Summary: An AU I've been thinking of for a while.
Dipper has lighter hair, and is a shy animal-lover. His hat has a paw print instead of a pine tree. His birthmark of the Big Dipper is also on his stomach instead of his forehead, and his real name is Stanly Junior. Animals like him back, there is no animal that doesn't like Dipper. Once, when he was three, he wandered out of the house and found a bear cub. The cub played with him for a bit before Dipper's parents found him.
Mabel has darker hair, and is a rude popular girl. She wears rather boring cloths, always with a heart on fire on them. She expects every boy to love her, and flirts with the ones who don't.
Waddles is a pink wild boar, and Dipper found him in a circus. Waddles only likes Dipper, and does everything to protect his master.
Robbie is nice and works at the Mystery Shack instead of Wendy. He wears a purple shirt with a black crescent moon over a red sun on it. He gives motivational speeches.
Wendy dyed her hair black with a blue streak, and is a totally laid back risk taker.
Bill is still totally normal(for a Dream Demon). Only he kinda has a mouth. It's a jagged line across his entire triangular body, cutting off his bow tie from his eye. If he opens his mouth, his entire body splits into two pieces. He has a few fangs that appear when his mouth is both opened and closed.
That's about all you need to know. Everything else will be made up as I go along.
-When Dipper gets Waddles.
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It was the day the circus came to Gravity Falls. The Pines twins, who were staying with their great uncle Stanford Pines for the summer, watched as the circus was set up.
Dipper was nervous, as always. The male twin was always nervous around other people. He glanced around at the other people.
Mabel, his darker haired sister, rolled her eyes. "What, are you gonna wet your pants?" She teased her brother.
Dipper gulped and pulled his blue and white hat down, so that it covered his eyes. "N-no." The boy squeaked. This caused his sister to roll her eyes again and walk away.
The twelve year old boy walked through the crowd of people that had begun to gather. His hands clutched his light blue shirt as if he would die if he didn't. He eventually wandered into a darker place, where a bunch of crates and a few empty cages sat.
When Dipper passed one he thought was empty, a pink wild boar rammed against the bars of the cage. The noise caused the young boy to jump back and stare at the odd pig like creature in shock.
"Hello there." Dipper said when he had decided that the pink boar was no threat to him, especially when it was in the cage. The boar oinked in response. The shy boy smiled at the animal. "I'm Dipper." The boar made pig-like sounds that sounded like 'Dipper'.
"Hey, you." A circus worker had entered the tent where Dipper was. The said boy jumped up and gave a small yelp of fear. "What are you doing in here." Dipper stumbled over his words, making only nonsense sounds.
The circus worker caught sight of the pink boar and his eyes widened. "You got it to come out of the shadows..."
"Y-yeah." Dipper squeaked out.
"No one has ever been able to tame that boar..." The circus worker said. "You got any money, kid?"
Without talking, Dipper took out a small stack of dollar bills. The worker took the money from him and counted it.
"Do you want the boar?" The worker asked. Dipper nodded quickly. He barely heard the question over his own thoughts, but he found that it was best to agree with everything anyone said.
The worker opened the cage that belonged to the boar, and it came running out. It screeched angrily at the circus worker, who backed away in fear, and rubbed its head on Dipper's leg. The boy reached down and pet the boar's head.
The boy and his pet boar walked out of the tent and into the small crowd of people. However, the boar screeched angrily at anyone who came close to his new master, so the two had to go behind to Mystery Shack.
"Did that really just happen? Me. Getting a boar. A pink one. As a pet...?" Dipper asked himself. His new pet oinked approvingly. "Well...I guess you need a name now..." Dipper looked at the pink boar.
The two sat like that for a while, staring at each other. Until one word was spoken by none other then the Pines boy.
"Waddles."