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I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.

Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.

Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:

(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)

But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:

If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.

Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.

Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.

...Hence "so much blood."

(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)

Rayelle being a 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴ezoid.

Flatland AU rambling below:

In my AU, regular polygons have congruent marks surgically placed in men to solidify their shape, and place in society for jobs and such. The exception being women, irregulars, and circles.

Those who DON’T have congruent marks can morph their form to a degree both consciously and subconsciously. In Flatland, this is naturally seen as taboo as your place in society is determined by your shape. Therefore, don’t startle a Circle. (Meaning you should TOTALLY not keep out of a Circle’s line of sight and announce your presence from behind.) Circles will spike up like a pufferfish when startled.

king of lineland + monarch of pointland gijinka redesigns >_0

+ some old art

vv old designs vv [ that im pretty sure i havent posted here yet ]

i think i shouldve kept the sketchy linework 4 the monarch ,, im just gonna add them in future drawings

also i balded king of lineland

i dont even know why i added hair whydid i do tha

Abbott A. Kvadrat

A. Square design for Flatland The Musical 🎭

love?

evvery one of my characters is the universe experiencing itself over and over and over again . intersection between the self and what has made you into what you are. all of them are inextricably linked and some of them are really just another character but cast in a different light. vincent and r. line are the same but vincent is what could have been and r. line is what never should have been. oblisi and trey are the same but oblisi is a soul repressed out of fear and trey is a fire fueled by such venom filled wood that his fires burn far too high for himself and give off fumes that are only by products of the terror and apprehension and uncertainty he is filled to the brim with. all are born from the same source and it is both horrifying and transfixing to look at the one you detest and only see a mirror of yourself

yellow godlike 3d shape with weird eye/s who kidnaps Some Guy and teaches him about the wonders of other dimensions but theyre doomed from the narrative so they have to die in the end while the guy lives but ends up traumatized

Flatland (2007) models by Otis Le PoOtis (me) in Blender 4.1

know the difference! One is copyrighted. the rest of infinity are public domain. Ladd Ehlinger, notoriously racist conservative, changed the character's name to "A Sphere" to match the narrator.

[ID: A two panel meme. the first panel is labeled, "A Sphere", with the A underlined for emphasis. Below this is a screenshot from the 2007 Flatland film by Ladd Ehlinger, showing A Sphere, who is a shiny metallic yellow sphere with bulging red eyes with unequal pupils, and two very skinny arms. His mouth is not visible while it is closed. Text below reads, "Design owned and name used by infamously racist conservative Ladd Ehlinger. He changed the Sphere's name to A. Sphere to match the narrator's pseudonym. Ladd Ehlinger made the Sphere into A Spheere, a creepy rich asshole. Because Ladd Ehlinger is the exact sort of person the narrator was meant to represent, and he can't very well criticize his own racism, misogyny, classism, and more, now can he?" The other side of the grid is titled, "The Sphere", with the word "the" underlined for emphasis. The text continues, "Public domain characters + designs. The real Sphere is kind, patient, respectful to women, and believes in equality for all. This character and these designs are Public Domain. Free for anyone to use for anything. The designs go on literally forever, the Sphere can look like anything." There are ten designs shown for the sphere: the first is orange with a yellow, white and black spot on his back and yellow eyes. The second is a solid blue sphere with dramatic lighting. The third is covered in a pattern like stained glass in dark purples, golds, and blues. The fourth is solid pale green, with yellow eyes, looking down toe the side and saying, "bro, what the fuck." The fifth is dark red-brown, with three yellow eyes, grinning at something offscreen. The sixth is from an illustration from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, showing the sphere in the center of Flatland with a dotted line inside him, labeled, "The Sphere with his section at full size". The seventh is similar, but with two grey circles inside showing the 3D effect. The eighth is pale pink with lighting and shadows, leaning back with a relaxed epression with arms crossed. The ninth is light red, with blue and red circles and diamons, with a single eye. The tenth and last is dark grey with an orange outline, wearing a dark purple tophat and monacle, winking at the camera, labeled, "totally not Arsene Lupin". End ID.]