This fanfiction is loosely based on the game "Swooning over Stans" by sovonight on itch.io, please be sure to go show them your love and support!! A good portion of the dialogue is used from the game, as well as sections and changes that were added to farther the original character's story. Gravity Falls and all characters included were created by Alex Hirsh and credit should be given where it is due. Alice Dupont drove into Gravity Falls to get away. Leaving her home in Hartford, Connecticut, 41-year-old Alice finds herself deep in the tourist-riddled woods of Gravity Falls. Hoping to heal from the pain of her divorce and losing custody of her daughter, she settles in the small town when her car is destroyed by a pair of eccentric twins and their great-niece and nephew. Despite escaping her rocky marriage, Alice grows close to Stanley Pines, the great Mister Mystery himself, and finds she is smiling more than she has in a long time. Can Alice let herself fall in love with the bachelor of the hour? Or will she trip over her own feet to be his?

Starry Specter had loved once, jaded by plans she could have never expected, she finds herself alone and without a family to give her guidance. She finds herself alone in a town outside of the life she knew and without a home or food to put in her belly. So when she finds herself at the mercy of a bat pony with a missing wing, she doesn't expect to find solace and love in him of all ponies. Stone River never had love, born in raised in a small town and displaced by the ponies he swore to protect, he finds himself with no wife, no family, and no reason to try. The owner of a small apartment building in Ponyville finds a devastating unicorn at his doorstep, he takes a step in kindness he did not even know was there. He does not expect to find a friend in this mare but in the end? He finds so much more. This romance tells the tale of two ponies who find themselves with nothing but each other, secrets, and the secrets of an elite society dragging ponies into lives they never expected for themselves. Can these two jaded and hopeless ponies find true love in each other? Or are they meant to fall to the society that was built to topple them?