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[lunar-inkclipse]

Ayyy, Lunarrr, I’m back at it again with murdle falls because @/writingweb1234 had a really good idea with Reader Amethyst being the entity that waltzed through the portal. So much so, I now have stuff to add ✨ 

Like your DBH AU, Irratino and Amethyst would make perfect opps. They’re similar enough since they both dabble with the morat, but still different in their approach and how they handle it. So I think in this AU, they should both be dream demons and have roughly the same abilities with messing with people’s dreams and entering mindscapes. This makes her such a huge antagonist because this is basically Irratino if he were evil, aka Bill Cipher. But instead of siccing henchmen on the people of Grvaity Falls, I can see her keeping control over everybody since she can manipulate their dreams and play into their biggest fears. 

Let's say all dream demons share the same characteristic of having one eye, then the prophecies that warn against the “being with one eye” causing a world-ending event still remain true, it just wasn’t directed at Irratino, but to Amethyst. Unlike Irratino, she would need the portal to cause devastation on Earth because she wouldn’t physically be there. But she still left her mark on Earth enough to spring about prophecies because she’s been summoned there every now and then, similar to Bill. 

We can connect her with Indigo by making him somehow stumble upon the chant and ritual needed to summon her to Gravity Falls. He wanted her to help him build this successful company in the middle of nowhere, while she planned to use him to build an interdimensional portal (again, like Bill) for the sake of destruction. Also, mini tidbit: if she tormented Indigo’s dreams, then I can see him having an idea of what was going on when Irratino was messing with him, which is why he knew it was a “dream demon.” That or he just happened to guess the actual name since it’s not that hard to string those two words together lol.

Anyway, before Amethyst was able to get anywhere with building the portal, maybe Irratino caught wind and was able to step in and break her connection to Earth, he’d have leverage over her being physically there after all. And that might be how Amethyst learned of Irratino if they hadn’t known each other before already. She then looks into Irratino’s history, and that’s when she discovers how he was responsible for the destruction of his home dimension and the series of crimes associated with him. Which will only encourage her to set her focus on Earth more.

Despite Irratino and Amethyst being pretty much the same in what they can do, by the time Weirdmageddon happens, their motivations would be very different. Amethyst would be seeking to destroy this dimension just for funsies, while Irratino is hell bent on trying to save it. She’s a chaos lover and at this point, she’s under the impression that Irratino is, too, as much as her because of the information she found on him. So maybe, once she appears on Earth, she begins her havoc, but also begins her search for Irratino, intending to ask him to join her in dimension destroying. To her, he was a perfect candidate since he had done it before (I doubt any records of that would mention how it was an accident, so to her, Irratino is just a ruthless guy).

Cue Irratino coming back in the nick of time from getting his (ex?) bf from getting nerfed, and Amethyst opens with a “look who finally showed up” line. She then mentions her offer of teaming up, but Irratino refuses. Amethyst wouldn’t dwell on the rejection long and accept the challenge of destroying the dimension solo, but uh-oh, Irratino trapped the weirdness in. And Amethyst can’t do anything about it because she can’t force her way into Irratino’s mind to find the information to undo it, because as a fellow dream demon, the only way in is with the permission of a handshake. 

After Logico gets turned to stone and the kids are used as leverage against him, Irratino would agree to let Amethyst in, but he destroys her (along with himself basically) by erasing his mind. Now, for that part, I’m leaning towards the route of going with the use of a memory gun. You may be asking, “But Jay, how would he even get one of those?” And my answer to that is that Irratino and co. stumbled upon one when they left Gravity Falls and started dimension-hopping again (or one of the henchmanics had it in their possession, also probably from past dimension-hopping). 

Either way, I think that once they found the gun, someone suggested that Irratino use it on himself, to get rid of the painful memories of Earth because he just keeps moping. If you want it extra angstier, you can make it Irratino’s idea. He may not have wanted to take the Mystery Squad's memories from them, but he has nothing to lose by forgetting it himself if he’s never going to see them again anyway. It’ll also keep him from making the “mistake” of returning if he doesn’t remember that there’s something he can return to. But before he’s able to use the machine, he gets that gut feeling to go home, stashing the memory gun, keeping it on him.

And yeah, that’s pretty much it lol. Unfortunately, I can’t pitch ideas without sprinkling in a little bit of angst, so here you go before I think about this too long and come up with more details-

Ayyy, always good to see you in the inbox!! And always happy to give Reader Amethyst some more lore and make her Irratino's number 1 opp fr

First off, Amethyst being a dream demon like Irratino has so much potential: They both manipulate dreams, but while Irratino's goals are to get his family back together, Amethyst mostly wants power and domination and control. She'll use her dream powers to influence and scare people, try and predict the future however she can, and use that power to intimidate and manipulate. And instead of her having henchmaniacs, maybe she influences the TekCo employees or smth? I can also see that maybe, instead of turning everyone into stone for a throne, she forces everyone she can into a state of eternally dreaming and sleepwalking, manipulating their dreams to make people do what she wants. (It's a vibe to me personally ok?) Amethyst having the one eye not only works great with the prophecies of "Beware the beast with just one eye", but also her image being the glasses with the three lenses- I can totally see her having that third lens on her actual eye and the other two are decoration. And she totally could have been summoned on occasion, never fully crossing the realm to being physically in the realm, but always dancing around in the mindscape. (If Irratino ever caught wind of someone summoning a dream demon, he couldn't care less- Look, he's got people to keep out of jail and grief to run from and worlds to hop between. He's not all that power hungry anyways.) Except Amethyst always exerted as much control as she could, using loopholes and twisting words to get her way, hence people prophesying to avoid her. Irratino just so happens to be another purple, one eyed dream demon, so the warnings do sound like they should be avoiding him. When it comes to Indigo, maybe we can weave in a little more of the Northwests' lore? You know how in the canon Gravity Falls, the Northwests A) became considered founders of the town even though they weren't and B) Had a curse placed upon them because they shunned the common folk? Indigo himself probably wouldn't bother with demonic summons or rituals. But maybe an ancestor of his would- A deal for success and power, gained through Amethyst being able to predict things about the future (Using her own means, of course, like how she works as MORIARTY in the canon), in exchange for favors later down the line. Cue her involvement with Indigo as collecting a debt. Though, Indigo's totally fine with doing whatever the weird demon lady wants because business is booming and cash is flowing! As long as she swears Olivia will be protected, too. Amethyst agrees, but hey, her quest for power is her number one goal and whoever gets caught in the crossfire, well, sucks to suck.

