On the ask about Dipper finding baby!Mabel and adopting her, imagine that he's pulled with her into a summons once, and the cultists hear him calling her 'Mizar'. Suddenly the theory of Mizar being a phoenix-like entity comes back in full force and razes through the internet. (On the good side, the human sacrifices that were still done to Alcor every once in a while stop completely bc everyone is terrified of accidentally sacrificing Mizar OR Gliese, holy shit, how had they forgotten that)

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Dipper still couldn't get over finding Maddie abandoned on the side of the road like she was nothing more than garbage. If she hadn't been pulling on their bond like she had, too young to know what she was doing, just wanting somebody to make things better...

She was still just so very tiny, he could almost hold her in one hand. Not that he would, of course. No, he wasn't going to take a single chance with his Mizar, so fresh and new and already with one near death experience to her latest name, to chance anything with her.

Well, he had taken one chance, introducing her to Toby. But, well...Bill's soul had gotten on well with Mabel's in its last incarnation. It wasn't that he worried about how Toby would take suddenly having a little sister, or how much more openly affectionate he was towards her and worried about how Toby would take it, of course not.

That was just...it was silly.

A problem was starting to arise, though, and Dipper still wasn't quite sure how to handle it.

Toby had taken to having a little sister surprisingly quickly, and was willing to babysit her at any opportunity. Despite all his misgivings Dipper had to allow it at times – Jerry was working to support his own kids, he didn't have time to babysit at the drop of a hat just because Dipper got a summons he couldn't ignore. Toby's schedule wasn't completely free – he had classes and work – but he was still more often available than Jerry. Plus, whenever they got the opportunity, they were both eager for time with the baby.

But Maddie, well...she didn't take well to Dipper leaving her. Maybe it was because she'd been abandoned once, maybe some part of her soul recognized Dipper and didn't want to leave him anymore, but every time Dipper had to leave her, not matter who her left her with, she would start to cry.

It would start with the pitiful looks, whimpering as she started searching for Dipper, before turning to full blown wails that wouldn't stop until she was in Dipper's arms again.

They were making progress, with Toby and Jerry, able to leave her for almost ten minutes with one of them before she started fussing, but...

Even for a demon of near limitless power, it was hard. Harder still when he couldn't stand to hear her (or Toby, no matter his protests to the contrary) cry and came running at the first whimpers.

In fact, she sometimes still started to wail even if Dipper just put her down for more than a few minutes at a time. She was getting better, but since Dipper had a hard time making himself put her down or let her out of his sight, it was slow going.

All of which was why, when Dipper felt the insistent pull of an unavoidable summons, one that yanked him into the circle too fast and hard to prepare for, he was still holding Maddie as he swirled into existence inside the glowing circle.

He glanced down at her as soon as they were solid, worried about blipping at her age – but she just blinked up at him before she smiled and cooed, still content at being held and undeterred by the brief oddness. Reassured, he turned his attention to the cult that had so roughly demanded his attention.

Dipper cradled Maddie close in his arms, letting her chew on his finger (bent to keep the blunted claw from her) to keep her occupied as the lead cultist stammered his way through his spiel, eyes continuously returning to the baby in Dipper's arms.

Dipper snarled, baring teeth sharper than usual when those eyes lingered on Maddie, and the cultist 'eep'ed softly and fastened his eyes to the floor.

The snarl startled Maddie, who screwed up her face and began to whimper. Immediately Dipper forgot the cultists who'd dared to stare at his child, shushing her gently and rocking her. "Shh, shh, Mizar, it's okay. Did Alcor scare you? I'm so sorry Mizar sweetheart, it's okay..."

Luckily enough Maddie was, for the most part, a happy baby and easily soothed.

It was only when Maddie calmed down that Dipper realized just how deathly silent the room had become. He glanced up to find everyone staring at him and the baby, or trying to pretend they weren't.

"W̵hat̡?" he demanded, letting more reverb into his voice, dropping it again when Maddie fussed. "Never seen a baby before?"

