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TBOB PART 2: OF FLATLAND, EXWHYLIA AND EUCLYDIA (4/4)

Contrary to my expectations, we’ve finally reached the fourth part of this TBOB part 2 analysis. And we’re doing it, by talking about the last thing to talk about: the destruction of Euclydia.

As always, for all disclaimers, please check the first post. For all premises and in order to better understand this post, check the previous ones too.

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VALLIS CINERIS

“Technically, talking about a “third” dimension was illegal in my world. But I knew that everyone would be grateful if they could be freed from their delusions! IT WAS TIME TO PUT ON A SHOW”

From this moment on, we just have fragments of what happened and they are as follows:

“-I came up with a plan to show everyone what they were missing! I simply- their screams getting louder and louder as I my hands, shaking as I realized I could never undo th- was the last one breathi- episodes of “family matter until there was no one left but me, covered in blood, alone in the universe."

We don’t know what Bill exactly did. However, we can assume what he did, based on these words, his powers (check PART 1 analysis posts) and what Bill said/showed Ford during Weirdmageddon:

We know that Bill can see and alter other dimensions. And he wanted to “show everyone what they were missing”.

But how can you show something to someone who cannot see it? His people didn’t have eyes inside like him. He was the only one with an eye on the surface and not on the side.

Now let’s connect this to Bill’s ability to alter dimensions, to the Saturn being flattened.

What if this is exactly the show Bill wanted to put on? Instead of forcing the others to look up and tilt the entire world - which could’ve helped, but I doubt it: if you lift the entire surface, the shapes inside can still see just the surface. In order for them to see above, you need to do something like in the Flatland movie and lift the shape itself, by putting it on one side and turning it towards what you want to show.

Nah, it’s way easier to “simply” bring what’s above and “put” it down at Euclidean’s eye level, so everyone could’ve seen it.

Also, it would be more coherent with Bill’s powers, because it seems that, when he was in Euclydia, he still wasn’t able to enter other dimensions, just see and alter them. So what if, in his naive attempt to help others see what he was seeing, he flattened a third dimension in 2D and tried to put it on/inside his own?

That’s why this event is probably referred to as a massacre and “the 2D incident”. Because it was both. It was a stupid attempt at flattening a bigger dimension into a smaller one and it killed everyone. Of course Bill was shaking, “as I realized I could never undo” what he did.

And now, these parts:

was the last one breathi-

Who could ever be the last one breathing in his destroyed world, if not one of the two figures who are still haunting him? And why it’s 90% sure it was his mother?

episodes of “family matter”

If you put the code VALLIS CINERIS on thisisnotawebsitedotcom, you aren’t just greeted by the grayed-out silhouette of Bill’s parents, but also by a voice repeating “why did you do it?”. And, as someone pointed out on the internet, this is a common line in several Family Matter episodes.

So, considering that the previous chunk of text about someone being the last one breathing isn’t so far away from this part, we can use angst to fill in the blanks and imagine that, while the entire world was burning down and Bill was standing there unable to do anything, his mother, the shape who loved him the most, got her last strength to ask him “why did you do it?”, before dying. The last words Bill heard from his mother were a question that would haunt him forever.

Free angst for everyone, you're welcome.

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The lone survivor

“The important thing is, I freed myself from my suffocating world, and freed everyone else too, and everyone loved me for it, and everyone was fine! And that’s all there is to say about that!”

And so here we are: someone who destroyed his place, but convinced himself he was liberating it.

And do you know what the most tragic thing is? That Bill is somehow right. For the little we know (and the thousand Flatland references on the way), Euclydia was a tight world. There is no doubt that if Bill stayed inside it, he would’ve died, been blinded, or both. There is no doubt Euclydia was a flat world, too little for someone who dreamed of being among the stars.

But despite hating it, hating the kids and hating the optometrist, Bill still loved his home. The “home” mentioned in the Axolotl poem. A home that is not just a physical place, but a place of mind. Home being his parents, his “miserable family, who tried to snuff out my talents”, and hurt him by thinking it was helping him. Home being the parents who loved him while others didn't.

And Bill kept something of them. He kept the hat - and probably the bowtie too. And he kept his own dimension with him. He kept the last speck of his place with him for trillions of years.

