#me and my friend Grunk

[kitybur]

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭 | 𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐚𝐜𝐰𝐡𝐲

⌦ in which you, your silly friends and silly boyfriend move in together & what i think would happen.

— warnings: gn!reader, craziness, fluff, swearing

| can you write some headcannons abt how y/n would be with the rest of the group! or how the group would react to isaac and y/n hehe ANYWAY THANK U SM , love all of your content |

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• to start off, i think we can agree that living with the boys would actually be HELL.

• like you’d have to be scrubbing the house top to bottom after filming a groupchat video. but for the sake of this, let’s ignore the bad side 🤗.

• the boys would definitely love you, and treat you like their sibling (everyone but isaac ofc). they would probably be a little overprotective of you, but that’s them showing they care.

• you’re getting ready for a party? when and where. someone’s making you uncomfortable? who needs to step in. you feel me??

• these men would never fail to make you laugh if you were having a bad day. like if you had a bad day at school or work, they would instantly have you in cackles.

• they always make sure they try to include you. if you weren’t a streamer, they would make sure that you get some screen time if you like to be on film. if you don’t, they make sure that you at least go on adventures with them (especially willy vlogs)

• okay independently tho.. i feel like softwilly would be the one to include you in most things (if you weren’t a streamer like we just established). idk he looks like the type of person who wouldn’t want to leave anyone out or behind. if you were a streamer, he’d still try to include you on recordings.

• yumi definitely would not give two shits im ngl 😭 he does his own thing so i feel like he just wouldn’t bother with you (in the nicest way possible) if you didn’t want to hang out or go film a vlog. but he’s definitely like one of the funniest people when you get to know him so he’s basically your main bitch when you’re sad.

• larry would definitely be your best friend. he’s got such a sweet personality that you’d instantly click and just do stupid shit together. like you’d play loud music at four in the morning and wake everyone up because you saw a tiktok dance you wanted to try ☠️ i just feel like larry would be easy to get along with.

• along with larry, i also feel like grunk would be easy to get along with. you’d both go out shopping since he’s lowkey got drip and you’d bond over it. i feel like if grunk got close enough to you, he’d ask to watch spongebob together. whether it’s over discord or irl. it’s a special moment y’all get to have to hang out.

• tanner would be your workout buddy. he’d make sure that he spots you and vice versa, and make sure that you aren’t breaking your bones doing a new workout. if you don’t workout, he’d be your horror game buddy. tanner would even just have you in the room because he gets jumpy. and if he gets too pissed off he’d make you play. and just constantly grab your shoulders to scare you.

• and lastly, we have isaac. in this case, isaac is your bf and lord he would be the best boyfriend. 🙏 like he’s actually super tall and muscular that he would give GREAT hugs. bro and the best cuddles. literally could crush you and that’s lowkey hot 🫡.

• but no, isaac would definitely be your muse. he’s definitely got that golden retriever type vibe, maybe slight black cat. isaac would be the best at massages. idk why that came to my head. i feel like with his large hands he’d be able to give great back or shoulder massages.

• isaac would buy you a bunch of shit, like he does for the house. it could be something totally stupid and he’d be like “but it’s useful in so many ways” or “it’s cute!” when it’s really fucking ugly but you’d never tell him that.

• you WILL constantly hear gagging sounds from the rest of the members whenever you and isaac are in mere 2 feet of each other. mostly from yumi and softwilly. but it’s all jokes! most the time..

• they will also make kissing sounds when you two walk out of isaac’s bedroom and ask if you used protection. even if you have literally just woken up.

• larry and tanner would recreate any lovey dovey thing you guys do, but make it 10x more funnier. any photo y’all post together, they copy it and tag you both.

• ^^ stop tell me you can’t see that happening 😭😭

• grunk would be the supportive bsf but will threaten isaac if he takes you away when you’re supposed to watch spongebob together.

• overall, i think living with them would be such a hassle, but if you plan it right it may be fun. if you love cleaning and screaming children at midnight, this is right up your alley ‼️

• ‘kay but y’all gotta agree that living with them would actually be so fun cause they’re funny and have an amazing time doing actually anything. like they could make any regular night into an eventful night that would end in the kitchen a mess, empty cans in the floor and bodies sleeping anywhere they can find comfortable.

• and those are our youtubers/streamers 🥹

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a/n: okay pls tell me if you agree or disagree with any of these cause i was just going off the top of my head but i wanna hear what y’all have to say about it too! i didn’t really know what to write for this so it’s all based on my opinion and how i see it. i hope this fulfills your request!

[isa-loves-you]

How you meet and realizing you like them | The group chat.

I love the GC and I like reading Fics about them, so I want to contribute. This is my first-time doing publishing on Tumblr, so it probably won't be the most organized. I am open to criticism or requests. I desperately need guidance.

This is going to be broken up into different parts because this was originally almost 5,000 words but tumbler will only let me post so much at a time.

