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I am listening! I am invested! Please yap about your au idea!!

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ok so, I honestly don’t have much of an idea as to where exactly this would go, but just for the basics (which I’m mostly coming up with on the fly, I’ll be honest) here we go:

(this ended up being quite long so everything else is under the break, sorry!)

obviously, ford and bill were not always… separated, as it were. growing up and into his teens and early twenties it was just stanford pines, no “alter egos” or masks or anything of the sort (much as he would’ve loved to be able to hide who he was).

then, when he moved up to gravity falls and began his research, he began to realize that there were so many things that he wanted to do, couldn’t do, because of his reputation. he needed to keep his record clean because if he didn’t, he could easily have his grant money revoked, and any future opportunities in the pursuit of science dashed due to one small slip up. so, he began to look into, well, changing who he was, splitting himself, so to speak, as to be not one but two at the same time.

eventually, it worked somehow (probably through a potion, as jekyll uses in the original book), and he found himself as not just one, but seemingly two people in one body. there was the stanford pines most people knew, the eccentric, odd mad scientist that lived in the woods at the edge of town, and then there was another, completely new facade. bill cipher, named for his often frustratingly vague double speak and extreme use of overly complicated metaphors (yes I’m giving bill’s name a reason, it sort of annoys me that theres no reasoning for hyde’s name in the book but thats a rant for another day).

to begin with, bill seems content with simply switching back and forth at ford’s will, being the way for ford to kick back and let loose with no fear of the repercussions. at least, until ford begins to have trouble getting back to himself. thats when he begins to doubt the true intent of his other self, of bill. its around this time he calls fiddleford. the man may have studied engineering, but in this world he also knows a little something about psychology, and paired with his brilliant mind, ford’s very precise notes of the situation (ahem the journals ahem), and the fact that hes basically ford’s only friend, it felt like the best course of action.

of course, in actual gravity falls, ford does his best to hide bill from fidds but here bill is exactly why ford called him. anyone else would’ve called him crazy, tried to experiment on him or worse, but fiddeford would never do any of that and ford knows it (just to be clear, I do think that if I ever wrote anything for this au college fiddauthor would be heavily implied here).

fidds does his best to help but when bill goes on a rampage one night, going so far as to kill the heir to the northwest family, preston northwest, he knows ford is beyond fucked (just a heads up, the person bill kills being preston may change but idk, we’ll see if I ever actually come back to this au haha). the reason fiddleford originally makes the memory gun in this au isnt for himself, its actually to try and erase the memories of what bill has down from the townspeople’s minds. the only problem is that the next time they see bill all of the memories return and everyone is back at square one. its just too much for fidds, and he begins to turn the memory gun on himself in an attempt to get rid of the fear, pain, failure, and regret that helping his friend brought him.

ford on the hand is mortified by what hes done. I highly doubt that there would be a confrontation type scene, it would be closer to how the book goes, where ford quickly begins to be unable to switch between stanford pines and bill cipher. the au would probably “end” (as in if I turned this into a fanfic/comic/whatever the story would end there) with ford figuring out where stan is, calling and begging him to come up to gravity falls and help him, before ultimately turning the memory gun on himself and ridding himself of “bill” once and for all.

the only problem is that in order to remove bill, he has to remove stanford pines and all that he is as well. now, we all know how this goes in both the show and most aus; stan or ford or whoever it is that is possessed by bill erases themselves/has someone erase them, is weirdly blank for a bit but ultimately regains their memories. well here it… wouldnt work like that. bill(/hyde) is an integral part of ford(/jekyll), to remove bill(hyde) is to remove stanford pines (jekyll), theres no way around that. so, ford sort of ends up in that “blank slate” state for the rest of his life. he called stan prior to erasing himself because he knew stan would take care of him no matter what, and he was right. for the rest of their lives, stan takes care of his brother to the best of his abilities, and while they never get to sail the seas together, and some nights bring unimaginable sorrow for stan, knowing he’ll never speak to his brother again, despite the fact that very man sleeps just a few doors down the hall, they make it work. ford (or, well, whats left behind when you remove everything that makes a person who they are) sees that his blankness hurt stan but he cant do anything about it, and to begin with almost avoids stan, at least before they finally have a talk in which stan reassures “ford” that he’s sure whatever reason ford may have had for erasing himself, it was worth it.

