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{{CharacterInfobox
|title1 = The Bottomless Pit
|image1 = File:Bottomless Pit.png
|caption1 = The Bottomless Pit from above ground
|Location = Gravity Falls, Oregon }} 

The bottomless pit is a magical phenomenon that seems to be a never-ending abyss. Due to intense exposure to demonic energy, it has developed into a thriving, if highly aggressive ecosystem. The pit is in fact bottomless, but the cavern exists in one of [[Dipper Pines|Alcor]]'s pocket dimensions. No natural light reaches the bottom. The cavern is reached a little over a kilometer down.
[[File:Bottomless Pit.png|thumb|The Bottomless Pit above ground [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160028504491/exploring-the-pit-part-1-the-fabled-bottomless?source=share (Source)]]]

== '''History''' ==
At some point, The bottomless pit connected to [[Alcor]]'s top hat, exposing it to intense demonic energy, around the same time that the town of Gravity Falls started using it as a garbage dump. A combination of trash, random trinkets, and a constant flow of demonic radiation triggered rapid evolution in trapped wildlife, creating a unique and bizarre ecosystem.

== '''Habitats''' ==

====== '''Trash Heap''' ======
In the middle of the cavern lies a good mountain of trash, formed from centuries of dumping.

====== '''Wetlands''' ======
the Wetlands are large, roughly flat, and lie between the trash heap and the lake. Filled with tripping hazards.

====== '''Questionable lake''' ======
A lake surrounds the trash mountain, serving as the home to an unknown number of species, including goldfish and insects. It likely formed from rainwater.

====== '''The wall''' ======
The wall of the cavern is made of a dark, oddly felt-like material. It is impossible to damage. The lake is along the perimeter.

== '''Plant Life''' ==

====== '''Yggdrasil''' ======
A variation of Yggdrasil unique to the pit grows wherever it’s been exposed to the air for long enough, mainly in the trash heap. It grows in thin, crawling leaves, with the rare occasional stalk. It is only identifiable as yggdrasil for the glowing bulbs found on every adaptation of it. 

== '''Wildlife''' ==

====== '''Bugs''' ======
Various bugs live all over the pit, including but not limited to:

* '''Dragonflies-''' strong bioluminescence, live on and around the lake, 40-120 mm

* '''Fireflies-''' can be seen from seemingly arbitrarily far away, 5-15mm

* '''Beetles-''' burrow in the layer of muck at the bottom, 3-70mm

* '''Moths-''' All observed individuals with feather-antennas, navigates by smell? Unknown diet, 20-50mm

* '''Flies-''' Very numerous, vestigial eyes, antennas became smell/magic detectors?

* '''Larva-''' Miscellaneous, 4-100mm

* '''Spiders-''' Many of them, large, eyeless, spins, their nests are everywhere, too big

====== '''Bats''' ======
The “Ceiling” of the cavern is a roosting area for thousands of bats, which are bigger and meaner than normal bats.

====== '''Frogs and Toads''' ======
Frogs and Toads live in the lake and wetlands area, making lots of noise. They respond to light with immediate silence.

====== '''Various Rodents''' ======
There are many rodents that inhabit the mountain and wetlands, most of them blind, with pale coats.

====== '''"Hell Raccoons"''' ======
The raccoons are one of the few species in the pit to develop bioluminescence as a countermeasure to the darkness. They glow in a strong, blue-green light. Quick and violent, they can be scared off by sounds made from above. 

====== '''Goldfish''' ======
Goldfish live in the deeper parts of the lake, being much bigger than normal ones. They can jump over a meter out of the water, and eat anything they can get into their own watery home. Only some of them glow.

====== '''Snakes''' ======
Snakes in the pit are smaller than usual, with at least two heads. They navigate by infrared vision and smell, likely communicating with a low form of telepathy.

====== '''Sentient Objects''' ======
A few of the dumped trash has gained sentience and/or sapience, including a stove named Natasha Emanuel.

====== '''Dove King''' ======
The Dove kKng looks as if someone took three white doves, half melted them, then fused them together. It mainly hunts the rats and small raccoons. They don’t seem to have healthy internal organs, instead reproducing by tearing a piece of themselves, which then grow into their own Dove King  

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.57.36 PM.png|A map showing the interior of the pit [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160028504491/exploring-the-pit-part-1-the-fabled-bottomless?source=share (Source)]
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.57.53 PM.png|Yggdrasil, adapted for life in the pit  [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160064130418/exploring-the-pit-part-2-continued-from-part-1?source=share (Source)]
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.58.04 PM.png|The various bugs inhabiting the pit [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160064130418/exploring-the-pit-part-2-continued-from-part-1?source=share (Source)]
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.58.17 PM.png|A rat adapted for life in the pit [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160064130418/exploring-the-pit-part-2-continued-from-part-1?source=share (Source)]
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.58.36 PM.png|A frog from the pit  [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160064130418/exploring-the-pit-part-2-continued-from-part-1?source=share (Source)]
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.59.16 PM.png|A snake from the pit, with only two heads [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160098948652/exploring-the-pit-part-3-continued-from-part-2?source=share (Source)]
File:Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 8.59.31 PM.png|A "Hell Raccoon" adapted to life in the pit through bioluminescence [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160098948652/exploring-the-pit-part-3-continued-from-part-2?source=share (Source)]
File:Pit Goldfish.png|Pit Goldfish [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160098948652/exploring-the-pit-part-3-continued-from-part-2?source=share (Source)]
File:Dove king.jpg|A Dove King [https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160098948652/exploring-the-pit-part-3-continued-from-part-2?source=share (Source)]
</gallery>

== '''References''' ==

# transcendence-au "Head Cannon that after the Transcendence, the Bottomless Pit becomes..." [Tumblr]  https://www.tumblr.com/transcendence-au/165738341122/head-cannon-that-after-the-transcendence-the?source=share
# Feneris “Technically Bottomless” [Archive of Our Own] https://archiveofourown.org/works/10552542
# ii-thiscat-ii “Exploring the Pit. Part 1 [Tumblr] https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160028504491/exploring-the-pit-part-1-the-fabled-bottomless?source=share
# ii-thiscat-ii “Exploring the Pit. Part 2 [Tumblr] https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160064130418/exploring-the-pit-part-2-continued-from-part-1?source=share
# ii-thiscat-ii “Exploring the Pit. Part 3 [Tumblr] https://www.tumblr.com/ii-thiscat-ii/160098948652/exploring-the-pit-part-3-continued-from-part-2?source=share