#the post has cipher

[dummymcsnortee]

Did this, i don't know why it did have a frisk or ness shirt....

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[theshadowrealmitself]

Got reminded of that reverse falls thing where it was a Gravity Falls au someone made (I don’t really know who, but it got pretty popular) where the twins took over Gideon’s role as the antagonistic tent psychics, and then Pacifica and Gideon took over as the pines twins

And like I said, this au got really popular and I don’t know what the original au was like and what got added on by other people later on, but so far what I do know that’s apparently in all the versions is that the new gleeful twins are scarily competent at being evil psychics, and in some (maybe all) there’s a blue? version of Bill Cipher known as Will who’s like,, a sad version of him who’s under the twins’ control??

And here’s my thoughts on the au: that’s not. reverse. ???? like, reverse would be,,, reverse. Like if Dipper switched with Gideon, then Mabel should’ve switched with Pacifica, how come none of them became a northwest but Pacifica became a pines??? There’s now two sets of siblings where there was originally one, that doesn’t,, make,, any sense??? It bothers me every time I remember it

And I would’ve really liked this au if it was something like actually reverse falls, like: the twins are competent with it like Gideon was, but they’re still obviously kids who have no idea what they’re getting into with having Will around them, who’s waaay more dangerous than they could’ve ever realized, especially cause he makes himself seem so unassuming

(But instead the stuff I saw made them seem way more evil and better at being villains than Gideon??)

[ckret2]

The flip side of "Bill shows people he cares about them (or tricks them into thinking he cares about them) by flattering them and giving them gifts, and ONLY flattering them and giving them gifts, NO EMOTIONAL LABOR ALLOWED" is that Bill also accepts caring in the form of gifts and flattery.

If somebody goes "Hey Bill I found a cool rock and I painted your face on it, do you want it," he'll go "you're the only creature in this godforsaken multiverse who gives a shit about me. I would and will murder for you."

This makes how he interacts with his human worshipers very funny.

"Hello! I'm going to shower you in compliments and otherworldly knowledge! I'm a divine muse! If you want to strengthen your connection to me, you should plaster my face all over everything."

"Okay!" *makes tapestries and statues and paintings depicting Bill* "This is my divine muse, he blesses me with knowledge! He's so amazing!"

"... so like... I know I'm your god and you're my puny worshipper but, like, we're also besties, right? you're telling me we're BFFs—?"

[irregularbillcipher]

so god forbid i’m seen just as an average human being

[pchelaus]

dipper drags mystical creatures(one demon especially) home just as mabel drags raccoons and opossums

[mother-ofthe-universedraws]

Haha, they’re gonna fucking die

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Had an idea for a Backrooms themed GF au.

Ford joins the MEG after college and quickly works his way to becoming a lead explorer. His goal in exploring the backrooms is to both discover the nature of it, and to find Stanley, who he suspects fell into it years earlier, not long after getting kicked out. Fiddleford doesn’t work for MEG, but Ford pulled strings to get him invited as a guest explorer/technology consultation expert. Fords exploration team is full of the best MEG employees he knows…. Who all are secretly crazy and worship a parrot.

Let’s see if he can find his brother and get out alive!

[eldragon-x]

Okay let's talk about how actually Bill is attached to Ford and genuinely sees him as a friend and maybe even likes him more than literally anyone else which was originally going to mainly revolve around Weirdmageddon, however I absolutely needed to add creator commentary and extra-canon in order to dig into Bill's mentality.

First, I'd like to point out this comment by Hirsch from the Sock Opera DVD commentary about how Bill views Mabel:

“Bill genuinely believes that Mabel’s kinda like him. He sees Mabel as a chaos agent. Like, Mabel has got a little bit of a seed of anarchy in her, she’s a little bit selfish, she likes to have fun at whatever cost. And Bill is all those things times a billion. So he thinks when he lays it all out for her like: ‘How about instead of being lame, you do something fun! And crush whoever you want in the process!’. He thinks that’s gonna go over. And he’s not wrong in seeing that side in Mabel but Mabel is a better person than Bill Cipher.”

as well as this bit from "Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun" written by Bill:

Both which pretty much confirm that Bill likes Mabel and assumes they're alike based on a couple similarities, which adds up when you look at how he treats and interacts with Mabel in the show but let's not derail.