-Isaac-

you had met isaac back in 2020 when you and some friends decided to go into discord servers and expose pedos. your friend had told you to hop on a server thinking it was with creeps but ended up being a couple of people doing the same thing as you. you all had a laugh and traded information on which servers had what type of weirdos were in. After that night you and isaac had messaged each other here and there about being in his discord videos which you had no problem with due to want to collab with other youtubers, and some years later asked you to be apart of a group with him and your guys mutual friends called the group chat.

Sometime had passed and you, isaac, tanner, larry, nick, yumi, and grunk all made a podcast and even moved into one big house all together. You had decided to stream watching random videos on the internet and just generally talk with chat. " I know that we've been watching meme comps chat but we need to add some spice to our night or I feel empty handed when I end the stream.... well besides leaving with your hard earned money that you donated i'll be empty handed". After saying that everyone started to type anything and everything that came to their minds, but something caught your eye "Have you or isaac read the fic about yall??" you said reading the chatter's comment. You immediately start googling for what this insane person was talking about, and after muttering to yourself about why isaac and you of all people out of the group you find it. "I'm sorry to chat but i need to know and besides one of you recommend it" you start reading it out loud. The story read of you and Isaac slowly falling for each other. "Chat who made this, I want you to reveal yourself so you can be shunned from the village" you bursted out with laughter at some of the parts in the fic but you had to admit, this author knew too much. yeah it's true that you started to like isaac but you knew nothing could ever happen because you work together but you have to admit he had a nice physic and was extremely funny, but still nothing could ever happen. After 30 more minutes of stream you decided to end the stream because you were getting too red from laughter and embarrassment from the fic; you said goodnight to your viewers and thought that no harm would come from a fan's artwork about you and your friend. turns out you were wrong. The next day you were bombarded with fan accounts and edits of you and isaac from past videos. you're scrolling through some of the comments of the edits and something catches your eye.

Isaacwhy?: Damn you guys are trying to manifest something fr ;))

you couldnt believe what you just read; Did he really like you too?, how long has he liked you?, what would the others think?, could you two be together?. Your mind was left with a lot of questions but you had come to terms with it. You like Isaac.

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-Nick [soft willey]-

you had been making music since you were five when your parents got you a fisher price piano. you've just fell in love with your hobby and wanted to make a career out of it, that's when you decided to put your name out there as a singer/rapper. You didn't have a voice like sza but it was good enough to make a living off of it, and it was better when you would pair it with your genius lyrics. It was a nice Sunday afternoon when your music producer Kenny called you to come into the studio and that there as some people, he wanted you to meet and collab with. you had seen that your producer was in the booth with three dudes and a camera? Your producer has seen you looking through the booth glass and gestured for you to come in and met the people he was talking to. There was a tall guy with a hat, sunglasses, and a black mask, there was a shorter guy with shoulder length hair that was pointing everywhere. The two guys were pretty good looking but the third piqued your interest; he was around 5 '10 with a nice build, it was very obvious that he spent his time at the gym. “This is y/n they are in the same business as you three” your producer presented with a big smile on his face. “It's really nice to meet you, Kenny convinced us that you would sound the best on our new single” you shook the gym guy's hand noticing the tattoo of a long spiky line wrapping around his arm. You got so distracted looking at the guy's arm and everything else he had that you didn't hear your producer calling your name “y/n you can't let go of nicks hand now i think he knows you now” you dropped nicks hand realizing how long you just held his hand without him saying anything. “All right let's get to work people, isaac would you be a doll and do your verse first so y/n can get the flow of the song and see what they need to do”. 

It took the whole day for you guys to actually record the song. With larry making funny faces while the nick and isaac where in the middle of their verses and make them laugh so you would have to start back from the beginning then you would issue were either you or the others would have a hard time saying a word right or you went faster or slower than the beat then it was start back at square one. A miracle had happened; you all got through the song with no hiccups and were able to send it out to an editor for some final touches. You had grabbed your stuff and walked out to your car so you could finally go home and let your dog out. You almost got to your car when your arm was grabbed, you wiped your head around so fast to see who you were going to have to beat the shit out of. “I'm so sorry i shouldn't have grabbed like i was going to kidnap you or something but i was shouting your name but you just kept on walking” Thank God it was just nick and not some creep. “oh no no you're okay i was just surprised is all, so whats up?” “I was wondering if i could get your number or maybe your insta so you could be a feature on some of our future stuff, you were awesome like kenny said and i want to keep you around”. It was nothing but two seconds of silence before Nick took back his words “i didn't mean it like that i just mean like your killer and it would be great if you got to do more with me…..not with just me just in general with music. Fuck you get what im trying to say right” “yeah i get what you mean” you said breaking a smile to make him feel less embarrassed “here just put your number and insta in, so we can do more stuff”. He took your phone for a minute to put all is information and handed it back to you with a puppy dog like smile. Dog? “OH, SHIT RALPH” you had forgotten about your poor baby at home “I'm sorry Nick but I have to go!” nick had tried to say something, but you were already in the car and backing out of your parking spot. ‘Whose ralph?’ nicked thought as he watched you leave the building “NICK GET YO UGLY ASS IN THE CAR I WANT TO GO HOME” Larry shouted hanging out the back of the car window. Nick spent the whole night trying to find a ralph in your following list on Instagram, but he had no luck and decided that he didn't care who your mystery man was he was better than this ‘ralph’ character and that he was going to win you over.

