OKAY HERE WE GO FRIENDS - here is a little overview of my Stardust AU that I’ve had in mind for the past few months or so. It’s kinda choppy (but then again it’s not a fic or anything, it’s just a basic plot), and I still think it needs work but this is the main idea I have for my AU at the moment!

I hope you guys find it all right, haha! (Also, if you haven’t seen the movie I’d highly recommend doing so! It would really help with understanding this whole AU in general!)

Also the post is a little long I’m sorry but bear with me, haha!

A village lies near a gap in a stone wall bordering the magical kingdom of Gravity Falls. The gap in the wall is guarded constantly; however a young Filbrick manages to go through and meets an enslaved princess, (who is Ford and Stan’s mother of course). She offers him a glass snowdrop in exchange for a kiss. Nine months later, the guard of the wall delivers a set of twins to Filbrick, their names being Stanford and Stanley.

As Ford and Stan grow up in the village, Ford becomes immensely interested in all things strange and unusual, and overhears rumors of monsters and other weird beings inhabiting beyond the wall at the end of the village. And whenever Ford and Stan aren’t being harassed and bullied by the other kids around town they sneak past the wall, looking for adventure. The Stan twins become bolder as they get older, as they explore deeper into the new region and coming across more dangerous beasts and creatures. Eventually Ford decides on keeping a journal in tow, and recording anything he comes across (sketching monsters, and logging any information about them like in the original journals in the show).

(Twins are in their twenties at this point) One day while Ford reads through his journal, unaware of Crampelter spying on his actions and then calling him out on it, causing a commotion amongst the people nearby in the village. Ford defends himself, declaring that he (and Stan) had been past the wall, finding all sorts of creatures lurking about the land. Though as soon as he makes his statement Crampelter immediately shuns his declaration, not believing a word. It’s a common rule around the village that no one ever goes past the wall, and so no one believed for one second that Ford and Stan even dared to go near it.

After more harassment from Crampelter and disregarding statements from nearby townsfolk, Ford eventually snaps – declaring that in order to prove his findings, he’ll bring back something that’ll surely knock their socks off and they’ll have to believe him. So, Crampelter gives him a week to find something to prove himself and come back. After taking on the deal Ford heads back home, fuming but determined to make the town believe him.

Ford comes home to grab Stan and venture out but as soon as he enters he finds his brother scavenging through stuff, as their father is nowhere to be found. In the end Stan discovers a letter and the twins learn that their mother is from beyond the wall, and receives a Babylon candle that she had left for them, which instantly takes the user to any desired location. They pack and set out after some discussions, both determined to come back and prove their sightings beyond the wall.

Meanwhile in the kingdom of Gravity Falls, its dying king throws a ruby into the sky, decreeing that his successor will be the first of the royal (male) bloodline to recover it. The gem hits a pair of stars, they fall together and the sons, Preston and Bud (mainly Gideon, his son) independently search for the gem.

As Ford and Stan venture deeper into the land in search of a creature, their search is interrupted abruptly as they watch a star fall on the other side of the mountains. Fascinated and intrigued, Ford eventually gets Stan to agree to transport to the crater through multiple pleads. Ford lights the candle and the twins are transported to the fallen star (which turn out to be two stars), personified as two young children named Dipper and Mabel.

Completely baffled, Ford refuses to believe that people could be stars. However, Mabel manages to make a point when she makes herself glow (due to her bubbly and optimistic personality). That seems to slightly convince him. However he disregards the situation, ordering Stan to gather up their things and continue forth with their search, as they’re wasting time in the crater. However Stan doesn’t budge (and Dipper begins to protest), his focus now being on the children, who don’t appear to have any family or friends in sight.

After nonstop begging from the children (and scolding from Stan) Ford gives in with a sigh, and allows them to travel with him and Stan.

In the meantime Bill Cipher resolves to eat a fallen star’s heart to replenish his powers so he can finally break free of the barriers of the town and take over the universe. And with the help of his henchmen, he sends one of them out (Pyronica) to find and capture the star (is unaware that there’s two). She conjures up a wayside inn as a trap.