as for fidds, well it mostly works out in a similar way to canon, he does eventually regain most memories but of course some bits are still fuzzy. the fuzzy bits are never fully recovered, as the one person who may have been able to fill in the blanks no longer exists, but fidds is still mostly alright.

the journals… sort of exist? but not in the way that they do in the show, and what does exist stan had from the very beginning. ofc the twins still have to deal with monsters and spooks and whatnot in gravity falls, just not anything that has to do with bill (which means that, of course, weirdmageddon physically cannot happen). at some point, dipper begins to insinuate that the weirdness of gravity falls might have something to do with “ford’s”… situation, which is when stan finally fully comes clean with all he knows about the situation. its not until fiddleford begins to regain his memory, however, that any of them learn the truth of what was going on.

oh yikes, I wrote a lot more for this than I meant to, whoops!

oh yeah, I’m naming this au the “Dr. Pines/Mr. Cipher” au for now, but if anyone has any better ideas or if thats already been used for something else, please let me know!

also, @aaabatteryy I LOVE MARINEFLAMES’ CONFRONTATION ANIMATIC, THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHAT I WAS REFERENCING WHEN I MENTIONED OTHER ANIMATIONS USING A SIMILAR CONCEPT TO THIS AU

oh, and I just want to say that I’ve never watched the musical so thats why this doesnt (intentionally) incorporate any elements of that.

guys I have an au idea, hear me out on this

a gravity falls au thats a jekyll and hyde type deal, with ford being jekyll and bill being hyde

(I know something similar has probably already been done before and that so many animatics have been made with them and confrontation but LET ME COOK CHAT)

also I may or may not have accidentally developed a little bit of an obsession with the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde so if anyone wants to yap about it with me PLEASE LET ME KNOW I NEED TO YAP ABOUT THIS TO SOMEONE

Now THIS guy is a doctor

I’m like…cringe but free yo…

I heart flamboyant villain mr hyde <3

One of my major pet peeves with Jekyll & Hyde adaptations is that they always give Hyde the Hulk-treatment by turning him into this large, monstrous creature when in the book he actually becomes smaller and younger after his transformation?! No, for real, he SHRINKS. And he's not exactly monstrous or ugly; his vibes are just rotten. People tend to describe an encounter with him as "I cannot put my finger on it but something was just OFF about this guy." Vibe check failed. Imagine this mellow, middle-aged, dad-bod gentleman suddenly turning into a nasty frat boy who just automatically evokes a flight-or-fight response in you. Like, you just take one look and instinctively go "Ew, he looks like a terrifying asshole, I want to deck him in the face." That's Edward Hyde.

I love this book to death, so here's some things I noticed <3

Has this meme been made yet because I’m still not over it.

My favorite relationship in MH

Random Monster: wait how does this work?

Random Monster: huh?!

Not exactly how it works, this is very simplified and altered explanation of their relationship, but close enough lol.

Based on Parks and Rec: https://youtu.be/Nlb5vTI910E

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Here's a Q&A answer from the creator of MH on this topic: 😁

Enough said.

I love that gothic literature is so often queer coded✯

I love it when funny little 1800s scientist men go insane and are immoral. Fav genre

For any concerned I’m working on this now

So if I were to do a ‘Jekyll and Hyde daily’ sort of thing. Would anyone subscribe. Asking for a friend.

So if I were to do a ‘Jekyll and Hyde daily’ sort of thing. Would anyone subscribe. Asking for a friend.

I’m looking for mutuals so if you like any of the following please would you want to be? *heart eyes*

Our flag means death

Good omens

Raoul de Chagny

A case for Frey and McGray

Jekyll and Hyde (both the musical and the book)

Jesus Christ Superstar

Cherik

Thank you very much

Believe it or not every main character in every classic novel is gay

I loved the part of the book where Hyde told Jekyll to “Lighten up girlqueenboss, you’re not looking so vagina slay”, I think that has to be my favorite part

The mad scientist urge to isolate yourself from anyone who may love you

imagine jekyll and hyde but werewolf style. with a twist. jekyll is a sheep/ram that transforms into hyde (wolf). something something wolf in sheeps clothing metaphor. is this anything

I’m convinced Alan Partridge isn’t just a character anymore, it’s like a Jekyll and Hyde situation

Guess who binge read Glass scientists comic...so Hyde in fancy vest because I happened to see @leonenjoyer69 suggestion and love the acting in the comic. It needs an animated show, now.