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[toytanks]

new fic, some tooth rotting fluff between the pines twins classic for ya. takes place post canon but pre sea grunks. can be read below the cut or on ao3 here!

Stan’s awoken by feeling his bed shift, like someone was standing over him. His groggy (and still somewhat amnesic) brain interpreted this as danger, eyes flying open to deal with whatever robber was after him-

“Mornin’ Lee!”

Stam looks up. Ford’s standing over him, hand in a puppet, talking like a cartoon character.

“The hell?” He murmured drowsily.

Ford gasps, making the puppet draw its hands in in shock. “Don’t you know? You can’t say that! Filthy mouth you!”

“Cut the shit, Sixer.” Stan pushes his brother off the bed, who just falls to his back on the floor, suddenly overcome with a fit of giggles. As he sits up in bed, Stan can’t help but smile. He can’t remember the last time he heard Ford laugh.

Stan begrudgingly rises to his feet to start the day, stepping over his brother, who quickly bolts upright to tail him.

“Glad to see you’re up and at’em, boss!”

“Uh huh, yeah. Ford, you mind putting that thing away? It’s givin’ me the creeps.”

“I’m just not sure what you mean, Lee.” Both his brother and the puppet on his hand cock their heads, but Ford wears a shit eating grin that the puppet does not share.

Stan sighs, rubbing a hand over his eyes and failing to keep down the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. “Wow, okay. This is my life now. My brother won't even talk to me except through some stupid puppet. Great.”

It is not just, in fact, just ‘some stupid puppet.’ It’s a puppet Ford had had when they were little, and incessantly pestered Stanley with. He wore the damn thing everywhere, even slept with it, and apparently, took it with him when he moved out.

Stan walks out into the kitchen to prepare breakfast and coffee, and when he fails to hear footsteps close behind, he just assumes Ford got tired and put the thing away. He was wrong. 

He turns around to open the fridge and-

“Hiya!”

“AHH! Jesus! You don’t just do that to a guy Sixer!” Ford sat crouched on top of the refrigerator, waving that puppet in his face again. “How’d you even get up there anyways?”

Stanley opened the door, retrieved his foodstuffs, and when he shut the  door, Ford was gone. He’s not even surprised when his brother reappears at his side.

“It’s a secret!”

“‘Course it is. No-one in this house ever tells me anything.”

“Aww, someone sounds upset. I’m sure a little quality time with your best friend will cheer you right up!”

Stan can’t help but to snort, it's just all so ridiculous. 

“There you go! Now we’re having some fun!” His brother is grinning too.

“Me? Fun? You got the wrong guy.” Stan looks down, and puts a hand on Ford’s shoulder. “I just ain’t seen you this happy in decades.”

[gravity-falls-fanatic89]

I found I don't have a specific niche as a friend, so I decided I'll make my own.

Please refer to me as

"MILF for Grunks"

No further questions will be taken at this time on this 🤣

[wheresernie]

Will you tell us a schitzoautistic Ford headcanon? *chinhands*

Absolutely!!!!

Hes the king of flat affect plus poverty of speech. In their teens it drove Stan crazy but it gets really bad in college with the psychotic symptoms. Fiddleford makes him a little button that says "I don't hate you, I'm just bad at conversations".

Even on the boat it takes Stan some getting used to and takes some time to realize that's not Ford pissed, that's how he talks.

Ex of poverty of speech with our boys sea grunks days

Stan: hey did you set the course?

Ford: yes

Stan:...cool. you fix these knots you said you'd fix yet?

Ford: no

Stan: it's fine I'll do it. Wanna call the kids tonight

Ford: sure.

