Stan Ponds

**Stan Ponds**, however often is known as **the Curator** or **Curator Ponds** is a male elderly frog that owns the Curiosity Hut as well Mable and Dipper Ponds' great uncle and guardian ever since Mr. Ponds and Mrs. Ponds was killed by an heron attack in Mirkwood. He's greatly known around the Stony Gulch for his Hut filled with otherwise exotic and dangerous creatures of Amphibia which he used as exhibits for the town and tourists. Self-centred as well as stubborn, he is often looking many ways to exploit the tourists to gain more profit from his Hut, including using live creatures frozen in wax. However despite his flaws and greed, he truly does care for his niece and nephew and those that he has employed, showing an caring side to his otherwise sinister side. Due to meeting Anne Boonchuy and the Planters, to which they choose to save him from his captured wax creatures, he has began to see in a different light, now deciding to use actual wax figures and taxidermy to represent at his Hut.

## Personality

Stan has an charismatic attitude towards himself and his goal in gaining profit for his own gain, very greedy in gaining the money from the usage of his exhibits in the Curiosity Hut. As shown many times, he will do almost anything to get money from pickpocketing as well as utilizing stage tactics to earn an awe or wander in the visitor's eyes. He holds his wax museum in high regard, citing as one of his better exhibits in the Curiosity Hut and having rather advanced knowledge on the creature he has shown. Despite being a con artist, each wax statue are actual creatures he had to track down and capture and learn from to perform it, showing an dedication to the fact these are actual creatures.

However despite his greedy and selfish acts on even attempting to have Anne as a wax exhibit, Stan holds his family in high regard and would do anything for their safety and protection. When Anne and the Planters freed him when the captured creatures began to drag Stan, he called out his niece and nephew has already lost their parents, and begged for them to save him as his only family. Anne knew that feeling and decided to save him, to which he then began to view Anne differently, and vow to never capture another living thing. Since then, he has decided to no longer use actual creatures, instead utilizing actual wax statues and taxidermy for his exhibit, now exploiting lore and myths to attract nibble-minded tourists and even locals to his Curiosity Hut.

## Trivia & Notes

* Mr. Ponds serves as an homage to the character Stan Pines from the Disney Channel series *Gravity Falls*. He resembles Stan in appearance and attire, as well as sharing occupation and voice actor.
	+ His last name "Ponds" is an allusion to the surname "Pines".
	+ He being confused with a wax statue in the episode was a reference to Stan that passed by the same thing with Dipper and Mabel.
	+ The Curator also has a fondness for cans of meat, which was a meal that Stan Pines also liked to eat.
	+ To note, Stan has been inspired by Alex Hirsch's grandfather, Stan.
* On Reddit, series creator Matt Braly stated he's definitely dead in the episode. However in an alternate universe for an crossover opportunity, CaptainFlowerss wanted to use the inspirations of the *Gravity Falls* to create an story on the origins of the Calamity Sword which may lead into more on the canon item, the Calamity Box further,