#Real stupid that Dipper keeps doing this. But real hard to oppose it when Bill gets such a view outta it!

[tswwwit]

I know Bill's the big bad demon everyone is afraid of and he will protect his husband at all costs (when no one's looking), but I think it's also worth mentioning that Dipper, even being the dorky, squishy human that he is, also cares about his dumb demon hubby and wants to keep him safe, even if it annoys Bill, and really, he doesn't need protecting the way Dipper does. He isn't going to puff out his chest and get in someone's face like some macho man, but I think Dipper knee-jerk reaction when Bill's in "danger" isn't to just shrug because he's an all-powerful demon who can handle it. If a blast that could level a whole town was aimed at Bill's head (for him, this just means a bad hair day and a new body), Dipper's immediate impulse is to push him out of the way or defend him against whatever wants to kill his familiar. Because he's not thinking "Bill could literally end this match in .3 seconds." He's thinking "if you touch even one hair on that asshole's head, I'm going to knock yours clean off your shoulders." I don't know what the point even is in this post, just that Dipper is this nerdy, unassuming guy who ends up being viciously protective under the right conditions. Like I think Dipper pulls off the bloody and vengeful look SO well that Bill immediately melts and just lets him handle the situation, even though it's not really Dipper's fight to begin with. He's beating the guy to a pulp with zero reserve, and Bill's off to the side swooning and twirling his hair over his man for getting his hands dirty for him.

It's true! While Bill's not the type to enjoy being underestimated, he has to admit! Seeing his adorable husband all riled up on his behalf is a hell of a sight.

The thing is, Dipper's a good guy! He can't help but put himself in danger over others. Even when all reason and logic say that Bill would be absolutely fine if he got his head exploded or a shiv in his kidney, Dipper's instinct is to fully and immediately get in the way of that. To, in fact, be protective.

Mostly this is only evident when Dipper has to stand up to Ford. Yes, yes, Bill's a vile horrible monstrosity, but he didn't do that particular thing you're accusing him of. Watching him stand up to his uncle is a particular treat!

For bigger threats, though - Well. Bill's gonna be absolutely fine, no matter what happens, thank you very much. But he's definitely not opposed to seeing some guy who was about to literally stab him in the back get a few of his teeth knocked out.

#answers #Dipper doesn't like seeing his husband get hurt. Yes Bill likes pain and all but only contextually. And he's immortal. #But Dipper can't help but cringe and wince on his behalf anyway. He talks a lot of shit but he really does love his bastard husband #When it comes to most of the the Ford situations #Bill gets to have fun with those #Dipper's ready to argue on Bill's behalf. Most times. Yes a little head-explodey doesn't keep Bill down but Dipper is NOT a fan #Catch Bill standing just behind Dipper - or even leaping up into his arms and nearly making him topple over - #Only to look very self-satisfied. Going :3 'yes I am babey' #Looking like the perfect innocent cherub he absolutely isn't gets on Ford's nerves in a HUGE way #Both super obnoxious AND it makes his mortal roll his eyes at him. SO fun! #For other times he gets defended it's Bill's turn to roll his eyes #But goddamn if it isn't cute as hell. PLUS it's one of the rare times he actually sees Dipper really riled up #Not in like a flustered argumentative type of way. In an actual Fuck You You're Going Down kinda way #Real stupid that Dipper keeps doing this. But real hard to oppose it when Bill gets such a view outta it! #Also concept: Dipper trying to shield Bill while he's in his real form and feeling a moment of 'oh no' when he fails #Only for like. The knife to go 'tink' off his surface. Bill looks unimpressed #Another reminder for Dipper that yeah okay Bill can handle himself. He feels pretty dumb about it #That's okay DIpper you mean well! Bill will still smooch you for trying #APPROVED.jpeg implied but not included due to me adding too much text

[gmfgravitymayfall]

Some basic info about Gravity May Fall

So like I said, finishing Mabel’s design is taking a lot longer than I meant. So this blog doesn’t go without updating for too long, I thought I could start providing  more story detail. Especially since there won’t be a lot of opportunities to go into the world building while talking about the characters. 

