Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26408630-20150313212317/@comment-8161155-20150313223757

First my short-term ideas: I can either see the character of the author as a totally serious guy who never has a joke played him and is Mr. Perfect, or a really silly guy who's constantly making stupid jokes and exchanging secret handshakes with Stan. Both of these possibilities are sickening. What did the Shape Shifter mean when he "hasn't been himself for thirty years"? If he was in the portal for thirty years, then how did the Shape Shifter know what he was like?

Secondly, my long-term idea: In the flashback with Stan and his brother on the swings, we can see that the author has a notepad and a pencil. I think this suggests that he was much like Dipper. Perhaps Stan was much like Mabel. The more I think about it, the easier it is to see young Stan being like Mabel. What if by the end of the season (or series), Dipper will disappear in some supernatural manner and Mabel will have to save him, paralleling Stan and Author.