Okay okay, one last theory, I promise



Only because I might have cracked the code on the function of the portal and how it’s going to bring about the end of the world

I’m gonna put this under a read more because its gonna be long

(if you feel like skipping to the direct point, go for it)

The portal and Bill are directly linked.

I know lots of people have talked about this before, hell, there are even comics about it, but I would like to go more in depth, and sort of come to a conclusion that I haven’t seen theorized before.

Lets start with the journals-

We don’t know whats written in the first journal about Bill ( besides how the author talks to Bill in his dreams), but considering he is in the second one and throughout half of the third, he has been communicating with the Author from the very beginning. And, as he was stated to be a trustworthy friend, he and the author were on very good terms (I mean, the man even went so far as to put summoning instructions for Bill in the second journal).

Bill knew the author’s weakness: his thirst for knowledge. Bill seems to have a knack for finding everyone’s fatal flaws, but then again he does know EVERYTHING.

This means he also knows how to manipulate people, and in ‘Sock Opera’ we can see just how good he is at convincing Dipper that his sister has been useless to him all summer.

But back to the Author. He wants to know all the secrets of the world, and present his findings to the rest of humanity. The Author says “The machine was meant to create knowledge”. And so Bill promises him all the secrets of the universe.





Bill gives the Author the design to the portal. Maybe by planting the idea in his head, or maybe directly. The portal, since its blueprints were featured in the very first journal, has been a project the Author had worked on for 6-8 years (maybe even 9, depending on where the third journal truely cuts off), which is, coincidencely, about how long he has been communicating with Bill Cipher.

Jumping forwards- the portal is finished and tested.

Fiddleford describes it as ‘something went wrong’, and thats a bit of an understatment. By the blood splatter on the Bill page in the third journal, something DID go horribly wrong. (my guess is someone may have been possessed, since Bill talks about inhabiting bodies before, but thats a thing for another time)

It goes so horribly awry that Fiddleford erased his memories of everything so he wouldn’t have to live in constant fear and guilt of what he had done. The author (maybe even Stanford) crosses out everything on Bill and writes “DO NOT SUMMON AT ALL COSTS”.

The author writes in his journal that the opening of the portal could lead to a global catastrophe, an apocalypse.

But, a certain being of light and energy that we know is being hinted at bringing about the apocalypse too:

Bill.

They are directly parallel, and ultimately linked.

This is where it gets strange and we have to put in more guess-work.

Bill brings up the fact that he’s trapped in the dreamscape a lot. I mean, A LOT. In this dreamscape he talks about how he can’t communicate with anyone, and his powers are limited to that realm, besides dreams.

(In fact, he spends most of this episode explaining to Dipper how awful the dreamscape is for him)

But the 'real world’ limits him as well. He has to possess a vessel, and even then, he doesn’t have his powers and is limited to what a normal human body can do.

A single, normal human can’t bring about the apocalypse like it is hinted at with the fire and darkness and chaos and what-not.

The only way Bill would be able to bring about this apocalypse is if he was to retain his dreamscape form and powers, and be present in the physical world.

It is said that the portal leads to alternate dimensions, but what if we tweaked it just a bit?

What if the portal links the dreamscape to the real world?

Bill has a way of twisting his words, so that he’s not exactly lying, but he’s not telling the whole truth. For example, the whole scene where he tricks Dipper into letting him use his body as a vessel he state he only 'needs a puppet’. It’s there for a reason. Demons are known for being slippery in their deals, and this only backs up that statement.

Bill tells the Author that the portal will bring about ultimate knowledge

And he’s not lying.

This portal will bring him into the real world, an omnipotent being that the human race has never seen before.

And this brings about the apocalypse.

Bill Cipher will literally bring people’s worst nightmares to life.

(This also means that the Author was stuck in the dreamscape, which seems like a fate worse than death considering he could watch everyone around him and never be able to communicate with them. But, it would also make these translations make more sense, because the author and Bill seem to be communicating from the same realm)