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sparklehorror) wrote2021-02-15 05:43 pm
sparklehorror) wrote2021-02-15 05:43 pm
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Notes to self re: Deerington
- Arrival to Deerington starts with a dream which includes words "you might be able to help". This will appeal to Mabel's overall sense of sympathy towards those who are hurting -- until she starts getting real details of what life is like in this place and she realizes the full scale of what it's been putting her family through. Dipper's missing eye and scars are unavoidable but then she'll start getting hints of things like evil insomnia, evil dreams, and people getting killed over and over. She won't be able to nope out of all that and it will smash her Pines Family Berserker Button™, and she'll shift from sympathy to anger on behalf of her loved ones. She'll still want to help, but it will be for the cause of ending this experience, not for the sake of helping.
- "You're asleep and it's just a dream" yeah okay but we lived through Bill so like. It's real
- There are magical girls here and Mabel is not one of them. Time to flip shit
- Personal project -- a coat that isn't BORING and DUMB!!! Mabel is from a town close to 'Frisco and Oregon snow is a rare unicorn, snow is cute initially but let's face it Maine is disgusting in the long term. Must research 1950's fashion as it is not my specialty at all. I play Victorians
- But what I do know is poodle skirts. Mabel is a growing girl who needs hobbies to cope and a proper circle skirt takes like two seconds. Poodle skirt arsenal is go. The first one she makes will have a pig on it.
- (I am aware that the timeline is shifty and we are not glued to the 1950's but I am also aware that the town is socially locked in the 1950's and Mabel has to go to school, and while fitting in is not necessarily Mabel's concern, she is going to see poodle skirts and want poodle skirts, this is my IC justification for "I feel like it")
- (We will have 80's days sometimes because Mabel)
- (It also occurs to me that if I ever gave her an evil neck scar we can start a cute little scarf collection. I am not saying I will do this. I am not saying that I won't)
- On that note Mabel will feel hurt by the way Sleepers are treated by the locals because she is just like that but when she realizes that they all have 1950's brains anyway she will turn on them, much the way she initially gave Pacifica the benefit of the doubt but then turned on her until she stopped being a jerk. Mabel says gay rights and also we celebrate every holiday kthnxbai
- Poodle skirt with a rainbow on it
- Boy-craziness -- to make life easier on myself gonna have her declare that after her billion failed summer romances in Gravity Falls, she's swearing off romance for a while. Will this prevent her from freaking out over cute guys or declaring random things her soulmate? No. But it is an avenue for me to steer her more towards prioritizing her family and means she will not attempt to flirt with every other teenager in the game, holy shit. Probably the people she is closest to will have to hear about hot people a lot though sorry folks
- This will also not turn off the matchmaking but I have an out here as well in that the incidents with locking Dipper and Wendy into an underground bunker with a violent shapeshifter and also fucking with Robbie and Tambry both backfired severely, so while things turned out alright in the end in both cases she'll be more cautious about acting on her own -- gives me a way to explain it ICly when she doesn't meddle with every ship in her social circle as a damned hobby
- Despite all her DIE DIE DIE stuff Mabel does not actually like to fight for serious and only lashes out when provoked. Fortunately Deerington provokes her by existing because it has made her family hurty and also why does everyone else get cool weapons instead of her???? Tap Stan and Ruby, Jami showed me Yang's gauntlets, gonna have the next best thing to kitten-hand cannons aw yiss (ideally when they are not activated they will resemble bad 80's bangle bracelets)
- Dipper is picking up stress baking so clearly she must bully him into cupcakes and cookies which she will then decorate aggressively. BONDING WITH BROBRO
- Mabel as a student: She is in no way bad or stupid at her schoolwork, but she acknowledges Dipper as the brains of the two and her personal priorities lie more with her artistic pursuits. She doesn't fail anything by a long shot, but she has trouble bothering to apply herself to things she isn't interested in -- during chess with Dipper she goes along with the game, but also fucks off from actively trying in favor of hoarding all the pony pieces. Also leaves things last minute and finishes in a flurry of Mabel Juice™, because how else do you think she freaking developed Mabel Juce™.
- "You're asleep and it's just a dream" yeah okay but we lived through Bill so like. It's real
- There are magical girls here and Mabel is not one of them. Time to flip shit
- Personal project -- a coat that isn't BORING and DUMB!!! Mabel is from a town close to 'Frisco and Oregon snow is a rare unicorn, snow is cute initially but let's face it Maine is disgusting in the long term. Must research 1950's fashion as it is not my specialty at all. I play Victorians
- But what I do know is poodle skirts. Mabel is a growing girl who needs hobbies to cope and a proper circle skirt takes like two seconds. Poodle skirt arsenal is go. The first one she makes will have a pig on it.
- (I am aware that the timeline is shifty and we are not glued to the 1950's but I am also aware that the town is socially locked in the 1950's and Mabel has to go to school, and while fitting in is not necessarily Mabel's concern, she is going to see poodle skirts and want poodle skirts, this is my IC justification for "I feel like it")
- (We will have 80's days sometimes because Mabel)
- (It also occurs to me that if I ever gave her an evil neck scar we can start a cute little scarf collection. I am not saying I will do this. I am not saying that I won't)
- On that note Mabel will feel hurt by the way Sleepers are treated by the locals because she is just like that but when she realizes that they all have 1950's brains anyway she will turn on them, much the way she initially gave Pacifica the benefit of the doubt but then turned on her until she stopped being a jerk. Mabel says gay rights and also we celebrate every holiday kthnxbai
- Poodle skirt with a rainbow on it
- Boy-craziness -- to make life easier on myself gonna have her declare that after her billion failed summer romances in Gravity Falls, she's swearing off romance for a while. Will this prevent her from freaking out over cute guys or declaring random things her soulmate? No. But it is an avenue for me to steer her more towards prioritizing her family and means she will not attempt to flirt with every other teenager in the game, holy shit. Probably the people she is closest to will have to hear about hot people a lot though sorry folks
- This will also not turn off the matchmaking but I have an out here as well in that the incidents with locking Dipper and Wendy into an underground bunker with a violent shapeshifter and also fucking with Robbie and Tambry both backfired severely, so while things turned out alright in the end in both cases she'll be more cautious about acting on her own -- gives me a way to explain it ICly when she doesn't meddle with every ship in her social circle as a damned hobby
- Despite all her DIE DIE DIE stuff Mabel does not actually like to fight for serious and only lashes out when provoked. Fortunately Deerington provokes her by existing because it has made her family hurty and also why does everyone else get cool weapons instead of her???? Tap Stan and Ruby, Jami showed me Yang's gauntlets, gonna have the next best thing to kitten-hand cannons aw yiss (ideally when they are not activated they will resemble bad 80's bangle bracelets)
- Dipper is picking up stress baking so clearly she must bully him into cupcakes and cookies which she will then decorate aggressively. BONDING WITH BROBRO
- Mabel as a student: She is in no way bad or stupid at her schoolwork, but she acknowledges Dipper as the brains of the two and her personal priorities lie more with her artistic pursuits. She doesn't fail anything by a long shot, but she has trouble bothering to apply herself to things she isn't interested in -- during chess with Dipper she goes along with the game, but also fucks off from actively trying in favor of hoarding all the pony pieces. Also leaves things last minute and finishes in a flurry of Mabel Juice™, because how else do you think she freaking developed Mabel Juce™.