Gravity Falls X Reader

A Tale of Two Stans

"STAN O' WAR" painted on its side. "I dub thee: the Stan O' War!" He gets hit in the head by a small rock. "Ow! What the heck?" He glares at three children standing nearby. "Well, well, if it ain't the loser twins. Nice boat. Ya get it at the dump? Heheheheheheheh!" Crampelter high fives his two friends. "You would know, Crampelter! Get lost!" Child Ford shouted. "Listen, dorks, and listen good." Crampelter points at Ford. "You're a six-fingered freak." He then points at Stan. "And you're just a... dumber, sweatier version o' him. And you're lucky you have each other because neither of you will ever make any friends!" He then leaves with his friends. "Ha, hahahaha! Dorks and losers..." he laughed. Child Ford looks at his hand. "Hey. Don't let those idiots get to you." Child Stan said. "But I am a freak. I just wonder if there's anywhere in the world where weirdos like me fit in." Child Ford said. "Hey, chin up, buddy. Look." He and Ford look at the sea. "One of these days, you and me are gonna sail away from this dumb town. We'll hunt for treasure, get all the girls, and be an unstoppable team of adventurers." Child Stan said. "You really mean it?" Child Ford asked. "High six?" Child Stan asked. "High six." "He high sixes" him. "Those were the good times. Those bullies may have been right about us not making many friends, but when push comes to shove, you only really need one." In the flashback, Ford is solving a math problem on a chalkboard while Stan draws a monster-caricature of his school mistress. She hits him on the head with a ruler. The twins a few years later are sitting on the boat. A few years later, Ford is at a party laughing nervously at an angry girl, who pours her drink on him. Stan walks over and pours his drink on himself. "Ford's brains seemed to get more impressive every year. So did our pet project." He and Ford are putting a sail on their boat. Stan is in class and blows a paper through a straw at a student next to him, then leaning over and copying off of Ford.

"Sure I got in more than my fair share of trouble, but when your brother's the smartest kid in school, you've always got a leg up on the competition." Ford wins a science fair, then Stan comes over and puts his arm around him. "The future was lookin' bright. For both of us. Till one day..." Stan was eating Toffee Peanuts in class while Ford writes something. "Pines twins to the principal's office. Pines twins to the principal's office." A woman said over the PA. "Ah, great, what is it this time?" Stan asked. Ford and Stan start to go into the principal's office. And a woman at her desk stops them. "Not you; him." She said to Stan. "Uh." Stan sits in chair. Ford walks into the office, sees his parents are there and sits in the chair between them. "Now, Mr. Pines, I'd like to speak with you very frankly if I may." The principal said. "Very frankly is the only way I speak." Filbrick said. "You have two sons: one of them is incredibly gifted, the other one is standing outside of this room and his name's Stanley." The principal said. "What are you saying?" Caryn asked. "I'm saying your son, Stanford, is a GENIUS! All his teachers are going bananas over his science fair experiment!" The principal gives Ford a pamphlet. "Ya ever heard of West Coast Tech? Best college in the country. Their graduates turn science fiction into science FACT! The admissions team is visiting tomorrow to check out Stanford's experiment. Your son may be a future millionare, Mr. Pines." They said. "I'm impressed." Filbrick said. "But what about our little free spirit, Stanley?" Caryn asked. 

"That clown? At this rate he'll be lucky to graduate high school. Look, there's a saltwater taffy store on the dock. And somebody's gotta get paid to scrape the barnacles off of it. Stanford's goin' places. But hey, look on the bright side: at least you'll have one son here in New Jersey forever." The principal said. Stan sits down sadly outside the door. Later Ford and Stan are on the swings. "Heh. Joke's on them if they think you wanna go to some stuffy college on the other side of the country. Once we get the Stan O' War complete, it's gonna be beaches, babes, and international treasure hunting for us." Stan said. "Look, Stan, I can't pass up a chance like this. This school has cutting edge programs and multi-dimensional paradigm theory." Ford said. "Beep boop. I am a nerd robot. That's you. That's what you sound like." Stan said. "Heheh. Ah, well, if the college board isn't impressed with my experiment tomorrow, then okay, I'll do the treasure-hunting thing." Ford said. "And if they are?" Stan asked. Ford punches him. "Well then, I guess you better come visit me on the other side of the country. Haha." He walks away. "Without Ford I was just half of a dynamic duo. I couldn't make it without him." Stan is walking through the science experiments at the school at night. "And now, thanks to that dumb college, I was gonna lose my brother forever." In the flashback, Stan stops at Ford's experiment. "This is all your fault, ya dumb machine!" Stan punches the table and a piece comes off the machine. "Oh no. Oh no, no, what did I do?" Stan puts the piece back on. "There. Alright. Good as new. Probably." Stan puts the tarp back on and leaves. Later, Ford is in front of the tarp the next morning with the college board. "Alright, kid. Show us what ya got." A man said. "Okay! Well, what would you say if I told you that the future of technology was beneath this sheet?" Ford pulls the tarp off. "I'd say we wasted a car trip." The man said. "What?!" Ford looks at machine, which isn't moving. "But it was stable yesterday! A fuse must have blown or something." He said.