#TriAngle Records

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

I'm sweating and crying, but I own someone's life now so that's cool

You guys BETTER be clicking the pictures to see the details better >:(

Part one is HERE!!

[scurvyboy]

human bill but he's just a fucked up little amalgamation of body parts that he slapped together

obligatory image under the cut

[gunsatthaphan]

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[krysmcscience]

Don't mind me, just slacking on a big Billford comic by making other far more ridiculous Billford comics and also some AU art (please excuse my slapdash human!Bill thank you please, also before anyone asks the art style is messy and all over the place because idgaf LOL)

This started out as an excuse to design a Bill Cipher-inspired "wedding" dress, but then spiraled wildly out of control. Various rambles and a bunch more human!Bill arts under the cut, including another silly little comic at the end! (Feel free to skip the rambles, I won't be offended. I know I'm bad at shutting up. XD)

I may or may not write some comedy stuff for this AU, which I'm calling 'For Better Or Worse (But Mostly Worse)'. While Ford DOES remember getting sloshed enough for one thing to lead to making out with another after karaoke, neither he nor Bill remember this wedding, At All. The Love God did nothing to dissuade them from going hog wild on their marriage spending, either, so it got...uh. Exorbitantly Expensive. As in, the grand total could probably buy the entire fucking MOON sort of expensive. (It's fine, don't worry, Bill's good enough at crime to be able to afford it.) Also, because the logic of this AU is mostly dictated by Rule of Funny, the Love God's powers are close to unlimited when it comes to matters of romance, but ONLY when it comes to matters of romance. (Like weddings!)

Want an empty human vessel to smash the soul of a triangle into for date nights or when it's convenient, or perhaps even when it's NOT convenient? Easy peasy! Want the marriage to be recognized in every corner of the multiverse from now until the end of time, thus making any potential future divorce nigh-on impossible? Can do! Want to buy an entire beach for the ceremony and honeymoon and in general, and totally not at all because it would be Super Hilarious to prevent any specific movies from being made on that very same beach in the future? Fine, whatever, it's not his finances he's ruining!

Does the Love God also provide special rings that just so happen to turn incorporeal as long as the "happy couple" doesn't remember that they barged into his dreams to bully him into presiding over their marriage? ...No comment!

He spends the next thirty years trying and failing to get in touch with either of them for payment. This is why you should always demand half the money up front, my guy!

Also it's absolutely a traditional Jewish wedding, because I like the idea of Bill demanding all the keepsakes from the marriage that he paid for, and being completely confused when one of the things he's handed is a fancy container full of broken glass. He gets it later, but in the moment, he thinks the Love God is just fucking with him some more.

Ramble over! Here's the full dress that caused the comic to happen, along with what Ford wound up wearing at the wedding (and begrudgingly agreeing to put on again later for Reasons), aaaaand also a close-up of Bill's ring:

I may have forgotten to draw Bill's hair floofier when drawing the back of the dress, lmao

Since double ring ceremonies have been leaking over into Jewish wedding customs for a while now, Ford also has a ring, but his is the much more traditional plain gold band. There's definitely a message engraved on the inside - embarrassing, cringe, or incriminating somehow - but I haven't decided what it is yet, so use your imagination for now. XD Bill, on the other hand, saw the phrase 'traditional plain gold band' and said "No Thank You" before proceeding to embellish his ring to his liking. And because he's a secret sap who adores Ford's extra fingers, the triangle points add up to twelve, as do the engraved stars. Yes, they're stars, not dots, I just got lazy. There's also six lashes on the eye gem, and probably an eye engraving on the inside with another six lashes. (Bill's got it BAD, okay? We all know this.)

Here are the initial scribbles of Bill's custom vessel in more casual attire, please ignore the wonky anatomy and the fact that I flat out refuse to ever draw him with a proper top hat:

He does actually need a cane in this vessel; since Bill tends to possess men and especially Ford more often than not, he's used to having a higher center of gravity when in a human body, so his ability to balance is pretty garbage. (He may or may not topple over with concerning regularity.) As for his empty eye socket, his bangs don't do much to hide it since he's so high-energy (dude is constantly on the move), and he also refuses to wear a patch over it, because 1.) why bother, and 2.) it's more fun to freak people out.

