mandareeboo answered:

Why, only the man who took a boy under his wing and did his best to help raise him when his father left him.

The man who spent thirty years of his life toiling away in some basement with very little knowledge of what he was doing or how- to save his brother, whom he hasn’t seen for many years prior.

The man who took two MORE children under his wing, despite having many secrets and the ever-present possibility that Dipper and Mabel may somehow find Stan Pines Dead.

Especially as he was forced to keep his own newstory and IDs in his office to make sure he had a backup plan, right under said children’s nosy noses.

The man that was forced to live alone in a car for ten years out of his father’s spite.

Whose whole world could be kept in three photographs.

Who killed himself in his own mind.

And then killed his mind. All for those three pictures.

Stanley freaking Pines, everybody.