Warnings: It's super short. Also, it includes trans characters so yeah. If you're queerphobic, don't read this.
A/N: This is the sequel to They'd Be Okay, which was about Mabel being nonbinary. You don't have to read that first, since the drabbles aren't going to be in order. Also, Mabel doesn't come out until they've been living with Stan for a while, so Dipper isn't purposely misgendering them.
Cross posted to AO3.
The Moment of Truth
Dipper was scared. It was silly, of course. He'd already come out to his parents and his sister, the only people who truly mattered, and he'd even started hormones. The words of his classmates and former friends had stopped feeling like daggers to the chest, though they still hurt.
He was still scared.
He and Mabel were going to their great uncle's home for the summer. They had only met him once, years ago, when Dipper was still Sable and everything was simple but painful. How would he react to learning that one of his nieces was actually a boy? Dipper wasn't stupid. He'd done his research, learned about conversion therapy and suicide rates and of children being murdered by their own families, all just for being trans. He knew that he was lucky to have never experienced any of that himself, but now he would be under the custody of an unknown, a variable.
Even if Stan was okay with him being a boy, what about the town? Gravity Falls was tiny, minuscule compared to Portland, and it would be difficult- no, impossible to keep his identity a secret. What would happen to him? Would he be able to stay safe? Would he even survive the summer?
All these thoughts rolled through Dipper's mind, leaving him panicked and sweating. Through the windows of the bus, he finally it.
Welcome to Gravity Falls
It was the moment of truth.