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Bill Cipher is not having a good time at the Theraprism. Being a powerless, living creature was definitely not on his list of expectations and, on top of that, he is being treated like a lesser being by both the staff and patients.
Meanwhile, Mabel Pines isn't having a good time at college. She couldn't get into the same college as Dipper, not even in a second application. Instead, she had to go to a small community college alone where she's dealing with mean roommates, hard classes and missing Dipper and her family, even though she's really happy for him.So, naturally, the Axolotl decided that connecting the two would be a great idea. In their mind, Mabel could help Bill open up, whilst Bill could help Mabel develop a bit of a stronger personality. But, as always, nothing goes like planned when Bill Cipher is allowed to interact with Pines family.
This fic now has Billford, because I have absolutely zero self control.
And now the rating changed to mature because Bill and Ford got too freaky (but at least they’re detoxifying the yaoi). Is there any hope for Bill or will he remain the prisoner of the Theraprism forever?Series
- Part 1 of Bad Triangles Go to Therapy + Extras!
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ok but last two chapters were SO PEAK. IT ACTUALLY MAKES SO MUCH SENSEEEE. like most of my own theories on lore are pretty similar and wowww yesss YESSS I LITERALLY WAS GAGGED ON A FEW MOMENTS.
-callback to bill saying he and everyone was gifted knives and it in reality being a surgery and his MOM telling him a lie to calm him down. that was SUCH A BIG BRAIN MOMENT LIKE HOLY SHIT.
-the destruction of euclydia, how it burned coz of bill, the hole it created, THE CREATURES UNDERNEATH IT AND THE FACT ITS DESTRUCTION ISSS THE REASON NIGHTMARE REALM WAS CREATED!! LIKE THE CHAOS THAT AWOKE. THE HOLE IN REALITY CAUSING A WRECK WHICH THEN CREATED STH NEW?? CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION??? HOLY CRAP I LWK EXPLODED THIS WAS SO SO GOOD
-the fact euclydians are like ideas and by destroying them bill unleahed bad ideas too???? FUCKKKK YESSSS. AND THE FACT THAT BILL WAS TRULY AN ORGANIC CREATURE AND AX WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE HIM IMMORTALITY AND MADE HIM AN IDEA TOO!!! ALSO THE BARRIER AROUND EUCLYDIA LIKE A PROTECTION FOR THEM BUT AGAINSYT THEM TOO!! HOLY MAMA.
-bill eating lords and gaining powers coz of them, absorbing them and becoming powerful in the process IM LITERALLY SHAKING YESSS. IT'S LIKE ALL MY IDEAS WERE DRAGGED FROM MY HEAD AND PUT INTO WORDS BHJFFFFG -
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Bill Cipher is the Theraprism's least cooperative patient; he fails to take activities seriously, he's been rude (and violent) to other residents and staff alike, and he point-blank refuses to delve into talking about his past. He's in maximum security for a reason, and he's got no hope of getting out any time soon.
That is... until he meets you. You have been assigned to Bill as his new Theraprism therapist (a theraprist, if you like) and you are determined to crack the enigma known as Bill Cipher, one way or another.
NVVK SBJR RPK. FVB'YL NVUUH ULLK PA!
(Story is reader perspective, but the reader is not Y/N)
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- Part 1 of The Theraprist Literary Universe
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After a couple thousand years of them prying, forcing him to accept the truth under a lifetime of lies to everyone and himself, cracks began to form. Metaphorical cracks where emotions banished long ago came crawling back.
Guilt. Regret. Grief.
But when his protective shell of denial, delusions, and repression crumbled and they broke down the triangle into something more self-aware, the next step of rebuilding him back didn’t go as planned. Bill might have finally admitted and felt remorse for a lot of his actions. But nothing could motivate him to try atoning for them. He didn’t see the point in trying.
