Pacifica Southeast (also known as Pacifica Southwest) is the reverse counterpart of Pacifica Northwest. She is one of the main protagonists of the Reverse Falls AU. Pacifica and Gideon Pines are said to either be cousins or just very close friends. She also has a pet chicken named Clucks, in contrast to Mabel's pig.
Appearance[]
Pacifica has long blonde hair that is tied into a ponytail with a scrunchie, but she can also have her hair down, and sometimes or in up or low pigtails. She has dark blue eyes in most anime-styled drawings, but they are sometimes depicted as a pale blue.
There are a few differences between Pacifica Southeast and her canon counterpart, one of them being that she considerably wears less makeup.
Since she is supposed to represent Mabel in the Reverse Falls AU, many artists dress her up in sweaters and skirts or in an 80's-style outfit. If not, she is seen wearing a large jacket and wearing shorts with tights underneath, leg warmers and a pair of sneakers. She typically paints her nails in bright colors, such as pink or purple. She is sometimes depicted wearing hippie attire, which normally consists of her hair being loose with a headband and wearing tie-dyed t-shirts, loose pants, peace sign earrings, and sandals or boots. Sometimes, she can be seen with braces, but some fans choose not to add them. She also shown with stickers on her face in some fanworks.
Personality[]
Pacifica is very outgoing, sociable and smart. She is an energetic and curious girl, as she is very optimistic and sees the best in people. This is very apparent with her attitude towards Mabel and Dipper Gleeful. Despite this, Pacifica is not immune to getting her feelings hurt, especially from Mabel's teasing. It's shown that she's also a very bad liar. Pacifica rarely gets angry or upset and is generally a positive person. However, she is somewhat naive and childish at times.
She's also shown to be a very good cook and artist, liking to cook for her friends and would draw pictures of her and Gideon together. And just like the canon version of Mabel, she has a scrapbook of her own, containing pictures of her adventures with Gideon and the Gleeful twins.
Pacifica tends to be portrayed as a very strong and willful kind of girl. For example, if Gideon is ever placed within a tough situation that he cannot get out of, Pacifica would be there to help save him displaying this strength that many probably didn't know she even had and can be a total badass when she wants to. And while she would prefer not to hurt anyone, she would actually go and do so if needed, but she is more of the type who likes to talk things through than to use actual physical violence. She can also be quite rude and cruel, especially to those who hurt her friends, but that rarely happens.
Relationships[]
Gideon Pines[]
Depending on the fan's interpretation, Pacifica's relationship with Gideon can be two ways.
The first is that Pacifica is depicted as a senior cousin of Gideon whom she visits in Gravity Falls.
The second being that Pacifica is the first and best friend that Gideon has just met when he first arrives at Gravity Falls and is someone he really approaches, close enough to have reliable information from Journal 3, which she finds "great" and "sharp" enough to go on adventures with him. In fact, she is the one who sometimes convinces him to follow these adventures with her, because sometimes Gideon is very cautious and even scared of the supernatural and the unknown.
Gideon also is seen to have a secret crush on Pacifica (if they're not being depicted as cousins), one that she isn't even aware of, and if she is she doesn't seem to be bothered by it since she does care for him a lot. But normally, she doesn't seem to return his feelings and so in a way, the relationship between Gideon and Pacifica is very similar to the one with Dipper and Wendy, where they are still close but will only stay as friends.
Dipper Gleeful[]
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Pacifica has developed a crush on Dipper after frequent visits to his magic shows, although it's said that they initially disliked each other. After finding out that Gideon has Journal 3, though, Dipper's encounters with Pacifica only increase since she is so often with Gideon; the constant affiliation with her slowly shifts Dipper's views of her, and his feelings for her do end up changing as well. He does eventually find her to be a lot more interesting, and intelligent than he thought she was. Earning both his intrigue and (to an extent) his respect.
Pacifica does eventually find out that the Gleeful twins are much more sinister than the town was led to believe, but this only fuels her determination to help them, insisting that they can be good. She frequently goes to Dipper to talk to him about being a good person, and though such a notion is ridiculous to him, Dipper usually doesn't mind her presence. There are even times he calls her "quite cute" for thinking that way towards him, though it's not entirely certain whether he truly means it. Whether he is secretly touched by Pacifica's faith in him or not is unknown.
In many individual takes on the Reverse Falls AU, it has become popular for Dipper and Pacifica to be together.
Mabel Gleeful[]
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In general, their relationship is exactly how Mabel's and Pacifica's relationship is described within the official show. Only this time, Mabel is the stereotypical rich mean girl who is always trying to bring Pacifica down and yet despite that, Pacifica is still kind and nice to her and even treats her like a friend. But they aren't—or at least they aren't—friends at first. They both have a rivalry with one another, one which Mabel tends to win most of the time but Pacifica doesn't really mind. Like with Dipper, Pacifica believes there is good in her too and wants to become friends if Mabel did ever become good.
It is possible Mabel sees Pacifica as a threat to her brother when she notices the two become closer, and has even warned her brother to stay away from her.
Preston and Priscilla Southeast[]
Unlike the relationship that Pacifica Northwest has with her parents, her reverse counterpart actually has a close relationship with her parents. This is mainly because of their lack of material wealth, shifting their values from materialism to spending time with family, as well as maintaining interpersonal relationships within the family and town. Since Pacifica is shown to either be an 80's kind of girl or a hippie, both her mom and dad are shown to share similar characteristics, meaning that any influences for her style and tastes had been received by them and furthering the fact of the family's closeness.
They never get embarrassed no matter what Pacifica does and are always forgiving and proud of her. Unlike Stan Pines, they love Clucks and don't view it as a nuisance.
Clucks[]
In the Reverse Falls AU, instead of having a pet pig (like canon Mabel), Pacifica has a pet chicken named Clucks, instead. Clucks is Pacifica's most cherished pet who will always have her back when she needs it. Clucks, though usually emotionless (like the canon version of Waddles) seems to be intelligent enough to listen to commands if Pacifica gives them.
Though Pacifica adores Clucks, Gideon only mildly tolerates the animal, and is constantly being annoyed by the chicken's pecking on his notes, clothes, and body. This could indicate Clucks may in fact be jealous that her master shows so much affection to Gideon.
Will Cipher[]
There haven't been many interactions between Pacifica and Will, so there isn't much to say about their relationship. Will Cipher was pleasantly surprised by Pacifica's hospitality and cheerfulness, so much so that he temporarily thought it to be a plot to trap him when they first met, but he quickly realized her nature was genuine. Will was summoned by the twins, so they could make a deal with him to get rid of the twins' "new kid problem" (usually Gideon, but Pacifica is sometimes the Gleeful twins' target as well), but Will failed his half of their deal. Although it is rare, whenever they meet she treats him with so much kindness that Will is still always baffled at times that a human can be as kind and sweet as Pacifica is.
Trivia[]
- In some versions of the Reverse Falls AU, Pacifica still has her canon counterpart's girl posse, but her friends in this AU tend to be much nicer.
- Likewise, Mabel Gleeful is given a girl posse of her own in some drawings, but they retain their "mean girl" attitudes much like Pacifica Northwest's friends. Other depictions have Reverse Candy and Grenda as her cronies, instead.