#Gravity Falls Labyrinth

[chrisdoesanart]

STUPID SMUG IDIOT, KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT!!!! -Stan, probably

[dyinggirldied]

I need these guys' vibe

Also, there's this website where this archetype can be summarised up as "Girl Underground" and lists out a long list of examples . Have a check out (https://girls-underground.com/the-archetype/)

[totallyottie99]

New commission sheet!

[nuttersincorporated]

Incorrect Gravity Falls quote (inspired by Labyrinth)

Stanford Pines: Give me my family

Bill Cipher: Sixer, beware. I have been generous up until now. I can be cruel

Stanford Pines: Generous! What have you done that’s generous?

Bill Cipher: Everything! Everything you wanted; I have done. You summoned me, I came. You wanted a muse, I inspired you. I have reordered time; I have turned the world upside down and I have done it all for you! I’m exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn’t that generous?

Stanford Pines: Through dangerous untold and hardships unnumbered; I have fought my way here to top of the Fearamid beyond the field of madness bubbles. For my will is as strong as yours and my…

Bill Cipher: Stop! Wait, look Sixer. Look what I’m offering; your dreams!

Stanford Pines: And my kingdom as great…

Bill Cipher: I ask for so little. Just let me rule you and you can have everything you want.

Stanford Pines: Kingdon as great… damn! I can never remember that line!

Bill Cipher: Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.

Stanford Pines: My kingdom as great. My kingdom as great… you have no power over me!

[barbaricjester]

Okay so I know everyone draws Stan as a gargoyle in Monsterfalls but have we considered a minotaur? He's got the deep voice and the big brown eyes and the build for it.

[incomingalbatross]

Sooo... I just watched Labyrinth, and I remember seeing some posts of yours talking about how it's good and similar to other stories (like OTGW). And in some ways, I see that? But also like.... I need a little help making any sense of it, lol

Sorry, I know this is super random, but I was just curious to find out why you like it and what you see in it, so I thought I'd ask!

Of course, I'm happy to talk about Labyrinth! :) Thank you for the ask!

(Disclaimer that I haven't watched it in a year or two, but I still remember it fairly well.)

In terms of similarity to OTGW: both stories center on a teenage protagonist who is a dreamer, but too caught up in themselves, and to some extent running away from their life. This manifests PARTICULARLY in their neglected and/or rejected responsibility to their younger half-brother. They end up in a liminal, otherworldly space that operates on much more narrative logic than they're used to, and can only save their lives/souls and make it home again by saving said younger brothers first.

Sarah rejects her brother at the beginning of her story, while Wirt abandons his care for Greg near the end, but you can see the similar beats there, right? They're both dealing with normal teenage stress + the stress of parental divorce (probably) and remarriage, and seeing their younger brothers as an emblem of Everything Wrong In Their Lives. In reality, their younger brothers are forcing them to live in reality, where they have duties and connections to other people, and can only find maturity/fulfillment through embracing that.

Jareth and the Beast are also very similar figures, I think; Jareth is a more seductive tempter figure, playing to Sarah's ego and to romance tropes, while the Beast plays with hope and despair. But they are both trickster figures who use bargains -- seeming windows of hope -- to entrap vulnerable mortals (Wirt and Greg, in the Beast's case).

AND. Both Jareth and the Beast are defeated by someone calling them out as empty and powerless! Wirt says, "this is dumb," and demolishes the Beast's entire facade -- he's not keeping souls in the lantern, he's the one dependent on the lantern, and he can't keep Wirt or Greg if they're ready to go home. Sarah's "You have no power over me" has the exact same weight -- it's wrapped up in theatrics of these being Specific Magic Words, but it's the meaning of them that shatters Jareth's power and sends her and Toby home.

In both stories, evil tries very, very hard to convince these kids that they need it. Jareth wraps it up in a lot more complicated temptations -- I'll make you happy, I'll make you powerful, I'll give you glamorous parties and material comfort and everything you ever wanted if you fall down and worship me -- while the Beast sticks to a brute-force message of despair, with the crumbs he offers as all that there is -- "There is only my way." But in both cases, the message is: you need me.

