#tons of triangles

[can-of-slorgs]

i love how you draw dr sloth

thanks, he's actually more fun to draw than I'd thought before hshshsh

[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

[intistone]

I ADORE BIG BRO BILL AU WITH ALL MY HEART AAAAFFHFHDG

I have to ask- since we see that Baby Bill has most if not all of his powers, just untrained/uncontrolled, does this mean he also has a monster form like canon Bill? The thought of a squishy micro-sized Monster Bill running around is delightful and also sad ;u; I imagine he might get a lil scared

He does, and it’s very scary for him.

…it’s only glimpses, but even then…he usually only shows those glimpses when he has a nightmare.

[catboydan]

my very specific prediction for the upcoming AITA video: he'll open by explaining that last week on the gaming channel he had an 'AITA' moment himself [insert clips from the dan eye incident here]

then he'll lead into the vid by saying something like "and that inspired me to ask you all for your 'am I the hole' moments", and only then will he bring up that this time, he asked for specifically dating/love-related stories, leaving us to piece together that the intro is a dating/love related story via the maxim of relevance

[artforinfinity]

I did the thing

I am genuinely shocked that I didn't mess this up I thought it was gonna be a disaster

Reblogs appreciated <3

Close ups + extra stuff under cut

Close ups

Concept art yaay

And finally the sheet I used to regulate the saturation of the watercolor because I didn't know how else to do it, I just think it looks kinda neat

Ok. I hate watercolor. I hate it less now that when I started but uhhh still not a fan. Yes this was a school project, cringe is dead I am a free man.

[digital999placebo]

Where, pray tell, might we be able to read this glorious fic?

on my ao3 as soon as it’s done… which probably will be in like 4-6 weeks because I cannot take writing nsfw seriously

[triangle-strategy-notes]

Hughette's concept/reference art!

Translation notes under the cut:

The note about her master was a hard one to get the exact words for, but in general I'm pretty sure it said something about her master standing. The "before a journey" is likely a little off, though.

[theultimatekamehamehavoc]

3d Kyoko in different outfits I put her in. Cus why not.

[muse-write]

After a solid hour and a half of mathing and reviewing my trig, I think I know what I need to do to cut out new panels of fabric (from a contrasting fabric) and extend the waistband enough to fit over my hips and be gathered by elastic.

[aaabatteryy]

two new (overpriced, but who am i to say no to the 'tism and my mother's money?) pins i got from the little lady outside the dentist today :33

[wing-ed-thing]

i have absolute fire in my drafts and little motivation or creativity to actually write any of them

[frickingnerd]

i have always been in my xenoblade era, but right now especially! there's gonna be so much xenoblade stuff coming from me since i'm writing a frick ton of self indulgent xeno stuff rn!

[burningarchitecture]

Still haven't processed the book of bill tbh

[harper-collins]

I'm super tempted to just declare the original T4ATM as an 'unfinished thing' and then redo the entire thing. I probably won't, it really just depends if I can do what I'm planning to do. But still.

Overall, I'm replanning the entire thing, since I know what I want to do this time, and I can foreshadow a lot better. This is going to take a while though.

[space-spring]

1, 9, 21 for tristrat for the fandom ask game!

Oooh thanks so much for the ask!!!! :D

1. My favorite thing about the fandom

I mentioned how small the fandom is in a different answer, but another thing I think is fun about the tri strat fandom is that I rarely come across two people with the same favorite character! It might just be a side effect of the game's cast being so large, but it's really neat to me that people have found so many different characters to love even outside of the main cast. As I've done some of the artbook translations, it's been really cool to see different people comment on the posts with really in-depth thoughts on characters that I initially didn't pay much attention to.

9. Is there anything in general I wish more people in the fandom talked about?

Hmmmmmm tbh I don't know! I think I've been obsessed with tri strat for long enough that it's rewired my brain a bit and I really honestly don't often come across a tri strat post that doesn't hit me with an instant shot of dopamine. The other day I was reading a post from someone who had actively disliked the game and was making some notes of different criticisms they had, and the whole time I was just nodding along like "yeah yeah those are some good points actually" and I just really sincerely had a fun time reading it. I think I just like hearing anything people have to say about it hahaha.

21. An event or a conversation within the fandom I remember vividly

First thing that comes to mind is doing the whole frederica vs. cats final in the tournament a while back! I threw the cats in there on a whim and didn't expect them to be nearly as popular as they ended up being, and the whole thing ended up super fun. Reading through the tags and just generally getting to see everyone's opinions on all of the characters was really interesting to me too.

ALSO bonus thing was getting the tri strat zine when that came out a while back!!! I kept meaning to make a little post just saying how cool it was, but fr it was really such a neat project and I was so psyched to get my copy when it came in the mail. I love getting to see all the different little ideas and headcanons and ships that people have come up with in the fandom, and the zine was especially neat since it had a lot of people from over on Twitter that I haven't seen as much stuff from since I don't go over there super often

[hippiichi]

first ever procreate painting!!!