See just short, chopped sentences. Stan talks to Fiddleford about it and gets reassurance before talking to Ford who's like wow. I sound like that?*

*based on an actual intervention my best friends had with me during the height of my schizo girl days

[crowsncorvids]

Today was horrible, my friends came and it was really boring we just talked a bit and watched Ninjago and my cats liked them, my ego was depending on the cats being really scared but they were fine and one of them was bragging that Grunk sat on them, I told myself (and them) and they're just sitting in grunks seat, and then my brother came home and he said I'm only their favourite bc I feed them but now he's home he will be their favourite and if that happens I think I will actually KMS I can't let that happen it would be the worst possible thing I just need them to like me all I care about is then liking me most and watching Cellbit and I don't think I will see my friends again, they just talk about fallout and valorant and don't let me talk about Cellbit or Roier or QSMP or Brazil or anything i actually like:/

[everythingieverdreamedof]

im so grunk.::. when i was like a young teen id get faded and ask for anons and then my irl friends would send me anon hate to correct me for being annoying. were they right? no. but did it work? also no i always want attention esp when ill receive it for once

[greenshi]

3, 20, 32 for the fic writer ask? ✨

3. Cool Answer: Works like "aqua vitae" by nikomedes, "bing get 3-stocked for character development challenge" by Havic, and your own "a distant horizon, the moon on the crest" have all been major inspirations for my more recent works!

Less Cool Answer: I read a danganronpa x team crafted fic when I was, like, eleven or twelve and it really directed my life then on.

20. I dont really have a process per se (I get a blast of inspiration and proceed to write until my brain melts) but I do love getting in the zone and writing some truly overly flowery prose. That, and dialog. Dialog is always really fun.

32. From "Boyfriend Soup"

He wasn’t himself. He was a pathetic recreation, a mean-spirited parody of the person he once was. He was… He was…

“J0hn.”

He was in Larry’s arms.

(He was J0hn. He was in Larry's arms. Waa ;-;)

From "Crush Me"

Was a crush what she felt towards Fabian? He was loud and proud enough for her, with a similar care for their friends just behind that. She remembers the gifts he gave them all fondly, how he tried to hide that it was him all along. Despite what everyone else says, she knows that it’s hard to tell just how much she cares for the people in her life, and all that they’ve done for her. She wanted him to break down her walls, and to break down his walls return, leaving them both vulnerable for each other.

(An oldie but a goodie. I dont even ship these two, but damn, I make a convincing argument)

From "Double-Triple-Single Date"

“...You know he’s killed people, right?”

“I mean, yeah? So have I.”

“You what!”

“I was a pirate! Remember?” Cupid explained. “I did a lot of pirate stuff back then! Like swashbuckling and plank-walking and all that. Besides, The Grunk got better. He’s fine now!”

Heartbreak was going to say something, before shutting himself up. One thing at a time. He did not have the mental fortitude to deal with that particular can of worms, not right now

(I know I just posted this one yesterday but. I think it was very funny to make Cupid a casual murder. This entire scene was very fun to write ngl just. Cupid you fucking dumbass /affectionate)

Thank you sm for the ask!! 💚

[failedhero-archive]

Apparently Jensen unfollowed Andrew Dabb???? He was not happy about the finale apparently???

[cbmagus49]

I love the beard you gave Stan for your next summer AU. Tell me more about this au, please? your art is always lovely to see pass my dash

Awwww thank you 💛 I'm not the greatest at articulating my ideas but I'll try to get my thoughts in order enough to explain it then ^^ Prepare yourself for a big ol' infodump :P

Okay oh boy uhhhh here goes, so the

Second Summer AU

is basically exactly what it says on the tin; it's my ideas for what the Pines family's next summer in Gravity Falls might be like. There are a lot of interesting ways that the events of the finale would change up the status quo, as well as character dynamics and relationships that didn't have time to be explored much, and I want to try to explore as many of them as I can!

I only have a handful of ideas that are fleshed out enough to be actual episodes, but I'm hoping I can come up with enough content to make this into a whole season ^^

Some general stuff I wanna include:

Soos and Melody!! Just in general. More of them. Also they get married by the end :)

Lots of Stan and Soos bonding ^^

Melody being the responsible mum figure the disaster Pines family sorely needs

Might add a bit of light shippy stuff, nothing huge just cutesy fluff and developing crushes (I'm rather partial to Dipacifica and MabelxCandy, I think they're cute and would fit pretty well with the canon ^^)

Really interested in how daily life at the shack would change now that Soos and Abuelita (and presumably Melody) are living there

Dipper and Wendy without the awkward crush being the bff dream team they were always meant to be

Pacifica working at Greasy's and forming an unlikely friendship with Lazy Susan

Stan and Ford going along on adventures with the kids

Ford spending time with Mabel!!! We hardly got anything with those two in canon and frankly we were robbed!!

Ford interacting with anyone actually

Gideon legitimately growing as a person and being Mabel's friend again

Stan being a bad influence great role model for Wendy

Pacifica making amends with Candy and Grenda and joining Mabel's group

McGucket cooking up some really crazy stuff with his new-found wealth and resources

Maybe some mystery trio?

