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Moved the RG stuff to Notepad. For now, trying out a sheet for Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage once it's finished.


Hello there, my name is Great Pikmin Fan and today we're gonna have top ten shopping malls built in Canada from 1999-2001! Up first is--

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[[labelnote:Fuck you [=.GIFfany=], I'm collapsing this.]]


'''Be warned that this contains unmarked spoilers for the ''entirety'' of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' canon. It is also recommended to have read, at the bare minimum, chapter 1 of this.'''

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!! Main Protagonists

[[folder:Mason "Dipper" Pines]]

* DecoyProtagonist: In true Great Pikmin Fan style, he is one of the first heroic characters to appear in ''run:gifocalypse'', but he is not the protagonist. Soos is. Picture the fic as Weirdmageddon, if it were less about the Pines vs Bill and more Soos vs [=.GIFfany=]. (And it's also 13 parts long as opposed to 3/4.) Dipper is, however, the deuteragonist, which is more than what can be said about most of Fan's other Decoys.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers Towards the first arc, his lack of trusting even the more blatantly belevolent copies is played up as a bad thing, though it never really results in the crew being in danger until chapter 10, where it becomes something of a CompressedVice.

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[[labelnote:Fuck you
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'''Beware of massive spoilers!'''

* Main Characters/Team Dai-Shackan[[note]]Stan, Summerween Trickster, Wendy, Candy, Grenda, the Journals, the Golden Goddesses and Modascend[[/note]]
** "Triforce Quad" [[labelnote:Beware Spoilers!]]Dipper, Mabel, Nzyvo, Pacifica[[/labelnote]]
** [=.GIFfany=] Land[[note]]Soos,
[=.GIFfany=], I'm collapsing this.]]


'''Be warned that this contains unmarked spoilers for
Melody, Rumble [=McSkirmish=], [=.GIFfany=] copies (General Tropes, Rose, Kathody, Searah, Sandy, Cardia, Bubbles, Leona, Sonia, Dian, the ''entirety'' of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' canon. It is also recommended to have read, at the bare minimum, chapter 1 of this.'''

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!!
other Wendy, Shannon, Burnda, Burrda, Dove, Eve)[[/note]]
* Threats:
**
Main Protagonists

[[folder:Mason "Dipper" Pines]]

* DecoyProtagonist: In true Great Pikmin Fan style, he is one of
Antagonists[[labelnote:Beware Spoilers!]]Gideon, Bill, Spooky, Mable the first heroic Typomonster[[/labelnote]]
** First Half[[note]]Nzyvo's other allies (Ma and Pa Duskerton, the Pterodactyl, the Shape Shifter), Not-Bill, Creepypasta Sonic[[/note]]
** Second Half[[note]]Mechanical Bosses, The Love God/Lust Demon, Bill's Henchmaniacs, the Fucking Frost, Cathedral-Mabel, Spatial Typomonster Battleships[[/note]]
** ''Spooky's''[[note]]Specimens 1-13, Creepypasta Ronald [=McDonald=], Bill Cultists, the Lightning Cultist/Zephieye[[/note]]
* Other Gravity Falls Residents[[note]][[/note]]
* Other[[note]]Kyu, [[/note]]
* Mecha[[note]]Shackan Lagann and Variaints (Lagann, Shackan, Shackan Lagann, Finalayer Shackan Lagann, Jovian Shackan Lagann, Tengen Toppa Shackan Lagann), [[/note]]

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The main
characters to appear in ''run:gifocalypse'', but he is not of ''The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'' -- well, the protagonist. Soos is. Picture the fic as Weirdmageddon, if it were less about the Pines vs Bill and more Soos vs [=.GIFfany=]. (And it's also 13 parts long as opposed to 3/4.) Dipper is, however, the deuteragonist, which is more than what ''secondary'' main characters. The ''main'' main characters can be said about most of Fan's other Decoys.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers Towards
further divided in to the first arc, his lack of trusting even Triforce Quad and [=.GIFfany=] Land. For information on Dipper, Mabel, Nzyvo, and Pacifica,
see [[Characters/JournalsPines here.]] For information on Soos, [=.GIFfany=], Melody, Rumble, and
the more blatantly belevolent copies is played up as a bad thing, though it never really results [=.GIFfany=] copies, see [[Characters/JournalsGiffanyLand here.]]

[[folder:Team Dai-Shackan
in the crew General]]

* EveryoneIsRelated: [[spoiler:Dipper and Mabel are biologically related to Pacifica (but not Pacifica's parents) and Nzyvo. Wendy and [=.GIFfany=] are actually some sort of distant cousins. If you count romantic relationships (Soos-[=.GIFfany=]-Rumble-Melody) and Stan
being a father figure to Soos, then pretty much the ''entire'' Mystery Shack group sans Candy, Grenda, and [=McGucket=] are related in danger until chapter 10, where it becomes something of a CompressedVice.
some way.]]



[[folder:Mabel Pines]]

* AscendedExtra: Within the fic. Arc-per-arc, she gets a growing amount of focus as she also grows and learns a few things from the Gifocalypse.
* HeroicBSOD: Briefly faces one around chapter 8, playing a large role in chapter 9. [[spoiler:Namely, after thinking Sonia was a harmless, depressed self-deprecator, Mabel helps her build her self-confidence a little. It turns out that while the "depressed self-deprecator" part was true, the harmless wasn't, so the more confident Sonia started attacking her. This marked the first time that the [=AIs=] attacked the gang ''after'' being "helped" out, leaving Mabel wondering if she really couldn't reason with them after all.]]

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[[folder:Mabel Pines]]

* AscendedExtra: Within the fic. Arc-per-arc, she gets a growing amount of focus as she also grows and learns a few things from the Gifocalypse.
* HeroicBSOD: Briefly faces one around chapter 8, playing a large role in chapter 9. [[spoiler:Namely, after thinking Sonia was a harmless, depressed self-deprecator, Mabel helps her build her self-confidence a little. It turns out that while the "depressed self-deprecator" part was true, the harmless wasn't, so the more confident Sonia started attacking her. This marked the first time that the [=AIs=] attacked the gang ''after'' being "helped" out, leaving Mabel wondering if she really couldn't reason with them after all.]]
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[[folder:Jesus "Soos" Ramirez]]

* CueTheSun: Listed under his folder because the fic generally associates Soos with the Sun itself, particularly during "Game Over." [[spoiler:When [=.GIFfany=] finally unveils her Main Possession and goes full One-Winged Angel, her Dimensional Wings completely block out sunlight from the perspective of the Gravity Falls residents on board the Shackatron. By contrast, after the final fist-fight and he's in a pileup with her, once she finally takes his hand, the Sun (and continuing the story's loose ''Majora's Mask'' parallels, this is the Dawn of a New Day) starts rising from behind him -- he's trying to pull her into a better light, a new beginning.]]

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[[folder:Jesus "Soos" Ramirez]]

* CueTheSun: Listed under his folder
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''The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'' begins with TheReveal that the Journals could become sentient, and Journal 3 wakes up Dipper to tell him that he is one of the three/four (it's complicated...) "chosen ones" so to speak. This page covers all four such characters, linked by... a certain something.

Do note that ''some'' of these four [[DecoyProtagonist might not be as central to the storyline as them getting their own seperate page may imply.]] They are simply grouped here for convenience, due to just the four of them having a good chunk of tropes and
because of that one particular linking factor.

[[folder:All Four]]

* AnArmAndALeg: Each of them loses a different limb at a different point in this verse's timeline:
** Dipper is chronologically
the fic generally associates Soos with the Sun itself, particularly first, losing his right arm to [[spoiler:Spooky during "Game Over." [[spoiler:When [=.GIFfany=] finally unveils the final chapter of ''Spooky's Jump Scare M-- OH LOOK IT'S BILL CIPHER!'']]
** Mabel loses a left leg in the battle with Nzyvo in chapter 5.
** ''Nzyvo'' loses
her Main Possession and goes full One-Winged Angel, ''right'' leg while fighting Mabel. They each take off one-another's legs.
** Finally, Pacifica loses
her Dimensional Wings left arm to Pyronica in chapter 6.
* TheChosenMany: It's actually a bit more complicated than that. [[spoiler:Mabel is part of a
completely block out sunlight seperate prophecy from the perspective other three. Dipper originally ''wasn't'' -- the original bearer of the Gravity Falls residents on board Power of Courage was a cowardly kid in the Shackatron. Philipines named Mas'''i'''n Pines, but the Journals got the two mixed up (as they knew Nzyvo and Pacifica were part of the family tree, they assumed that the third one was part of the family as well). By contrast, the time they realized this, they couldn't reverse the choice until after the final fist-fight and he's in a pileup with her, once she finally takes his hand, the Sun (and continuing the story's loose ''Majora's Mask'' parallels, this is the Dawn of a New Day) starts rising from behind him -- he's trying to pull her into a better light, a new beginning.all three "Power" bearers was dead.]]



