The lost twin of Gravity Falls

Chapter 1 - Missing case of 1982

Heed my sins, rejoice in my sorrow. This evil will reign over tomorrow, over the land we call home and over the beasts and monsters contained in its boundaries. It will reign over our hopeless and misguided souls, and the evil will grant us the guidance we have been missing for decades of our existence. For without guidance, we are not much at all, without guidance we are simply lost souls.

Cipher sees us all with the openings in our world. The being we are far too imbecilic to truly understand watches us, it mentors us in our many struggles and commands us to do its bidding as our payment to the knowledge and power it gifts back to us. Those who accept the call and answer the whims and pleas of cipher are the puppets. We all deep down are puppets of cipher, his essence and spirit bonded to us with every breath we take and every molecule we move. Us as a collective have been granted so gracefully with a title from our god, The cult of the all-seeing eye. We are the eyes where our god cannot see, we are watching. Eyes will always watch no matter how safe you may think you are. And ours are watching constantly. There are always eyes. Everywhere.

That was the message found scrawled across the walls of the scientists cabin deep within the woods. When the authorities were alerted on the 28th of January 1982, they were only told that the man who owned the property had not been seen for a while, and despite the mans reputation for being somewhat of a recluse it was strange for him not to appear. However, when they finally arrived at the property it looked like it had been abandoned for around a week and was a complete mess. They didnt see the state of the house as a mere coincidence, considering that the other scientist who was often seen at the house apparently went insane and had been seen around the small town forgetting the simplest of things. First one of them had gone seemingly insane and suffered memory loss, and now the other was missing. The state of the cabin itself showed that something wasnt right. Books and papers were scattered everywhere, all depicting a being called Cipher, not to mention the clear depictions of the entity scattered around the house. The door had about 15 locks on it and there was a crossbow holder placed right next to it, however the crossbow itself was nowhere to be found. When words of the cabin seeped out into the town, the people seemed to have proved a point to themselves. As the person who owned the cabin was always somewhat of a mad scientist to the townsfolk. However due to the ominous lights and loud explosions the cabin had produced over the years, even when they could no one apart from the authorities dared to enter the building.

However even the authorities always felt an unnerving sense when they were in the cabin. Along with the absolute mess that covered the cabin, there were many signs that warned people to stay out and to turn back while they still could. Writings were everywhere in the cabin, on walls, on tables and even on the mirrors. The entity they learned that was called cipher was everywhere. Not only in files and documents, but the house was almost a low-grade temple for the demon. Candles were everywhere, banners with the being on it had been scattered across the walls of the home and statues of it had been placed on tables as a makeshift shrine. The detectives knew they would find some strange things here, considering the stories they had heard from the townsfolk about strange blinding lights emanating from the building on dark winter nights. However, when they looked around, they couldnt find any experiments that could have made such a light, despite some of the experiments they found in there looking dangerous to say the least. When the detectives were starting to give up hope on finding any answers not only to the missing man, but to any of the strange sightings the cabin had produced; they went to the one place that was always bad news in horror stories.

The basement. And what a horror story it turned out to be. For what they had searched for, had been below them this entire time.

Blueprints had never shown a true basement, only a simple lower level that would most likely be used for storage. Despite what the blueprints showed, the basement had in fact two levels. An elevator connected the two along with a staircase hidden in the corner of both levels. It was clear that the first level they found was supposed to be an office of sorts, as a desk and some strange computer was hidden under tarps and cloths. The office had clearly been changed from its original purpose and was remodelled into a shrine for the demon. From files to banners, statues to pendants the entity was plastered everywhere, yet despite this in all its unsettling nature it was not even this level which sent shivers down the peoples spines. It was what lied below it. Something they couldnt even understand and frankly didnt want to, due to how uncomfortable they felt simply looking at it.

Hidden at the back of the lowest level was a massive machine that looked far too complicated for a human mind to invent. The machine was massive and had many metal rings that seemed to convey energy surrounding it. There was a blast proof room that you were first in when you used the elevator. The room had so many switches and monitors that all had strange readings on anomalies that were scattered around the small town, as well as levers that had warning signs on them and the desk in the room had many books on astrophysics and anomalies, as well as some empty barrels of highly dangerous toxic waste hidden in the corner. There was a lever in the middle of the main room, in front of that massive machine. But none of the detectives could even budge it, to be honest all of them prayed that it didnt move when they accidentally nudged it, who knew what it could do. This device simply scared them senseless. They declared it as the cause of all the lights and sounds the cabin had produced, when asked for evidence. The authorities simply asked the people to trust their word.

After discovering even more imagery of the entity named Bill Cipher, they decided to do some research. They discovered that many years ago a shaman who also lived in the small town and written about the being, however while the accounts started friendly it slowly went downhill with the shaman supposedly ending his own life trying to defeat the demon. This didnt help calm their fears along with the pottery they found inscribing the beast, as well as banners that depicted hellfire and chaos with that thing in the centre of it. The being had been said to have been in this universe for millennia, despite it being known that the demon was not from this dimension. Apart from these small clues they had no information on the demon they had discovered, but connecting all this to the message they found at the cabin they knew that the missing scientist was most likely now insane somewhere. The authorities settled on two opinions before they left, the scientist was either: a madman like his former partner. Or he was dead. For them there was no in-between of the outcome. And after nearly a whole month of searching, they ended the mission. Claiming it a lost cause.

Despite the hunt ending however, there was one group who did not end their attention on the case: the media. News outlets from everywhere wanted reporters to go to the town of Gravity Falls to do interviews and reports. But all their workers were terrified and refused the job, those who did convince people to go didnt get any information on the cabin itself as the people were terrified and left only days into their stay. The companies were starting to grow restless and wanted a story. But without a willing reporter to go, what could they do? They knew the hype and attention of the case would die down unless they got a story out there and spread this news across the country, as the story had mostly been contained to Oregon as to not cause too much panic. The search for reporters carried on even after the search ended but the companies had failure after failure. Until one company unexpectedly hit gold. When the company first had a homeless rundown come to them for the job, they were never going to hire him, especially with the only grades on record coming from high school. And those grades werent even finished and only went up to when the man would have been 18. But their opinions quickly changed when they told the man about what had happened in Gravity falls and re read the mans information over. They very quickly had themselves a new and willing reporter.

The reason they hired the man with such sudden change was simple. The only information released officially by the police was a missing statement for the man to help find him if anyone ever spotted him. The man was pretty standard, both brown hair and eyes. However, he was born with a medical condition, causing six fingers on both hands. Not to mention the man was a twin and his twin had the same first half of his name which would possibly make the search harder. The mans name was released to the public to be Stanford Pines. Now, the company knew this in advance. So, when they reread the homeless mans resume and looked very closely at his appearance. They immediately shipped him off to Gravity Falls as their newest reporter with only a pen and notebook, as well as a nametag on his jacket.

A nametag which read Stanley Pines.