And in both stories the protagonists go: No. I don't need you. I don't need anything from you. In fact, you have nothing to give.

At which point it's revealed that evil needed them. Needed them to buy into its strength, its ability, its substance -- or it doesn't have any. It crumbles away, and they go home.

...So! Those are the big similarities between them, I think, for me? I like Labyrinth, as its own movie, because I like the classic fairy-tale structure of "the fairies/goblins/elves took my loved one because I messed up, and now I gotta get them back the hard way." I love the atmosphere of the Labyrinth and Sarah's friends (though your mileage may definitely vary on this movie, depending on your tolerance for Henson Creations ;P). I love Sarah, who messes up, but who is still plucky and brave and kind through most of her trials! The friendship between her and Hoggle (...a Woodsman parallel?) is my favorite. And while I'm very much in the minority of this fandom in not really feeling Jareth's appeal, as a villain I think David Bowie does an excellent, glittery job. And we get music.

[4belg]

Bill Cipher, the king monarch of Euclidians

an AU where the GF characters are based on the plot of the movie Labyrinth (1986).

In this universe, Labyrinth!Bill would be represented as Jareth, the king of the goblins. Their world, Euclydia, instead of being destroyed by them, they would have completely taken over that world, with the ability to not only control individuals, but also to transform them from two-dimensional to three-dimensional forms and vice versa.

Labyrinth!Bill when he was summoned by Stanford in an attempt to get rid of all the anguish he felt after discovering that his brother Stanley sabotaged his science fair project, Bill ends up getting rid of Stanley. In a way, this is what Stanford was hoping for, but he didn't want to end up losing the only person in the world who understood him best.

Some characters from the film Labyrinth would be replaced by other characters from Gravity Falls, such as:

Sarah → Stanford Pines;

Hoggle → Fiddleford Mcgucket;

Sarah's brother → Stanley Pines.

(I'm accepting suggestions)

Others I still think about how to fit in so that the narrative is interesting and doesn't get lost. I'm not using the films entirely as guides, just inspiration.

Also, keeping in my thoughts about adding characters from Flatland (1965) to compose the narrative, such as the Square opposing what Labyrinth!Bill worships.

I'm not using other versions of Flatland because I believe this one in particular can add a lot of the vibe I want in my story building, the aesthetics and how it is told itself is very good in my opinion :3c.

I've had suggestions to make Sarah like Stanley, but I wanted to write the story in a different way outside of what already exists in the Gravity Falls universe, so it would be a reverse event (i guess). I still need to see more about it and probably rewatch the movie just to get a better structure of what I absorbed.

SERIOUSLY, it's very hard to make a Bill Cipher design and AU that's unique and interesting. For me, ALL the designs are good, but I'm being harsh with myself when I started to make mine 😭

References I'm using for this AU

Flatland (1965)

Labyrinth (1986)

Kiki and Bouba! (just a small easter eggs)

that's it for now. buy gold, bye!

[sorrowfulwill]

IM BACK YEAH YEAHAHWHH

turns out the only problem I had with drawing him this whole time was his pin straight hair…………i literally could’ve started cutting it w/ a razor and gotten out of my willblock or whatever

[arcane-strangeness]

hey did anyone catch the labyrinth reference in one of the gravity falls shorts

Book of bill had me doing a rewatch lol

[synergysilhouette]

Plotting out "Rumplestiltskin" (Disney movie)

After I finished the Reinvention era, I decided I wanted to do more fleshed-out posts of original films I wish Disney had done during their previous eras. To start, I decided to work on the films suggested for the post-renaissance era, which I did a revision post that you can find here. It's best to read that to understand what I'm about to mention.