Atonement was meant to correct previous wrongdoings so they weren’t hanging over them when they reincarnated. And his vague understanding was that atonement could be achieved by either undoing the consequences of his previous actions, doing some equivalent act of good for other people, or demonstrating some other expression of those feelings of remorse that were plaguing him. Except none of them seemed relevant to his situation.
Was there anything good that he could do that would equal the destruction of his entire home dimension, let alone everything that he’d done in the trillion years since?
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(Based on 1spooky2me’s Fixer Upper AU)
Bill Cipher has made enough progress in ten thousand years of non-time in the Theraprism to destroy his protective shell of denial and lies that kept the past guilt from ever touching him. Unfortunately, that is about the point where his progress stopped: where he admitted to his mistakes, but not yet willing to try atoning for them. Why bother? It wasn't as if he could ever fix anything that actually mattered. And even if he did, he would be reincarnated into a very primitive creature with no memory of his previous life and wouldn't even be himself anymore.
Except outside and foreseen circumstances yanked him out of the Theraprism's dimension and dumped him back into a different and very familiar one. While also shoving him into a newly-created alive-ish human-shaped body.
The Axolotl decides to take advantage of the new opportunity this presents to see if "community service" and being productive would produce better results. He does want Bill to heal, recover, and have a chance at a new life.
And thus Bill ends up stuck working in the Mystery Shack for Soos. Right as summer begins and the Pines are due to return.
No one is happy about this.
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- Part 1 of Some Sunny Day
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Peakest of the peak
153k homunculus, chap 26 is stargazing, Dr rune, important? Thats pretty vague, BILL DIES?!?!? AND THEN UN-DIES?!??!?! Easy top 3 gravity falls fics, 34 chap, finished
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But Bill Cipher is an unusual case. They wouldn't put it past him to make up an entirely new mental illness directly out of his ass and blame it all on the very place trying to help him get well.
The entity known as Bill Cipher has malicious intent, and nobody's quite sure why. It's the Axolotl's job to find out, which is proving far harder than necessary. He's hardly what anyone would call cooperative. He's arrogant and prone to making sarcastic comments. He diverts the attention away from him every time Axy is sure they're close to making some sort of discovery.
There's no payoff working with him.
But his story is very, very interesting. And they're determined to coax it out of his sick little head no matter how hard they have to push.
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Fussy eater, baby Billy / wouldn't drink unless it's silly.
In Euclydia, everything was perfect. Bill Cipher wasn't born the kind of perfect they were looking for. Seeing the stars up above him in a world where Up Above Him didn't exist meant he was in for a lifetime of doctors, medicine, and keeping-quiet-or-else. But what if he could show everybody what they were missing? The stars were Up there. He knew they were. Maybe he could make everyone else know it, too.
Just fit in just fit in just fit in just fit in j
(In which Bill 1.) learns that doctors are talent-suppressing authoritarian jerks, 2.) accidentally commits genocide, and 3.) takes the train to Denial Town in the Theraprism, with a special cameo from a certain Sixer.)
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(and if i seem dangerous,) would you be scared? by Yevynaea
Fandom: Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon)
05 Aug 2025
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(and if I seem dangerous) would you be scared? - Yevynaea
When two brothers wake and breathe and live, darkness clings to them, digs into them, claims them. They have seen the forest, they have known the Other and the After. Their hearts still beat, but they are shadows.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1380175
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and if you're standin' on the ledge (i'll pull you down, put you to bed) by Yevynaea
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
05 Aug 2025
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“Okay, give me your phones if you’re gonna play this game here,” Dipper says.
“It’s not a game,” Bill and Mabel shoot back in unison. (Bill doesn’t realize he’s expecting the others’ noses to wrinkle until they don’t. There’s no flash of jealousy in Dipper’s eyes, no squirming as Mabel tries to put distance between Bill and herself.) (This means nothing, surely.) (They’re not siblings. It’s not real. Never been, and never will. Never Bill. Ha, good one, he thinks.)
(Or: The Pines triplets attend a party, and one of them over-imbibes.)
