while escaping Blendin. Each have no recollection of their meeting when they reunite ten years later.
- Fright-Induced Bunkmate: At the end of Chapter 15, Wendy asks Patrick if he can lay down next to her in bed to comfort her after what she went through as a werewolf. While reluctant about it, Patrick agrees, and while they're both in each other's arms, Wendy remembers the times they spent together and realizes that she's falling in love with Patrick.
- Jerk Jock: 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.
- Losing Your Head: In Chapter 17, Patrick is reduced to a head after Bill causes his body to explode, leaving Wendy and later Mabel to carry him around. He manages to get his body back by using his mind, since he and everyone else is in Stan's mind.
- Love at First Sight: Patrick fell for Wendy when he first met her the day he, Dipper and Mabel arrived in Gravity Falls. According to the first chapter, Wendy complimented Patrick on his boonie hat and he did the same her lumberjack hat.
- Love Triangle: In the first half of the story, Patrick and Robbie begin a rivalry for Wendy's affection. Of course, like in the show's canon, Wendy dumps Robbie after discovering his dishonesty in "Boyz Crazy", but after spending a lot of time with Patrick, Wendy falls for him as well after discovering a drawing he made of her and when he cures her after she gets bitten by a werewolf and they sleep together after the incident. By "Into the Bunker", Patrick and Wendy become an Official Couple.
- Male Gaze: Patrick gives one to Wendy when he lays eyes on her.
- Mole in Charge: A heroic example. 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.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- 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.
- 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 Bill unleashes Weirdmageddon upon the world.
- Mythology Gag: 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.
- Never Mess with Granny: Patrick's grandmother, Veronica, is a kind old lady who knows her way around a shotgun. She's also a fully trained government agent.
- Not So Above It All: 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.
- Official Couple:
- Patrick and Wendy become one in Chapter 20 after many romantic moments between them in the story and a Relationship Upgrade happens in Chapter 20.
- The same can be said for Dipper and Pacifica, after many chapters of Ship Tease for them.
- Only Sane Man: Besides Dipper, Patrick is the only member in the Pines family who believes the adventures they go on are dangerous. He is also against the idea of Dipper and Ford keeping the rift a secret from the family and goes out of his way to show it out in the open.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: In-universe. Mabel refers to Patrick and Wendy's couple name as "Wenrick".
- Posthumous Sibling: By the end of the story, Patrick gains a baby sister named Sally, who is born after Patrick's young brother Shawn died from cancer at a very young age eight years earlier.
- Rescue Romance: 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.
- Ruder and Cruder: There is a lot more rough language than one would see in a Disney cartoon.
- Shipper on Deck:
- Patrick teases Dipper about him and Pacifica being an item despite their animosity towards each other.
- Throughout the story, both Dipper and Mabel support the idea of Patrick and Wendy getting together. In fact, Mabel calls their ship name "Wenrick".
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Wendy doesn't hesitate to attack anyone or anything who harms Patrick, even before they become a couple in the second half of the story. For example:
- In Chapter 5, which is a rewrite of "The Inconveniencing" combined with "Windmill Vandals", she saves Patrick from being cut down by one of the titular Vandals, only to get kicked off by its horse.
- In Chapter 15, 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, she looks ready to beat up Gideon after his fight with Patrick.
- She fully transforms into this in Chapter 24 when 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, a young Wendy saves a young Patrick from being bullied by a young Robbie by pelting him with water balloons.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Patrick is usually the one calling out other characters for particularly stupid or selfish behavior.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Patrick narrates in the final chapter what he and the other characters have been doing over the years since his summer in Gravity Falls.
- Wrecked Weapon: During the Final Battle with Bill, he blows up Patrick's laser shotgun.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Mabel regrets her selfish behavior after fleeing from Mabeland, Patrick assures her he would never trade her for the world.Patrick: Mabel, let's say there's like an infinite amount of Mabels in the multiverse. I'd never trade you for another Mabel if I had the choice. And even if I had to pick a Mabel, I'd still pick you. You're perfect just the way you are. Even with every time you've been a brat, look at how far you've made it! I've seen you grow over the time we spent in Gravity Falls. You're not the same person you were when we first came here.
Mabel: Is it bad that I kinda wish I was?
Patrick: Yes! You were a terrible excuse for a human being!
Mabel: Hey! (laughs and punches Patrick's chest, then hugs him)
Patrick: We love you, Mabel. Flaws and everything.