Background: By this time, Disney has not greenlit a fairy tale since the 90s, and when John Musker and Ron Clements come to them with an idea for "Rumpelstiltskin," they are open to it--albeit somewhat hesitantly; they've achieved unprecedented success with mostly original ideas, and the thought of going "back to basics" does bother them somewhat, with the fear that they'll be attacked for running out of ideas. Nonetheless, they let the film pass, scrapping their "Home on the Range" film. They enlist Alan Menken and Tim Rice for the music, and the team opts for a darker take than most Disney films (later said to have inspired Guillermo del Toro), and they consider briefly to do a non-European setting, but it's quickly scrapped, and a medieval England is considered, with particular inspiration from the Late Middle Ages to the Tudor period. While the specific setting and historical aspects (including pitches for Scandinavian, Slavic, Brazilian, and Iberian settings) are eventually removed for "magical purposes," Tudor-inspired fashion (eh, more 40% accuracy than 100%) is kept. They realize the unlikeability of having a king who marries a woman he threatens to kill three times over, and it's not a desirable trait for marketing, so they take influence from the king in "Cinderella," King Hubert from "Sleeping Beauty," and King Triton from "The Little Mermaid" to make a well-meaning but stressed and temperamental king who offers his much more benevolent son to the protagonist. They also scrap an early draft featuring a love triangle between the protagonist, the prince, and the antagonist, and the thought of doing 3D is considered, but eventually passed on. They planned on making the protagonist "older" (somewhere in her 30s), but Disney worries that this would alienate their younger audience, and move her to mid-20s--a bit older than they'd like, but not too young to be a mother without upsetting the parental audience.

(Note: This film will have been released in 2004, but several visual aids used are from media post-2004 and are serve to give the audience the idea of how the characters would look/act, rather than the influences Disney would use in the early 2000s.)

Plot

In a faraway land, a kingdom is wrought with misfortune. It is heavily in debt after a war has drained their coffers, and the economy has eroded. They're in debt to other countries, and not repaying them risks another way, and raising taxes could lead to civil war. A noble brags that his daughter will bring all the kingdom's problem to an end by turning straw into gold, and when the ill-tempered king hears of this, he gives her an ultimatum: spin several pounds of straw into gold for three days straight and marry his son, or her father will be executed for his insolence and she will be imprisoned for fraud. She undertakes this task successfully and falls in love with the much more amiable prince, and years later, she gives birth to a child. The day the child is to be christened, a guest bursts in, reminding her of a "deal" they made, revealing they spun straw into gold in exchange for gifts from her, the final of which being her child. When the princess begs to be let out of the deal, the creature humors her with a game: find their child, and discover the creature's name. With that, the fiend and her child disappears, and the princess only has 3 days to save them.

Characters

Aurelia--A quiet young noblewoman who lived a naive and sheltered life due to her upbringing, she was taught to be quiet and demure, and her station gave her a fairy tale look on life until she too was struck by poverty. Her father is an advantageous man whose kindness in these circumstances has been pushed down and seen as a sign of weakness. He had tried to suggest a match between Aurelia and Prince Aldous before, but was unsuccessful until he felt pressure by his contemporaries to brag about why his daughter deserved to marry the prince. When her father is threatened with death should she fail, she makes a deal with a mysterious creature that appears each night to spin gold with her, though they only tell her what they want after they do a day's work. In doing so, she gives up two things her deceased mother gave her that she promised never to give up: a necklace and a ring. But true to her word, she does, and she is horrified to realize a potential child is the price to be paid for a third night. When her son Caspian is kidnapped, she races to the far reaches of the country, following clues to the creature's hideout and their true name.

R--Hint, hint. People are always willing to make deals when they're desperate, yet they don't know what the price will be. No matter. R is quite a vicious fellow (or lady? Their form and associated pronouns change to fit the ocassion) who's all too happy to take advantage of the ocassion. Disney took the opportunity to make the shapeshifter's disguises appear as twisted parodies of iconic Disney characters, along with original designs. R is endlessly imposing and clever, managing to finagle Aurelia out of a necklace that tracks whoever she wants and a ring that can summon creatures to assist her--but since she had no idea about the true nature of these items, the only loss she felt from handing them over was of a sentimental nature. But now that they're in R's possession, they're able to not only track Aurelia's progress, but hinder it as well. Should she fail to find and name R in three days time, Caspian will become corrupted in R's domain and be their "son" forevermore. Tick tock, tick, tock...

