[No, no, he was expecting a fucking mess in here. It's a lot of blue fire, but if Stan somehow hit Beasthood, then he isn't really that surprised that anything involving Stan as a person is fucked beyond recognition.]
[Dipper has falling into this himself, after all. He remembers, or rather, doesn't remember, what it was like. He's only heard second hand from Mabel the behaviors of that monster. How it was him but not. How it pulled on the parts of himself it needed but otherwise twisted himself into something bloodthirsty and violent.]
[This is clearly something very different, at least it seems that way to Dipper. This beast isn't reacting violently, it's acting defensively which strikes him as very unusual. He may not be all gone, there may be something Dipper can pull back out again. He just has to weather a literal fucking inferno.]
[Oh, it's a terrible day to be an empath. It hits him so fucking hard, how much the amplified stress and fear is. He can feel his own corruption starting to fray just being here. He doesn't have a lot of time to do something.]
GRUNKLE STAN!
[But he has to. He has to try. Dipper reaches deep within himself to tap into his powers in a way he hates doing. He knows how to alter mindscapes, he knows how to affect the mental world around him. He doesn't have to change anything drastic, he just needs to put these flames out.]
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[Dipper has falling into this himself, after all. He remembers, or rather, doesn't remember, what it was like. He's only heard second hand from Mabel the behaviors of that monster. How it was him but not. How it pulled on the parts of himself it needed but otherwise twisted himself into something bloodthirsty and violent.]
[This is clearly something very different, at least it seems that way to Dipper. This beast isn't reacting violently, it's acting defensively which strikes him as very unusual. He may not be all gone, there may be something Dipper can pull back out again. He just has to weather a literal fucking inferno.]
[Oh, it's a terrible day to be an empath. It hits him so fucking hard, how much the amplified stress and fear is. He can feel his own corruption starting to fray just being here. He doesn't have a lot of time to do something.]
GRUNKLE STAN!
[But he has to. He has to try. Dipper reaches deep within himself to tap into his powers in a way he hates doing. He knows how to alter mindscapes, he knows how to affect the mental world around him. He doesn't have to change anything drastic, he just needs to put these flames out.]
[So that's what he tries to do.]