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Transcendence AU primer

People have been asking me “what’s this Transcendence thing you keep talking about?”, so here’s a little primer I wrote up that should hopefully give you an overview of what it is and why I love it.

Transcendence AU (or TAU), created by @zillychu, is a fan alternate universe of the show Gravity Falls. It’s a bit unusual as AU’s go in that it has a squishy canon that people are (generally) free to add to. It’s all about demons, family, magic, immortality, tragedy, and dorks. So many dorks.

Gravity Falls

First of all, it is an AU of Gravity Falls, so if you haven’t seen GF at all, the following episodes are basically mandatory:

Tourist Trapped! (the first episode, which introduces Dipper, Mabel, and Stan)

Dreamscaperers (introduces Bill Cipher)

Sock Opera (in which Dipper gets possessed by Bill – a lot of themes in TAU were inspired by this particular episode)

TAU often makes reference to other characters and things that happen in the show, but those episodes are the bare minimum.

What’s “the Transcendence”?

Now that that’s out of the way, what makes TAU different from canon Gravity Falls? Unlike a lot of AU’s, there is no one fic that describes how TAU diverges from canon, although there are several fics that provide different takes on it. At a high level, the following always happens:

At some point after Sock Opera, Bill Cipher attempts to cause the end of the world, and the twins foil him. As a last ditch effort to save his own life, Bill tries to possess Dipper against his will. Dipper manages to defeat him, and Bill ends up dying while in Dipper’s Mindscape. The bits of Bill left behind – in particular, his magic – fuse permanently with Dipper. This should have killed him, but he instead becomes a demon himself.

Additionally, although Bill’s plans were foiled, there are major side effects that forever change the world. The “weirdness bubble” (that kept the supernatural stuff contained within Gravity Falls) pops, and weirdness becomes commonplace everywhere. Society takes a while to recover from this. This event is known as “the Transcendence”.

Other facts that are useful to know:

The twins’ parents don’t handle Dipper’s change very well. They love him, but they’re afraid of him and things are bad. Because of this, a couple of years later, Dipper and Mabel move to Gravity Falls to live with Stan.

Dipper and Mabel frequently go on missions to dismantle cults that are doing bad cult stuff. They sort of have secret identities, and go by the names “Alcor” and “Mizar” respectively.

At first, Dipper is invisible to everyone but Mabel. He can be summoned to the physical plane with a summoning circle, and he can make demon deals. As time goes on and as a result of him being half-human, he gains more and more power, and eventually can be present in the physical plane without needing a deal. This eventually puts him in a class of power far above any other demon.

A lot of the characters are queer! For instance, Dipper is aroace and Mabel is bi.

Being a demon means that Dipper is immortal, and he has a lot of difficulty dealing with this. It also means that he has a darker side to him now that he’s always grappling with.

More details can be found on the TAU blog!

Recs!

Here are some awesome fics that I’d 100% recommend:

Meat Cute by Seiya234 - Henry is introduced, he starts dating Mabel, he slowly gets used to the fact that her brother is a demon, and they get married.

24 Months by Seiya234 - Mabel and Henry have triplets, and nothing goes wrong ever, and Dipper is the best dream demon uncle ever.

So you want to be a demonologist by dementor_ssc - Dipper pretends to be an undergrad studying demonology.

Return, Rewind, Rewrite by MaryPSue - A widowed father makes a deal with Dipper to save his infant daughter’s life (who turns out to be a reincarnation of Mabel). In exchange, Dipper creates a fake human body for himself, masquerades as the infant’s twin brother, and locks away both his and the father’s memories. He’s able to lead a relatively normal life, until the family goes on vacation… in Gravity Falls.

Reincarnation Blues by MaryPSue - A reincarnation of Mabel dates a reincarnation of Bill Cipher, and Dipper freaks out. A lot.

Tales of a Dreambender by Lady_Phenyx - A massive collection of oneshots set in TAU, some happy, some sad, and a lot in between.

The Quest For Blood Valley by RedPen - Acacia (one of Mabel and Henry’s kids) wants to see an R-rated movie, and Dipper does not quite succeed in being a responsible adult. Hi-jinks ensue.

Hadley and the Pirate (and the Demon) by ToothPasteCanyon - Far in the future, a spaceship captain is taken hostage by a pirate, and the only person who seems willing to help her is Alcor the Dreambender. Warning: you will cry.

Here’s a list of authors that are just fantastic in general and I’d recommend checking out all of their fics:

Seiya234

MaryPSue

Haberdasher

storiewriter

dementor_ssc

Lady_Phenyx

ThisCat

ToothPasteCanyon

suddenlyGoats

Feneris

(I also write for TAU - my AO3 is StarlightSystem)

Anyway, that’s my rundown of TAU! This primer post got pretty long, but I hope it was helpful :). The TAU blog ( @transcendence-au ) is the definitive source of information for this AU, and you can find a lot more fics, art, and worldbuilding there.

#saving for later #gravity falls

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Daily Danganronpa Fun Fact #14

Hajime Hinata’s full name (日向創) can also be read as “Kamukura”. 日 can be read as both “Hi” and “Ka”,向 as both “Nata” and “Mu”, and 創 as both “Hajime” and “Kura”.

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Daily Danganronpa Fun Fact #201

The light lines in Hajime's eyes go through the pupil while the light lines in Izuru's eyes point away. When Hajime has one green eye and one red eye, they adopt Izuru's pattern.