Most of the school had known that Dipper and Mabel were going to some backwater town in the middle of Oregon.
Of course, that didn't mean anyone cared much. It wasn't like it was a very unusual occurrence to be going to a different state for the summer. Honestly, it was more strange that the town they said they were going to, Gravity Falls, hadn't been on any maps.
But still, nobody thought much of it. It was just some random town out in the middle of nowhere where nothing interesting ever happened. When Dipper, the socially and physically inept bookworm, and Mabel, the hyperactive and trusting probably-couldn't-keep-a-secret-for-her-life girl came back after summer ended, everyone expected them to be the same, if not mildly annoyed that they had had to spend their whole summer in some town that didn't really seem to exist.
How wrong they were.
Not only did they come back changed, but they came back and changed everyone's views on them forever.
Of course, they still acted like themselves. Just different, at the same time. It was like they had been replaced with two entirely different people who were, at the same time, exactly the same.
Mabel's friends had asked her what exactly they did in that town when they had returned. That was the first instance when they realized something must've happened there, because Mabel glanced to her side to exchange knowing glances with her twin, who simply gave a tiny shake of his head, before Mabel responded with a hasty, "Never mind all that."
Never mind all that. It became a sort of catchphrase for the two. Ask either of them, alone or together, what had happened at that Oregon town, and they'd either change the subject quickly or recite the phrase, or something similar. "Nothing much," and, "Fishing was fun," were often answers you would receive alongside that.
That in itself wasn't completely and utterly strange, but what was was their change in behavior as mentioned before.
Dipper and Mabel had quickly established that they were not going to tolerate being pushed around anymore. Any rude or snarky comment directed their way was quickly met with either a glare that could make the principal flinch away, along with an unspoken promise that you wouldn't get away scotch-free from it. Any attempt at bullying (mostly to Dipper, who had had trouble with that before the summer), was met with being taught one of the most painful lessons of your life, or, if you were lucky, you would stop before they did something drastic. Even if you did get away with doing something to either twin, your peace wouldn't last long. If you had wronged one twin, you'd have to face the other's rage as well as the first one. Wrong both of them and you're screwed over.
Dipper and Mabel were almost never seen apart anymore. Sure, even before the summer they had been very close, but now it was almost impossible to see one twin without the other.
That was another thing everyone else learned quickly: Don't try to separate them. Because you won't succeed.
Let's just say that now, if you got on their bad sides, you'd better be prepared.
Because they always seemed to be.
However, if you got on their good sides, you might start to realize some other strange new things about them. One was the unexplained and unusual fears they seemed to have gained. The most noticeable was probably that of triangles.
Almost any triangle would be enough to startle them. Not enough to give them a panic attack or anything (most of the times), but they would noticeably tense up like they were either preparing to fight or run for their lives. Like they thought a triangle was going to kill them.
Listen in on their conversations and you'd get even more confused. There are frequent mentions of things like a Gobble-Wonker, Hide-Behind, Plaidypus, Question Quail, and so many other strange things that nobody else knew anything about and had no idea what they could possibly be talking about.
Take a glance at what either twin is writing and you might be asking even more questions. If you'd look over Mabel's shoulder, you could see her writing letters, always to either the town of Gravity Falls or some random town in another country. Most often, the letters were addressed to people named Stan, Ford, Wendy, Soos, Candy, and Grenda.
Take a peek at what Dipper's writing and you'd see notes. Notes galore. Notes on almost everything. Then he'd turn a page and start writing in some unknown language or write letters in an order that never made any words, so it looked like pure gibberish that made no sense in any way, shape, or form. Written on each page was the same note at least once, written in bold red: "Vwrs uhdglqj wklv, ru brx'oo uhjuhw lw."
And there were still strange things about them that we haven't even touched on. Unexplained actions and confusing subjects that would leave you wondering whether they were sane.
Would it be worth our time to delve deeper into their newfound behavior and strange actions? Well, I guess we'll find out...
If it wasn't clear already, this is an introduction to the story. What is the story, you may be asking? Well I thought you read the summary, but if you didn't, it's a collection of one-shots. More specifically, about random Post-Weirdmageddon head-canons about Dipper and Mabel that I find in random places... either that, or just head-canons about Dipper and Mabel that I can fit in.
While I do have a lot of head-canons lined up for chapters, feel free to leave one of you own head-canons in the reviews and I might write a chapter on that. Either that, or PM it to me, I don't care. Just keep it K-plus, make sure it's about Dipper and/or Mabel, and that it takes place in Piedmont, and we're good to go.
I also feel that it's important to note that none of these one-shots are in any specific order, or ordered chronologically. (And if they are, then it wasn't intentional...)
The next chapter will actually be about a head-canon. So yeah. Look forward to that. (Or don't.)