To better align with Ford's attraction towards the strange, the vessel was designed with super minor shapeshifting ability - Bill can look like a perfectly normal human, but he can also make the teeth and fingers sharper whenever he likes (which is mostly just when he's angry or being more of a menace than usual), as well as slit down the pupils or outright ditch the irises altogether. He can also have whatever he wants in the downstairs department, just because I'm an indecisive bitch on that front, lmao. Maybe he can have boobs if he wants them, too, but I ain't drawin' tits on no triangle, nuh-uh, no sir. His powers are otherwise limited down to what humans can do, because for some reason, the Love God doesn't trust Bill to not snap into Immediate Apocalypse Mode if he's given a physical form that's actually all his and no one else's.

Due to the body being all his and no one else's, it's also not really a standard possession so much as it is just...Bill being temporarily human. He's a lot more aware of and in tune with his human body's senses than he ever was with his "puppets", which makes things like pain a lot more intense. (He is mostly fine with this, because he's a fukken masochist.)

A bit more fashion stuff, including beach and party attire~

The beach outfit was mostly me trying and failing to nail down his body shape, which is still not bottom-heavy enough. I then decided to slap a bikini on it, before making it supremely unsexy with a pair of fugly shorts, because Bill's fashion choices are not allowed to be conventionally attractive. Meanwhile, the party outfit was mostly me looking at the casual attire I designed, asking 'how would Bill make this Worse', and then drawing the result. The mismatched thigh-highs are killing me inside! :D

No, his vessel can't actually summon fire, I just drew it for funzies before I decided on said vessel's limitations. Yes, the gold brick tattoos are absolutely a reference to the fic 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - I simply could not resist.

I also HAD to draw Bill in one of his canonical(?) shirts, just made tank-top'd:

He is absolutely about to over-correct and fall backwards after this. USE YOUR CANE, GOOFBALL!!! (I meant to draw Bill closer to this degree of bottom-heavy in the other images, but. Alas. I am bad at anatomy, LOL)

And, last but not least before More Comic Time, I attempted to draw him closer to Gravity Falls style:

Jury's out on whether or not I succeeded, but - hey. I tried. Now have some Handyman Bill AU, but with my goofy human design, instead:

Hey, it's a 'mystery snack', and the guy wanted A BITE to eat - the joke was right there, guys!!! (Based on this post, because it just screamed BILL CIPHER to me.)

whoops i forgor bills ring and cracks ahaha too late now

I WILL SHUT UP AND STOP RAMBLING NOW K THX BYYYYYE

[badassindistress]

After fourteen years, the mourning of the nation of Valaan had taken on some sort of festival air. It still carried a sombre mood, the King could not bear it were it any different, but the performance of the lost Prince’s favourite plays and the strict prohibition of unrelated or unnecessary labour turned the event into a sort of holiday for those for whom the Prince had only been a distant figure.

Commerce flourished and money flowed as river water from everybody’s hands on the days preceding the solemn occasion. Foreign dignitaries came, to secure alliances and pretend at superiority. But they were not the right targets. They had guards and armies. And it was their servants that carried the fat purses. Princesses did not do their own shopping, not even foreign ones.

He fixed his eyes on the pale lady silently trailing in the imperious Princess’ wake. He had a sharp knife in his scuffed boot, but he would not use it on this lady. He would merely cut her purse string and lose himself swiftly in the crowd. The coins would finally pay for the doctor and—

Ayenna woke and did not remember who she was.

She reached out blindly to hands she knew would be there. Dolvan grasped her hands tightly.

“Where are you?” she heard him say, as she frantically tried to blink the vision away.

“Valaan, the Disappearance Day.” She shook her head abruptly. “I have never been in Valaan, have I?”

