Since I cannot reply through a message to guests (one thing I dislike about this website, ugh, sorry), I'm just going to clarify something NoUserNameYet (Guest) inquired about.

Yes, I will do AUs, although if I am not familiar with the AU I may opt not to do it, sorry. The only AUs I am familiar with in the fandom are: Rev!Pines, Transcendence, Monster Falls, Blinded, Rebel Falls, and Antigravity (as well as my own AU I made up a while back, which is basically a Jekyll & Hyde - as in the musical - crossover with GF). But AUs are not out of the question, so I will do them if I know it well enough.

From 123lionclan: "Can we have a Soos one-shot, where he reflects over his family and his co-workers from the mystery shack?"

Ooh, a Soos one-shot! Absolutely! This is set the night after the Blendin's Game episode. Enjoy!

Homeliness

Long after his grandmother had gone to bed, Soos lay in bed writing in his diary (not that he would ever let Abuelita know he had a diary, heh...). He was growing tired but he felt the need to finish recounting the events today. Not that anyone would ever read this, save for himself.

This had to be one of the strangest birthdays so far - and that even included the time the party clown had thrown up on his cake. After being surprised by the twins with a birthday party and feeling an all-too-familiar melancholy fill his heart, he had been treated to a laser tag outing instead to make it up to him. Unfortunately he soon lost Dipper and Mabel once the game began. The two had promised not to leave his side, and yet it seemed they had just as quickly forgotten about him. He had planned to leave after struggling to find them and enjoy the game - but then out of nowhere, the twins reappeared! They said that they'd been sidetracked while trying to get a "time wish" for him, just so he could see his dad.

Yet when he received the time wish, Soos found that...he didn't want to use it to see his dad. His friends had gone through so much trouble just to get it for him, and what had his dad ever done for him? Send him a crummy postcard from some new city each year, promising to make it his next birthday? Why would he ever want to meet someone who didn't care enough about him to just visit every now and then?

So, instead of wishing to meet his dad, he wished to fix up the twins (who were sporting a number of obvious bruises, cuts, and scrapes that made him wonder just what exactly they had to do to get this wish) and for a slice of infinite pizza - because hey, it was his birthday.

Reflecting on his decision hours prior, the man didn't regret his choice. He had thrown out all of the postcards he had kept from his dad, much to his grandmother's surprise, and it was as if a great burden had been lifted off of his shoulders. He felt almost lighter without the box of postcards.

It was strange that after years of unhappy birthdays he felt so free.

Soos smiled at the memory of Dipper and Mabel staring up at him enthusiastically, battered and bruised, waiting for him to make his wish. He remembered the first day the twins had come to Gravity Falls: Mabel waving brightly at him and introducing herself in the first minutes they met, and Dipper rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly before giving him a thin smile. He certainly hadn't expected the summer to turn out the way it had thus far, nor to become fast friends with Stan's great-niece and great-nephew. In a way, they were more like family to him than his own dad.

Now that he thought about it, even Stan and Wendy had grown closer to him this summer. Wendy was only working here for a summer job and the two workers hadn't really bonded until the twins arrived. And while Soos looked up to Stan, the man hadn't paid him as much attention before as he did lately, talking with him more often. It was almost as if Dipper and Mabel had brought everyone in the Shack together.

Sort of like one weird family.

Soos chuckled to himself at the thought. Not that he minded, though.

They - and Abuelita - are the only family I really need.

The handyman finished writing in his diary and set it down on the table beside his bed. Shutting off the light, he laid back down and smiled softly. Before he fell asleep, Soos briefly wondered if the others ever thought of him as family. The thought soon slipped from his mind as he gave in to his exhaustion, entering a world of dreams where he found himself surrounded by familiar smiling faces.

My family.

I love that episode :) I definitely did not expect to feel so bad for little Soos, but I like how the episode turned out.