Obviously, considering the main point of DMC is killing shit tons of demons, the basic mythology of demons should probably be well established. They come from the underworld (Effectively Hell)  and like in the 2013 reboot, the underworld and Earth were initially connected by Limbo. A sort of in-between dimension that isn’t quite hell, can physically effect the human world, but only a few humans can perceive what’s happening there. Very few demons can physically pass through Limbo fully into the Human world, and at the moment the only two demons to ever pull this off were Sparda and Bill Cypher (Who is taking Mundus’s part in this story because of course he is) Cypher also had near total control over Limbo by the time Mabel and Dipper start actively opposing him 

Lesser demons can pass through Limbo only through possessing humans, and many of Cypher’s lieutenants were doing so (Specifically possessing Pacifica Northwest and Gideon Gleeful) And even Cypher and Sparda needed human hosts to stay in the human world for an extented period of time, and have children in Sparda’s case. 

Because they are part Demon, Dipper and Mabel are two of the few beings in existence that can pass between Limbo and the Human world without issue. Though, without Wendy’s spells, they can’t do so at will. However, in the effort to defeat Cypher, Dipper used Yamato to collapse Limbo, and cut him off from the energy from the underworld Cypher was drawing his power from. And any demon still in Limbo at that time were basically dumped in the human world with no way of getting back home. 

With Limbo gone, the only way for a Demon to come to the human world is for someone on either side of the dimensional wall to use some from of supernatural power to punch a hole between the worlds and let a flood of demons into the human world. From what I can tell, this is where most of the main series DMC villains come from. 

Also one of my personally biggest disappointments with DMC 2013 was a lack of angels. Sure making Dante and Virgil half demon and half angel was stupid an unnecessary (and Nephilim isn’t the name for a demon/angel hybrid, but a human/angel hybrid) but Ninja Theory didn’t actually show any angels aside from one flash back to when Eva died. So even though Dipper and Mabel are just half demon (Which is called a Cambion, just so you know) I’m putting fucking angels into this story. I have no idea what they’ll be like or how I’m going to impliment them into the story, but I’ll be damned if there won’t be angels eventually. 

Witches have a much more important role in this story than either versions of DMC. Wendy, like Kat, is a witch; and every relevant character from the Owl House is still a witch, and unlike the original DMC, Eva is a witch. This mostly because in the reboot, Eva actually gives Dante some of his powers, and I wanted to keep that plot point without Eva being angel. 

I actually thought about making witches similar to the Umbra Witches from Bayonetta, possibly combining the Bayonetta story with this one eventually, with Star Butterfly being Bayonetta. But Bayonetta and DMC’s cosmology is way to different. 

Unlike the Owl House, witchcraft is a learned skill and not an inborn ability. So characters like Amity and Eda are all human, and Luz doesn’t have any real issue becoming a witch. While literally anyone can learn to be a witch through hard work and study, some have more of a natural inclination to the use of magic than others. Wendy being psychic basically puts her on the same level as Eda and Lilith. 

Obviously, since witch isn’t a species anymore, the whole bile sack isn’t a thing anymore. I still haven’t fully nailed down how magic works, but Limbo is going to play a role in it, and magic will have both internal and external sources. 

#Gravity May Fall #Devil May Cry #Gravity Falls #The Owl House #Mabel Pines #Dipper Pines #Bill Cypher #Luz Noceda #Wendy Corduroy #Eda Clawthorne #Lilith Clawthorn #Limbo #Demons #Witches #Angels #Amity Blight

[minijenn]

62. "Please Don't Cry." Dipper and Lapis post-Stonemason.

61: “Thisis all my fault” + 62: “Please don’t cry”

There were several promises Lapis had made to Dipper when shemanaged to convince him to stay at the barn for the night. Among these promiseswere the possibility for several calming flights through the night sky, thechance to stay up as late as he wanted, and just a general chance to relax andtake his mind off of everything. She had also promised him that Peridot wouldbe scarce, for obvious reasons, and for the most part she was amidst helpingFord with a project over at the shack. But above all else, Lapis had promisedthat there would be no mention of Homeworld, of Yellow Diamond, or most of all,of Stonemason, whatsoever. And this was a promise the blue Gem kept to theletter, refusing to so much as bring up anything even remotely related to the traumathat Dipper was still going through at the risk of upsetting him even more. Asfar as Lapis was concerned, their much-needed time together was going ratherwell; in fact, if she didn’t know any better, she would have thought thatDipper almost looked content, happy even.