He cupped her face in his large steady hands, thumbs softly stroking her pulse point to slow the frantic pace of her heartbeat. As it slowed, her usual sight returned, the dark blur of his curls growing details with every blink.

She saw Dolvan, steady and concerned, smiling only when he saw her truly looking back.

“Are you here?” he asked, warm hands leaving her neck.

She nodded.

“Good. Anything important?”

His hands reached for his notebook. Ayenna shook her head, the last spots leaving her vision. Her curls fell into her eyes. She swept them behind her ears with a sigh.

“I don’t think so. A pickpocket at the Valaan mourning festival. There was a noble lady, but he did not mean her harm. I think he was a child.”

Dolvan nodded and made a note.

“We can ask the farmer when the festival is, I think his husband is Valani.”

Ayenna focused, trying to remember any significant detail. It was rare she got such long scenes. Most of the times she only got flashes of occurrences from far away and even that was unusual. Most people only got fleeting feelings of foreboding or good fortune.

The best Dolvan ever got was the sudden certainty that he would one day lose his socks. It only served to make him more meticulous about his possessions, but it wouldn’t be changing the fate of the nation anytime soon.

Dolvan’s face appeared in front of her again, breaking her concentration.

“Where are you?”

Ayenna pulled a face.

“With you, in the stables of a farm in Low Balmoran, desperate for some breakfast.”

He nodded, satisfied, and went to gather their things.

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[huginsmemory]

Even with TBOB and thisisnotawebsite.com there's... Still so much we don't know about Bill. Like ok yeah he's given a tragic background, we know a bit more about his henchmaniacs, but we really don't know a lot. Like, what happened directly after he accidentally destroyed his dimension? It isn't said. Sure time baby KNOWS about Bill's destruction of his dimension, but it seems like he didn't show up after Bill's dimension was destroyed to apprehend him because he only knows about Bill after Bill tries to make a deal with him, causing Bill's wanted poster. And how did Bill become basically the overlord of the nightmare realm, and gather all his henchmaniacs? Like there's a good period where we just don't know. And it's implied he's shocked and horrified (likely even dissociates, since he does that) after he destroys his dimension. But his characterization doesn't seem by that point to be one that immediately goes into a self-destructive, violent god-becoming maniacal spiral of self hatred; it's more one to be overwhelmed with grief and spend a good long time in the midst of his grief, then necessarily he's about to DO anything. And generally speaking trope wise, there's steps missing; typically in this sort of scenario, the usual progression is this:

characterized as monster due to being different in some way

tries to prove their not

ends up hurting someone anyways

gets further villainized, and antagonized by others

Acceptance of being a monster, and goes okay? You wanted a monster? I'll be a monster.

Now this fits Bill's early life, up to number 4, but we don't know what happens immediately after. It's possible he just went into his spiral immediately after, but it feels wrong, because it is missing the part of someone further villainizing him beyond himself which causes him to lash out due to the expectation (and internalized) idea that he would cause harm. I'd assume maybe some kind of interdimensional authority showed up and accused him of purposely trying to kill his dimension, which triggered his "okay, then I'll be a monster", or even a situation where his 'monstrosity' through the badge of killing his dimension is garners him respect. Considering that his henchmaniacs are chosen out of monstrosity and violence as a badge of honor, it feels very much like this would make sense, except none of them really know about Bill's dimension. He doesn't brag about the violence of it; he only calls it a liberation, contrary to the idea that Bill ever used it to gain clout. Instead, it's more likely that an interdimensional authority showed up and accused Bill, except from circumstances, it doesn't seem like it was Time Baby, so not sure who it would be... but at the same time, that expectation is often required for the character to truly embrace their 'monstrosity' and become truly violent. Or perhaps it was delayed after the destruction of his dimension, later when he begins to run with his henchmaniacs and disregards the law, but that also doesn't feel satisfactory for character development. Or perhaps I'm just overthinking this trope...

