Mabel Pines

Mabel Pines is the main female protagonist from the Gravity Falls series.

Mabel is a 13-year-old girl spending the summer with her Great Uncle Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon, where she and her brother frequently encounter the supernatural. She takes a much less serious approach to life than her twin brother as she navigates her way around odd, new surroundings.

Appearance
Mabel is a short girl who is exactly one millimeter taller than her twin brother. She has long brown hair that reaches her hips and curls towards the bottom and brown eyes like Dipper's. She has silver-colored braces and round blushing cheeks. Mabel's apparel varies for each episode, more so than any other character's, with at least one new outfit usually consisting of a sweater, undershirt, skirt, headband, black ballerina flats, white anklet socks, and occasionally earrings, though she does deviate from this look occasionally.

Her signature outfit is a short-sleeved pink undershirt underneath a slightly darker fuschia sweater with a shooting star, accompanied by a purple, teal and orange-striped tail falling toward the left, a matching fuschia headband, a loose purple pencil skirt, coupled with black black ballerina flats and white socks.

When playing mini-golf, Mabel wears a pink polo shirt with a purple skirt.

For her nightwear, she has a purple long-sleeve shirt-dress with a floppy disk in the middle, matching purple headband and dark pink socks.

Her swimsuit is a red one-piece swimsuit with a red star in the middle, and as well as a matching red headband.

Personality
Mabel is an optimistic, fun, energetic, bouncy, optimistic, hyperactive, enthusiastic and free-spirited girl who is full of spirit. She is an optimist who skips through life with a braces-filled smile and an assortment of extremely colorful knit sweaters. It is her outgoing personality and fearless curiosity that comes in handy when Dipper needs help solving a mystery, even if she isn't always aware of her silliness. Despite her cheerful attitude and ability to be able to look on the bright side, she can occasionally get her feelings hurt, especially by her rival, Pacifica Northwest. Mabel avoids lying and is a terrible liar, often blurting out whatever it is about which she is trying to lie. She is a preteen dreamer with a world filled with preteen novels (mostly about vampires), and her fixation on finding her one true love occasionally lands her in sticky situations which ultimately require her brother's help. Still, despite all the weirdness in Gravity Falls, Mabel is always a "glass-half-full" kind of girl. She is rarely angry or upset, and generally keeps a positive outlook. She is somewhat naive at times. Mabel is aware of her charm and cherishes her cuteness and beauty. However, she has a selfish side, particularly when it comes to boys with whom she's infatuated, even breaking promises made with friends in pursuit of her crush, as shown in "Sock Opera." She generally has a high opinion of herself, considering herself "irresistible" to boys ("Tourist Trapped"), claiming that she does everything perfectly ("The Time Traveler's Pig"), and fully believing she is of "pure, perfect heart" ("The Last Mabelcorn"). She has also shown to be self-righteous in her decisions, which can be far from justified, or they may accidentally backfire in some way, such as shoving her brother in a closet with Wendy in "Into the Bunker" so that he could end his anxiety and admit his crush on Wendy Corduroy. This unintentionally endangers them when they encounter a dangerous creature. Her self-righteous nature also caused Wendy's and Dipper's friend group to temporarily break up after she had made Robbie Valentino and Tambry date each other in "The Love God." However, like her brother, Mabel has the best of intentions and she will always try to choose the right options for the happiness of herself and others.

Abilities
Mabel claims to be an arts and crafts master, which is supported by the skills she's shown so far. These include knitting (as she knits her own sweaters), scrap booking (having made multiple scrap books, stating that she never misses a "scrapbookortunity"), sewing, bejeweling (seen in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel"), wood carving (having a collection of painted wooden figurines in "The Love God"), wax sculpting (having made a realistic wax figure of Grunkle Stan in an extremely short amount of time in "Headhunters) and origami (as seen in "Irrational Treasure" when she made a hat out of a map in a few seconds). Mabel invented “Cat-icatures,” as seen in Mabel's Guide to Art. She can pick locks with hairpins, as seen in "The Deep End" and "Boyz Crazy." As confirmed in "The Golf War," Mabel is a skilled miniature golfer. In her Guide to Fashion, Mabel is revealed to be a great makeup artist.

