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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic	comment	When his crew mutiny under the magically-empowered leadership of his treacherous first mate, fasten him to the mainmast and blow his ship to a watery doom, Bill believes he's finished. But in the depths of the sea, there is other life, and kinder creatures—one even willing to save a life like his, in exchange for an escape from the Implicit Prison of an overly-restrictive home. Together, infamous pirate Captain William Cipher and siren and new First Mate Dipper Pines raise the ruined shipwreck, hunt for Bill's mutinous crew, and set sail for the secrets of their past and their path towards the future. Standing against them are a maniacal traitor, a well-meaning family, Bill's own possibly disturbed mind, and a conspicuously unnamed pirate of the past who ties all of these things together.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Drowning In Your Depths is a Gravity Falls Alternate Universe Fic written by AngstMom formerly updating regularly on Fridays and currently undergoing a massive rewrite. Warnings for graphic depictions of violence, major character deaths, and explicit sexual content.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In chapter 18 the crew of the Mens Scapus head to Nassau to convene the Pirate Counsel. As this appears to be during the decade that Nassau was literally run and ruled by pirates (1706-1718) and the story's human culture has so far politically paralleled the real world (except for the fact that All Myths Are True, which is minimally invasive as most of said myths do their best to avoid human attention), it wouldn't have been unexpected for a number of prominent pirates from the age to make cameos in such a counsel. Instead the only two named pirate captains are original characters, and while some others appear strongly reminiscent of historical figures, no historical identities are specified by name.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_12c98b56	type	Shipshape Shipwreck
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_12c98b56	comment	Shipshape Shipwreck: The story's averting of this is a plot point. Despite only having sunk a few hours prior, the Mens Scapus is in absolutely terrible condition by the time Dipper and Bill return to repair it, with its masts and hull broken, the keel—its foundation—suffering what would normally be permanent damage, and its timber and ropes swollen into conditions that would have been utterly unsalvageable by mundane means. Without rare and powerful magic, it would have been a total loss. Its destruction is so complete that Bill's survival and the raising of the Mens Scapus was thought impossible, and it's only due to a chance Spanner in the Works that the ship and Bill weren't doomed to wreck and watery grave there and then.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Though his family are certain (without very much evidence) that Dipper has been kidnapped, in reality he fled their oppressively controlling home environment.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: Inverted. Despite murderous pirates and sirens with Compelling Voices usually being the villains of stories, the whole plot of this one is that the pirate and siren that team up are the relative good guys.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Dipper in human form is described as quite small, rather pretty, and physically female despite his male gender identity. Given that this is the Golden Age of Piracy and neither women nor trans individuals were very highly thought of or even well understood, there have been occasions when characters are particularly rude or cruel to Dipper while operating on the assumption that he has no power to do anything about it. They would be wrong. Bill takes the cake on this, having forgotten that Dipper was powerful and had power over him while Dipper was still in siren form. He takes his teasing a bit too far and forgets, due to how innocent and gentle Dipper acts, that Dipper is a powerful ocean predator who's literally the only thing keeping Bill alive at that moment. Dipper grabs Bill's head with both hands, locks eyes, and swiftly corrects him.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Dipper and Bill agree to travel together to hunt Gideon and rescue the loyal members of Bill's crew. Unlike most versions of this trope, this is heavily implied to be something of a Red Herring plot, as a more important conflict seems to be lingering just on the horizon—that being the origins of Bill's demonic aspect and the curse/warning "Cipher" gave Ford presumably about Mabel or Dipper.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1d9a2764	type	Reality Ensues
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: Though pirates can be violent and merciless criminals and tend to meet hostile greeting parties in richer, well-governed ports, this is not true for smaller ports, who—given that they need the trade and business the visiting ships bring—tend to welcome all ships without much question as long as their crews don't cause them trouble. Bill's unstable schizophrenia-like behavior, which has barred him from living on the right side of the law, driven most stable relationships away from him, and prevented him from feeling like he's in control of himself or his own life, is not actually funny. At all.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Played straight with Bill, who feels he owes Dipper for saving him from drowning when the Mens Scapus went down, for fixing his ship, and for giving him the means to reclaim his crew. Played with in terms of Port L'Orient; though Bill saved the town from perpetual zombie invasion, he initially treats the villagers owing him their lives as a joke—however, he does expect basic respect in turn for his deeds, and is genuinely angered and betrayed when certain individuals within the town reveal themselves to be disrespectful towards those under his protection or to have intentions of treachery against him.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Deals with Davey Jones and similar entities apparently exist in this world; Bill is accused by the Blind Eye Society of making one at the cost of his soul to survive the sinking of his ship. Subverted in that Dipper claims such deals are uncommon because human souls, unless used up immediately, are often dangerously unstable and more a burden than they're worth; Davey Jones in particular rarely deals for one due to the problems with storage and upkeep. It's probably not a coincidence that the accusation bears similarities with the plot of a certain franchise.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: Dipper notices during the Blind Eye attack that when Bill snaps, he exudes his own magical "tendrils." This is something impossible for humans—implying that Bill's dangerous snap emotional state, which he calls "the Beast," is a manifestation of Bill having at least a partially inhuman nature.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The story opens with Bill tied to the mainmast of the Mens Scapus as it sinks to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_28bbbe24	type	Hereditary Curse
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_28bbbe24	comment	Hereditary Curse: While it's dubious whether it's a curse, if the implications about the Infinity Journal's writer being Bill's father are true, Bill's inhuman traits are actually something passed down from parent to child. This also opens the possibility that these unstable qualities are the force that drove the journal's writer out of both mind and humanity.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Dipper dresses as a woman in Port L'Orient as a favor to Robbie, since Robbie wants him to sing with his band but Dipper is wary of humans discovering he's basically transgendered (although no one uses that terminology).
