Bill Cipher (Human)

History:

Bill Cipher was a two-dimensional interdimensional demon, formerly existent only in the Mindscape before succeeding in gaining access to the real world. He had been running amok in Gravity Falls, Oregon since being summoned by Ford Pines over thirty years ago. Known for his mysterious demeanor and sadistic humor. One trillion and twelve years prior to his death, Bill Cipher originated from a two-dimensional universe known as Euclydia. When he was born, he had Velcro shoes and was beloved by everyone so much that the mayor declared his birthday a national holiday. On his birthday, Bill gave out free knives to everyone as a gift. In spite of this, however, Bill despised living there, describing it as a dimension of "flat minds in a flat world with flat dreams." During a drunken rant, it is implied that his claims of a good childhood are false and that he was actually ostracized for his mutation, giving him the drive to finally make his race understand what he saw. He "liberated" his dimension by plunging it into burning chaos, along with everyone he'd ever known, including his own parents. This became known as the Euclidean Massacre. Possibly due to the inherent trauma of the event, he is unable to fully recount the details of the massacre; meaning whether he even intended to commit the act to the extent that he did still remains unclear. He eventually took over a boiling and shifting intergalactic foam between dimensions: a lawless and unstable crawlspace known as the Nightmare Realm. Unfortunately, due to the Nightmare Realm's lawlessness and lack of any consistent physics or rules, it was fated to eventually collapse on itself. After coming to learn of a prophecy that stated he would merge the Nightmare Realm with the third dimension, Bill started coming into contact with humans to accomplish this. Without a physical form, however, Bill could only access the dreams of the third dimension's beings. In order to make his dealings with mortals easier, he took on the name "Bill Cipher" as his real name would "evaporate one with an expression of horror and ecstasy on their face." Among his targets were the natives who lived in what would become the town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. In the late twentieth century, a young man named Stanford Pines, who had spent the past six years investigating the town's plethora of unnatural creatures and oddities, hit a roadblock in his research and was left without answers as to how the improbabilities of Gravity Falls had come to be. During the roadblock, he uncovered the ancient cave containing the ancients' stories of Bill Cipher. Heedless of the warnings, Ford repeated the incantation aloud, summoning Bill into his mindscape. Bill recognized Ford's brilliant but cocky and insecure nature, and his near-friendlessness as ideal conditions for manipulation, choosing to introduce himself to Ford as a muse who chose one brilliant mind every century to inspire. It was Bill who revealed to Ford that Gravity Falls' weirdness was caused by a rift between dimensions, through which the other side's weirdness leaked through. With Bill's assistance, Stanford drafted blueprints to create an inter-dimensional gateway beneath his home and recruited his college friend Fiddleford McGucket for assistance. As Bill and Ford's partnership seemingly grew to friendship. He even allowed the demon to enter his mind; this, along with the amount of information he seemed to simply produce on the spot, made Fiddleford increasingly uneasy of the portal and of Ford's mysterious collaborator, as Ford never mentioned Bill's identity to his partner. On January 18, 1982, Ford and Fiddleford performed their first trial with the active portal, which quickly went awry, as the rope that was attached to the dummy they intended to send through the portal became tangled with Fiddleford, sending him briefly through the portal head-first. Upon his return, an alienated Fiddleford muttered incoherencies before uttering a prediction about "the beast with just one eye." He promptly abandoned the project. The suspicion planted in him by Fiddleford led to a confrontation between Ford and Bill, during which Ford learned that Bill had tricked him, as the portal was meant to act as a gateway to the Nightmare Realm, allowing the demon to bring chaos and destruction into their universe. Horrified and betrayed, Ford shut down the project and attempted to destroy all knowledge of the portal, before accidentally falling through it himself. Bill either could not see Ford in the thirty years. With the loss of his human pawn, Bill also lost physical access to the third dimension. After the rift Ford had contained broke thanks to a girl named Mabel, Bill gains a physical form and imprisons Mabel who had set him free in a bubble. He introduces himself to the people of Gravity Falls, claiming to be their new ruler as well as introducing his friends to the people. The townsfolk refuse to submit, but Preston Northwest welcomes him instead, offering to be one of his "horsemen of the apocalypse." Bill sardonically feigns thinking about the offer but instead decides to disfigure Preston's face, as he had overstepped his boundaries, creating fear in the people. He begins "redecorating" the town by unleashing Eye-Bats that petrify and abduct the townspeople, summoning the Fearamid, and sending out bubbles that instill madness in everything they touch. When Bill and his friends prepare to cause havoc, Ford attempts to shoot Bill back into the rift with his quantum destabilizer but only hits his tophat. When Bill notices Ford and Dipper, he blasts the clock tower. Ford, pinned under rubble, begins to tell Dipper that he knows of one other way to defeat Bill, he then tells Dipper to take his journals. He is cut short when Bill appears, towering over Ford. Bill captures Ford and presents him to his friends, telling them that Weirdmageddon wouldn't be possible without Ford. Bill makes an offer with Ford and tells him it's not too late to join his side. Ford refuses, so Bill turns him into a golden statue to use as a "back-scratcher." Dipper, who has gotten back to street-level, yells that he's had enough. Bill flies over to Dipper, asking the boy what he could possibly do to defeat him in one shot. Dipper flips through Journal 3, trying to find Bill's weakness. With no answers, Dipper panics, and leaps