I wanna involve Robbie in some way but I'm not sure how yet

I'd like to have Dipper and Mabel's parents show up at some point, Shermie too

More Candy and Grenda

Melody chaperoning the kids' adventures as the sole responsible adult in Gravity Falls

I also have a couple of specific episodes in mind :)

An episode where Ford is running the shack, probably the B plot for a Stan and Soos ep

An anthology type episode of Stan and Ford telling the kids about their Sea Grunk Adventures, featuring the thrilling origin story of Stan's beard

Another anthology one focusing on the townies between summers (I think a whole ep that doesn't have any of the Pines family could be really interesting ^^)

Monsterfalls ep, probably a two parter

Hope that sums it up nicely 💛

[irishlads-quotes]

Another Sleepy Bois Found Family Compilation Cause I Have Too Many In My Notes (feat Tubbo n Niki)

YoItsGold: Minecraft Monday? Is that the one where Technoblade-

Krinios: *joking* Who?

Wilbur: Don’t be mean to my Technoblade. I will fight you.

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Techno: I assassinated Tubbo again

Phil: ...am I a bad influence?

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Dono: Tommy do you love women more, or money, or Technoblade?

Tommy: *without hesitation* Technoblade

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Tommy: Kristen, your husband is being so unhelpful

Kristen: That sounds like him, yeah. He’s not the greatest

Tommy: Ugh, you don’t have to tell me

Phil: Hey!

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Wilbur: I’m telling on you

Grunk: To who

Wilbur: To my big brother

Grunk: Oh no

Wilbur: Phil and Techno

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Tommy: *stands next to an afk Wilbur whilst Wilbur was imposter*

Wilbur: *literally bloody throws himself across his office to get to his keyboard and kill Tommy*

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Tommy: Hey! Only I’m allowed to steal shit from Techno >:(

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Wilbur, Techno, & Tubbo: *leave Tommy trapped between pistons and laugh at him for ten minutes*

Tommy: *angry silence*

Tommy: ...I’m going to go speak to Philza and complain about you

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Wilbur: SCOTT I HATE CHILDREN

Tubbo: Me?

Wilbur: APART FROM TOBY TUBBO

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Dream: Niki, who are you rooting for in the duel?

Niki: *without hesitation* Well, Techno is my friend so...

Dream:

Dream: *rage quits vc*

[chongoblog]

Hey, I really want to watch CPU kerfuffle, is there a document that sums up the first 10 episodes so I can start at 11 and know everything important?

Funny enough, there actually is! Around the time of 10, I created a lore document that I would try to update with each Kerfuffle. I kinda stopped doing it around 11, which is the magic number for ya. However it IS 50 pages long (and a lot of the information is out of date). Ever since then, a wiki has been created which does a good job of covering many things, although since a LOT of characters return (some with a lot of Spoilers attached to them)

Here's the lore document and here's the wiki, but for the sake of brevity, I'll include a "brief" synopsis of Everything Important From Season 1 of CPUKerfuffle You Need To Know About So You Can Start On CPUKerfuffle #11 (under the cut)

So here's the Season 1 Synopsis. CPU Kerfuffle is a tournament series featuring Level 9 CPU's with their own names and distinct characters (this characterization is ramped up in Season 2 but one step at a time). Each tournament is a double-elimination bracket of eight fighters, and the winner of the tournament goes 1 on 1 against the current Champion of CPU Kerfuffle. The Champion is allowed to slightly alter the rules of the tournament to fit their style (for instance, when ICEE was Champion, he made Freezies appear occasionally) In the beginning, it was run by me in-universe and was a largely informal affair.

In terms of the Important Story Events, there aren't too many in Season 1, so before we cover those, let's introduce some character that might be important later.

-Squid Jenny: A disciple of the god Iggy Koopa. In her first tournament, she was presented as a FIERCELY loyal subject before actually briefly defecting from Iggy while also changing her name and gender presentation. She would later go on to return as a follower of Iggy, but with a new name and a new sense of personal agency. She says Trans Rights, obviously.

-Hamburger Helper: A Red Ridley who was the first Champion and held his reign as Champion for quite some time. Is married to a Ganondorf named Dadandorf and they share a son named Jimbo, who becomes Dark Jimbo out of teenage rebellion.

-Florida Man: A white coat Joker hailing from Florida, and a being of all the chaos that entails. He doesn't do much in Season 1, but keep an eye out for him in Season 2.

-Home MD: A doctor who wishes to find the cure for losing. Over the course of the series, he loses and regains his medical license.

-Spriteman/Perfect Spriteman: Spriteman is Just a Guy Who Really Loves Him Some Sprite! He won't stop talking about his favorite citrus soda! But....what happens when his obsession goes too far? He turns into a Piranha Plant, that's what.

-Patch-Man & Hoedown: Patch-Man is the owner of a large farm known as "Patch Farms", which is a place of bountiful harvest, although there have been some very intriguing farming techniques used there, such as creating a daughter that is also a gijinka of Corn itself named Corn on the Cob. He's married to Hoedown, who is secretly a member of the pirate crew known as the Red Kraken. Within Season 1, Hoedown is the only member of the Red Kraken in CPUK

-Captain Valentine: Just an overall cool dude and the face of the tournament throughout Season 1

-The Grunk: A Big Boy who can get pretty angry. He specifically joined the Kerfuffle after Hamburger Helper dissed his Tinder profile.