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_2b68b7fa	type	SickeninglySweethearts
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts: Subverted. Dipper and Bill were already very affectionate before getting together and are very affectionate afterwards, but the only people around to react are the fish crew who tend to think they're adorable—especially Soos, who's an open romantic.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_2da5273e	type	Just Like Robin Hood
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_2da5273e	comment	Just Like Robin Hood: Bill describes that during his crew's slow transition from tradesmen to pirates, they began targeting and pillaging the corrupt. It's implied they drifted away from those vigilante ideals by the time the story began, given Bill's internal monologue in chapter 1.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Stan and Ford are terrified of a "prophecy" that they believe foretells that they will "lose" one of the younger twins around their eighteenth birthday (with the subtext implying that this twin will be doomed in some manner), a prophecy heavily implied to somehow involve the Cipher family, given the likelihood that the prophecy was made by Bill's father. This drove them to become increasingly controlling and limiting towards Dipper's and Mabel's freedoms in a manner that disproportionately affected Dipper's interests and activities, leaving Dipper under-educated in the use of his magic, ignorant of the danger possibly looming, and under virtual house arrest and "near-constant surveilance" due to how little Ford trusted him with his own freedom. Ford's frustrated exclamation that he was going to magically imprison Dipper after Dipper is slightly late returning from a chore in the coral fields—the one bit of freedom Dipper had been given in a month—becomes the final straw, driving Dipper to flee from them straight into the companionship of Captain Bill Cipher, whom Dipper coincidentally saved from drowning while he was out. Stan's and Ford's controlling policies that were intended to keep Dipper safe from danger are the very thing that jumpstarted the danger they feared, and further, have left them largely distrusted by Dipper with no way to protect him; they are now desperate to get him back before something likely Cipher-related befalls him.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_3b955d7a	type	Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_3b955d7a	comment	Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation: It's not a photograph, but the stained glass window in the captain's quarters on the Mens Scapus has been mentioned repeatedly in significant character moments, yet each time alludes description beyond a vague connection to "some prophecy." Considering everyone and their grandmother has repeatedly mentioned some ambiguous prophecy, particularly in relation to Dipper and Bill, it's not a stretch of the imagination to conclude that the contents of the stain glass image are plot-relevant and revealing.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Bill certainly believes so.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_40ad4941	type	Sword and Gun
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_40ad4941	comment	Sword and Gun: Bill begins to train Dipper to use these weapons early on in the story, believing he's probably going to need to fight when they confront Gideon.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: It's not the ending of the story, but an ending, specifically a conclusion to a tension and conflict Stan and Ford had been experiencing long before this story began. The two love to travel the surface world and have had many adventures, good and bad, but gave up their traveling years ago to create a steady home in Gravity Falls to raise and protect the newly-orphaned Dipper and Mabel. Though they dreamed of returning and wanted to show Dipper and Mabel the world, they increasingly favored protecting the younger twins over teaching them - with disastrous personal consequences. Stan and Ford finally achieve their dream and get to return to the surface, and even get to show Mabel the sky, the stars, and the world out of the sea - but it's a direct consequence of them driving Dipper away due to their controlling policies and "near constant supervision" that, due to personality and interest differences, disproportionately affected him over Mabel. Their chance to share their interests and experiences above the sea with the younger generation wasn't taken until only Mabel remained for them to share with, the younger twin who actually vocally craved that having fled. Their actions conclude a chapter of their own lives, but set in motion Dipper's main story and the consequences of a conflict that they themselves stirred up twenty years ago.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: Dipper is a Fish out of Water that had never met a human before Bill, and his only knowledge of them comes from his great uncles' stories. This leads to a major Culture Clash as Dipper struggles to interpret the whats, whys, and hows of human life and adapt enough of them to pass for a normal human. This is not helped by the contemporary humans' limiting views on gender identity and sexuality, which Dipper defies through his very existence.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: The Prophecy written by the unnamed pirate is so ambiguously written that it could be interpreted as anything between a warning, a promise, or a curse. It changes time and person tenses, it changes speakers and perspectives without identifying them, and it never uses a proper noun, just flowery, ambiguous descriptions that may be metaphors or may be literal. There isn't even a consistent subject in the sentence structure, with the pronouns switching from second person to third person and masking exactly where it is in the sentences that the lines change who they're talking about. Who is the poem ordering about? Are they the same "siren" they address at the end, or a different person? Who speaks the quoted curse, and to who? When do the events in the poem even happen—has the first part already occurred, or is this scene under the ocean something that will happen later in the story? The poetic form of the prophecy exacerbates the confusion even further because, with the altered phrasing, the relationship between each line to the others is unclear. For example, the quoted curse isn't definitively attributed—it could be the monster or the spell-spinner speaking, which significantly changes the implications towards the identity of the target. Because of this ambiguity, it's possible to make equally decent arguments for the prophecy's subject being Dipper, Mabel, or even Bill. The poem is so unclear and unhelpful in communicating whatever it is its writer was trying to say that Gideon's followers even believe it's about him, and that it's actually foretelling that Gideon will be the most powerful captain in the multiverse. The obvious truth is that this poem is written only to make sense to someone who already knows the identities of the writer, the "monster," and the intended audience (whomever was supposed to be the unmentioned "you" clearly implied by the writer's various commands towards the reader). But despite the writer's identity having been heavily implied to be Bill's father and a surplus of suspects that could fit both for the "you" and the monster, the identities of those involved are still unclear, leaving the meaning of the poem a code without a key.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: But not by much! When Bill went down with the sinking Mens Scapus while tied to her mainmast, all present thought his death was so thorough and assured that they spread the word of his death far among the pirate community. As such, pretty much everyone who sees Bill is stunned that he's alive, and their reactions range from hysterical laughter to literally thinking he sold his soul in a bargain with Davey Jones.