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Soos in high school headcanons

I’ve always wondered what Soos’s high school life was like, and since the world has not yet supplied me with any specific ideas, I have some headcanons!

* One day early freshman year, Soos decided to eat outside for lunch. After that he ate outside everyday rain or shine because he met a squirrel that ate out of the school dumpster. Soos befriended it and named it George.

* Soos told Stan about George the squirrel one day and how he was eating with George everyday. Stan said that was the saddest thing he’d ever heard. Soos disagreed, calling George a “good conversationalist”

* In the summers, when the school dumpster was empty because no one was there, Soos would pack and extra pb&j sandwich and walk to the high school during his lunch break at the Mystery Shack and give George the sandwich. Stan and Abuelita thought he was seeing a girl everyday, and were equally disappointed to find out he was feeding a squirrel

* After finding out Soos was walking into town to feed George the squirrel, Stan started driving Soos to the school everyday. Soos managed to convince Stan to feed George too on several occasions. Stan pretended to hate all of this

* Senior year George the squirrel became a mother, and since Soos hadn’t yet bought his truck he asked to borrow Stan’s car to buy “a bunch of little baby squirrel cradles” for George’s babies

* Soos petitioned to have the school take a field trip to the Mystery Shack. The school surprisingly had few objections to this. Stan however told the school no because the last thing he wanted was an army of teenagers at his house. Soos was heartbroken and Stan felt so bad he took Soos out for ice cream.

* Soos took every computer class his school offered. Everything from computer programming to graphic design

* Soos also took a business class so he could be more like Stan. He asked Stan to help him study for his final, and after looking through all Soos’s notes Stan told him the school was filing his head with lies. He then told Soos all the business tricks he’d learned over the years. Soos took his final with Stan’s tips in mind, and since none of Stan’s methods were legal, Soos failed his test miserably

* Soos got in trouble only once in high school. He was working in class and heard one of his classmates say that Stanford Pines was a horrible scam artist. Soos got up and punched the kid in the face and said “Mr. Pines is an excellent scam artist!” Soos got suspended, Abuelita was pissed and grounded him, and Stan gave him punching/ boxing advise and gave him an extra $5 on his next paycheck as a “loyalty bonus”

* Soos spent most of freshman year taking the bus after school to the Mystery Shack, but the bus route didn’t go all the way to the Shack, so everyday he walked part of the way. When Stan found out he started picking Soos up after school. He claimed it was because he needed Soos’s help at the Shack and that it was better if Soos got there sooner, but it was actually because he didn’t like that Soos was walking that far

Soos in high school headcanons

I’ve always wondered what Soos’s high school life was like, and since the world has not yet supplied me with any specific ideas, I have some headcanons!

* One day early freshman year, Soos decided to eat outside for lunch. After that he ate outside everyday rain or shine because he met a squirrel that ate out of the school dumpster. Soos befriended it and named it George.

* Soos told Stan about George the squirrel one day and how he was eating with George everyday. Stan said that was the saddest thing he’d ever heard. Soos disagreed, calling George a “good conversationalist”

* In the summers, when the school dumpster was empty because no one was there, Soos would pack and extra pb&j sandwich and walk to the high school during his lunch break at the Mystery Shack and give George the sandwich. Stan and Abuelita thought he was seeing a girl everyday, and were equally disappointed to find out he was feeding a squirrel

* After finding out Soos was walking into town to feed George the squirrel, Stan started driving Soos to the school everyday. Soos managed to convince Stan to feed George too on several occasions. Stan pretended to hate all of this

* Senior year George the squirrel became a mother, and since Soos hadn’t yet bought his truck he asked to borrow Stan’s car to buy “a bunch of little baby squirrel cradles” for George’s babies

* Soos petitioned to have the school take a field trip to the Mystery Shack. The school surprisingly had few objections to this. Stan however told the school no because the last thing he wanted was an army of teenagers at his house. Soos was heartbroken and Stan felt so bad he took Soos out for ice cream.

* Soos took every computer class his school offered. Everything from computer programming to graphic design

* Soos also took a business class so he could be more like Stan. He asked Stan to help him study for his final, and after looking through all Soos’s notes Stan told him the school was filing his head with lies. He then told Soos all the business tricks he’d learned over the years. Soos took his final with Stan’s tips in mind, and since none of Stan’s methods were legal, Soos failed his test miserably

* Soos got in trouble only once in high school. He was working in class and heard one of his classmates say that Stanford Pines was a horrible scam artist. Soos got up and punched the kid in the face and said “Mr. Pines is an excellent scam artist!” Soos got suspended, Abuelita was pissed and grounded him, and Stan gave him punching/ boxing advise and gave him an extra $5 on his next paycheck as a “loyalty bonus”