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in a different order (relativity falls au series) by green_tea_and_honey
Fandom: Gravity Falls
14 Apr 2025
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A Relativity Falls series, featuring one-offs, goofs and gags, the Mystery Trio, Graunty Mabel, and a strange pair of triangles determined to ruin the summer...
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Stanford Pines has been desperately trying to decode the mysterious journal he found in the woods at the beginning of his summer in Gravity Falls, and has found his worst nightmare has come true: he's hit a roadblock without a keyword for the ciphers.
Maybe an odd triangle (or two) can give him a hint. Surely there won't be any repercussions to this.
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sine, cosine, and the missing tangent
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A Triangle in the Stars by Vampire_Tails
Fandom: Gravity Falls, Steven Universe (Cartoon)
17 May 2025
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It all started with a statue...
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After dropping out of college you move back to Gravity Falls. Coincidentally, one of your college buddies decided to use his grant money to investigate the supernatural occurrences of this town. His and your curiosity leads to the two of you meeting a peculiar triangle.
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the origin of bad end friends: bill and dipper by the_writer_tiger
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
31 Aug 2025
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The puppet show was one of the most difficult tests of trust the twins had to endure, where their bond grew even stronger, and together they managed to defeat Bill Cipher for the second time before it was too late.
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What would have happened if it hadn't ended this way?
What if Mabel had hesitated to give the journal to Bill?
What if that bond was broken?
What would have happened... if Dipper had trusted Bill?
"There were only two people inside that body who called themselves Bipper"
"Bill and Dipper"
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[TRANSCRIPT RECORD #323322] by annika_laplume
Fandoms: Gravity Falls, The Owl House (Cartoon)
29 Jun 2025
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[ATTENDING STAFF/STENOGRAPHER: #D-SM5
VERBAL TRANSCRIPT OF PATIENT'S SESSIONS WITH DOCTOR CASSANDRA ASDFGH, DDPs.
RECORDS CAN BE ACCESSED IN THERAPRISM LEVEL -e.
PRAISE THE AXOLOTL.]-
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What if Bill Cipher lost his eye when he was a child and ended up in gravity falls ?
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A baby bill le quitan el ojo y viaja a gravity falls cuando apenas sucedió el proyecto de ley de Ford,, stan y Bill friendship
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"He thought of one, single, sentence.
Catch.
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Fire.
For a moment, time froze.
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two wrongs don't make a right, but two 45° angles do by Anonymous
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
19 Nov 2025
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Two twins go to their great-uncle's tourist trap for the summer...but they're all 2-d shapes
Basically, Gravity Falls, but in a beach town and following the adventures of a young Bill Cipher and his twin sister
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The Theraprism is a dump that Bill cannot seem to make any growth within. So, naturally, the Axolotl calls on someone still alive that may be able to reach him: Stanford Pines.
Ford is not happy about this, at all. And he doesn't intend to be, for a while.
(A Billford redemption fic where the rest of the Pines family also gets roped into healing this broken triangle's heart.)
(As of right now this fic is taking another hiatus. I kinda just ran out of steam, but I really hope to get back and finish it sometime soon!)
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I’m the author and I think I'm doing a pretty good job.
Edit: nvm ts sucks sorry 😭🥀
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By the time they set sail, Stan remembers who he is and who he was. And that's the problem. Stan remembers.
He remembers being Bill Cipher. Remembers living in the Nightmare Realm. Remembers Stanford. A LOT of Stanford. So how does he manage now that his past life is not so distant? Courtesy of that fucking frilled lizard; this is not what I had in mind, thank you very much!
He was kinda fucked. The blue flames were also kind of a downer.Under *HEAVY* re-construction. This needs an overhaul before I can end it the way it deserves.
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- Part 1 of Redemption, Rebirth,...another 'R' word
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"stan used to be bill" theory/au. stanley doesnt realize until post canon on the stan o war ii. billford leads to weird incest vibes. very awkward<3