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Gravity Falls the Next Generation: Dipper's & Pacifica's family together.

Gwen Pines-Northwest (grandparent's insistance) is very cute. But it's hard to believe Dipper lost the Only Child vs. Siblings debate with Pacifica. Comparing their childhoods, anyone would think that Pacifica N. Pines would have some extremely disturbing doubts about how good a mom she could be with such a lousy roll-model. Pacifica would be horrified if Gwen showed even the slightest tendency to being spoiled.

One of Gwen's best friends is her uncle Nathan Northwest (age 15), Pacifica's kid brother, born via host mother when the elder Northwests realized that Pacifica would not be requiring her peasant husband to take the family name, just as Pacifica's mother, grandmother, and great-great grandmother had required of their spouses before her.

The boardmembers of Pacifica Corp. (no longer legally or economically tied to Northwest Investments Ltd.) have pressured her to not take more maternity leave. The board now takes the place of Robbie Valentine as Dipper's rival. They want her to work harder, Dipper wants her more relaxed and happy. But Pacifica often throws herself into her work, because makinging wads of cash is the only maternal aspect of supporting a family that she has confidence in.

Gwen treats Nathan as an adopted sibling. Nathan is far less mature or self-sufficient than Gwen than you would suspect from their age differences. Gwen knows how sad and embarrased Nathan's spoiled brat behavior makes her mother. Pacifica doesn't realize how ineffective whispering her frustration under breath is at concealing her thoughts from her alarmingly perceptive daughter.

Gwen just wants her family to be happy and well adjusted. She sees kicking Nathan's butt until he becomes a decent person as the keystone to correcting the serious flaws in her Happiness Chart. Her Auntie Mabel is delighted everytime she discovers her niece has indepentantly replicated some old familiar childhood obsession. Although Mabel is always ready to nip any tendancy toward "complicated listy things for poopheads" she detects in her favorite sibling's favorite daughter.

Mabel often calls Gwen, "F.S.F.D." or "Fishfood" and Gwen calls Mabel, "F.F.F.S." or Auntie Fists". Apparently no one has yet decoded the nicknames. If Dipper hasn't figured it out, he sure grins non-commitally when asked.

Pacifica defers to Dipper quite a lot on parenting issues; but calls on her sister-in-law Mabel a lot for the many times Dipper seems clueless about what to do about his daughter, too. With Pacifica's motherhood fears and Mabel's abandonment issues, I think Pacifica would arrange things so that Gwendolyn would be seeing a lot of her aunt and any other strong female role model Pacifica could dig up.

Gwen loves her namesake godmother. Obviously Pacifica and Wendy burried the hatchet years ago. After all, Pacifica won Dipper. Wendy is just happy that her best friend's wife is no longer acts insanely jealous and even seeks her out for girltalk and advice. Gwen sees Wendy as the kid who was invulnerable to adulthood. Gwen knows she has inheirited her father's tendancy to overthink things and her mother's drive to improve herself. But she has noticed which of her many role models laughs and smiles the most, and which have to be reminded to lighten up.

Dipper meanwhile has royalty income from a number of basic patents resulting from his research and discoveries. The majority of Dipper's discoveries where bought up by the federal government and are now stuck in R&D limbo. Dipper is a bit disapointed that he hasn't yet been recognized as the new Steve Jobs, but he appreciates the need for caution when meddling in Weirdtech.

Dipper's habitually wears a chain with an oddly distorted tunning fork of unearthly metal. When struck, it gives a triple tone that can drive off zombies without causing a huge gooey mess. Paficia's Wedding band has a large clear gem with a miniature battery-powered LED beneath it. On a full charge the ring can emit a total of five minutes of shrink rays.

After Dipper made a number of significant technical contributions to Pacifica Corp. with some of the weirder stuff he couldn't patent without Paradox Enforcers coming out his ears, he never suffered any further doubts as to his role as a full and equal partner to his wealthy wife. When not busy with research or exploration, Dipper is chairman of the Mystery Twin Foundation, an nonprofit organization devoted to preventing the end of the world in 3012.

The foudation is currently heavily involved in peanut-brittle-based medical tech.