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Mabel! Mabel! I have something really important to tell you!!

[Seventeen seconds of prolonged farting sounds directly into the phone.]

[Hysterical cackling and then- click]

[sure, it's funny now, but she's going to keep this because Dipper sounds happy in it and next time he DIES some grunkle will find her sobbing into her phone while it farts at her so I hope you're pleased with your legacy here brobro]

[Absolutely.]

[Well, tonight had sure been a night. Dipper had not expected that when they decided to drop by Ozpin's (still relentlessly gaudy) mansion that they would wind up staying most of the night. While this was an outcome Dipper found to be pretty favorable, considering, the night left him feeling a number of mixed emotions.]

[Oscar situation not withstanding, there was something else in the forefront of his mind, and it takes them a moment of walking back in silence before Dipper decides to speak up.]

Hey, um. You know, we've still got some time, we could drop by the high school for the last dance. Maybe steal some of their decorations.

Edited 2021-04-21 04:53 (UTC)

[Mabel, for her part, has no regrets here. Dipper's been making even bigger eyes at Oscar than he was making at Wendy back home, and overall he's being a lot less of a dweeb about it, like. Comparatively. By Dipper standards. Of course she'd want to enable something like that, but even so, the offer to go do Mabel stuff too makes her heart puff up all warm. She beams at him past her bat-wing eyeliner, visibly happy even in the dark.]

Aww, thanks, Dipper. Let's definitely steal some decorations. Then we can have our own dance parties whenever we want.

[Soon, carnivorous sandworms that are attracted to noise --]

[Miraculously, Dipper managed to escape the makeup insanity that was going on at the goth party. Dipper didn't totally understand what that was all about, other than it was someone's way of trying to boost spirits which, if it worked then Dipper won't complain, so long as that eyeliner pen is at least fifteen feet away from him at all times.]

[He gets enough makeovers from Mabel.]

Definitely, and I bet in the chaos no one's going to really miss them. Most of the teachers and Staff are probably gone, anyway. What with all the Glitching townspeople gone.

[Which is concerning, but Dipper isn't electing to care about that right now. He pauses to see where they are and what street they might take to head towards the school. Once he's sussed it out, they'll cross the street and head in another direction.]

You worked so hard on the dress, It would be a shame not to show up everyone there at least for a few minutes.

[Mabel beams at the praise. Dipper sure is really good at noticing important things these days, and that makes her super happy. Spreading her arms out wide, she spins around once, and ends facing the school.]

I did work hard! How many people there do you think made their dresses?

[At this moment, two windows in the front of the school's gymnasium blow out, sending shattered glass spewing across the lawn. Smoke billows from the new holes in the wall, and screams and further crashing can be heard inside.]

[Mabel's arms fall slowly back down to her sides.]

...you know, Dipper, I think we might have dodged a bullet again.

[Some time into the future, Mabel will look back on this night as foreshadowing, in regards to everything about high school being objectively terrible and how great it is that they consistently failed to actually go there even when they wanted to.]

Definitely.

[Another window blows out.]

The decorations probably aren't that great anyway.

[And he will just. About-face and start walking right down the sidewalk, towards home.]

Well, yeah. Now they're on fire.

[She turns practically in unison with him, and off they go. Neither of them look back as the sound of an increasingly large number of smoke alarms begin blaring out into the night.]

Edited 2021-08-21 03:28 (UTC)

MABEL? SWEETIE?

YKNOW HOW ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE LOSING VARIOUS BODY PARTS AROUND HERE?

yeah

[Mabel did indeed see that post, and spent several minutes trying to think of how to phrase her sympathies, until the yelling and arguing began to unfurl before her eyes. At that point she decided the best option was to ignore the whole mess and poke Dipper to bake something later. Geez.]

JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE BEFORE ANYTHING DUMB HAPPENS

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LOSE ANY BODY PARTS. FOR ANY REASON. EVER. I'M PUTTING A HOUSEWIDE BAN ON KIDS GETTING MAIMED.

SO DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!

your capslock is on grunkle stan

I KNOW! I JUST LIKE YELLING!!!

[...yeah, that tracks.

Mabel doesn't respond to that one but now that she is officially a teenager, her vigorous eyerolls have some extra oomph to them, so Stan can probably sense one happening all the same. After a moment she comes traipsing down the stairs in a huffy flounce, sketchbook stuffed under one arm, waving a pencil around with her other hand.]

Grunkle Stan. Have you even seen the cool prosthetics people are building around here? Getting maimed is just an opportunity for an upgrade!

[guess who has been Coping Aggressively]

[Welp, she caught him. He was absolutely texting her from his armchair downstairs. Who gave him this technology and taught him how to use it?!

She marches down with a sketchbook and this is honestly about what he expected.]

Yeah, I have! That's why I said what I said! You're the second most likely person in this house to go "Ooo! I could have a metal hand that shoots rainbow lasers out of the fingers!" and get your hand cut off!

[The first most likely, of course, is Ford. For science.]

