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[ckret2]

I asked Alex about this on Twitter, but got no response. How big do you think Bill is when he's not using magic to shapeshift? How big is your average Euclydian?

About that size.

[snewts]

I guess we doing shapes now.

This is Alex. He's from a similar restored version of Euclydia to yours, or rather, he's investigating one.

Alex hasn't got the Axolotl to miracle him into a shape body, so what you're seeing is actually a crude puppet operated from above.

Where Ford is a (eventual) romantic interest, Alex is a mentor figure to a much younger Billy. He realized what Bill would go on to do to prove himself, and intervened by offering a "scholarship" for sufferers of Bill's condition (think Professor X, or as far as the Government is concerned, the kind of "School" where you send the mentally ill).

(Yes, I stole Hirsch's name. It was originally a pseudonym because this started as a self-insert, but currently the excuse is that his "true form" is one of the Alex Hirsch lookalikes that pop up in the show)

oooh that's very cool! The puppet thing is really fun, I haven't seen that take before!

Aww, young Bill could certainly have used someone like that on his side. Poor kid...

[stitchandani]

You know what I hate most about the live action trailer? The stupid holo-disguises. Because if Jumba and Pleakly have perfect human disguises, then the filmmakers have an excuse to not show the actual Jumba and Pleakly for 90% of the film. And that's not even getting into the jokes that will have to be cut.

I get it's 2025, I get Pleakly crossdressing would be taken the wrong way, but for God's sake, let us keep the humor of him getting attached to the wig, or people thinking his head is swollen. If you're SO proud of shoving the characters into CGI facsimiles, then why are you trying so hard to not show them? If the characters or the jokes don't "work" in love action, then you shouldn't be taking them out of animation in the first place.

Also, GIVE JUMBA HIS ACCENT BACK!

Doverstar A travesty. A big fat travesty. They are lazy and greedy - don't mess with comedy gold, Disney!

[the-lone-witch-and-secret-room]

For the ask game: Love Epiphany. The moment where the character goes "Oh crap, I'm in love." Also, first crush, puppy love, pretty much any scenario where a character deals with romantic attraction for the first time.

A: Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.

That grade goes for all of those by the way! I’m huge on friends to lovers, so those often go hand in hand—“person I’ve known for a long time I’m suddenly realizing I feel more than just friendship for, which is often also my first crush, and now I’ve got all these confusing feelings and don’t want to mess it up…”

Just… top tier stuff. Very very good honestly. I don’t know what it is that it draws me to those so much but I absolutely adore them.

Give me a fanfic trope and I’ll grade it

[wafflebloggies]

I want you to know I get it. I get wanting to distance yourself from Blue Sky. A lot of writers want to be remembered for more than just that one big thing they did, so I completely understand if you're trying to move on. I also want you to know that I wOn't lEt yOu.

you are a slice of something special, friendo

[alicec-666]

I'm asking every Bill in the multiverse this same question. Do you know of an adorable little demon named King? He lives in a place called the Boiling Isles.

. . .

(Little note: have never watched the Owl House, but the creature seems to be cute!)

[ckret2]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I'm working on an AU where Bill gets to go to the equivalent of Xavier's school for gifted children, and thus doesn't destroy an entire dimension in a desperate bid for validation. That of course begs the question, how much of Bill's personality is due to his upbringing, and how much is the trauma of the Massacre and beyond?

I typed a whole reply and then the browser crashed so, my apologies, instead of getting a thoughtful in-depth reply on each bullet point, you're getting the brusque bullet points with minimal elaboration (except for the last few points that I got a screenshot of before they crashed) because I don't wanna type all the detail again

But, here's a (less detailed) list of all the things we KNOW FOR A FACT are true about Bill and his personality as a child:

kids chanted "Cipher, Cipher, he's insane, starting fires with his brain" at him. so he couldn't (or wouldn't) hide his abilities; and he was likely weird or demonstrated behavioral problems that other kids called "insane"

he wanted the crusts cut off his sandwiches

he called his mom to let her know he was coming home from school

his parents say he called shoelaces "fascist" and didn't use them until he was 16

(So his parents lived until he was 16, at least)

He says: "Where I come from, everyone just followed whatever meaning was handed down to them, like ants blindly scrambling over each other's corpses for sugar. I learned from an early age that if I was going to make anything of myself, I was going to need to figure out my own meaning."

he says NOW that his family tried to snuff out his talents; so he probably felt the same way as a kid

as a small child he hated taking medicine (or at least if it was blinding him)

he could be bribed into taking meds with silly straws

Even though silly straws were connected to medical trauma, he still loves them now

The silly straw page says if you kill someone with one it becomes a serious straw; also on that spread a code says he's "bent out of shape" after his family's killed. It's possible these are supposed to be connected, and we're meant to believe he killed his family BEFORE the massacre, with a silly straw. But we can't say that for a fact; it's equally possible "the kill" meant the massacre and the serious straw joke is unrelated

the whole "the mayor declared me the best baby and handed out free knives" thing. It could be a total lie; I personally tend to assume it's a twisting of the truth, suggesting that bill was adored as a small child-either in spite of his strangeness, or before his strangeness manifested.

Even though it was "illegal" to talk about the third dimension, he did it (or tried to do it). So he was a rulebreaker already. (Either that, or it's a thing like Flatland where technically no one knew it wasn't allowed because no one knew it was a THING, until they learned too much and got tossed in jail. We have no way to know.)

That's all we know about what he was like and what he did as a kid.

It tells us very little about his childhood personality. The possibilities run the gamut from "sweet quiet kid bullied for being weird" to "teenage serial killer."

Everything else? WE DON'T KNOW whether he developed those traits as a kid or after the massacre. All we know is that he had to be the kind of person who would do the kind of thing that would end his universe. (But that can vary a LOT depending on how you assume his universe ended, how hard it was, and whether he could've known that would happen.)

I personally headcanon that by the time he was a teen, he was already alienated, resentful, and combative, and willing to manipulate people; and that it was because he had those traits that he was willing to do a fucked up thing that ended his universe.

[ckret2]

Who is Bill's favorite Color Critter character?

Prisma the Rainbow Fairy. This deeply confuses Mabel, given that Prisma is the hero and goodest good guy in the show. Shouldn't he like the bad guys or something. Bill doesn't explain himself because he doesn't think there's anything that needs explaining.