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The cocktail-like dress Dipper is given in Port L'Orient is made of a fabric of such a description that, given its sparkly and slinky nature, either required modern polyesters to be brought back by time travelers just to make it or is worth more than the entirety of the Mens Scapus itself. Or both. And its style isn't exactly contemporary with the 17th and early 18th centuries either; wearing such a dress in Real Life probably would have gotten Dipper written off as a foreign prostitute. Although it's minor, the cast occasionally uses modernisms in their language that make no sense for the setting. For example, Dipper uses the word "blocks" during the pirate council meeting to describe the distance between them and the dozens of armed ships at port. Not only does this terminology not make sense for Dipper to know, but "blocks" only exist in areas that have experienced formal community planning, which didn't even begin to be thought about until about sixty years after the Golden Age of Piracy had ended. This type of anachronism is especially prevalent with language referring to sexuality, sex, and gender; specific words on those taboo subjects at the turn of the 18th century were far fewer in number and very different from the words and contexts used in modernity, the latter being what the story uses. Characters like Rezin make mention of the fact that Dipper is still "a child" and thus shouldn't partake in alcoholic beverages with them. However, until the creation of modern health practices and water cleaning processes, most sources of fresh water were potentially dangerous and infamously prone to contamination, especially in cities which were where most of the behavioral standards like drinking ages were set—and water stored for weeks at sea often wasn't much better. Mixing the water with strong alcohols was the most common way of making it safe to drink. It's therefore very unlikely that pirates would refuse Dipper a drink due to being only 17 during the Golden Age of Piracy, considering he likely would have been drinking alcohol throughout his stay on the Mens Scapus in order to avoid the parasites and pathogens in the barrels of stored drinking water. Unless, you know, he magicked it, but even then the others wouldn't have reacted as such, because the consumption of alcohol would have been a culturally accepted and normal thing and acknowledged as necessary for survival for all sailors regardless of age.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_586589bc	type	Journey to the Center of the Mind
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_586589bc	comment	Journey to the Center of the Mind: Just like in canon, Bill possesses the ability to bring people in and out of the Mindscape and alter their dreams. Unlike canon, his only demonstration of this ability so far is for the purpose of helping Dipper overcome his night terrors.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_588d766f	comment	Black and Grey Morality: Dipper, Bill, and Gideon form a sliding scale of morality from light grey to black: Dipper is kind and generally against killing but limited in his empathy for humans, self-describing to Robbie as "indifferent" to their lives (though he seems to develop out of this the longer he's around humans). Bill is a mentally unstable pirate who slipped into nonchalant murder and thievery, and, despite his beginning to move away from that moral cliff edge, still has no qualms about killing the people he feels he has to for survival. He's characterized like a particularly paranoid and jaded Robin Hood that has wavered around his initially noble intentions. Gideon is a megalomaniac who can control people like puppets and seeks to be the most powerful pirate captain "in all worlds," cheerfully slaughtering any and all in the way of his attaining power. Kept "offscreen" as it were, Gideon is only heard about from sycophantic followers who themselves seek to murder and destroy; the only active presence Gideon's legion has had so far—besides mutinying against Bill—is breaking the no-arms treaty of the pirate council and attempting to kill all of the communities' leaders. This makes him a villain even by the pirates' standards.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5a29f9f6	comment	Sinking Ship Scenario: The In Medias Res Cold Open of the story begins with this, as Bill and the Mens Scapus sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5b12f598	comment	Million-to-One Chance: Former Mens Scapus First Mate Gideon Gleeful was very thorough in his plan of mutiny, turning members of the crew against Bill of their own free will, using his Mind Control bolero over the crew that wouldn't submit, and even arranging an alternative vessel just so he could spitefully have the ship go down with her captain. In Bill's own words, he "left no error." So naturally Gideon kicks off the plot by just happening to pull off his perfect coup literally on top of possibly the only benign creature in the all of the waters they've sailed in with both the willingness and ability to save Bill and his ship.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Dipper's magic is powerful enough to have an echo effect that carries across to Mabel with enough strength that she can sense his emotions and occasionally what spell he's using. When Dipper divines Gideon's location using a searching spell that extends its power outwards across the entire ocean, it passes over the Stan O'War and Mabel is able to sense Dipper's results, allowing the Pines to figure out that Dipper is headed to the Ionian Sea.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5ebe78be	type	Transplanted Character Fic
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_5ebe78be	comment	Transplanted Character Fic: The story is basically the Gravity Falls cast transplanted into an All Myths Are True version of The Golden Age of Piracy.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_60fa92ac	type	NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "The Blackness from the Stars." Luckily, it typically doesn't give a damn about the mortal world, and has ignored every attempt to summon it for thousands of years. Horrifyingly, it doesn't ignore Dipper's.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Downplayed. When Dipper takes on a human form after leaving his Mother Waters, he becomes just as vulnerable at sea as any human, though he still maintains his natural magic.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: The story basically takes place in The Golden Age of Piracy, except All Myths Are True.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Well, nearly unstoppable. Once Bill's provoked into "Beast" mode, those that provoked him usually end up brutally eviscerated—this is particularly true if the Beast was provoked by attacking someone Bill cares for. After smacking Dipper for daring to stand up to them while being "female," the majority of the Blind Eye Society was only spared because Dipper's Siren Song managed to enchant Bill into ceasing his attack. It's heavily implied that Dipper's magic is much more powerful than the average siren's, so it's unclear if another siren could even pull off such a feat.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_6bfc52a3	comment	On the other hand, the story averts this trope in most other ways. Water pressure and temperature are mentioned and become concerns for the human's health (though oddly not nearly as much as they should have been), and the thermal vents on the ocean floor spew realistic heat, mud, chemicals, and nutrients that do mess with the water. Similarly, it's constantly lampshaded that Bill's body is not adequate for any sort of efficient movement underwater, much to his chagrin.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7086b98	type	Port Town
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7086b98	comment	Port Town: Given that most of the story takes place on the sea, a port town features any time the Mens Scapus heads to land. Unless something plot-significant happens while they're in town, it's hardly glanced over—the two major ones named so far have been Port l'Orient (in France) and Nassau (Bahamas). A third unnamed port features in Chapter 17, described only as "off the coast of the Pearl Keys," which would place it east of Nicaragua. Port L'Orient crosses into Not-So-Safe Harbor, given just how much conspiracy and exploitation was going on there. Gravity Falls is kind of an inversion of this - it's a town beneath the sea, rather than beside it; an offhand comment by the Grunkles imply that it does trade secretly with a few select surface communities.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Bill, possibly literally and very ironically given his role in the show's canon. Bill is a pirate—a murderer, thief, cutthroat and renegade. Yet he has a depth and underlying softness to his character that reveals a certain amount of virtue despite these qualities. A lot of what makes Bill sympathetic despite his occupation is his acceptance and respect for others, regardless of sex, gender, sexuality, race, or species, which is heavily contrasted with the misogyny, racism, homophobia, and general bigotry of the general population. Due to his role and the way his life has gone, he's seen the worst of humanity and is disgusted by humanity's cruelty towards themselves and others, though very self-aware about how terribly cruel he himself has become and can be, and very jaded regarding the concept of innocence. He gradually shifted into the pirate role due to circumstances and necessity, rather than original criminal intent. Bill ultimately comes across as a decent person who ended up a pirate due to necessity for survival and thereafter slowly adapted to the more cruel pirate lifestyle and mentality. On top of this is the heavy implication, given how he describes the change as gradual while talking self-loathingly of his fellow humans and his own behavior, that Bill looked at the people he'd ended up with, looked at how the world saw them, looked at how they and other humans treated each other, and just gave up on the idea of being good.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_73f0c42a	type	I Just Want to Be Free