* Soos spent most of freshman year taking the bus after school to the Mystery Shack, but the bus route didn’t go all the way to the Shack, so everyday he walked part of the way. When Stan found out he started picking Soos up after school. He claimed it was because he needed Soos’s help at the Shack and that it was better if Soos got there sooner, but it was actually because he didn’t like that Soos was walking that far

About the force field(s)

Okay, I’ve seen sssooooooo many people talk about this, but they way I’ve seen everyone word it…is…confusing to me. I’m sure I’m just misreading, but allow me to take the time to 1, explain how I’m confused, 2, explain what I think is trying to be said and 3 talk about it a little. Hopefully if anyone else is having the same problems understanding this will clear it up a little

I’ve seen the theory on the force field worded two different ways (these are paraphrased).
1. “The force field Ford and Dipper put up around the Shack is still up, that’s why it’s safe and why Stan and everyone else was in there. This also explains why Bill can’t leave Gravity Falls.”
2. “Stan read about how to create a force field to keep out Bill when he had Ford’s journals,or he copied the journals and read about how to, and he created the force field that is keeping Bill in Gravity Falls. This also explains why the Shack is totally safe from Bill.”

The way I’m reading both of these are “Either Ford’s force field is still up, or Stan put up a force field, and that one force field is both keeping Bill out of Shack, and keeping him in Gravity Falls.”
Again, I think I’m misreading, I think what is actually meant is: “Ford’s force field is still up, and that is what’s protecting the Shack, and why everyone is in the Shack. Stan also knew how to create the force field because he had Ford’s journals, and either he read it before they burned, or he made copies that he looked at. So Stan probably made another force field that’s keeping Bill in” (that’s kinda like combing two theories into one.)

If I am reading these theories correctly, and the theory is in fact that one force field is both keeping Bill out of the Shack and in Gravity Falls, well first then I may have just created a new theory by accident lol, and second, it’s really not possible to have one force field do both of those things, unless the Mystery Shack isn’t in Gravity Falls. Which I suppose is possible, it could maybe be right outside of the city lines of Gravity Falls. But I don’t think that’s likely, I think Gravity Falls is in a valley, and the entire town is in the valley. So there has to be two different force fields, one that Ford and Dipper made in The Last Mabelcorn (which it would make sense if that force field was protecting the shack, because that force field hasn’t come into play. I mean, what was the point of doing an entire episode dedicated to creating the force field if it was never gonna come into play at all?) and the second force field was created by an unknown person at an unknown time. 

And now I want to talk about this theory

Everyone seems to think this “unknown person” is Stan, and I love that theory, and it makes the most logical sense. Stan had plenty of access to the journals, and is really the only other person who had any access to the journals who wasn’t either on screen doing other things, and wasn’t turned into a statue. And we know he copied journal #3, so he probably copied the others, and this would also explain why Celestab- the unicorn whose name I can’t spell was in the Shack with everyone else. 
However, I’m a little nervous that we will be disappointed, and it will not have been Stan who created the force field around Gravity Falls. I can’t think of a lot of examples right now, but I remember a ton of theories about Stan doing something like this, that was him saving the day, and I remember the only one that came true was Stan saving his brother from the portal. The only example coming to mind right now was when we were all wondering why Stan was taking everyone on a roadtrip after such a huge episode like The Last Mabelcorn, and there was a theory that Stan was trying to protect the kids from Ford (this theory came up before TLM aired, so no one knew what was going to happen in that episode, the theory was that Stan would find reason to believe Ford is dangerous in that episode, and that’s why he was taking them on the roadtrip in Roadside Attraction, to get the kids away from Ford), and it ended up being that he just wanted to prank a bunch of people. I remember there being other little theories like that, that were Stan doing something significant to the plot, and ever since Not What He Seems, it seems to me like the writers haven’t had Stan do much for the main, overall plot of Gravity Falls (I mean yes he’s played parts in the plots of episodes, but with the exception of this recent episode, where he was with a group of people and was the chief according to his sash, he doesn’t seem to have played any other part in the main plot since season 2b started, (someone please correct me if I’m wrong. I want to be wrong here)) and I’m worried this will happen again, where Stan ends up having hardly any significance. 
On the other hand, this is the most perfect time for me to be proven wrong. This is going to be one of the most significant points of the plot, and perhaps Stan hasn’t played a big role in the plot since getting his brother out of the portal because the writers were planning on having him be significant in more important ways.

