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CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Mabel Pines
Age: 12
Canon: Gravity Falls
Point: Love God
Character Information: Mabel wiki and Gravity Falls wiki
Personality:

Mabel is fun, goofy, and optimistic. She almost always has a smile on her face and a hopeful outlook on the many crazy situations her and her brother get into. It's just who she is. She's the fun sibling, the one always up to some ridiculous antic or other. She bedazzled her face at one point, and is always wearing a different, ridiculous sweater. She's not one to let life get her down, and always puts all her effort into what she does, no matter what it is. It makes her look a little like an airhead at times, because she really rolls with the punches, but there's a lot more to her than plain old sillines.

For one, Mabel is very honest and caring. She doesn't like to lie, and she doesn't like to hurt someone's feelings unless she can help it (or their a huge jerk and/or creep like Lil' Gideon.) Mabel likes to make sure that the people around her are happy, and will make it her business to cheer them up if they aren't. Which is also a failing point for her. She thinks she can fix any problem, be it with romance or good cheer. This comes back to bite her and Dipper in the episode "Love God" because when she tries to cheer Robbie up by playing match maker, she almost destroys the friend group he was a part of.

She also values honesty a great deal. She's a terrible liar herself, but she also sees lying as a bad thing all of the time. She tries to impose this view on Stan by giving him teeth that make him tell the truth, but that backfires big time, too, and she has to grudgingly agree that maybe complete 100% honesty isn't a good thing, in some cases. These little blunders don't really get her down, though. She learns and grows from them, and brushes the negativity off by looking forward to the good things to come.

This is also because she's very confident in herself. She has amazing self-esteem, really. She knows she's cute, she knows she's talented. Nintey no doubts in those respects. So when she goes into a project, she has no doubt that she will succeed. And even if she doesn't, at least she had fun trying! She can become somewhat insecure if she's picked on straight out by someone, like when her rival Pacifica Northwest beats her at mini golf and Mabel challenges her to a midnight rematch, but immediately afterwords is seen wallowing in self-doubt, because Pacifica beat her at something she knew she was amazing at. During these moments, though, when she's not at the top of her game, Mabel is quick to come back. She might doubt herself occasionally, but it never gets her down for long.

Another failing related to this, is Mabel's inability to say no to a lot of things. It's not so much that she won't say no when she has to, but she definitely doesn't like to disappoint people. This makes her extremely susceptible to peer pressure. The biggest example of this is the whole mess with Lil' Gideon. Mabel liked him! He was cute, and liked makeovers, and fun. She didn't want to lose that friendship, so instead of telling him she wouldn't go out on a date, she ended up agreeing. It didn't end there, though. She kept going out with him, because she didn't want to let down all the people that were around when Gideon asked her out for the second time. It spiraled so far out of control, Mabel had Dipper cut things off with Gideon, instead of going out and doing so herself. She gets caught up in people's expectations, and her desire to keep everyone happy kind of gets in the way of her own well being, and messes things up more than it fixes things.

Mabel is also easily distracted by things, and will run off to go do them no matter what she might have been doing before. She hurries off to go talk to Gabe when she was supposed to be helping Dipper, and hurries off to win Waddles when she finds out there's a pig winning contest at the mystery shack's fair. Not only that, but she's also incredibly impulsive. She has a tendency to act without thinking things through, or weighing the consequences. She eats a crap load of Smile Dip, when it had been banned in America and for good reason, and when she and Dipper get challenged to a death game, she very nearly has the loser executed. Not because she wanted him to die, she just has a tendency to get really caught up in what she's doing.

She can also get really caught up in her own wants and needs, which often puts her brother in really unfortunate situations. She cares about him, and she doesn't mean to leave him high and dry when he needs help, she just gets really wrapped up in her own personal world, and forgets about the rest without really meaning to. She puts her own needs above Dippers, and even her friends. When Dipper needs help figuring out the password for a computer, she leaves him to his own devices and tries to get a boy to like her. When she and her friends save a boy band, she doesn't let them go at first and tries to keep them for herself. It makes her come off as selfish, and she can be! But she's also willing to learn from her mistakes when she realizes she's making them, and will always do the right thing in the end, even if it means she has to blow up her sock puppet rock opera in the process.

Speaking of; one of the things that gets Mabel into the most trouble is boys. She loves boys. She wants to have a rocking summer romance! Boys!!! But this boy obsession gets her into a lot of sticky situations. In the first episode, she jumps at the chance to date some random guy she met, only to discover he was actually a bunch of Gnomes looking for a queen. That's not the only boy trouble she has, either. It happens again and again. She falls for someone, and ends up getting up to some really wacky and/or dangerous hijinks in the process. Mabel believes in love, though. Not just for herself, but for everyone around her. She jumps at the chance to play matchmaker, even if the result aren't always the best.

Mabel is incredibly creative. She loves arts and crafts, be it knitting or drawing. She might not know all the technicalities that go into certain crafts--she doesn't know the difference between a single stitch and a cross stitch--but she just likes to make things. She cares more about having fun than making things perfect, and doesn't really care if things turn out a little less than perfect. She messes up on one of her sweaters, and she points it out herself, but it doesn't phase her one bit.

Lastly, we can't talk about Mabel unless we talk about Dipper, too. The twins are almost complete opposites. Where Dipper is really serious, Mabel is all fun and games, but this is a dynamic that works. They balance each other out, and are always there for each other, even if they might fight and get into arguments on occasion. If one is in trouble, the other will be there for support. Dipper grounds Mabel when she gets too crazy or involved in things, and Mabel is there to make sure Dipper doesn't get too caught up in the technicalities. Petty arguments happen, sure, but they can always count on each other to be there when they really need it.

5-10 Key Character Traits: Optimistic, cheerful, obsessive, impulsive, creative, energetic, friendly, selfish, distractible, honest
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