Anonymous asked: Frankestan au

1. Stan’s death was a suicide. It might not've been - winter was setting in, car’s heating had gone, no money and no tools with which to repair it - but Stan could see the writing on the wall, and a quick, merciful end seemed better than dragging it out for a few weeks when there was, after all, no hope. Ford doesn’t initially realise this, mostly due to that selective obliviousness thing he’s got going on, and when Stan comes round not remembering his death, all he hears from Ford is that he got shot. He might harbour a few suspicions, but there are lots of scenarios that could end in Stan getting shot, so it’s not until he remembers that Ford finds out what his brother has been driven to.

2. The portal hadn’t actually been completed when the news came in that Stan had committed suicide, and after they got back Ford abandoned…pretty much everything, really…in favour of bringing his brother back from the dead. It also meant a few cracks in his relationship with Bill started showing a lot earlier, because Bill was more than willing to repeat back every awful thing Ford had ever said about Stan in an attempt to convince him to go back to work on the portal. One thing Bill doesn’t understand, though, is that seeing Stan dead has a similar effect on Ford to the memory-wipe in canon - it makes him remember all the times he was the one at fault in their relationship, makes him start examining his behaviour and that of the people around him and the fact that, however ‘suffocating’ he may have found being a twin, he at least had his identity as ‘the smart one’ to fall back on while Stan was just 'the spare’.

3. Fidds is really, really uncomfortable with the whole thing. Unlike Ford, he’s actually read Frankenstein all the way through, paying attention to the bits that aren’t mad science, and he’s a bit worried about what happens if Frankenstan is a completely new being, as the original Creature was, and Ford rejects him for not being the brother he remembers. He’s also a bit suspicious of this whole thing, because Ford’s never been exactly complimentary about his twin brother. That said, when Stan is brought back, he’s actually a bit more willing to confide in Fidds than Ford just because if Fidds hates him, it won’t be as big a deal as being rejected yet again by his own brother. This naturally evolves into Fiddlestan, which is apparently an obligatory component of all my Gravity Falls AUs. (In my defence, though, this time it’s in the original.)

4. Stan is very, very suspicious about why he’s been brought to the Mystery Shack. He knows Ford tried to resurrect him, but he doesn’t know why, and he doesn’t particularly feel like being told he ruined his own life, because honestly he’s heard that enough. The issue is, it takes a fair while for him to get back into decent condition after being resurrected, as the electricity used, coupled with the damage from the fact that he was dead for a while there, means that recovery is a slow and painful process, not helped by the fact that neither twin wants to face the other for fear of rejection/anger from their twin. Fidds is stuck playing go-between, which he hates, but which at least stops the Pines from killing each other.

5. After he is properly recovered, certain things in the Gravity Falls forest start reacting very strangely to Stan. Zombies ignore him when searching for food, other undead creatures either don’t recognise him as prey or take him for one of their own, and unicorns have a tendency to back away slowly, though that could just be because he saw through their 'pure of heart’ scam the moment he heard about it.

