Anonymous: I remember that somebody asked what would happen if Dipper got sucked into the portal. Why stop there? What if all of the Pines get sucked into the portal?

Well. since re-opening the portal caused the Rift, if all the Pines were to get sucked into the Portal, then no one would be around to contain it. and since there’d be no one there to contain it, Weirdmageddon would still happen. Which means that Bill’s world and Gravity Falls would still become connected. Which means that the Pines family could return to the town through the Rift, and then figure out some way to defeat Bill after returning.



I mean, that’s assuming they don’t get captured by Bill while in the Portal. but since Ford has already been in the Portal, and has been avoiding Bill and his men for 30 years, i think he’d be able to hide them. But there’s also a lot of tension between Stan and Ford (especially now that Stan re-opened it and instead of saving Ford, doomed two children and himself, and Soos, who was also in the room with them). So that would be really interesting to see how the character dynamics would change

Stan would be full of regret and guilt because he dragged Mabel, Dipper and Soos into this mess, Ford would be mad at Stan for going against his warnings and bringing two children into this, Mabel and Dipper would be confused and scared and clinging onto Stan and Soos, and Soos would try to mediate things between them all while keeping Mabel and Dipper’s spirits up.



i’m sure there’d be some kind of hero worship between Dipper and Ford too, but given the environment and Bill’s efforts to catch them, it would probably be something more in the background, given all the tension and drama



i’m reasonably sure that the Pines family wouldn’t return through the Rift once Bill was defeated, because they were originally from the town and not from Bill’s world



(this was a really thought provoking ask!!)