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_73f0c42a	comment	I Just Want to Be Free: Dipper dearly and sincerely loves his family with all his heart, but can't stand the sudden control complex they've developed over his life—to the point where he willingly fled home with a pirate, the type of human Ford described as "the worst," just to escape the Implicit Prison his family intended his life to become.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Various folkloric figures, creatures, and myths have appeared or been mentioned within the story as if they are fact. Given the infamous superstition of sailors during the Golden Age, this trope blends right in with pirate culture.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7950239f	type	Humanity Ensues
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7950239f	comment	Humanity Ensues: Dipper (and later, his siren family) uses magic to assume the form of a human and sail on the Mens Scapus as Bill's first mate. The adjustment is difficult. On the other hand, Dipper offers magic to a school of fish if they will transform with him and become the ship's crew, and they, he petulantly notes, seem to have no problem.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: Bill hears a voice that constantly sasses and disagrees with him. While this and other unusual behaviors of Bill's mimic some kind of mental illness, it's unclear to what extent these symptoms are mundane or magic. The voice in particular talks like an entity very independent of Bill and self-aware that it "inhabits" him. At one point, it threatens to possess his "vessel" out of frustration; however, it doesn't appear to mean him harm, instead expressing the desire to keep Bill stable, claiming it's only staying with him to keep him from falling apart out of "love," and its major problem appears to be Bill's self-destructive behavior. It also appears to ship Bill and Dipper. It also implied that it "visits" Tad, and that Tad just never said anything about this. If this is true this would confirm the voice's supernatural rather than entirely psychological nature; however, we as of yet have no proof of this claim—if the voice itself is a mundane symptom of Bill's Ambiguous Disorder, then any claims such as this could equally be so.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A kraken attacks the ship in chapter 24. It turns out to be a manifestation of the Atlantic Ocean itself, stirred up by what appears to be Gideon's bad magic. Once Dipper extracts it, the ocean returns to a more calm state.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: Zigzagged and subverted. While the story definitely takes place before the industrial era created metal ships, the story's beginning in the Mediterranean initially makes it difficult to place in time and cultural context. Later, as the Mens Scapus heads to the waters off the Spanish Main, more and more era-defining details of the world come into focus: since the Americas are still in the early-middle stages of European colonialism, Caribbean piracy is thriving, and Nassau is being run by pirates who talk as if they've been basing there a while, the era becomes firmly identifiable as The Golden Age of Piracy and, if dared applicable, the year can even be hypothetically narrowed down to sometime after Nassau went from pirate shelter to major political pirate hub, placing the events of the story between 1714 and 1717. However, the story ultimately subverts this as soon as its world's Nassau comes into further detail: despite these clear landmark events, the story gives clear indication immediately afterwards that the world of this Historical Fantasy hasn't actually followed real-world historical events for at least some twenty years prior to the start of the story with the founding of the first Pirate Council—so while The Golden Age of Piracy and the setting of the story culturally parallel, that's the only relation they have.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: the Sirens in this story seem to be a fusion of merfolk and siren folklore; though the sirens have the classic Compelling Voice, the sirens are closer to a benevolent merfolk archetype then the predatory nature hinted at by the label "siren"—with most outright avoiding humans and the surface altogether. Also, many seem to mimic the forms of different aquatic species ranging from octopi to sharks. They're also naturally magical creatures and can thus perceive the different kinds of magic in the world through their normal senses. A limited number are capable of wielding magic beyond their voice and senses, though these seem to be few in number.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_8042e8af	type	TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_8042e8af	comment	Transformation at the Speed of Plot: For some reason, sirens are forced into human form when outside their "mother waters," an ambiguously-defined but small area of water that apparently excludes the Atlantic Ocean. Aside from contradicting Dipper's previous implications that he actively had to concentrate on the transformation and the many, many logistical questions of how this limitation would even function with sirens as a species (do sirens just drowned if they swim too far from home?), this means that Dipper cannot return to siren form until he returns to these Mother Waters and is therefore at risk of drowning just like any human. Oddly he still has access to his other siren abilities, such as his natural magic and Compelling Voice.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Someone named "Cipher" had a very negative encounter with the elder Pines Twins back when they sailed the ocean's surface on the Stan O'War two+ decades ago. If this person is the same as Bill's father and the unnamed pirate who recorded the Siren prophecy, then despite having exactly zero appearances in the story so far, "Cipher" is responsible for at least a good half of the plot.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_82bdf1f8	type	Fear of Thunder
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_82bdf1f8	comment	Fear of Thunder: Both Dipper and Mabel are strangely terrified of storms and, in particular, the sounds of thunder that accompanies them. Both associate these booms and crashes with unexplained fear and anxiety and other terrifying sensations like "the sounds made by wood breaking and people screaming, the only sounds they could hear the night-" (Mabel cuts herself off here). Given the extremely questionable validity of Stan's and Ford's story that Mabel's and Dipper's parents and grandfather were killed by killer whales and the implication that they were actually killed by pirates pursuing Stan and Ford, it's possible this fear may actually derive from the sounds of cannon fire and battle as their family was slaughtered, though they were too young to fully remember and understand the situation.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: What does Dipper mean by his "mother waters"? Does he just mean salt water, the ocean, the Mediterranean, or a specific part of the sea that he lived in? We learn in Port L'Orient that Bill's ship went down off the North coast of Africa, presumably putting Dipper's siren colony in the Mediterranean. After divining Gideon's location to be in the Ionian sea, the crew are described as eager to end the journey and return to their Mother Waters. Does this mean that the Ionian sea (which is a part of the Meditteranean) is part of their Mother Waters, or is it simply referring to the fact that they will get to return home after catching Gideon? Chapter 24 introduces the Atlantic Ocean as a character, whom Dipper describes as "like his Mother Waters." As this appears to refer to bodies of water, this could mean that Dipper's "Mother Waters" are the Mediterranean itself.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Nassau really was the pirate capital of the Caribbean for a number of years during the Golden Age of Piracy. Originally an English colony, a long period of ineffective governors, poor leadership, two French and Spanish occupations, and eventual abandonment by British authorities left Nassau in ruin and without a government by 1704. Predictably, this turned Nassau into a den of pirates. The big influx of power, however, didn't come until 1713, after peace was made between the English and Spanish and the war's Naval veterans were suddenly left to starve without work and often without financial compensation for their service. Turning to illegal methods to survive, government-free Nassau was flooded by former privateers and military sailors to the point of forming its own independent Pirate Republic in 1713, with the pirates electing their own leaders from among their number and, through this quasi-political union, managing to bring trade between New and Old Worlds to a near-total halt. The Republic came to an end in early 1718 when the British regained rule over the island and pardoned all who turned themselves in and promised to cease committing piracy; prior to that, the pirates were the government of Nassau and did as they pleased—the only "criminals" enforced against were those who broke the "Code of Conduct" (the pirates' code as defined by whichever pirate was governor at the time, because different captains had different codes).
