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Player Name: Silas E-mail: twilightforestlullaby@gmail.com Preferred Contact:chromatus Timezone: PST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: Mason "Dipper" Pines Series: Gravity Falls Timeline: End of series Canon Resource Links:Here
Personality: Dipper Pines is not the average 13 year old that you would expect to meet. A born adventurer at heart, this boy once wanted to find out all the mysteries, and might still, of the town of Gravity Falls.
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 Manotaurs 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. His paranoia was at its all time high when trying to bust Mabel out of her Mabeltown prison, something that Bill had made for her, and actually manages to use it to help everyone bust out.
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. He is also shown willing to sacrifice his life for his sisters in many instances, including in their battle against Bill during Weirdmagedon.
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. Despite him and Mabel having to go home at the end of the series, he is thrilled about going back the next summer to find out more.
Strengths
Detective Skills - Using his intelligence and resourcefulness, Dipper can solve any case he puts his mind to. Nothing is too mysterious, nothing is too dangerous, and if he can't solve it, it might be something he needs help with.
Born-adventurer - This boy can't sit still, always wanting to go find new things or explore what others have in order to see if there might be something they missed. Even if it gets him in trouble, Dipper will go for it.
Family and Friends - His strength in the end comes from them, especially his sister Mabel. Even if it doesn't seem like it at times, he knows they have his back.
Monster Hunting - Dipper is good at finding things that don't want to be found. Always prepared (or at lest in his mind he is), he goes after creatures big and small, deadly or cuddly, in order to find out the truth about them.
Weaknesses
Paranoia - The journal warned him to Trust No One. Dipper will be wary of anything that he thinks might pose a danger to him, being almost secretive at times about what he's up to so no one will get in his way or try to stop him. Mabel seems to be the only one he can confide in on a regular basis.
Uncertainty - If he's faced with something he doesn't know or the journal doesn't cover, Dipper will approach it with caution until he finds out what or who the creature or person in question is. And item will face even more caution since it can't interact directly with him unless it's cursed or possessed.
Temper - Dipper hates being called adorable, people messing with his sister, and people underestimating him, among other things. He reacts to these things with different levels of anger, the first stage being frustration, the highest level pretty much him attacking whoever/whatever is causing his anger.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Eevee - Dipper loves mysteries and discovering new things. He would find it amazing to have a Pokemon that has so many possible evolution's that it would keep him occupied for months, if not years, as to how something so ordinary can become so extraordinary depending on the right conditions and circumstances. Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: [Dipper stood beside his Eevee as an Espurr tried to stare them down.]
Okay! Eevee, use Tackle!
[The Eevee responds with the right move, knocking the Espurr flat on its back. The cat Pokémon just... lays there... staring up at the sky now. With confusion, the Eevee looks back at her trainer, who looks just as baffled as she does. This doesn't seem like the right reaction...]
That... was that supposed to happen? [He pulls out his PokéDex.] Espurr... Psychic type... It should at least know Scratch, Leer, and Covet... Then why isn't it fighting back?! Wait, did Eevee give it a concussion? No, that shouldn't be it. She hit it around the waist, not the head...
[His train of out loud thought is cut short when the Espurr finally stand up and shakes the dust off. It walks right up to Dipper, tapping one of the Pokéballs on his belt. Seems it just wants to go home with you, Dipper. It's very insistent about it even it it's little paws can't quit grip the ball. No opposable thumbs.]
You know, if you want to be caught, you need to put up more of a fight. That's the point of battling and catching Pokémon and you can't even get that right! [He makes an aggravated noise before taking a ball off of his belt.] Fine. But you better not make me regret this, creepy cat. I'm warning you that if you're as useless now as you are when I use you for battle, you're going straight to Mabel!
[The Espurr considers this before nodding. That sounded alright to it. Either way it got to stick close to this human and the super strong Eevee that knocked it down. Dipper sighs and catches the Espurr with the most unimpressed look in the world.]
One down. Over 700 more to go.... this is gonna take forever. Mabel better be right about getting to Violet City soon. My feet are killing me.
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Character
Name: Mason "Dipper" Pines
Series: Gravity Falls
Timeline: End of series
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality:
Dipper Pines is not the average 13 year old that you would expect to meet. A born adventurer at heart, this boy once wanted to find out all the mysteries, and might still, of the town of Gravity Falls.
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 Manotaurs 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. His paranoia was at its all time high when trying to bust Mabel out of her Mabeltown prison, something that Bill had made for her, and actually manages to use it to help everyone bust out.
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. He is also shown willing to sacrifice his life for his sisters in many instances, including in their battle against Bill during Weirdmagedon.
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. Despite him and Mabel having to go home at the end of the series, he is thrilled about going back the next summer to find out more.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Eevee - Dipper loves mysteries and discovering new things. He would find it amazing to have a Pokemon that has so many possible evolution's that it would keep him occupied for months, if not years, as to how something so ordinary can become so extraordinary depending on the right conditions and circumstances.
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample:
VR TDM
Victory Road Sample:
[Dipper stood beside his Eevee as an Espurr tried to stare them down.]
Okay! Eevee, use Tackle!
[The Eevee responds with the right move, knocking the Espurr flat on its back. The cat Pokémon just... lays there... staring up at the sky now. With confusion, the Eevee looks back at her trainer, who looks just as baffled as she does. This doesn't seem like the right reaction...]
That... was that supposed to happen? [He pulls out his PokéDex.] Espurr... Psychic type... It should at least know Scratch, Leer, and Covet... Then why isn't it fighting back?! Wait, did Eevee give it a concussion? No, that shouldn't be it. She hit it around the waist, not the head...
[His train of out loud thought is cut short when the Espurr finally stand up and shakes the dust off. It walks right up to Dipper, tapping one of the Pokéballs on his belt. Seems it just wants to go home with you, Dipper. It's very insistent about it even it it's little paws can't quit grip the ball. No opposable thumbs.]
You know, if you want to be caught, you need to put up more of a fight. That's the point of battling and catching Pokémon and you can't even get that right! [He makes an aggravated noise before taking a ball off of his belt.] Fine. But you better not make me regret this, creepy cat. I'm warning you that if you're as useless now as you are when I use you for battle, you're going straight to Mabel!
[The Espurr considers this before nodding. That sounded alright to it. Either way it got to stick close to this human and the super strong Eevee that knocked it down. Dipper sighs and catches the Espurr with the most unimpressed look in the world.]
One down. Over 700 more to go.... this is gonna take forever. Mabel better be right about getting to Violet City soon. My feet are killing me.
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