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I'm only asking this because you said you want to draw some Billford and now I'm thinking about it. It seems to me that Bill would bring Ford extremely upsetting presents (like a cat) and Ford (like a cat owner) would be disgusting/horrified, but charmed despite himself. Am I correct? Also, would the same thing happen in reverse

Yeah that's basically where they're at in canon lol. Buuut my goal's to write them struggling & clawing past their toxic history to reach a place where they work.

And when they work, I think usually Bill gives Ford gifts that should horrify him, but that he only finds charming, because these two freaks are on the same wavelength. And same goes in reverse.

A partially colored Gravity Falls comic. Panel one: human Bill Cipher, sitting with his back pressed to a line of trees and hands shielding his face defensively, says, "Look, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to invade your weird nest kingdom (while you were home). Let me go and I promise it will never happen again!" An angry grayish-brown bird person flying in front of the trees says "No ground walkers enter my kingdom and leave unchanged! Which do you choose: my dungeon or my curse?"
Bill says "Rrrgh fine! I'll take your stupid curse!" The bird guy says "Cawwhahaha! Excellent! Tell me your name, that I may curse it!" Panel two: Bill stares in consternation. Panel three: Bill says "... Wait, so. Whatever name I give you, you're gonna curse it?" Off screen the bird guy says "Yes, that's how it works. So what is it?" Panel four: Bill's eyebrows shoot up.

Panel five: Ford Pines glances back over his shoulder and says "Bill? Is that you?" Bill's hanging off the side of a doorway as he comes into the room and says "Yello! Didja miss me?" Ford says "I've been looking for you. Where were you all day?" Bill says "Doesn't matter! More importantly, I got you a little something while I was out." Ford says "What?"
Panel six: Bill leans heavily against Ford's side, head leaning on his shoulder, hands laced, heel kicking up playfully, and says, "A curse!" Panel seven: Bill kicks his foot out and pokes Ford in the nose and says "It's on you!" Ford looks unimpressed.

(there's another five pages under the cut)

Panel eight: arms crossed, Ford asks, "What kind of curse?" Bill smugly holds out a piece of paper and says "The owl prince's kind. To break it, you have a week to finish his three trials and return to his throne. And you'll be turning into a bird the whole time." Panel nine: jaw dropped and eyes wide with shock, Ford grabs Bill's shoulders and startles him. Panel ten: Ford raises his fists triumphantly, the paper clutched in one hand, while Bill grins and says "I thought you might like that." Panel eleven: excitedly, Ford says, Do you know how long I've been hunting that illusive feathery bastard?" Bill shrugs and rolls an eye as he says "'Course I do! You've been griping about him since '79!" Ford says "And now he'll have no choice but to meet me!"

Panel twelve: Ford holds Bill romantically, cupping his face, and says "You do so much for me, my muse. I've never thanked you enough," and then kisses Bill. Panel thirteen: it's revealed that the previous panel was Bill's thought bubble as he stares creepily at Ford, who's reading the paper and babbling excitedly. Only part of Ford's babble can be read as he says, "And his first trial is to find the golden mouse?! I've been looking for the map to it for years! If we hurry I can retrieve it and have time to take notes before ... curse has progressed too far ... me to handle the second trial ... I still have my hands and my mind, I should be able to complete all the tests..." Bill thinks to himself "I'm not getting any action for this, am I."

Panel fourteen: Bill leans on Ford with his cheek pressed to Ford's, one hand on his shoulder, and the other draped over his arm, and he says "Say! Didn't you say you were looking for me?" Panel fifteen: Ford digs into his pocket while Bill watches and says "Right, I almost forgot. I went to that dead vampire sorcerer's estate sale today." Panel sixteen: Ford gets out of Bill's grip and drops a glass eye with a golden iris in Bill's palm. Bill stares at it as Ford says, "As we suspected, his vampiric sire is still slumbering in the basement coffin. Here. I happened to notice his glass eye was your color, and he isn't using it now, so... Oh, and--I drilled a hole in it. In case you want to make it into jewelry, or something. (That seems like the kind of thing you and Mabel do together.)" Panel seventeen: Bill stares up at Ford with hearts in his eyes.

In billford as "toxic exes who get under each other's skin because they know each other so well," having them constantly bickering and getting on each other's nerves works just fine. But when they're actually a couple, I like to see them like each other. Enjoy each other's company and do things for each other that they appreciate.

Even if it's batshit by outsiders' standards, it needs to work for them. Bill knows when Ford would love to be cursed and Ford sees weird gross body parts and knows "Bill would want this."

Panel eighteen: Ford writes in his journal as he asks "Does the curse give me wings? When do the wings come in?" Bill admires the glass eye as he says, "Day 6." Ford says "Aw." Bill says "The first sign of the curse is feathers replacing your hair. Those should already be coming in." Panel 19: Ford glances up from his journal and says "No?" Bill holds the glass eye in front of his real eye to pretend he's staring with it and says "No? Are you sure?" Ford says "I think I'd know if I was growing feathers. Are you sure feathers come first?" Panel 20: both Ford and Bill turn to look as Stan Pines comes in, arms held out awkwardly with his hair and body hair turning into ruffled gray feathers. He says "Hey, Ford... Does my hair look hairier than usual?"

Panel 21: Bill and Ford stare silently with looks of wide eyed shock. Panel 22: ford points at Bill with his pen and says "Are you sure the curse is on me?" Bill flings up his hands and says "Sure I'm sure! He said he'd curse whoever I named, and I said Stanford!" Ford says "Then it must be in how the curse identifies names. Perhaps the magic is based on the name on your driver's license? Or the quantity of people who recognize you by a name?" Bill says "Heck if I know! I've never had to check in on how this guy operates! Maybe the owl prince asked a gnome to point out "Stanford Pines"?" Ford says "Anything's possible!" Off screen, Stan says "Uhh... What was that about a curse?" Ford says "Hold on Stanley, we have to get to the bottom of this name business." Stan says "Hoo boy..."

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Transcript of text from the page of TBOB under the cut

Text reads: "Unfased, F has been making hot cocoa and welding rivets while playing christmas songs on the radio. (These songs make no sense. Why did Rudolph forgive his tormentors for their mockery of his facial deformity? He should have used his red-hot nose to burn his oppressor's workshop to the ground. A lesson to all!)"

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This is the one way that i can draw them i don’t make the rules

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