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_8d612fe6	type	Swapped Roles
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_8d612fe6	comment	Swapped Roles: In Gravity Falls, Bill is a powerful supernatural creature offering to make deals that further his own ends, while Dipper is a far less powerful mortal that Bill makes a deal with and takes advantage of; Bill is perpetually the one with greater power. In Drowning, Bill is a human? in the process of literally drowning, and Dipper is the ridiculously powerful supernatural creature that saves his life and offers him a ship, crew, and return to the surface—on Dipper's terms and conditions, of course. Downplayed in that they haven't swapped dispositions, only power dynamics; Dipper is still compassionate and Bill's still mentally unstable.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_90c018ac	type	JustifiedTrope
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_90c018ac	comment	Possibly Justified by the later implication that Ford has a history with pirates and believes that the nonhuman pirate he has bad blood with, "Cipher," will somehow come after one or both of the twins around their eighteenth birthday, a date only a month after Dipper's disappearance. Knowing this, it's easier to understand why the word "pirate" in any association with Dipper's disappearance triggered Ford's paranoia and caused him to jump the gun, because under the assumption that Ford's Cipher is responsible, the power and planning required to do all of these ridiculous things intentionally is suddenly feasible. It's still an irrational leap in logic regardless, as there is no evidence that any of the above actually happened or is even connected to Dipper's disappearance, but it's made more understandable by Ford's history and fears.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_9ab3da1a	comment	Evil Mentor: Played with. Bill is a murderer and a pirate with scores of lives on his hands, but he does have Dipper's best interests at heart and actually doesn't want to lead Dipper astray of his own morality. Bill teaches Dipper to fight because he knows that Dipper will need it to survive, but Bill is jaded enough about the world and himself to not want Dipper to be like him.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a2e84479	type	Slowly Slipping Into Evil
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a2e84479	comment	Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Bill pre-story began his career at sea as a merchant, then turned to vigilante pirating when his apparent mental illness made him too unstable to conform to the right side of the law, and from there is implied to have sunk further and further away from any real moral justification for his actions as he slowly gave up on the idea of human morality altogether, even within himself. Judging by his internal narration in the first few chapters and his shame at his previous actions in later ones, he seems to have been on his way to becoming a Misanthrope Supreme before Dipper began pulling him away from the cliff edge.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: All of the magical spells used by humans and non-humans alike are spoken in Latin for some reason.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Bill takes the cake on this, having forgotten that Dipper was powerful and had power over him while Dipper was still in siren form. He takes his teasing a bit too far and forgets, due to how innocent and gentle Dipper acts, that Dipper is a powerful ocean predator who's literally the only thing keeping Bill alive at that moment. Dipper grabs Bill's head with both hands, locks eyes, and swiftly corrects him.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a64e99ce	type	Stick 'em Up
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a64e99ce	comment	Stick 'em Up: A tree nymph working for Gideon tries to force Dipper at gunpoint to summon a monster, with the intention of forcing Dipper to kill everyone in the room through this. It doesn't work out exactly as he wished.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Pirate Council in the story act more like a gathering of small mafia bosses than pirates: they've formed a paralegal governmental structure applying to all the captains under their allegiance and have power to the point where even the majority of those who aren't under their control do not dare to interfere with their policies; they've also created their own laws and do not abide by those of the official local governments. They are criminals, but they act like a confederacy of organized crime families under the leadership of their captains (the bosses). Neviah, current Praesul of the Council, even refers to their brand of piracy as "Organized piracy." Notably, the "bad" pirates are the ones that rebel against even pirate laws. In Real Life, the European colonies-centric pirates of the Golden Age did have their codes and laws, but they were usually only agreed upon between members of a single crew or temporary fleet as each man's conditions of service. The story possibly justifies this difference between real pirates and the pirates in the story by implying a major disruption in the pirate community changed the course of events during the beginning of the Golden Age and led to the formation of the first version of the pirate council, thereafter creating more a widely applicable code amongst pirates in general.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: How Bill's "Beast" personality behaves: eerily quiet, unstoppable yet slow, and perpetually, silently, viciously enraged. When we see this personality shift from Bill's perspective, it functions like Bill's normal condescension towards humanity in general multiplied by his sudden spike of hate for those who attack the few he cares for, a suddenly exceedingly violent temper and lust for the suffering of those who have managed to make him snap, and the loss of all consequence-based inhibitions towards extreme behavior—all of which is accompanied by the instinctual realization in that moment that Bill has the power to make them suffer as much as he wants and they can't do anything about it. In his show-stopping appearance chapter, Bill's inner beast is characterized, above all, by an intense, violent stillness, punctuated by the squelch of human organs being forced into places and shapes they shouldn't. Bill in this state of mind is basically the homicidal version of Cold Ham.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Bill's eyes normally have blue irises and white sclera, but when "the Beast" makes a show of things, his sclera turns black and his irises flash between white and red, emphasizing his Ambiguously Human nature.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a9e84230	type	Funny Schizophrenia
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_a9e84230	comment	Bill's unstable schizophrenia-like behavior, which has barred him from living on the right side of the law, driven most stable relationships away from him, and prevented him from feeling like he's in control of himself or his own life, is not actually funny. At all.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Though Bill doesn't use it often, he claims he's known as "the Demon atop the Seas," as opposed to Davey Jones, who we learn is the Demon beneath the seas. References to his "demon" nickname are made by characters throughout the story, and become increasingly ironic as the story progresses.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ad312433	type	ShapeShifter
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ad312433	comment	Shapeshifter: Dipper's explanation of the magic he uses to alter his body and its limitations imply that he is, on some level, this. Dipper explains that his ability to alter his body is reliant on a knowledge of anatomy regarding the form he wishes to take, which is why he cannot shift into a male human form after his transformation defaults him to female. By this logic Dipper could use magic to take other forms besides human and siren, should he study their anatomy thoroughly enough.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_aebbc464	type	Transgender
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_aebbc464	comment	Transgender: Dipper was born physically female like his hatchmate Mabel, but identifies as male and used magic to enable his sex to match his gender. Unfortunately, as Dipper has no idea how the human body works, he doesn't know how to transfigure his sex while in the form of a human, making his identity as a trans male obvious if those around him pay attention. To the credit of the human sidecast, most so far have treated the difference between Dipper's physical sex and gender identity as utterly irrelevant to their interactions with him—but not all, as Bill's and Dipper's encounter with the Blind Eye Society can attest to. One of Bill's former crew that he speaks of fondly is implied to be a trans woman. She's presumably one of the captives on Gideon's ship.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_af696bef	comment	Although it's minor, the cast occasionally uses modernisms in their language that make no sense for the setting. For example, Dipper uses the word "blocks" during the pirate council meeting to describe the distance between them and the dozens of armed ships at port. Not only does this terminology not make sense for Dipper to know, but "blocks" only exist in areas that have experienced formal community planning, which didn't even begin to be thought about until about sixty years after the Golden Age of Piracy had ended. This type of anachronism is especially prevalent with language referring to sexuality, sex, and gender; specific words on those taboo subjects at the turn of the 18th century were far fewer in number and very different from the words and contexts used in modernity, the latter being what the story uses.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b2b1d6cb	type	Sirens Are Mermaids
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b2b1d6cb	comment	Sirens Are Mermaids: Dipper and his kind are portrayed more similarly to the folklore of merfolk, except with Compelling Voices.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b53ba00f	type	Easy Sex Change