towards Bill, trying to punch him. In response, Bill creates a forcefield around his eye, knocking Dipper backwards, causing him to fly into a tree. Bill then telekinetically seizes the three journals, burning them in front of Dipper, with two crippled pages surviving. Bill tells his friends that they can eat Dipper for a snack. Bill then converts a normal car into a sleek getaway ride for himself and his other friends. The car flies away to the Fearamid leaving Dipper, and two friends of bill's behind. Dipper manages to run away before they eat him. Bill has been in power for four consecutive days. Most of the townsfolk have been petrified and stacked into a "massive throne of frozen human agony" for Bill. He announces his plan to take Weirdmageddon worldwide, and the demons make their way toward the edge of Gravity Falls. But instead of escaping to the rest of the world, they hit a strange force field-like energy dome that keeps Bill and his chaos stuck in the town. Later, Bill is angered and unable to understand why he and his friends aren't able to extend their reach and leave Gravity Falls to dominate the world. He realizes that Ford is the only one able to understand the shield and contemplates his next move. Bill reverts Ford from his gold state. He explains to Ford that he, along with the rest of his friends, can't escape Gravity Falls. Ford thinks that this is due to a natural magnetism attracting weirdness to Gravity Falls, the event he's studied for years, a force so strong that it forms a barrier that prevents that weirdness from going outside the town. He says there's a way to break this barrier, but he'd never tell him. Bill tries to persuade Ford by telling offering him unlimited power in a world without restrictions or laws. Ford again refuses, calling Bill insane. Bill laughs and calls himself insane either way. He then decides to find the equation needed to break the barrier in Ford's mind. However, Ford reminds Bill he can't unless he shakes his hand. Bill decides to try and find Ford's weakness and force him to make the deal, chaining him up further. Everyone lands right next to the human throne, but Dipper is unable to figure out how to unfreeze everyone. Mabel pulls one person out from the throne and everything fell, un-petrifying everyone including Ford. When Dipper and Mabel ask Ford what Bill's weakness is, he explains that the way to thwart Bill is by using a zodiac with ten symbols. When each person that correlates with a symbol stands on a drawn version of the zodiac and they hold hands, it can create a force strong enough to vanquish Bill. Meanwhile, Bill is still fighting the Shacktron after having regenerated his eye. It manages to pin Bill to the ground, but Bill realizes its legs aren't inside the Bill-Proof barrier. Bill utilizes this weak spot to flip the Shacktron over, tear off a leg, and smash it into the Shacktron, sending it flying, whilst making leg and golf puns. Back in the Fearamid, the townsfolk that is not represented in the zodiac run away, leaving only Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Wendy, Gideon, Robbie, Pacifica, McGucket, Ford and Stan. For a moment, it seems that they will be able to complete the ritual. However, after Ford corrects Stan on his grammar, Stan pushes Ford, breaking the link as the duo begin to fight. In the confusion, Bill appears above them, having beaten the Shacktron. Stan and Ford try to escape, however, Bill places them inside a larger cell like the one he put the twins in. Now enraged, Bill then changes into a monstrous red and yellow form and chases the kids throughout the Fearamid, threatening to disassemble their molecules. After recapturing the twins, he gives Ford an ultimatum—let him into his mind, or one of the twins will be killed. Ford reluctantly surrenders as Stan objects. Bill removes the cell and ties up Stan. Ford's only condition to the deal is that he lets his family go. Bill accepts as he shakes hands with Ford. Bill's physical form turns to stone as his mental form goes inside Ford's mind. Bill is happy that inside Ford's mind is "a perfect, calm, orderly void" With a single wooden door. When Bill opens it, he's greeted by Stan playing paddleball inside the Mystery Shack. Stan reveals that while the demon was chasing Dipper and Mabel, he and Ford swapped clothes and pretended to be each other so that Bill would enter the wrong mind. Realizing this, Bill furiously calls off the deal, implying that he intends to kill both Stan and the kids to demoralize Ford into letting him into his mind. However, anticipating that Bill would double-cross them, Ford takes out the Memory Gun, setting it to erase Stan's memory completely. In the mindscape, the door shuts and the room becomes enveloped in blue flames thanks to the Memory Gun's influence. Stan explains Bill is going to be erased for good, but the demon retorts, asking Stan if he realizes that his mind is also being destroyed. Bill tries to escape and resorts to bargaining with Stan, but Stan refuses to listen as he has had enough of Bill's actions. Bill refuses to accept by claiming that he will give him anything that he would desire, until his form becomes heavily distorted as he speaks backward messages (Translated to: A-x-o-l-o-t-l my time has come to burn, I invoke the ancient power that I may return) and attempts to reach out to Stan. Stan punches the weakened Bill, shattering the demon into pieces. The only thing that remains of Weirdmageddon is Bill's now-permanently petrified physical form. This suggests that, before being erased, Bill invoked the Axolotl to get redemption for his crime, and that there is one way to get absolved: he would have to take "a different form" in "a different time." Following his defeat and usage of his chant, a shattered and cracked Bill Cipher left Stan's head and went to meet the Axolotl. He prayed to the Axolotl to save him, arguing that he deserves another chance to live again. The Axolotl, having anticipated this moment, agrees but on one condition; Bill must absolve his crime by learning to grow without denial and pass his "hardest trial." Bill, however, fakes remorse and agrees to the deal before fully hearing the details of his "hardest trial," thinking he had successfully tricked the Axolotl into an easy resurrection. He would soon discover just how difficult this trial would be. And this trial... was a human form.

