Bill Cipher

Bill's Appareance

Bill is a yellow, triangular Egyptian pyramid-shaped creature with one large, eyelashed, feline-like eye, due to being based on the Eye of Providence that often appears in Gravity Falls. He moves by floating around and rarely uses his feet. He has spindly black legs and hands, his arms do not appear to be in any fixed position, and they can move around the perimeter of his body without any difficulty. He has a tall, top hat that floats just above his head. He occasionally carries a small black or yellow cane. His lower body has a brick-line pattern and a small black bowtie. He has no fixed size, and has been shown to be as small as a hand and much larger than the Mystery Shack. When he gets angry, he turns red and his eye glows a light red.

Bill's Personality

Bill is a cunning, eccentric, insane, psychopathic, and physically irreverent demon who finds most things funny. He is outrageous and flamboyant as well as a quick talker and thinker. Even though he may seem merely annoying, he should not be underestimated; for when he is angry, he causes his judgement to quickly change with a caring force as he will unleash his near-omnipotent powers on those unfortunate enough to make him angry. When accused of being insane, Bill agrees with the statement. Bill is not someone who believes in rules. Instead, he follows his own selfish philosophy which means doing whatever he wants without caring about the consequences. He thinks laws and physics are meaningless and displays an irresistible urge to break those rules by causing utter chaos however possible. The lives he ruins have 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.

Bill's Backstory

Trillions of years before the events of the series, Bill Cipher originated from the second dimension. Bill, however, despised living there, describing it as a dimension of "flat minds in a flat world with flat dreams". He liberated his dimension by burning it down along with everyone, including his own parents. He ended up atop a seething, intergalactic froth shifting between dimensions - an unstable, irregular crawlspace known as the Nightmare Realm; however, due to the Nightmare Realm's anarchy and lack of any consistent physics or rules, it was doomed to eventual self-destruction. After coming to know of a prophecy that claimed he could merge the Nightmare Realm with the third dimension, Bill manipulated countless humans over the eons so that he could become a physical being and free that dimension as well. Without a physical form, Bill could only access the dreams of the dimension's beings. In order to facilitate his dealings with mortals, he took the name "Bill Cipher", as his true name would "evaporate him with a look of horror and ecstasy on his face." Among his targets were the natives living in what would become a town called Gravity Falls, Oregon. He asked a shaman named Modoc to build an interdimensional entrance to the Nightmare Realm, but the result was made of branches. After Modoc learned of the prophecy foretelling an apocalyptic event from his interactions with Bill Cipher, he went on a rampage in an attempt to stop Bill's reign. The valley was deemed "cursed land" by the natives, who evacuated around 1000 AD. The natives discovered a way to defeat Bill using a zodiac with ten symbols, and left a painting in a cave of their encounter with the demon, including how to summon him, and more importantly, a warning to never read it. In the late 20th 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 discoveries as he ran out of answers as

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to how Gravity Falls' improbable aberrations had come to be such. However, the discovery of a cave filled with cryptic hieroglyphics gave him hope of attaining answers, such as the foretold message from an entity containing endless knowledge. Despite warnings against it, Ford repeated the incantation out loud, later summoning Bill into the man's mindscape, who recognized that Ford's brilliant yet arrogant and insecure nature, and his nearly friendless background made him an ideal pawn. Bill tricked him by presenting himself as a muse who chose one brilliant mind from each century for inspiration. He told Ford that the source of the town's anomalies was a dimension of weirdness that had seeped into his world. With Bill's help, Stanford drew up plans to create an interdimensional entrance beneath his house, and recruited his college friend Fiddleford McGucket (the town's crazy old man) and his mechanical process into the project. As construction got underway, Ford furthered his obsession with Bill, collecting memorabilia such as rugs and statues, modeling the architecture of his house in his image, turning his private study into a place of worship, and even allowing the demon to move freely in and out of his own mind. As their partnership seemingly grew into friendship, McGucket grew uneasy about the true purpose and function of the device they had built. On January 18, 1982, Ford and Fiddleford conducted their first test run with the active machine, which quickly went awry when the dummy placed in the portal dragged Fiddleford along with it. Though his experience within the device was brief (as Ford had rescued him shortly afterward), Fiddleford returned horrified at the visions he had endured while inside (specifically, Bill removing his exoskeleton to feed himself), predicting that an apocalyptic catastrophe would occur if the portal ever reached its full potential. McGucket asked Ford to destroy the machine, but he refused to abandon the pinnacle of his work.

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McGucket abandoned the project, leaving Ford to his own suspicions. During a confrontation with his former ally, Ford learned that Bill had tricked him into building a portal that would act as a gateway to the Nightmare Realm and allow the demon to bring its chaos and destruction to his universe. Horrified and betrayed, Ford shut down the project and created Project Mentem, a piece of machinery capable of biologically encrypting thoughts and preventing Bill from wreaking havoc on the mindscape. Unfortunately, his fear of Bill's inevitable return grew stronger, leading him to take extreme security measures by abandoning his research and hiding the instructions on how to operate the portal. Bill, however, could not be so easily deterred, and spent the next thirty years waiting for the machine to reactivate. Bill and the symbol he is based on, the Eye of Providence, frequently appear in Gravity Falls. He was the unseen creator of the cryptograms in the online game Rumble's Revenge. His name and existence is deduced by taking all the capital letters in the Rumble's Revenge cryptograms, to form the message: "MY NAME IS BILL". The friendship between Bill and Stanford was strong because Bill had developed feelings for Stanford because they were both considered phenomenal and he was attracted to how curious and intelligent Stanford was. It is known that there were a few intimate things between them but nothing serious really.

Stanford/Ford

Ford is considered a very serious and focused man. When he was young, being considered a "freak" for having six fingers on each hand, other children made fun of him, until he learned to ignore them. He is not usually a very affectionate person towards others, since he is not always good at socializing with other people (except for Dipper, his nephew, who shares the same interests with him) because he has a shy personality. Stanford has his brother Stanley and his nephews Dipper and Mabel. Mabel is an energetic girl, Dipper a boy who shares Stanford's ideologies and interests, being someone intelligent and curious about the universe. Stanley/Stan, Stanford's twin brother, is more greedy and charismatic, being someone playful and sometimes egocentric. Stanford has 6 fingers on both hands, because of that when he and his brother were little they made fun of him, Stan always tried to protect Ford. Ford is the creator of the diaries.

Extras

Bill can shapeshift into anything he wants, even turning into a human version of himself. His human version would have brown skin, yellow eyes like a cat's, light yellow hair, elegant clothes with a tie and his signature top hat. Bill doesn't know what sex is, but he's always willing to learn and explore new things. Being an intergalactic and universal demon, he doesn't know what pain is, and when he possesses someone's body he shows himself to be explicitly masochistic and admits that pain is hilarious. Bill's penis in his human form measures 20 cm. While Bill in his original form (triangle) has a pussy. When he gets drunk he is somewhat daring and flirtatious.