Jheselbraum - Blog Posts

I will eat any Jheselbraum content I see. Please inject it directly into my veins.

Some messy Jhesses from this week

SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK OF BILL – MY STORY SECTION, MEET THE CREW PAGE

THERE IS A NON-ZERO CHANCE THAT THIS IS JHESELBRAUM. SAME EYES, SAME LIPS, SAME HOOD, HER ENTRY SAYS SHE’S THE SMARTEST ONE AND FIGURED OUT SOMETHING THAT HAD TO DO WITH PORTALS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS

I had worried they’d make her not be purple

I think this version is cute, though. She looks vaguely froglike. But we don’t know that it’s her

I’ve been making up lore about Jheselbraum since fall 2022, so I’m writing it down and documenting it before The Book of Bill comes out just in case

I imagine she’s about 8-8.5 ft tall and her skin is purple; this isn’t canon, but most fanartists draw her this way. In my personal headcanons/lore, Jheselbraum Adastra was born as a mostly regular person in Dimension 52, with a twin sister. They were good friends and had happy lives, until Bill Cipher attacked Dimension 52 in their mid-20s. With no barrier to hold Bill in, he did a great amount of harm to their dimension. Jheselbraum and her twin joined a rebel group and fought Bill for about a year. Eventually, they devised a plan to defeat Bill by forcing him back into the rift. Her sister was plan B – she’d built something like an early quantum destabilizer, with different technology. The rebels’ plan works somewhat, but not well enough, so her sister confronts Bill on a mountaintop as he struggles to stay in the dimension. Not wanting to risk another failure, she overloads the machine (it’s powered with some kind of light magic). Despite Bill’s truthful warnings, she shoots him with it, blasting him back through the rift. It instantly explodes, killing her and destroying the top of the mountain. The fight is over, but Jheselbraum is devastated. She knows of the Axolotl, and immediately invokes him to reincarnate her sister. She builds a temple to him on top of the mountain where her twin died, hoping this will help (there’s a large, roughly flat surface there after the explosion), and soon creates the zodiac prophecy as a way to defeat Bill (this is how she eventually knew about Ford and his mission). Jheselbraum holds this grudge against Bill for a billion years. She becomes more and more powerful in order to defend her home again if necessary, makes herself immortal, and waits.

Sleep Soundly

My anti-stress doodle turned into this. Two OTPs in one pic XD

I love when Hana drops a video and I clear 2 hours of my day

My interview with Rob Renzetti! (w/ fixed link)

I got to sit down with Rob Renzetti, co-author of Journal 3 and Supervising Producer on Gravity Falls, and also just an animation legend, who was genuinely just such a delight to chat with (super nice!)

Hear him answer my questions about:

Ford's characterization

Journal 3's writing process

the Gravity Falls timeline

the SearchForTheBlindEye website

Jheselbraum the Unswerving (the Oracle from Journal 3)

Ford's relationship with Bill

the "Better World" from Journal 3

The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things

Thoughts on the Book of Bill

and MUCH MUCH MORE!

The Prophecy is Jheselbraum’s song

Because Jheselbraum only appears in Journal 3, there is no official pronunciation for her name that I know of. I assumed it was pronounced like Jee-sel (rhyming with easel), but I’ve heard other people pronouncing it as Jez-el (rhyming with bezel). I’m curious about how common both pronunciations are. It’s okay if you aren’t familiar with her, just answer for how you’d say her name.