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The Mystery Quartet
As a whole
Formely known as the Mystery Trio.Members: "Dipper" Pines, Mabel Pines, Norman Babcock and Pacifica Northwest.
- Action Girl: Both Mabel and Pacifica are capable with holding their own against the supernatural.
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- While in his movie he expressed no attraction for any gender, here Norman is in love with Dipper.
- In Gravity Falls, both Dipper and Mabel expressed interest for the opposite gender, in the T Ui M-verse they're respectively bissexual and pan, with Mabel being in a relationship with Pacifica Northwest by the start of the story, who is a lesbian.
- Family of Choice: They all consider each other family, especially Norman and Pacifica in relation with with their own strained relationships with their parents.
- True Companions: They're always looking out for each other and keep their bonds waya after adolescence.
Norman Babcock
Norman
- Adorkable: Is still the same socially awkward, horror loving kid as of canon.
- All-Loving Hero:
- The Baby of the Bunch: Is the youngest member of the Mystery Quartet by one year, which often leads to this dynamic, especially with Dipper. He sometimes recents it, affirming that he can take care of himself.
- Back from the Dead: In T Ui M, he's temporaly killed by Bill Cipher so the later could use him as a Meat Puppet. After Bill's defeat, he nearly crosses to the other side, but decides come back to life.
- Berserk Button: As pacient as he is, he's gotta a few:
- First of all, DO NOT attempt to hurt any of the Mystery Quartet, especially Dipper.
- He hates when Dipper puts a case or Norman's life before his own life like it was nothing.
- Break the Cutie: In both Tangled Up in Mysteries and Out of the Dark.
- Calling the Old Man Out: In Dippers Guide to Dating The Guide to Meeting the Parents he calls his father out for not giving Dipper a chance and says that it's him who decides what's best for him.
- Closet Key: Was the first guy that Dipper has ever been attracted to.
- Coming-Out Story: The Guide to Sixteenth Birthdays and The Guide to Meeting the Parents.
- Heroic Will Power: In T Ui M, he spent Three whole days running through the woods/the Dreamscaper from Bill and enduring an unstoppable wave of Mind Rape in the form of Your Wordt Nightmare until he finally broke.
- I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: The reason he spent so much time not spitting out his crush on Dipper.
- I See Dead People: As per cannon.
- It Runs in the Family: As he finds out, speaking to the dead isn't the only ability he has in commom with Aggie. In situations of extreme anger (or being in the control of Bill Cipher) he can also unlock the same "lightning powers" as her.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: Due to his powers, he's one for Bill who wants to use them to bring him to our reality and cause The End of the World as We Know It.