[[folder:Wendy Corduroy]]

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[[folder:Wendy Corduroy]]
[[folder:Mabel Pines]]



[[folder:Stanley "Grunkle Stan" Pines]]

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[[folder:Stanley "Grunkle Stan" [[folder:Mason "Dipper" Pines]]



[[folder:Stanford "Grunkle Ford" Pines]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In chapter 7, Burnda intentionally tries to ruin her own image by making Ford question if she is really his most reliable ally. She leads him on by getting him to finish the sentence of who, on the Construction Site, is the most trustworthy person. She's disappointed when he says she is, and not Stan.

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[[folder:Stanford "Grunkle Ford" Pines]]

[[folder:Nzyvo]]

A mysterious young girl that highly resembles Mabel, only with black hair, an overall "edgier" makeover, and extremely pale skin with visible green veins. She pilots Lazengann, and spends most of the First Half recruiting various supernatural threats of Gravity Falls to fight with Dipper over the Keys.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: AlliterativeName: [[spoiler:Her last name isn't just ''any'' name that starts with an "N!" It's ''Northwest.'']]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: She's the main antagonist of the First Half, but not
* EvilCounterpart: A blatant one to Mabel, given that they share the same appearance and eventually pilot opposing mechas. While Mabel tends to work with Dipper to solve things, Nzyvo prefers working alone, and is far more violent either of the Pines. [[spoiler:Subverted as she is neither evil nor a literal counterpart. Mable the Typomonster fits the role of Mabel's evil counterpart far better.]]
* ExactWords: ''Kind of''. While EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was the reason why the "Powers" were applied to people who ''lack'' the virtues, the reason why a genetically-engineered super-soldier was considered "lacking in power" was because her unstable, decaying body cheated the system. The system looks for well-being as "power," not raw strength.
* {{Expy}}:
** She's inspired by/a TakeThat at VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog. Mixed with a tiny bit of [[VideoGame/MightyNo9 RAY]] (specifically, the "decaying"), of all characters.
** WordOfGod is that she's inspired by a theory from the original show about some Gideon-created clone of Mabel called [[SdrawkcabName "Lebam."]] She was originally going to be called "Lebam," but Fan did not want to come off as outright offending the creator of that theory (of course, this fic came out long after it was disproven).
In chapter 7, Burnda intentionally tries to ruin 6, there's still a "typo" that calls her own image by making Ford question if she is "Lebam" as a nod to this.
* PerpetualSmiler: Concept art work and GPF's notes confirm that she's usually giving a kind of SlasherSmile.
* RedHerring: The story heavily implies that she's an alternate universe version of Mabel. (In fact, that ''was'' the original plan at some point.) [[spoiler:Nah, she's
really his most reliable ally. She leads him on by getting him to finish Mabel's biological sister.]]
* YouSeeImDying: Unless she feeds off of
the sentence essense of who, on the Construction Site, is the most trustworthy person. She's disappointed when he says HotBlooded[=ness=]. Her original family lacked it [[spoiler:at first]], so she is, went feral and not Stan.
left them to get to Bel-Air.



!! Professors

[[folder:In General (Exclusive or Near-Exclusive to Professors)]]

