Mabel Pines

Mabel Pines (born on August 31, 1999, five minutes before her twin brother) is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Dipper Pines) of Disney’s franchise.
She is the older fraternal twin sister of Dipper Pines and the great-niece of both Stanley and Stanford Pines. Energetic, bouncy, and optimistic, Mabel makes the best of every situation. A lover of arts, crafts, and animals, Mabel is a hyperactive 13-year-old teenage girl and is the brawn to her brother's brains. She is also the best friend of Candy Chiu and Grenda Grendinator and the former rival of Pacifica Northwest.
She was voiced by , who also voiced Trixie in the Toy Story films and Louise Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
==Appearance==
Mabel is a short girl who is exactly one millimeter taller than her twin brother. She has long brown hair that reaches her hips and curls towards the bottom, a little tuft of hair on the back of her head, and brown eyes just like Dipper's. She also has silver-colored braces and round blushing cheeks.
Her clothing constantly changes way more than any other character, which usually consists of a sweater, undershirt, skirt, headband, black ballerina flats, white anklet socks, and occasionally earrings. Her signature sweater being a short-sleeved pink undershirt underneath a slightly darker warm pink sweater with a shooting star, accompanied by a purple, teal and orange-striped tail falling toward the left, a matching warm pink headband, a loose purple pencil skirt, coupled with black ballerina flats and white socks. 
==Personality==
Mabel Pines is an energetic girl with a very positive attitude. She is an extrovert while her brother is an introvert. As first introduced with "Norman", Mabel's romantic life remains quite central for her. She falls for boys frequently, quite often regardless of their feelings for her. Dipper is very important to Mabel and the two are emotionally inter-woven. Though Mabel often disagrees with her brother over his methods, morally they are very in-sync, and when one of the two deviates from what they know is right, the other often acts as the other's extended conscience.
Mabel tries to become popular, and though she never truly succeeds, she does make four major friends: the two local outcasts, Grenda and Candy, Wendy, a teenage employee at the Mystery Shack, and a pig she wins at the town fair, Waddles. Her quest to become popular is opposed by local debutante, Pacifica Northwest, whom Mabel tries to reach out to, but instead becomes a rival, though eventually the two do become at least tolerant of each other. Mabel is also shown to be pretty sensitive when Pacifica used to tease her about her personality and everything she does. In particular, Mabel becomes fiercely protective of Waddles, being willing to fight monsters to save him without a second thought.
She has a deep obsession with Unicorns, as she taped a traffic cone on a horse's head to look like one, which cause her to be banned from petting zoos. One of her fears is not being cute, as seen when she was in Stan's mind, when Bill Cipher turned her cuteness to ugliness.
By the end of the series and after getting stranded in an in-between world full of alternate versions of herself, Mabel has become matured to know when to put the needs pf others ahead of her own, and even knowing when it's time to accept the changes in her life.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Born on August 31, 1999, Mabel Pines was born 1-minute before her twin brother Dipper in Piedmont, California, and according to herself, the first word she ever spoke was "unicorn" and growing up, she would find herself with a natural talent of art and became obsessed with anything girly from dolls to romance movies and have a happy & cheerful personality.
Despite having a polar-opposite personality to Dipper's book-smarts and being an introvert, he & Mabel were each other's best friend growing up & did a lot of things growing up together, from making each other smile at hard times to spending the holidays (especially Halloween and Christmas) together with the rest of their family.
===Spending summer away from home===
In the year 2012 Mabel, now 12 years old, was initially planning alongside Dipper to spend their summer vacation locked in their room, watching TV, playing video games and talking on the phone, but that immediately changed when their parents decided they need some fresh air and out-door living, so they decided to send them to a small, sleepy town hidden in Oregon called Gravity Falls, where they would spend their summer living with their paternal great-uncle, or "Grunkle" Stan, a con-man who's the owner of a tourist-trap called "The Mystery Shack".
