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[[{{PAGENAME}}]], also known as '''Alcor the Dreambender''', is an SS-rank [[demon]] with the unique ability to manifest in reality without being summoned. He was born human, but was transformed into a demon after killing [[Bill Cipher]]. This event also caused the [[Transcendence]].<ref name="orig post">{{TAUBlogCitation|ok ok I have to get this out...|https://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/99202592653/zoey-chu-ok-ok-i-have-to-get-this-out-while-my}}</ref> | [[{{PAGENAME}}]], also known as '''Alcor the Dreambender''', is an SS-rank [[demon]] with the unique ability to manifest in reality without being summoned. He was born human, but was transformed into a demon after killing [[Bill Cipher]]. This event also caused the [[Transcendence]].<sup><ref name="orig post">{{TAUBlogCitation|ok ok I have to get this out...|https://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/99202592653/zoey-chu-ok-ok-i-have-to-get-this-out-while-my}}</ref></sup> | ||
Even as a demon, he uses his relationship with [[Mabel Pines|his twin sister]] (among others) to stay grounded in humanity. Despite this, Dipper is widely feared as one of the most vicious and unpredictable demons in existence.<ref>{{TAUBlogCitation|Anonymous asked: Since Alcor spends a lot of time around kids...|https://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/103764766992/since-alcor-spends-a-lot-of-time-around-kids-and}}</ref> | Even as a demon, he uses his relationship with [[Mabel Pines|his twin sister]] (among others) to stay grounded in humanity. Despite this, Dipper is widely feared as one of the most vicious and unpredictable demons in existence.<sup><ref>{{TAUBlogCitation|Anonymous asked: Since Alcor spends a lot of time around kids...|https://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/103764766992/since-alcor-spends-a-lot-of-time-around-kids-and}}</ref></sup> | ||
== Appearance == | == Appearance == | ||
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After many a millennium, he achieves god-like powers. | After many a millennium, he achieves god-like powers. | ||
After the universe is dead and devoid of life, he would create it anew. His [[The Flock|flock]] would become the new demons and angels, and he would re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. | After the universe is dead and devoid of life, he would create it anew. His [[The Flock|flock]] would become the new demons and [[angel|angels]], and he would re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. | ||
== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
In many ways, Dipper | In many ways, Dipper retains the personality he had when he was a human boy. For a demon, he can be quite caring when it comes to summons regarding children, and he still enjoys spending time with his sister and her family. | ||
However, Dipper | However, Dipper displays a more menacing and morbid side of his personality at times. If pushed too far, may even lose himself to demonic instincts for a time. His personality changes greatly over the course of his immortality, going through periods of more cruel and typical demonic reigns that are always connected with a lack of human interaction. He tendes to be the worst in between Mizar's lifetimes, but reconnecting with her - and others - always brings back his more human side. | ||
Dipper | Dipper has no interest in romantic or sexual relationships (aromantic and sex-neutral asexual) - though it is unclear if this was a forced change outside of his control due to his transformation, if he was that way all along, or if he subconsciously avoids those relationships due to feeling inadequate for such a thing as a demon. However, he is perfectly capable of platonic love, and forms many close friendships over the centuries. | ||
== Relationships == | == Relationships == | ||
=== [[Mabel Pines - Mizar|Mabel Pines]] === | === [[Mabel Pines - Mizar|Mabel Pines]] === | ||
Despite his change from human to demon, Dipper and Mabel are closer than ever. Before he gained enough power to manifest in the physical plane, Mabel was the only person who could see him. She refused to pretend her brother wasn't there, and ignored any fear or ridicule she received for it. During Dipper's demonic episodes and info-dumps, it's usually Mabel who successfully brings him back to sanity. Even though he's not longer human, Mabel never treats her twin any differently. | |||
=== [[Stanley Pines]] === | === [[Stanley Pines]] === | ||
Stanley | Stanley is his great-uncle. Dipper and his sister spent the summer at Stanley's home in [[Gravity Falls]]. They temporarily move back to Piedmont after the Transcendence, but end up living with him at the [[Mystery Shack]] permanently. | ||
=== [[Stanford Pines]] === | === [[Stanford Pines]] === | ||
Stanford | Stanford is initially distrustful of Dipper due to his demonic nature. However, he jumps at the opportunity to learn more about the supernatural through his grand-nephew. While Dipper has mixed feelings about being treated as a lab-rat, he's eager to please his long time idol. | ||
=== [[Henry Pines]] === | === [[Henry Pines]] === | ||