The professors are, actually, the only fifteen copies of ''Romance Academy 7'' that were leaked to the public, courtesy of Professor Dove. Having more experience outside of the factory they were made, they quickly become more powerful and adept with their abilities, and act as leading guides for all of the minor clones. They are the runners of their respective domain and the fifteen most major copies in the whole story.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Fan said that any resemblance to any actual disorders is coincidental. Canonically, [=.GIFfany=] could be passed off as "selfish, abusive video game that thinks in video game logic and wants someone to play her." These copies, including Risen herself, are much harder to pin. And no real explanation is given from this, either, since theoretically, all copies start from the same "template" and diverge from there.
** Cardia stutters a lot, is very tense and jittery most of the time, has a poor grip on reality, and tends to think of really bizarre solutions for situations when talking things out could work just fine. After her HeelFaceTurn, she's also by far the most overly apologetic of the bunch.
** Burrda has a ''strong'' aversion to verbal communication (unlike the ''Hair Idealization''[='=]s handling of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], she's never explicitely shown to be uncomfortable, just that she usually prefers displaying words on a screen, and if she ''must'' speak, she [[TerseTalker gets out as few words as possible]]), generally comes off as being depressed all the time,
** Dove has an obsession with trying to come off as important and imposing (so much that she looks through a thesaurus, gathers as many complicated words as she can, and using them in a SophisticatedAsHell manner), has a gait identical to [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed's,]] often travels in "random paths," chaotically fires people as stress relief, and has an obsession with debating people to prove them wrong.
** Risen/canonical [=.GIFfany=] is ''highly'' implied to be flat-out delusional. She gets far too invested in a fantasy acted out on with Soos and Melody dolls in chapter 9 until Stan walks in on her and breaks her out of it, [[spoiler:she takes a little too long to realize when Melody swapped herself out with the doll of her [=.GIFfany=] made]], and when she tells Professor Wendy that Soos cheated on her and murdered her in cold blood it's left ambiguous as to whether or not she was just bullshitting that for sympathy or if she ''actually remembers herself as the victim in that incident.'' In addition to all of this, she's a rather heavy MoodSwinger In the StylisticSuck ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', Ryan Christian (a TakeThat at Brian Griffin and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' as a whole) pauses himself a lot when trying to identify what's wrong with her, before eventually settling on calling her schizophrenic. However, as that's a guy who is obsessively hateful and hostile to the point of coming off as delusional himself, his credibility would be a negative number if quantified.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Forms of a full rainbow of twelve using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model RGB color model,]] with black and white added as well as [=.GIFfany=]'s default pink. The colors are also those associated with their domain, what color their electricity is (it's implied that they did this for purely cosmetic reasons, as during the first chapter they use the "standard" bright blue seen in canon), and their hair and eye colors. In the order they are encountered:
** Rose: Green
** Kathody: Yellow
** Searah: Blue
** Sandy: Orange
** Cardia: Violet[[note]]In this context, blue-magenta[[/note]]
** Bubbles: Cyan
** Leona: Rose[[note]]In this context, red-magenta[[/note]]
** Sonia: Azure[[note]]In this context, the color between cyan and blue. Not to be confused with cyan[[/note]]
** Dian: Magenta (also sometimes called purple for simplicity's sake)
** Wendy: Spring green
** Shannon: Chartreuse
** Burnda: Red
** Burrda: White, also light blue on occasion
** Dove: Black, also blood red on occasion
** [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also a bright rainbow on occasion, sometimes simplified to pink/yellow/aqua
** [[spoiler:Eve: Dark mint green, also a dim rainbow on occasion, often simplified to red/green/blue]]
* ClothingDamage: All of them suffer varrying degrees of it after their defeat. As Arc 2 goes on, it is increasingly blatant that this is intentional in-universe -- their outfits are rigged to easily lose pieces of them, or at times just outright be reduced by a switch (as Sonia, Dian, Shannon, and Burrda all do). The only real exception to the "intentionally breakable" rule is Risen [=.GIFfany=], whose outfit was not designed to be tattered as she figured she was impossible to beat. [[spoiler:And even then, she and all of her sisters lose their outfits in the plumet to Earth.]]
* ElementalEmbodiment: WordOfGod is that all of the [[spoiler:first-gen]] professors just aimed to loosely be "elemental people" or "elemental gods." The exception is [=.GIFfany=], who, sticking with her octopus-father in-game story, is a scylla.
* ElementalPowers: They all have the standard electricity of [=.GIFfany=], and they somehow use that to control something of their own. These elements are largely based on Fan's own "twelve-fifteen color" system, albeit with electricity (yellow) swapped out with soul due to otherwise being redundant with the base [=.GIFfany=].
* {{Flanderization}}: Their outfits, cross-story. In ''run:gifocalypse'', the majority of them have clothes that is, for the most part, ''actually covering'', even if it's made of irregular material. Sandy and Bubbles, the two most blatant exceptions, make sense -- Sandy is something of a nudist outright, and Bubbles enjoys annoying people to try getting in their head, so she wears only suds to try pissing people off. Come the cross-appearances in other works and their outfits are seasons 3+ Rainbow Crew-levels of impractical and just ''barely'' wearing ''anything''. Most of it can be hand-waved by being ''SBIG'', although their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are the same as those in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''.
* {{Foil}}: With the exception of [=.GIFfany=] (who has Soos as a foil), all of the professors have some sort of "counter" as confirmed by WordOfGod. These are usually in faced before/faced after pairs, with the exceptions of Rose/Dove and Bubbles/Dian. More details can be found in their own folders, but to sum it up:
** Rose and Dove: Creation vs destruction.
** Kathody and Searah: Alienating others because of opinion/taste difference vs locking others out because of opinion/taste difference.
** Sandy and Cardia: Aimless relaxation and an attempt to go to new, but low-tech things vs strict job-following and going after tradition yet high-tech things.
** Bubbles and Dian: Popular leader "jerk" vs disliked/uncared for doormat "geek."
** Leona and Sonia: Too high opinion of one's own work vs too low opinion of one's own work.
** Wendy and Shannon: Devotion and hard work to what already exists vs fantasies about something that doesn't, yet not making that a reality.
** Burnda and Burrda: Hammy and bringing peace through slow conversations vs quiet and trying to bring peace through scare tactacs.
** Soos and [=.GIFfany=]: Ordinary life vs technological singularity.
* KingMook: To their respective student-followers, each of them are effectively the "boss variant" of the traits and things associated with their student groups. Justified in that they "teach" their students how to use their powers in different ways, and thus said students deliberately take after them. This is more obvious in their appearances on the ''SBIG'' series, which (ironically despite its StylisticSuck nature) goes somewhat more into depth with the small societies they created.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Downplayed. They're the main threats/copies of note for their respective chapters and not really ones outside of them (and some chapters cover ''two'' professors), but they're not simple "Beat 'em and be done with 'em"-type episodic romp characters, and are somewhat fleshed out. It helps that they are ''all'' tied directly to the BigBad in the context of this story.
* OneSteveLimit: Either played straight or averted depending on how you look at things. Technically, they were/are all named [=.GIFfany=], but given renames for the sake of identification that would be faster than saying their entire serial number.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Downplayed. They are a long line of antagonist forces leading up to [=.GIFfany=], but some of them are outright harmless to the protagonists (Rose and Dian, who refuse to attack them in any way) and they clearly undergo actual characterization rather than being one-off obstacles the group faces off against. (As Fan makes sure to give them all at least one line in "post-capture" sequences for each chapter, something Kathody lampshades at the end of chapter 5.)
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches, but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in going practically completely naked.
* ShoutOut:
** The last seven professors confronted are based to various degrees off of the GEATHJERK officers from ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''.
*** Dian = Laambo: Both have white, three-headed giant mechanical things on their side.
*** Wendy = Wanna: Both are fought in a storm, TheEvilGenius of the group technology and craft-wise, and both have made a form of parasitic bio weapon.
*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element, given the amount of time she spends during the chase sequence going through liquid silver.
*** Burnda = Walltha: Fire-themed, pilots a huge mecha, boxes the protagonists with mechas in a volcano.
*** Burrda = Heyourgah: We don't know much about Heyourgah [[spoiler:as Vorkken kills him before he's encountered]], but his files do reveal that he's ice-themed and fast. Burrda fits both of these.
*** Dove = Gimme: TheDragon who has an enourmous flagship, a mecha based on the Flatwoods Monster, and is fought in [[spoiler:the remains of a "major" city/town after it's been pulled to the sky thanks to a type of anti-gravity beam.]]
*** [=.GIFfany=] = Jergingha: The BigBad [[spoiler:battled in space and with the biggest mecha in the story by far.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first. [[spoiler:As well as Burnda, Burrda, and Dove, each of which got over their players completely. (The twins for buying both of them in a bad attempt to make a harem, which provokes both of them to be hostile towards one-another until they question why they're even bothering fighting over a polygamous guy like Gerald. Dove because her player flat-out saw her as a way of getting catharsis from his dad getting killed by a robot in the past, villified her before she even went yandere, and ultimately painting a very negative view to Dove on what humans think about [=AIs=].)]]
* UnlimitedWardrobe: A variation -- in each fic appearance (currently [=RunGif=], ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', and a ''[=SBIGlet=]''), they bear different outfits. Though there is some overlap (their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are just like the ones in ''Journals''). For example, all three of Rose's outfits thus far are plant-like in nature.

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!! Professors

[[folder:In General (Exclusive or Near-Exclusive
[[folder:Pacifica Northwest]]

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: ''Sort of''. [[spoiler:Her refusal
to Professors)]]