Trivia

 * The name Mabel means "lovable, dear" in Latin.
 * Mabel is based on Alex Hirsch's twin sister, Ariel Hirsch, who often wore very silly, vibrant and goofy sweaters, so Alex Hirsch made sure Mabel had a different sweater in every episode. Ariel also was a huge fangirl, explaining where that part of Mabel's personality comes from.
 * Mabel has a pet pig because, as a child, Ariel Hirsch wanted a pig after the movie Babe: Pig in the City came out.
 * Mabel was originally conceived to have headgear.
 * Mabel has been to the county jail with Dipper and Stan for making counterfeit money.
 * Mabel is 5 minutes older than her brother Dipper, she brings it from time to time to infuse her status as an older twin.
 * Mabel is exactly one millimeter taller than Dipper.
 * In the episode "The Deep End," Mabel claims that she has encountered a couple of vampires.
 * Mabel shows a sophisticated attitude when it comes to art.
 * Dipper and Mabel's middle names are their parents' first names.
 * Mabel went to the hospital once for eating scratch and sniff stickers.
 * Mabel is secretly envious that her brother is better academically than she is (in contrast to Dipper, who is jealous of Mabel's social skills).
 * Mabel once fed baby birds with her mouth.
 * Mabel used to have a crush on "the guy from the 10-dollar bill," Alexander Hamilton.
 * In the Subway Kids Bags commercial, she is not voiced by Kristen Schaal for unknown reasons.
 * Whenever Mabel has nightmares, she meows herself back to sleep.
 * Mabel is represented by the shooting star in the Zodiac.
 * Mabel was made an official US Congresswoman by Quentin Trembley. However, Washington D.C. refuses to acknowledge her as one.
 * According to Alex Hirsch, Mabel is the most underrated character in the series.
 * Mabel's first word, according to her, was "unicorn."
 * Mabel has been banned from a petting zoo for taping a traffic cone to a horse's head.
 * Mabel became pen pals with a pizza delivery man in the 60 seconds he was at the door.
 * Mabel and Dipper have allergies that act up around the same time.
 * Mabel and Dipper went to Eggbert Elementary.
 * Mabel and Dipper are the only characters to appear in every episode of the series. Mabel is the only character to appear in every episode but not have a speaking role in every episode ("Weirdmageddon Part 1" is the only episode that she doesn't have no speaking lines).
 * After the events of "Gideon Rises," wherein Mabel uses the grappling hook to save herself and Dipper, she keeps it with her at all times. If Mabel is on screen and the grappling hook can't be seen, it's because she's hiding it in her sweater.
 * Alex Hirsch said at the 2014 Comic Con that Dipper and Mabel collect the items that they discover on their adventures.
 * In "Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo," she says that Dipper and herself once won a dogsled race against a space lizard.
 * She has accidentally spray-painted her eyes multiple times.
 * According to Kristen Schaal, Mabel wants to become the president of the United States. She would have Waddles as her vice president, Dipper as her secretary of state, and Stan would be her secretary of defense.
 * Mabel has watched the anime movie "The Cranky Girl Who Did Chores in Sprit Town" 82 times.
 * During the "ULTIMATE CROSSOVER FUNDRAISER!" charity livestream, where Alex Hirsch, Dana Terrace, Rebecca Sugar, and Ian Jones-Quartey drew and sang for The Trevor Project, when asked what Dipper, and Mabel would be as Gems, they answered the following (and then did Stan's too):
 * Mabel - Cherry Tugtupite. On her chest, where her heart would be.
 * Dipper - Larimar. On his head, possibly in the shape of his birthmark.
 * Stan - Pyrite (also known as fool's gold). Mirrored to Stan's tattoo on his back, which indicates vulnerability. This was actually suggested by the chat, which was wholeheartedly agreed upon by Hirsch and the others.
 * In Rick and Morty's episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption" there is a Gravity Falls easter egg. In the Citadel of Ricks, two Morty's bear a striking resemblance to Mabel and Dipper. The Mabel-looking Morty appears again as Girl Morty in the mobile Pokemon parody video game Pocket Mortys. Her in-game description says "this Morty is the twin sister of Morty wearing a baseball cap. She can often be seen standing in the background making references to other shows." This Mabel-looking Morty made a cameo appearance in the Gravity Falls comic Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.