[Okay but why even have technology if you aren't going to use it to text people who are in the same house. Anyway, Mabel has been caught, too. She tromps on over to shove the open page of her sketchbook at him on which, Stan will see, Mabel has been very busy making design notes for

MABELTRON

]

Color-changing rainbow lasers, Grunkle Stan! I could turn boss battles into rave parties!

[A long time ago this might have surprised Stan, but not anymore.]

No! No rave party boss battles! I gotta draw the line somewhere!

[He squints at the design, gently pushing it back so he can actually see it.]

Is there any part of Mabeltron that's still flesh and bone?

Of course! Who would ever want to replace this adorable face?

[She commences pointing at other bits of Mabeltron with her pencil.]

My bones will be steel, though. But hollow steel, so I can fly. [science] Rocket boosters in the butt is funny, but not ladylike. So, I'll have wings that can unfold from my back here, and they'll have the rocket boosters.

[Stan squints some more, but he looks more like he's really thinking about it this time.]

...You gotta have something funny about the butt though! I dunno. Maybe a whoopie cushion?

Maybe!

[Mabel had not gotten that far yet, having been more focused on such things as shoulder canons that shoot entire dinosaurs and earrings that are actually robots which will scuttle away like bugs so she can eavesdrop on things. (Building those will be Ford's job.) (And honestly she will plant that idea in his head anyway, you don't need to lose stuff for robot earrings.) After a moment, though, she snaps her fingers, grinning in evil inspiration.]

That's for making farting noises whenever a villain tries to start saying a dumb monologue.

Edited 2021-04-21 19:27 (UTC)

Perfect! Anytime they start talkin' too much, you just--

[And then he blows into the palm of his hand, making very entertaining fart noises!]

Heya Mabel!

I know that I don't know you as much as I do Dippity Doo (a nickname I just came up with now, hehe) but I had an awesome time at the barbeque (once I remembered)!

We're all still getting settled in Deerington crazytown 2, but wanna go do some exploring once we have that under control?

-- ugh, Luz, I am sooo in. A whole city! This is gonna be way better than Deerington was.

Oh it HAS to be! For starters, I didn't have any monsters fighting me while I was flying, so that's already a good start!

Just in case though, if you hear a bird pecking at your window with a hat, let it in. It's me.

You can turn into a bird? Man! There's gotta be a way for me to get powers too. Hey, is that because of your blood, or was it something you could do before?

[She remembers Luz mentioning she could fly at the party before, but they were distracted by the karaoke machine, as teenage girls sometimes are.]

The bird thing was actually a gift from Eda! It's a little cowboy hat and everything! But when I put it on, I can turn into a bird and fly! Only drawback is that I can't, you know, talk to anyone in that form and I am still wearing the hat!

My blood just does weird mental stuff, like seeing things happening somewhere else, or, well, leaving my body.

...Luz. I am gonna need a comprehensive list of all the neat stuff you can do. You cannot keep surprising me like this.

[Right. Right, that was fair].

I mean, it's not that much. I'm still a human like you!

But there are the glyphs, which means I can use plant, ice, fire and light magic. I can do them with paper and pen, or draw it and cast remotely. There's the staff, so I can fly, and the staff has this adorable palisman named Owlbert who's actually Eda's, but I'm taking care of him for now! I can do rudimentary potions and I can cast a low level shield, and am apparently pretty good at summoning with help!

That's uh, the stuff that isn't blood magic related.

The blood magic stuff is sometimes seeing stuff happening somewhere else, astral projection and I guess I just found out I can hear the emotions of other close pale bloods.

You know, now that I'm listing it seems like kind of a lot.

Uh-huh.

[This is like. Way worse than Pacifica showing her up all the time, because Pacifica was rude and a butt and super annoying, even if that turned out to be because of reasons. Luz is amazing and isn't ever mean at all, and that's true of basically everyone who's cooler than Mabel right now, so she can't even be mad at anybody for being a butt this time. This just is how it is.]

Man, I wanna learn to do stuff like that too. It's not that I'm not super talented and great, but everything I can do is just normal stuff. It doesn't feel like enough anymore, you know?

Yes Mabel. I know exactly what that feels like.

[Oh boy, where does she even begin with this? Luz knew that look of defeat, of being someone who wanted something, who knew they could be better but just wasn't, even though she did what she could. To see something she wanted and struggle].

When I was first trying to be a witch, I didn't even know it was possible. People who were already that were born with magic, and they weren't human. I wasn't and am, but I kept trying. Once, I even stupidly tried to take a shortcut and risked the lives of people I cared about.

But you've never had power either, just like me back then. So this stuff's not gonna come quickly. You have to test it out, read some books, see what works. It'll be hard, but trust me, you'll find it. You're one of the more creative people I know: I can't imagine your powers will be kept from you long!

[Ugh. Studying, though.