Aldous--The crown prince of Sceptimar and the oldest of three brothers, he has to deal with his overbearing father's expectations. After the death of his mother, he sought to get away from home and was educated abroad, and both situations contributed to his father's bitter and controlling attitude. He is sympathetic to Aurelia's situation, though is not pleased that his hand is offered as a prize in exchange for her success. Similar to his bride, he starts off as superficially kind, good at keeping up appearances and saying nice things, but when he joins his wife on retrieving their child, his compassion becomes genuine, and his grief helps him develop sympathy and empathy for others. That said, he hasn't completely lost his sense of haughtiness, but most say his demeanor contributes to his charm, in proper doses. His cleverness compliments Aurelia's, and his physical abilities (fighting, horseback riding, etc.) rubs off on her. To put it simply, what was once a "reward marriage" became a relationship where both parties help them become better people. Before Caspian was kidnapped, Aurelia feared Aldous would become controlling similar to his father.

Songs

Sacrifice--The story of how Sceptimar, once a prosperous kingdom, fell into disrepair thanks to continuous war, and was financially bankrupt, and King Osric hoped to marry his sons off to powerful princesses in exchange for a significant dowries.

Golden Opportunity--Lord Ricard is quick to fold to pressure, but when his contemporaries turn their annoyance at the king considering raising taxes on him, he makes a reckless brag that his daughter has been blessed with the ability to spin straw into gold, and they relay this to the king, not believing him.

Don't You?--In despair, Aurelia prepares to be imprisoned for life, but laments the possible death of her father, and a creature hears her praise, appearing and offering to help her three days in a row. Each day they finish a task, they ask her for something, to which she hesitates, and they remind her that they can expose her at any moment, and it will be her fault at this point if her father is executed.

Something For Me--Aurelia must venture to find Caspian before he is corrupted by R, and prince Aldous joins her to help rescue their child. R scoffs at their urge to make deals, as Aurelia already agreed to the original terms of the deals and they had no reason to bargain further with her. But they do have some magical items that Aurelia so graciously gave them, so it's not like they won't win this game anyway.

Life Without--Aurelia and Aldous lament on their childhood and situations that led them to their current predicament, with each of them blaming the other's father for their situation. That said, they've developed a deep love for each other, and they've gained so much from their union, not least of all a child that they adore above all else.

Who Are You (with "Don't You" reprise)--Based on the hints that they've left behind (and an accidental one), Aurelia is able to deduce R's true identity as well Aldous finding Caspian hidden in the domain. R, despite their rage, is bound to the last deal they made, and relinquishes the child to the prince and princess. But they warn the couple that this isn't goodbye; anytime someone is desperate, anytime someone wants something, Rumpelstiltskin will be there to grant their deepest desire.

Hope you enjoyed this! Lemme know if you have any questions. Technically the next original film from my revision of the post-renaissance era is "The Chronicles of Narnia," but it'd pretty much be the same as the live-action film, just animated and a musical, so IDK if I'll post it. So that probably means I'll just move onto "Tam Lin."

[caspercryptid]

perhaps... Billford Labyrinth au? Whether Ford wishes Stan away, or Stan wishes Ford away, up to you!

Anon. I love you. I fucking love this movie. That said, no one needs to be familiar with it to read this-- king bill cipher, fantasy heroine ford, nothing else going on here. except the labyrinth. There's a labyrinth. I did a sort of bent AU where ford was fucking around with research in a more magic than science way without realizing he'd made contact with Something Else.

(requests still open for billford and billfiddlesford get it while it's hot)

___

Ford didn't mean it.

Sure, his brother drove him crazy. Sure, his brother showing up here asking for money-- wandering into the middle of his research on other dimensions and almost killing himself--

Maybe he could admit it now. He hadn't really been angry with Stanley for showing up. He'd been scared when Stanley walked into the middle of one of his experiments. Not because he'd break it again-- he shouldn't have said that. He shouldn't have shoved Stanley back against the circle of stone and said I wish you were gone. What had he done?

His brother is gone.