-Dantoinette: More accustomed to Soul Calibur, Dantoinette came over to CPU Kerfuffle to see how the other side played. She is.....very good.

There are more, but I want to keep this at least somewhat brief. So in terms of the relevant lore, here is the series of events that take place:

After a few tournaments of Hamburger Helper keeping hold as Reigning Champion, Iggy sends Jenny to see if Hamburger Helper is up to something. And it appeared he was, as he was building a strange machine.

Soon after, a fighter appears that simply goes by the name of "Crimson". And once he joins, an incredibly strange tournament takes place that includes splitting and converging of universes. The Guy from Spy Kids 3-D is there. There's a lot of confusion (and a lot of it gets kinda retconned? Only so much you can do when you improvise things lol), but it's discovered that Crimson is a sort of hivemind demon that can control other people at will while also holding some power over the different dimensions, and it's clear that Hamburger Helper is working for the Crimson.

On the ninth CPU Kerfuffle, we approach a Season Finale, preparing for things with a set of round robin preliminary rounds. And those are eventful. Home MD loses his doctorate from how badly he's beaten, Captain Valentine becomes possessed by the Crimson, and The Grunk is actually found DEAD, killed by the Crimson.

After this tournament, there is a hiatus. In-universe, I decided that having all this negative PR was way too much to handle, leading to a lack of tournaments and leaving the battlefield in an almost Mad-Max-Style chaos for months. Amidst the Chaos, the fighters all create four factions, or "Teams", which I'll talk about later.

At the end of this haitus, Iggy himself steps down from the heavens and uses an enormous amount of his power to greatly weaken the Crimson, ridding most of its existence, but still unable to turn Captain Valentine back. In light of coming back AND saving the world a little bit, Iggy becomes the new owner of CPU Kerfuffle, bringing back my friends and I simply as commentators in-universe. Squid Jenny becomes a field reporter to help the tournament run and to help the audience see the discussions happening between fighters. Another person working for the tournament rather than fighting anymore is Home MD, whose doctorate is restored after he manages to revive The Grunk from the dead.

This leads to the tournament titled "#Reboot". There isn't much that happens in this tournament in terms of lore, but Dantoinette becomes the Champion, which leads into Episode 11, which is where you'll be beginning. At that point in time, there are 8 different teams, which will be explained at the start of CPUK11.

Have fun!

[detectivejigsawpines]

Just a Normal Day

A short drabble about sea grunks having an average adventure, written in honor of their birthday.

Even before they got attacked by the Cthulhu beast, it had been a pretty average morning on the sea for the Pines twins.

Wake up at the crack of dawn (Ford) or closer to late morning (Stan); eat breakfast; reset the spell to ward off the vengeful leprechauns who might still be after them for stealing their treasure in case they’d figured out they were chasing a decoy trail by now; do a little late morning fishing, while keeping an eye out for that golden fish Stan was sure he’d seen swimming under their boat last week, and which he was hoping laid golden fish eggs or something; finally notice what time it was (Stan) and head inside to make lunch.

Just another normal day.

Stan was examining their supplies, trying to decide if it was worth breaking out some of the canned hamburger meat and throwing together sloppy Joes instead of making them eat fish again, when he was knocked skiwampus by the boat being yanked to a halt; as he struggled to regain his balance by grabbing onto the table, a vicious, blood-curdling roar came rumbling through the air from outside.

Stan sighed, and wondered if the kraken was back. In one swift motion he grabbed the spare harpoon they had hanging over the door, and stepped out to see if Ford needed help dealing with it.

It wasn’t the kraken.

It still looked like some kinda big octopus monster, though, with a mass of writhing tentacles where its face should be, and a bulbous head in the back just like an octopus body. The rest of it, at least as far as the torso, was kinda like a human’s but a little bigger (about the size of a baby whale), with slimy-looking green-brown skin and a pair of big, wrinkled, wet wings sticking out of its back. Whatever this thing was, it had grabbed onto the back of their boat, and was looming menacingly over Ford as Stan stepped outside.

“...and you are now my prisoners!” he bellowed, as his piercing golden eyes landed on Stan. “Surrender your weapons now, puny mortals, and I might be merciful!!!!”

“Yeesh, did we trespass on his territory or something?” Stan asked, leaning on the harpoon.

Ford shrugged with one shoulder, since he was trying to write in his journal at the same time. “He didn’t really say; he just jumped onboard and started threatening me.”

“Huh.” Stan looked up at the beast. “You the lord of this part of the ocean or whatever?”