Staying in the town made the twins greatly uncomfortable as not only does there uncle make them work in the Mystery Shack during their stay with him, but they quickly find most of the townsfolk that live in Gravity Falls to be absolute fools who easily believe even the lamest scam Stan would place as part of his morning tours. But for Mabel & Dipper, living with Stan wasn't all too bad because while he maybe a great charlatan, he was an all-around great guy, and they made quick friends with the other employees like the dumb-but-fun Handyman who greatly admires Stan named Soos, and the cool cashier teenaged girl named Wendy.
On a more personal level, being away from home for the summer made Mabel quickly decide it was her "chance to have an epic summer romance," and made pretty good on this initial promise by basically flirting with every guy she meets in the town, which pretty much goes out as her brother expected. But while she was doing pretty well in Gravity Falls, her brother on the other hand constantly felt something was off about how things in town played out, & while she remained unbothered by the latter's conspiracy theories, little did Mabel know was that one day she would realize that he was right, and that her & her family's lives would change forever.
===Meeting her first "boyfriend"===
One fateful day, after another failed flirting attempt and Dipper heads into the woods to nail down signs promoting the Mystery Shack, Mabel wanders into the town cemetery where she would bump into a messed-up "teenager" who claims his name is "Norman", and she would be immediately smitten by him. Despite having obvious signs of not being human, Mabel pretty much ignored the signs and raced to tell her family about it, but when she sees Dipper isn't back yet, she too heads off into the woods to tell her the big news she now has, and he finds him sitting by a log.
To Mabel's surprise, Dipper reveals he too found something while he was out in the woods: a mysterious journal buried underground written by a missing researcher that reveals that there were strange things all around Gravity Falls and the area surrounding it, but he had to bury it because he had to hide it from a mysterious enemy. Immediately afterwards Mabel then reveals her "new relationship" with Norman, and after some introductions he & Mabel head around town to go out on their "date", but unlike his sister, Dipper did notice something was off about him & after consulting the Journal, he went on to investigate who he is.
With her new "summer romance", Mabel and Norman (with Dipper secretly following them) go around town having fun all the way, where the latter is shown to have slow reaction time, garbled speech and always wore concealing clothes, so both Dipper and Mabel suspected he is not human, but while Mabel thinks he might be a vampire, Dipper believes that he is a zombie. Later when Dipper comes to her and he confirms his suspicions to her, Mabel turns him down with and after getting ready, she once again meets up with Norman and they head into the forest to be alone, but then when Norman says she wants something she should know about, an excited Mabel fully trusts her with it, but instead of a vampire, she soon learns that Normal is actually a group of gnomes, posing as a teenage boy, and their leader Jeff says that they're looking for a girl to be their queen and ask her to be it. But because of this newfound revelation and now seeing that her brother was right, a freaked-out Mabel warmly declines this, but they prove to be very possessive of their stuff and decide to make her their queen by force & kidnap her.
Now captured, an angry Mabel is forcefully brought to the Gnomes home in the woods and she has a hard time keeping them all out of her way, luckily for her, Dipper comes rushing on the shack's golf-cart and after being cut-loose, he & Mabel race back home as fast as they can, but that is soon made a lot harder when the Gnomes reveal themselves to form a giant and they race all the way back to the Mystery Shack where they are soon cornered. Needing a plan fast, Mabel urges Dipper to trust her with this and she starts by pretending to surrender & says to Jeff she will marry him, but one he comes down from the giant gnome and is easily tricked into kissing her, Mabel quickly grabs the leaf-blower (which she had earlier used for "kissing practice") and sucks him in and with Dipper pulling the reverse switch, they blast Jeff right into the Gnome giant which blows up and far into the forest, before scaring the other Gnomes away.
Though Mabel was excited by the adventure, she was also left glum by the loss of her potential love-interest and apologizes to Dipper about doubting him, but he cheers her up by predicting that she can always try again another time and they cap-up the adventure by doing their "awkward sibling-hug", afterwards Mabel & Dipper head into the Shack to get much-needed rest, where Stan allows them to take one thing from the Mystery Shack for free; Mabel's malaise melts away even more when she decides on a grappling hook. Though Grunkle Stan had something more like a doll in mind, she stands by it, following this Mabel learns that Dipper is deciding to keep the Journal and after what they had just encountered, she is more than willing to join him in finding out what other secrets Gravity Falls has to offer, little did she or Dipper know was that Stan too has a secret that's far from just a normal scam.
