A Yungbill-centric Gravity Falls / Nuclear Throne AU where Bill is revived only to find Earth in the midst of a nuclear apocalypse and his best chance of survival in the hands of a god from Venus. Run by Minty and Emily!
Love Triangles is a Gravity Falls / Nuclear Throne / Gun Godz crossover AU with a focus on the shipping of Bill Cipher X Yung Venuz (Yungbill). It takes place post-finale and continues into the world of Nuclear Throne, following the revival of a now-mortal Bill and his journey to retrieve his powers once more. His best chance? To get friendly with the all-powerful Gun God from planet Venus.
While this is a crossover AU, Love Triangles is very accessible for Gravity Falls fans who have never heard of Y.V. nor his games! Bring your love of at least one egotistical divine triangle and you'll be set.
This blog does contain some 18+ content! Block #extreme geometry if that isn't something you want to see. Most of the story can be enjoyed perfectly fine without it.
[Please note that the story got a revision after TBoB, so older posts may be outdated]
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"...A different form, a different time."
It’s been 618 years since the summer of 2012. Earth has been thrown into the midst of a nuclear apocalypse, and everything that once was is either destroyed or mutated beyond recognition. Humanity is extinct, civilization is no more, and the little town of Gravity Falls is long gone.
Among the wastes lies the petrified corpse of who was, long ago, the multiverse’s greatest terror. Sitting forgotten in the radioactive sand, hand forever outstretched. That is, until it catches the eye of a passing god. A strikingly similar god. A god who’s forgotten how to be one.
A brief handshake between triangles is all it takes.
After eons of reign over the bubbling froth between dimensions, Bill is mortal. Powerless and livid, he soon learns of Y.V.'s godhood and knows that his best chance of getting back what he has lost is through him.
Good thing he still has his greatest weapon: his charm.
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Hi there! We're Minty (@mintytrashcannot) and Emily (@chiiroptereh), two brainrotted fangirls with a passion for gay triangles, and this blog serves as a playground/archive/initiation regarding our personal interpretation of the Yungbill shipping. This is a fun place primarily for our own enjoyment, but we also hope that we can convert others onto our bizarre ship, too, or at least put some smiles on faces!
The keystone to this AU will be its fanfiction. So far, chapter one is in its first beta and awaiting analysis.
Hope you enjoy our weird ramblings! (No hard feelings if not; we are cringe but we are free) Let us know if you have any questions or just wanna join in on the fun. Thanks for stopping by!
Amo tus dibujos y tu au, no puedo sacarme el yungbill de mi cabeza, es tan adictivo
Espero que me entiendas, no soy buena con el inglés
Google translation: I love your drawings and your AU, I can't get Yungbill out of my head, it's so addictive. I hope you understand, I'm not good with English.
Aww thank you so much!! 🥺 You and me both, these triangles have had a stranglehold on my brain for years now and it doesn't look like they're going anywhere. I haven't been drawing much but here's a recent sketch for you!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Short 1k word Yungbill fic about Bill getting unexpectedly triggered one evening
I saw this post and it made me go so incredibly insane that I needed to write something. I have so many feelings abt Bill's trauma and Euclydia and how Venuz's brand of chill is like exactly what he needs
I'm a day late 'cause I was preforming dark rituals on my PC sorry. This is literally that image like "day 1 of drawing The Character vs. day 299" I could've been normal with this prompt but. counter-argument: I think he's pretty
This outfit's a bit of a reference to @love-triangles-au ! Hip-hop album cover type fit
Venuz used to be very good friends with most of the mutants, hung out with them a lot. In fact, he got quite attached. A couple died, but, with the help of the Gun God on their side, most of them ended up reaching the Throne. The moment someone first sat upon it, however...
It wasn't the end of the war, but rather the beginning. Again.
The mutants are stuck in a time loop. Venuz tried a couple times to save his friends, but no matter whether they were on Earth or Venus, the second someone reached the Throne (anyone, part of the group or otherwise), they would disappear again
So, Venuz eventually gave up. He still hangs out with them on occasion to keep his skills sharp, but keeps his emotional distance. He isn't sure why that specific area of Earth is stuck. Maybe the IDPD is involved, maybe it's something more cosmic, but he just can't keep himself invested anymore, for his own sake
But, well...they're fine, I suppose! Can't really seem to die forever, at least
Yung Venuz (born "Vi") was born to a single mother in the unforgiving ghettos of the Venusian wastes. She was a cold, no-nonsense rhombus who ran a small ammo depot as means of avoiding the rampant violence of those on the quest for godhood; under the rule of Lord Venus, the single-minded goal of most was to take the Gun God's throne.
