^ inspired by a lot of fic and art and au centering around the same idea

(Less angsty, but equally creepy alternate version below the cut. Warning: Contains mild body horror, parasitism)

Because if you think Gravity Falls was weird wait until you go out into the effing all blue (WARNING - link leads to a website with detailed descriptions and equally detailed PICTURES of various PARASITES AND BUGS)

I actually had the alternate idea first, as a kind of “cold open” which would parallel Dipper’s narrative in Tourist Trapped. But man imagine all the crap that the Stans could encounter in the ocean though! Mix up that junk with the paranormal and you’d have endless nightmare fuel

FREAKING TONGUE ISOPODS THOUGH

Also the theme song would probably be something like this:

STAAAAAAAAAAAAN O WARRRRRRRRR

STAAAAAAAAN O WAR TWOOOOOOOOO

STAAAAAAAAN O WARRRRRRRR TWOOOOOOOOOO STAAAAAAAAAAAN OOOOOO WARRRRRRRRR TWOOOOOOOO

STAN STAN STAN STAN O WAR TWO

STAN STAN STAN STAN O WAR TWO

STAN STAN STAN STAN O WAR TWO

STAN STAN STAN, O WAR TWO!

STAN O WAR STAN O WAR TWO

STAN O WAR TWO, STAN, O, WAR, TWOOOOOOOOO!

(stano stano stano stano war. Two!)