Best Dipper Pines Mystery Fanfics
The best mystery fanfiction featuring Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) on AO3, curated by popularity. A fair-play mystery makes the reader a participant, and fandom's deep character knowledge makes the misdirection more fun — you know these people, and you're still wrong.
Top Dipper Pines Mystery Fic Recs
2 mystery fics featuring Dipper Pines, followed by other top-rated stories.
Anyway, I've Been There
Mysteryby Caleb Nova (Caleb_Nova) · Dipcifica
It's the same place they left, but Dipper and Mabel aren't the same kids who left it. A story of the uneven after: new friends, new family, and the promise of a new tomorrow. (Gradual Dipcifica, Mystery Twins bonding, family ties, weird science, and the Power of Friendship™—anthyding can hadplen!)Bo
Can I pay you to pretend this never happened?
Mysteryby Rat_l0rd113 · Dipcifica
Guess who’s going back to their favorite summer getaway? The Pines twins return for all new mysteries and adventures. Definitely not a return of a lot of trauma.
Imprinting
by PhenixFlare · Billdip
Most people are born with a name tattooed on their inner wrist, in every written language imaginable; some people are born without. Dipper Pines is born with a small black triangle with a flesh colored dot at the center printed neatly onto his skin, standing out against its dark backdrop like an ope
Cult Catastrophe
by JusticeHawk · Billdip
A cult kidnaps Dipper and attempts to sacrifice him to a demon. Who turns out to be Bill. Bill of course, finds this hilarious.
Faking It
by BurnerAccount · Billdip
Dipper's the worst practitioner in his entire family. He's never been great at magic, he's struggling to improve - he doesn't even have a familiar.Maybe it's time to fix that.Dipper makes some mistakes. Based on a prompt from tumblr.
When We Get Married
by LCypherED · Billdip
“Bill.” Dipper said, and something in his tone made Bill stop with his distracting touches. “Did you marry me without me knowing?” In which Dipper finds himself roped into a surprise marriage, and discovers that although Bill might be master of the mind, he is in no way a master of comm
Two in a Million
by Aevintyri · Billdip
When Dipper’s soulmark is exposed, revealing the name of the cold-blooded Emperor Cipher, he is brought to the palace to serve the demon tyrant. No one entertains the possibility of the truth— that his soulmate is actually the king’s newborn son, Bill Cipher, who grows up deeply possessive of Dipper
Hands (and Any Other Relevant Appendages) Off
by PhenixFlare · Billdip
Bill Cipher doesn't like other people touching his things, and someone learns this the hard way; alternately, Dipper has further confirmation that he's dating a homicidal maniac and is surprisingly okay with it.
Incalescence
by llyrical · Billdip
Dipper just wanted to have a normal college life- well, as normal as one could have it while continuing to research the mysteries of Gravity Falls. He did NOT intend to have to deal with losing all of his work just as he needed it the most. He also did not intend to have a demon be his only chance o
Conspiratheory
by LCypherED · Billdip
Dipper Pines deals with life, homework, friendships and his increasingly complicated feelings regarding the sulking ex-dream demon living in his closet.As well as the centuries-old mysteries lurking beneath the seemingly tranquil township he calls home, but that's beginning to become par for the cou
He's Mine
by JusticeHawk · Billdip
"Lovely child." A voice purred from around him. It echoed trough the trees like a sibilant hiss. Shuddering Dipper reached for the little packet of herbs he kept in his coat pocket. It was a varied mixture, but could do mild damage to most creatures. Enough for him to be able to get away hopefully.
pumpkin spice & everything nice
by goldilocked · Billdip
“Hey,” snaps the girl holding the tome—Chloe, she’s in his Latin class. Her mascaraed-on whiskers crinkle as she scowls at him. “A little privacy here?” Actually, Dipper realizes, they’re all in his Latin class. And all staring right at him. It crosses his mind that he should say something… wi
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Dipper Pines in Mystery Fanfiction
Dipper Pines — Twelve-year-old mystery hunter who spent one summer decoding the journals of Gravity Falls and outwitting a dream demon. His anxious overthinking opposite Mabel's chaos defines the show's sibling heart.
Mystery — Something is wrong and someone must work out what: disappearances, ciphers, impossible crimes, and secrets with bodies attached. Mystery fic includes whodunits, slow-unraveling secrets, and stories where the reader solves alongside the characters.
A fair-play mystery makes the reader a participant, and fandom's deep character knowledge makes the misdirection more fun — you know these people, and you're still wrong. Dipper Pines's (also known as Mason Pines, Pine Tree) role in Gravity Falls makes them a natural fit for mystery storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in Gravity Falls fanfiction.
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