Stanford Pines

**Stanford "Ford" Filbrick Pines,**also known as**"The Author"**is the twin brother of Stanley Pines and the author of the three cryptic journals. Stanford was contacted by a mysterious woman from an alternate dimension to find the recently resurrected Hoagie Gilligan to help him to take down BIll Cipher.

## Appearance

Ford bears a close resemblance to his twin brother Stan Pines. However, there are a few notable differences:

* Unlike Stan, Ford's hair is dark gray with a horizontal silver

streak along the sides of it and he possesses unusually long sideburns.

* His chin has a cleft and slight five o'clock shadow. Ford's nose is visually smoother than Stan's, lacking bumps.
* He is a polydactyly with six fingers on each hand.
* Ford has a much narrower build than Stan, who is more muscular than his brother.
* Ford is 6'2", an inch taller than Stan.

When he first comes out of the portal, he is seen wearing a large black
coat with multiple pockets on the inside and an item that appears to be a
 gun rested on his back. Underneath his coat, he wears a black shirt and
 pants. He also dons bulky black boots, a brown belt that slings from
his shoulder, a tattered cape and a gray scarf. In subsequent
appearances, Ford is seen wearing a tan coat, a red turtleneck with a
black belt that slings across his chest, black pants, and large brown
boots coated in dirt. He has a gold dot on either side of his glasses
and a crack on the left lens.

## Biography

### Early Life

Stanford 'Ford' Filbrick Pines (born June 15, about 15 minutes
before Stan Pines), also known as The Author, or simply Grunkle Ford, is
 a paranormal investigator who came to Gravity Falls, Oregon, to study
the huge concentration of supernatural activity in and around the town.
After spending years cataloging his research in a series of journals, he
 disappeared into an alternate dimension. His writings were left as the
only evidence of his existence. Stanford was born in the late 1940s to
early 1950s to Filbrick Pines and Caryn Pines in Glass Shard Beach, New
Jersey, 15 minutes before his twin brother, Stanley.

He
was raised Jewish. From an early age, Ford was fascinated with the
supernatural and science fiction. He displayed an abnormally high I.Q.
and a rare birth defect that granted him an extra finger on both hands.
Despite their vastly different personalities, Ford and his brother were
the best of friends, often roaming the beach in search of adventure.

Unfortunately,
 their youth was plagued with frequent bullying due to Ford's six
fingers and Stan's wimpish characteristics, most notably from their
childhood tormentor Crampelter. This prompted their father to enlist
them in boxing lessons as a means of toughening them up. As the twins
reached adolescence, Ford's brains and scientific achievement expanded a
 contrast to his brother's disinterest in academics. The two remained
close, working together on their ship (called the Stanowar) to fulfill
their childhood dreams of sailing around the globe until Ford was
summoned to the Principal's office.

There, he was lauded
 as a genius and offered the chance to show his science fair experiment,
 a Perpetual Motion Machine, to a visiting team of recruiters from West
Coast Tech, a prestigious university on the other side of the country.
With promises of fortune and success should he be accepted, Ford became
less sure of his plans with Stan, revealing to his twin that he'd seize
the chance to go if it happened. However, on the day of the visit, Ford
and the West Coast Tech team simultaneously discover that the Perpetual
Motion Machine has stopped moving, defeating its sole purpose. A
distraught Ford discovers an empty bag of Toffee Peanuts next to his
display, and mistakenly believes Stanley has sabotaged him.

He
 angrily confronts his brother back home and doesn't interfere while his
 father kicks Stan out of the house, disowning him until he could pay
back the potential millions he cost the Pines family. He is seen sadly
looking out at his brother from the window of their shared room, before a
 glance at a West Coast Tech pamphlet gives him the strength to close
the blinds on him. Ford reluctantly enrolls himself in Backupsmore
University, a low-ranking college whose most notable achievement is
clean dorms. Despite the drawback, he set himself to the task and worked
 hard, entering a doctoral program three years ahead of schedule.

