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Bill Cipher

Bill Cipher

"Remember! Reality is an illusion, the Universe is a hologram, buy gold, BYE!" -Bill's catchphrase

Bill Cipher is a minor antagonist in the Kingdom Hearts Unlimited Saga, first appearing in "The Keyblade Wars" as a member of Discord's private gathering of truly chaotic Old Ones intending to backstab Chernabog in order to prove that darkness is NOT the heart's true essence as he likes to proclaim.

Bill returns thousands of years later in "The Fantastic Dreamtime" to rejoin Discord's gang of Old Ones, having been freed by an arcane ritual conducted by Lil' Gideon, who foolishly believed the dream demon could help him in stealing the Journals of Stanford Pines, only to be betrayed almost immediately afterwards.

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Backstory - Ancient History[]

"For one trillion years I've been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own. Name's Bill! But you can call me your new lord and master for all of eternity!" - Bill revealing his intentions to his adversaries.

Long ago, during the Age of Chaos, there existed many dimensional worlds which inhabited the very core of the multiverse, including among many others a dimension world occupied by sentient geometric figures, wherein women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. Chief among the inhabitants was an unnamed triangular inter-dimensional entity, which was later to be known as "Bill Cipher", whose real name was not meant to be said as it would "evaporate one with an expression of horror and ecstasy on their face."

The entity despised living there, describing it as a dimension of "flat minds in a flat world with flat dreams." He "liberated" his dimension by assisting the Old One Unicron in destroying his home world altogether, plunging it into burning chaos, along with everyone he would ever known, including his own parents. Due to Unicron's experience, the entity came to realize that all dimensions (in his case all realities) were nothing more than fake illusions, existed to serve the Creator's cause. He eventually took over a boiling, shifting intergalactic foam between dimensions: a lawless, unstable crawlspace known as the Nightmare Realm. Unfortunately, due to the Nightmare Realm's lawlessness and lack of any consistent physics or rules, it was fated to collapse into itself eventually. After coming to learn of a prophecy that stated he would merge the Nightmare Realm with the third dimension, the entity decided to become acquainted with the rising powers of the universe to accomplish his ultimate scheme.

As his chaotic antics were spread throughout the universe, he was caught in the interest of fellow chaotic Old One masters, Discord and Master Solego, as well. Realizing his potential in plunging the entire universe into glorious chaos, Discord persuaded him to join his short-time private league, offering him the chance to destroy worlds and planets at his heart's content. Intrigued to bring more misery into the universe, the entity joined his league, allowing, in turn, to spread the influence of the Old Ones across the universe. Modeling himself after the Eye of Providence, indicating his purpose as a prophet and overseer in many foretold events, thanks to Solego's guidance, the entity became involved in many incidents that led the Old Ones in establishing their presence into the universe. Nonetheless, the Age of Chaos would not last forever as a catastrophic disaster left the declining age in a crumbling state. In the wake of its destruction, a new age rose from the ashes: the Land of Legend.

The Keyblade Wars[]

During his partnership with Discord, the entity came in contact with the fallen archangel Lucifer (later to be known as Chernabog) and his fallen compatriots. Informing them of his acquaintance with the incarnations of the Great Void, which Discord belonged as his offspring, Lucifer convinced Discord and his allies in destroying the balance of power and taking over the light of Kingdom Hearts, the very core and essence of the universe, which, if captured, would reshape the universe according to their wishes. Still, Bill and Discord were not content with Lucifer's plan, having suspicious of his true goals. After learning of his desire to turn the universe into an overwhelming dominion of darkness, where the darkness was the true essence of one's heart, the entity was among the chaotic bringers of destruction who secretly opposed his goal, though he couldn't bring the thought in turning against his rising power, leaving him to remain in the sidelines, waiting for a chance to abandon the fallen archangel should the right opportunity arise.

Following the disastrous effort in plunging the world into darkness, the fallen archangel and his allies were bested in combat in the climatic showdown at the doorstep of Kingdom Hearts by the Alpha Beings and their apprentices. This left an opening for the triangular entity and and the remain chaotic bringers of destruction to cut looses with Lucifer and depart from the fight. Nonetheless, the balance of power within the Land of Legend was entirely broken, leaving the new age to crumble as well. After the end of the Keyblade Wars, many worlds were sundered from the core of the multiverse, ready to follow their own paths in the new arising order that was emerging. The entity was among the survivors of the former age who was straddled on Earth as a weakening inter-dimensional entity.

Between the Keyblade Wars and the Fantastic Dreamtime[]

Bill was among the survivors of the former age who was straddled on Earth, this time as a weakening inter-dimensional entity without a corporal form. Still, he was able to access the dreams of the third dimensional world (which was to be known as the "Mindscape"). Without a physical form, however, Bill could only access the dreams of the third dimension's beings. In order to make his dealings with mortals easier, he took on the name "Bill Cipher" as his real name would "evaporate one with an expression of horror and ecstasy on their face." Among his targets were the natives who lived in what would become the town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. Bill once asked a local shaman named Modoc the Wise to build an interdimensional gateway to the Nightmare Realm, but the result was made out of twigs. When Modoc learned of the prophecy that foretold of an apocalyptic event that would stem from interactions with Bill Cipher, he lit himself on fire in an effort to avert it.

