Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26408630-20150313212317/@comment-14512598-20150330182837

AbercrombieFizzwidget wrote:

Psychoking wrote: I know this could be an exaggeration but what If Stan is a clone.

The shapeshifter was a key part to formula since it is able take on any form it desires so the brother took a blood sample in order to create a clone of himself in order to protect his family and had sent Stan to travel around the world so he knows how to master Identitys and imitation hence why he has been known by "unknown grifter at large" because he hadn't developed any form of dna yet (i.e finger tips) hence why there is a picture of him but nobody found out about his past or real name (because he wasn't given his name yet as the plan hasn't been set in motion).

The brother needed to fake his death in order to cement his disappearance and made his clone take his identity because he knew the family will never know about the secrets and if they knew they will cause problems.

The brother decided to travel to another dimension to persue his research. however there was a fault in the formula and Stan needed to find him order for his brother to fix his formula (the fault could be accelerated aging).

The clone regards his brother as a family relative due to fault in the formula or due to brain damage that resulted in amnesia causing him to believe that he is real and that they are twins which also makes him want to search for the journals in order to find him so he can be rescued from the great danger. How would Stan be able to shower tho Not the same type of clone as the Paper Dipper

However, the one overall flaw with this theory is clip at the end of Not What He Seems, which shows the two children on a swingset. It is not represented as one of Stan's memories like dreamscaperers stuff, so all the amnesia stuff suggested wouldn't affect it.

Another issue is there's really no need for such a twist. Like, everything is hinted at in Gravity Falls, and every plot twist holds value. The clone one doesn't really hold much plot significance besides explaining why Stan was searchning for his brother in the first place (although the fact that he's his brother also works as a logical reason for this as well), wouldn't really further it after that too much.