Alrighty everyone. This post is to give everyone an intruduction to the main character of this au! Bill Cipher of corse! But.... With a little twist!!
Hello! The name is Bill Cipher! Oh? I don't look like a normal Bill should look like? Well duh! Because I'm different!
There alot of Bill's out there but that's getting a bit ahead of ourselves story wise now isn't it?!
Anyways! So yea... Despite the color differences ... My story starts off just about the same as any other Bill's does.... Euclydia was my home.... I could see into the 3rd dimension... Wanting to show them all the stars... Except... Well... This is where things differ.
I got my hands on something I probably shouldn't have... A power hidden between layers of reality... And well, I found I kinda liked it .... Whoopsies!
But.... Well in my quest to both show my people the stars and to gain more power, I destroyed my home dimension, and my parents with it. In my thirst for power .. and my sorrow at what I had done, I split in half, my emotions too great and conflicting.
And that, my friends, is how the TwinStars were born. Now let me introduce you to my halves.
First up, we have Billie. Don't let the angel motif fool you though.... Everything about her is power hungry and feral gremlin. Keep your wallets close to you when she's around.
She was what happened when the power that I found caused me to crave more.
Next up... Lee.
He might look like a little devil but he is actually all the regret and sorrow that I had over what I did to my folks.... And home... And he is rather shy most of the time. Billie picks on him but if anyone else would do so.... All hell would break lose.
Now... When my two major emotion halves split... Well it wasn't great... Got alot of attention. The dear Axolotl for example... Decided that the two didn't need to be allowed to go too far from each other so they created a magical tether... Making it so they can't go more then 15 feet apart .... Boy that sucked.
They then told use that there was a dimesion out there that held the key to us becoming whole once more, then left like the fucking cryptic being they are.
So yea... That's me! Hope that cleared some things up. Probably left you with more questions too but. Hey we have all eternity to chat right?!
Oh and you might be wondering about the powers that I found.... I'll talk about them later... But when I did reform eventually, I had a whole new look!
If anyone would have told me that my life was gonna turn out the way that it would, I woulda laughed them out of the room. But looking back on my life now.... I wouldn't change a dang thing.
It started back in college of corse, as most dimensions Fiddleford's lifes tend to, when I ment Stanford Pines. Everything seemed to stem from meeting Stanford Pines.
He was so damned nerdy back then, but gods above I fell for that man at first sight. He was smart, he was charming in a nerdy kinda way, and our minds vibed well together. He proved to be more then just a roommate. By the time that we finished out stays at Backupsmore, we were dating and when Ford brought up moving to this weird little town called Gravity Falls to further his studies into the paranormal and unsual, I gladly decided to pack up my things and go with him. I felt that my chances of making it big would be signifigantly improved with this man at my side. If only I had known just how right I had been.....
My only regret in life was ruining that nice life I had made for myself, even if I would never change my choice.
It took a while for the shack to be built, but once we had the labratory built, our main work began. Gravity Falls was fascinating, filled with so many unusual and creative creatures. Almost like they were taken out of a kid's imagination. Ford was enamoured with it all. I was more into the mystery or it. Where did they come from? Why here? What made this place so special. I spent a good portion of my days exploring the woods around the lab, Ford documenting the creatures and odd flora while I tried to find the sorce of what was causing all of this.
It was one night while I was out alone, that I stumbled upon a cave. The enterance was well covered in vines and foliage, but after a little bit of tugging and cutting, I managed to get inside. It was dark and musty in there..... like no one had been there in a very, very long time, which was obvious given the enterance. It was also extremely quiet, not even the ambient forest sounds of the night. A normal person would have turned back, but I was never one for doing what a normal person would do, and so I pulled out lighter adn flicked it on before delving deeper into the dark.
As the cave floor sloped downwards, a sound noise came to my ears. Like whispering, but echoy. As though many people were saything teh same thing at the same time, in near perfect sync. It sounded like, if I listened carefully, two beings of some kind arguing and I was more then thankful for the silent leather soles of my boots on the cave floor as I crept ever closer.
The walls of the tunnel soon opened up into a cavernous room, a soft glow in both red and blue coming from the other end. I snuffed out the lighter and hid down behind a large boulder, peeking out to see where the voices where coming from. I will admit that, of all the things that I expected to see, two floating halves of a triangle with an eye and tails and legs was not it.
They seemed to be having some kinda disagreement, and now that I was closer, I could hear the words.
"Come on Billie.... there's nothing here... we have searched this dump dimension for months now..." came the flickering glow from the red half.