About the force field(s)

Okay, I’ve seen sssooooooo many people talk about this, but they way I’ve seen everyone word it…is…confusing to me. I’m sure I’m just misreading, but allow me to take the time to 1, explain how I’m confused, 2, explain what I think is trying to be said and 3 talk about it a little. Hopefully if anyone else is having the same problems understanding this will clear it up a little

I’ve seen the theory on the force field worded two different ways (these are paraphrased).
1. “The force field Ford and Dipper put up around the Shack is still up, that’s why it’s safe and why Stan and everyone else was in there. This also explains why Bill can’t leave Gravity Falls.”
2. “Stan read about how to create a force field to keep out Bill when he had Ford’s journals,or he copied the journals and read about how to, and he created the force field that is keeping Bill in Gravity Falls. This also explains why the Shack is totally safe from Bill.”

The way I’m reading both of these are “Either Ford’s force field is still up, or Stan put up a force field, and that one force field is both keeping Bill out of Shack, and keeping him in Gravity Falls.”
Again, I think I’m misreading, I think what is actually meant is: “Ford’s force field is still up, and that is what’s protecting the Shack, and why everyone is in the Shack. Stan also knew how to create the force field because he had Ford’s journals, and either he read it before they burned, or he made copies that he looked at. So Stan probably made another force field that’s keeping Bill in” (that’s kinda like combing two theories into one.)

If I am reading these theories correctly, and the theory is in fact that one force field is both keeping Bill out of the Shack and in Gravity Falls, well first then I may have just created a new theory by accident lol, and second, it’s really not possible to have one force field do both of those things, unless the Mystery Shack isn’t in Gravity Falls. Which I suppose is possible, it could maybe be right outside of the city lines of Gravity Falls. But I don’t think that’s likely, I think Gravity Falls is in a valley, and the entire town is in the valley. So there has to be two different force fields, one that Ford and Dipper made in The Last Mabelcorn (which it would make sense if that force field was protecting the shack, because that force field hasn’t come into play. I mean, what was the point of doing an entire episode dedicated to creating the force field if it was never gonna come into play at all?) and the second force field was created by an unknown person at an unknown time. 

And now I want to talk about this theory

Everyone seems to think this “unknown person” is Stan, and I love that theory, and it makes the most logical sense. Stan had plenty of access to the journals, and is really the only other person who had any access to the journals who wasn’t either on screen doing other things, and wasn’t turned into a statue. And we know he copied journal #3, so he probably copied the others, and this would also explain why Celestab- the unicorn whose name I can’t spell was in the Shack with everyone else. 
However, I’m a little nervous that we will be disappointed, and it will not have been Stan who created the force field around Gravity Falls. I can’t think of a lot of examples right now, but I remember a ton of theories about Stan doing something like this, that was him saving the day, and I remember the only one that came true was Stan saving his brother from the portal. The only example coming to mind right now was when we were all wondering why Stan was taking everyone on a roadtrip after such a huge episode like The Last Mabelcorn, and there was a theory that Stan was trying to protect the kids from Ford (this theory came up before TLM aired, so no one knew what was going to happen in that episode, the theory was that Stan would find reason to believe Ford is dangerous in that episode, and that’s why he was taking them on the roadtrip in Roadside Attraction, to get the kids away from Ford), and it ended up being that he just wanted to prank a bunch of people. I remember there being other little theories like that, that were Stan doing something significant to the plot, and ever since Not What He Seems, it seems to me like the writers haven’t had Stan do much for the main, overall plot of Gravity Falls (I mean yes he’s played parts in the plots of episodes, but with the exception of this recent episode, where he was with a group of people and was the chief according to his sash, he doesn’t seem to have played any other part in the main plot since season 2b started, (someone please correct me if I’m wrong. I want to be wrong here)) and I’m worried this will happen again, where Stan ends up having hardly any significance. 
On the other hand, this is the most perfect time for me to be proven wrong. This is going to be one of the most significant points of the plot, and perhaps Stan hasn’t played a big role in the plot since getting his brother out of the portal because the writers were planning on having him be significant in more important ways.

Stanley probably wants to go on a road trip to sabotage all the other tourist traps because he wants to open a new tourist trap after the Mystery Shack get shut down and Ford kicks him out.

Think about it, that’s what made him the most money, that’s what he’s good at, that’s what he’s been doing for 30 years, why stop now?

But the difference is, when he was running the Mystery Shack as Stanford Pines, he had a…theme? hook? shtick? idk what’s the right word here? none of those seem right to me which was “a mysterious science guy living in the woods, giving tours of his house” and that’s probably something no other tourist attraction has, so that made the Mystery Shack special.

But since he’s no longer going to be Stanford Pines, the mysterious science guy. and he’s no longer going to be able to give tours of his home, what’s he supposed to do for a tourist attraction? It’ll end up being like every other tourist attraction, nothing really unique about it, and therefore probably won’t make a lot of money. So what’s he supposed to do?

Sabotage the competition.

Stanley probably wants to go on a road trip to sabotage all the other tourist traps because he wants to open a new tourist trap after the Mystery Shack get shut down and Ford kicks him out.

