I’m leaning towards something more along the timeline of post-Weirdmageddon, possibly before Sea Grunkles.
Perhaps Ma Pines has passed and Stan (Barley) and Ford (Ian) receive a box of her stuff. They find a book of psychology, but there’s a handwritten note in Ma’s handwriting about how to bring somebody’s mind back for a day; not a reanimation of their physical form, but their mind, memories, and thoughts that take the image of their body and also can affect the physical world (bc of convenience). There’s also a special crystal that enables the spell.
And they’re both excited, aren’t they? Ford hasn’t seen her in more than 30 years; he was horrible at keeping contact with his family once he left for college. Stan got to see her in his place once he fell through the portal, right? So why’s he acting so non-Stan and distant about it?
Maybe Ford’s so distracted by Stan’s weird behavior—because they promised to be honest—Ford accidentally—it can’t be a memory lapse, didn’t he remember their Ma—and oh no.
He dropped the stone in the middle of reading the words, and there’s a crack in it, but Ma’s there anyway and… where is her top half??
They can dissipate and bring her back as many times as they want within the 24 hours after that initial spell, but once the day passes, she’s gone forever.
Ma recognizes the touch of Ford’s six-fingered hand; she seems to recognize Stan is one of her sons, even if she can’t understand it’s Stan himself, alive and well, and not Shermie…
They won’t get better results without a new crystal, so they rush all the research they can, and just can’t find anything, so they turn to Fiddledore (manticore). And maybe he’s hesitant on helping them because of what happened the last time Ford tried some crazy experiment, but after a long talk, he does give in and reveals that he heard there’s said to be a mountain range across a nearby lake that carries the crystal…
Well, time to go sailing! The two brothers talk to the twins about what they’re doing before the set on their adventure to find a new crystal, placing them under Fiddleford’s care as it’s still summer.
And while hanging out with the twins Fiddleford remembers something he’d previously forgotten; there’s also said to be a dragon guarding the mountain range. That’s not good.
So we have their mom and manticore filled in by Fiddleford and the twins, racing to reach and warn Stan and Ford in time.
I haven’t totally figured out how the rising action would fit in this world, but maybe there’s the conflict between Stan and Ford in how Stan wants to do everything based on the exact wording of the spell (maybe it was vague or confusing in some parts—it says the mind is a maze, Sixer, there’s a maze of underground tunnels, I really think we should take that way) while Ford struggles not to let his logical ways take over (really, Stanley, it would be most efficient to graph a line from point A to point B to ensure the straightest and quickest path, no matter how many houses and canyons we have to walk through).
The moment in the movie that really spoke to me as Stan and Ford was the whole “I don’t think he’s a screw-up!” and the revealing spell magic.
Maybe they meet a creature that won’t let them pass unless they’re truthful, which is way too close to the whole truth teeth thing, and Stan’s not going through that twice, so Ford communicates with the creature, and maybe this creature wonders why he’s traveling with this man who seems so distant and unwilling to help and appears to have stolen his face, isnt he a burden?
Ford says that Stan’s never been a burden. And then it starts to attack and declares they can’t cross. Now they gotta run with Ma.
For Ian learning how to use magic translating to Ford, I imagine it might be similar to Stan trying to teach him how to fight. Maybe they have to use strength to tear out the crystals. Not with gadgets and fancy alien-killing techniques, Sixer, just throw a punch like we’re boxing again.
I don’t know. I just really want to write a fic of this AU one day.
Let me know if you have thoughts or additions on this!!!
Sunday Sketch!! …Sort of. It was Sunday when I drew it at least, and as far as I’m concerned it’s not Monday until the sun’s up so it still counts :P
Man I’ve been meaning to get this crossover going for ages; figuring out what each of the kids’ classpects should be was a bit trickier than I initially anticipated ^^’ I’m super stoked with how it turned out :D
An unlikely meeting that resulted in a… Unexpected ending
Just needed an excuse to draw some Drunkles :’D
The Rev! Portal Stan design is from @cbmagus49 go support them, lads
Aaaaa this is so good dude!!!! The idea of the two of them meeting up and inexplicably getting along like a house on fire is something I didn’t know I needed until now ^^
Also the concept was far too fun not to have a crack at myself so
Two space grunkles swapping stories of the multiverse
Here ya’ go, have some PokéGrunks!!! Took a little longer than I expected due to some last minute reshuffling of Stan’s team but I’m overall really happy with the end result! I swear Ford was born to be a Pokémon professor ^^
If burnt hair didnt smell so bad for so long I would probably try to shave with fire
Someone liked this post and you know what???
I can go outside, out of sight, with a lighter and just try it out there?? Leave all the burnt hair smell on the outskirts of the woods
Update:
I get why ford has a 5 o clock shadow all the time despite shaving (with fire).
Now, it’s important to note that I did this with an ordinary lighterand not something more consistent like… I don’t know? a torch from an underground passageway? a blowtorch? This was the only use of fire I have access to that I’d also willingly pass over my skin.
That being said - not the closest shave and once the hairs got small enough they stopped catching fire. If I had something better it probably would have done fine.
Also! Fun to note, I was racking my brain for why the smell was so familiar when I was inside washing it - same smell as hair when it’s been chemicallyburned away!
The smell, by the way, is bad. Even with doing it outside and scrubbing with soap and a pumice stone. Also I apparently brought the smell into the house with me despite my best efforts.
So there is a non-zero chance that Ford isn’t bringing that rank smell through the whole house.
It also does look really cool though. Ten times more interesting than a razor blade.
In Conclusion:
Shave with fire isn’t perfect, but could be if you have a good flame. However, you willsmell rank and there is nothing you can do about it to immediately fix that.
Sea Grunkle photo album! *SSIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHH* *cracks fingers, neck and back* OMG it’s DONE, it’s actually done! I’ve been wanting to do another sea grunkle album for a long time and I sketched these out over the course of the past few months and in the past week have been inking, coloring and painting. There’s a ridiculous amount of detail (don’t even know if you’ll be able to zoom in enough to see them, but whatever)
Some of @lemonfodrizzleart ‘s Artist Stan references and @artsymeeshee ‘s Chibi Stan
(Stanley’s Corner <3)
(The Titanic one made me realize that not only has Ford never seen the movie, the shipwreck itself wasn’t discovered until 1985, 3 years AFTER he disappeared and probably doesn’t know it)
(Their trip to Loch Ness might not have been all for naught)
Y'all thought I was gonna make just five of these and not make more??? Y'all underestimate my power, I have a full folder I plan to doodle >:)))
1) As someone with more siblings than I can count, I can confirm that slipping the burger king crown in front of your eyes is just one example sibling bonding
2) Need I even say anything? Ford would murder Bill without hesitation if given the chance
3) Bi Stan is a hc I will take to my grave, you can pry it from my cold dead hands
4) Bipper, little garbage boy stinkman whom I love to hate, how I loathe and love them
5) I firmly believe that in a Timestuck setting Dipper and Stan would be an unstoppable duo. Stan is the muscle and knows who to pull a con, while Dipper is smart but also is chaotic, they would rob a bank and get away with it, as a family activity. I also like Dipper being a tad scrappy, as a treat, will hurt someone over family no hesitation-
Listen I just recently found out there’s a GF Parent Trap AU, and FUN FACT my favorite childhood movie I watch a billion times and love with all of my heart is the Parent Trap so you KNOW I had to make art for it
BIG info dump for my version of this AU that you don’t gotta read ajbdjajx-