"...Mizar?" a tiny voice asked, and Dipper glared, clutching Maddie a little closer, to her giggling joy.

"Mine," he hissed, softly enough that it didn't frighten the baby tugging at his ribbon bow tie, stoking her soft curls gently, possessively. "My Mizar. Now. What did you want?"

From there, the deal went off without a hitch as the cultists did their best to ignore the happily cooing baby cradled in the demon's arms. The demon in question watched them, expertly holding the baby, clawed hands never causing so much as a dent in the soft skin of the squirming child even as she tugged at his tie or hair.

Thankfully for Dipper's state of mind, what the cultists wanted wasn't really that big of a deal for him – big enough to explain summoning a demon of his power, but not something he had to give them a bad time over.

It would have been different if he hadn't been holding Maddie, but he really didn't want to have to rip into anyone while the baby was there. Bad parenting, that.

Screwing them over with their own words and running the con like he'd been taught was just fine, though. That'd teach them for summoning a demon. And it didn't scar Maddie for life. Bonus.

He blipped home as soon as he could, checking Maddie over one last time to be sure it hadn't hurt her as she cooed and giggled at her silly daddy.

Yes, he'd blipped with niblings before, but they'd all been quite a bit older when it had happened, and, well...okay so maybe Jerry was right and he was being a bit paranoid and overprotective.

Since Maddie was fine, though, he put the whole thing out of his mind and concentrated on getting her ready for bed.

Dipper had nearly forgotten the whole thing when Jerry cornered him a week later, while he and Maddie and Toby were at the library for dinner.

Jerry was smirking as he dragged Dipper into the office where he kept the records and his computer, leaving the kids to fend for themselves for a few minutes and the young adult to watch the baby.

The demon wiki was already up on the screen, open to Mizar's page, and Dipper didn't have a chance to ask what was up before Jerry was pushing him into the chair and pointing at the hovering screen.

"Read," was all he said, and with a suspicious look to his many-times-over great nephew, Dipper did.

The information tended to change a little when a new Mizar did something big enough to gain attention, but the core of it stayed the same – that occasionally, someone who called themselves Mizar would appear alongside Alcor, fighting cults, and to beware of them, and how to identify a potential Mizar. Maddie was still so little, though, he didn't see how the page could have changed yet...

Then Dipper got to the bottom of the page.

Alcor was seen at a recent summon with a baby, which he referred to as"Mizar". It would seem that, phoenix-like, Mizar is reborn every so often to continue their role as Alcor's child/wife/twin star. Further discussion on this topic should be taken to the forums until the status of this claim can be verified.

Dipper's face scrunched up in confusion and he clicked his way over to the forums in a rush as Jerry chuckled, leaning on the wall and watching.

Words and phrases jumped out at him as he skimmed too fast for a mortal to follow.

So Mizar reincarnates too?

"like a phoenix"...I thought she was a demon like him, but does this sighting mean she's human? If she's not, why else would she let herself be turned into a baby? What's the current theory on Mizar's species?

Maybe that's why Alcor hates human sacrifice...

...what if a cult accidentally sacrificed Mizar?

OR GLIESE oh shit what if someone sacrificed her by accident?

HOW DID WE FORGET ABOUT THIS NO WONDER SO MANY ALCOR CULTS END UP DEAD AFTER SACRIFICING HUMANS WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE like it wasn't a bad enough idea already!

There was more in that vein, page after page after page of panic and theories and discussion, links to scholarly demonic research being conducted on the topic, forums and webpages and more, and Dipper leaned back with a strange mix of relief and confusion. Well, that wasn't what he expected from showing up holding Maddie, but...well...if it meant people stopped sacrificing each other, especially to him in particular, he'd take it.

...anyone tried touching one of his kids because of this, though, and he wasn't going to be responsible for what he did to them. They had their warning right there, easy to find and in plain language, clear as day.