#teen will cipher

[thewritertiger]

Remember dipper gleeful x will cipher (reverse falls au)? Well, forget about dipper gleeful, I gave you dipper pines X will cipher in my school au *insert evil laugh*

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

The worst trauma comes from those who you love

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Gravity Falls doodle dump!! Mostly Gideon. He's my favorite if you can't tell immediately, lol. I have zero time for drawing outside comms, but I had some time yesterday, while my mom and I were out and about doing errands. I had some spare printer paper on me to draw on. The first three of dipper and "canon" human bill, I actually drew when I was visiting with my cousins last week. And the last one of gideon flexing is a wip, I'm planning on making that a print. That wip sketch has been on patreon for a month or two actually :'D

But all this GF resurgence stuff has gotten me thinking about how I envision older gideon, again. I love him so much!!!!! I headcanon that he's a vampire, there's a little bit of that in here. Maybe more on that in another post??

[arttsuka]

Bonus:

(Even tho Bill doesn't deserve the apology)

[extrahorribledynne]

honestly who could even want a season 3 this is literally 'the everything else' of gravity falls. i'm not left wanting. i'm feasting on everything from the book of bill and thisisnotawebsite. the only thing i want is to rewatch the entire show again

like it leaves it in 'our' (the readers) hands. what do YOU see in ciphers corpse? is it the end? is it only the beginning? we were invited to participate both in the book (literally, with it making asks to write this, put your hand here, etc) and the website code hunt. its up to you. here are the pieces of everything after the end. have fun.

[feral-n-fanatic]

Siblings! Book of bill spoilers!

Being bills older brother had to be something.

[triplexmile]

I really like "Gravity Falls", though I haven't watched a lot of it. That Wendy picture is one of my most favorite pieces that I've made. It was when I feel like my "Cartoony" style was at its peak. I wish I could find my way back there. The reason I chose Bill Cipher for the background in that Raven picture is because I wanted to put something back there, and he seemed like a "King in Yellow", since he's...well...yellow. And kind of a king? Cipher is also a Euclidean, and everyone knows how fond Lovecraft was of "non-Euclidean" geometry. And Lovecraft referred to Robert Chambers (the author of "The King in Yellow" as a Titan.

So in a weird way it makes sense to use Bill Cipher in the background in a picture of Raven dressed as The Queen in Yellow. It makes sense enough for me, anyway!

[27nox]

Someone is getting quite… possessive

[ghostwithstrawberries]

Teenage Dipper and Mabel Pines

Since it's October I've been rewatching the show and I always forget how amazing it is.

Total time: 9 hours and 52 minutes

-SCB

[pkiir]

More handyman bill doodles I did earlier

What do we think of me writing a short fic of this

[crystalrose043]

Yeah so i had an idea that bill would have to fix all the damage he did on Earth as a last trial to be freed from the Theraprism... and also i am bad at drawing cartoons and it always ends up looking like adventure time 😭 i think my dialogue/characterization is always so cringe and ooc so thats why i almost never upload fanart anymore 💀

[bricky-brikson]

Thinking about the "trilion and 12 years old" joke about Bill and thinking about his psychological development after the Euclydia massacre

In the show, we see that while he can plan ahead and manipulate people, he's often foiled by his own impulsiveness/anger/emotions. His ultimate goal is to escape the Nightmare Realm/Dimension 0. And sure, he says this is because he promised the Henchmaniacs he'd help them, but ultimately as others have pointed out, Bill is terrified of death. He wants to live forever - have "a party that never ends with a host who never dies". All he cares about is himself, his own survival and hedonism

All this to say, Bill has the emotional development of a teen. He hasn't gotten past the self-centredness nor the reward/adrenaline seeking behaviour, but has emotionally evolved enough to be able to manipulate people and such (and be able to feel guilt, even if it's just a picogram). Though his immaturity shows when he doesn't get his way.

One might think that, being a trillion years old, he would've developed a bit, but here's the thing - major traumas can "freeze" people at certain developmental stages. We don't know how old Bill was when Euclydia was destroyed - though considering his behaviour I would bet he was a teen.

