Bloodhound Mask : Cyph
Well hello there! Im quite a fan of your ford here and his whole bounty murder scheme and id be veeery curious to know how a situation with him and my girl Cyph would go
Cypher is by all means a threat when she wants to be—Or more accurately, when shes noticed.— She is a variant of Bill Cipher after all, you could argue shes not quite him, which is true but in all aspects she is what is left.
You see Cyph is a god of a world with noone in it, a ‘winner’ of a realm left destroyed, shes taken what was always meant to be hers and she has the power for it.
Her connections to her Pines family is no longer, theyd have to be alive for that. But to go back in time, Cyph found Ford interesting and kind, the pines twins just as much him! Fiddleford and stan always seemed to stare like they knew more than she did. And ford..well ford had tests, experiments, sharp needles to poke, claiming it was all for the better so Cyph agreed to it all with a smile. Until she learned she was being used, betrayed, harmed.
Something something, a breaking point, she destroys it all. Every trace of people gone. She is the only one left.
There is an outside ford to thank for that (Savior!Ford oh how she hates you.)
Anywho. Thats her story in a rough draft, for more current things.
Cypher is 12 years old in form and mentality, shes shy and cautious around fords (shes had a few too many interactions with troublesome fords.)
She is allied with Astra and few among that line of things, her first real friend after her Pine twins was Astra :)
Shes quiet, calculating, she watches and observes you like shes determining your risk. Any slight lunge, the wrong word said, shes trying to catch it.
She may be a young girl but god she can be scary. In one of the best ways i can describe her it feels like youve sent out to hunt a person and once youve got them cornered, they turn to you as a haunting cryptid who’s ready to tear you apart.
Cypher is capable of shifting forms, she can change her face to others with enough practice—Its how she appears human after all. She can become a beast to tear you down. Cyph is wired to escape, to keep the bad things walled away, her magic will shift to do whatever she can to stop you, she Will strike and explode and lash out like a feral cat in a corner with nothing left to lose. That is the outcome when you fear everyones out to get you.
And whether she can die?.. well thats not known, can you kill a god with nothing left to lose?
That is all i can think up. MW is awesome and i cant wait to see more :)
YIPEEE MURDERING CHILDREN TIME!!
Joy of joys, I'm almost certain Cyph's bounty would be from folks who want to science on her, which would assuredly NOT add many layers of emotional turmoil and distress to the situation. Clears throat
MW is not the most gambling man. Well, that's a lie. He gambles all the goddamn time - but more exactly, he doesn't love to gamble with his targets. Bills are dangerous variants, and knowing that he couldn't likely take on a friendly Ford's face to get close to her. That's problem one, really. He doesn't have an easy 'in' so to speak.
Issue two is that she's very powerful, and he does NOT like to toy with magic. At all. Personal experience, it goes badly. His main weaknesses are magic-based as opposed to physical-based.
He also doesn't love to go after children. Or shapeshifters. Children is obvious, shapeshifters are a massive pain in the arse to deal with.
Would MW Ford chase down a scared, child god Cipher variant who can shapeshift? ...He wants a billion credits for it. No less. 10% odds of even taking it then. This is not a bounty he would ever really want to touch with a ten foot pole. He is not comfortable with it on any front whatsoever and he'd only do it out of desperation.
Ideally, he wants a kill bounty here. Ideally, he'd be able to wait until he has a quantum destabiliser handy so he can get a clean shot in, from afar, low risk to himself.
But the universe does not love Stanford Pines, and it especially does not love The Bloodhound. So he would spend a lot of time watching, waiting, and researching.
If he can't beat her physically, he might have to do so emotionally. If absolutely necessary, and I do mean absolutely necessary because this is the bounty he wants to do the LEAST out of the ones I've gotten....
...He would use Astra as a hostage. Simple exchange. Come with me or I'm going to disassemble her over and over and hand her over to the people. Your choice, not mine.
No clue how likely that is to work. I don't think this is a likely timeline to follow. But if he had to and he lacked the proper tools, yeah he'd leverage one 12 year old's life over another's.
YIPPEE CHILD MURDER!!! Or lack there of?
The worst gamble of all is a threat among threats!!
It’d definitely be harder too if Cyph knew the reason for the bounty. Science, experiments, threats, things shes not willing to go through again. Things she’ll fight tooth and nail to prevent, killing her was never going to be easy and trying to take her? Might even be a worse feat. Unless you can tranq her when shes not looking, you’ve got a problem on your hands!
And no friendly face to use, shes wary enough of fords, cautious, because there is a ford out there shes waiting on, one shes not so thrilled to oneday see.
And ohhh bloodhound would be So right in not wanting to handle a bounty with Cyph. Not only is she a danger for what she is, shes also young and being young leads to more reckless behavior than one. An adult might have more morals, a old god may have hesitation, a child with nothing left to lose might not.