It was during this time that Ford met and befriended Fiddleford
McGucket, a genius mechanic aspiring to build personalized computers.
Following the completion of a nationally ranked thesis, Stanford was
awarded an enormous grant of one hundred thousand dollars, which brought
 an end to his studies at Backupsmore. When thinking of how to employ
the grant, Ford recalled how he'd been antagonized by his six fingers
all through childhood, and decided to dedicate his life to the study of
oddities. He chose the sleepy hamlet of Gravity Falls, Oregon, believing
 it to be an area of high concentration of supernatural occurrences.

Putting
 his grant money to use in the construction of a large, isolated
research lab in the forest, Ford was soon entranced by Gravity Falls'
weirdness. He recorded his many findings first in one, then in more
journals as his discoveries increased. Eventually, he realized a need to
 expand his work area, establishing a small, heavily protected bunker
laboratory to host his more dangerous projects and experiments, such as
the Shape Shifter. Ford made use of his talents and newly acquired
knowledge of Gravity Falls to create new and extraordinary inventions,
including the mind-swapping Electron Carpet and a mind-controlling tie
designed for the masters of presidential election candidate Ronald
Reagan.

By 1981, six years since his arrival in Gravity
Falls, Stanford had an encyclopedic knowledge of his mysterious new
home, and was in the process of writing his third journal.
Unfortunately, he soon hit a roadblock, and was left without answers as
to how the improbalilities of Gravity Falls had come to be. The plateau
in his research led him to the discovery of a cave filled with cryptic
hieroglyphics, as the message spoke of an entity containing unending
knowledge. Despite the warnings about the entity, Ford repeated the
incantation aloud, which summoned a triangular creature who introduced
himself as Bill Cipher into his mindscape.

Presenting
himself as a muse, one who chose a genius intellectual to inspire once
every century, Bill offered Ford a partnership: Bill would bestow his
knowledge to Ford in exchange for the ability to move freely within and
without Ford's own mind. Under Cipher's guidance, Ford was introduced to
 vast information, learning of a parallel dimension of paranormal
phenomena that had leaked into his world, which gave birth to the
weirdness of Gravity Falls. With Bill's assistance, Stanford drafted
blueprints to create an interdimensional gateway beneath his home,
recruiting his college friend Fiddleford and his mechanic prowess for
the project. As construction went underway, Ford's admiration towards
Bill and his wisdom escalated into worship, which led to his collecting
triangular memorabilia, such as rugs and statues, modeling his home's
architecture in his image and even converting his private study to a
place of worship.

As their partnership seemingly grew to
friendship, Fiddleford became increasingly suspicious of the device they
 had constructed and of Ford's mysterious collaborator, as Ford refused
to reveal Bill's identity to his friend. When the portal's first trial
resulted in Fiddleford accidentally going through it, bringing back a
macabre warning about 'the beast with just one eye', Ford finally became
 suspicious as well. He resolved to continue the project however, even
though he now faced it alone: McGucket, disturbed by his glimpse of the
Nightmare Realm and horrified at Ford for wanting to continue, quit on
the spot. The argument led to Ford questioning his mentor.

It
 was then that Bill revealed his intentions of merging the Nightmare
Realm with their dimension, even showing Ford a glimpse the horrors that
 lay beyond the rift. Refusing to part with his life's work, Ford
deactivated the device and created Project Mentem, a machine capable of
bio-electrically encrypting thoughts, which prevented Cipher from
wreaking havoc in the mindscape and even a suit of armor he named
Armatae to protect the world from Cipher. Despite these precautions,
Ford remained deeply paranoid and fearful of the catastrophe he'd nearly
 caused; he took to journaling and even amending previous journal
entries with invisible ink.