Think about it, that’s what made him the most money, that’s what he’s good at, that’s what he’s been doing for 30 years, why stop now?

But the difference is, when he was running the Mystery Shack as Stanford Pines, he had a…theme? hook? shtick? idk what’s the right word here? none of those seem right to me which was “a mysterious science guy living in the woods, giving tours of his house” and that’s probably something no other tourist attraction has, so that made the Mystery Shack special.

But since he’s no longer going to be Stanford Pines, the mysterious science guy. and he’s no longer going to be able to give tours of his home, what’s he supposed to do for a tourist attraction? It’ll end up being like every other tourist attraction, nothing really unique about it, and therefore probably won’t make a lot of money. So what’s he supposed to do?

Sabotage the competition.

I wanna talk about this scene.

First let me just say that this shouldn’t be another reason to be mad at Ford, because he doesn’t realize he’s doing this (yet) but this still should be pointed out.

Ford told Stan that at the end of the Summer, the Mystery Shack is done. This is bad enough for Stan, seeing as the Shack is the first and only successful money maker of his life. But I think we’re forgetting someone who this will also effect.

Soos

The Mystery Shack is, and has been, Soos’s life for at least a decade. It seems to currently be the only source of income for Soos and his grandma. So what’s he gonna do when Ford forces the Shack to be closed? Will he and his grandma be homeless like Stan will probably be?

And also, how and when is Stan gonna tell Soos?
If he tells Soos next time he sees him, Soos is gonna get really upset and emotional, and he’d likely tell the kids, and that’s just gonna create family drama for the Pines family because Dipper and Mabel aren’t going to be really happy with their Grunkle Ford if they know he’s gonna kick out their Grunkle Stan. And they would try to find some way to stop him from doing it (I’m pretty sure neither of the Grunkles are gonna tell the kids about this because they don’t want them to interfere).
However, if Stan tells Soos at the end of the Summer, right before or as the the Shack gets closed, Soos will still be upset of course, but that really isn’t fair to Soos because he could have spent his last few weeks there getting closure and enjoying his last moments.
And I came up with this awefull scenario: What if Stan fired Soos to encourage him to get a new job before the Shack is closed? Like Stan’s way of trying to ease Soos away from the Shack to make it easier for the man-child to have it taken away from him.

Basicaly Ford is about to tear Soos’s world apart and he doesn’t even realize it.

I wanna talk about this scene.

First let me just say that this shouldn’t be another reason to be mad at Ford, because he doesn’t realize he’s doing this (yet) but this still should be pointed out.

Ford told Stan that at the end of the Summer, the Mystery Shack is done. This is bad enough for Stan, seeing as the Shack is the first and only successful money maker of his life. But I think we’re forgetting someone who this will also effect.

Soos

The Mystery Shack is, and has been, Soos’s life for at least a decade. It seems to currently be the only source of income for Soos and his grandma. So what’s he gonna do when Ford forces the Shack to be closed? Will he and his grandma be homeless like Stan will probably be?

And also, how and when is Stan gonna tell Soos?
If he tells Soos next time he sees him, Soos is gonna get really upset and emotional, and he’d likely tell the kids, and that’s just gonna create family drama for the Pines family because Dipper and Mabel aren’t going to be really happy with their Grunkle Ford if they know he’s gonna kick out their Grunkle Stan. And they would try to find some way to stop him from doing it (I’m pretty sure neither of the Grunkles are gonna tell the kids about this because they don’t want them to interfere).
However, if Stan tells Soos at the end of the Summer, right before or as the the Shack gets closed, Soos will still be upset of course, but that really isn’t fair to Soos because he could have spent his last few weeks there getting closure and enjoying his last moments.
And I came up with this awefull scenario: What if Stan fired Soos to encourage him to get a new job before the Shack is closed? Like Stan’s way of trying to ease Soos away from the Shack to make it easier for the man-child to have it taken away from him.

Basicaly Ford is about to tear Soos’s world apart and he doesn’t even realize it.

ifbrd:

Everytime I watch interior designing shows I wanna redesign the twins attic bedroom.

Ok so now I’m really wanting to redesign their room, so I went on Google images and typed “mystery” because I figure Dipper’s side of the room needs to be a mystery theme and I needed inspiration
After a while I ran into a picture of the Mystery Shack, which made me very happy 🙂 🙂

ifbrd:

Everytime I watch interior designing shows I wanna redesign the twins attic bedroom.

Ok so now I’m really wanting to redesign their room, so I went on Google images and typed “mystery” because I figure Dipper’s side of the room needs to be a mystery theme and I needed inspiration
After a while I ran into a picture of the Mystery Shack, which made me very happy 🙂 🙂