If this doesn’t make you go feral, I don’t know what it does.

Also: maybe it’s just me, but could this be a reference to the glow points from the Flatland movie? Because it would be cool as hell and I would cry even more.

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“A guy who tried”

Take my words with a grain of salt, because it may just be me overanalyzing one line, but I’m talking about what Bill said here, during the “monster conversation” he had with Ford.

During their conversation about their homes, first Ford asks “do you even wonder if maybe… maybe things could have been different?”, to which Bill replies:

“Take it from a guy who tried - you can’t undo the past! Unless you want to thaw a giant baby out of a glacier.”

Maybe it’s just me, but this would explain a couple things.

First of all, that Bill tried to undo his mistake. He tried to get his dimension back. But, as he said, you cannot undo the past… unless you get a giant baby.

What if this is what he tried to do? What if he asked for Time Baby’s help, to get Euclydia back? What if he explained it was a mistake and pleaded for him to go back in time and bring everyone back?

This would actually explain A LOT. Like:

why&how Bill and Time Baby know each other

why Time Baby doesn’t really want to fight Bill

this parts from the transcript on thisisnotawebsitedotcom under the code TANTRUM:

I KNOW YOUR CRIMES, CIPHER. TAKING A NEW HOME WILL NOT MAKE UP FOR THE ONE YOU’VE LOST. WHAT YOU DID TO THE COUNTLESS SOULS OF EUCLYDIA- Cipher stopped in his tracks. YOU CHOOSE YOUR WORDS VERY. CAREFULLY.

and especially this part:

(SHAKING HIS HEAD IN DISTAIN) WHAT WOULD YOUR PARENTS SAY IF THEY COULD SEE WHAT YOU’VE BECOME. WHAT WOULD SCAL-

Time Baby knows Bill’s crimes, because Bill told him what he did - and Time Baby probably saw it too. And, more importantly, Time Baby knows the names of Bill’s parents, because it was Bill himself who asked Time Baby to bring them back.

This would also explain these words Hisch said about them in 2015:

"Time Baby and Bill do not like each other, if they saw each other at a party they would be doing that 'awkward circle thing' where they're making eye contact but they're not talking to each other and everybody's like 'Do they know each other? Do they have a history?'"

If my theory is correct, the 'awkward circle thing' would make a lot of sense.

And, well, this would also explain why they don’t like each other - especially from Bill’s side. Because not even the one dealing with time was able to help him and for someone as spoiled as Bill, not getting what he wanted was probably what made him hate Time Baby so much.

In addition to that, somehow, Ford confirms that this reasoning is right, considering that in the same conversation, he says: “I guess you can never really go home again, can you?”. He used an impersonal “you”, but the specific phrase “going home again” seems to confirm my assumption that Bill really tried to get his dimension back.

So with no more solutions left, all that was left for Bill was one thing only: denial.

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A monster in denial

In light of all of this, the “reality is an illusion” and “morality” pages in TBOB tell us a lot about how Bill didn’t deal with his trauma.

Reality is an illusion? Of course it is, since Bill built his own reality. Nothing is real, because everything he made around himself is the result of his denial.

And the three points of morality? Denial is the foundation of his reasoning, rationalization how he decided that what he did was good and detachment is how he kept surviving for billions of years, without facing his trauma.

Of course all of this would lead to karma - Bill literally ended up in therapy for everything he did. And yet, he still latches to denial, down to the last pages of the book: he pretends he’s fine, everything is fine, he doesn’t need anyone and doesn’t miss anyone.

Therapy is gonna take forever on him.

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And with such a happy note, we can close this part too. It has been endless, but what we got for Bill’s backstory was super juicy and important and I wanted to point out the connections with Flatland and Exwhylia too, so it got longer than expected.

But do not fret: we will meet again very soon, with the third and final part about Bill’s solitude, his relationships and, of course, Billford. Especially Billford. I have eight years of thoughts about this ship and you will sit down and listen, whether you like it or not.

No, you cannot escape: it’s too late.

See you soon~

Next part ->

(How about a coffee? ☕)

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They just don’t get it.

