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Grunkle in Training 👨🏽‍🦳

Finally some AU fan art! Part of the ‘a different form, a different time’ AU in which bill is turned into a mortal and, to their dismay, is stuck with the pines.

Cover artwork for my body swap fic! (Which you should totally go read btw https://archiveofourown.org/works/57616750)

silly stuff from my silly Human Bill AU (in which his punishment after weirdmageddon is that he is just a guy now with no powers)

a continuation of this

man, it’s been a minute, huh?? exploring him and his whole relationship with the pines family never ceases to excite me. Thanks so much for remembering and appreciating the little guy!!

it’s just superepiccool to me, how are dipper and mabel about him being human now? Soos n Wendy, Stan and Ford? What was it like for them (especially Ford) when he just turned human? What was it like for Bill?

oh hey don't worry, I haven't really talked much about the details of the AU like ... ever. I just started reviving it because I got my partner into the show (they are also a new fan! yay, new fans! Funny enough I had no idea TBOB was coming out so the timing was mad exquisite.) and they have just been an amazing help shaping my messy thoughts and coming up with new, fun plots! It's also nice to know there's someone out there interested in it, so thank's for asking! Now that I read TBOB I want to change the premise a bit, but the core is still the same.

Let me tell you this AU is silly. I'm aware Billford is toxic and there are many corners to dive into to picture their messy relationship. But I kinda wanna keep the spirit of the show here and make it equally as fun as it is disturbing. Given that Bill canonically is trapped in endless Therapy gives me even more food to work with, he just out there being toxic and people repeatedly telling him to cut it out.

seriously, i love fall-from-grace stories, especially if the involve a super powerful entity being forced to rely on people that HATE them (they deserve it), so i am eagerly waiting to hear ANYTHING about your bill, yap away i am listening intently

HHHHHH THANKS FOR THE PERMISSION TO YAP ... You hit the nail on the head that a heavy plot point really is Bill being at the mercy of the Pines Family here, and as much as they hate this burden be thrown at them, after finally leaving all of this behind them, they will always choose what feels right. And everyone loves a good "doomed to be soulmates" narrative.

With TBOB and thisisnotawebsitedotcom throwing new stuff at us everyday right now, I'm especially going nuts with concepts, throwing shit out and adding new things, stuff about the characters and how Bill talks about them I wanna keep in mind ... yet I also try to just simplify things and focus ... at the moment I am throwing anything that comes to mind on discord/my notes app and so far there are concepts for 6 chapters in total and I jus ... wish I could astral project them onto paper and throw them at you guys HAHAH. The cult chapter remains to be the one I'm most excited to work on, it's just gonna be very ... Billford heavy. Like, that's when the "Oh Shit I care about him" moment hits.

Also I want Bill to interact with so many characters???? but then again I really need to focus and simplify??? It's gonna be a trashy, ridiculous love story. Whatever other character interaction I come up with I can probably throw randomly on paper, detached form the overall plot line. Like mini chapters. Can someone pay me to do this so I can throw my life at this project???

Anyways, I spent my morning collecting all the new info from the website we got last night, I'm gonna get back to writing now. Maybe later there will be time for art ...

Until then, here's a sketch of them after their night out at Bill's old cult. I just like him in his widdle suit. :)