Gravity Falls Self Insert - Blog Posts

hey party people, im about to start working on something (thati think is) really cool

and i wanted to give you guys a lore drop (which i thought of like a week or two ago)

before i forget about this fact entirely (just like what colour micheal’s eyes are)

prepare yourselves, this is a long one, and with that, bone apple teeth! (image unrelated)

So, in the beginning of micheal and bill’s “relationship” (like beginning few years) michael actually had a girlfriend, who had proposed to him, so the two were going to be married in a few weeks.

and bill didn’t like that. that was going to interfere with progress on the portal, which was already shitty because michael had no engineering capabilities whatsoever. (and/or bill was just jealous idk. haven’t decided how he acts in this universe)

so, while michael was sleeping, bill possessed him (because he didn’t know that he could do it while people were awake) and killed her in cold blood… and then prolly had a giggle session or something idk

and since michael was still in the mindscape due to becoming a soul whilst asleep, he had literally no concept of time whatsoever.

that’s relevant information because, bill proceeded to stay in his body for the next 12 days, letting the body rot in his bed, one; because he was too lazy to properly be rid of it, two; so he could actually get some work done on the portal, and three; he thought it would be funny to see michael’s face when he saw his rotting dead wife in his bed knowing it was far to late to save her

actually maybe thats a little too dark… idk…. maybe he wanted to teach him a lesson..?? idk guys.

anyway, you might be asking; how tf is mike so attached to bill after that??? how does he not despise him like ford??

the answer is: he never found out. he doesn’t know it was bill’s doing. and bill’s DEFINITELY not going to tell him now, due to the fact he’s the only one who gives two flying fucks about bill. and micheal just assumed it was due to natural causes and he was just dissociated the whole time, or was in a coma or something. (idk it was 40’s)

michael never had a funeral for her, because holy shit would that be suspicious?? but michael did bury her in his backyard/garden, surrounded by all the flowers she kept.

“Zoe A. Florance-Armstrong

beloved wife and daughter

may she rest in peace”

is probably what he put on her tombstone, which eventually became overgrown when bill’s shenanigans got worse, michael stopped leaving his house/going outside, all the flowers died, and her name was slowly obstructed by moss, vines, and greenery. symbolising the fact that michael was slowly forgetting about her. he was doing this both purposely and subconsciously.

purposely because he didn’t really know how to deal with grief, and he couldn’t really talk to anyone about it because, he didn’t have any friends that he was still in contact with. and obviously he couldn’t talk to bill because, well… its bill. so he just tried to push it down to the back of his mind to forget about it (which worked eventually, only certain trigger words will trigger cloudy memories of her existence, which brings him to tears, though he doesn’t remember/understand why)

subconsciously because by this point he was probably starting to develop Stockholm syndrome, and was getting more obsessed with bill overall, and just kinda… wasn’t thinking about her? (i swear i had more to say here, ill edit this if i think of anything else)