===Gaining an unwanted admirer===
A lot of time of finding new-and-bizarre things in the town, Mabel watches a commercial that sponsors her uncle's business charlatan rival Little Gideon Gleeful: a child-psychic who acts as something of a sham-faith minister, claiming he has the answer to everyone's questions for a fee. But despite being ordered by Stan to not interact with the "competition", she along with Dipper & Soos decide to check-out what Gideon is like, and they immediately see that he also takes advantage of the town's gullibility & while Dipper remains unconvinced, Mabel is still amazed with the latter's performance, unaware of something else that occurred.
The following morning, Mabel finds Gideon by the door and the latter asks if she could show her around his place, to which Mabel agrees to and they soon start hanging out more behind Stan's back to even striking up a good friendship with one another, but while she remained platonic in their relationship, Mabel soon learns too late that Gideon had fallen for her and asks her out on a date. However this time around she doesn't have the nerve to explode with joy over being asked out, but she can't bring herself to say "no" to his request due to not wanting to break his heart and because the whole town wants her to be with him, after venting her frustrations to Dipper Mabel once again goes out with him to try and tone down the romance, but that very night Gideon pulls her deeper into love zone & into another date.
Terrified about this new plan along with the fact that Gideon will be bringing her to a romance-themed restaurant, Mabel is left completely clueless on how to handle this, but she is calmed down by Dipper by pointing out it can't be worse and she's feeling alright with that... only to be told by Stan that she has to marry Gideon; while he was completely against Gideon dating her, he was won over by this aspect by the promise of a lot of money in a partnership with him. Learning about this makes Mabel even more mortified than before and this causes her to scream into the attic and sulk about her engagement with someone she doesn't love (not to mention too young on both their ages), but willing to help his sister out of this predicament, Dipper offers to break-up with Gideon for her and she happily embraces him for it, and heading to the restaurant he does just that and he & Mabel assume it's just fine.
A few days later while hanging out with the gang & despite feeling a lot better after the restaurant break-up, Mabel still feels some unfinished business with Gideon due to not breaking up with him herself, but after a one-sided talk with Wendy Mabel decides that she is gonna have to officially break up with Gideon herself. But seeing that he's nowhere to be found in his home, Mabel realizes that the only other place he would be is the abandoned factory, but upon arriving there Mabel finds Gideon revealing his true colors when she sees him attacking Dipper, from there she pretends to make up with him before prying out the amulet he was wearing (which somehow allowed him to use psychic powers) and throws it to Dipper.
But just as Dipper mocks him that he's powerless without his amulet, a furious Gideon charges at him that forces both of them out of the factory and falling deep down over the cliff it was hanging over. But Mabel manages to learn how to control the amulet and flies down after them to stop them from crashing hard into the ground, at which Mabel makes it crystal clear that she will never date him & destroys the amulet, but Gideon assures both twins that this feud between their families is far from over and creepily vanishes into the woods.
After the creepy encounter Mabel & Dipper return to the Shack in exhaustion and watch TV, just as Stan also arrives back home (with a stolen painting) and tells them that because of Mabel breaking up with him, he officially ends the partnership with him and angrily vows vengeance on their whole family. Regardless of the death-threat, Mabel and the rest of her family remain completely confident that they can handle any threat the little con-man can throw at them and continue to spend the rest of the night with comfort, completely unaware that not only that Gideon can & will make good on that threat, but he too is vastly aware of all the weirdness happening in the town with his own journal (the differences being a 2 in the front) to boot.
===Making friends & rivals===
A few days following the incident with Gideon, Mabel helps the others with setting up a party Grunkle Stan is planning on hosting in the shack as another (and more effective) way to attract customers to the shack. Along the way Mabel and her brother are later tasked with the task to hand-out fliers promoting the party as well as told that the old paper printer in Stan's office is working again, but also find that the printer can also copy parts of human beings (& ones as a whole) and make them alive.
