Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26408630-20150313212317/@comment-14512598-20150405195100

Psychoking wrote: I was researching for more theories and someone made a much more logical theory on the mystery of Stan's identity.

He simply says that Stanford isn't the twin that Dipper and Mabel were sent to and the Author was the intended guardian because The parents of Dipper and Mabel refused to talk about Stanford since he was in a columbian prison but didn't have a picture of the two twins because Stanley and Stanford had a falling out.

Stanford escaped the prison and faked his death to prevent the authorities from hunting him then took several identity's in order to travel to Gravity Falls without police attention so he reluctantly stayed with Stanley as a place to stay until he lost police attention but when Stanley was trapped in the other dimension. Stanford took Stanleys identity to prevent people from panicing or from getting police attention then worked on saving Stanley but the events of the series delayed him.

He also theorises that Stanford, Stanley and Mccgucket are in trouble with conspiracy and that they worked together given that Mccgucket ran away when the goverment agents arrived and the portal needs three keys to shut down.

In my opinion this is a more logical reason than my clone theory. I'd agree it's more logical, but I don't think that's it either. Like I couldn;t shoot any holes in it, it just seems so boring that I don't think it's the reason.