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Thought I’d toss my hat in the ring on what Scalene and Euclid might look like. I’ve seen a lot of people make the mistake of drawing/imagining them in 3D space, with them being able to move up and down (such as wrapping their arms or hands around things) and tilt. And I know it’s not that serious! I do!! But I wanted to have some fun with my design :D

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another procreate test

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blame the arson for the fire

[Image description: Gravity Falls fanart. Bill floats in front of his burning dimension. Subtext reads “You can easily return to the past, but no one is there.” End ID.]

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okay. okay this is not a serious theory but every time I think about it I come up with new "evidence" for it. basically the gist of it is TAWOG'S SHAPE PEOPLE ARE EUCLYDIANS. maybe refugees? "but didn't everyone in eucyldia die?" ignore that. just pretend they skipped town before the fire or something, this is not airtight. it's not even close. it's basically a joke treated seriously. i know the shows are not in the same universe but

hear me out.

Part 1: At face value.

point numnber one: these guys are 2D. the gumball universe has 3D people and 2D people, and the Shape People are 2D, or drawn as opposed to modeled.

point number two: physical traits! other than the obvious 'they are shapes', some or all of the Shape People:

Lack visible mouths (mind you, these Shape People's mouths appear when they speak). Bill also lacks a visible mouth but very occasionally gets one (one page of the Book of Bill, a polaroid in the Weirdmageddon intro).

Can have one eye. the rectangle in the top image is a one-eyed shape person, but there's also this familiar-looking yellow one-eyed triangle Shape Person (who pre-dates Bill's first proper appearance, by the way):

They have noodle arms. little noodle arms

this one is hard to explain but the positions of their arms aren't fixed. this applies to all/most Gumball characters but not to all gravity falls characters. how do I explain this uhh

look at how one of his arms is attached to his bottom plane and one is attached to his side plane. sometimes both of them hang down at the bottom and sometimes both are on the sides. POINT IS-

look at that!

in the rightmost image above you can also see a tiny sliver of a 3D edge like Bill has.

Each Shape Person is also a single color.

Part two: Culture.

note: this one only really applies to the three shapeople i've been using as examples this whole post- Ed the triangle, and his black pentagon and rectangle friends? family members?

I know there are other shapes who look less like them and whom these things don't apply to, but we can blame that on interbreeding with Elmoreans/cultural assimilation or something. okay, let me begin.

point number three: Ed's group is implied to not be from Elmore. when we first see him he's mistaking a bus stop for another shape person:

he also-

point four: the Shapeople language includes one spoken(?) system with colorful squares representing it. on the TBOB website the words of Euclydians are written in colorful square substitution cipher. there are also other shapes for the shapeople, mind you.

back to point 3: not from Elmore. The next time Ed's group appears, they're framed like tourists and ARE HAVING TROUBLE MAKING SENSE OF A 3D (well, i guess 2d but in the other way) MAP.

Gumball tries and fails to talk to them in their language, and ends up making a cultural faux pas. and in Ed's final scene there's an interesting line...

my people? He could be talking about his species, but the existence of a culture implies to me that this line refers more to a homeland. in other words the shape people are from the same place, which we sort of knew because they speak the same language. also has bill ever been seen giving a thumbs up or down? i'm pretty sure he hasn't but maybe I'm wrong, someone correct me here.

point number five: grasping at even more straws.

Despite their origin, the one known named shape person's name is Ed, which falls into the same cultural sphere as Bill.

We know that Ed's type of shapeople are physically capable of speaking English because the black rectangle does so at one point.

one of the symbols in the shapeople language is a skull. we see that Bill's mind has a bill skeleton with a skull that also fits the humanoid-ish template.

final point that does not help the theory but is still weird: Bill's baby photo seems to have a live-action background?? and so does the image of teen/preteen bill? look at these. i'm not implying that elmore IS euclydia somehow, that makes very little sense to me as of writing (though i guess it was destroyed and now Bill has a fear of TV static, which, like, maybe I could phenagle a theory here if I really tried but it seems like even more of a reach than this existing theory.) I dunno, maybe Euclydians would have wanted another 'realistic' dimension to flee to.

(we also see this squishy rosy-cheeked shaperson baby at one point, make of it what you will).

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✨S T A R S✨

As a huge Gravity Falls fan, a Venezuelan trying to spread information and an artists trying to cope, I just had to do this.

