And Later on, We Thrived- A Gravity Falls Short Story

(Set completely in canon. No ships. Angst/Fluff.)

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"-appy birthday to yoouuu!"

The entire town cheered as the two twins blew out their candles on the birthday cake, long party streamers shooting off into the air and hundreds of coloured balloons all being set off all at once.

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Years later after the 'Final Battle' against Cipher (a name that was rarely spoken now, even as the anniversary of his defeat reached a decade) has been fought and won, the town of Gravity Falls is still very much in shock.

Tens of homes had been destroyed, multiple families had been violently torn apart, and most devastatingly of all, hundreds of innocent lives had suddenly been lost.

For most people, this might've been enough to just give up and admit defeat- to live as they had been for the past few days, in sadness and total mourning, and to spend the rest of their lives in general misery.

But this, was Gravity Falls.

And the people of Gravity Falls had hope.

Hope that they could do more than just sit back and watch their town- THEIR little town- crumble up and disintegrate into nothing.

Hope that one day things would change, that one day things could get better if they just... just tried to make the most out of what they had.

Hope, that they all had each others' back.

And whilst, perhaps, that hope was only small, that that hope was the only thing they had- they tried to believe in it, to cling onto it and never let it go.

And soon enough, they find out that everything isn't quite just as bad as they thought it could be... at at least not yet. If they didn't even bother trying, then how could expect anything to get better in the first place?

And so they did do that.

They tried.

They tried- and then they tried even harder when that didn't seem to work. And eventually, you know, they manage to pull through.

Because this, is Gravity Falls. And in Gravity Falls... nothing is ever impossible when you've got someone else there to help you and have your back.

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