Gravity Falls Theory 001: Gideon Gleeful And Decarabia

Gravity Falls Theory 001: Gideon Gleeful and Decarabia

 As most Fallers already know, the symbol that we associate Gideon Gleeful with (besides his unnatural white pompadour, of course) is his star.  

Now, the eye has various symbols within it that invoke the image of another character to our minds.  Single eye in the middle of the shape, several, lightly colored triangles, one of which is yellow. That’s right; it’s Bill Cipher himself.  Now, as we all know, Bill is a dream demon that can only be seen in two ways; either in the Mindscape itself, or when he possesses a body and controls it (ex. Bipper).

Now, Alex Hirsch and the folks at GF HQ didn’t just make us relate the star to Bill for kicks; they were telling us something.  Yes, the evil image told us that Gideon wasn’t going to be a goody-goody Boy Scout of a character, but let’s be honest; none of us expected him to be that way from the get-go.  No, the meaning behind this was far, far more sinister.

After a long night of searching through the “Gravity Falls Theories” Tag and googling random leads for my next theory, I came across this fellow.

DECARABIA.

Decarabia (or just Carabia), is a demon who supposedly is a marquis of hell and has many legions of demons under his command.  At first I was like “oh, ok cool” but when I read deeper into this, some things began to line up.

First off, Decarabia’s symbol.  Can you guess what it is?

That’s right; a star with an eye in the middle.  Kind of like some false psychic’s symbol, huh?

So, I kept reading further and further into Decarabia’s mythos.  Apparently, Decarabia was the 69th demon out of Solomon’s 72 spirits to fall from Heaven, and his most important “infernal duties” tend to include herbs and precious stones.

HERBS

AND PRECIOUS STONES.

Decarabia also is said to be capable of instructing sorcerers in the arts of astral and dream shape shifting.

Seems a bit convinent, eh?

Too convenient?

Now, I know that Gideon read the ritual from Journal #2, but you’ve all seen enough movies where demons are summoned to know that when a ritual is improperly prepared, the results are disastrous.  Gideon may have gotten the ritual from Journal #2, but who’s to say he didn’t get the experience of summoning spirits and demons from another source?  Say, Decarabia?

Now, this also further encouraged by the Bill Cipher AMA that occured on April 1st, 2015.  In it, “Bill” stated that, “EACH IMAGE OF ME ACTS AS A PEEPHOLE FROM MY DIMENSION TO YOURS.”  Now, if we make the assumption that Decarabia operates by the same basic rules as Bill (since they are both demons), he too can see out of his image; a pentagram with an eye in the middle.  Now, who would spread this image around but a follower of Decarabia? 

Also, despite not containing Decarabia’s symbol, Gideon passes out pins during the Season 1 Finale, all of which contain a hidden camera within so that he may spy on Gravity Falls to further cement his position as town psychic.

“EACH IMAGE OF ME ACTS AS A PEEPHOLE FROM MY DIMENSION TO YOURS.”

Gideon had to get the idea for his secret pins from somewhere, right?  Perhaps from his demonic master?

Now, I’m not saying  that Decarabia is even a character on Gravity Falls, let alone that he’s definitely up to some thing with Gideon, but the similarities match up too often for this to be anything more than a coincidence, or a real happening.

And as you all know, in a town like Gravity Falls, there’s no such thing as a coincidence.