That's kind of a relief. I want to be able to still see my friends here, especially since I'm pretty sure I'm not going to -

[He just stops mid-sentence. It's not really a thought track he wants to share with anyone, the longstanding fear that he'll go back and be too changed and too strange to make any new friends in his world beyond the ones he made in Gravity Falls.]

[It's the same fear the Faceless capitalized on during the Silent Horizon mission, to mentally wear him down. He'd shown him visions of a possible future where he was too broken to be a superhero, but too changed by superheroing and the supernatural to fit in with normal kids.]

[The thing is, Dipper never actually stopped believing that vision would come true. He knows he'll probably be the school weirdo that sits alone in a corner. He knows he'll even feel isolated from Mabel, because she loves him but won't understand what he's been through, not really. It's just instead of denying that he'll probably be a weirdo social outcast, he's just decided to focus on the possibility of keeping all his superhero friends instead.]

It's just...really good to know.