Ian Beale
Template:Character Ian is one of Bill Cipher's reincarnations, placed before Toby on the timeline. His full name is Ian Thomas Beale.
Relationships
Mira
Mira is one of Mabel's reincarnation, as well as Ian's girl friend.
Dipper
When Dipper first met Ian he attacked him and would have killed him if Mira hadn't stopped him. Dipper tries to get along with Ian but can never quite find it in himself to trust him completely.
Rosa
Ian's best friend and reincarnation of Gideon.
Lydia
Violet
Joy
Joy is Ian's youngest daughter, and a girl he recognizes as a kindred sort of spirit. After trying to manipulate him with her over the top cuteness in an attempt to convince him to adopt her, he did just that- knowing that she was in bad need of some guidance.
Personality
Ian's idea of what counts as 'cute' is far from conventional (inside out hamsters being a prime example). This goes hand-in-hand with his unusually morbid sense of humor. He also likes triangles, which scares the shit out of Dipper.
Ian suffered heavily from depression as a teen, and even as an adult hasn't completely gotten over his issues. As one of Bill's first reincarnations his soul has problems dealing with the lack of omniscience, so he feels insignificant because he is unable so the see connections of everything in the universe.
History
Ian has had nightmares where he finds himself in the mystery shack, in which he's invisible and largely unable to interact with the world around him. Their are children there, in his dreams, playing and living out their lives. Yet they never notice him, no matter what he does. He says it makes him feel non-existent. Thankfully, Dipper eats these nightmares- only make the worrying discovery of Bill's summoning circle buried within Ian's subconscious memories.
Overtime, as a result of Dipper, Ian grew curious as to just who his previous life had been to have inspired such hatred in the demon. As Dipper refused to tell him, he decided to take a test to figure it out for himself. Unfortunately, the government saw his results and saw fit to kidnap him.
Subsequently, Ian found himself temporarily held prisoner within a white cell. Later, he was forced into a giant summoning/binding circle, meant to bring Bill out. However, it wasn't long before Dipper and Mira came to his rescue, which put the government under pressure and forced them use their trump card: Bill Cipher's real name. With that, Bill took over Ian's body just in time to laugh in Dipper and Mira's face.
It is revealed that Bill's own death, Dipper's inheritance of his power, as well as his subsequent reincarnation, were all part of a larger gambit on the part of the demon. Dipper was really his guinee pig, with his end goal being to come back as a human in order to establish a link to the physical plane, thereby increasing his power.
Ian would manage regain control of his body, with more than a little help from Mira, and stab out his own eye as a symbol against Bill's power. He would soon after make a deal with Dipper, which entailed him taking his restored memories of being Bill Cipher in exchange for erasing the memories of other people who knew the truth, so he could regain some semblance of a normal life.
Dipper would never be able to fully trust Ian after the incident, and Ian wouldn't blame him.
Mira and Ian would go on to have two biological daughters, Violet and Lydia, and to later adopt a little girl named Joy.
Appearance
He’s about 5’8”, and an absolute noodle of a person. He can generally be spotted sporting jeans and pastel t-shirts with cute images on them, usually with a plaid flannel overtop that clashes horribly, though he takes literally any opportunity to dress up and has an inordinately large collection of bowties. After he loses his right eye, he has it replaced with a state-of-the-art cybernetic implant equipped with a filter that imitates the Sight (and a few other cool tricks); it doesn’t look even remotely natural, being a bright gold and occasionally moving independently.
His hair is red and his eyes are blue. At the time of Reincarnation Blues, he was 25 years old.