With his fear of Bill's
inevitable return growing stronger, Ford eventually felt the need to
abandon his research and hide his journals, thus preventing details on
the portal's operation from falling into the wrong hands. Hiding his
second and third journals locally and converting his offsite laboratory
into a makeshift fallout shelter, designed to survive an apocalypse,
Ford finally contacted estranged brother Stanley in an urgent call for
help. After Stan's arrival, Ford's plight was near its end, as his final
 task rested on his brother's shoulders: after briefly explaining the
portal and its power, Ford entrusted Stan his first journal, the only
one still in his possession, and requested him to take it as far away as
 he could. Hurt and enraged at being summoned only to be sent as far as
possible, Stan spitefully claimed he'd get rid of the journal by burning
 it, which prompted Ford to react in defense of his research.

The
 brawl escalated into a fistfight within the laboratory that
inadvertently reactivated the portal. As the fight neared the active
portal, Stan angrily shoved the journal back into Ford's hands, which
inadvertently pushed Ford into the gateway's range. While a helpless
Stan watched, Ford first yelled at his twin to do something, then tossed
 him the journal, before disappearing through the gateway. Ford found
himself stranded between dimensions in an unfamiliar netherworld of the
supernatural, something he was hardly prepared for.

Ford
 wandered through various dimensions over the next thirty years, such as
 the "strangely pleasant" Dimension 52. He also came into contact with
otherworldly items, such as the "highly-illegal" infinity sided dice.

## Relationships

### Family

**Stanley Pines -** Ford twin brother who for a long time he blamed and resented for sabotaging his project that would have helped pursue his academic dreams, and causing him to be lost in the omniverse. Though it seems that Ford anger toward might have cooled as he hugged Stan for in his words risking his life to bring him back. However it is still unclear how much Ford has forgiven his brother.

**Carmelita Aves -** Carmelita is Ford's niece though he has yet to truly to get to know her or form a opinion of her. Though he remarked that it somehow fits Stan to have a super villainess for a daughter.

**Zoe Aves -** Ford's great niece through Stan, he was surprised at the idea of his brother being a father much less grandfather. He's yet to formally get to know her and form a opinion of her.

**Frida Aves -** Ford's great niece through Stan, he was surprised at the idea of his brother being a father much less grandfather. He's yet to formally get to know her and form a opinion of her.

**Dipper Pines -** Ford's great nephew through his other brother Shermy. He's yet to get to know him or form a opinion of him, but was intrigued that Dipper had read his journals.

**Mabel Pines -** Ford's great niece through his brother Shermy. He's yet to get to know her or form a opinion of her. But remarked that he liked her she's weird.

### Allies

**Rick Sanchez -** Ford seems to know and be familiar with Rick, though their exact standing is unclear they seem to be on good terms and might regard each other as friends.

**Hoagie Gilligan -** Ford exact opinion and standing with Hoagie is unclear, but he was for a time a travel companion of Fords. After Ford was directed to him by Nyx under still unknown circumstances. Hoagie would emerge with Ford from the portal under the mystery shack.

### Enemies

**Bill Cipher -** Bill Cipher was once regarded as Ford friend and muse, but after learning of his "friends" true nature he became regarded as the bane of Ford's existence and greatest enemy. Ford is driven to find a way to stop the threat of Bill Cipher no matter what it takes.

**Hekapoo -** Ford has apparently met Hekapoo and while the standing between the two is unclear. She seems to disdain him and regard him as a enemy, potentially considering him a human messing with forces he shouldn't. It's potential possible this encounter lead to Ford being wanted by the Magic High Commission.

### Neutral

**Nyx Kane -** Ford has apparently met Nyx in unknown circumstance, though it seems didn't learn her identity and name till he met Hoagie Gilligan. Who Nyx directed him too being told he would find someone that would help stop Bill Cipher.

## Background Information

Ford Pines is a major character from the animated series *Gravity Falls*

## Trivia

* Unlike canon Stanford the GrimmFall-verse Ford was more grateful and warmer to his brother after emerging from the portal.