Henry | Henry is Mabel's husband, and therefore Dipper's brother in law. They are very close, calling each other "brother" and being prime confidants. Henry, upon meeting the twins for the first time, didn't bat an eye at being introduced to what appeared to be empty air.<sup><ref>{{AO3Citation|Seiya234|Meat Cute|7 October 2014|https://archiveofourown.org/works/2416994/chapters/5346530}}</ref></sup> Because of his acceptance of Dipper, both twins liked him immediately. | ||
=== [[Acacia Pines]] === | === [[Acacia Pines]] === | ||
<span>Dipper | <span>Dipper loves her as if she were his own daughter. He cares for Acacia a great deal and is often worried about her being so reckless, especially around demons. She was attacked and lost an eye in her twenties, and Dipper feels guilty for not preventing this.</span> | ||
=== [[Willow Pines]] === | === [[Willow Pines]] === | ||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* He | * He hates [[Twin Souls]] with a burning passion. People (mostly Mabel) often tease him because of this. He's known for overreacting to being teased this way, but in reality these jokes are done with his consent.<sup><ref>{{TAUBlogCitation|On Twin Souls, Dipnip, and Consent|http://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/130239576293/on-twin-souls-dipnip-and-consent}}</ref></sup> | ||
* [[Yggdrasil]] | * [[Yggdrasil]] root (informally known as 'dipnip') causes him to act like a cat. | ||
* He | * He is under massive amounts of denial about how much he cares about Toby, citing that he's only taking care of him just to make sure he didn't become his past self. Basically a tsundere. | ||
* His sanity | * His sanity is under a lot of question, especially in later years and in-between Mizar reincarnations. | ||
* In some cases, he | * In some cases, he is known to possess a cane sword. | ||
* He | * He plays the violin, and very well too. | ||
* He | * He is asexual and aromantic. | ||
* He sometimes | * He sometimes wears a short ponytail. | ||
* | * Dreamcatchers stick to him like flypaper, like all dream demons. | ||
* He | * He can use his symbol as a peephole. Wherever his star is, he can see thorough it, regardless of his current location. | ||
* He | * He has an object form; a star. | ||
** The triplets | ** The triplets have tried to use him as the star on top of the Christmas tree.<sup><ref>{{AO3Citation|Seiya234|Shooting Stars, Chapter 33|2014|https://archiveofourown.org/works/2421911/chapters/6093515}}</ref></sup> | ||
== [[Gallery: Alcor|Gallery]] == | == [[Gallery: Alcor|Gallery]] == | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
<references/><onlyinclude> | <references /><onlyinclude> | ||
[[Category:Demons]]</onlyinclude><onlyinclude> | [[Category:Demons]]</onlyinclude><onlyinclude> | ||
[[Category:Characters]]</onlyinclude><onlyinclude> | [[Category:Characters]]</onlyinclude><onlyinclude> | ||
[[Category:Pines]]</onlyinclude> | [[Category:Pines]]</onlyinclude> | ||
Revision as of 22:33, 12 December 2019
Dipper Pines, also known as Alcor the Dreambender, is an SS-rank demon with the unique ability to manifest in reality without being summoned. He was born human, but was transformed into a demon after killing Bill Cipher. This event also caused the Transcendence.[2]
Even as a demon, he uses his relationship with his twin sister (among others) to stay grounded in humanity. Despite this, Dipper is widely feared as one of the most vicious and unpredictable demons in existence.[3]
Appearance
During his sister's life, Dipper aged alongside her, keeping himself 1-2 inches taller (although he can change his form). He has messy brown hair and glowing gold eyes with black scleras. During his early stages of demonhood, he developed sharpened teeth, pointed ears, and wings. He wears a black suit with a top hat, black gloves and black shoes. Over time, he started to stray away from the triangle theme that was taken from Bill Cipher and moved towards a star motif that fit his own demon alias.
Under certain circumstances, such as intense rage, Dipper can take on an even more demonic form in which the entirety of his body darkens to a black silhouette crisscrossed with golden brickwork lines. He has an object form, which is the shape of a one eyed star with bat wings.
History
Pre-Transcendence
Before the Transcendence, Dipper was a normal human boy with a love for uncovering secrets. Spending the summer with his twin sister at their Great Uncle Stan's house in Gravity Falls, the two spent the summer solving mysteries and uncovered something far beyond their own ability to understand.
Post-Transcendence
After the Transcendence, Dipper became the demon Alcor, having absorbed Bill Cipher's remaining energy into him. At first, only Mabel could see him, but as his power grew, more people could view him without a physical form. With his powers over dreams and the Mindscape, he becomes the focus of cults and summons from people all over the world.
After many a millennium, he achieves god-like powers.
After the universe is dead and devoid of life, he would create it anew. His flock would become the new demons and angels, and he would re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.
