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Ralphini wrote: By the way, would you like to check out a new story I wrote in the circus AU?

Sure. Does Dipper get some screen time?

At first I was really surprised at how the reader had access to Dipper's thought process in "Rotten Redhead", but now I feel like I really miss it.

I hope you can write a lot more Dipper dialog in the near future. I really like Mabel, her morals and POV, but Dipper is the one I most strongly identify with.

I had my own Robbie fight when I was Dipper's age. But my Robbie was a feather weight boxer who wasn't afraid of hurting his hands. He just wanted to make someone bleed without gloves or a ref cramping his style. He thought I'd be easy pickings because I had walked away from every fight challenge ever made to me.

But he didn't understand that it wasn't cowardice or lack of ability that had kept me out of fights from kindergarden to 6th grade. I just had strong beliefs about hurting people.

So when he backed me in a corner and surrounded me with such a thick crowd that I was physically unable to walk away, I took two seconds to leg sweep him and body slam the jerk into the dirt. He wasn't actually hurt, I only knocked the wind out of him. Lying on the ground, trying to relearn to breathe while I pushed my way through the crowd, he was in no possition to appreciate how carefull I had been to insure he did't take a bad fall that could of given him a concussion or bruised his spine.

Could you write a story where Dipper uses smarts and possibly some dirty tricks that Stan taught him to compensate for the upper body strength he's unlikely to ever see much of?