Here's a version without text:

Also, please share this drive! It has important information. Commission from Venezuelan artists, news, ways to help, iconic moments, and quite a few more things!

(If you can copy the link and share it in other social medias, please do it!).

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{Creepypasta} Remember Euclydia

Growing up, Gravity Falls was truly something special. Released back in 2012 and concluding after two seasons on February 15, 2016, the Disney Channel series revolved around Dipper and Mabel Pines, a set of fraternal twins, who were sent to spend their summer vacation in the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, with their great uncle, or rather “Grunkle” Stanley Pines. Together, they work at Grunkle Stan’s tourist trap “The Mystery Shack” alongside Soos and Wendy Corduroy. It is there that Dipper would discover a journal cataloging all the mysterious anomalies that plague the town.

Of course, the show was best remembered because of its use of cryptograms such as the Caesar cipher among other varieties of encrypted puzzles. In fact, shortly after the series finale was aired, a real-life Cipher hunt was orchestrated by series creator Alex Hirsch himself which spanned countries beginning in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and, appropriately ending in Reedsport, Oregon. And it is there, somewhere in the woods that the victors who decoded the mystery were met with a statue of an... old friend.

Fans of the show are more than familiar with the sinister Dream Demon Bill Cipher, but for those who slept on the show, Bill Cipher was the main antagonist of the series, a triangular fiend from the Second Dimension who was originally meant to be a one-off character before he was promoted. To keep the spoilers to a minimum, Bill wanted to merge his decaying dimension, the Nightmare Realm, with the Earth succeeding at his goal in “Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future” when he deceived a despondent Mabel. He rained weirdness on the entirety of Gravity Falls in an apocalyptic event dubbed Weirdmageddon driving people to the brink of insanity with his Bubbles of Pure Madness and transforming others into stone statues and creating a Throne of Frozen Human Agony from them.

However, despite his near victory, Bill is predictably defeated, leaving his physical form behind to get an equation which prevented him from spreading his weirdness to the rest of the world. While the show ended on a great note with the day saved, it left a plethora of questions, the most damning one being on the demonic triangle himself. Was Bill truly dead, or could there be a chance he could return to wreak havoc on the Pines family?

This question lingered for years and was only further muddled with the subsequent releases of books to expand the universe of Gravity Falls. The most alarming one was written from the perspective of the Dream Demon himself, which begged the question: if Bill was dead, how could he be writing the book? Was he in some weird afterlife, preferably Hell for all the atrocities he committed throughout the trillions of years he was alive? Or was he hiding in the deepest regions of Grunkle Stan’s mind? The Book of Bill promised to reveal Bill’s origins and ultimately clear up where he had been for all those years since the show finished production.

Naturally, the book is classic Bill with its morbid, dark humor, and, to its credit, it did reveal Bill’s backstory... or at least bits of it that put together. Even in the original cartoon it was common knowledge that Bill was a native of the Second Dimension where, as he put it, was a realm containing nothing but flat dreams, flat minds, and a flat world. It was then that Bill “liberated” his dimension, and he did such an exceedingly excellent job at it that... the dimension no longer exists. Everyone was dead, even his parents.

While the book could be summed up as being just nonsense that Bill wrote to ensnare a hapless victim to possess and start Weirdmageddon anew, what made this an even more interesting turning point is the creation of a tie-in website “thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com.” The site could be best described as being additional pages of The Book of Bill that were left on the drawing board detailing more lore to the series and giving some funny responses. Just try typing in “Ted Cruz” and you would be introduced to a popup that informs you that you violated standards and practices and therefore you must have your mouth washed out. Or if you typed in “Skibidi” you are met with the lovely message that your life privileges are revoked. Then there were the... not-so-funny responses like what happens if you type in “Stanley” one-too-many times.

After hearing about the website, I decided to visit the website. I was met with several interesting visuals like a human skull with a gold tooth; an eye in a jar; a copy of The Book of Bill with a dagger stabbed into it. Best of all, the low beat of the show’s theme song complimented the mysterious aura that took me back to when I first watched the cartoon. I soaked in the atmosphere for a few more seconds before I remembered the reason I logged onto the website.

