#semantics / technicality

[spicyvampire]

Well, it didn't haunt him for very long [Great's version]

4MINUTES (2024) EP. 7

[kittykatninja321]

Bruce has 3 1st sons: Dick is the first child he took in/raised, Jason is the first kid he adopted/legally claimed as his own, Damian is his first bio kid/would’ve existed before Jason’s adoption, so could technically be considered the 1st kid that is “legally” his, even if wasn’t aware of his existence yet

[bornetoblood]

how many, sir?

[tswwwit]

Hello to the best author ever!!!! Familiar au has had me in a death grip for years. I will never stop re reading and overanalyzing this work of art. 😘

I'm having thoughts about familiar Bill having the same history as canon Bill. Doesn't that mean Bill isn't a demon? Hold on, I'm donning my conspiracy theory hat.

What is a demon in familiar au anyway? Just a general term humans made up to classify any evil being of unknown origins? My head canon is that a demon is an entity that manifested in the nightmare realm. I feel like that matches best with familiar au lore so far.

Canon Bill and his Hechmanics are a group of interdimensional criminals from different dimensions. Bill spending "eons amassing criminals and lunatics from different dimensions" is a direct fact from Alex. Another fun fact! Hectorgon used to be sheriff of the interdimensional task force meant to take Bill down. So they aren't evil because they're demons. They're just like that (and we accept them for who they are ♥️).

So is familiar Bill even a demon? Are his Hechmanics demons? Did everyone just assume they were demons and they never bothered to correct them? Or are they lying about it? How much of canon is in familiar au?

Did Bill forget he isn't even a demon??? Did he forget just how "human" he actually was before meeting Dipper? A trillion years is a long time to Stockholm Syndrome yourself.

Okay but it would be so funny if my theory was correct. Dipper thought his familiar being a demon was bad enough but he doesn't know he's a Mafia wife on the interdimensional scale oh nooooo

I believe Bill in canon is technically still a 'demon', in that he's described as such and never really denies it? But details aside - I've never really defined what a 'demon' is in Familiar AU - and I'm glad, because I started it waaaay before we got all that supplemental canonical material!

Familiar Bill didn't manifest out of nowhere like the classical idea of 'demon'. He had parents, and the backstory, and all that!

But I would say that Familiar Bill is a demon. In that it's a catchall term for Very Magical Powerful Malevolent Being from Another Dimension.

And in this particular branch of the multiverse, well. Let's use Bill's incredibly old age for this bit of worldbuilding.

Say you've been hanging with interdimensional criminals since a billion years back. Turns out that when nasty customers hang out in certain places, beings of similar nature and intent tend move into the general area. It's the part of the universe the 'good guys' of the universe avoid, making it all the more tempting for all kinds of weirdos and monsters to gather around! A few hundred thousand years later and before you know it, the whole thing snowballs! A little spectrum of nasty little monsters with powers, fluttering in the same neighborhood. Not all of them are immortal though, and it turns out if those stick around in the same-ish place for long enough - that being millennia - the mortal ones'll develop their own culture and amalgamated language.

Familiar Bill: Confirmed for Demon, as he's Enculturated enough over a billion years to consider himself one.

[gothamundernightlight]

Incorrect Batfam Quotes

Jason: What is wrong with you?

Tim: Well, when I realized the dopamine hit I received from being a smartass far outweighed the repercussions, there was no turning back for the outcome of my personality.

[angeltownn]

It’s them

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[rederiss]

Edited the same post three times because I kept misplacing the same word over and over.

Time to project dyslexia onto Jeremy.

[jade-efflorescence]

second year of college done!

[delta-orionis]

tge signal :)

WOAH ITS MY GUY!! AND MY GUY’S GUY!!!!

I literally posted about The Signal once, I was never expecting them to get fanart haha

[strayheat]

so mel's golden back accents Do create a force field, huh

(update i've done some digging)

[chronologically-challenged]

Man, there is no easy way to refer to sasasap Siffrin. That's Loop. But like isat Loop's characterization is wildly different from sasasap's. So if I want to talk about sasasap Siffrin, I have to say sasasap or just saap Siffrin. Cause what if I want to compare isat Siffrin vs sasasap Siffrin without using the name Loop? Because "Loop" has its own connotations on how much they know, what they've been through, and which game continuity we're in.

The usual solution would be to call sasasap Siffrin something different, something like... idk sifloop.

Don't think that will work here.

[azurebolt-fr]

DEVASTATING: I DON'T KNOW WHAT DRAGON TO MAKE INTO MY CIRRUS

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[asurrogateblog]

my favorite photos from The Wall where the surrogate band is just Standing There Ominously

[bxtonpxss]

"Hmm... that's twice now..."

"So that means next time...."