Also, how did he have his powers? Some is clearly stuff he's always had; pyrokinesis from that one rhyme, the ability to see into 3d, and he was somehow able to destroy his dimension by whatever he did to let Euclydians see the stars (telekinesis?), but beyond that? Was he always all-seeing? How did he become a 'dream demon'? Are his deals actually binding or does he lie? Are these things that he acquired later, because Euclydians seem to be written about as if they usually don't have any of these abilities, nor the abilities Bill is known to have when young, nor did Bill seem to be able to be all seeing when he was younger. Plus, how was Bill able to survive the destruction of his dimension, if he's technically made of the same stuff as everyone else, who all seems to have a physical form? Why then does he seems to be characterized as a being made of pure energy and thought; is that just in Earth's dimension, or does he have a physical form within the nightmare realm? There's multiple things that are contradictory about his body (mouth-eye, yet talked about removing his exoskeleton to feed--not sure exactly when this was mentioned--plus his mouth located under his bricks and bowtie in his exoskeleton in journal 3). But he seems so thrilled by his physical form though on earth, and we know that physical forms exist within the Nightmare realm as Ford was in it... yet it seems like hes characterized to have no physical form, so did he perhaps lose his physical form when his dimension died? Did he technically die with them too, but with his powers was able to survive essentially as a ghost like he tells Dipper you become without a body?

[jtophat]

Spoilers for The Outsiders Musical cast recording

I’m listening to The Outsiders Musical cast recording and I was not expecting it to be so gay. Like, Pony and Johnny sing about how they want to get a house together to watch sunsets and work on a garden with each other. And then in another song they sing “The reason I’m living is you/ Wherever you go/ That’s where I’ll be/ Even if death tags along/ I don’t mind there is still you and me.” And then proceed to sing about how they will never leave the other alone

I don’t even ship Johnny and Ponyboy but those lyrical choices are just so gay

[p1zzaparty]

Idk if I'm just not on the right side of the fandom but i need more mike headcannons

Genuinely always loved the idea that after the events of the second movie, he becomes a full blown paranormal phenomenon researcher/investigator.

Traveling around the country investigating phenomenon's much like It, maybe even keeping a record or book of his findings.

And of course keeping up with the losers as much as he can, he's the glue that keeps them all together. Even if he's the only one writing letters, sending emails, texts, or even the occasional calls.

He's enthusiastic about these nightmarish horrors beyond our comprehension!!! Raving about aliens and ghosts and creatures that eat your skin alive!!!

[knotsoangelic]

i just love watching him eat unfathomable things (in any form)

[rainybraindays]

Okay serious question: why do some people want the way Colin realizes his feelings to be though Penelope being with someone else, even temporarily? Like doesn't that undermine his character? Doesn't that make him look shallow and like he just doesn't her attention off him? Like some of you are so excited for this prospect and I don't understand.

Him coming into his feelings, on his own, is far more fulfilling. It shows that he loves her not he attention he gives her. It also just feels more like Colin to me than him being almost toddler esc and going "no fair! She was mine firsft!" You all say you want jealous colin but in the book he is jealous, not of another person but of her writing. And i think thats so much better than doing yet another love triangle. Like they have so many, far more interesting ways to go about this season, and they're seemingly going for the cheapest weakest route, and so many of you are applauding it.

I just don't get it.

[the-gay-prometheus]

Actually I'm ok with the fact that I didn't get to go to NYCC for Alex's panel because, having reviewed the footage, I think if I was there in person I would have simply actually passed away

[uselessnocturnal]

what the fuck what thefcyk wha thfuCK DID I JUST LISTEN TO

[anime-to-the-t]

[waitingforsecretsouls]

Most disastrous love triangle in the history of the Tower. Get memed on some more.

[lexydakitten]

i cheated my karma just to leave chimney cuz i am So tired rn and oh my god the white triangle is back. is it just a sky islands thing or what cuz im pretty sure all i can gloss is its an indicator the game is breaking. i should be taking the giant triangle as a warning after last time the flickering was wild