So I wanted an excuse to imagine the modern characters meeting baby Bill and to do impossible sci-fi things to Bill's brain in Theraprism. And throw in an amnesia plot just because.
Since escaping Theraprism didn't work, Bill's decided to cheat. Unfortunately the only official way a patient leaves Theraprism is via reincarnation, which means losing his memories. But he's found a way to trick them into releasing him, AND guarantee he'll get his memories back.
All he has to do is REMOVE his so-called "traumatic" memories (which TOTALLY didn't traumatize him, he SWEARS), get cleared to leave, and then reabsorb his memories later.
And he does this by... physically separating his various traumatic experiences into separate people. With magic.
Each removed facet of Bill's past only remembers their own portion of his memories, with only hazy memories of anything before their assigned era.
In effect this means Bill's memory clones work as if some time traveler had plucked a bunch of Bills from different points in his life out of the timeline: a baby Bill with baby memories, a child Bill with child memories, etc. And one modern Bill who doesn't remember much of anything anymore.
It's totally working, though! This is the most mentally healthy Bill's EVER BEEN. He's. He's SO mentally healthy, guys. Menetally healthy. Mealthy. he's f ine.
Please believe him.
He's gonna convince the therapists there's nothing wrong with him in NO time.
(The irony is that, lacking the baggage of a trillion years of medical trauma, fear of captivity, and distrust of authority, he might actually go "Whoa, I think something's wrong with me. Don't discharge me, I need help." Another flawless Bill plan backfires!)
Meanwhile, he's smuggled all his memory clones out of Theraprism and they're just running around somewhere. It's fine! He can find them when he's free! Bill can't think of any reason why a bunch of lost children who look exactly like Bill Cipher would run into any trouble! Especially since he can't remember doing anything that would make a lot of people hate him or anything like that!
they'll be fine don't worry about it
if Bill ever got outta Theraprism and got back into the stone body he left behind in Gravity Falls it wouldn't have the blue crack/scar because Bill had to shed the body to get into Stan's head so it was never punched.
and that's fucked up
his literal soul carries a wound that will never fully disappear but it isn't visible on his physical body. there's a line left across him marking his own death but when he looks in the mirror even he can't see it. he'll always know where it is, though, just beneath the surface
something something metaphors for trauma
trump dies of congestive heart failure before being sworn in charge to like cast to reblog
my uncle was somewhat of a rascal. we were hanging out on the roof of his barn when i was ten, and we saw some shooting stars. he told me they were angels carrying messages from god. then he handed me his old hunting rifle and taught me how to nick one out of the sky, even when it was travelling all fast like that, and how to triangulate its location — taking me out in his rusty truck down dirt roads, unerring and unceasing, until we saw that gleaming lantern. he pocketed the note from god and took me down to a pinboard where he was working on deciphering the language with his friend who was a linguistics major but got kicked out of grad school. after they shook hands, they held on for just a bit too long and i started wondering why my aunt doesn’t live with my uncle anymore, but then my uncle took me back up stairs and taught me how to fry the angel up real nice, halo and all. it was tasty
I hope this art will express all my love and admiration for your work. my feelings are not easy to express in words, so I decided to pour them into a drawing, and I am very proud of the result!
KMKY for me has become something more than something that you can read in a week and then switch to something else. I dare say that this is not just some ordinary fanfic, but the most real diamond in the zircon mine. KMKY is worthy of being called a full-fledged book, so that it can be published (yes, I still hope and dream of a physical copy of this fanfic, but who will stop me from dreaming?)
I can even say that I have come a long way with KMKY, from ups to downs. sometimes the fanfic helped me to distract myself from problems in my personal life, sometimes the fanfic raised topics that were really important to me, and I am amazed again and again by the skill, talent and ability of the author to write the main characters (and not only the main ones) so well, their ambiguity, their personal motives, problems, traumas. the characters turned out to be so unique and so deep (that I even had an idea to write an essay about all of Bill's psychological traumas, how they can affect not only your life, but also the lives of others, lol.) AND AT THE SAME TIME you write the secondary characters EXACTLY THE SAME WAY, which makes them all so memorable!
well, that's all I wanted to say, all that's left to add is that I'm looking forward to the next chapters and the upcoming spin-offs!
@f-imaginings, all the best 🫶🫶🫶
If you know someone who speaks dismissively of people working service or retail jobs, please remind them that they are bad.
how silly it is to tie your own noose
I think she’d respect his methodology
an old comic i drew as kind of a vibe check for a longer form comic i've been chewin on since TBOB came out, "Nevermind All That"
as a concept its got bill's perspective torn between earth and theraprism . lotta stupid introspection . like the sopranos but if it was written by someone who has never watched the sopranos and knows nothing about the sopranos
gorhugs!!!