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| PLAYER↴ Name: Contact: Other Characters: CHARACTER↴ Character Name: Stan Pines. Stanley, not Stanford, though he just goes by Stan to be deliberately ambiguous about it. Age: 67 Species: Human Canon: Gravity Falls Canon Point: Character Info: Here ya go Personality: God, where do you start? Stan Pines isn't just rough around the edges, he's rough all the way through. He's shady, crooked, hot-tempered, and repulsive on every level. There are only so many crimes Stan hasn't committed in the name of making a quick buck, and he doesn't give a crap who gets hurt while he does it; he has a truly remarkable disregard for the law, public interest, or endangerment of others. He's a very selfish person and feels exactly no shame about it, and holds on to petty grudges and rivalries to a ridiculous degree. Sure, he's funny. He's a performer -- a liar. He's the kind of person you watch with fascination and only realize later that your wallet's gone. Frankly, he's ridiculous. At least, that's how Stan is to most people. The outer layer's pretty thick, and very, very few people see through it, but there is very much an underneath. Stan Pines is a family man who has been hurt very deeply, but who would still do anything -- anything -- for blood. He spent thirty years trying to rebuild a portal to get his brother back. He let his mind be erased -- and wasn't even tempted by Bill's offers of fame and fortune, things we see him chasing throughout the series -- to selflessly protect that family. He punched a dinosaur in the face for his grandniece's pet pig. Stan is a terrible human being in a lot of ways, but when he cares, he gives his entire goddamn heart and never stops. He's unbelievably stubborn and has an incredible drive to keep going even in the face of hopeless odds. Though his attempts to reach out to the twins were self-conscious, clumsy, and prickly, he wanted to bond with them from the start, and he loves them and loves spending time with them. He's got an unhealthy internalized idea of masculinity thanks to his own father, which we see when he tries to tough-love Dipper into toughening up, but it came from a place of identifying with Dipper and caring about him. And Mabel? He loves Mabel and her creativity and her energy and her weirdness so goddamned much. But no, seriously, Stan's a trash fire. He's a bizarre combination of selfish and selfless, lazy and unstoppably determined, careless and deeply caring, self-conscious and utterly shameless. It really depends on if you're lucky enough to be someone Stan cares about. Abilities: Ha ha ha, there's nothing supernatural about Stan Pines -- at least as far as abilities are concerned. He is a man of only so many talents, but the biggest one would have to be cheating suckers out of their money. He's an incredibly unlikable man, but he talks fast and is real good at getting people to part with their cash for creative but sketchy reasons. He's also got one hell of a right hook, though he's certainly not in the best of shape. Stan's creative, good at finding unorthodox solutions, and he's got some weird, eclectic knowledge of alien engineering under his belt, though it's jury-rigging and duct tape macgyvering at its worst. His criminal record runs from petty shoplifting to more elaborate heists -- you know, the ones with the gloves and black masks, the Mission Impossible stuff -- to drug trafficking. CARNIVAL↴ Soul Colour: Gray? Can it be like a dirty gray, for how shady he is? Ideal Jobs: Talker, Agent, Shill. Don't let him anywhere near the job of treasurer. It'll be better for everybody. Relevant Experience: Stan has run a carnival before. It didn't have circus acts, it was just games and rides Reason for Joining: Oh, god, he cheated at a game of chance, got caught, and couldn't talk his way out of it. Not for lack of trying, though. SAMPLES↴ |