Player Name: Silas Personal Journal:gilbo E-mail: twilightforestlullaby@gmail.com AIM/Plurk/Etc.:chromatus Timezone: US PST Current Characters in Route: Lightning Farron, Rise Kujikawa, Roxas
Character Name: Dipper Pines Series: Gravity Falls Timeline: End of A Tale of Two Stans Canon Resource Links:Here
Personality: Dipper Pines is not the average twelve year old. A born adventurer at heart, this boy seeks to figure out all the mysteries Gravity Falls has to offer, even if it gets him in trouble way over his head.
Dipper is a rather intelligent young man. Puzzles are not much of a challenge to him, such as when he and his friends look for the proof of the Northwest family's not being the founders of Gravity Falls and solved several puzzles to find the true founder. There are things that are still above his intellect, such as the what-the-heck-ahedron puzzle he tries to solve in “Little Gift Shop of Horrors”, which he can’t solve no matter how hard he tries. He displays a high level of academic intelligence when he is able to complete complex math equations in a short amount of time to create the perfect angle in which to throw a ball to win a prize in “The Time Traveler’s Pig”. This intelligence goes hand-in-hand with his resourcefulness, which is displayed when he kicks a shelf that has The Journal on it since he was unable to reach it in “Little Dipper.” He has also shown his ability to outwit others, such as when he beats Bill Cipher, the powerful dream demon at his own game inside Stan’s dreams by using his own imagination as a weapon. Dipper lets the others know that they can make whatever they think of become reality, and demonstrates this by using laser vision, and in the end they chase Bill out of Stan’s dreams. He is also rather genre-savvy, knowing that in most movies people don’t have enough cameras or that they malfunction, he brings 17 disposable cameras just in case in the episode featuring the Gobblewonker.
He can be very self-conscious, such as when he is confronted about the fact that the likes to sing the song “Disco Girl.” This makes him want to prove that he is anything but manly, so he sets off to take down the Multi-Bear as the Manotaurs tell him to do. Dipper was later told by Stan that standing up for what he thought was right made him a man, even if the Maotaurs would think otherwise. He takes this compliment to heart since Stan doesn’t give those to him too often. When it comes to the question of his intelligence, if something is beyond his grasp, he gets frustrated, such as when he can’t figure out the puzzle toy in “Little Gift Shop of Horrors”. Instead of trying again, Dipper instead gets a mushroom that will enhance his intelligence instead of solving the puzzle the good old fashioned way. His height can be a trigger, such as when he became the shorter between the twins due to a small growth spurt on Mable’s part, which caused him to become jealous and insecure since she teased him about being the superior twin. He reacts by trying to find a magical way to become the taller one. In order to seem cooler to Wendy, he lies about being 13 so he can spend time with her outside of the Mystery Shack, which leads to the group of teens and the twin’s ending up inside of a haunted convenience store looking for some fun. Since finding the journal and reading its contents, Dipper is paranoid and has trust issues when the journal warned him to Trust No One, and to be skeptical about people and/or situations. The first time this is shown is after he receives the journal and meets Mabel’s new boyfriend, Norman. He distrusts Norman from the get go, and even though he thought the teen was a zombie, his fears still turned to be validated as Norman was actually a collection of gnomes.
Dipper can be selfish at times, and is not above using the mysterious things happening in Gravity Falls to his advantage. A prime example is when he uses a time device to change the timelines so he wouldn’t hit Wendy with the ball when he was trying to win her a prize at the fair in order to impress her. When he did finally manage to make things go perfectly so Wendy would spend the day with him, he refused to listen to Mabel’s pleas about changing time so she could win Waddles instead of the pig going to Pacifica. Dipper gives up his chance to spend time with Wendy, reversing time and letting Mabel win Waddles the pig, which was a win-win situation for them both in the end, Mabel sending Waddles to attack Robbie, Wendy’s boyfriend, for Dipper.
