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astralcurses · 7 months

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im back and i want to know how bill died bc i hate him if you can't tell already

-bill cipher hater

hi i just want you to know how much i personally love you

so heres the thing! tau was first made back in 2014, shortly after sock opera very first aired. this was back before ford and certainly back before weirdmaggedon. tau is STILL an active fandom and has been all the way since then! (in fact, tomorrow is its 9th anniversary!!) however, even so, it can still pretty seamlessly fit into the rest of the canon show right after the finale still

see, the very base premise is "bill tried to start the apocalypse and maybe even succeeded a little but was ultimately stopped by the pines family" which. works with weirdmaggedon. the pines family stops bill and bill is dying and in a last ditch attempt to save himself, he takes advantage of the deal dipper made with him in sock opera (kid never gave him an expiration date so theoretically its an open ended deal) and tries to possess dipper and save himself. however, bill is weak. hes dying. and dippers got a strong will and fights him off and the strain ultimately kills bill. bill dies. right in dippers mindscape. the surge of demonic energy and whatnot from within his own mindscape among other factors cause a freak unrepeatable accident in which these energies fuse to dippers soul, turning him into a demon as bill dies.

bills death and the resulting surge of demonic power pops the weirdness bubble around gravity falls and makes the supernatural Very Real for the rest of the world too. this event is known as The Transcendence and will make history for thousands of years.

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feferipeixes · 5 years

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Transcendence AU primer

People have been asking me “what’s this Transcendence thing you keep talking about?”, so here’s a little primer I wrote up that should hopefully give you an overview of what it is and why I love it.

Transcendence AU (or TAU), created by @zillychu, is a fan alternate universe of the show Gravity Falls. It’s a bit unusual as AU’s go in that it has a squishy canon that people are (generally) free to add to. It’s all about demons, family, magic, immortality, tragedy, and dorks. So many dorks.

Gravity Falls

First of all, it is an AU of Gravity Falls, so if you haven’t seen GF at all, the following episodes are basically mandatory:

Tourist Trapped! (the first episode, which introduces Dipper, Mabel, and Stan)

Dreamscaperers (introduces Bill Cipher)

Sock Opera (in which Dipper gets possessed by Bill -- a lot of themes in TAU were inspired by this particular episode)

TAU often makes reference to other characters and things that happen in the show, but those episodes are the bare minimum.

What’s “the Transcendence”?

Now that that’s out of the way, what makes TAU different from canon Gravity Falls? Unlike a lot of AU’s, there is no one fic that describes how TAU diverges from canon, although there are several fics that provide different takes on it. At a high level, the following always happens:

At some point after Sock Opera, Bill Cipher attempts to cause the end of the world, and the twins foil him. As a last ditch effort to save his own life, Bill tries to possess Dipper against his will. Dipper manages to defeat him, and Bill ends up dying while in Dipper's Mindscape. The bits of Bill left behind -- in particular, his magic -- fuse permanently with Dipper. This should have killed him, but he instead becomes a demon himself.

Additionally, although Bill's plans were foiled, there are major side effects that forever change the world. The "weirdness bubble" (that kept the supernatural stuff contained within Gravity Falls) pops, and weirdness becomes commonplace everywhere. Society takes a while to recover from this. This event is known as "the Transcendence".

Other facts that are useful to know:

The twins’ parents don’t handle Dipper’s change very well. They love him, but they’re afraid of him and things are bad. Because of this, a couple of years later, Dipper and Mabel move to Gravity Falls to live with Stan.

Dipper and Mabel frequently go on missions to dismantle cults that are doing bad cult stuff. They sort of have secret identities, and go by the names “Alcor” and “Mizar” respectively.

At first, Dipper is invisible to everyone but Mabel. He can be summoned to the physical plane with a summoning circle, and he can make demon deals. As time goes on and as a result of him being half-human, he gains more and more power, and eventually can be present in the physical plane without needing a deal. This eventually puts him in a class of power far above any other demon.

A lot of the characters are queer! For instance, Dipper is aroace and Mabel is bi.

Being a demon means that Dipper is immortal, and he has a lot of difficulty dealing with this. It also means that he has a darker side to him now that he’s always grappling with.

More details can be found on the TAU blog!

Recs!

Here are some awesome fics that I’d 100% recommend:

Meat Cute by Seiya234 - Henry is introduced, he starts dating Mabel, he slowly gets used to the fact that her brother is a demon, and they get married.

24 Months by Seiya234 - Mabel and Henry have triplets, and nothing goes wrong ever, and Dipper is the best dream demon uncle ever.

So you want to be a demonologist by dementor_ssc - Dipper pretends to be an undergrad studying demonology.

Return, Rewind, Rewrite by MaryPSue - A widowed father makes a deal with Dipper to save his infant daughter’s life (who turns out to be a reincarnation of Mabel). In exchange, Dipper creates a fake human body for himself, masquerades as the infant’s twin brother, and locks away both his and the father’s memories. He’s able to lead a relatively normal life, until the family goes on vacation... in Gravity Falls.

Reincarnation Blues by MaryPSue - A reincarnation of Mabel dates a reincarnation of Bill Cipher, and Dipper freaks out. A lot.

Tales of a Dreambender by Lady_Phenyx - A massive collection of oneshots set in TAU, some happy, some sad, and a lot in between.

The Quest For Blood Valley by RedPen - Acacia (one of Mabel and Henry’s kids) wants to see an R-rated movie, and Dipper does not quite succeed in being a responsible adult. Hi-jinks ensue.

Hadley and the Pirate (and the Demon) by ToothPasteCanyon - Far in the future, a spaceship captain is taken hostage by a pirate, and the only person who seems willing to help her is Alcor the Dreambender. Warning: you will cry.

Here’s a list of authors that are just fantastic in general and I’d recommend checking out all of their fics:

Seiya234

MaryPSue

Haberdasher

storiewriter

dementor_ssc

Lady_Phenyx

ThisCat

ToothPasteCanyon

suddenlyGoats

Feneris

(I also write for TAU - my AO3 is StarlightSystem)

Anyway, that’s my rundown of TAU! This primer post got pretty long, but I hope it was helpful :). The TAU blog ( @transcendence-au ) is the definitive source of information for this AU, and you can find a lot more fics, art, and worldbuilding there.

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