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b53ba00f	comment	Easy Sex Change: Initially played straight and then subverted. Dipper is male in gender but was born physically female. Among sirens, this is no big deal, especially since Dipper is so talented at magic: having studied siren anatomy, making adjustments magically so that his body matches his gender wasn't too difficult for him. However, this is subverted after Dipper has to drop his personal spells to focus on the extremely complicated spells he has to perform while raising the Mens Scapus and transfiguring both the fish school and himself into humans. This makes Dipper's body default back to female during the transformation, and since he has yet to learn enough about human anatomy to know what to safely change or how, he has yet to change his body's sex back to matching his gender.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b8c18cf5	type	Implicit Prison
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b8c18cf5	comment	Implicit Prison: Stan and Ford feared a danger they refused to warn Dipper and Mabel about would come and take one of them away forever around their eighteenth birthday, and so issued ever-more controlling policies to try to prevent anything happening to them. Due to differences in personality, life style, and interests, these limitations grossly effected Dipper more than Mabel. While Mabel's daily life appears to have been generally unchanged, Dipper's education was suddenly stopped and he was put under virtual house arrest and "near-constant surveillance" due to his natural curiosity and unwillingness to stay cooped up for long durations. To Dipper, Stan and Ford one day began treating him like a criminal under prison sentence for seemingly no reason. Once Ford pushes this to even further extremes and threatens to magically bind Dipper to the shipwreck they live in, this settles Dipper's mind on the matter. He flees.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: One of Dipper's talents, to his varying horror. In chapter 18, Dipper, with a gun pointed at his head, is forced to attempt a summons that will result in the deaths of all those around him. In his attempts to prevent this, Dipper instead recites the spell for summoning a different entity, a dark god that has refused to be summoned for thousands of years, planning for nothing to happen in an attempt to bide time and figure out how to defuse the situation. Instead, the entity he insincerely summoned, the Blackness from the Stars, actually shows up, devours the person pointing a gun at Dipper's head, and this terrifies the rest of the aggressors into fleeing for their lives. Dipper manages to keep his head in the immediate aftermath until the summoning book is destroyed and the danger has been mitigated, but afterwards is utterly shaken by the fact that he killed someone, especially via summoning a being that supposedly never answers.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b9fd7929	type	MoralityChain
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: What Dipper is to Bill. Bill's told Dipper outright that he won't be a good example for a "kid siren," but the fact that Dipper actually trusts him to be a good man regardless seems to drive him to watch his actions and emotions more so as not to scare Dipper off. While this trope is downplayed when Bill's in his right mind, it's in full force when Bill's more unstable emotional state emerges during his Rage Breaking Points, as Dipper's mind-altering siren song is the only thing able to entrance Bill enough to neutralize this state.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: What Gideon and those who willingly follow him have been doing to everyone they come across. Bill as a pirate is confirmed to have done the "pillage and burn" parts, but it's described in Robin Hood-style so it's unclear if the third ever happened on his watch.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The Mens Scapus, one of only five like her in the world, three of which have permenantly sank.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: What little we hear of Gideon implies that he basically thinks he's the main character, almost literally considering he assumes the prophecy is about him. Whatever he's searching for, he thinks it will make him the "most powerful captain... in all worlds."
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Bill's inner "beast" commonly manifests as out-of-control murderous rage originating as protective anger; the times when it's surfaced have all been in response to threats against those he cares for. Of the three "beast" appearances actually known in any detail, one began when pirates threatened Bill's brother, one was provoked but averted after Robbie attempted to sexually assault Dipper, and the most recent was the result of Blind Ivan back-handing Dipper across the face for daring to speak to him like an equal.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Dipper and Bill regularly discuss how closed-minded humanity in general is and how hostile they may be to discovering various facets of Dipper's identity, particularly regarding his sexuality and gender—but while this was definitely true during this particular time in history and even true today in many parts of the world, we don't really see a culture-wide discomfort with Dipper as a person within the story; everyone who finds out is generally quite respectful of Dipper's gender identity. After over a dozen chapters, at least four visits to port, and the introduction of a fairly substantial cast of human side-characters, the most we see of this close-mindedness is the misogyny displayed by two members of the Blind Eye Society, and two people can hardly be argued to speak for entire cultures or entire species.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: Dipper's and Bill's stop at Nassau reveals to the majority of the pirate community that Bill's new first mate is an inhuman being powerful enough to summon god-tier entities unseen for thousands of years. Depending on how many of Gideon's followers escaped and what they learned before they did, Gideon now likely also knows. Mabel's bout of Twin Telepathy in Chapter 21 finally clues the Pines in to the fact that Dipper's disappearance may not be the kidnapping they assumed.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: After hearing word that a shipwreck possibly previously crewed by human pirates was raised from the seafloor around the time Dipper disappeared, Ford falls to Theory Tunnelvision, and, from only three pieces of information—pirates possibly in the area, a ship sank and then was raised from the seafloor half a day later, and Dipper disappeared around this time—Ford concludes definitively that Dipper is being held prisoner on a presumably magic transforming sinking ship specifically by pirates who can defeat an abnormally powerful magic siren and maybe see the future, and also don't drown while stuck at the bottom of the ocean for eleven hours. This conclusion completely ignores a lot of actual circumstantial evidence surrounding said disappearance, like the fact that it was well known that Dipper was chaffing under the living conditions forced upon him by Ford, and that Dipper clearly came back home in secret right before being supposedly kidnapped in order to gather materials before leaving again, as if knowingly preparing not to come back. Ford's theory also ignores that there is no evidence whatsoever that Dipper is or ever was anywhere near the sunken ship, or that anyone survived the sinking of the ship, or even if anyone went down with the ship in the first place. Given that it's explicitly stated that no human can see the future, it's also just flat-out completely insane to believe without evidence that these hypothetical human pirates coincidentally were already prepared for successfully battling and capturing a magic siren and restoring their sunken ship to the surface while simultaneously trying not to drown at the bottom of the ocean for eleven hours straight after the story went out of its way to demonstrate how clumsy humans are in the water even when they're not drowning. But what other answer could there be? Even the semi-accuracy of their assumption is astonishing considering how little evidence they used to get to it. The Stan twins appear to have heard the word "pirates" and turned their brains off. This has tragic consequences on the Pines family's search for Dipper. Because they assume Dipper is a prisoner and thus that he is likely never allowed above deck or off the ship, they don't bother to ask if anyone's seen him at any of the ports they visit and only have a vague, likely incorrect description of the ship he's thought to be on. This means that even if they go to a port that the Mens Scapus had moored in and talk to people Dipper interacted with personally, they still don't know enough about the situation to even ask the right questions or recognize significant information when they hear it. Until Mabel has her Twin Telepathy vision, their search was functionally dead in the water. Possibly Justified by the later implication that Ford has a history with pirates and believes that the nonhuman pirate he has bad blood with, "Cipher," will somehow come after one or both of the twins around their eighteenth birthday, a date only a month after Dipper's disappearance. Knowing this, it's easier to understand why the word "pirate" in any association with Dipper's disappearance triggered Ford's paranoia and caused him to jump the gun, because under the assumption that Ford's Cipher is responsible, the power and planning required to do all of these ridiculous things intentionally is suddenly feasible. It's still an irrational leap in logic regardless, as there is no evidence that any of the above actually happened or is even connected to Dipper's disappearance, but it's made more understandable by Ford's history and fears.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Bill is noted to have physically taken after his biological mother.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Blind Ivan assumes that Bill and the Mens Scapus returned from the bottom of the sea via Bill selling his soul to Davey Jones (an idea Dipper finds to be utterly ridiculous).