Until, of course, the façade he had been trying so hard tokeep up finally crumbled completely.

They were sitting together on the roof, a brilliant, endlessarray of stars shining before them in a nightscape that reminded Lapis of thoseearly days over a year ago now, when their deep bond had first taken shape onthe cliffs overlooking the waterfall, when things had been so much simpler, whenneither of them were as scarred and broken as they were now. And never more wasthe reminder that things had profoundly and brutally changed more present forLapis than when she heard that first tight, almost inaudible cry coming fromthe boy sitting right beside her.

“Dipper?” the blue Gem’s pensive expression melted into oneof immense worry as she glanced over at him, only to find him sitting with hisface buried into his knees as he held his legs tight to his chest, his entireframe wracking with soft but steadily growing sobs. “Dipper!” She quickly hurriedover to steady him, placing herself behind him as she didn’t hesitate to wrapher arms around him in a supportive embrace. An embrace that Dipperfrantically, fearfully pulled himself out of the moment he felt it.

“Stop!” he cried, easily prying himself out of the blue Gem’shug as he stumbled forward a bit, his eyes wide with a terror that took him faraway from the present moment. His metallic arm light up, the circuits on hisface doing the same as it whirled with the energy from an emerging defensiveattack. “Don’t touch me-” Dipper succinctly cut himself off as he spun around,his panicked mind returning to the present as he noticed that only Lapis was standingbefore him as opposed to any Agates or Peridots or worst of all, Diamonds. Hetensed at this, his arm going back to its usual dull glow as his breathinghitched and his eyes welled up with oncoming tears once again, tears that, muchlike everything else, he was completely powerless to stop. “L-Lapis, I… I-I didn’t…I thought… I…”

For what seemed like ages, Lapis was completely frozen in placeas she watched with wide eyes and a broken heart as Dipper slowly collapsed tohis knees, choking on another sob as he refused to make eye contact with theblue Gem out of guilt, sorrow, and so many other feelings at once. When Lapisfinally did shake herself out of her revere, she was on her feet quickly beforekneeling down in front of him, making sure to give him plenty of space, thoughshe still extended a hand out to him, one that he didn’t take. “Dipper, I-I…You… you didn’t…” she stammered, having not even the faintest clue about whatto say to really comfort him at a time like this. “P-please… don’t cry.” Hervoice was a bit firmer, a bit more reassuring as she took his hand, andthankfully, he didn’t panic and pull it away, even if he did continue sobbingto himself, his metal hand shielding his face from her. “I-I know what you wentthrough was… i-it was a lot to handle, but it’s over now. You’re home. You’resafe. You’re free.”

“Over?” Dipper glanced up at her, his tone harsh, appalled,and most of all, tearful. “It’s over?!Are you serious, Lapis?! This will never be over! No matter how many timesyou, or Mabel, or Steven, or anyone else tries to tell me that things are oknow, that doesn’t change the fact that I’m stuck with this… this thing-” he pointed to his cyberneticarm, glaring at it disdainfully all the while. “As opposed to my real arm forthe rest of my life! It doesn’t change the fact that I nearly killed you allwithout a second thought! It doesn’t change the fact that all of this, everysingle part of it, is all my fault because I was too stupid to try and faceYellow Diamond on my own and too weak to stop her from using that dumb song ofhers to turn me into her own personal slave!But yeah, I guess you’re right. I amhome and I am safe. But I’m nowhereclose to being free…” His anger trailed off into tears once more, his eyes shuttightly as he held his arms tightly, his natural hand digging into his loathedmetal arm as much as it could. “And that’s what no one seems to understandaround here…”

“I do understand that, Dipper,” Lapis said, her tonesurprisingly steady, despite how shaken and distraught she was after hearinghim profess everything at once. “More than you know.”

