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South Park Superhero AU

so this is kind of a masterport with all the info about the superhero AU (I’ll be adding more info eventually)

This au takes place a few years in the future and the kids are around 16-17 yo. All of them have a secret double life where they act as their superhero personas and have real superpowers.

-characters-

-relationships and story-

Cartman was in the same apartment with Stan and Kyle but they got tired of his bullshit and sent him with his mom again.

Butters wants to leave his house but his parents won’t let him.

Token has his own apartment that his parents pay for and he hosts the best parties.

Craig and those guys spend most of the time at Token’s place (Clyde and Jimmy leave whenever Tweek and Craig want intimacy).

Kenny lives in his same old house because his family can’t afford an apartment (Kenny is trying to find a job to pay for it himself).

Everyone is familiar with Toolshed and ask him to makes gadgets (Mosquito’s wings, Tupperware’s drons…) so almost everyone owns him a favor.

Toolshed and Kite start as allies but they have a fight and end up working separated.

Mysterion doesn’t like anyone to get attached to him and viceversa so he doesn’t work with other heroes except if necessary.

Coon is that kind of character that says he has the post powerful power and he’s the best superhero and he’s too cool to have a sidekick (but in reality no one can fucking stand him).

Basically everyone is against Prof Chaos

Ok enough, that was too much work I need to rest now

If you want to do fanart/fanfiction you can have your liberties with the characters as long as you don’t change the outfits, powers or stories! (use the tag #sp superhero au if you do since I can miss some mentions) 

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I made some silly doodles a while ago but I didn’t post them (¿??)

welp there’s chaos without his cape/gloves

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Me with anything my friends give me

Friendship Bracelets

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mysterion helping chaos to control his powers requested by… a lot of people (asjksd thanks for all the angst I hope this fills your bunny needs)

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hello everybody i’m back on my bullshit 

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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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Oh hamburgers ///

(sorry if it’s blurry;;; just click for better quality dzdhsc)

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press f to pay respects to da coon, yo

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I have a master's degree in drawing Kenny. ts just muscle memory at this point LOL

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From this!

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billford animatic i made to the song 'confrontation'! ^^

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Fordtato Gravity Falls Theory: Mindscapes, Thresholds, Dreamscapes and Memories

Hey guys, remember when this was a Gravity Falls theory channel? 

I’ve been seeing a bit of discourse on this, so I figured I’d see if I could find a solution where it all makes sense.

This theory is not going to be as in-depth as it should be, but I’ll at least outline my thoughts.

There are four different mental states which we see Bill invade and interact with Gravity Falls.

MINDSCAPE

There are mindscapes, the black and white embodiment of one’s conscience and mind.

We’ve seen Stan’s Mindscape, and we know the following about what a Mindscape is:

It is a physical landscape representing thoughts and concepts which have a huge influence on our lives and personalities

It is seen in black and white

It contains our memories (more on that later), which, in Stan’s case, are behind wooden doors

While in the Mindscape, anything you imagine will come to fruition (which is how our heroes fought Bill initially)

THRESHOLD

Similar to a Mindscape, but not quite, would be what I call the “threshold.” We have seen Bill interact with this state of mind on a few different occasions.

Here:

Here:

And here:

In the threshold, Bill can interact with one’s mind without entering their Mindscape. Here are some details we know about this state of mind:

Bill has control over his surroundings but it seems others do not. Unlike in the Mindscape, where anyone in it can think up whatever they want, only Bill has power here. We see him interact with the deer teeth, but we never anyone else perform in any supernatural feats — not even Dipper, who, in Sock Opera, already knew that he had power in the Mindscape.

Bill cannot enter Ford’s Mindscape due to the metal plate in his head. So this is, theoretically, as far as he would have been able to go.

This seems to be a way for Bill to speak to people in the physical realm when he wants to propose deals.

Remember, Bill cannot speak to those in the physical realm without a physical form. Even in Dreamscapers, when possessing Stan, the most physical he appears outside of the Mindscape or Threshold is a shadow on the wall:

So what about the times we see him in a colorful world?

DREAMSCAPE

The Dreamscape is exactly what it sounds like: Bill interacting with the dreams of the Pines family. We only see him in a colorful three times before the finale, when he’s brought to the physical world.

The most memorable case is here:

In this case, we know for a fact that Ford’s dreams were often fucked with by Bill. Bill saw him return, possibly through any number of birch tree eyeholes, and was able to invade his dreams for the first time in many years. But what of the other cases?

