Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26303790-20150909012141/@comment-5814264-20150913043529

My first instinct on who it would be was Gideon, but after thinking about it for a few minutes, I thought it could be Stan, as it seems Alex has made it a point not to make Stan know about Bill. In Dreamscapers, Stan was asleep during the entire plot of the episode. In Sock Opera, Bill possessed Dipper, and Stan only thought of Bipper and Mabel's fight as a fight between Dipper and Mabel. In A Tale of Two Stans, Ford never explicitly mentions Bill. And in The Last Mabelcorn, Stan is absent during the family meeting. I just find it strange that Stan hasn't once seen Bill, and a page about Bill even seems absent from Journal 1, the journal Stan has had, and possibly the only one he has read all the way through, trying to find a way to save his brother.

Stan is also obviously very upset with Ford for not thanking him for saving him. He obviously doesn't understand the risks of the portal, and doesn't even know about the interdimensional rift. It would be far too easy for Bill to be able to manipulate Stan because of his ignorance, and I believe it will be Stan's ignorance that causes the apocalypse, or whatever Bill has planned.

Also, who cares if the Mystery Shack is protected by Bill, Stan's mind isn't, nor is Mabel's, and I don't believe even Dipper's mind is fully protected. All we can really say is the only person who it won't be is Ford, who is in the Mystery Shack 24/7, and has his brain protected by the metal plate embedded in his head.