my most controversial gravity falls take is that it shouldve been mabel helping pacifica with the ghosts in her mansion instead of dipper. i redrew some scenes in hopes people will see the vision :)
ive been working on these pieces for like. two months now (i kept getting distracted) so i also added some early concept art under the cut!!!
"Haha what if Agent Powers unknowingly has a one-sided crush on human Bill" is all fun and games until I realize there's enough material there to support a whole subplot.
Bill doesn't want the X-Files squad to haul him to Area 51. The Pines don't want to get arrested for any Stan-or-Ford-related federal crimes. A government agent in town for unknown purposes is a common enemy. They need... a spy.
🇺🇸: "... But unfortunately, that's as far as our investigation has gone. No one in our department can crack the code on the documents we've uncovered so far."
⚠️: "Hey, maybe I can help you decode 'em!"
🇺🇸: "Are you... any good at cryptography?"
⚠️: "Am I any good? Why, 'Cipher' is my last name! I'm a wiz at it!"
🇺🇸: "Don't you mean your middle name?"
⚠️: "Yeah, sure, whatever."
🇺🇸: "Why, exactly, have you decided my nickname is 'Bermuda'?"
⚠️: "I'm dropping a hint! I think you'd look nice in Bermuda shorts!"
🇺🇸: "... Oh my."
🇺🇸: "I'm going to miss your beautiful laugh."
⚠️: "Oh, you! Stop it!"
⚠️: "(Don't stop it.)"
A conman can admire a conman who's willing to really commit to the bit.
So like...Danny as Ghost King getting to help sort people into the correct/prefered afterlives, and talking with all the Justice League peeps to figure out what they want/where they want to go ahead of time like it's a pension plan or like he's a Travel Agent.
Like he gives tours around various afterlives around the Ghost Zone, offers up different "packages" they can choose from.
"With the Ghost Package you can come back to the living realm, but you will be locked in with an Obsession - it's not as bad as it sounds, but we can go into more detail later on what it entails if you're interested - and you will be bound to a particular Haunt. Also my parents might try to capture and experiment on you."
"Unfortunately you don't qualify for the Revenant package due to how many times you've already died and come back, but I *can* get you set up with one of our Reincarnation representatives if returning to the living world is something you are interested in."
"Guardian Spirit is a popular choice, so there is a bit of a waiting time in terms of getting paperwork processed, but if you sign up for it now while you're still alive all that can be done ahead of time and you can jump right in once you pass on. You will need to make sure you regularly update the list of who you will be watching over considering your propensity for adoption."
Asexuals would make great secret agents because the power of seduction wouldn’t work on us but we could still utilize the power of seduction against our enemies and just yes asexual secret agents
hot opinionated take but i swear to god the 'subversion' of "demeter was an overbearing mom who persephone ran away from actually!" in H x P fics is about as 'original' as public domain cartoon characters for kids getting turned into edgy jumpscare horror fics
like do you REALLY think you're being original or are you maybe just reaching for the lowest hanging fruit
and that's not me saying you can't do it, because obv do what you want (and it'll get whatever reception it gets by extension) but it's not "subversion" if every person ever jumps to that same cookie cutter trope in an attempt to be 'original and subversive' while not doing anything new with it IMO