I started off with the codes I already was familiar with ranging from the names of the main characters and was met with amusing results. I then thought of ones off the top of my head to see if they also worked. If you were to type Season 1 into the computer, you’d get “Anti-Gravity Falls” for one, or Season 1 if you plugged in Season 2. As I further experimented with the outcomes, my mind directed me towards Cipher again. However, I had already used “Bill,” “triangle,” and “Bill Cipher” so I needed to think of something else... maybe on some of his classifications. Given the terminology that he was a Dream Demon, the most sense was to type “dream.”

So... I did. I wrote out “dream” and pressed enter. Red flashed from the computer denoting that the word was not one of the codes. I was disappointed, but I remembered how there were tricks to some of the words, so I pressed the enter key again. But like before, no slice. However, I was not one to just give up after the first two goes. I pressed enter again and again in rapid succession only for the same blaring to ring out.

It was the very definition of insanity I admit, but if it provided me with answers to Bill’s nature, I would have felt obligated. Eventually, the pyramid placeholder on the computer glitched as a new message popped up:

PA'Z UVA TF MHBSA PA'Z UVA TF MHBSA PA'Z UVA TF MHBSA TF LFL... P JHU ZAPSS ZLL AOL IBYUPUN IVKPLZ... PA OBYAZ PA OBYAZ... WSLHZL ZVTLVUL AHRL HDHF AOL WHPU!!!

I could practically hear Bill railing against me the further I typed the word into the password interface. The screen glitched and flashed in vibrant colors undoubtedly representing a color code. Clearly whatever was going on indicated that whatever was happening was working to my favor. It must have taken me thirty times, but the website appeared to relent. Another message fizzled up asking me if I really wanted to know the deep dark secret this time offering me a yes or no option. I chose the former, and after it stalled for a few seconds, it sent me a link to a video with the simple title of “Remember Euclydia.”

From my research on the wiki for Gravity Falls, I came to the realization that Euclydia was the name of Bill’s realm and that I would be sitting front and center and witness the destruction of the world. True to what he had alluded to, Eucyldia existed on a flat plane, as if it were just a piece of paper. In this dimension, there were no stars or cosmic bodies to speak of, with all the inhabitants of that realm bumping into each other at random and talk of any other dimensions was strictly forbidden. Everyone had two-dimensional forms befitting their environment, but I could also tell that the realm did have a sense of leadership.

Two triangles, one red, the other blue, directed the citizens with authoritative stride. Among the gathered assemblies were rhombuses and ellipses. Squares and diamonds. All the shapes you were taught in preschool were in attendance as they waited for some grand experience. What I found the most peculiar about the two triangles, however, were their two sets of eyes. If they were supposed to be Bill’s parents, then that only further indicated that Bill was born with a mutation. Just as I came to that conclusion, more cryptograms, this time representing the Caesar cipher, filled the screen.

Decoding it, the symbols formed a sentence: “In aspiration of making his people see all, the killer’s mental state took a great fall.”

My eyes were directed to a yellow triangle with a single peeper rise above the others. It floated over to the farthest end of its reality when I heard the rumblings of a song. I carefully pressed the plushy cushions of my headphones to better hear what tune it was playing. It possessed a soft, motherly tone making me speculate it was Bill’s mother Euclid. I would be lying if I did not say that the lullaby lulled me into a false sense of security.

“Rock-A-Bye Billy

Please don’t you cry

It’s not your fault you have that strange eye

Stay safe with Mommy you’ll never fall

And we’ll always love you sharp angles and all.”

The song’s instrumentals continued to play in the background as more Cipher cryptograms glimmered. I was admittedly not too adept at decoding the cryptograms from the show, so I wrote them down and opened another tab to a website that could decode what the hidden message said. I jotted down the letters that accompanied each symbol and returned to the video. From what I could gather, it went like this.

FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS, I WAS AFFLICTED. THEY CALLED ME CRAZY FOR SAYING THAT I SAW BILLIONS OF TRILLIONS OF UNIVERSES ALL EONS AHEAD FROM THIS FLAT HELL OF AN EXISTENCE. EVEN MY OWN MISERABLE PARENTS TRIED STUNTING MY TALENTS WITH THAT HICK OF AN EYE DOCTOR. MY EYE THROBS EVERY TIME I LOOK INTO OTHER WORLDS. I CAN’T SUPPRESS MY GIFT ANY LONGER.