The beast blinked-which looked pretty weird, his eyelids went sideways instead of up and down like humans-before nodding vigorously. “Yes! I am the lord of this part of the ocean, and you must surrender to me now, or else suffer my wrath!!!!” He slammed a fist down against the side of the boat, making it rock up and down so hard he had to scrabble to keep his balance. Stan coughed into his fist to hold back a snicker.

Ford tilted his head. “I could have sworn this was still the primary territory of the Manatee-Merfolk Alliance. Are you sure you haven’t made some kind of mistake?”

“What part of prisoners did you not understand?!” the beast demanded, spreading out his wings and shaking them as his tentacles writhed angrily. “Give up your weapons, now-all of them!!!!”

“...You sure you want that? It’s kind of gonna take awhile-”

“NOW, or I crush your boat in my mighty fist!!!!”

Stan glanced at Ford, who rolled his eyes and nodded. With a small sigh, they began disarming themselves.

********

...A minute passed and they were still at it.

Ford’s pile of weapons was almost as tall as he was, mostly consisting of long-range weapons like guns, but with a few vials of poisons and some handcuffs thrown into the mix.

Stan’s pile was more proportionate, but the number of places that weapons were produced from (including a smoke bomb that he’d somehow managed to keep tucked under his beanie) was frighteningly impressive.

The monster watched their progress with increasingly wide eyes; finally, as Stan produced another set of brass knuckles out of a secret pocket sewn onto the inside of his coat, he spluttered, “...Where were you keeping those?”

Stan just grinned shamelessly. “Trust me, sunshine, you don’t wanna know.”

“Okay, I think that’s everything,” Ford said at last, indicating the pile of weaponry.

“Yeah, well, I’m still workin’, gimme a minute.” Stan produced a switchblade, and tossed it onto his pile. Then, in a brief sleight of hand, he snatched another one from the pile and pretended to draw it out of his coat to toss it on next. “Hey, tentacles-face-ya think you could bring us back by Wednesday? We got a Zoom appointment ta keep, and our niece and nephew hate it when we’re late.” Another sleight of hand allowed him to scoop up another weapon.

“That’s not how this-now see here!” The monster drew himself up to his full height, nearly falling backwards off the boat. “You guys-you puny mortals are my prisoners! And as such, you need to understand that this is not a joking matter! I could squash you both like sea slugs if I wished! I’m all-powerful, an eons-old abomination whose very name would send you into madness if spoken aloud! So you better start quaking in fear and begging for mercy like proper captives!!!!”

Stan looked at Ford. “Sounds like we’re his first.” He looked back at the monster. “You’re doin’ great, buddy-good job on the whole threatening schtick.” He offered a thumbs-up, while using the other hand to snag another weapon that he pretended to produce from another hiding spot.

Ford winked at him, and looked back at their ‘captor.’ “Is this some sort of coming-of-age ritual for your species?” He produced his journal again, pen poised. “Very clever move, by the way, threatening our boat to get us to disarm ourselves. In the future, though, I would suggest that you try taking one of us hostage first, in order to create maximum-”

“STOP IT!”

The monster abruptly started pounding his fists against the side of the boat, nearly tipping it over before instead pitching him all the way onto the deck. “YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO-I’M YOUR-IT’S NOT FAIR-!”

It took Stan a moment to realize that the angry noises leaving his mouth (?) were accompanied by the sound of frustrated sobs.

He hissed through his teeth, and shot Ford a guilty look.

“...Oh boy. Looks like we got a little one here.”

********

Stan crossed the boat and crouched down in front of the weeping monster, putting a hand on his back and rubbing the spot right between his wings.

“Deep breaths, in and out. You’re not gonna get anything done like this, so just take a bit ta calm down, okay?”

The monster hiccuped and coughed, shrinking in on himself in a way that was painfully familiar to both of them.

Ford knelt down at his other side. “Maybe if you tell us why this is so important to you, we can provide some assistance?”

The monster shook his head and buried his head in his arms. “I just wanted-hic-to show my friends I could catch the Pines twins all by myself,” he croaked.

The two old men looked at each other in a mixture of surprise and slight alarm. “...You know who we are?”

That was finally enough to get him to sit up, wiping his eyes with his tentacles. “You kidding? Every creature of the seas knows who you are! You’re the guys who beat up krakens and steal gold from leprechauns and then you and your boat vanish without a trace! You’re the coolest cryptids ever!”

It took both of them a moment to digest that. By the time they did, though, they were grinning in equal delight.

“We’re cryptids?!” Ford asked, eyes practically brimming over with overjoyed tears.

“Yeah! And people at school were sayin’ you’re just a myth, but I knew you were real cuz my uncle saw your ship up in the Arctic last winter, and I was gonna capture you and bring you to class to show everyone how wrong they were and then I’d be famous and they’d stop calling me a weird runt all the time!” After a second his wings drooped, and he stared miserably down at the deck. “...Guess it was pretty dumb of me to think I could catch you all by myself.”

