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Billdip is the slash ship between Bill Cipher and Dipper Pines from the Gravity Falls fandom.
Canon[]
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Bill is mentioned briefly a few times in earlier episodes of the show, however him and Dipper meet for the first time just by the end of the 1st season, in the episode called Dreamscaperers. When Gideon makes a pact with Bill, so he'll steal the safe code from Stan's (Dipper's uncle) mind, Dipper, his sister - Mabel and Soos decide to enter his brain and save him from the dream demon. They meet Bill already at the entrance to the shack in Stan's head. Bill says a pun "I had a hunch I might bump into you," then temporarily burns out a hole in Dipper's torso. A moment later, Dipper asks the demon what he wants with Stan's mind. Bill tells him exactly what he wants and how he'll steal the promised code, since he doesn't believe the trio will stop him. And yet, they turn out to be able to. As Gideon eventually ended a deal with Bill, since the demon lost the code, because of Mabel, he lets the trio go, after they come out to be smart enough to beat him up. He states he's impressed with them, that they're much more clever than they look like and might come in handy someday, so until then he'll be watching them. Then he disappears.
The demon appears again in the 2nd season, in episode Sock Opera. Dipper wants badly to figure out the password to a laptop, thanks to which he could learn the identity of the author of the journals that gather all the mysteries and facts about the creatures from Gravity Falls. As he tries, Bill secretly watches him. After many, many unsuccessful tries, the demon appears to him in a dream, praising his persistence. He then asks Dipper, if he missed him, visibly trying to tease him. Of course, Dipper answers "hardly", as the last time he saw him, Bill tried to steal a code from his uncle's mind. The demon states that he's been keeping an eye on Dipper, since then and that he's impressed with him. He says he deserves a prize and gives him a head that's always screaming, as a joke. Eventually, he hides it laughing as he scared the boy. Then, Bill adds up that he likes him and pokes him, offering Dipper to give him a hint on the password. Obviously, not for free, wanting "a small favor" in return. Dipper refuses, reminding him that he defeated Bill the last time. The demon laughs at it, repeating his words in a sarcastic manner. Bill says that if Dipper changes his mind, he'll be here. As he speaks, he embraces the boy with his arm and pokes him again. Then he makes an impression of how Dipper will behave when he gets up and disappears, thereby waking him up.
Eventually, Dipper only gets one more try on guessing the password, because of too many failed entries. The laptop counts down the minutes to destroying its contents, and Bill appears before the boy again, noticing what's happening. The demon tries to persuade Dipper again into making a deal with him. He says that all he wants in return is a 'puppet'. As Mabel was working on a to-be-displayed puppet show lately and made a lot of them, Dipper thinks he wants one of those - Bill actually tricks him into thinking that. Dipper hesitates for a moment, since his sister worked hard to make them. However, Bill makes a good point that Mabel didn't do anything for him lately, while Dipper many times sacrificed for her. The boy peeks at a laptop - there are 30 seconds left. And so, he grabs the demon's, lightened up by blue fire hand, thereby making a deal with him. After that, Dipper asks Bill, what puppet is he gonna pick? The demon answers "you", then separating the boy's soul from his body, taking over the latter. Finally, Bill breaks the laptop, despite their agreement. When asked by Dipper why he did it, he states that the boy was too close to figuring out some major answers that could get in the way of his future "big plans". The next thing Bill is aiming to destroy is a journal containing the town's mysteries, that Dipper owns.
After taking over Dipper's body, Bill plays with it, having fun feeling pain or "drinking" soda. In some moments, he visibly does it just to tease, annoy the boy.
As Dipper's journal is going to be used as a prop in his sister's puppet show, Bill - still in the boy's body - drives with Soos and Wendy to the theatre. In place, Bill asks Mabel where the journal is. She answers it's going to be used in the big wedding scene, but she still needs a reverend. He offers that he'll play the reverend, since then he'd get to hold the journal; Mabel agrees.
While Bill finds out the exact object the journal is put in, Dipper figures out how to communicate with his sister. He tells her about Bill stealing his body and wanting to get the book, then saying she has to find it before the demon destroys it, so Dipper can get back to his flesh.