The point I'm trying to make here is that if Bill can get attached and relate to a twelve year old he's known for half a summer, it's pretty easy to imagine he probably feels similarly about a guy he's known for thirty years and is the character who by far has the strongest connection to Bill.

Of course for Bill to relate to Ford there has to be some similarity in the first place. And there are! You could compare Ford's willingness to build an interdimensional portal to gain knowledge and admiration to Bill's desire to reach beyond his own two-dimensional world and eventual attain of knowledge and power.

Of course, Ford isn't the first person to attempt to build a portal for Bill. But the similarities run deeper than that.

So you know how Ford's been ostracized for all his life and leaned into trying to be outstanding and special which was encouraged and made worse by Bill?

Because Bill namedrops the author of Flatland in the Bill Cipher AMA when asked about his birth dimension.

and on top of that, in Journal 3 Ford describes a dimension called Exwhylia which references Flatland and suggests Bill could have come from a similar dimension.

To keep it short for those unfamiliar, Flatland is a book about a place of that same name and describes it as a plane where three-dimensionality is incomprehensible, only the heads of society are allowed to know about other dimensions, the social system depends on a strict hierarchy, everything that risks deviating from the norm is shut down, may be worth mentioning here that triangles are near the bottom of the hierarchy too.

Yeah I don't think I need to really explain that Bill would absolutely hate it here and it's really jarring how much this place clashes with him.

Anyway do you see where I'm going with this? Bill probably being shunned by his world and Ford's whole deal?

About the leaning into being special thing, Flatland people are really just. people but shapes. So to me it implies Bill didn't always have his powers (on top of him literally saying "I wasn't always this way" in Weird 3 while talking about his newly gained powers and before talking about his old dimension). Can you imagine how much gaining those brought out the worst in him? I think he was already self-centered before but now he has more reason to see himself above others.

Now obviously, Bill just claimed Ford was special and called him his friend as a manipulation tactic, but it's significant to remember that we're talking about the guy who said this:

and is pretty much confirmed to apply this mindset to himself:

I think that while yes, Ford and Bill's friendship started out as nothing but manipulation on Bill's part, he really grew attached to the guy based on what they had in common.

Unfortunately, Bill does the same mistake with Ford as he does with Mabel and assumed he's more like him than he really is. I mean,

Bill wrote this into the Journal during Ford's paranoid era. And I don't think he's just rambling because he says "don't you understand" and "I ask you" which very much sounds like he's trying to be convincing.

Anyway, yeah I think this scene from Weirdmageddon 1 was really another genuine offer, rather than just plain and simply Bill mocking Ford.

Also Weirdmageddon 2 pretty much proves to me that Bill does see Ford as special. Just look at how he's always carrying golden Ford around in contrast to all the stone-turned townsfolk being built into his throne. Literally special treatment! In a bad messed up way.

Also a big fan of this episode showing that Bill does not care about the well-being of his so-called friends (which is even more outright in the uncut storyboard version of this scene)

really cementing the fact that not only does Bill see himself above mortals, but above everyone and really the only apparent reason they are friends is because they support Bill and he thinks they're fun.

So yeah it is absolutely possible for Bill to regard Ford on a similar level as them, maybe even above them. Finally, let's talk about the penthouse scene because I have a lot of feelings about that one.

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After attempting to charm Ford, Bill's first move in trying to negotiate is talking about his old dimension and how restricting and narrow-minded it was. Already brought this scene up earlier but honestly the fact that he just drops that on Ford is wild to me.

Like, this is the same guy who, according to the Axolotl, yearns for his old dimension but denies to himself that he deeply regrets destroying it. Bill hates showing vulnerability. He hates even acknowledging it. He only cares for vulnerability if it comes from other people for him to exploit!