[Note: Venuz's backstory deals with some extremely heavy trauma with equally heavy coping mechanisms. Proceed with caution!]
Vi was a rather neglected child. He spent most of his time running around and getting in trouble, and received very little love or warmth from his cynical mother, who expected him to die at any moment. He had to learn the laws of the streets quickly, and got his first gun far too early on.
Around age ten, little Vi was kicked out and told to fend for himself, alongside his baby cousin. His mother had been getting increasingly depressed and paranoid, and couldn't bear to get any more attached to the child she was still certain would die young. Though he had had practice with guns, he had never killed before he was forced to survive the wastelands on his own.
Figuring it was his only chance at ever finding safety for him and his cousin, he chose to undergo the long and perilous journey of challenging the Gun God. By the time he was a teenager, he already looked a decade older than he really was. What little food he could find often went to Cuz, and sleep was near impossible to come by many nights, leaving him gaunt and ragged. His mental health was so horrible that he didn't even bother tending to his wounds most of the time, constantly expecting to die at any moment, just as his mother had.
Upon entering adulthood, he cocktail of horrible teen hormones began to wane just enough for him to be able to distract himself from his hellish existence. The closer he gets to Venus Mansion, the more he begins to really lock in, focusing on training and keeping himself as healthy as he reasonably can. He gains some muscle but is still pretty underweight. The distraction results in a total bottling-up of his trauma, but he figures he'll either deal with it when the deed's done or he'll die. He needs to scavenge a larger basket for a growing Cuz, but his red blankie still remains :]
Around 21, he takes the crown.
Upon attaining godhood, there was some work to be done. Unsure how else to cope with the lifelong trauma, Vi threw himself into tearing down all the former Gun God had done. Cities began to go up, and no longer did Venusians need to choose between violence and subservience.
However, when the planning was done with and he was given the opportunity to live for the first time in his life, he was, like many of the Gun Gods before him, completely lost. Those vying for the title often spend every waking minute of their lives on honing their skills, and so with their life's goal attained, find themselves stranded with no identity of their own.
Eventually, he discovers some of the music Big Business, inc. had under their record label, music derivative of a subset of Earth culture. He becomes infatuated with the genre of hip-hop, admiring the cool and confident attitude and resonating in the fact that much of the music was about rising up from a place of oppression.
And so, that became his identity. Everything around him became "cooler." He even changed his name — "Yung Venuz", a reclamation of the former tyrant's name as well as an attempt to distance himself from his horrible past.
This new persona was also a great excuse for him to avoid feeling too hard. He indulged in all the hedonism Venus had to offer. The partying was non-stop. He drank every drink, did every drug, hooked up with every species and gender, flaunted his power and wealth wherever he went. He felt lonely, but it worked...until it didn't.
He would still black out when he heard anything similar to a gunshot. There always had to be a gun under his pillow, when he did manage to sleep at all. He kept avoiding too much quality time with Cuz, just so he wouldn't have to look in such a similar eye. He just kept needing more. The mansion got bigger, his possessions got golder, his sex got wilder, and his need for control became violent. He'd threaten to shoot those who disrespected them, took his anger out on firing at earthlings, and it was only a matter of time before things went too far.
One week, when he was blackout drunk and hopped up on cocaine, he nearly killed Cuz in a fit of paranoid delusion, and that was officially his rock bottom. He saw his first psychiatrist the next day.
Over the course of many hard decades, Venuz began to heal. He learned his way around his trauma, learned how to look those festering wounds in the eye and accept them, and learned how to really, truly relax and just be. Sure, he still fell victim to the occasional trigger and had many relapses in regards to hedonism, but every year was slightly easier than the last.
Eventually, Venuz became known for his relaxed nature instead of his intense one. He was still the gun-toting bad-ass god he had always been, but Venusians no longer had to worry about him turning the barrel on them. He smiled when he signed autographs, his songs gained depth and vulnerability, and he began funnelling more of his wealth back into the community.
Venuz was no longer just cool — he was chill. And that was a very powerful choice for him.
But, something was still missing. Huh, looks like the rest of this section fell out. Suppose you're just gonna have to wait and see!
Post-marriage designs reference sheets!! Also extra long written bios with backstories and everything are in the links if you're feeling extra unwell
These gentlemen are going to be on Art Fight this year and I figured it was time for some proper refs anyway. I don't wanna talk about how many text layers this had
Feel free to come attack us if you'd like! One of us is Fossils and one of us is Crystals so good points either way >:]
Hymn for the Wicked | Oh, angel sent from up above ... life is a drink, your love's a drug
Back on my bs sorry </3 Listened to music for the first time in like a month, it was 1 AM but I couldn't let the inspo go; I haven't done a full scene in too long! I feel like a zombie and am not totally sure I like this but divine/demonic Yungbill dynamics ok
I've had to spend a lot of time at my sister's campus lately and while she's writing essays I'm writing triangle yaoi. I cannot believe how long this took, and it's just a beta, too! See you soon hopefully ;]
Does Venuz shed? Or is it just Bill? If it's just Bill then how does Venuz react to Bill chowing down on his shed after getting it off??
