Info/App for Forest Covered

[sixers]

( PLAYER INFORMATION )

Name: Ingrid
Contact: Email is haplessdocument@gmail.com, plurk is togamint
Are you over 17?: Yes
Characters in Forest Covered: N/A

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )

Name/Work Name: Dr. Stanford Pines; “Sixer”
Canon: Gravity Falls
Canon Point: Immediately after stepping through the Universe Portal at the end of “Not What He Seems”.
AU/CRAU: N/A
Age: Never explicitly stated, but can be assumed to be in his early sixties. If you want a specific number, I’d put him at around 63.
History: Here is his wiki! I don’t really have any additions to the stated backstory--it’s fairly comprehensive.

Personality: Stanford, above all else, is curious. This is fundamentally what drives him--yes, he’s also ambitious; yes, he’s also loyal to a degree--but it takes primary space in his head. This curiosity drives him in all his pursuits. He is intelligent, having (supposedly) earned 12 PhDs in the span of only perhaps forty years, but that intelligence does not translate well to everyday conversation. He’s slightly awkward in speech, due to being in an entirely different universe for thirty years. However, even before that, he was antisocial, lacking the social footing that allowed people like his brother to converse. He’s fairly unconcerned with this fact, though, only feeling self-conscious about his shyness when someone else pokes fun at it.
Ford is hypersensitive to criticism, from anything to schoolhouse bullying about his fingers to more serious critiques regarding his obvious personality flaws and disregard for the safety of others. He’s prone to locking up his feelings because of this--he sees opening up to others as an opportunity for betrayal and harm. When he does trust someone, he does it out of necessity: for example, he only called his brother to Oregon in his paranoia because he had to trust him to bury his journal. If not for this reason, his respect is hard-earned and easily lost: as seen in him enlisting his nephew to be his apprentice but considering him too weak due to Dipper’s strong bond with his sister.
If one does manage to get into Stanford’s personal life, he’s a deeply eccentric person. He enjoys role-playing games for the mental challenge they offer, and takes pride in his created worlds. It’s heavily implied in the “D&D& More D” episode that this allowed him as a child to escape an insufficient reality, but he mostly abandoned it into adulthood. However, he still kept up his creative streak in the journals, where he drew accurate and detailed diagrams and drawings of the different beasts of Gravity Falls. In the same way, this allowed him to push away his past mistakes with his work. He doesn’t like discussing his personal life unless the subject is his accomplishments--which he will describe at great length, usually at the agony of the person on the receiving end.
In the end, he’s not very guilt-prone. He does not usually see himself as the villain--he believes in serving a “greater good”, which in turn absolves him of all sin. He still doesn’t believe that he has to apologize for watching on as Stanley was kicked out of his home, because he doesn’t see it as his fault. However, when Dippet takes a glimpse into his mind, he is shown to have extreme remorse for irreparably damaging McGucket and in turn, their relationship. He sees himself as a victim of the world, and believes that he is being constantly hunted. Regardless of whether or not his paranoia is justified, it harms all of his relationships unless it is addressed.
No, he’s not always aware of his mistakes, but he is by nature a manipulative person. This again ties back to his firm belief in a greater good, and he believes that his own self-preservation will assist him in saving the world. Because of this, he has a tendency to force other people into danger in his place, regardless of who they are and how close they are to him. He superimposes his own lifestyle and situation onto others because he does not understand that other people have valid and relevant feelings. This, for obvious reasons, is dangerous. However, the only thing that he’s ever felt genuine guilt for--him trusting Bill Cipher, the demon that led to the madness of one of his closer friends--is what leads into his debt.

Debt: His debt is one of atoning for past mistakes--he perceives that his only true sin was becoming close friends with Bill Cipher, which later led to both his own insanity and that of his friend, Fiddleford McGucket. This is what he considers to be his deepest mistake, which the Witch could take advantage of.

Previous Game Info: N/A!

Inventory:
-Some kind of heavy weaponry (most likely a Cool Space Gun--it’s never mentioned, only seen in his introduction)
-Several quills and a bottle of ink
-Journal #1
-A long coat with many pockets
-Glasses
-Some kind of goggles (not his glasses)
-Some kind of scarf
-Metal plate inside his head. Not sure if this counts as an inventory item, as it’s kind of stuck there, but it’s worth mentioning.

Abilities: Ford is an incredibly talented writer and scientist, having written a nationally ranked thesis in his college years. He’s also a very good artist, as shown in the journal illustrations. Physically, however, he’s not much--while he can hold his own in a fight, he might not win that fight.

Strengths and Weaknesses:
Strengths:
-Scientific ability: Wrote a nationally ranked thesis and received a massive grant for it. He also graduated a science program early, with great honors. His journals show that he has a great understanding of quantum physics and zoology.
-Inventing ability: Closely ties into the above. His mechanical talent is shown to be close to his colleague’s--said colleague being a genius with technology. Has presumably hundreds of inventions, such as a tie that controls the user.
-Near-perfect memory: Remembers nearly every invention he’s created, by name and number, as well as several different dimensions he’s been in, also numbered. He’s very fond of #52.
-Roleplaying ability: Extremely good at portraying several different characters, such as the lovely Princess Unattainabelle. Also very good at creating dungeons for roleplay games, according to Dipper.
-Fearlessness: Literally a man without fear. He has long ago eliminated his ability to properly feel natural fear whenever he feels like it, as demonstrated in “Dipper and Mabel VS the Future”. This is useful when he and Dipper are chased by a robot that senses adrenaline.

Weaknesses:
-Hubris: Ford has a massively inflated sense of self-importance, which can lead to oversights on his part. He refuses to let other people take what he considers to be his “job”, causing complications in his relationships.
-Fearlessness: While this is also one of his strengths, it can cause problems with his safety, as he doesn’t correctly register danger as most people would.
-Curiosity: Hey, curiosity killed the cat. He often sacrifices the well-being of himself and others to further scientific discovery, including making a disastrous deal with Bill Cipher.

( SAMPLE )

Characterization Sample:
He really missed his journals.

He missed the feeling of writing something that had never been written, that had never been said. He missed the feeling of finding new things--everything seemed old in this void, even upon first glance. He missed Dimension 52. But above all, he missed the feeling of belonging, the warm realization that he wasn’t alone in his freakishness. That there were people and things like him in a small town in Oregon, that there was a place he could call home.

And again, his brother ruined it all. His meddling, overly attached brother. Suffocating. He was surprised when that world floated to his mind, but it didn’t feel wrong. Suffocating Stanley. Quickly, the adjective became a verb as he imagined suffocating his brother. Did he hate him that much? Did he really? Yes, he decided. His brother ruined his only shot, the only place he’d ever fit in. He ruined his life.

...Was that strictly true? No, Stanford’s analytic mind conceded. That demon ruined it. Stanley merely assisted, but an assist it still was. He couldn’t punch Bill. He could punch his brother. The thought brought a smile to his face. That was something his brother would say. However, he couldn’t deny the logic. Stanley made a very easy scapegoat to problems that reached far beyond the scope of their little world.

...He squinted, looking into the light. Light. There wasn’t usually light around the area. It worried at his thoughts. He knew what the light meant. Well, he knew what it represented. He didn’t know the meaning of why it was there, but he wasn’t going to let that stop him. It was finally time to return home.

Stanford Pines stepped through to the other side.