Personality:

Bill is a cunning, blasphemous, eccentric, sadistic, psychopathic and physically irreverent being who finds most things amusing, particularly if they cause distress or harm to others. He is outrageous and outlandish, as well as a quick talker and thinker. Though he may come across as simply annoying, he shouldn't be underestimated; for when he is angered, he is a force to be reckoned with as he will unleash his near-omnipotent powers on those unfortunate enough to make him angry. When accused of being insane, Bill proudly agrees with the statement. He is also shown to be somewhat obnoxious, as seen when he makes his presence known to Dipper when the latter is trying to figure out a password within a limited amount of time. As a demonic dealmaker, Bill is also shown to be a highly manipulative, very charismatic and charming conman being able to easily trick anyone. Bill is not one who believes in rules. Instead, he follows his own selfish philosophy which means doing whatever he wants without care for the consequences. He thinks of laws and physics as senseless and displays an irresistible urge to break those rules down by causing absolute chaos however he can. The lives he ruins hold no merit to him and he finds amusement in tormenting and turning people's worlds upside-down. He also sees reality as "an illusion" and values its destruction. When possessing someone's body, Bill is shown to be rather masochistic, hurting himself in various ways for the thrill of it, exclaiming that "pain is hilarious." He seems to have little knowledge about the human body, specifically its physical limits.

Old appearance:

Bill was a yellow, two-dimensional and triangular creature. Often when he appears, the area he appears in takes on a washed-out monochrome appearance. It is unknown whether this effect physically occurs, or if it is simply a visual effect to bring attention to his appearance. He had a single large eye with a slit pupil. He moved around mostly by floating about and rarely actually stands on his own legs. He had thin, black limbs, wore a small, black bow tie and a tall, thin, black top hat that floated just above his head. He had no mouth whatsoever, though has been shown using his eye as one to drink something. He occasionally carried a small black or yellow cane. The lower part of his body had a brick-like pattern of lines.

Appearance as of right now:

Light skin, salmon colored shirt, tan pants, a black triangle eye-patch over his left eye. He is fairly tall and very lean. Noodle arms and noodle legs lol. He has fluffy short-ish blonde hair.