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Blind Ivan should not have slapped Dipper. Hurting someone Bill considers his Protectorate, especially in such a deliberately demeaning way, guarantees his Soft-Spoken Sadist side will come out.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The exposition during the Pirate Council is entirely about a specific and controversial pirate who disappeared some twenty years ago and once wrote a prophecy about how the Vagueness Is Coming in a book he left behind. Everyone seems to know who this is but no one ever gives his name, making the conversation about him both extremely unnatural-sounding and extremely difficult to follow. Even the details people shout out about him are contradictory, with some insisting he's a hero who died to warn others and others insisting he turned into a monster—quite literally. It is made fairly evident that there is a connection between this unnamed pirate, Ford's mysterious former friend Cipher, and Bill's disappeared father.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_cc373fb1	type	Innocent Prodigy
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_cc373fb1	comment	Innocent Prodigy: Dipper's a bit older than most examples, but fits quite well: he's still rather naive about the world and ignorant as to his own place in it—even as to just how much of a prodigy he is. Along with his prodigal analytical skills, he's extremely naturally gifted with magic.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_cdb45c07	type	No Sense of Personal Space
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_cdb45c07	comment	No Sense of Personal Space: Sirens in general are like this, according to Dipper. Sirens, being very social creatures who live in relatively cold environments, use physical contact to share heat and maintain a sense of emotional security. Dipper, unused to the concept of personal space, begins the story pretty constantly in physical contact with Bill; Bill eventually opens up enough to reciprocate and even instigate the contact. By the time they become romantically involved, they're a Cuddle Bug Couple.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. Dipper, having taken the form of a physically female human, does experience a period, and just adds it to his reasons for why being human is awful.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_d1f49df4	type	EnthrallingSiren
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_d1f49df4	comment	Enthralling Siren: Dipper is one, as are the rest of the Pines family. Unlike most versions of sirens, Dipper's pod and town do not use their voices to lure humans; in fact, the sirens prefer to live far away from humans and the shore to the point where it's very rare for humans to encounter them. Given the rarity of its use on humans, that Ford is the one who taught the twins, and that sirens make note of which sea species are immune, it's possible the Compelling Voice's intended function may instead be a defensive ability against predators in the ocean.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Dipper assumes from meeting Bill that some humans have natural, innate magic, and the perspective choices in the first dozen chapters lean towards implying this to be true: Bill's perspective when describing magic at times mirrors Dipper's, implying that magically inclined humans can also sense magic. However, after seeing Bill's "beast" naturally use an instinctive kind of magic to paralyze the Blind Eye Society, we learn that humans do not have innate magic, should not be able to sense magic like Dipper does, and that those humans that use magic have instead learned to manipulate magic around them—and thus, that Bill's magical perceptiveness as described is actually demonstrative of innately inhuman qualities. Because Bill was the only human magic user character prior to this point, the reader is mislead by Dipper's assumptions on how human magic work and Bill's assumption that he is 100% human.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_dc4d0326	type	Ballroom Blitz
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_dc4d0326	comment	Ballroom Blitz: It's a political meeting alongside a far less pretentious type of party, but the same principal applies. In chapter 18, every pirate crew allied with the Pirate Council convenes in Nassau to socialize and discuss the concerns of the day, and Dipper and Bill attend hoping to find information about Gideon's location and destroy any prestige Gideon has built off of supposedly killing the Demon Atop the Sea. No one is allowed to bring weapons into the gathering, so naturally those that have secretly sided with Gideon reveal they snuck in weapons halfway through. Chaos Ensues.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Bill has many for Dipper. Though he often uses Pine Tree (here a joke on Dipper's surname), he also uses Star Fish, Cuddle Fish, and most frequently Angel Fish when he's feeling particularly affectionate or teasy.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Refuted hard. Dipper appreciates many of the experiences of the human world but spends quite a lot of time riffing about the disgusting ways the human body functions and the more nonsensical elements of human society. The aspects of humanity usually deemed "special" with this trope are just as commonly found among non-human characters.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e03c448e	comment	Water Is Air: Bill lampshades how strange it is that he can talk and converse with Dipper after Dipper temporarily gives him the ability to breathe underwater—which should have, logically, affected the actual acoustics of their voices and made human-style linguistics almost impossible, as sound waves travel very differently in the denser water than in air and the human ear is not adapted to pick up sounds accurately in those conditions. Similarly, Bill can also see perfectly clearly while submerged in salt water, despite the human eyes not being adapted to the refractive indices of water and despite salt water generally being very painful for the human eyeball. Though it's never confirmed, there's always the out that these effects were tied in with the spell Dipper cast to enable Bill to breathe. It is actually implied that the merfolk's natural magic enables them to speak and sing like humans even under the sea, so the idea that some of these attributes would carry over in the temporary spell isn't that far of a stretch. Of course, the fact that Bill himself likely isn't entirely human and has his own natural magic may also contribute. On the other hand, the story averts this trope in most other ways. Water pressure and temperature are mentioned and become concerns for the human's health (though oddly not nearly as much as they should have been), and the thermal vents on the ocean floor spew realistic heat, mud, chemicals, and nutrients that do mess with the water. Similarly, it's constantly lampshaded that Bill's body is not adequate for any sort of efficient movement underwater, much to his chagrin.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e5700c89	type	Reluctant Psycho
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e5700c89	comment	Reluctant Psycho: On the surface Bill appears to revel in his fearsome and intimidating reputation as the Demon Atop the Seas, but it's heavily implied this trope is more accurate of Bill underneath his veneer of careless suave. We find out during the events at Port L'Orient that not only does Bill have very real mental health issues that have essentially hijacked control of his life at many instances, but that Bill has spent the entirety of the story so far trying to downplay and hide these issues so as not to scare Dipper off.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e8cfde67	type	Ambiguous Disorder