But this also gives Indigo enough familiarity to know not only what a Dream Demon is, but that this Irratino guy has weird vibes, but to expose them would expose his entire family, too. So he quietly seethes and tries to dismiss Irratino whenever possible. And this Logico guy that Olivia seems to like hanging out with is too close to Irratino, too, putting them all in danger. (Also, Logico keeps investigating his company and is bogus, lame, and whack)

As for how Irratino managed to learn about Amethyst also wanting a portal! I could see him finding that out after being in Indigo's head. Basically, Olivia complains about Indigo, Irratino starts bothering him in his dreams, and while he's there he realizes there's something weird going on and finds out about the portal and Amethyst that way. He's able to cut her off from Earth somehow, having the advantage of a physical form, plus the rest of the Squad to help with material gathering of things he may not be able to handle, like Unicorn hair or smth. But while he may have staved off Amethyst's reign for a little longer, now Amethyst knows of him and knows there is absolutely a way for dream demons to get to Earth physically. She just has to find it. Or, well, perhaps it will find her. And Irratino would make a really powerful ally and seems to be just fine with committing crimes. Maybe he was just territorial and that's why he cut her connection, she wonders. Whatever.

But she manages to find out about Irratino's portal, aka the portal he built for his friends and quickly shut down only to have it turned on again by a well meaning but disaster causing Mystery Squad, she's eager to take over and remake this world into her image and recruit Irratino to help her out. Hey, he destroyed his home dimension, that's badass! Coldblooded! And the exact type of power she needs to burn down and remake this sorry excuse for a dimension. But when she tries to nerf Logico because he just happens to be in the way, she has no clue why Irratino steps in. Why would Irratino take a blast so injurious for this one guy? Irratino's supposed to be her right hand man, after all. Oh well, it's barely a setback! So she saunters over and asks Irratino to destroy the world with her, to which he prompty replies with "You're insane!!" and Amethyst just replies with "Sure I am, what's your point? Besides, you destroyed your home dimension, didn't you? That's the type of power I need here!" and Irratino just blanches and says "I never meant to! I never wanted to! And I've spent every day wishing I could take it back!" But honestly, Amethyst has better things to do than waste her strength and time trying to convince a guy that doesn't want to join her to come to her side. Until she realizes said guy is the only one who could have possibly isolated her reign to this one backwater town, and she's furious. She can't invade his dreams because he only sleeps when he wants to, she can't invade his mind because they're both equally matched, he won't give her the solution to dissolving the bubble- Her only choice is to trick him or force him.

Hence Amethyst starts her personalized rampage against Irratino. She has all the time in the world to destroy the rest of this town, after all. Logico's the first one she manages to capture, threatening to turn him to stone if Irratino doesn't comply. Logico, of course, tells Irratino he better not give in, and when Irratino just remains frozen and Amethyst says "Well, my dear, say goodbye! You have, mmm, lets say a day before I get one of those kids and ask you again." and Logico just steels himself and just says "I believe in you, Tino." before he's frozen. Now Irratino has to figure out a way to stop Amethyst and return everything to normal before she picks off more of his family.

With the memory gun, I really love the idea of Irratino/the maniacs finding it through their travels and pocketing it just because, and him remembering someone (my money's on Umber or Seashell) suggesting he use it to forget Earth and everything and go back to his normal self. Get rid all his problems! Erase all that bad stuff in his mind! And then he finds it again when bunkering down. His blood turns to ice, as he murmurs "Erase everything in your head...?" Including an intruder, maybe? It's a long shot, but its his only shot. (Even if there is a zodiac, like in canon GF, chances are Logico would have to be a part of that and he's kind of frozen as stone right now. Leaving this as the only option, and there's no time to get a better one.) Irratino wouldn't dare sacrifice the kids, nor could he bear to put them in the position of having to shoot him. But, well, if he can invite Amethyst into his head and erase everything inside it, then maybe he can undo all of this. Maybe. He has to try and save them.

As for who shoots him, I honestly don't know? Maybe Night, as one of Irratino's closest friends? But either way, he storms up to Amethyst, says he'll let her into his head to learn how to undo the bubble keeping everything contained. And just moments after she shakes his hand, she's locked in Irratino's mind and suddenly feeling herself slip away. And hey, if Irratino does punch her like Stan does to Bill, I can absolutely see him going like "Huh, maybe Logico was onto something. That did feel kinda good." before everything starts to slip away for him too. He panics for a moment, of course- He's forgetting everything, everyone, it's all slipping through his fingers again like it always does- But the panic is quick to fade. What's he so worried about, again? Who was onto something about punching when you're mad? Huh. Odd. And then when he comes too, well, cue the Amnesiac Irratino arc.

This ask really got me thinking!!! I always love seeing what everyone's thoughts and ideas are for this AU and I'm always so happy to see y'all share your thoughts and analyses for my indulgent goofy crossovers hehe. Thank you so much for the ask!! ^_^