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The Book of Bill has been kind of weird for cosmology, because I'm not so sure how to reconcile some facts.
For example, Bill explicitly states he's going to destroy the multiverse, but he also states that he won in every timeline other than the main canon one, yet the multiverse isn't destroyed. What's up with that?
One of the ways to reconcile it is to say that timelines and universes are different in Gravity Falls, which does have some backing to it. In the Gravity Falls CYOA book, we get a rather blatant description on how time functions. The book is considered "non-canon" but Alex stated that the stuff to do with the Axolotl is canon, and this specifically has to do where the axolotl lives, so I think this should be fine to use. It is also referred to again in the Book of Bill, as the 'tank outside of space'.
The main issue with this description, is that it is absolutely not how the Nightmare Realm is described at all. The Nightmare Realm is a "shifting intergalactic foam between dimensions", and visually, universes are depicted as bubbles in the dimension, not rivers.
So, it might be fair to say that a "universe" and a "timeline" aren't exactly the same thing. Bill's precog lets him view into these alternate worlds, but they aren't necessarily in the same timeline, but instead bound to a higher version of time that exists beyond the normal multiverse.
This could also just mean that the Nightmare Realm isnt a brane, so like, pick your poison.
For example, Bill explicitly states he's going to destroy the multiverse, but he also states that he won in every timeline other than the main canon one, yet the multiverse isn't destroyed. What's up with that?
One of the ways to reconcile it is to say that timelines and universes are different in Gravity Falls, which does have some backing to it. In the Gravity Falls CYOA book, we get a rather blatant description on how time functions. The book is considered "non-canon" but Alex stated that the stuff to do with the Axolotl is canon, and this specifically has to do where the axolotl lives, so I think this should be fine to use. It is also referred to again in the Book of Bill, as the 'tank outside of space'.
The main issue with this description, is that it is absolutely not how the Nightmare Realm is described at all. The Nightmare Realm is a "shifting intergalactic foam between dimensions", and visually, universes are depicted as bubbles in the dimension, not rivers.
So, it might be fair to say that a "universe" and a "timeline" aren't exactly the same thing. Bill's precog lets him view into these alternate worlds, but they aren't necessarily in the same timeline, but instead bound to a higher version of time that exists beyond the normal multiverse.
This could also just mean that the Nightmare Realm isnt a brane, so like, pick your poison.