I watched the yellow triangle representing Bill further push through the shapes as they went sideways and down, but never up. It pushed against the limitations of its world and stretched its hands until the palms clanged on a hollow surface. A ripple of waves wobbled on the invisible forcefield like gelatin. However, the triangle was far from done.

The vocals of the audio returned a second time, but I sensed there was something amiss about. The shape intensified its blow at the same time the song grew more pronounced. Again and again, the barrier jiggled as it became stable. The video zoomed in on the triangle’s singular eye with the slit of its pupil expanding. Galaxies sparkled being so close, yet still so far.

I WILL SHOW EVERYONE THE STARS.

A deafening smash rang through my headphones the moment Bill broke through his reality. The fabrics of reality shattered like shards of glass exposing the once concealed dimension to third dimensional space. Euclid’s lullaby reached its crescendo before falling silent.

LOOK, EVERYONE! I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG! MOM, DAD, I -

The text stopped midsentence when the video began to buffer despite playing normally. I decided to refresh the video, and it functioned properly until, yet again, it buffered on the scene. Curious, I did the same trick a few more times getting the same result, but after the sixth time, the video resumed playing a corrupted version of Euclid’s lullaby. “Rock-A-Bye Billy

Please don’t you cry...

It’s not your fault you have that strange eye

Stay safe with Mommy, you’ll never fall

And we’ll always love you, sharp angles and AAALLLLLLLLLLLLL-”

The scene slammed to show Bill’s pupil shrink as... something... descended through the crack in his reality but since the camera focused in on his face, all I heard was the sound of roaring and gnashing mandibles of a large creature. My only theory was that it was some anomaly that breached the Nightmare Realm and was now wreaking chaos on Euclydia. The once peaceful lullaby that Bill’s mother sang to him was replaced with a melody of horrified screams and the natives getting gorily ripped to shreds by the monster.

NO... NO... NO THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! OH GODS... HOW COULD THIS GO SO WRONG!!!?

Blood was everywhere as the monster ruthlessly attacked each inhabitant with no one being spared from its rage. Because of the primitive design flaw of Euclydia, it made it all the easier for their slaughter to happen en masse. Blue flames rained down from the monstrosity’s maw and engulfed buildings incinerating them to their last atom. Any that fought against the intruder did so, saving the other two-dimensional beings a few seconds at best, but their weapons were of no use. Rather, it made the monster more infuriated at their insolence.

Bill hovered over the ruined husk of his world his confidence being replaced with an expression of dread. His eye throbbed again this time out of bewilderment as he floated there petrified. Crimson blood splattered across his face knocking him slightly out of his catatonic state. His stomach churned with his eye burning hot with the urge to vomit (the show had confirmed that his eye doubled as his mouth). He clutched his chest with his fist as his voice staggered in disbelief. He struggled to speak, but the scent of seared flesh filled his nostrils. He could only wheeze a dry “It... it wasn’t me.”

He continued to speak into the void when the video transitioned slain Euclideans dragged their broken bodies along and linked their limbs together in huge swarms. They directed their collective gaze towards Bill... I could practically feel the venom in their words.

Why did you do it? Why did you do it?

Bill gripped the sides of his head in desperation of drowning the accusations out and continued doing so even when his fingernails clawed into him. The video began playing at a fast pace with Bill shaking fervently. The harsh critique drilled tiny holes in his body with his blood and tears coming together in a mixture. Cipher slowly lowered his hands.

Tears streaked down his eye as Bill laughed hysterically, his mental state snapping and burning away alongside the rest of his world and continued growing more erratic and pained the more Bill allowed himself to slip away. The blue flames licked his body symbolizing the punishment that he would receive for all his crimes. His mother’s lullaby reached its final note before the video abruptly ended.

The next day, I booted up my computer and decided to visit thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com to see if I could get that outcome again. I typed in “dream” as I did yesterday only to be met by the blare of the monitor as the code was rejected. No matter how many times I tried that password, I was never able to activate the link for the video. The rest of the website worked as normal.

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