Eventually once the party begins, Mabel immediately begins hanging out with all the guests that have come to visit, but after she heads to sit, she meets 2 girls named Candy and Grenda, and she immediately bonded with them. Soon afterwards Soos announces the main event for tonight, and the female Pines twin is promptly introduced to the child of the richest family in town Pacifica Northwest, and after hearing about the party's annual contest she immediately decides to compete, and while she ends up losing (mostly due to the rich girl cheating) she does gain the friendship of Candy & Grenda and they start hanging out, but she also won the animosity of Pacifica which she will learn about soon.
===Uncovering a National mystery===
One day, after getting caught in the middle of the town's annual "Pioneer day": the holiday in which is celebrated as the time Gravity Falls was found, which Grunkle Stan hates (because everyone basically acts like it was the pioneer times), Mabel is eager to start up the festivities, but Pacifica (still angry about almost losing to her) ruins her spirit by getting her odd behaviors mocked publicly, and because her great-grandfather was the "town founder" everyone joins in on the mocking. Resting up at the founder's statue, Mabel would soon learn that the author has discovered that Nathaniel Northwest might not have been the man history passed him off as, and seeing this as the chance to prove to Pacifica that she can be serious, she decides to come along with Dipper to find out, unaware that a someone is hot on their trail too.
==Abilities==
Mabel claims to be an arts and crafts master, which is supported by the skills she's shown so far. These include knitting, sewing, scrapbooking, bejeweling, wood carving, wax sculpting, and origami. Just like her brother, Mabel is shown to be a quick-thinker and can be observant, she also tends to solve problems in rather creative ways and is quite capable of picking locks.
==Appearances in other media==
*Mabel appears in pony form, named Maybelle, in the IDW comic book Nightmare Rarity, in which she appears in Rarity's nightmare.
*The characters in the cartoon that Lord Dominator from Wander Over Yonder watches are modeled after Dipper, Mabel, Grunkle Stan, and Soos. The Mystery Ship also has its "S" slightly off just like the Mystery Shack. Jason Ritter, Kristen Schaal, and Alex Hirsch all voice their respective parody counterparts. This is actually the first time Gravity Falls did a crossover with Wander Over Yonder.
==Trivia==
*Mabel is based on Ariel Hirsch, Alex's twin sister. Mabel's pet pig, Waddles is also based off the fact that Ariel wanted a pet pig after watching the movie "Babe: Pig in the City".
*Mabel and her brother were born on August 31, 1999, making their zodiac sign Virgo.
*In the episode "The Deep End," Mabel claims that she has encountered a couple of vampires.
*Mabel shows a sophisticated attitude when it comes to art.
*Dipper's and Mabel's middle names are their parents' first names.
*Mabel went to the hospital once for eating scratch and sniff stickers.
*Mabel once fed baby birds with her mouth.
*Whenever Mabel has nightmares, she meows herself back to sleep.
*Mabel's first word, according to her, was "unicorn."
*Mabel has been banned from a petting zoo for taping a traffic cone to a horse's head and pretending that it was a unicorn.
*Mabel became pen pals with a pizza delivery man in the 60 seconds he was at the door.
*Mabel had a crush on Alexander Hamilton, specifically his portrait found on the $10 bill.
*Mabel and Dipper have allergies that act up around the same time.
*After the events of "Gideon Rises", wherein Mabel uses the grappling hook to save herself and Dipper, she keeps it with her at all times. If Mabel is on screen and the grappling hook can't be seen, it's because she's hiding it in her sweater.
*In "Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo", she says that Dipper and herself once won a dogsled race against a space lizard.
*Mabel has accidentally spray-painted her eyes multiple times. She's also used this on Bill Cipher to blind him.
*Mabel has watched the anime movie "The Cranky Girl Who Did Chores in Spirit Town" 82 times, said movie being a parody of the Studio Ghibli film "Spirited Away".
*In one of the Mabel's Guide to episodes of Gravity Falls Shorts, Mabel is seen eating inedible items.
*Despite her family's mostly Jewish background, Mabel apparently celebrates every single holiday.
*Unlike her brother, Mabel is left-handed.
*With the reveal that the Smile Dip Pups hallucinated were actually real, extradimensional creatures in The Book of Bill, it's possible that Bill's remark that Mabel can astral project from eating too much sugar is true.
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