Good question! We definitely flopped back and forth between it, because while it definitely makes sense for Venuz to be an invertebrate considering Venus is such an extreme environment, we want them to be distinctly different species and felt like maybe it would make them feel too similar. It also doesn't seem that other Venusian races are invertebrates so it is probably believable enough that Alabasters aren't, either. So, no, Venuz is big and squishy and has bones :]
I don't think he minds much; he's eaten worse during his time in the wastes. But I'm sure it's funny to watch!
What do Bill and Yung like to do in their free time? And who will take whose last name after the wedding?
Here's a list of specifically activities they do together, but in terms of individual hobbies or ways to pass the time, there really are a lot of options in the mansion to begin with. The place has pools, lounges, arcades, gyms, gardens, bars, firing ranges, libraries, dance floors, spas, studios, top-of-the-line tech, private chefs and servants at every corner! Not to mention exploring hardly ever gets old considering just how massive and disorientating the place is by design. I imagine Venuz is probably the only one who really knows the whole floor-plan by heart.
Venuz spends half his time at work, which he rather enjoys for the most part, but in the other half he enjoys mixing/singing/performing music, practising his gunslinging (either on his own range or, more often, going down to Earth to do Throne runs), playing video games, shitposting on Twitter, hitting up clubs, blowing shit up, cruising in his like eighty different cars, and getting really stoned/drunk. Sometimes multiple at the same time. It's not unusual for him to pay visits to local churches either, blessing shrines and stuff like that. He doesn't really care if people worship him but it's hard not to be flattered. Fun fact: one of the reasons he's so absurdly rich is because few people actually want to take his money at all. It's considered an honor to serve the Gun God, and in fact he gets many donations, hahaha
Bill is a little harder to keep entertained considering how full of energy he is. He enjoys sensory overload 'cause it keeps The Horrors at bay, and quaint mortal activities often aren't enough stimulation for him so he tends to jump around. In fact, I've been thinking about his hobbies specifically for a while because of how interesting his case is, which is why this list is a bit longer. The things he tends to do consistently are:
Random acts of destruction; pulling pranks on anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby; lying motionless on the floor; reading (because knowledge is power but also because he's a nerd); playing the piano. Maybe he does whole-ass musical numbers in Venuz's studio sometimes. fruity little theatre kid; screaming as loud as he possibly can; finding fun new ways to hurt himself or others; random and chaotic acts of art (usually scrapbooking. He did make tBoB, after all); watching reality television, the more inhumane the better; building things just to destroy them; making up and solving math equations; coming up with absurd and elaborate stories just like. to fuck with people. basically his hobby is lying; trolling and spreading misinformation on the internet; hunting small animals; getting blackout drunk; playing with chemicals and making homemade bombs; and, when all else fails, meditating or disassociating. Probably got real good at those after the first few hundred thousand years, just has to be careful not to do it for too long
Anywhoozle, as for your next question! Neither were willing to give up their surnames, so they just kinda have both. Venusian surnames are put before the first name, while Euclydian surnames are after, so it was easy enough to kinda squish their first names between the two. So, when wed, their names became Yung Bill Cipher and Yung Venuz Cipher, and they are the Yung-Cipher family :]
I feel like Bill is the type of guy who dose a lot of girly things, like doing his nails, doing face masks and essential oils, maybe even waxing his legs when he feels like it, and now that he is with Venuz, he will Mack him do those things with him, one to see the misery in his eye, and two just because he likes doing with someone.
I say this cuz I like to think he and Pyronica used to do things like that.
:D
Bwahaha well Bill does take a lot of pride in his appearance for sure! He's gorgeous, no two ways about it 💅
Venuz isn't particularly against getting dolled-up; he loves a good spa day and is used to touch-ups from make-up crews for photoshoots and the like, so if Bill wants to use him as a canvas that's fine by him. Gods don't need to care about human gender roles, though I think the hyper-masculinity of a lot of Earth hip-hop did influence his personal expression, so he probably wouldn't wear Bill's creations out on the town. Red carpet look, though? Maybe! Music video look? That would be fire for sure.
Oh but for sure Bill and Ronnie have been doing each other's nails for the past two trillion years, you're 100% correct