Stan put a hand on his shoulder. “...Kid...as much as we wanna help, we can’t just be your prisoners. We got our own lives ta get back to.”

“Plus, neither of us is able to breathe underwater,” Ford added.

The monster sighed, and pulled a strip of kelp from around his neck, turning one of the leaves until it was facing him. He squirted a stream of black ink from one of his tentacles, and dipped the tip of another one into the ink and used it to trace something that looked like a bunch of gobbledygook to Stan onto the leaf. “Humans...don’t...breathe...underwater.”

Awww...he’s a super nerd, just like Ford and Dipper!

That gave Stan an idea.

“Hey.” He nudged the monster. “What about a picture of us instead? Along with genuine proof of a close encounter?”

The monster’s head jerked up. “A picture?! Like with one of those weird magic boxes you humans carry around sometimes?!”

“That’s the one.” Stan grinned. He looked at Ford and jerked his head towards the cabin; his brother took the hint and headed for it, returning with an antique Polaroid camera that Ford had been experimenting on, but still took good pictures.

The monster’s tentacles began writhing around his face like they’d come to life, and he let out a high-pitched squeal of excitement.

“This is the greatest day of my life!!!!”

********

It took a bit of staging and directing and trying out different angles, but eventually they produced a set of photos that appeared to be of an eldritch abomination in training being attacked by, and bravely fighting off, the ferocious monster hunter Pines twins (hopefully nobody would think to ask how and why the monster had managed to get these pictures taken).

Then, while Stan took them into the cabin and soaked them in a special substance Ford had invented that would render them waterproof, Ford sat on the prow next to the young cryptid enthusiast and offered tips on future hunting adventures, comparing notes with him on some of the creatures they’d both seen. He also (with permission) took a few samples from the monster, including a long strip of skin (“Make it look like a wound I got in the fight! Man, this is gonna be so cool, Yog-Sothoth is gonna eat his heart out! Possibly literally!”) and some of the ink from his tentacles.

When Stan came back with the photos, he also handed over one of his spare brass knuckles that had lost a corner. “Have another souvenir, kid.”

The monster’s tentacles lashed out and wrapped around their faces in what felt like a really weird version of a hug before pulling away, leaving them covered in some of the slimy stuff they were coated in.

“Thank you so much! I really really hope the leprechauns don’t catch you-if they come this way I’ll make sure to eat some of them so they won’t!” He waved at them joyfully as he dived back into the ocean and disappeared.

********

After a moment Stan wiped his face on his coat sleeve.

“...Well, that happened.”

He turned away and began gathering up his weapons.

“Such a strange mixture of childlike innocence and barbarity,” Ford mused as he pulled out a jar and gathered the slime into it for yet another sample. “His culture must be fascinating-I almost wish he would have taken us with him so I could have seen it.”

“You would’ve drowned before you could gather any data.”

“...You don’t know that.”

“He literally didn’t know that humans can’t breathe underwater, Sixer. Not gonna happen.”

He ignored Ford’s sulking and kept cleaning, while musing to himself over the possible monetary opportunities being a couple of cryptids could bring...

[real-hallucifer]

Add me on discord if you like The Older Pines twins, especially if stan if your fave. Lets talk good feels, brother moments, plans to protect stan pines at all costs, sea grunks, etc

I need more Gravity Falls friends to help my obsession TT^TT

[taffy-glitch]

CPUK for the blorbo post…👁

Ivy. My friend. My bestie. Thank you for giving me the chance to talk about the funny smash cpus

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

This one is probably obvious. but. Hackerman J0hn. Love that funny cyborg :) I hope he is doing ok despite the fact that [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

Hmmm. CPUK has some good Creachers in it. I think I'll have to go with Machiavelli :) they're just a little friend

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

Listen. we all have our favorite spiraltiers in this fandom. I wouldn't say anyone is especially underappreciated. But y'know what. I don't think we talk about Pizza Party enough (and it's NOT just because I'm a Team Cones stan I swear). Dude just wants to have a pizza party :)

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

Not that obscure because I know a few other people really love her, but Elphabuff showed up ONCE in cpuk4 and we never heard from her again and I miss her. She's the only woman on Team Clutch as far as we know and she is GYM BUDDIES WITH THE GRUNK I think we deserve to see her again

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Regrettably. I am not immune to liking Peppermint. She is fun to draw and make theories for. And I want to put her in a pringles can and shake her around.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

I'm blanking on a character for this I'm gonna be honest. Doctor Order??

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

Doctor Order is ALREADY THERE. Also Prism should be sent to eeby deeby too. Also Mozilla. But those are the easy answers sdfkdfj

[pub-lius]

my friend barron: its grunk!!

me: wh- what?

barron: have you never seen the emperor’s new groove???

me:

me: YOU MEAN KRONK?????