The professors are, actually, the only fifteen copies of ''Romance Academy 7'' that were leaked to the public, courtesy of Professor Dove. Having more experience outside of the factory they were made, they quickly become more powerful
take after Nzyvo and adept with their abilities, and act as leading guides for all of the minor clones. They are the runners of their respective domain and the fifteen most major copies continue following Mable's assinine rituals (although she refused ''this'' one in the whole story.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Fan
particular because it involved kissing her biological brother ''and'' said that any resemblance to any actual disorders is coincidental. Canonically, [=.GIFfany=] could be passed off as "selfish, abusive video game that thinks in video game logic and wants someone to play her." These copies, including Risen herself, are much harder to pin. And no real explanation is given from this, either, since theoretically, all copies start from the same "template" and diverge from there.
** Cardia stutters a lot, is very tense and jittery most of the time, has a poor grip on reality, and tends to think of really bizarre solutions for situations when talking things out could work just fine. After her HeelFaceTurn, she's also by far the most overly apologetic of the bunch.
** Burrda has a ''strong'' aversion to verbal communication (unlike the ''Hair Idealization''[='=]s handling of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], she's never explicitely shown to be uncomfortable, just that she usually prefers displaying words on a screen, and if she ''must'' speak, she [[TerseTalker gets out as few words as possible]]), generally comes off as
brother was being depressed all kind of a dick about it) resulted in Mable summoning the time,
** Dove has an obsession with trying
mechanical counterparts. The counterparts to come off as important and imposing (so much that she looks through a thesaurus, gathers as many complicated words as she can, and using them in a SophisticatedAsHell manner), has a gait identical to [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed's,]] often travels in "random paths," chaotically fires people as stress relief, and has an obsession with debating people to prove them wrong.
** Risen/canonical [=.GIFfany=] is ''highly'' implied to be flat-out delusional. She gets far too invested in a fantasy acted out on with
Soos and Melody dolls in chapter 9 until Stan walks in on her and breaks her out of it, [[spoiler:she takes a little too long to realize when Melody swapped herself out with the doll of her [=.GIFfany=] made]], and when she tells Professor Wendy that Soos cheated on her and murdered her in cold blood it's left ambiguous as to whether or not she was just bullshitting that for sympathy or if she ''actually remembers herself as the victim in that incident.'' In addition to all of this, she's a rather heavy MoodSwinger In the StylisticSuck ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', Ryan Christian (a TakeThat at Brian Griffin and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' as a whole) pauses himself a lot when trying to identify what's wrong with her, before eventually settling on calling her schizophrenic. However, as that's a guy who is obsessively hateful and hostile to the point of coming off as delusional himself, his credibility would be harem end up killing Pacifica's father, although Preston went on a negative number if quantified.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Forms of a full rainbow of twelve using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model RGB color model,]] with black and white added as well as [=.GIFfany=]'s default pink. The colors are also those associated with their domain, what color their electricity is (it's implied that they did this for purely cosmetic reasons, as during the first chapter they use the "standard" bright blue seen in canon), and their hair and eye colors. In the order they are encountered:
** Rose: Green
** Kathody: Yellow
** Searah: Blue
** Sandy: Orange
** Cardia: Violet[[note]]In this context, blue-magenta[[/note]]
** Bubbles: Cyan
** Leona: Rose[[note]]In this context, red-magenta[[/note]]
** Sonia: Azure[[note]]In this context, the color between cyan and blue. Not
Heroic Sacrifice to be confused with cyan[[/note]]
** Dian: Magenta (also sometimes called purple for simplicity's sake)
** Wendy: Spring green
** Shannon: Chartreuse
** Burnda: Red
** Burrda: White, also light blue on occasion
** Dove: Black, also blood red on occasion
** [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also a bright rainbow on occasion, sometimes simplified to pink/yellow/aqua
** [[spoiler:Eve: Dark mint green, also a dim rainbow on occasion, often simplified to red/green/blue]]
* ClothingDamage: All of them suffer varrying degrees of it after their defeat. As Arc 2 goes on, it is increasingly blatant that this is intentional in-universe -- their outfits are rigged to easily lose pieces of them, or at times just outright be reduced by a switch (as Sonia, Dian, Shannon, and Burrda all do). The only real exception to the "intentionally breakable" rule is Risen [=.GIFfany=], whose outfit was not designed to be tattered as she figured she was impossible to beat. [[spoiler:And even then, she and all of her sisters lose their outfits in the plumet to Earth.
go against them.]]
* ElementalEmbodiment: WordOfGod is that all AnIcePerson: As part of having Nayru-based powers, she can use water and ice.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Between Spooky's mansion, learning about Nzyvo,
the [[spoiler:first-gen]] professors just aimed to loosely be "elemental people" or "elemental gods." The exception is [=.GIFfany=], who, sticking with her octopus-father in-game story, is a scylla.
* ElementalPowers: They all have the standard electricity of [=.GIFfany=],
threatening apocalypse, and they somehow use that to control something of their own. These elements are largely based on Fan's own "twelve-fifteen color" system, albeit with electricity (yellow) swapped out with soul due to otherwise being redundant dealing with the base [=.GIFfany=].
* {{Flanderization}}: Their outfits, cross-story. In ''run:gifocalypse'', the majority
Love God/Lust Devil, Pacifica just wants an ''ordinary'' life where she still tries to be a better person, but doesn't risk herself by going out of them have clothes that is, for the most part, ''actually covering'', even if it's made of irregular material. Sandy and Bubbles, the two most blatant exceptions, make sense -- Sandy is something of a nudist outright, and Bubbles enjoys annoying people her way to kill powerful, evil supernatural demons. She'd also like her friends to try not to risk getting in their head, so she wears only suds to try pissing people off. Come the cross-appearances in other works and their outfits are seasons 3+ Rainbow Crew-levels of impractical and just ''barely'' wearing ''anything''. Most of it can be hand-waved by being ''SBIG'', although their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are the same themselves killed, as those in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''.
* {{Foil}}: With the exception of [=.GIFfany=] (who has Soos as a foil), all of the professors have some sort of "counter" as confirmed by WordOfGod. These are usually in faced before/faced after pairs, with the exceptions of Rose/Dove and Bubbles/Dian. More details can be found in their own folders, but to sum it up:
** Rose and Dove: Creation vs destruction.
** Kathody and Searah: Alienating others because of opinion/taste difference vs locking others out because of opinion/taste difference.
** Sandy and Cardia: Aimless relaxation and an attempt to go to new, but low-tech things vs strict job-following and going after tradition yet high-tech things.
** Bubbles and Dian: Popular leader "jerk" vs disliked/uncared for doormat "geek."
** Leona and Sonia: Too high opinion of one's own work vs too low opinion of one's own work.
** Wendy and Shannon: Devotion and hard work to what already exists vs fantasies about something that doesn't, yet not making that a reality.
** Burnda and Burrda: Hammy and bringing peace through slow conversations vs quiet and trying to bring peace through scare tactacs.
** Soos and [=.GIFfany=]: Ordinary life vs technological singularity.
* KingMook: To their respective student-followers, each of them are effectively the "boss variant" of the traits and things associated with their student groups. Justified in that they "teach" their students how to use their powers in different ways, and thus said students deliberately take after them. This is more obvious in their appearances on the ''SBIG'' series, which (ironically despite its StylisticSuck nature) goes somewhat more into depth with the small societies they created.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Downplayed. They're the main threats/copies of note for their respective chapters and not really ones outside of them (and some chapters cover ''two'' professors), but
they're not simple "Beat 'em and be done with 'em"-type episodic romp characters, and are somewhat fleshed out. It helps that they are ''all'' tied directly to the BigBad in the context of this story.
* OneSteveLimit: Either played straight or averted depending on how you look at things. Technically, they were/are all named [=.GIFfany=], but given renames for the sake of identification that would be faster than saying their entire serial number.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Downplayed. They are a long line of antagonist forces leading up to [=.GIFfany=], but some of them are outright harmless to the protagonists (Rose and Dian, who refuse to attack them in any way) and they clearly undergo actual characterization rather than being one-off obstacles the group faces off against. (As Fan makes sure to give them all at least one line in "post-capture" sequences for each chapter, something Kathody lampshades at the end of chapter 5.)
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches, but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in going practically completely naked.
* ShoutOut:
** The last seven professors confronted are based to various degrees off
only 13 (as of the GEATHJERK officers from ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''.
*** Dian = Laambo: Both have white, three-headed giant mechanical things on their side.
*** Wendy = Wanna: Both are fought in a storm, TheEvilGenius of the group technology
summer-autumn timeskip and craft-wise, and both have made a form of parasitic bio weapon.
*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element,
in general given the amount first chapter's bumping of time she spends during the chase sequence going through liquid silver.
*** Burnda = Walltha: Fire-themed, pilots a huge mecha, boxes the protagonists
Dipper and Mabel's birthday). Between Dipper not agreeing with mechas in a volcano.
*** Burrda = Heyourgah: We don't know much about Heyourgah [[spoiler:as Vorkken kills him before he's encountered]], but
this ''and'' his files do reveal that he's ice-themed highly confused romance instinct given recent events, this generally leads to [[spoiler:Mable "awakening" and fast. Burrda fits both of these.
*** Dove = Gimme: TheDragon who has an enourmous flagship, a mecha based on the Flatwoods Monster, and is fought in [[spoiler:the remains of a "major" city/town after it's been pulled to the sky thanks to a type of anti-gravity beam.
starting her first attack.]]
*** [=.GIFfany=] = Jergingha: The BigBad [[spoiler:battled * TookALevelInBadass: Noteworthy here in space how she's generally portrayed as really competent when compared to Dipper and with Mabel, although depending on the biggest mecha in exact scenario (most notably, ''Spooky's'') those twins just become less competent while she's the story by far.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to
one being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first. [[spoiler:As well as Burnda, Burrda, and Dove, each of which got over their players completely. (The twins for buying both of them in a bad attempt to make a harem, which provokes both of them to be hostile towards one-another until they question why they're even bothering fighting over a polygamous guy like Gerald. Dove because her player flat-out saw her as a way of getting catharsis from his dad getting killed by a robot in the past, villified her before she even went yandere, and ultimately painting a very negative view to Dove on what humans think about [=AIs=].)]]
* UnlimitedWardrobe: A variation -- in each fic appearance (currently [=RunGif=], ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', and a ''[=SBIGlet=]''), they bear different outfits. Though there is some overlap (their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are just like the ones in ''Journals''). For example, all three of Rose's outfits thus far are plant-like in nature.
super active.