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e8cfde67	comment	It also implied that it "visits" Tad, and that Tad just never said anything about this. If this is true this would confirm the voice's supernatural rather than entirely psychological nature; however, we as of yet have no proof of this claim—if the voice itself is a mundane symptom of Bill's Ambiguous Disorder, then any claims such as this could equally be so.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Subverted. You definitely need to have a certain hardness about you to get through battles, but due to a combination of magic and Bill's completely historically unrealistic hygiene standards, life aboard the Mens Scapus is described as just about as comfortable as living on land, if not moreso due to a lack of all the untrustworthy people at port.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Played with. Characters talk quite a lot about the pirating Bill has committed prior to the story, but due to the focus on hunting Gideon, none of that has so far gone on during the story proper. The characterization of Bill in the first chapter sounds far more like a pirate than the softer character we see him be around Dipper and Rezin. The Pirate Council in the story act more like a gathering of small mafia bosses than pirates: they've formed a paralegal governmental structure applying to all the captains under their allegiance and have power to the point where even the majority of those who aren't under their control do not dare to interfere with their policies; they've also created their own laws and do not abide by those of the official local governments. They are criminals, but they act like a confederacy of organized crime families under the leadership of their captains (the bosses). Neviah, current Praesul of the Council, even refers to their brand of piracy as "Organized piracy." Notably, the "bad" pirates are the ones that rebel against even pirate laws. In Real Life, the European colonies-centric pirates of the Golden Age did have their codes and laws, but they were usually only agreed upon between members of a single crew or temporary fleet as each man's conditions of service. The story possibly justifies this difference between real pirates and the pirates in the story by implying a major disruption in the pirate community changed the course of events during the beginning of the Golden Age and led to the formation of the first version of the pirate council, thereafter creating more a widely applicable code amongst pirates in general. What we hear of Gideon since he mutinied against Bill completely subverts this trope entirely: he's invaded, slaughtered, and looted towns; acquired ships; ordered the attack on (and attempted murders of) the Pirate Council and its allied captains; and seeks to be seen as "the most fearless and powerful captain to sail the seas of this world... of all worlds.”
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Bill Cipher, the antagonistic demon of the Gravity Falls series, has his character split into what appears to be two separate characters: the more affable Chaotic Neutral characterization most fans attributed to Bill post-Dreamscaperers is given to current Pirate Captain Bill Cipher, secondary protagonist and Dipper's friend and eventual lover. The more malevolent characterization of the second half of the series, complete with making prophecies, threatening the lives of the Pines family, and inspiring paranoid tension in Ford, seems to be embodied by "Cipher," a mysterious demon whom Ford fears that may in fact be connected to Bill, although it's unclear how right now. This character overhall has the benefit of adding a considerable amount of depth to Bill's character.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f25b1ae6	type	Unskilled, but Strong
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f25b1ae6	comment	Unskilled, but Strong: Dipper is a magical juggernaut. A largely untrained magical juggernaut, because for some reason Ford decided to stop teaching Dipper before completing his magical education. Bill, at least, suspects this is related to how abnormally powerful Dipper is, although why Ford would think it best not to train someone with that much power is still a mystery.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f314f8c4	comment	Traveling at the Speed of Plot: The two main protagonists do an incredible amount of traveling, none of which they have the actual time for. The Mens Scapus sails from the spot it sunk in the Mediterranean just off the coast of Africa, travels around Spain and Portugal to Port L'Orient on the Northwest coast of France, over to the Pearl Cays off Nicaragua in Central America, and up to Nassau for the meeting with the Pirate Council—all in what Dipper describes as a little over a month. In absolutely ideal conditions sailing conditions at a consistent speed of about 20 knots—the top speed a 1700s vessel could go—it would take approximately 22 days to make it from the Mediterranean to Nassau via this route with absolutely no stops in any of the ports themselves. But the actual average speed of a ship at the time was 4-5 knots—more than four times slower—and the Real Life amount of time it would take to complete this route on a period accurate ship would be between three and five months (if no anomalous delays). Like with the biological impediments to Bill seeing, hearing, and speaking properly under the water, the travel time discrepancy is Lampshaded by Bill, who suspects that the magic Dipper used to fix the ship is also affecting her performance.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f3aa6298	type	Sealed with a Kiss
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f3aa6298	comment	Sealed with a Kiss: Averted. Dipper and Bill attempt this to seal their pact to accompany each other through to their goals, but they're interrupted by the Blind Eye's Boarding Party.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f5333f3b	type	Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f5333f3b	comment	Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: In an offhand remark, Dipper indicates that, contrary to what others may have heard, Davey Jones actually rarely deals for souls due to problems with storage and upkeep. This is particularly ironic, given that, in terms of folklore, Davey Jones is the only demon specifically associated with his own actual storage space (his "Locker," an old seafaring euphemism for the seafloor where dead sailors rest).
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Subtle hints throughout the story clue the reader into parts of the past Stan and Ford have not shared yet. These imply a connection that dates back twenty years between Stan and Ford, the demon "Cipher," the Infinity Journal's author, Bill's Disappeared Dad, and the almost-certainly-not-accidental deaths of Mabel's and Dipper's parents and grandparents. The consequences of this dark secret are the implied cause of The Prophecy and Dipper's and Mabel's Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_fdad625e	type	Was Once a Man
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: It's rumored that the unnamed pirate who founded the first Pirate Council and left behind a cryptic prophecy was somehow turned into a monster. That there is truth behind the rumor is made more likely by the fact that Ford apparently knew a human who did so, and the prophecy this pirate left behind was not only written in a journal identical to Ford's, but also addresses Ford in code.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_fdd20c06	type	Alternate Universe Fic
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_fdd20c06	comment	Alternate Universe Fic: A pirate-and-siren style AU, wherein Bill is the pirate and the Dipper the siren.
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Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Drowning In Your Depths / Fan Fic / int_ff17ccf1	comment	The lack of humor in the situation is actually lampshaded in chapter 18. After Bill suddenly gets out of a long bout of depression and perks up to the point of mischievously poking and prodding Dipper about the ship—a significant and rapid change in mood and behavior, as while personal space has never really been a thing between them, it's usually Dipper who instigates the contact—Dipper jokes that he's finally come to understand Bill, that "when you’re not moping, you’re insane!" Bill immediately flinches, defensively asks “Yeah… I am insane, what’s it to you, kid?” and doesn't relax again until Dipper, aware that he's accidentally caused harm, makes clear that the comment was intended as one of the many teasing quips they exchange between them and that he's glad he's finally getting to see Bill when he's happy.
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