[Dipper wobbles a little, but he's very quickly on his feet again with Falco's help. Dipper looks up to make eye contact with Falco, confusion and panic crossing his features. Like he's desperately trying to reconcile the fact that he knows this kid, and yet the current scenario should make that impossible.]
I- ...Falco?
[The severity of the situation halts that from going much longer. A voice rings out from the giant, young and scared.]
Dipper! Help me!!
[In the giant's hand is the very young girl from the family portrait. The giant laughs, raving on about making her his queen as it stomps away from the cliff.]
Mabel!
[Panicked, Dipper looks around, eyes welling up as he tries to think of something, anything to stop Gideon. His voice wavers as he talks, betraying how close he is to losing it, watching that monster walk away with his sister.]
What can I do? What can I do? I can't- He's won and I can't do anything.
[ this is quickly becoming a situation that allows less and less thinking time— falco’s heart is already racing at the cry for help, a metal giant doesn’t panic him so much, but . . . ]
The Armour—?! [ spiked with a massive dunk of doubt, he couldn’t quite believe what his eyes were seeing in being a titan he recognized, but— there was no time for that. that was dipper’s sister in its hand. ] Okay—[ he’s calm enough; breathe in, ] Okay! No he hasn’t! We need to think fast, ah—
[ he grabs dipper by the shoulders and tries his best, a resolute solution in his voice that isn’t a lie: ]
We can still do something! You can!
[ he just needs to get out of here, give himself room, ]
[Having Falco be the one to take him by the shoulders and give him such enouragement. It startles him for a moment, just enough, for Dipper to start thinking again. To get his gears shifting. Falco believed he could do it, and now Mabel was in mortal peril if he didn't do something now]
[Dipper passes a glance to the giant and then back to Falco. Something changes in his eyes. He's made a decision. He narrows his eyes this time in determination and nods.]
Okay. Okay.
[Dipper grips Falco's shoulder tightly in return before he pulls away from the other boy. He starts to step away from the cliff, towards the treeline, almost like he's leaving.]
[Before he gets too far, he turns and start to run. With a yell, Dipper hurls himself of the cliff. The noise is enough to get the Giant to pause and turn its head just in time for Dipper to go crashing through the glass windows that made up it's eyes.]
I think I can— [ right, okay, right, dipper’s got it, he’s just walking to think. nothing possibly could’ve prepared falco for what he was going to do, and by the time he realizes the footsteps behind him are incoming and too fast— falco shrieks after him, his arm out to grab a collar, a sleeve, anything— ]
Dipper—!!
[ his voice cracks as he jumps for the other boy, and this time he couldn’t actually think as he did. he simply lunged with, the same way he leaped for gabi boarding the air ship. he couldn’t grab a thing on dipper, missed his jacket by a hair— the wind roared past him and he didn’t break through the glass with him, but struck the side of the machine’s face with an ugly thunk.
if he’s managed to grab something, a frame or a bolt, it’s a quick second grab that means life and death for him. he’s still alive, breathing, conscious, harmed— but that’s all he needs. he needs to find where dipper went, if he survived that, where mabel was— and to brace himself for shifting. ]
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I- ...Falco?
[The severity of the situation halts that from going much longer. A voice rings out from the giant, young and scared.]
Dipper! Help me!!
[In the giant's hand is the very young girl from the family portrait. The giant laughs, raving on about making her his queen as it stomps away from the cliff.]
Mabel!
[Panicked, Dipper looks around, eyes welling up as he tries to think of something, anything to stop Gideon. His voice wavers as he talks, betraying how close he is to losing it, watching that monster walk away with his sister.]
What can I do? What can I do? I can't- He's won and I can't do anything.
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The Armour—?! [ spiked with a massive dunk of doubt, he couldn’t quite believe what his eyes were seeing in being a titan he recognized, but— there was no time for that. that was dipper’s sister in its hand. ] Okay—[ he’s calm enough; breathe in, ] Okay! No he hasn’t! We need to think fast, ah—
[ he grabs dipper by the shoulders and tries his best, a resolute solution in his voice that isn’t a lie: ]
We can still do something! You can!
[ he just needs to get out of here, give himself room, ]
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[Dipper passes a glance to the giant and then back to Falco. Something changes in his eyes. He's made a decision. He narrows his eyes this time in determination and nods.]
Okay. Okay.
[Dipper grips Falco's shoulder tightly in return before he pulls away from the other boy. He starts to step away from the cliff, towards the treeline, almost like he's leaving.]
[Before he gets too far, he turns and start to run. With a yell, Dipper hurls himself of the cliff. The noise is enough to get the Giant to pause and turn its head just in time for Dipper to go crashing through the glass windows that made up it's eyes.]
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Dipper—!!
[ his voice cracks as he jumps for the other boy, and this time he couldn’t actually think as he did. he simply lunged with, the same way he leaped for gabi boarding the air ship. he couldn’t grab a thing on dipper, missed his jacket by a hair— the wind roared past him and he didn’t break through the glass with him, but struck the side of the machine’s face with an ugly thunk.
if he’s managed to grab something, a frame or a bolt, it’s a quick second grab that means life and death for him. he’s still alive, breathing, conscious, harmed— but that’s all he needs. he needs to find where dipper went, if he survived that, where mabel was— and to brace himself for shifting. ]