Dipper flinched atthis, guilt filling his expression as he met the blue Gem’s gaze once more. “O-oh…Lapis, I-I’m sorry, I didn’t think about… I-I was just-”

“Angry, I know,” Lapis nodded in understanding. “So was Iwhen I was ‘freed’ from Malachite. That first time I saw Jasper again after weunfused, I was furious, because Ithought I had fooled myself into thinking that it was all over, that I was donewith her, and I was free. But then she came back and tried to fuse with meagain, a-and it was like nothing had changed, like I was still trapped with herat the bottom of the lake, fighting against her day in and day out for controland never seeming to win. And not only was I mad, I was scared. I was terrifiedthat the thought of being Malachite again existed anywhere in my mind, nomatter how small it was. I was so afraid that I would slip right back into her,that I would actually enjoy beingher, that I really was the monster Jasper said I was…”

“I-I… I think I feel kind of the same away about Stonemason…”Dipper mumbled, somewhat surprised that he was even admitting something likethat aloud. Still, if there was anyone he was comfortable talking to about atruth as uncomfortable and frightening as this, it was Lapis. “Mabel, Steven,and Connie saved me, yeah, b-but… I’m honestly really afraid that he mightstill be somewhere inside me, just waiting to hear that song again and takeover all over again. A-and then Yellow Diamond will have total control over me again, then I’ll be right back toattacking you all again, a-and I’llbe trapped inside my own head again,and… and I just… I can’t!”

Lapis was admittedly surprised as Dipper suddenly flunghimself into her arms, unabashedly crying all the while, even as she verygently returned his embrace. By now, tears were slipping down the blue Gem’scheeks too as she realized just how much painhe was in, in literally every sense of the word. “I-I know how you feel…”she sighed, trying to push her own year-old fears and regrets away for hissake. “And it’s the worst. But youknow what got me through it?” Dipper shook his head at this, his eyes still wetwith tears as he looked up at the blue Gem inquisitively. “You did,” she smiledwarmly, placing a motherly hand on top of his head. “You reminded me that Iwasn’t a prisoner anymore, that I wasn’t Malachite anymore, but that I was Lapis again. You helped me feel likemyself again; you helped me feel free. A-and while I’m probably not the best atthis sort of thing, I hope I can help you in the same way you helped me. I wantto help you feel like you’re not Yellow Diamond’s slave anymore, because you’renot. You never were. You’re notStonemason; you’re Dipper. And I knowit’s going to take a lot of time and a lot of work, but eventually, you willstart to feel like yourself again. You willfeel free again. Take it from someone who’s been there: I know.”

Dipper finally stilled as Lapis used a gentle hand to thumbone of his tears away, smiling down at him with the upmost empathy and comfortshe could provide. Some part of him, a part that was likely still somehow onHomeworld, still enduring all of the pain and torture he had been put throughthere, wanted to refute the blue Gem’s claims, to deny that he had any chanceof really feeling like anything other than a broken, mutilated slave everagain. But every other part of him overrode that denial as he met Lapis’reassuring smile, one that carried the hope that things would get better, thathe could move on, that he could feel free once more. And it was a hope that heonly needed one final confirmation of in order to truly believe it. “A-are yousure?”

Lapis’ smile widened somewhat at this, unable to refute that,even despite the tears, and the metal arm, and the still underlying terror inhis eyes, the Dipper she had truly befriended in that waterfall cave over ayear ago now was still very much there. And that was something she was certain,no matter how much Yellow Diamond, or Bill Cipher, or anyone else might try tobreak him apart and wipe him away, would never change. “Yes, I am,” shewhispered assumingly, looking up to the stars once more. “I promise.”

(Combined this one with @krissy-sprite‘s request, mostly because I thought it was fitting. But AUGHGHAGSDKHAGSDKHAGSD *dies on my keyboard* ANGST AND FLUFF FLUFF AND ANGST ALL TOGETHER AT LAST AND IT KILLS MEEEEEEEEEE Seriously though any moments between Dipper and Lapis following this whole Stonemason thing are going to WRECK MY LIFE BECAUSE WELL FUCK IT HURTS SO GOOD AUGHHGHGHGH THis was a fucking delight to write because as sad as it was it also filled me with warm fuzzies at the end and that’s GREAT!!! FOR REALS this prompt was one of my favorites yet because of how it turned out imo I’m so pleased) 

#jen writes #universe falls #stonemason stuff #dipper #lapis #drabble prompts