Personality
In many ways, Dipper retains the personality he had when he was a human boy. For a demon, he can be quite caring when it comes to summons regarding children, and he still enjoys spending time with his sister and her family.
However, Dipper displays a more menacing and morbid side of his personality at times. If pushed too far, may even lose himself to demonic instincts for a time. His personality changes greatly over the course of his immortality, going through periods of more cruel and typical demonic reigns that are always connected with a lack of human interaction. He tendes to be the worst in between Mizar's lifetimes, but reconnecting with her - and others - always brings back his more human side.
Dipper has no interest in romantic or sexual relationships (aromantic and sex-neutral asexual) - though it is unclear if this was a forced change outside of his control due to his transformation, if he was that way all along, or if he subconsciously avoids those relationships due to feeling inadequate for such a thing as a demon. However, he is perfectly capable of platonic love, and forms many close friendships over the centuries.
Relationships
Mabel Pines
Despite his change from human to demon, Dipper and Mabel are closer than ever. Before he gained enough power to manifest in the physical plane, Mabel was the only person who could see him. She refused to pretend her brother wasn't there, and ignored any fear or ridicule she received for it. During Dipper's demonic episodes and info-dumps, it's usually Mabel who successfully brings him back to sanity. Even though he's not longer human, Mabel never treats her twin any differently.
Stanley Pines
Stanley is his great-uncle. Dipper and his sister spent the summer at Stanley's home in Gravity Falls. They temporarily move back to Piedmont after the Transcendence, but end up living with him at the Mystery Shack permanently.
Stanford Pines
Stanford is initially distrustful of Dipper due to his demonic nature. However, he jumps at the opportunity to learn more about the supernatural through his grand-nephew. While Dipper has mixed feelings about being treated as a lab-rat, he's eager to please his long time idol.
Henry Pines
Henry is Mabel's husband, and therefore Dipper's brother in law. They are very close, calling each other "brother" and being prime confidants. Henry, upon meeting the twins for the first time, didn't bat an eye at being introduced to what appeared to be empty air.[4] Because of his acceptance of Dipper, both twins liked him immediately.
Acacia Pines
Dipper loves her as if she were his own daughter. He cares for Acacia a great deal and is often worried about her being so reckless, especially around demons. She was attacked and lost an eye in her twenties, and Dipper feels guilty for not preventing this.
Willow Pines
Hank Pines
Gideon Gleeful
Dipper and Gideon maintain their antagonistic relationship to an extent during Dipper's early years as Alcor, although to a lesser degree because of Dipper's new found powers. Gideon's main appearance after the Trancendence was when he kidnapped the Pines Family and tries to torture, bind and even crucify Alcor. After Gideon's inevitable death later on, Dipper eventually loses his grudge over the events and doesn't really interfere with subsequent reincarnations.
Bill Cipher
The reason why Dipper is a demon, and after the absorption of his power, Dipper is sometimes seen destroying the Bill Ciphers of other universe and ending their Weirdmaggedons, as well as freaking out when he has similar looks to Bill and "Bill-thoughts" such as the classic "pain is hilarious".
Cassandra Locklear
Dipper treats Cassie much like he treated his siblings while she's young. As she gets older, she continues to stay very close friends with him, often going on impromptu ice cream runs with him in the dead of night.
Malala
Malala is a young girl of Middle Eastern descent whom, long after Mabel's death, helps repair Dipper's old sweaters.
Toby
Dipper hates Bill and his soul for ruining various things, such as the events during the Transcendence that caused him to become a demon, and the Ian incident. At first Dipper doesn't like Toby, and just wants to enjoy watching karma do its work. However, after watching Toby for a while, he starts to feel sorry for him and takes him in. He tells himself that he is taking care of Toby and spoiling him to make sure that Toby doesn't start acting like Bill, but he actually genuinely cares about Toby (although he won't admit it). He later on even allows him to take care of Maddie, one of Mabel's reincarnations, which demonstrates just how much he really trusts Toby.
When they first meet, Toby is scared of Alcor, and expresses guilt for what he did in his past lives. Eventually Toby grows to love Dipper, and knows Dipper truly cares for him.
Mark and Anna Pines
Mark and Anna Pines are Dipper's parents. Ever since his transformation into a demon, their relationship has tended to be awkward at best. Despite this, Dipper still cares about his parents, and they still care about him.
Belle Sterling
A Mabel reincarnation and Dipper's later adoptive sister.
Lionel Sterling
Long after the death of Mabel, Dipper would find something in Lionel that could never quite find Mark or Anna- a parent that truly, and completely accepted him for what he was, and was willing to treat him as Dipper. Nothing more or less.
Pacifica Northwest
Their relationship is of a teasing, somewhat antagonistic nature, but bears a tangible undercurrent of good humor, on Alcor's part. Pacifica secretly likes Dipper more than she lets on.