The natives eventually discovered a way to defeat Bill by using a zodiac with ten symbols. They left behind elaborate cave paintings about their encounter with the demon, including how to summon him, and more importantly, a warning never to read the incantation that would summon Bill aloud. The valley was deemed a "cursed land" by the natives, who evacuated the land. The area would eventually be rediscovered by Quentin Trembley and repopulated by pioneers, giving rise to the town of Gravity Falls.

Contemporary, a young man named Stanford Filbrick Pines, who had spent the past six years investigating the town's plethora of unnatural creatures and oddities, hit a roadblock in his research and was left without answers as to how the improbabilities of Gravity Falls had come to be. During the roadblock, he uncovered the ancient cave containing the ancients' stories of Bill Cipher. Heedless of the warnings, Ford repeated the incantation aloud, summoning Bill into his mindscape. Bill recognized Ford's brilliant but cocky and insecure nature, and his near-friendlessness as ideal conditions for manipulation, choosing to introduce himself to Ford as a muse who chose one brilliant mind every century to inspire.

It was Bill who revealed to Ford that Gravity Falls' weirdness was caused by a rift between dimensions, through which the other side's weirdness leaked through. With Bill's assistance, Stanford drafted blueprints to create an inter-dimensional gateway beneath his home and recruited his college friend Fiddleford Hadron McGucket for assistance. As Bill and Ford's partnership seemingly grew to friendship, Ford seemed to develop an obsession with Bill's powers, collecting triangular memorabilia such as rugs and statues, modeling his home's architecture in his image, converting his private study into a place of worship. He even allowed the entity to enter his mind; this, along with the amount of information he seemed to simply produce on the spot, made Fiddleford increasingly uneasy of the portal and of Ford's mysterious collaborator, as Ford never mentioned Bill's identity to his partner.

Later on, Ford and Fiddleford performed their first trial with the active portal, which quickly went awry, as the rope that was attached to the dummy they intended to send through the portal became tangled with Fiddleford, sending him briefly through the portal head-first. Upon his return, an alienated Fiddleford muttered incoherencies before uttering a prediction about "the beast with just one eye." It was stated that Fiddleford saw Bill removing his exoskeleton to feed. He promptly abandoned the project.

The suspicion planted in him by Fiddleford led to a confrontation between Ford and Bill, during which Ford learned that Bill had tricked him, as the portal was meant to act as a gateway to the Nightmare Realm, allowing the entity to bring chaos and destruction into the universe. Horrified and betrayed, Ford shut down the project and attempted to destroy all knowledge of the portal, before accidentally falling through it himself. Bill either could not see Ford in the thirty years he spent lost in other dimensions or didn't care to, as Ford would remark that they had not seen each other in many years. With the loss of his human pawn, Bill also lost physical access to the third dimension. Still, it would not be the end for Cipher, as he planned to manipulate the descendants of Gravity Falls, indirectly assisting them in fulfilling his ultimate scheme.

Not long after, Gravity Falls, along with many other worlds, had been consumed by the Horned King's forces, although a crew of heroes managed to restore most of them to their original states later on. Still, Gravity Falls was among the many worlds who found themselves in the Realm of Sleep instead, allowing the scheming Bill Cipher to take advantage of the chaos left behind by the Darkhearts by manipulating his victims in a scheme to release him from his eternal prison.

The Fantasmic Dreamtime[]

Return of the Keyblade[]

Appearance and Personality[]

Bill is a yellow, triangular creature that bears a strong resemblance to an Egyptian Pyramid and the Eye of Providence. He has a single large eye rimmed with four short black lashes on its top and bottom. He moves around mostly by floating about, and rarely actually stands on his own two feet. He has thin, black limbs, wears a small, black bow tie, and has a tall, thin, black top hat that floats just above his head. His arms do not seem to be in any fixed position, and can be moved along his perimeter without any difficulty. He has also been seen carrying a small, black cane. When he gets mad, he turns red and his eye glows a light red. When he shapeshifts into a copy of any person he thinks of, the appearance of the body is exactly identical to that of the original, but his voice does not change and the eyes are instead replaced with golden orbs with a black-colored slitted pupil.

Bill is an eccentric, insane (according to Gideon), possibly psychopathic and physically irreverent demon who finds most things amusing (although no one is really sure why). He's outrageous and outlandish, as well as a quick talker and thinker. Though he may come across as simply annoying, he's not to be taken lightly; when angered, he's a force to be reckoned with.

Upon gaining a humanoid vessel courtesy of a Replica from Dr. Frankenollie's abandoned sublabs, Bill is shown to be rather masochistic, hurting himself in various ways for the thrill of it, finding pain "hilarious." He seems to have little knowledge about the human body—specifically it's physical limits.

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