The device-- he didn't even know what it did. Parts of it were tech but most of it was just-- stones. He'd just been having dreams and he'd laid out the stones the way he was told to and he'd stood in the circle. He tries to play it back in his head. Stanley had gotten out of the car. He'd-- been afraid, suddenly. Instinctively, shapelessly. And it had turned to anger even before his brother started to speak. He doesn't remember the words. they'd fought. he'd cut his hand open on the rocks, shoved Stanley when Stanley had tried to come forward and offer him help.

I wish you were gone.

"I didn't mean it!" He calls, out loud this time, "Please, please, give him back, I didn't mean it--" "Oh, didn't you?"

Ford whirls, trying to find the source of the voice, but its echoing from everywhere around him. "You've always wanted him gone! You didn't want to share a spotlight with anyone! and why should you? You're the genius--" The voice sounds-- so familiar, but he can't quite place it. Like something he heard in a dream. A name comes to his lips, too, and he doesn't quite know where it's from either. "Cipher." Above the stone in the center of the circle a triangle forms-- it's like darkness collects together and becomes light, like a thousand stars ripped out of a nebula, forming yellow-gold.

"Aw, you remember!" it says, "It's so hard to get you mortals to hold onto anything from your dreams." Ford swallows. "--I. I didn't mean it," He repeats. "I never wanted him gone. I want him back."

"Oh, come on. I granted your wish!"

"It was just a fight. Please." "i don't negotiate with beggars."

Ford steels himself.

"Then tell me what I have to do, Cipher," He says, sharply.

For a triangle without a mouth, Bill looks awfully pleased. "You know the rules," he says, "Do you remember them?"

To Ford's surprise, he....almost does.

"--The castle," He says, "At the center of the nightmare realm. I have to get to it, don't I?"

"Attaboy!" he says, "There's my genius. Come on, Fordsy! show me what you got!" He floats backwards, and the ground around him turns to black-- the dots of nebulas. Behind him, Ford can see the walls of the labyrinth, the challenge he'd been wandering in his dreams. He'd assumed he'd just...done too many puzzles. But here it is.

He swallows. He can't help but be a little thrilled by the challenge-- despite the stakes, despite the risk. The unsolvable maze. a chance to prove himself.

"I'll do it," he says, and steps into the dark.

[chrisdoesanart]

Some Labyrinth!Billford for the soul?

[bobbieisnotcool]

if i existed in the same universe as neverland, terabithia, gravity falls, the labyrinth, wonderland, summer camp island, or any other whimsical childhood film/show land just know you would never see me again

[debbie-anniversary]

Gravity Falls will always have my respect for its creative weirdness, but especially more so due to the fact that the creator was going to make a PARODY EPISODE BASED ON LABYRINTH before Disney said nah

Edit: I'd like to credit the original creator on here again too aside from linking their video! XD Check them out at @hkthatgffan for more Gravity Falls facts and content!

[detectivejigsawpines]

My inner self, after seeing my creation: “…Why are you like this?”

[vivi-selfships]

Out of curiosity I have decided to figure out and rank my f/os body counts.

The Doctor: roughly 1,000,000,250,491,065,798??

Rick: 29,016,000,000

Yuno: 8,000,000,155 (155 in the shows run + THE ENTIRE PLANET that falls apart because of her)

Father Paul: roughly 230 (I'm blaming him for all vampire related deaths not caused directly by "the angel".)

Loki: 177

Hannibal: 45 (show)

Afton: 30

Dracula: roughly 13 + unknown victims (book)

Lucille: 6

Himiko: 5+

V: 3

Sherlock Holmes: 2 (BBC)

Snape: 1 (that we know of)

As far as the animatronics go (Monty, Roxy and the Daycare attendant) they do not have any canonically confirmed kills, only killing Gregory in the bad endings. Alastor, Sebastian and Elias have almost certainly killed hundreds but have no definite confirmable numbers.

Ciel and Thomas technically haven't killed anyone but are definitely both accomplices and/or the cause, that one is complicated because Ciel is definitely responsible for most of Sebastian's kills but again, TECHNICALLY, he did not do it and while Thomas knew that Lucille was killing his wives, he himself never killed anybody.

And then Jareth, Aizawa, the Pines brothers, Lucifer and Stolas have no confirmed or implied kills.