I feel that Shion is right: infinite multiverses. He just calls his own multiverse a timeline, as literally the other mulitverses exist due to possibilities and choices.
Ford is just built different
Bill can. Within his Spatial Multiverse. He can't hop Timelines, though. And neither can Ford, either. (Though Bill can LEAVE the Timeline and exist between them.)
The very core of the plot is that Bill can't get to Gravity Falls (he can but only in Mindscape Form and can really interact with things other than getting to people's minds or existing as a shadow or smth)
That's my problem, and Ford calls other timelines as simply other dimensions as well.
Maybe it specifically has to do with Bill being an otherwordly being? Or maybe Nightmare Realm is alive and hates him guts so it just doesnt allow Bill to do shit lol
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This changes nothing about Bill's multiversal travel? Bill can't physically manifest in Gravity Falls, yes, but even within your own admission he can travel there. In that same way, he can't physically manifest anywhere. But he can travel the Multiverse regardless in his still powerful Mindscape form. What he needs to physically manifest in any location is a rip in space-time caused by his Tampered Portal, which can be BUILT ANYWHERE. It's just the EASIEST on Earth, and within Gravity Falls. (Hence why his focus is on US.) So yes, he can travel within his Spatial Multiverse.
I mean, why he gains his physical form only if rift happens, and before that he's just in his far less powerful Mindscape Form. That's my concern.
I assume Bills power is somewhat connected to Nightmare Realm, when Rift happens it leaks into Earth allowing Bill to achieve his full power.
That applies across the Multiverse. He needs the rip to specifically to combine worlds and grant him the ability to get his "Multi-Dimensional Makeover." This applies to any world with any set of Dimensionality he hasn't gotten around to becoming yet. (In this case, a great many worlds are 3rd Dimensional.) EDIT: So he's stuck in the Mindscape, but can travel across it at will. Unless I'm missing something specific, I don't see an issue whatsoever.
This would mean that he has physical form in NR, and if it is though, he could "smash Multiverse" without going to GF
So basically somehow rift will specifically grant him Physical Form?..
I think we should probably just accept it as a "rule". Like "rift exists" = "Bill gains physical form".
NR is the only place unstable for destruction, after it is destroyed none of the universes will be affected. Bill was gonna move into the multiverse so when NR is destroyed he could keep living in his own version of NR within the Multiverse.
I mean, yes he has a physical form in the NR, but it doesn't have access to the Spatial Multiverse. Only his Mindscape form does. That's a specific limitation he operates in.
No? He uses his powers to do that. Powers he only gains within the temporary combination of worlds caused by the Nightmare Realm ("assembling his atoms from across reality"). Bill then uses that power to maintain, extend, and further bolster that merger.
Shion has the right of it.
This sounds very, very weird if we claim that his Physical Form has Low 1-C, possibly 1-B Range and Destructive Capacity.
I feel like I'm getting lost in translation or you're overcomplicating it.
But the multiverse card does say there's only one
Maybe only one that Dennis (or whoever that guy was) can access have? And others are for other infinite Dennises.
...don't think it works like this.
Pokemon.