Dipper and Mabel become tired, so Ford entrusts the kids with Stan. In Ford’s absence, Stan ends up dozing off; leaving the kids unsupervised as they’re swept away by a unicorn but unwittingly takes them to the inn (set up as a trap for them by Bill’s henchmen). Ford comes back to discover the children’s absence (and to then scold Stan when he realizes he’d been sleeping on the job), but the stars whisper that Dipper and Mabel are in danger, telling the twins to get on a passing stagecoach, which happens to be Preston’s. At the inn, they interrupt one of the henchmen’s (Pyronica’s) attempt to kill one of the kids. Pyronica manages to do away with Preston, but Ford, Stan and the kids use the Babylon candle to escape into the clouds, where they are captured by pirates (lead by Captain McGucket; who are Wendy, Soos, Robbie, Melody, Tate, the rest of Wendy’s friends and Waddles) in a flying ship who teach Ford how to fence.

Gideon (and Bud) discovers that, as the last surviving heirs (so they think), they need only find the stone to claim the throne. Gideon learns it is in the possession of the fallen ‘star’ (they also don’t realize there are two), and realizes that the heart of a star grants immortality and power.

After leaving Captain McGucket’s ship, Ford and Stan have become attached and have grown an immense love (like the over-protective dorks they are haha) due to the time and things they’ve done together. They travel and stop at an inn on the way back to the wall.

Come morning, Ford leaves Stan and the kids sleeping and goes back to the village, deciding to break his deal and that it’s not worth it to prove himself to the townsfolk, as he was never accepted there, anyways. He decides that he belongs on the other side of the wall, with those who matter the most to him.

However back at the inn Dipper and Mabel find Ford gone, and out of curiosity and concern they slip away and begin walking towards the wall (figuring he left to cross it), determined to find him. Ford and Stan’s mother notices the kids walking to their doom, so takes the caravan of her enslaver, to the wall to stop her. One of Bill’s henchmen (Pyronica) arrives, kills the enslaver, and captures Ford and Stan’s mother and the children, taking them to Bill’s fortress.

Ford rushes back to the other side of the wall, determined to be reunited with Stan and the kids (and hoping to slip back into the inn before they notice his disappearance). However, that’s not the case when he finally crosses the wall and bumps into Stan, who’s frantic and worried about Dipper and Mabel disappearing (again). Despite them butting heads over the situation, they both agree to listen to the guardian of the wall’s explanation over what happened to the kids and head in the direction of where the kidnapper took them.

Gideon (and Bud) and the Stan twins both pursue the kidnapper, and after meeting at Bill’s fortress they agree to work together for the time being. After then barging into the fortress, the Stan twins are informed and are reunited with their mother.

Ford and Stan manage to get rid of all of Bill’s henchmen, but Bill uses a voodoo doll to kill Bud and make his corpse fight the Stan twins.

Bill is about to finish Ford and Stan off, when he appears to break down over the loss of his friends/henchmen. Bill frees Dipper and Mabel but his feigned defeat was just a ruse to bolster the twins’ heart, and while Ford, Stan and the kids try to make their escape Bill locks them inside. And before Bill is able to succeed with his plans to kill Dipper and Mabel, the Stan twins and the kids embrace; and their love allows Dipper and Mabel to shine once again, vaporizing Bill in a blinding flash of starlight.

Ford retrieves the jewel that Mabel was wearing (in the end after Gideon’s persistence to retrieve it himself for greed and power). The ruby is restored to its natural red color as soon as Ford’s hand comes in contact with it. Ford and Stan’s mother then explains that, as her sons, they are a part of the royal bloodline of Gravity Falls.

In the end Ford, Stan, Dipper and Mabel reign over the kingdom of Gravity Falls as happy little family, until after many years of ruling use a Babylon candle to ascend to the sky, where Ford and Stan also become stars and the four live forever in the sky.