Dipper knew that something would go wrong when Mabel decided they should revisit Hoo-Ha Owl’s Pizzamatronic Jamboree just a few short days after the whole Giffany fiasco. However, of the things that would do so, discovering that Giffany was living in a Fight Fighters cabinet was not one of them.

Upon recognizing Dipper, Giffany managed to reach out of the screen of the cabinet with a pair of glitched hands and grabbed onto him. Luckily, Mabel managed to unplug the game, but before Giffany fully disappeared back into the machine, the leftover data and code seeped into Dipper with an intense jolt.

At first, things seemed to be okay, but right away Dipper would notice that he had turned kinda pixely, as well as his own hair and eye color shifting to resemble that of Giffany’s.

It wouldn’t be long before Dipper started to experience more and more changes. He had become more excitable and seemingly girlish in several of his actions. Mabel would seemingly be right in stating that he had basically become like some kind of ‘shoujo heroine’.

To compound onto this, Dipper would discover that he had developed video game themed powers, and even a variety of stats that could manifest themselves in the way of visual text boxes. It was concerning just how much he felt strange compulsions to look and dress cute.

However, at the same time, there was a lot of curiosity about all of the things he could do now, as well as to what more he could do. All of this needed research... and written down.

If only Mabel would stop calling him ‘Gipper’