Despite having the right motivations and doing the right things, Dipper can be rather ruthless and temperamental in order to accomplish his goals. He has displayed such a tendencies even with his sister, Mabel, such as when they got into a fight over who got the new room. Since they had switched bodies, he tries to ruin her reputation with their Grunkle Stan in order to get what he wanted. When they do get their bodies back, and he does indeed have the room, Dipper finds that the prize isn’t what he thought it would be. That same night, he moves back into the shared room with Mabel, since he missed her, and gives the room to Soos instead.
Even with all these things in his life, Dipper is compassionate, and he loves his family dearly, and his friends as well. His twin sister Mabel is the one person he would never want out of his life, reaffirming that to her when he tells her that he will never fight with her the way that Stan and Ford did in the past. She is near constant companion in his quest to solve all the mysteries in Gravity Falls, even if his claims seemed ridiculous, like the time he thought her boyfriend was a zombie. He does love his Grunkle Stan, even when Stan says he doesn't in a dream sequence Dipper overheard while in the search of Bill. Later, when he comes across the sequence again, Dipper finds out that his grunkle does indeed love him, and just has a very strange way of showing it. This makes him happy, though the criticism does still irritate him even if it’s out of love to toughen him up. Dipper does not seek to impress his Grunkle, merely wanting to be accepted as a serious man, as seen in the episode when his manliness comes into question. Even with the hiccups between them, Soos, the maintenance guy for the Mystery Shack, is a friend Dipper knows he can rely on in dire times, as long as Dipper doesn’t see him as an obstacle, like in the episode “Land before Swine”. Soos manages to ruin a good shot of the pterodactyl by opening the dark room’s doors while Dipper was developing film, and later when Soos uses his constant optimism to try and cheer Dipper and Mabel up, he gets into a fight with Dipper when the younger man loses his temper. They make up later in the episode, and become “Pterodactyl bros”. Wendy is his long time crush, and even when she lets him down gently about his feelings for her, she is still one of his steadfast friends. These are the few people whom he trusts, even if the journal says not to, and whom he can depend on in the long run. They do things to drive him crazy, like not listening to him when he tells them to hit the switch to the portal that Stan had built in the basement to stop it, making him angry with them, but they mean well in the end.
After all is said and done, Dipper is a kid who knows how to have fun, even if his version of fun is seeking out the mysteries of the town called Gravity Falls.
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Character
Name: Dipper Pines
Series: Gravity Falls
Timeline: End of A Tale of Two Stans
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality:
Dipper Pines is not the average twelve year old. A born adventurer at heart, this boy seeks to figure out all the mysteries Gravity Falls has to offer, even if it gets him in trouble way over his head.
Dipper is a rather intelligent young man. Puzzles are not much of a challenge to him, such as when he and his friends look for the proof of the Northwest family's not being the founders of Gravity Falls and solved several puzzles to find the true founder. There are things that are still above his intellect, such as the what-the-heck-ahedron puzzle he tries to solve in “Little Gift Shop of Horrors”, which he can’t solve no matter how hard he tries. He displays a high level of academic intelligence when he is able to complete complex math equations in a short amount of time to create the perfect angle in which to throw a ball to win a prize in “The Time Traveler’s Pig”. This intelligence goes hand-in-hand with his resourcefulness, which is displayed when he kicks a shelf that has The Journal on it since he was unable to reach it in “Little Dipper.” He has also shown his ability to outwit others, such as when he beats Bill Cipher, the powerful dream demon at his own game inside Stan’s dreams by using his own imagination as a weapon. Dipper lets the others know that they can make whatever they think of become reality, and demonstrates this by using laser vision, and in the end they chase Bill out of Stan’s dreams. He is also rather genre-savvy, knowing that in most movies people don’t have enough cameras or that they malfunction, he brings 17 disposable cameras just in case in the episode featuring the Gobblewonker.
