r/DeathBattleMatchups • u/SpeedyHedgehog_91 🍩 Homer Simpson vs Peter Griffin🍺 Fan • Jun 25 '25
Original Matchup "Shifting Ciphers" | Bill Cipher vs The Princess (Gravity Falls vs Slay the Princess) [Connections and potential in comments]
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u/SpeedyHedgehog_91 🍩 Homer Simpson vs Peter Griffin🍺 Fan Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
Fight Potential:
The fight would start off with the Princess in her base form locked within the cabin’s basement (whether it takes place before or after killing her attacker is up to your interpretation) until Bill summons himself into the room as the two meet. Bill tells the Princess that he knows who she is and how he plans to erase her from every possible timeline within the Endless Cycle. Upon hearing this, the Princess decides to fight back against the Dream Demon.
There are various ways the fight could go due to how the Princess possesses different forms in each dimension and how Bill travels through various dimensions himself; so many that they can’t be explained in its entirety here without feeling too long. Some variants of the Princess that could work well for this matchup would definitely be The Nightmare and The Wraith could work as phases that take place in the middle of the fight as one evaporates the other before being sent to another dimension where the next state of the fight begins.
Bill would then come face to face with either The Adversary/The Eye of the Needle or The Razor who destroy his eye, causing him to turn into his angry form. Once that timeline is destroyed, another begins with The Princess appearing as The Tower before emerging as The Apotheosis while Bill morphs into his monstrous form. No matter what timeline occurs throughout the fight, each of them would be warped and manipulated by both Bill and The Princess who cause tons of destruction and evaporate each dimension.
The climatic end would have Bill be summoned into the The Spaces Between before coming face to face with the Shifting Mound at long last after wiping out five of her vessels. With both of them breaking free from The Construct and are at their full power, the Shifting Mound could unleash multiple vessels while Bill uses his weirdness against them and fending off incoming vessels with his clones.
Endings:
If Bill wins, he could kill each vessel from within and travel back to the cabin where he meets the Damsel in the heart of The Shifting Mound and kills her, thus shattering the walls of The Construct.
If The Princess wins, she could force Bill to face numerous vessels in different timelines where he always loses. After being bested numerous times and growing weaker, he could start begging The Shifting Mound for anything she desires before finally succumbing to his demise.