I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.
Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.
Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:
(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)
But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:
If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.
Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.
Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.
...Hence "so much blood."
(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)
after consideration it has been changed that parallia is making the shadow puppet rather than the originally intended renata
"shh, ignorance is bliss" has to be the rawest fucking line ever, right before A Sphere fucking dies horrifically. A few minutes in the movie before this guy was displaying so much self-absorption it's nuts, and he's just sitting there, awaiting his fate. Ego death Speedrun any% fr
inspired by that one video because i think it’s the cutest thing ever
[ID: a digital painting done in a lineless style of two original stylised Flatland characters named Liz and Ruth.
Liz is a humanoid creature with grey skin, a star-shaped head, one eye, a tail with a star on the end, and a metal prosthetic left forearm. She is wearing a red turtleneck, brown trousers, black boots and gold hoop earrings. Ruth is a similar creature, with dark grey skin and light grey spots, a short tail and an eye for a head. She is wearing a red scarf, a green jumper, a blue skirt, white socks and brown Mary Janes.
Liz and Ruth are sat on the ground. Liz has her legs tucked behind her and Ruth is kneeling down. Liz is holding Ruth’s hand with her right hand as she paints Ruth’s hand green using her prosthetic hand. Liz is looking at Ruth’s hand with a content half-lidded eye and an orange blush. Ruth’s left hand is laid down on her skirt. She is looking at Liz’s face with a blue blush and her head is tilted away bashfully.
The background shows a large tree and grassy fields in the distance under a blue sky. The rest of the image is framed in an olive green, with Ruth, Liz and the tree’s roots extending past it.
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[ID: two images of the “Us if we were a strawberry and cherry” cat meme. The original image is on the right, showing two cats wearing strawberry and cherry hoods and the meme title above them. On the left is an uncoloured doodle version with Ruth and Liz, where Ruth is the strawberry and Liz is the cherry. End ID].
Rayelle being a 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴ezoid.
Flatland AU rambling below:
In my AU, regular polygons have congruent marks surgically placed in men to solidify their shape, and place in society for jobs and such. The exception being women, irregulars, and circles.
Those who DON’T have congruent marks can morph their form to a degree both consciously and subconsciously. In Flatland, this is naturally seen as taboo as your place in society is determined by your shape. Therefore, don’t startle a Circle. (Meaning you should TOTALLY not keep out of a Circle’s line of sight and announce your presence from behind.) Circles will spike up like a pufferfish when startled.
Kendall McNamara Sphere
Adult Flatlander female with scale notation, 2037
Supplement to FDAC “Gospel” initiative
and the universe said "i love you because you are love"
A Square, the main character from Flatland.
a look at flatlander anatomy inspired by @rjalker’s post about bill not being able to eat if he was supposedly flatlander-esque and needing a feeding tube + my own personal headcanon that those silly straws mentioned were said feeding tubes used for “fussy eater baby billy”
[ID: two digital drawings of diagrams showing speculative anatomy for Flatlanders and Bill Cipher on grey backgrounds.
The first image shows an equilateral triangle Flatlander. The word “flatlander” is wrote above them. They are facing the left and smiling. Their organs are visible and labelled respectively. Going clockwise from the left, the labels read “mouth/anus”, “brain”, “larynx”, “crop”, “gizzard”, “intestines”, “heart”, “gonads”, “colon” and “spiracles”. The word “flatlander” is wrote above them. The organs are black, excluding the heart which is red and blue. Behind the organs is a colour map showing the body’s blood-oxygen distribution.
The second image is a doodle of Bill Cipher. Above him is text that says “bill?”. His eye is labelled in the centre of his body. His organs are outlined in red and marked by a key. There is a bottle with a straw that enters his body through his bottom right corner and an arrow pointed to the bottle labelled “silly straw feeding tube?”.
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@presidentcircles-assistant's oc
when instead of yellow slurry with infinite faith in the sphere and another life a blood-like slurry with the truth is injected into you haha hihi