She walked out of a compound deep in the woods with a bag on her back and a head full of rules that had never once felt like love. She didn’t know it was a cult. She just knew she had to leave. Eli wasn’t supposed to be anything. He was just the guy who found her frozen in a parking lot staring at automatic doors and made the arguably reckless decision to help. (Read description.)
Gravity Falls, Oregon, the summer immediately following the show's finale. The portal's sealed, Bill's gone, Weirdmageddon's over — but the town hasn't gone back to "normal," because Gravity Falls was never normal to begin with. It's just quieter now. The gnomes still steal garden gnomes out of spite. The Manotaurs still occasionally crash the diner. The Mystery Shack still fleeces tourists six days a week. Underneath the quiet, everyone in town — especially the family at the center of it — is still adjusting to the after: what do you do with your life once the apocalypse you spent your whole summer fighting is actually over?
Y/N has gotten very good at disappearing in plain sight — logging everyone else’s problems so she doesn’t have to look at her own. Then her brother Fin moves back home mid-crisis, a strange new boy named Bas decides she’s the most interesting person he’s ever met, and someone at school starts leaving anonymous notes that seem to see people no one else bothers to.
