hurricane-juli:nonbinarysunset:nonbinarysunset:going back over the bill ama this response stri
hurricane-juli: nonbinarysunset: nonbinarysunset: going back over the bill ama this response strikes me as kind of… interesting given what we know now the inscription in the cave that ford read and apparently summoned bill with is written in the same cipher as his codes in the journals (maybe implying he adopted it himself?) and while it’s a bit difficult to make out there are some phrases that can be translated: “IT STARTED WITH BAD DREAMS” “NIGHTMARES”“I WAS FOOLISH”“ANSWERS”“I PAINTED THE SYMBOLS”“…GRAVITY FALLS AND THE…” (i would assume this feeds into the same “earth becomes sky” line that mcgucket repeats to ford later – maybe, if bill’s text from the ama is as relevant as i think it is, it’s actually a “prophecy”) now. those things were all written by someone who dealt with bill previously. i would venture a guess that it might be the “shaman” he refereced in the ama. and they… definitely have some things in common with the story ford told dipper about his own experiences with bill in the second journal, his handwriting on the “creature #326″ entry can be read, right under the “name: ???” (insinuating this was definitely before he knew bill to be “bill”) it reads: “this odd triangular being has appeared in my dreams every night for weeks” ….implying that bill was appearing in ford’s dreams even before he read the cave inscription. sounds like a bit of a callback to “IT STARTED WITH DREAMS” and “NIGHTMARES” if you ask me. the person who wrote that inscription apparently had a similar experience, with bill perhaps subliminally infiltrating their dreams before he actually succeeded in getting them to summon him. because i think that’s exactly what happened: “I PAINTED THE SYMBOLS” sounds like either creating the artwork above the writing or maybe creating a summoning circle. so apparently, bill piques people’s curiosity through dreaming (as both ford and the writer of the inscription experienced) to get them to actually bring him forth into the gravity falls universe (note: it’s also more than possible that he also did this with gideon, who then learned about bill from ford’s writing…. making it a vicious cycle?) let’s look at the other similarities: “I WAS FOOLISH” “dipper, i was a fool…” and “ANSWERS” “i had hit a roadblock in my investigation of gravity falls” and then, of course, finishing off with the prophecy, which ford heard too it sounds to me like the writer of the inscription and ford had almost identical experiences with bill – wanting answers to their questions, suddenly experiencing dreams with bill appearing in them, coming across/creating symbols to bring bill into the world, being tricked by him, and ultimately coming to the realization that bill could bring about the end of the world. ford may have facilitated something even bigger than before in creating the portal, but i’d propose that he’s actually part of a larger cycle – of bill manipulating curious people in the area in an attempt to release the nightmare realm after all “GOTTA HAND IT TO THAT SHAMAN THOUGH, HE WAS A REAL FUN GUY TO TALK TO–” “–EVEN IF HE TURNED OUT TO BE LESS COOPERATIVE THAN I HOPED.” “HEY, THERE’S ALWAYS THE NEXT GENERATION…” finally found a better picture of the writing in the cave, the full text when deciphered reads: “IT STARTED WITH BAD DREAMS, WHICH BECAME NIGHTMARESI WAS FOOLISH, I WANTED ANSWERSI PAINTED THE SYMBOLS, I SAID THE WORDSWHEN GRAVITY FALLS AND THE EARTH BECOMES SKY, FEAR THE BEAST WITH JUST ONE EYE” …..which i think actually just confirms the conclusions drawn from the snatches of text i had managed to translate earlier, possibly supporting the theory even more? “THERE’S ALWAYS THE NEXT GENERATION.” dIPPER -- source link