Not unless you have a upperhand, and in that case itd very well be having Astra. Cyph wouldn’t want Astra suffering, not more than she already has. Mirror would be smart to play that move.
But of course, its what comes after thats risky too. Moving a target who could lash out any moment.
Because what good is she dead? If scientific experiments is what the bounty is called for, what use is she dead? Itd be an all around awful time for Mirror AND Cyph.
This has been so cool and id love to explore more dynamics of potentials here..two threats, whether ally or foe.
HDHJSHDJDHF fr if she could meet him on neutral territory / off the job, he’s usually not gonna go after you. It’s sort of like predators that only consider prey to be prey when they’re actively running.
If MW is approached in a normal, casual way (well… normal, casual for him, anywho) he will absolutely be willing to sit and talk most the time HDHHSBDHDHF
I admit he would be confused if / when a child approached him. You think she’d have any incentive to do so?
I think it’d definitely be possible depending on the circumstances.
If alone somewhere far from usual, it means something went wrong for Cyph, whatever that may be.
She might be scared, lost or even hurt. The multiverse isn’t something she trusts easily, its wide and unfamiliar.
I could see them on common paths, whether it be due to a common enemy or a simple run in forcing a conversation or two.
Ugh it’d make for some cute art i think. Threat among threat chatting..
Mhmhmhm!
I think that would intrigue him if she was scared or lost or hurt, because that’s not common for Bills. He’d probably literally tilt his head and be like “you’re a Bill” with audible curiosity. I don’t think he’d be pushing the matter.
People don’t really often approach him for help (gee I wonder why) so it would be a situation that very much takes him off guard - and a Bill going to a Ford for help is weird. He’d be cautious, one hand on a mirror at all times in case he needs to escape, but he’d probably actually be willing to give some if for no other reason than curiosity (and. Okay. He’s not purposefully a dickhead to children when he has no reason to be)
Hmmm!! A common enemy is fascinating. I wonder who / what could be an enemy to both of them?? Absolutely feel free to input if you think of anything! Technically MW can get bounty hunted too, although it’s often considered ill-advised, so being mutually hunted would be very funny hdhsgsjhshf. There’s also ye classic we’re both out here being angsty in these woods and there’s a monster here neither of us bargained for situation.
Hmmmmmmmm!!! Running into each other conversations..,.,, intriguing. What spaces would they mutually go to and find each other in?? Well MW kind of goes anywhere and everywhere for the job, but off the clock hmmm. Bars (maybe Cyph is a bit young for that), generally just brooding places… could catch him on the clock but staking out a different target?? He also is in the nightmare realm / open space a decent amount. Hmmmmmm!!
Ohhhh Cyph being hurt, lost, scared. Maybe shes been chased this way, he’s stalking a target and he just turns to see this kid alone in a place she shouldnt be.
Shes wary of fords, but fords have supplies on them, they carry things with them, and right now she needs supplies. She approaches slow, timid, like a stray cat spotting food in your hand. MW just watches as she quietly goes “Do you have bandages?” Or something along that line, maybe a communicator or a map, something.
“you’re a bill.” And she just tilts her head and quietly asks “does it make a difference?” Because sometimes, sometimes it does.
Sometimes when they know what she is, it makes a difference.
Maybe they talk for a bit, maybe he offers her whatever she asked for, maybe he asks why shes out this far alone. Shes a child after all. Wheres her world, her family?
Maybe she asks the same. Why are you out here? What are you doing? Things along those lines..
And ohhh common enemies could even be apart of it, whether its bounties or scientists, whether someone already tried to put a bounty on cyph and he said no and these same people chased her this way.
Or a monster in the woods keeping them a bit more stuck than planned, its happened to cyph before. She met Astra this way, raiders keeping them trapped. Lovely way for communication to bloom
Hooooooooooohhhhhooofffff
I think his response to that would be to pause and stare at her a moment with his big mirrory eyes which reflect her face back to her then go “…I suppose not”
JFHSHJDHSHFJDF
I’m so normal about this actually
His god awful evil hands that only hurt will bandage her up carefully and gently and disinfect things and he’ll tell her to take a deep breath in before the painful part and distract her with stories etc. etc. MW was particularly close with his Stan so he sorta picked up the being good with kids thing from him
If she asks about all that he’ll just laugh kinda sadly about that and all. Quiet somber moment to share in.
Honestly one could take an all of the above route and use repeat encounters.
Ohhh hands that only know how to hurt people suddenly being used to help instead. Ohhhh.
Cyph is someone who’s been hurt more than shes been helped, accepting help especially medically is so scary for her but she gets past it because maybe in those mirrored eyes she sees someone trustworthy,someone familiar.
Her eyes are just as wide as his, young and curious and maybe even a bit scared.
Its like the potentials of a found family feeling almost, like theres a bait there to take. The sliver of trust
The way she stops flinching and she takes deep breaths whenever he tells her to, how she sniffles and laughs at stories.
And we know how this goes