When Mabel takes the journal, Bill finds her, wanting her to give it to him. The girl disagrees, because it's her brother's and the demon points out that she didn't seem to have a problem taking it for her own play or ditching him when he needed her.
Eventually, the siblings defeat Bill again and Dipper gets back to his body. The demon makes it to yet tell them that this isn't the last they'll hear of him, since big things are coming.
• Did you miss me? Admit it, you missed me!"
• "I've been keeping an eye on you, and I must say, I'm impressed!"
• The nickname Pine Tree was confirmed canon in this episode, which was frequently used as Bill's pet name/nickname for Dipper prior to S2.
In Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!, Bill sarcastically called Dipper "adorable" and made fun of him saying that him trying to ruin his plans is like a pancake trying to teach class on astrophysics.
In Northwest Mansion Mystery, the final scene shows McGucket explaining to Dipper that he managed to fix the laptop Bill destroyed in Sock Opera, and claims that according to his calculations, the apocalypse is near. Dipper sighs and walks away, telling him that they can talk about it tomorrow and enjoy the party for now. McGucket pulls out the laptop from his beard, whose screen shows a countdown with 21 hours and 30 minutes left. Behind him, a tapestry on the wall depicts people bowing to Bill in the midst of a fire, while he looks down at them from the sky.
In The Last Mabelcorn, Dipper learns from Ford that Bill is more ancient than their own galaxy and comes from an alternate dimension called The Nightmare Realm, but can only interact with others in the Mindscape. To get a physical form that will let him enter their reality, he needs the dimensional rift that Ford retrieved from the dismantled Interdimensional Portal. Later, Mabel comes back from her mission at the Enchanted Forest to get some unicorn hair, which Ford and Dipper use to lift a barrier around the Mystery Shack against Bill's mind control. Unbeknownst to them, Bill is watching them from the Nightmare Realm and accepts he can't possess anyone inside the shack, so he switches to possessing someone from outside.
In Dipper and Mabel vs the Future, the Pines twins have an argument over Dipper staying in Gravity Falls to be Ford's apprentice and Mabel not wanting the summer to be over after learning that high school is not as fun as she thought and that her friends won't be in town for their birthday party. Mabel storms off the room, taking Dipper's bag by mistake instead of her own, and goes into the woods. After sitting under a tree, she looks through his stuff and Blendin Blandin appears to offer her a time bubble that can stop time and make summer last forever. He describes the interdimensional rift inside Dipper's bag and tells her it's the only thing he needs to make it work. Mabel gives it to him since she doesn't know what it is or if it's even important. Blendin drops the rift, smashes it on the ground and takes off his goggles to reveal he's been possessed by Bill all this time. Bill snaps his fingers to make Mabel pass out and leaves Blendin's body on a real physical form. He rises up to the sky and makes a gateaway to the Nightmare Realm. Dipper and Ford run outside the Shack to investigate what's happening. Bill laughs at them from the sky.
In the Book of Bill, the sequel to the animated series, it's revealed that Bill was left physically shattered and broken in the afterlife. He managed to summon his old friend The Axolotl, a far more powerful deity than him, who proposed to Bill that in order to absolve his crimes and get the chance to take a new form, he'd have to face their hardest "trial", which was mandatory therapy in the Theraprism, a neutral zone outside of time and located in Dimension #5150 as patient #323322 from the Dimensional Tyrant Ward, of the Maximum Security Wellness Center. For his several crimes against reality, he was put on Indefinite Karmic Rehabilitation.