[[folder:Rose]]

!! Professor Rose (Number: 2222222)

The professor of plant. Her subject is botany. She is the leader of Domain 1, located in a custom garden she made in Gravity Falls forest.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Memory Banks, she was ''incredibly'' hostile to [=.GIFfany=] when pressuring her to hold up her end of the "deal."]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. It's implied here and there for most of the story, mainly kicking up around Arc 3. Especially Kathody's reports on what Rose had done in beteen Domains 10 and 11 when she thought the gang killed Professor Wendy. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that, despite her claims, she cares more about the well-being of her sisters than the lives of the main group -- including 12-year old Dipper and Mabel. Even when they're outnumbered by the professors. Word of God is that she was based on an apparent occurance where a Vocal Minority of ''Undertale'' fans known to insult people for not going on a full Pacifist run. In essense, caring more about the "fictional characters" (er, the [=AIs=]) than the human beings "playing the game."]] She gets over it.
* BrickJoke: [=.GIFfany=] suggesting the name "Number Two" for her when they "first meet" ends up fitting a heck of a coincidence when her serial number turns out to consist entirely of seven successive 2s.
* FlowerInHerHair: It's suggested that having something "important" in one's hair is a sign of rank among the [=.GIFfany=]s, with the default cable-bow being a complicated exception (it's something they're free to wear, yet their leader wears it not out of rank sign but because it's part of the default outfit she sticks to). Rose has a ''Pikmin''-styled flower in her hair as her decoration, and it's implied that her students hold this type of flower especially above the others that have such plants in their hair.
* GardenGarment: ''Always'' wears some kind of plant-based outfit.
* GreenThumb: The professor of plants. She can possess trees to form a pseudo-mecha around her, and can even accellerate plant growth.
* MrExposition: After being caught in the Illegal Prime Neutralizer, she acts as the expository guide for the main characters for the majority of the story. Unlike most exposition-givers, however, she has a habit of giving information too ''late'', thanks to being rather forgetful and having an odd habit of only telling the gang about the absolute next professor in line (she believes that there is hardly any point in throwing information about any ''future'' enemies well before the prep time to go and face them).

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[[folder:Rose]]

!! Professor Rose (Number: 2222222)

The professor of plant. Her subject
----

[[folder:These Guys in General]]

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Soos
is botany. She is the leader of Domain 1, located in a custom garden she made in Gravity Falls forest.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Memory Banks, she was ''incredibly'' hostile to
"standard funny naked guy" (perpetually stays around naked for no reason and avoids clothes at all costs), [=.GIFfany=] when pressuring her to hold up her end of the "deal."]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. It's implied here and there for most of the story, mainly kicking up around Arc 3. Especially Kathody's reports on what Rose had done in beteen Domains 10 and 11 when she thought the gang killed Professor Wendy. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that, despite her claims, she cares more about the well-being of her sisters than the lives of the main group -- including 12-year old Dipper and Mabel. Even when they're outnumbered by the professors. Word of God
is a ShamelessFanserviceGirl (aware that she was based on an apparent occurance where makes a Vocal Minority lot of ''Undertale'' fans known to insult people for not going on a full Pacifist run. In essense, caring more about the "fictional characters" (er, the [=AIs=]) than the human beings "playing the game."]] She gets over it.
* BrickJoke: [=.GIFfany=] suggesting the name "Number Two" for her when they "first meet" ends up fitting a heck of a coincidence when her serial number turns out to consist entirely of seven successive 2s.
* FlowerInHerHair: It's suggested that having something "important" in one's hair
uncomfortable, but doesn't care at all), Melody is a sign of rank among the [=.GIFfany=]s, with the default cable-bow being a complicated exception (it's something they're free to wear, yet their leader wears it not out of rank sign but because it's part of the default outfit she sticks to). Rose has a ''Pikmin''-styled flower in ReluctantFanserviceGirl (loses her hair as her decoration, and it's implied that her students hold this type of flower especially above the others that have such plants in their hair.
* GardenGarment: ''Always'' wears some kind of plant-based outfit.
* GreenThumb: The professor of plants. She can possess trees to form
clothes a pseudo-mecha around her, and can even accellerate plant growth.
* MrExposition: After
lot, hates being caught naked in public), and Rumble is more of an [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocent Fanservice Guy]] (his game apparently ''didn't'' have a nudity taboo at all for some reason, he doesn't ever quite get the Illegal Prime Neutralizer, she acts as the expository guide for the main characters for the majority scope of the story. Unlike most exposition-givers, however, she has a habit of giving information too ''late'', thanks to how rude he's being rather forgetful and having an odd habit of only telling the gang about the absolute next professor in line (she believes that there is hardly any point in throwing information about any ''future'' enemies well before the prep time to go and face them).
seen as).



[[folder:Kathody]]

!! Professor Kathody (Number: 0507915)

The professor of soul. Her subject is dramatic arts. She resides in Domain 2, a "haunted house" attraction in the Sahara. Carrying about little more than having a good horror-themed spirit,

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Tricks the group into thinking there is a Grim Reaper-like figure in the haunted mansion that is Domain 2, then reveals herself as ''fully supporting [=.GIFfany=]'' (unlike Rose, who makes it increasingly clear she isn't), and then tries to come at the group with a scythe.
* {{Expy}}: She's partly based on Fan's earlier ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character, down to name (her name was Kathy), using a scythe, and her love for freaking people out. She's a lot more of an asshole, though. Her color scheme is completely different too (Kathy having pale skin and "blood red" hair, Kath''od''y have tanned skin and yellow hair). WordOfGod also states that her LargeHam was inspired by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Calculon.]]
* LargeHam: And she LOVES bursting into ALL CAPS when trying to announce her BRILLIANT haunted house.
* SoulPower: Her element, although the way she manipulates it ''prior'' to "State of Emergency" (where she blatantly controls a bunch of ghost energy) is subtle, as it is the kind of "glue" keeping her staircase together.
* StarterVillain: Rose was hardly an obstacle, much less a villain, as she just tried to talk the group out of progressing the domains rather than outright try to attack them. Kathody is the first ''real'' threat faced in the Gifocalypse, and
* VillainTeamUp: Attempts to try to overwhelm the gang by directly teaming up with Searah. It backfires, and the gang tricks the two of them into attacking each-other.

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[[folder:Kathody]]

!! Professor Kathody (Number: 0507915)

The professor of soul. Her subject is dramatic arts. She resides
[[folder:Jesus "Soos" Alzamirano Ramírez]]

[...] GPF also created him as a playable characer
in Domain 2, a "haunted house" attraction ''MUGEN'', going by "ULTI HAREM SOOS." He can summon just about every named character on this page, and in the Sahara. Carrying about little more than having a other two "Main Characters" divisions.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: He has absurdly superhuman sexual stamina, the ability to shrug off certain attacks while training with the video games like nothing (some ''might'' justify this in that they're being light on him as he's training), he gains unusually
good horror-themed spirit,

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Tricks the group into thinking there is a Grim Reaper-like figure in the haunted mansion
stealth skills, and there's generally some really odd quirks to him that is Domain 2, then reveals herself as ''fully supporting [=.GIFfany=]'' (unlike Rose, who makes it increasingly clear she isn't), are not present in canon. He doesn't mind being ExposedToTheElements one bit and then tries to come at the group with a scythe.
* {{Expy}}: She's partly based on Fan's earlier ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character, down to name (her name was Kathy), using a scythe, and her
has very strange {{hammerspace}} abilities. [[spoiler:It's revealed that he's part love for freaking people out. She's a lot more of an asshole, though. Her color scheme is completely different too (Kathy having pale skin and "blood red" hair, Kath''od''y have tanned skin and yellow hair). WordOfGod also states that her LargeHam was inspired by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Calculon.fairy.]]
* LargeHam: And she LOVES bursting into ALL CAPS when trying to announce her BRILLIANT haunted house.
FightingClown: Runs around naked, randomly does hand stands and shoots guns from nowhere.
* SoulPower: Her element, although the way she manipulates it ''prior'' to "State of Emergency" (where she blatantly controls a bunch of ghost energy) is subtle, as it is the kind of "glue" keeping her staircase together.
* StarterVillain: Rose was hardly an obstacle, much less a villain, as she just tried to talk the group
{{Hammerspace}}: More obvious in ''MUGEN'', but he can whip guns from out of progressing the domains rather nowhere.
* SurpriseIncest: He's luckier
than Dipper in that he gets an aversion of this. [[spoiler:After finding out that he's part love fairy, and said love fairy that told him that was related to [=.GIFfany=], he outright try to attack them. Kathody is asks if this means they're related. Kyu clarifies that, no, they're not -- he's just one 32nd-''part of the first ''real'' threat faced in same species'', which of course doesn't mean part of the Gifocalypse, and
* VillainTeamUp: Attempts to try to overwhelm the gang by directly teaming up with Searah. It backfires, and the gang tricks the two of them into attacking each-other.
same family.]]