" Lee... it HAS to be here.... The Axolotl said that we would find what we need in a human dimension that was Bill free.... and we have gone over sooooooo many and this is the first one we have found in a long long while." The blue, more feminine sounding half spoke, the glow comethign from it flickering like the red one's glow had when he had spoken. I wasn't sure exactly sure what these things were, but they sounded like they were looking for.... he wasn't sure.
" I understant Billie... but maybe it's not here either. Surely we would have found it by now..."
" YOU just haven't been looking good enough. We could have overlooked it!"
" I wish you would give up on this.... What is so wrong with being like this anyw...."
That was the moment that a part of the boulder i was hiding behind broke off from where my hand was and landed with a loud sound. The two... beings turned as one and we locked eyes. " Hello..."
The two of them flew at me, floating right before my face, even as I fell back on my ass trying to back away, gaze narrowing. That was when I noticed that they seemed to only half one full eye, cut in half, as if they had once been one triangle but cut clean down the center.
" And what do you think you are doing here? Are you a spy?" The Blue one's voice rang through the cavern, raised up in accusation, tail flicking in aggitation like an angry cat. The little feathered wing fluttering frantically beside them.
" Hey... Billie how about we calm down a little? Maybe this human is just lost....right?" The other said, tail curling up and the little bat wing fluttering softly. They looked at me with a soft curiosity, at odds to the other one's anger.
" Hey.... I just found this cave while out wanderin', I ain't here ta cause any problems." I answered, holding up both hands in surrender, hoping that these being didn't think I was a threat.
After a long, quiet pause, they turned to look at each other, staring into each other's half eye as though they were sharing a conversation that I couldn't hear. And maybe they were, because in that next moment the blue one turned back to face me, the edges of their eye almost turning up in a sort of smile.
"Hmmmm... You are in luck. Turns out that we need a little help.... and you get to be the lukcy human that gets to provide just that!" She said, tail coiling up then back out. She floated closer, cirling me as I sat there on the dirty cave floor, before flicking my hat off my head with her tail then sighing, " You're not much to look at.... better hope you are smart."
I grinned, " Heck yea. Me and my partner graduated college top a our classes, hell Stanferd has so many phds...", she cut me off, whirling back to face the other half, " Oh no... you can't tell no one else about us... too many humans knowing we exist and they will all want the reward that we are going to give you if you help us in our little quest."
And so we spent the night htere in that cave, talking about everything that these two needed from me. Billie, the one that seemed to be the boss of the two, informed me that they needed a portal built, something to fully come into this dimension so that they could find whatever it was that they were searching for. They promised me knowledge that someone could only gain by travelilng the multiverse, something that, at the time, took me hours of talking about to fully settle into my brain. There were other worlds out there, some completely alien, some that mirrored my own, all of them connected by a void that they seemed to claim was called the nightmare realm.
Turns out, there two of them were once part of a singular being named Bill Cipher and they had been told that there was something that was supposed to make em whole again. It took a few months but, eventually, I managed to weasel the cause of the split outta Lee. It turns out that they had stumbled upon some kinda ancient power sorce that they attempted to use to "help their dimension see the stars." He said that in the end, all they managed to do was destroy it and everyone else in it, save themselves, and the insuing internal conflicked caused their already unstable body to break. They were now searching for a way to put themselves back together. Billie had been furious at Lee for telling me but in the end she explained that they were also tethered togther by some kinda magical leash, making it so that the two couldn't go more then about fifteen feet apart before being dragged along, one way or the other.
When I asked them why they needed the portal made, Billie went on a whole rant about having limited use of the powers that they had found and couldn't technically manifest for long periods fo time in my dimension without having to, for lack of a better term, recharge. So most of the conversations that we had after that initial chat in the cave were in what they called my "mindscape." Fancy was of saying that they were just voices in my head if you asked me back then, but I know better now of corse. They were a strange pair, Billie with her angel motif and constant additude and Lee in his demon guise and yet always soft and timid. It was.... cute... though back then I didn't trust them either one bit, even if I had agreed to make their portal, I had my own plans. Plans I kept neatly tucked into a very well guarded place in my mind.
Stanford thought I was nuts at first, when I came home in the middle of the night that first night, going on about having some weird apiphany in the woods. Asked if I had been smoking something I found out there, which, to be fair, was a valid question. When he had finally decided that I wasn't completely off my rocker, he had agreed to help me. He was invaluablbe when it came to crunching the numbers and data, correcting equations that I managed to miss during my admittedly coffee fueled late nights into early mornings, but soon we had blueprints and a plan.