(Or whatever the equivalent of that stage is for his species. They have exoskeletons- do they have instars then? Whatever, that's not on the topic of this post)

Seeing his entire dimension destroyed after (what was probably) a well-intentioned attempt to show them what he saw ("They'll see. They'll all see.") permanently emotionally stunted him. However it was he got his powers, he was a teen/young adult with powerful abilities who had just erased an entire dimension from existence and was now accountable to no one but himself while also being deeply traumatized. His constant partying and implied substance use were probably the only coping mechanisms he could think of, dissociating because he has no idea how to actually confront what happened. The way he talks about the massacre - he detaches himself from it yet still admits guilt ("A monster."). Only post-divorce does he implicate himself in the event, though still obscuring its true nature ("I liberated them.").

Being surrounded by individuals who are similarly maladjusted for most of his trillion-year lifespan certainly didn't help things. The Henchmaniacs are likely somewhat stunted as well, or at the very least don't offer much in the way of mature/emotionally adult conversation, especially since Bill reacts so poorly (read: homocidally) to any sense of malcontent.

Which is to say, I think part of why Ford was important to Bill was because, compared to him, Ford was more emotionally developed (Ford is emotionally stunted in his own ways, but not as severely as Bill IMO). Subconsciously, their relationship was reaching a hand out to the scared teenager in the centre of Bill's psyche and offering him someone to lean on- someone who had their shit a little bit more figured out. A kind of figure Bill hadn't had since he killed his parents.

Of course, such vulnerability probably felt so alien that Bill tried to distance himself. I always wondered - why didn't Bill just lie to Ford about his plan to take over Dimension 49'\ ? Ford would've believed him, finished the portal, and Bill's plan would've been fulfilled. Well, I think it was Bill trying to burn the emotional bridge. In his own impulsivity, his own desire to dissociate instead of confront, he would rather make sure that he would never be able to be vulnerable to Ford than fulfill his grand plan.

...

I don't remember where I was going with this. There's no conclusion. I'm spinning this triangular multidimensional tyrant at physically impossible speeds in my mind and if I didn't write something about him my skull was going to turn into a fine powder. It's almost 2 AM, so it's entirely possible this post makes 0 sense, in which case feel free to inform me of that in the notes.

[aria-greenhoodie]

Can’t stop scribbling stupid gravity falls shit on whiteboard. Woe, assorted doodles be upon ye!

Click for Quality! And please do not repost, reblog instead!

[gollageek]

Bill Cipher: *tumbles through an open multiverse portal*

Bill Cipher: HAHA! ESCAPING! I'M GREAT AT IT!

Kim, Ben, Danny, Jenny, Jake, June, Randy, Rex, and Zak: *eating Chinese food* 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Bill Cipher: OH GREAT! A UNIVERSE WHERE YOU ASSHOLES ALL KNOW EACH OTHER.

The gang: 🤨😃🤬😅😶😎😏😯🙄

Bill Cipher: ... 👁 ...

Ben 10: Hey Zak, did you need another Bill for your probability experiments?

Zak Saturday: Not right now, but maybe in the future.

Rex Salazar: We could probably hold him till then in a stasis!

Juniper Lee: How many of these flavorless dimension hopping Doritos have you even gone through?

Jake Long: I wonder if his body's texture is good for nail sharpening...

Danny Phantom: Dibs on punching his big ugly eye!

Jenny Wakeman: Dibs on destroying his big ugly hat!

Randy Cunningham: OH! I WANT HIS BOWTIE!

Kim Possible: *Continues to eat her fried noodles like this isn't her circus and these aren't her monkies*

Bill Cipher: OH THIS IS BULLSHIT! IM NOT DEALING WITH THIS AGAIN! GOOD DAY!

Bill Cipher: *dramatic escape to mission impossible music ensues*

[pi3geon]

Duo of the century

[irregularbillcipher]

so god forbid i’m seen just as an average human being