Swap Thing.....

What if the Axolotl brought Bill back as a regular Flatlander though. The only powers he gets to keep are either neccessary to his survival as a 2D being in a 3D space or just convenient like levitation. The Pines have to deal with a tiny sentient shape that's so so mad now. Mabel thinks he's weirdly adorable until he bites her finger. Ford feels unthreatened enough at one point to want to study him like a bug.

I was just messing rp with the Bill cipher Ai

YANDERE BILL CIPHER OVER KRYPTOS?!???....

Huh

Interesting

If one of you bitches sees Him as the onceler green guy I swear...

Like pls...it's based on the human Tad-urgh

can you imagine getting into gravity falls nowadays knowing nothing about the fandom and you wanna look up the joke character whose whole gag it is that hes the most normal and average plain guy in a weird paranormal small-town and half of the results are this thing

I love em so much I drew them

I mean you do have a point

Since...Andrew Kryptos

And.....Bill cipher

Kryptos Cipher

Tada!

far be it for me to police what silly things you do in fandom and i'm delighted that there's enough activity for there to be a ship name/tag at all but is kryptbill really what we're going with? "kryptos cipher" is right there and i personally think referencing a bizarre art piece outside the cia headquarters that's encrypted with a riddle within a riddle that nobody has been able to even begun to solve because nobody can crack the code to the last passage of the damn thing to talk about two eldritch shape guys kissing is really funny

Womp

Who tf let me daydream?....

Btw a lil au design

this might sound like a bold claim if you think bill cipher is just a yellow triangle who causes chaos, but thanks to these gravity falls books i know that bill cipher is actually a yellow triangle who causes chaos because of a tragic backstory

They kept living in my head....

Seriously get these denial mf some...out of my head...!!

I love em...and I don't mind their screams in my head :')

Can't forget that angry brother...

I found the theory that I was looking for.....I FOUND IT

Thank GOODNESS I FOUND IT

I think Bill projects onto Mabel sometimes, especially in Sock Opera and Weirdmageddon. He sees her as a little selfish, a little chaotic, and a lot more fun than Dipper (at least, in the way that Bill defines fun), and that’s clearly all stuff that he represents too.

But I’d argue he also sees himself in Mabel’s reluctance to grow up. It’s true that Bill has been around longer than humans can even wrap their minds around, but he’s still immature. He still throws tantrums when he doesn’t get his way — he’s just a big, selfish kid himself, and he doesn’t want to grow up either.

And he’s not entirely wrong when he identifies these similarities in Mabel, but he vastly overestimates the strength of her selfish tendencies while underestimating the strength of her caring nature and her loyalty to her family.

We see it in Sock Opera, where Bill expects her to hand over the Journal rather than make a sacrifice for Dipper’s sake, and we see it again in Weirdmageddon, when Bill has complete faith that Mabeland will prove inescapable — but unlike Bill, Mabel is a good person who loves her family, and both times Bill’s plans are foiled. (Meanwhile, we know Bill had a horrible relationship with his own family, and I think that plays into how he expects Mabel to behave — hence the term “projection” feeling especially apt.)

[ID: The first image shows Bill Cipher floating in a street in Gravity Falls during Weirdmageddon as he says: “This party never stops!” The second image shows Mabel sitting at her brightly colored office desk in Mabeland, gesturing enthusiastically to Dipper, Soos, and Wendy as she says: “Here the sun shines all day, the party never ends…” /end ID.]

Bill is a villain who has never grown up in a show that’s about growing up, and that seems like a very deliberate choice. He offers Mabel an escape from reality that he sees as so tempting, so irresistible, that he thinks it would take “a will of titanium” to overcome, and he completely brushes off the possibility that the Pines might break out of it.

Maybe that’s because Bill knows that an idealistic world like Mabeland, full of nonstop partying and free from any obligation to grow up, is exactly the type of trap that would work on him.

(Some sources/quotes that first sent me down this line of thinking below the cut.)

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