So him telling Ford that his dimension was awful and he was genuinely miserable there is huge. Not just him telling Ford that, but also just the expression? The tone? This is the most sincere Bill has ever been throughout the show and possibly the most sincere he's been in decades, centuries, millennia, God knows. Even if it's still filtered through a lie he's been telling himself for most of his life.

And yeah obviously, Bill was desperate and needed Ford to help him at this point but I think it would've been "easier" for Bill to just. Maybe try and solve the barrier problem himself. Ford figured it out, so surely Bill can at least try instead of, Idk, laying his heart out to the person who has dedicated his life to killing him.

I think Bill tried to make Ford relate to him in this scene for the sake of getting him to join but also maybe, just maybe, Bill craved connection? Dude's a lot more sentimental than he seems and lets on and spending an eternity only befriending people who you'll put below yourself after killing everyone you've ever known has got to get lonely.

Not that I think Bill truly saw ford as an equal, Absolutely Not, but I think Bill saw in Ford someone who could understand him. Someone who, at least for a short time, just simply enjoyed and appreciated his company as a friend. Maybe even a more naive version of Bill himself who hasn't yet realized what's good for him, which is really ironic because Ford is the one ended up stirring his life into a positive direction where he can be truly happy again, while Bill revels in his own misery.

Well. So much about this eleven second long scene I think about way too hard 👍

Bill then goes into his whole tangent about just trying to free the dimension of restrictions and making it into a fun and better world which is reflected in the Journal 3 messages from earlier and ends up on this:

Because this is what Bill believes to be Ford's ideal. He wants knowledge and admiration? Why here you go! Surely there's no reason Ford wouldn't agree to helping Bill now, right?? He's offering him everything he could ever want! He'd be part of his group! Everyone gets what they want!

And again, yeah Bill could've just made things up and immediately tossed Ford to the side as soon as he would've given him the equation to break the barrier, but that little scene where he talks to Ford about his old home dimension just. Really drives it home for me that he does in some way truly sees Ford as his friend. Y'know, on top of literally everything else I talked about here.

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EDIT: Like the fool I am, I forgot to bring up a point about Bill keeping Ford alive during Weirdmageddon despite Ford posing a huge threat to him which is odd but uuh just read this, it pretty much covers it.

[godsfavoritescientist]

Becoming Bill Cipher

[thebookofbill]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HE’S FUCKING BACK

I CALLWD MY BEST FRIEND IMMEDIATELY TO SCREWM AND TELL HIM ABOUT IT. WE YAVE COLLECTIVELT PREORDERED ALL THREE AVAILABLE BERSIONS. I AM SO SOSP SO FUCKIMG EXCITED

[billford-dump]

Human Bill dissociates a lot, especially at first. His body rarely feels like his own. He can hardly see through these weak human eyes. His hands don't look like that. He has one eye, not two. He doesn't have a mouth, or nose, or ears. He doesn't have any hair, much less hair all over him. Everything is wrong, down to the smallest detail.

It does gets better, eventually. He feels more like himself, less like a puppeteer cursed to inhabit a puppet. There are little things he likes about the his new body, little details that make it more bearable, little things he can do to feel more comfortable.

[mt10lt20]

Yo Buddy, still alive?

[meteor-moon]

another bipper thing but this time it's a little better than my other one

(quality? what's quality?)

[insufferable-homestuck]

cant hang out w anyone this weekend or draw any homestuck i m busy drawing that FUCKING TWINK

[princerevelucide]

i like drawign bill cipher as a little darling. he's small and has tiny hands and legs. this guy only comes up to your waist and weighs as much as a bunny.

[bi-functional]

D: oh grow up. You’ve been like this since the day we got married.

B: A highly sexual and reasonable man?

D: A man who over reacts when he doesn’t get his way.

After a long day of travel I got high and turned on adult swim and somethin about that American Dad script just screams these fuckers.

As always based on @tswwwit ‘s familiar au. Apologies for the shitty sketches I still am fucking blind

[tiredassmage]

Tyr Deckard / Cipher Nine + Text Posts.

Aka, Tyr’s constant yo-yo between “ah fuck” and “oh fuck this.” Good night and good news.