The future is coming for us all, dudes…

Y'know, I know the end of Gravity Falls is supposed to show Dipper and Mabel going home and whatnot (PROVIDED THAT EVERYONE FREAKING SURVIVES THIS APOCALYPSE OF COURSE). But obviously, when it comes to series finales, you really need that big bang of a final scene; something to add closure and finality and to wrap everything up in a pretty little memorable bow.



I’m wondering if the series will end with a flash-forward to the twins grown up or something, revisiting their summer home. Heck, maybe they’ve kind of taken their Grunkles’ places! Mabel is now running the shack as “Mrs. Mystery,” and Dipper is a published author and paranormal investigator in the town, renowned for an autobiographical journal he wrote about his 12-year old experiences and beyond.

Soos is still around and Mabel has named him “Associate co-captain” of the Shack, allowing him to pitch all the ideas for all new attractions and bewilderments. He keeps this up until he moves to Portland, becoming a professional DJ and finally marrying his beautiful love, Melody.

Wendy comes to visit often–she’s moved on to bigger and better things; she now runs an international lumberjacking camp with all three of her brothers, and it’s a big freaking deal. But she still adores spending time with Dip and Mabel when she needs a break. Which is often.

Pacifica is the full-grown adult owner of the Northwest Manor, but she’s welcoming to the “riff-raff” and even helps financially support the development of the shack into a fully functioning tourist attraction, complete with a state-of-the-art lab for Dipper’s research.

Candy and Grenda keep in touch with Mabel for years to come, even after Grenda ends up marrying Marius and moving to Austria for a short time–she’s now a baroness, look at her!!!

Tyler is still mayor, for like a bajillion years to follow, and he even outlives ol’ mayor Befumptlefumpter, in the long run. Get it!!!

Gideon disappears after a freak deer teeth accident. Nobody knows the details. Nobody wants to.

And finally the Stan Twins: Dipper and Mabel made sure they had the most honorable funeral possible, ones fit for kings (and wax figure free!). In the end, their grave sites are always immaculately kept, and both memorials are flawless (even if Stan’s headstone is just a wee bit bigger than Ford’s). Mabel brings flowers every week and Dipper occasionally goes to read to both of them about his newest discovery. Both twins hope Stan and Ford would be proud.

They would have been SO proud.

One day, Dipper and Mabel get a call from Soos, all the way out in Portland. Turns out his kids–twins, look at that–have heard ALL about The Mystery Shack and are begging to have Soos let them stay for the summer. Soos admits that he’s kind of painted Dipper and Mabel like family–The Pines twins love this idea: Grunkle Dipper and Graunty Mabel has a nice ring to it.

In the end they’re closing up shop, getting ready for the kids to come in the next day. The lights are dim, the shack dormant. While cleaning, though, Dipper spots a small slip of something lodged in the floorboards. He bends over, picks it up, and dusts it off. What stares back at him is a playing card, Bill Cipher’s infamous eye staring him down, bringing back the events of so many years ago.

He takes a deep breath. Tears it right down the middle, and discards it in the outdoor trash can. This is it; the closure he’s denied himself for so, so long. He heads back inside, a smile on his face, finally calm.

Pan up from the torn card to the Gravity Falls night sky. A breathtaking pine tree eclipses the horizon. A shooting star streaks by.