Three years later, Stanford recieved a letter. It was from his brother, asking for help, saying that Ford was his last option. The two of them ended up meeting for lunch in town and, after a rather long and indepth conversation tht went well into the night, Ford decided to help him. A few days later we had one of hte storage rooms upstairs cleaned out for Stanley Pines to move in. I wasn't too keen on this... it ment another pair of ears that I would have to watch out for when it came to talking about portal plans and things with the twins, but as the house was in Stanford's name, well he had to final say. And so a very tense and uneasy cloud fell over our home.
Five years seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Between working on the portal, spending my nights learning from Billie and Lee and a whole slue of malfuntions that, in the end, came from Stanley trying his damnest to break the machine we had been working so hard to make, I was at my wits end. About a week before we finished the thing, I finally caught Stan in the portal room (( thank Stanford for showing the man where the room was and how to get into it....)), pulling wires literally from one of the wall units. When I asked him why, he just glared at me, telling me that my plans were going to be harmful to his brother, even if Ford couldn't see that for himself. When I finally got him out of the lab, I told Ford what had happened and that, if he didn't get his brother undercontrol, Stan was going to have to find himself someplace else to live. We had worked far too hard on this portal to have it ruined now.
The night before our first test run was going to happen, I spent that whole evening packing, then putting my sercret plan into action. It was ratehr easy for me to access the coding of the portal, and with a few changing to the main program, to set up a self destruct sequence to begin as soon as someone entered the thing. I might trust these beings enough to use the information they were providing me to make this machine, but at the time I did not trust that they were simply going to come into this dimesion to find some kinda missing piece to fix themselves. By the time that was finished, Ford was already coming down the elevator, two cups of coffee in hand, dressed and ready for the day.
This moment, when looking back on it, some might ask, "hey Fiddleford? Why didn't you just change the elevator code? Why didn't you talk this over before this moment with Ford?" And they might be right, except that, writing this now as I am, I am glad that I did not. When the two of us had finished our drinks, unaware of the elevator rising then begining to descend again, that I finally told Ford my plans, how I wanted to expore the multiverse and to learn the secrets that were hidden from me, to broaden my mind and find every little quiet corner of the galaxies beyond. As I was saying these things, I had powered on the machine, letting it whir to life behind me as I spoke. But I never got to tell him just how much I wished from him to be at my side when I did this.
That was the moment that Stanley barged into the portal room. He looked mad, rightly so I guess, going off about how this was madness, how he had heard me talking to demons late at night when I had thought no one was awake. I know now that he was scared, afraid of losing his brother after only just reuniting with him and fixing what they had thought lost before, but I wished then that he had never been allowed to stay. Voices were raised and as I spoke to defend myself, well Stanley threw the first punch, a punch that I never ended up feeling. Stanford tackled him and the two began a heated fight, wrestling on the floor of hte portal room as the machine behind me finally opened it's rift.
I had no choice. No time to waste on trying to brek up this fight, or to even drag Ford with me, if I wished to prevent the twins from passing through and triggering the explosion themselves, so I just... well... I grabbed the bag I had packed, and I jumped through. I never saw what happened after that, but I had hoped that, at the time, the two managed to get out alive. I didn't want them harmed of corse, but I had made a choice that I felt was right for me, even if it ment leaving Ford behind. It hurt. But not as much as the thought that I would lose my only shot at my desires.... selfish, I know, but I was a different man back then. And again.... I wouldn't change that choice for anything.
The twins were pissed. Lord have mercy, I thought Billie was going to vaporize me right then and there. But I had been prepared for this was well. As the two of them began bickering, tails lashigna nd red and blue lights flashing brightly as we floated there in that strange void between dimensions, I pulled out an old book I had found and turned to a bookmarked page. The two didn't even register me as I spoke in hushed and rushed tones, the runes on the page I was tracing with my finger glowing a bright pink when suddenly the two of them went deathly still and silent, then slowly turned on me.
"What did you just do!?" Billie screeched, flying at me, her half eye narrowed in rage.
I held up my hand, smiling softly, " Hey now.... would ya kindly calm down and we kin just talk about all this mess like civilized beings."
This accomplished two things.
One: She only become more angery and therefore did NOT listen to my words.
And Two: Triggered the command spell that I had just placed on them, effectively acting like a shock collar.
When the metaphorical dust settled, she was furious of corse but, after some time, Lee managed to get here to calm enough for us to talk. Enough to tell them that the spell i just used on them was a glorified leash, allowing me to control what they did. That it was for my protection. That they also had the ability to not listen but, as they had just seen and felt, it would not end well for them. As they were pretty much unable to do much other then accept it, our strange and harrowing adventures began, the first of which was getting ourselves somewhere that was a whole lot safer adn well off then floating in the nothingness.