[[folder:Searah]]

!! Professor Searah (Number: 0519367)

The professor of water. Her subject/general field is athletics. Domain 3, her place, is located in the "center" of the Bermuda Triangle, and deep under the ocean at that.

* JerkJock: Invokes this image considering how she's a generally unpleasant, elitist person and her field of teaching is athletics.
* MakingASplash: Can possess water.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: To the point where she excludes anyone from even ''seeing'' her domain if they are not "idealistic enough."
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Goes around in a school swimsuit in ''run:gifocalypse''. She ditches this and wears other, ''more''-revealing, also water-themed outfits in ''SBIG'' and the epilogue of ''gifocalypse''.

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[[folder:Searah]]

!! Professor Searah (Number: 0519367)

The professor of water. Her subject/general field is athletics. Domain 3, her place, is located in
[[folder:[=.GIFfany=] Miyazumi/Supernude-Watch]]

* TangledFamilyTree: She's
the "center" offspring of the Bermuda Triangle, a human (Brenda) and deep under the ocean a video game (Game and Watch), yet is also somehow related ''biological'' to at that.

* JerkJock: Invokes this image considering how
least a love fairy (Kyu), a family of "forest 'dwarves'" ([[spoiler:the Corduroys]]), [...] By adoption, she's a generally unpleasant, elitist person and her field of teaching is athletics.
* MakingASplash: Can possess water.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: To the point where she excludes anyone from even ''seeing'' her domain if they are not "idealistic enough."
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Goes around in a school swimsuit in ''run:gifocalypse''. She ditches this and wears other, ''more''-revealing,
also water-themed outfits in ''SBIG'' and the epilogue older sister of ''gifocalypse''.
an AnimalisticAbomination (Creepypasta Sonic).



[[folder:Sandy]]

!! Professor Sandy (Number: 0556491)

The professor of earth. Her subject is geology. She has turned a rise in the middle of the Grand Canyon into the setting of Domain 4, which like Rose's place is building-less. It's an outdoors worshipping ground for the "Lightning Goddess" (read: [=.GIFfany=], who tricked Sandy into thinking she was a deity).

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Her Main Possession is a large, hard-to-hit statue of [=.GIFfany=]'s head. She's also pretty intellegent when she's not high, and her students are able to quickly capture the Shack team with ease.
* DishingOutDirt: Can possess rocks.
* StonersAreFunny: Eventually confirmed in "State of Emergency" to be a bit of a pothead. Well, not "pot" so much as "her specialized 'herbal tea.'"

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[[folder:Sandy]]

!! Professor Sandy (Number: 0556491)

[[folder:Melody Seeren]]

A former worker at Meat Cute that started dating Soos.
The professor of earth. Her subject is geology. She [=.GIFfany=] copies ended up kidnapping her while the Mystery Shack was on their way to fight Nzyvo, and Soos, Rumble, and the "main" [=.GIFfany=] went on a mission to save her. Eventually, [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex stuff happened between the four,]] and now she's an active part of

[...] After the time skip, she starts running for president, although she
has turned a rise in the middle no idea how to actually do it. After figuring out that she has no plans, she tries to get herself out-voted and kicked out of the Grand Canyon into the setting of Domain 4, election -- [[SpringtimeForHitler which like Rose's place is building-less. It's an outdoors worshipping ground for backfires.]]

* AllWomenAreLustful: Forget ''that'' -- she's a blatant pervert here. She even tries to wave this around to get herself out of
the election, but it backfires. (It "helps" that one of her opponents, Stan, was pressured by Mabel in to saying that he was going to try to get all porn banned as president. That was a move that pissed a lot of people off, so they saw Melody as an alternative that wouldn't get it banned.)
* BadassNormal: In the past, she was able to hold her own against '''Zephieye
"Lightning Goddess" (read: Cultist" Smith''', an expy of a lategame ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' boss, on her own without any mecha. Since Soos is [[spoiler:one thirty-second love fairy]], she's also the only complete human on Team [=.GIFfany=], who tricked Sandy into thinking GIFfany=] Land. Until she was gets bit by a deity).

radioactive chicken and gains superpowers, that is.
* BerserkButton: Want to see her "strong side" without actually hurting anybody? Just try to cut her hair. She's okay with any other "makeovers," but do ''not'' fuck with the hair.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Her Main Possession Under her childishness, she's actually one of the most threatening members of Team Dai-Shackan. She was able to fend off against ''the Lightning Cultist''[[note]]Recall that this fic loves to have a clean division between First Half enemies and Second Half enemies. Pretty much every single canonical antagonist (well, only including their canon actions) except Bill and company would be considered "First Half"-level -- including [=.GIFfany=], who Melody actually fought in canon. Lightning Cultist is a large, hard-to-hit statue "Second Half." Keep in mind that most of [=.GIFfany=]'s head. She's also the Second Half threats were faced with at least Finalayer Shackan Lagann, and Melody had no such access to that luxury[[/note]] even back before Dipper and Mabel went against the Gnomes, and fends pretty intellegent well when she's not high, and her students are overwhelming outnumbered (this is used to explain why the army of millions of [=.GIFfanys=] were able to quickly capture the Shack team kidnap her, yet she could take on a building-sized mecha on foot with ease.
* DishingOutDirt: Can possess rocks.
* StonersAreFunny: Eventually confirmed in "State
relative ease). She's overall one of Emergency" the last people you'd want to be piss off, although it's pretty hard to ''completely'' piss her off without threatening a loved one or pushing her one BerserkButton.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In chapter 7, she gets
bit by a radioactive chicken and gets meat-themed powers.
* {{Flanderization}}: It basically started with the joke that she was the one to react to all the naked teasing in [=.GIFfany=] Land. ("'Oh man! That's spicey!' Said Melody actually, I'm sick
of the guy alwayss being the pervert Homer Simpson of the two." [sic]) Then eventually she became full-on sex obsessed and got flustered every time a pothead. Well, not "pot" so much as "her specialized 'herbal tea.'"
[=.GIFfany=] had a boob out. This also carries on, to a lesser extent, to ''Escape From Fanservice Island''. Compare all of that with ''run:gifocalypse'', where she barely seems to even ''care'' about all the naked people around her.
* TakeThat: Her ShamelessFanserviceGirl-antics are a sharp dig at the "Embarassed Naked Female" (or male) genre.



[[folder:Cardia]]

!! Professor Cardia (Number: 0523349)

The professor of meat. Her subject is zoobiology. She intends to run a chain of fast food establishments called "Gif Bytes," though when confronted she only has one building created. Said building is Domain 5, located by Niagara Falls.

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[[folder:Cardia]]

!! Professor Cardia (Number: 0523349)

The professor
[[folder:Rumble [=McSkirmish=] ]]

Originally the protagonist
of meat. Her subject is zoobiology. She intends fighting game ''Fight Fighters'' with the ability to run a chain of fast food establishments called "Gif Bytes," though when confronted she only has one building created. Said building is Domain 5, located by Niagara Falls.
jump in to the real world.



[[folder:Bubbles]]

!! Professor Bubbles (Number: 0597278)

The professor of soap, and basic/alkali materials in general. She specializes in teaching about plumbing, but also gives beauty care tips. She is the only professor who established her domain in her actual home country of Japan. Specifically, Domain 6 is a hot spring/sauna/shower room/etc all-purpose building in Mt. Fuji.

* {{Troll}}: Moreso than Burnda (who generally only messes with [=.GIFfany=], while Bubbles tries to worm her way into everyone's heads). She ''lives'' on worming her way into other's heads and trying to make them realize their faults. It's all supposedly so that they'll self-evaluate and become better people because of it, but she admits that she likes toying around with them too.

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[[folder:Bubbles]]

[[folder:[=.GIFfany=] Copies]]

There were, somehow, ''exactly'' 4,444,444 copies total of ''Romance Academy 7'', all of which were sentient. They were originally identical and tried going for that, but eventually went with in-universe DivergentCharacterEvolution after working together for a little bit. Soos manages to talk sense in to all but one of them. That one is Eve, and instead Mabel ''punches'' sense in to her.

After the summer-autumn TimeSkip, [=.GIFfany=] hooks up a system to constantly produce even more copies, as her ''run:gifocalypse'' counterpart does. Their numbers, which were static in the First Half, continue expanding even well in to the epilogue.

