My Human Bill Cipher variant from The Hotel of Peculiarity! (This ask is post-canon to the fic, which Iâm happy I can do cause I have it planned out)
Bill is a 20 year old living in Gravity Falls in this AU, and gets kind of roped into a lot of interdimension fear entity bullshit because his Stanford (actually the Eye Stealer from TBOB using the identity of a Stanford he killedd) wanted to see what would happen if someone recreated the conditions that created Bill Cipher, but using a human instead. Bill was also gifted Stanfordâs journal, and used it to summon Mabel and Dipper, who have decided to make him their youngest sibling entirely without his input or knowledge.
His Fiddleford is an avatar of the concept of delusions and rot, (Combo of The Corruption and The Spiral from TMA if you know what that is) and also forced Bill into a deal by threatening to kill his best friend. He trusts Fiddleford variants the absolute least and will actively go out of his way to avoid them.
His Stanford is kind of like a Cheshire Cat figure. Heâs not exactly actively malicious but he doesnât help Bill very much either, preferring to watch and see what happens. He does intervene whenever it looks like Fiddleford is going too far, which Bill does appreciate. Bill doesnât dislike Stanford exactly, but he finds him very tiring to deal with, especially if Ford gets bored and starts replacing people in Gravity Falls with his puppet versions. Because Bill knows his Ford can change shapes, he is always very, very cautious with Stanfords. Never know when one of them might try and turn you into a puppet. (or a red splatter on the floor)Â
His relationship with Stan is complicated to say the least, because Stan was genuinely his friend for a while and was trying to help him get out of his deal with Fiddleford but ended up backstabbing him and also kicking him out of his dimension for a hot minute. Shows a lot of discomfort towards Stans for this reason.
Bill is fairly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and after repeated exposure to certain spells in Stanfordâs journal, is able to summon fire at will. (normal fire, but still fire.) Mabel and Dipper, however, are both very very protective of him, and will not take kindly to someone attacking him or trying to kill him. Unfortunately, thereâs not much they can do unless Bill is knocked unconscious, at which point they can possess him to try some extremely magical bullshit that will probably break a rib. Theyâre not very knowledgeable about the human body.
Bill has some knowledge of the multiverse and big players like Jhess and The Axolotl, but other than firmly aligning himself against other Bill Ciphers, he doesnât really care.
I suspect MW would have a lot of mixed feelings on this figure, since he's effectively the inverse of what he would expect. His natural inclination to be anti-Bill would be sort of nullified by this Bill's anti-Cipher alignment.
Still, from The Bloodhounds outlook at ratios, this Bill basically has no proper ones. He wouldn't have any good expectations for how this timeline would go, so that would ease any reluctance he feels to go after him.
He'd take probably ten thousand or so credits to go after him. Nothing crazy, because he doesn't think this guy is anything too dangerous to handle - but between the interesting alignments and his paranoia, more than just a couple thousand seems reasonable to him.
I think he's only like 20% likely to go after him even then, though. He has a fair amount of sympathy towards those trapped in unpleasant deals (see: MW and his 12+ pacts and his soul being owned by 3 people at once. His were formed a little more willingly in the beginning admittedly, but same end result). That, and having a pair of vengeful magic twins would be a real pain to deal with afterwards.
With the paranoia towards both Fords and Stans and the emphasis on fire and close combat, he would take a distanced approach to this mark. Minimum of 60 feet probably. If he feels confident he can shoot that far with a regular gun he will, but he may default to a sniper if it's easier. You don't want to scare off jumpy prey by announcing yourself to them.
If the client wanted him alive, it should be simple enough to get him with a sedative or paralytic, assuming he doesn't have the constitution of a typical Bill. Something fireproof should be good enough to keep him contained - assuming he's got the strength of a human in this form. If you factor Mabel and Dipper in, and if MW is aware of them, he may settle for a clean kill right off the bat to prevent that. He doesn't like to fuck with properly magical entities when he can help it.
There's a chance he'd get most the way through the task and drop it for the aforementioned reasons. MW is not a good person by any means, but even still he has his heart strings tugged on occasionally. He didn't want this life or this job for himself either.
Still, for a higher price he could overcome that. I think he's about 80% likely to succeed on this job, but most of the remaining 20% is down to his own reservations and the chances he'd bail on it for personal reasons - I feel fairly confident that he could handle this guy if he really put his mind to it.
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