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   Wasting Away Again in the Goldilocks Zone by ckret2

   Fandoms: Gravity Falls, The Book of Bill - Fandom  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Work in Progress

   08 May 2026

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   • Bill Cipher & Everyone
   • Bill Cipher & The Pines Family
   • Bill Cipher & Mabel Pines
   • Bill Cipher/Ford Pines
   • Bill Cipher
   • Mabel Pines
   • Ford Pines
   • The Pines Family (Gravity Falls)
   • Gravity Falls Ensemble
   • every major character in the show gets plot arcs; I only tagged the most important characters
   • Temporarily Human Bill Cipher
   • it's temporary if he has anything to say about it
   • Bill Cipher Redemption
   • Episodic Structure
   • Cosmic Horror
   • Second Chances
   • Species Dysphoria
   • Body Dysphoria
   • Bill Cipher is Trying (but very slowly and reluctantly)
   • The Power of Mabel (Gravity Falls)
   • so canon compliant with TBOB i suspect Bill's been whispering my secrets to Alex
   • Illustrations
   • Angst and Humor
   • show-canon-typical comedy; TBOB-canon-typical horror & drama
   • eventual billford but it's not the main focus
   • & such a slowburn it'll literally take 100 chapters just to stop hating each other
   • Every other week updates god & bill willing

   Summary

   Bill jailbreaks the afterlife via reincarnation. With half his powers missing. And is immediately captured.

   But neither side knows whether killing his new body will unleash a feeble human ghost or a powerful energy being and no one's risking it. No prob! Bill's sure he can befriend or escape his captors before they find a god-killing weapon; but THEY'LL never befriend HIM—

   —enter Mabel Pines.

   Listen, y'all know what to expect from a human Bill redemption fic. But this is the only one that's about: the dysphoria of being a triangle in an alien body; gifted kid burnout; befriending the ENTIRE town (we're talking Robbie, Mrs. Gleeful, Tyler, EVERYONE); and... Bill getting cursed to forget how doorknobs work. (Plus illustrations!!)
   

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