Right between Dipper getting sleepy and entering the Threshold, Bill appears, with a fantastical shade of blue around him with a blinding spotlight. This is something, that, like Ford’s dream, does not exist in the physical world and is likely symbolic in the same way, which i won’t go into here.

We know that Bill could not interact with the physical world to this extent without a physical form, meaning this had to have been a Dreamscape that he was able to engage with the second Dipper fell asleep on the room.

He then switches to the Threshold, choosing to enter a realm where Dipper cannot imagine and materialize anything to fight him.

Finally, we see the Dreamscape for the last time here:

This is a colorful realm in which Bill interacts with a younger Ford while he’s asleep. We see Ford sleeping by that tree before entering the Dreamscape. 

We also know it is in Ford’s dreams because Ford highlights it in the journal, saying that his “muse” had been giving him glimpses of truth in his dreams for the last year.

So this is what we know about Dreamscapes:

Dreamscapes are essentially dreams, complete with color and strange sights

Based on the way Ford can change around the books in his Dreamscape (and based on the way he changes his tea’s flavor in the Dreamscape in the Last Mabelcorn storyboards) those in the Dreamscape also have power to interact with their surroundings

Bill does not need permission of any kind to enter the Dreamscape

But what about the finale? And what about deals to enter one’s mind?

DEALS: POSSESSION and MEMORIES

The idea of making a deal to enter Stan’s Mindscape has been a point of issue for the fandom. If a deal is needed to enter a Mindscape, why were Dipper, Mabel and Soos able to follow Stan in, no problem?

So this is what I think: Permission isn’t needed to enter the Mindscape, it’s needed to access the MEMORIES.

Bill needed a deal of some kind to be able to interact with (in this case stealing the combination within) Stan’s memories. While Stan’s mind was open, Dipper and Mabel and Soos were able to follow with that spell (remember, the spell is designed specifically to FOLLOW Bill into the Mindscape, not to enter it independently, which implies it needs to be accessible first).

Memories, it seems, are an extra layer of difficulty for Bill to interact with. Like possession, he needs a deal of some kind before he get that power. But with a deal, he can rummage through them.

And while the Mindscape is in black and white, the memories:

are in color.

This idea comes up again during Weirdmaggedon.

In the finale, Bill wants to go into Ford’s mind, to look at his memories and find the equation needed to break through to the rest of the world. Bill can get to the threshold, but can go no further.

Bill can’t enter Ford’s Mindscape and memories for two reasons: For one thing, Ford has a metal plate in his head, preventing Bill from just entering his mind and possessing him. It seems to be equally powerful in preventing Bill from invading his memories.

For another, Ford needs to shake Bill’s hand to let him in (though we realize later on, that even if Ford WERE to shake his hand and let Bill in, the metal plate would have prevented him from entering, meaning ford took all that torture knowing that Bill would never get the answer, knowing he couldn’t give Bill the equation if he wanted to, possibly to buy time for the rest of the family to come up with a plan. What a champ.)

But then Stan shakes Bill’s hand.

First he enters the threshold:

And then he enters the Mindscape:

How do we know it’s a Mindscape? The door is black and white.

So what about the color within?

Well, that’s a memory.

Stan cleared his mind of everything but this one door, of a useless memory of him sitting on the couch. It’s a memory that Stan is able to manipulate, creating a paddleball the same way he materialized a pitt soda in Dreamscapers when he talked to Dipper in that other memory.

So there you have it.

This theory might have some plot holes, but it’s the best I could do. Let me know what you think!

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Revelations

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I like to think in some timeline, Bill after getting (somehow, miraculously) released from the Theraprism after dealing with all his guilt just... immediately heads back to Gravity Falls and starts acting very nonchalant and weird around everyone.

Which eventually turns into (horribly concealed) attempts to befriend Ford again after everything. Which then turns into this...

Anyway, please go read The Book of Bill. I can't stop thinking about this show now.

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Haha whoops

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I found these HERE

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headcanon that stan hates wearing glasses (for many reasons) and went without them for years until he really needed them

[Image Description: Comic of a younger Stanley Pines from "Gravity Falls." Alt text is provided and copied below the cut. End ID]

A younger Stan squints at his blurry reflection in the mirror, leaning in really close to see himself clearly. He sighs and grabs a pair of Ford's glasses on the dresser. Putting them on, he stares at his reflection. "Welp," he says, "this is unsettling."

He turns away from the mirror to adjust his tie, saying, "But it can't be helped." His reflection is now a disheveled Ford, mirroring Stan.