He can be very self-conscious, such as when he is confronted about the fact that the likes to sing the song “Disco Girl.” This makes him want to prove that he is anything but manly, so he sets off to take down the Multi-Bear as the Manotaurs tell him to do. Dipper was later told by Stan that standing up for what he thought was right made him a man, even if the Maotaurs would think otherwise. He takes this compliment to heart since Stan doesn’t give those to him too often. When it comes to the question of his intelligence, if something is beyond his grasp, he gets frustrated, such as when he can’t figure out the puzzle toy in “Little Gift Shop of Horrors”. Instead of trying again, Dipper instead gets a mushroom that will enhance his intelligence instead of solving the puzzle the good old fashioned way. His height can be a trigger, such as when he became the shorter between the twins due to a small growth spurt on Mable’s part, which caused him to become jealous and insecure since she teased him about being the superior twin. He reacts by trying to find a magical way to become the taller one. In order to seem cooler to Wendy, he lies about being 13 so he can spend time with her outside of the Mystery Shack, which leads to the group of teens and the twin’s ending up inside of a haunted convenience store looking for some fun.
Since finding the journal and reading its contents, Dipper is paranoid and has trust issues when the journal warned him to Trust No One, and to be skeptical about people and/or situations. The first time this is shown is after he receives the journal and meets Mabel’s new boyfriend, Norman. He distrusts Norman from the get go, and even though he thought the teen was a zombie, his fears still turned to be validated as Norman was actually a collection of gnomes.
Dipper can be selfish at times, and is not above using the mysterious things happening in Gravity Falls to his advantage. A prime example is when he uses a time device to change the timelines so he wouldn’t hit Wendy with the ball when he was trying to win her a prize at the fair in order to impress her. When he did finally manage to make things go perfectly so Wendy would spend the day with him, he refused to listen to Mabel’s pleas about changing time so she could win Waddles instead of the pig going to Pacifica. Dipper gives up his chance to spend time with Wendy, reversing time and letting Mabel win Waddles the pig, which was a win-win situation for them both in the end, Mabel sending Waddles to attack Robbie, Wendy’s boyfriend, for Dipper.
Despite having the right motivations and doing the right things, Dipper can be rather ruthless and temperamental in order to accomplish his goals. He has displayed such a tendencies even with his sister, Mabel, such as when they got into a fight over who got the new room. Since they had switched bodies, he tries to ruin her reputation with their Grunkle Stan in order to get what he wanted. When they do get their bodies back, and he does indeed have the room, Dipper finds that the prize isn’t what he thought it would be. That same night, he moves back into the shared room with Mabel, since he missed her, and gives the room to Soos instead.
Even with all these things in his life, Dipper is compassionate, and he loves his family dearly, and his friends as well. His twin sister Mabel is the one person he would never want out of his life, reaffirming that to her when he tells her that he will never fight with her the way that Stan and Ford did in the past. She is near constant companion in his quest to solve all the mysteries in Gravity Falls, even if his claims seemed ridiculous, like the time he thought her boyfriend was a zombie. He does love his Grunkle Stan, even when Stan says he doesn't in a dream sequence Dipper overheard while in the search of Bill. Later, when he comes across the sequence again, Dipper finds out that his grunkle does indeed love him, and just has a very strange way of showing it. This makes him happy, though the criticism does still irritate him even if it’s out of love to toughen him up. Dipper does not seek to impress his Grunkle, merely wanting to be accepted as a serious man, as seen in the episode when his manliness comes into question. Even with the hiccups between them, Soos, the maintenance guy for the Mystery Shack, is a friend Dipper knows he can rely on in dire times, as long as Dipper doesn’t see him as an obstacle, like in the episode “Land before Swine”. Soos manages to ruin a good shot of the pterodactyl by opening the dark room’s doors while Dipper was developing film, and later when Soos uses his constant optimism to try and cheer Dipper and Mabel up, he gets into a fight with Dipper when the younger man loses his temper. They make up later in the episode, and become “Pterodactyl bros”. Wendy is his long time crush, and even when she lets him down gently about his feelings for her, she is still one of his steadfast friends. These are the few people whom he trusts, even if the journal says not to, and whom he can depend on in the long run. They do things to drive him crazy, like not listening to him when he tells them to hit the switch to the portal that Stan had built in the basement to stop it, making him angry with them, but they mean well in the end.
After all is said and done, Dipper is a kid who knows how to have fun, even if his version of fun is seeking out the mysteries of the town called Gravity Falls.