Mabel Pines

Mabel Pines (born August 31,[6] 5 minutes before Dipper Pines[24]) is a 12-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. Mabel is represented by the Shooting Star in the Zodiac.

Personality
Mabel is an energetic, fun, bouncy, hyperactive, enthusiastic and free-spirited girl. She is an optimist who skips through life with a braces-filled smile and an assortment of extremely colorful knit sweaters. It is Mabel's 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.[31] She shows a more sophisticated attitude when it comes to art.

Despite all the weirdness in Gravity Falls, Mabel is always a "glass-half-full" kind of girl.[32] She is rarely angry or upset, and generally keeps a positive outlook. Despite her cheerful attitude, Mabel is shown to be quite sensitive, as she can occasionally get her feelings hurt, especially by her rival, Pacifica Northwest.[31] She is somewhat naive at times. She avoids lying[13] and is a terrible liar, often blurting out whatever it is about which she is trying to lie.[14]

Mabel is aware of her charm and cherishes her cuteness and beauty.[5] 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").

Mabel has also shown to be intolerant 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. This unintentionally endangers them when they encounter a dangerous creature. This also caused Wendy'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, she also proves to be clumsy, as in the episode "Soos and the Real Girl," when Mabel was playing and suddenly collides with the front door of the Mystery Shack and gets a brace stuck on the metal door.

Mabel is a preteen dreamer with a world filled with preteen novels (mostly about vampires), and her fixation on finding her one true love[8] occasionally lands her in sticky situations that ultimately require her brother's help. She has a prominent selfish side, particularly when it comes to boys with whom she's infatuated, even breaking promises made with her friends or Dipper in pursuit of her crush, as shown in "Sock Opera" and "Boyz Crazy". She constantly prioritizes her own desires over that of her brother, and often manipulates him into sacrificing his own happiness to help her achieve whatever whim she has her mind set on in the episode - prominent examples of this are in "The Time Traveler's Pig", where she makes Dipper sacrifice his chance with Wendy to let her win Waddles, "The Deep End" where she costs Dipper his job as a lifeguard at the pool to save Mermando, and "Dipper and Mabel vs The Future" when she wants Dipper to come back to Piedmont with her, meaning he can't accept Ford's apprenticeship.

However, when it comes to her selfishness, in the book Gravity Falls: Lost Legends, it is revealed in the story "Don't Dimension It" that after being stranded in an in-between world full of alternate versions of herself, Mabel realized, due to being stuck with multiple versions of herself who all act in their own interest against her, how self-serving she has acted throughout the series. This revelation causes her to apologize to her family (especially Dipper), for the way she has treated him and served herself without thought of how it would effect others around her.

Appearance
For a complete list of Mabel's sweaters, see the list of Mabel's sweaters. Mabel is a short girl who is exactly one millimeter taller than her twin brother.[11] She has long brown hair that reaches her hips and curls towards the bottom and brown eyes like Dipper's.[33] 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 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, as well as a matching red headband.