A lot of this has the same tone of pep talk Mabel's heard all her life -- "you'll definitely make friends at school, honey, just be yourself" followed by another girl putting gum in her hair on picture day and so on. It's nice that Luz wants to cheer her up and Mabel appreciates it, but it's not like she's really going to get powers just because she's great at art and stuff. There's got to be some powers there to find in the first place.

What really helps is learning that in Luz's world certain people are born with magic, and Luz was not, and she was able to become a witch anyway. That's what means it's possible for Mabel to find powers too, even if her blood won't give her any. Somebody did it! So now, nobody can tell Mabel it isn't possible. Luz has already proven them wrong.]

Thanks, Luz. I'll tell you if I get any ideas, okay?

[See, that's where she and Mabel differed. Once Luz saw what she wanted and that she had a way to obtain those powers, she looked up books and went through whatever she had to do to get it. She was similar, though, in that she was anxious to get those powers, even if it meant doing something dumb to try and force it to happen.

That was something she hoped Mabel would avoid. Nearly getting Eda and her crushes' siblings killed was something she wanted the girl to avoid].

Please do! You know, you might even want to start with finding out who has your blood type and see what they can do. It might work similar with you, but in a different way!

[Mabel has an advantage there, at least -- she was in both Gravity Falls and Deerington just long enough to realize that there are a whole bunch of ways to get powers that just aren't worth it in the end at all. That certainly doesn't mean she'll never do anything stupid at all ever, but she's already in a state to think twice about a lot of it, and Dipper can keep his eye on her, too. The twins have a policy not to keep huge secrets from each other and they've held to that, and with Dipper a lot more knowledgeable about this stuff than she is, Mabel will be seeking him out for advice for sure rather than hiding anything.]

Yeah, maybe. [When she's ready to go on the network and admit it to anyone who happens to log on, much later.] I'm gonna go, okay? We're still getting the house cleaned up, but let's you and me get together super soon.

[Dipper's experiences in the cursed room in a little while will put a big crimp on that, but the thought is there.]

[Luz imagined that Mabel was going to need a lot of time to access and break down all of the things that were going down with her body as well as taking care of the Pine family and keeping up their morale in general. She was going to be a pretty busy gal. Luz couldn't help but relate, given her own situation. Luz only hoped that Mabel would have an easier time of it, given how these things could go].

Sure, you go and tend to the house! If you ever need a break or just want to talk, I'll be here, k? Just don't be surprised if things are a little crazy at my place too!

[Or a lot. It was the Disaster house, so that stood to reason].

You have been invited for Ruby Rose's birthday party!

The party will be held at the house Ruby lives in over in the Gaze district. [ There's an address included, or just general directions, along with the time the party starts. ] Feel free to dress up or not - you know Ruby won't mind either way. You're also free to bring a present if you want to. If you want to bring one, but you're having trouble thinking of what to get her, you can ask me, I guess.

.. Or Oscar. Actually, ask Oscar.

[ Please don't make her talk to people. ]

Let's do our best to make it fun for Ruby. She's had a really crappy time around this time last year, and I know she would love to be surrounded by her friends.

( ooc: the log for the party can be found over here! )

[Wrapped up in a bright red and white box is a plate of bought snowflake cookies and a <href="https://i.imgur.com/nwqjtmt.jpeg">working sewing bracelet.

Attached is a note with a little rabbit doodle:]

Happy Holidays!
Love,
Usagi

[Given everything that's happened, Mabel's barely thought of gifts, and her energy and enthusiasm are still low. Precisely because of that, to be thought of in such a personal way is touching, and in reply Usagi receives a selfie of Mabel grinning with the bracelet on her wrist and a mess of supplies and projects behind her. This is something she will legit use!]

Hey Mabel.
I heard about Stan.
You don't have to respond if you don't want to.
But just know I'm here for you.
And if you want to either talk or do something to remember Stan by and need a hand just let me know.

[sansa's batkitten visenya appears to be attached to her shoulder. she doesn't pay very much attention to this as she speaks.]

Hallo Mabel, I hope you're well. I spoke with some other palebloods who were struggling with the itching, and I thought perhaps it would be easiest if I made them vile bloodstones, now that I have a dark bloodstone, and that you might like to help me. Of course I can pay you for your blood, or make you whatever you like. And if you could tell me when you'd like to come over, I would be sure to have cupcakes for you as well. Thank you!

[sansa looks very excited! and a little tired, like an art student that has stayed up all night to complete a final project. lady sits on the couch with her, huffing happily; visenya the batcat zooms around overhead.]

Mabel! I wanted to tell you found a blood gem tool in the tunnels, and I can make bloodstones to hold power now, even if it isn't my blood! I think we could make vile bloodstone that truly helps palebloods now, and I can give you pale bloodstone that holds proper magic in exchange!

[she holds up a linen-gloved hand with a few pale bloodstones about the size of a quarter, some spherical and some oval cabochons.]

I think I could make you a very nice necklace, just by stringing them together.

[she sets them down in front of her, thinking about other accessories she might be able to make with strings of pale bloodstone, and smiles.]

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