Wendy Corduroy
Though he's gotten over his childhood crush on her, they remain good friends. Having known Dipper and Mabel pre-transcendence, she was there to support him after his transformation, even if she couln't see him most of the time like Mabel could. Over the years, their friendship would only grow stronger, until her death. Things got more complex there.
Powers
Dipper had basically all the abilities that Bill had, such as summoning blue flames on a whim, entering people's dreams, and possessing a limited form of omniscience. However, in general, he was much stronger, solely due to the fact that he was once human and retains a natural affinity for the physical plane. For example, most binding circles that should restrain even the most powerful of demons could be easily broken by Dipper. As a demon, he had the Sight and was an Empath, like Willow. Additionally, unlike most normal demons, after around a century he gained the power to maintain a corporeal form whenever he chose.
Eventually, he gained the means to travel between worlds and dimensions, but he preferred to make as little use of it as possible as the energy toll was immense (and he feared he may see an ideal world he wished to escape to, and would leave the souls of his loved ones behind in his home universe).
Though he originally inherited the powers of a typical dream demon, Dipper quickly evolved to encompass just about any demonic talent. This stemmed from his power of dreams, that were now brought into reality due to his affinity for the physical realm. He still had his strong and weak points, however, and was generally affected more by things specifically made to target dream demons.
His overall raw power continued to build over the centuries, until he reached the point where he could no longer be considered a demon, but a god. It continued to grow exponentially from there, reaching and exceeding truly apocalyptic levels. Unfortunately, it came with the side effect of not allowing him to safely interact with the physical world like he used to.
Along with his powers, Dipper inherited a flock of demon sheep as his familiars.
Known Reincarnations
Fisher
Imamu
Penelope
Argus
Cypress
Demons
Zadkiel the Merciful
Dipper is seen taking down Zadkiel the Merciful during one of their summons in front of Henry and an unconscious Mabel, and after he is seen taking out two of Zadkiel sets of wings and one of their mouths(after losing a hand and being covered in cuts), Dipper pulls out his heart and eats it in front of Zadkiel and Henry while Zadkiel feels every bite, saying that Mabel and Henry are his and belong to him.
Afardow the Prideful
Afardow the Prideful, an elitist demon, tries to kill Dipper and destroy Gravity Falls after he has the thought that Dipper is -will be finished later-
Xethis
Xethis offered to provide Dipper with a demon child of his own. The catch was, however, that he would give her a portion of his power and a night in her bed. She made the claim that she could make one of the souls he favored immortal, exempli gratia Mizar. The reason for this is so that he wouldn't have to let them go again. Dipper refused Xethis's offer.
Trivia
- He hates Twin Souls with a burning passion. People (mostly Mabel) often tease him because of this. He's known for overreacting to being teased this way, but in reality these jokes are done with his consent.[5]
- Yggdrasil root (informally known as 'dipnip') causes him to act like a cat.
- He is under massive amounts of denial about how much he cares about Toby, citing that he's only taking care of him just to make sure he didn't become his past self. Basically a tsundere.
- His sanity is under a lot of question, especially in later years and in-between Mizar reincarnations.
- In some cases, he is known to possess a cane sword.
- He plays the violin, and very well too.
- He is asexual and aromantic.
- He sometimes wears a short ponytail.
- Dreamcatchers stick to him like flypaper, like all dream demons.
- He can use his symbol as a peephole. Wherever his star is, he can see thorough it, regardless of his current location.
- He has an object form; a star.
- The triplets have tried to use him as the star on top of the Christmas tree.[6]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex, (creator, prod, dir, writer). "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future." Gravity Falls. (2012) Disney Channel. 618G-218, Burbank, California. 12 October 2015. Television.
- ↑ transcendence-au. "ok ok I have to get this out...". [Tumblr] <https://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/99202592653/zoey-chu-ok-ok-i-have-to-get-this-out-while-my>
- ↑ transcendence-au. "Anonymous asked: Since Alcor spends a lot of time around kids...". [Tumblr] <https://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/103764766992/since-alcor-spends-a-lot-of-time-around-kids-and>
- ↑ Seiya234 (mod S). "Meat Cute" (7 October 2014). [Archive of Our Own] <https://archiveofourown.org/works/2416994/chapters/5346530>
- ↑ transcendence-au. "On Twin Souls, Dipnip, and Consent". [Tumblr] <http://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/130239576293/on-twin-souls-dipnip-and-consent>
- ↑ Seiya234 (mod S). "Shooting Stars, Chapter 33" (2014). [Archive of Our Own] <https://archiveofourown.org/works/2421911/chapters/6093515>