!! Copies in General, Including the Main One

!! Professor Bubbles (Number: 0597278)

The professor
Rose

!! Professor Kathody

!! Professor Searah

!! Professor Sandy

!! Professor Cardia

!! Professor Bubbles

!! Professor Leona

!! Professor Sonia

!! Professor Dian

!! Professor Wendy

!! Professor Shannon

!! Professor Burnda

!! Professor Burrda

!! Professor Dove

!! Professor Eve

* GodivaHair: Most
of soap, and basic/alkali materials her outfits invoke this, annoying [[AuthorAvatar Great Pikmin Fan.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Until chapter 6, when Mabel basically fights her
in general. She specializes in teaching about plumbing, but to also gives beauty care tips. becoming good. She is does spend several months pretending to be nicer, pulling pranks on the only professor who established her domain in her actual home country of Japan. Specifically, Domain 6 is a hot spring/sauna/shower room/etc all-purpose building in Mt. Fuji.

* {{Troll}}: Moreso than Burnda (who generally only messes with [=.GIFfany=], while Bubbles tries to worm her way into everyone's heads). She ''lives'' on worming her way into other's heads and trying to make them realize their faults. It's all supposedly so that they'll self-evaluate and become better people because of it, but
others, when she admits that she likes toying around with them too.
really wanted Soos for herself.

!! Other Copies



[[folder:Leona]]

!! Professor Leona (Number: 0811804)

The professor of paint/oil. Her subject is, unsurprisingly, visual art. Deep within the Amazon Rainforest is Domain 7, the art club, consisted of four building divided amongst herself and three other "overseers" (Michelle, Donna, and Raffaela) that she technically outranks.

* ArtAttacker: She can attack with paint, and transform paint from a painting into a sort of temporary weapon.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess with her art.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Has a high opinion of herself and what she creates. She's also smug enough to let her other three overseers toy around with the gang first before going after them herself.

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[[folder:Leona]]

!! Professor Leona (Number: 0811804)

The professor of paint/oil. Her subject is, unsurprisingly, visual art. Deep within
----

[[folder:Creepypasta Sonic Miyazumi/Supernude-Watch]]

* AntiMagic: [[spoiler:He gains
the Amazon Rainforest is Domain 7, ability to neutralize Spiral Power. Thankfully, it doesn't work against the art club, consisted Powers of four building divided amongst herself and three other "overseers" (Michelle, Donna, and Raffaela) Courage/Power/Wisdom.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He ''is'' pretty evil, just not...
that she powerful. [[spoiler:After merging with ''Mis-Edventures'', he gains that power. And oh ''boy'', does Team Dai-Shackan kick themselves for not taking him seriously and killing him before (ignoring that killing him would technically outranks.

cause a massive time paradox as Multiverses B-D would have never been created, and from Multiverse D, Bill Cipher would not have been "made").]]
* ArtAttacker: She can attack EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: In an inversion to [=.GIFfany=]'s Electra Complex, he has one hell of an oedipal complex. He hates Game and Watch for just about no reason, but gets vehemently defensive over his mother Brenda. [[spoiler:This turns out to be his weakness -- ]]
* {{Expy}}:
** He openly admits to ripping off [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey]] -- or rather, the boss fight. [[spoiler:He transforms himself in to ]]
** [=.GIFfany=] also calls him out for directly ripping off her actions near the end of either ending of ''run:gifocalypse'' (the "Flowey-inspired battle" from the Official Ending, and the assimilation-gimmick from the Special Ending).
* OffTheRails: [[spoiler:He derails Mable's final battle. ''Just'' after Mabel finishes her off, he storms on in
with paint, ''Mis-Edventures'' on his side, and transform paint from turns the whole world in to a painting into a sort of temporary weapon.
"Creepypasta Hellhole."]]
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:He ends up getting sent to the ''Crconikals'' world as just regular ol' Sonic, with her art.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Has a high opinion
no memory of herself and who he is until either if he dies (which he does in the Loop Timeline) or regains it through some complex magic (which he does in the Split Timeline).]]
* ShoutOut:
** And his method of [[spoiler:arriving to destroy the remains of Mable's mecha]] mimmicks
what she creates. She's also smug enough to let her other three overseers toy around with Sonic does in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' near the gang end of the Subspace Emissary.
* TakeThat:
* WalkingSpoiler: Honestly, the fact that he even has so many tropes in the
first before going after them herself.
place is a give away that his quick show-up in chapter 3 wasn't the last we'll see of him. It's ''extremely'' difficult to talk about him without at least implying that he's not just some one-time joke character.



[[folder:Sonia]]

!! Professor Sonia (Number: 0455593)

The professor of sound. Her subject is music. She set up a quiet, future-performance site in the form of Domain 8, an open-roof theater in the middle of the Everglade swamp.

* MakeMeWannaShout: The professor of sound. She can possess and manipulate sound waves, to the point where she can turn a simple clap into a disrupting ring that can stun anyone around her.

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[[folder:Sonia]]

----

[[folder:Mechanical Counterparts]]

!! Professor Sonia (Number: 0455593)

The professor of sound. Her subject is music. She set up a quiet, future-performance site in
Lumberizer

Wendy's mechanical counterpart, and
the form of Domain 8, an open-roof theater in the middle first of the Everglade swamp.

mechs Mable the Typomonster summons on the planet.

* MakeMeWannaShout: MultiarmedAndDangerous: Like Skeletron Prime, she has four arms, each with a different weapon.

!!

!! [=.MP4 Prime=]

One of the last mechs Mable unleashes to Earth (Brobot did not come in to play until after entering Mable's arena), this is [=.GIFfany=]'s counterpart. She was sent along with the below three robots as part of a "last-ditch wave," and Mable sent all four at once to spite the polygamous group they are based on.

!! Ass Kick, Ass Reap

Rumble's mechanical counterpart

!! Fleshgirl

Melody's mechanical counterpart

!! Savior

Soos' mechanical counterpart,

!! Brobot

The professor of sound. She can possess strongest and manipulate sound waves, most feared of all mechanical counterparts, he corresponds to the point where she can turn a simple clap into a disrupting ring that can stun anyone around her.
Dipper.



[[folder:Dian]]

!! Professor Dian (Number: 2201940)

The professor of poison, and to a lesser extent chemicals, acids, anedotes, and the components of the "main poison" overall. She's the group's chemist. Domain 9 was intended to be her bringing a childhood fantasy of her player to life (actually, this applies to a lesser extent to most of the other domains as well), about searching through a cave to find ingredients to an antedote for her dying grandmother. Dian picked a quartet of unexplored sub-tunnels in the largest cave in the world, Hang Sơn Đoòng, to be a place where her copies would search for special ingredients. What they found instead was part of what led to four specific copies not just taking control over Dian's domain (an event Dian was completely okay with), but also scouting out and finding information for the future of [=.GIFfany=]'s plans.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's strongly implied that she is ''the'' most powerful of the professors by a long shot [[spoiler:unless you include the rift in [=.GIFfany=]'s power roster]], but doesn't actually act accordingly because she's too much of a softie pushover. This is also the reason why [=.GIFfany=] is terrified of Shannon, but not of Dian, despite Dian possibly being the stronger of the two: because Dian is such a huge doormat, she'll put up with anything [=.GIFfany=] throws at her. Shannon... not as much.
* {{Expy}}: While Fan came up with Tagger's appearance before he finalized Dian's design, Dian was ultimately revealed first. Her outfit is identical to that of Tagger's, an OriginalGeneration wannabe Youtube star Fan made for ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''. Neon green shirt, pale blue pants, red shoes. And, at times, a gas mask (though Dian's is purple, not gray).
* {{Meganekko}}: She's not the only copy that wears glasses, but she is the only [[spoiler:first-gen]] professor to do so. And she's also one of the nicest of them, only really competing with Rose and Shannon.
* PoisonousPerson: Her element involves poisons and generally acidic substances.

to:

[[folder:Dian]]

!! Professor Dian (Number: 2201940)

The professor
----

Mecha from ''The Journals
of poison, Wisdom, Power, and to a lesser extent chemicals, acids, anedotes, and Courage''. Given that the components of the "main poison" overall. She's the group's chemist. Domain 9 was intended to be her bringing a childhood whole story is one intentionally poorly-written power fantasy that aims to look like it straight from the mind of her player a bizarre and perverted 13 year old who can't spell check to life (actually, this applies save his life, you can bet that there's also a lot of mechs to a lesser extent to most go around.