During his Arts and Crafts hour, Bill resorted to "Therapeutic Journaling" as an excuse to write a book with the ability to stablish contact with outside dimensions and convince the reader to visit Gravity Falls, shake hands with Bill's statue and trade places, so Bill could boot up a remaining portal and start Weirdmaggedon 2.0. Ford interrupts the deal to prevent the reader from falling to Bill's tricks and tells them he found Mabel reading the book out loud to Stanley, Dipper, Soos and Wendy, laughing at his attempts to deceive them. Ford asks Mabel, Dipper and Stanley to write a warning about Bill in one of the pages, unsure if Bill will get to read them. While Mabel writes him several tips to forget about his crush on Ford and Stanley mocks him. Dipper writes the following:
"Bill, if you're somehow reading this from whatever quantum afterlife you wormed your way into, listen up, man. You tried to kill my sister. If I ever see you again outside of my nightmares, there is no force in the universe that will stop me from putting you in the ground. I outsmarted the US government, leapt off a cliff and punched through a robot's head, defeated zombies, outsleuthed Sherlock Holmes, and survived the start of puberty. Come at us again and I'll end you."
The book ended up being confiscated by staff of the Dimensional Tyrant Ward.
Fanon[]
Billdip is one of the most popular ships in the Gravity Falls fandom and the most popular slash ship in this fanbase. On AO3 it is the most written ship in the Gravity Falls tag; as well as for both of the characters. While "Bipper" is an alternate ship name for Billdip, it is not commonly used since Bipper is the name of Dipper when Bill is inhabiting his body. In the "Reverse Falls" AU, the ship is referred to as "Willdip." Most of the fans ship Bill in the human form with Dipper being an adult or an older teenager. Still, a big part of the fandom is opposed to the ship, because of Dipper being 13 years old in the cartoon and Bill over a trillion.
Due to the unpredictable nature of Bill, BillDip comes in all forms and verses. At its core, BillDip is loved for the dynamic: suspicious, curious, yet naive Dipper makes an interesting partner for chaotic, all-knowing Bill.
In instances where canon personalities are closely followed, popular themes tend to be grimdark. Bill may be obsessed with Dipper, turning possessive at the thought of the other getting closer to someone else, gifting him deer teeth, a deer heart or other grotesque offerings as a way of 'courting', turning his dreams into nightmares or vice versa to let him have a full night's sleep, taking him (against his will) to the Nightmare Realm, inducing a coma so they can be together on Dipper's mindscape, or invading his life through possession of a human body that matches Dipper's taste.
Although, these grimdark themes do not always have to be one-sided; Dipper's morality and the act of him siding with and/or summoning Bill is often considered. For example, Bill offering Dipper a deal which involves teaching him magic, bringing a loved one back to life or secure the survival of his family - in exchange for Dipper becoming his in body, mind and soul. This can result in Dipper becoming a prisoner and growing fond of Bill through Stockholm Syndrome, putting his feelings above logic or switching to the evil side, willing to be a partner in crime or an accomplice in murder.
In the same respect, there are also fluff takes on the pairing, such as indulging in the idea that maybe Bill could be redeemed if the possession of a human body causes him to experience love and attraction. Mabel frequently has a role as a matchmaker in these kinds of scenarios.
After the end of the series, the thought of Bill coming back as a human with no memories of his past and the Pines twins figuring it out before him became common, as it leaves room for Bill and Dipper getting closer while working at the Mystery Shack. What happens after Bill regains his memories is up to every fan's imagination.
In other portrayals, specially set in fantastic or mythologic alternate universes, Bill takes the form of an eldritch god linked to human sacrifice, chaos, ciphers, nightmares, gold, pyramyds and such.
This pairing is very popular all around the world. A Russian fan club for Billdip has over 27,000 members, far more than for any other Gravity Falls ship. A Chinese fan page exists.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Bill/Dipper tag on AO3
Trivia[]
- When Mabel sees Bill in Dipper's body, she makes a fusion of their names - Bipper.
- In Dreamscaperers Bill calls Dipper a "Pine Tree", because of the sign on the Zodiac. It resulted in many of the shippers using "Pine Tree" as Bill's main nickname for Dipper in fan-fictions.
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| Gravity Falls Ships • Gravity Falls Characters | |||
| SHIPS | het | Dipcifica • Mabill • Mermabel • MysteryOwl • Wendip | |
| slash | Billdip • Billford • Dibper • Parapines • Pinescone | ||
| femslash | Mabifica | ||
| family | Mystery Twins | ||
| friend | Mystery Kids | ||
| CHARACTERS | m/f | Dipper Pines • Mabel Pines | |