Another week another fandom, it´s not been but three weeks since i binge read dungeon meshi too and it´s all tumbler´s fault!! ahahaha

Funnily enough I´m working on a graphic novel set in 1890s in Santiago de Compostela, with science and weird magical/ local folklore stuff surrounding the story. The main character is a girl obssesed with science and Charles Darwin that completely dismisses the supernatural. Maybe one day I´ll show you a glimpse of her and her wacky little sister XD

The plan is 4 books, I know, how delusional is that? first one is fully drawn and now I´m currently dealing with the inking which is been slow... Color is going to be death.

I´m working towards having it published on my region's dialect/language, and I´ve been weighing out the possibility of sharing an english version online, on a web of it´s own or even tumblr, but I´m really bad at promoting stuff and have no clue about how many of you people that follow this blog will be interested. First part is kinda childish, but it gets darker as the following parts move on, so i donno, if people would stick around. So I guess the only way of finding out is slapping folks with pages as cheese slices slap unsuspecting cats.

Saw this and went wild.

Character designs/story belong to @reanimationstation​

Anyways getting real Hyde energy from this post

Saw this post about Adam and Jekyll having tea and had to draw it. Plus some bonus doodles -- my sketches look a good bit different from my cleaned up pieces, haha.

Character designs/AU belong to @aspidateasteism!

Obsessed with @aspidateasteism‘s Jekyll.

Okay but consider this, the homoerotic mad scientist is named Henry.

If I had a nickel for every time a mad scientist had a homoerotic relationship with some guy named Henry, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

i think everyone needs to adopt "i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it" into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders

Jekyll & Hyde Diorama

To celebrate the release of The Glass Scientists Volume 1 by @arythusa I finished a hidden diorama for my room.

Here it is as a whole. The base, frame, and staircase are pieces I reused from a mock-up scale model stage set for Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller that I could have done better if it hadn't been a school project.

More pictures and info below.

The door on the left was based on the scale of the original stage set, so let's just say it leads to a rather small storage space. A lot of the props are hand made except for the clock, microscope, lantern, and ink pen set on the desk. Regarding the exposed cardboard in the upper right corner, I accidentally glued the back wall upside down and I want to know if anyone thinks I should paint it to look like exposed stone or something.

For these silhouettes at the top, the left side is various Jekylls, while the right is Hydes. Starting from the middle are designs I quickly sketched out to represent the original book. Second we have the designs from the MazM mobile game adaptation. Third is The Glass Scientists. And last but not least is designs from the amazing S. K. Michels' animatics using songs from the musical.

Here's the file I made and traced so it's easier to see

I'll share more images and info later with closeups of the desk and table, where I'll also point out 4 special details/props that correlate with each Jekyll & Hyde paring.

Jekyll: don’t let Rachel fool you, she’s not that scary. She used to do ballet.

Jasper: no way

Rachel: which gave me the physical skills I need to strangle you with my feet

Jasper: where’s Rachel?

Jekyll: don’t worry I’ll find her

Jekyll, shouting: Hyde sucks!

Rachel, distantly: Hyde is the best person ever! Fuck you!

Jekyll: found her

*playing a team sport*

Jasper: are you upset you don’t get to be on the same team as Lucy?

Rachel: have you ever played a game with Lucy?

Jasper: no

Rachel: have you ever been trapped in a cage with a wolverine?

*meanwhile, on the other side of the field*

Lucy, chasing Hyde: I SAID FASTER! DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THE WORD “FASTER” MEANS?! IT MEANS MORE FAST!

Rachel, pointing to a presentation: as you can see the only thing worse than being lost is *removes paper to say Hyde being lost*

Lanyon: Hyde

Rachel: no!

Jekyll: I know what you were trying to say but I agree with Robert

Lanyon: why is the city on fire?!

Hyde: this is just how my day is going

what if instead of Gabriel Utterson it was FREAKY utterson...

Fellas is it gay to describe your victorian scientists friends hands frequently enough for them to associate it with you ??

I think it's a damn shame that most adaptations of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" give Jekyll/Hyde a girlfriend because if you read the original it's very clearly a book about Gabriel Utterson trying to dig up dirt on what he thinks is his boyfriend's new side hoe. Only to discover he's actually some weird alter ego created from a science experiment gone wrong.