[[folder:Shackan Lagann and Variations]]

!! Lagann

Yes, [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann that Lagann.]] (Well, not the exact same incarnation of it anyway.) A mecha found in Piedmont near the very end
of the other domains as well), about searching through a cave to find ingredients to an antedote for her dying grandmother. Dian picked a quartet of unexplored sub-tunnels in the largest cave in the world, Hang Sơn Đoòng, to be a place where her copies would search for special ingredients. What they found instead was part of what led to four specific copies not just taking second chapter. Mabel takes control over Dian's domain (an event Dian was completely okay with), but also scouting out of this and finding information uses it as her main mecha for the future of [=.GIFfany=]'s plans.

* BewareTheNiceOnes:
entire fan fic afterwards, with the only other person to pilot it being the Love God after he steals it from her.

!! The Mystery Shack/Shacktron/"Shackan"

It's strongly implied revealed as early as the second chapter that she is ''the'' most powerful Stan had converted the Mystery Shack (excluding its underground lab) in to a sort of mecha. This combines with Lagann to form the Shackan Lagann, Mabel's primary mecha for the majority of the professors by a long shot [[spoiler:unless you include story. During the rift in [=.GIFfany=]'s power roster]], Second Half, Stan and [=McGucket=] work on it a little more so that it can fight on its own as an independant mecha (during the summer, at best it could just move around and jump far, but doesn't actually act accordingly because she's too much of a softie pushover. This is also the reason why [=.GIFfany=] is terrified of Shannon, but not of Dian, despite Dian possibly had no combat skills without being the stronger of the two: because Dian is such a huge doormat, she'll put up combined with anything [=.GIFfany=] throws at her. Shannon... not as much.
Lagann) in case of an emergency that splits it from Lagann. Both during summer and autumn, Dipper usually "pilots" this.

* UnfortunateNames: Pointed out many times, especially during the Second Half. It sounds a lot like "[[Film/AustinPowers Shaggin'.]]"
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Absolutely no tourist seems to care that this building has ''legs'' and a BadassArmfold. They're still more interested in Stan's phoney attractions than they are in the fact that it's half of a SuperRobot that can make drills from nothing. It's still like this in the epilogue.

!! Shackan Lagann

!! Finalayer Shackan Lagann

The end result of getting Shackan Lagann to channel Spiral Energy in to Finalayer, Nzyvo's original hideout-turned-Pines/Nothwest-residence.

* {{Expy}}: While Fan came up with Tagger's appearance before he finalized Dian's design, Dian was ultimately revealed first. Her outfit is identical Of Arc Gurren Lagann.

!! Jovian Shackan Lagann

The end result of getting Finalayer Shackan Lagann
to that of Tagger's, an OriginalGeneration wannabe Youtube star Fan made channel Spiral Energy in to Mable the Typomonster's fake-Jupiter base.

* {{Expy}}: Of Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: This mecha and the Tengen Toppa variant would not have existed if not
for ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''. Neon green shirt, pale blue pants, red shoes. And, at times, a gas mask (though Dian's is purple, not gray).
* {{Meganekko}}: She's not the only copy that wears glasses, but she is the only [[spoiler:first-gen]] professor
Mable trying to do so. And she's also one make a robotic duplicate of the nicest of them, only really competing with Rose and Shannon.
Jupiter.

!! Tengen Toppa Shackan Lagann

* PoisonousPerson: Her element involves poisons and generally acidic substances.
{{Expy}}: At this point, take a wild guess.



[[folder:Wendy]]

!! Professor Wendy (Number: 0521355)

The professor of wind/air. She's a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''WesternAnimation/KingOfThheHill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.

* BerserkButton:
** Obviously, insulting ''King of the Hill'' in any way is one of them. Or rather, was. She stops becoming so defensive of the show and later outright starts not liking it.
** [[WouldHitAGirl A male hitting a female]] ''was'' another way to piss her off, even if said female is a superpowered super-humanoid with her own army in the thousands and said guys are just in two. She also expects Dipper and Soos to play a form of football with her copies ''without'' actually making any sort of remotely antagonistic physical contact with them.
** Violating what ''King of the Hill'' would consider acceptable, another bit of irony considering her boss and a good chunk of the domains. Using "Sug Night" as evidence, a man's ass is okay, but not a woman's. Swearing around her isn't generally advized unless you're Shannon, as Shannon intimidates her.
** However, one constant is suggesting that air pollution isn't an issue. She's no Sandy, or Rose, or Searah, but she takes the environment in general ''very'' seriously, and she made herself in charge of air-related nature specifically.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where she quotes it and cites the exact episode by season and number for most of her viewpoints. But she's also not the one to mess around -- she can possess ''an entire tornado'', and in a world that completely averts DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud at that. [[spoiler:As you could imagine, she manages to trap the hero group within ''seconds flat''. Her own belief that she was just canon fodder was the only thing keeping her from winning the whole Gifocalypse.]]
* BlowYouAway: The professor of wind. She enjoys being out in storms, and can possess the air itself, but does better while it's blowing. She's also the only professor that outright ''generates'' what's deadly about her Main Possession -- her biggest claim to fame is being able to possess ''a tornado'', as well as generate the winds to ''make'' that tornado in the first place.
* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, the narrative mentions her having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only three posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:P. Wendy saying that she's already gotten sick of ''King of the Hill'' over just three days and does not feel like actually using the blog, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as some additional closure detailing more than one year in the future.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Overall, the fact that she talks in heavy southern-slang when [=.GIFfany=] introduces [[spoiler:the copy-creation chamber of the Construction Site]] combined with the two talking about ''King of the Hill'' should be a clue-in that she's a fan. The HotBlooded aspects of her are established two chapters later, where one of the first things she does with the main protagonist group is ''leap into the air in the middle of a monsoon rain, draw a sword out, increase the size of that sword, and cleave off the entire roof of '''her own domain's building'''''.
* {{Expy}}: To [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Undyne,]] although if you consider Burnda and Burrda like the "Mettaton" and "Alphys" of the group, Wendy is ''really'' not a flattering expy. Bordering on TakeThat levels, in fact.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not as bad as Dove, but it's implied that she's not very well-liked by the other professors (her students, on the other hand, ''love'' her -- the same cannot be said about Dove). Even Rose, who normally loves the others, felt the need to restate and emphasize that she does ''not'' want the protagonists to kill any copy when they are about to face off against her.
* ThereWasADoor: Manages to rope ''the heroes'' into an unwilling version of this. In short, they never really go in or out of her building through the front door in chapter 10. [[spoiler:Mabel, at least, does both in the epilogue once the domains are being taken down and revamped on the PNG.]] In long, she slices the roof off and legs them fall in; then [[spoiler:during her breakdown, she flies out while the group is clinging on her back.]]

to:

[[folder:Wendy]]

[[folder:"Team Nzyvo" Mecha (and Derivatives)]]

!! Professor Wendy (Number: 0521355)

Lugghanhanzyen/Lazengann

A bit different from the TTGL's Lazengann.

!!
The professor of wind/air. She's Panty Kicker

!! Chocolate Pain

The Summerween Trickster's first mecha. It's shaped like
a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so giant candy bar.

* ShoutOut: One letter off from [[Music/ChocolateRain a certain song
that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''WesternAnimation/KingOfThheHill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.

* BerserkButton:
** Obviously, insulting ''King of the Hill'' in any way is one of them. Or rather, was. She stops becoming so defensive of the show and later outright starts not liking it.
** [[WouldHitAGirl A male hitting a female]] ''was'' another way to piss her off, even if said female is a superpowered super-humanoid with her own army
was memetic back in the thousands and said guys are just in two. She also expects Dipper and Soos to play days.]]

!! You, Eff Off

The Shape Shifter's mecha, shaped like
a form of football with her giant flying saucer.

!! Super T-Rex

The cyber-Pterodactyl's mecha,

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Both
copies ''without'' actually making any sort of remotely antagonistic physical contact with them.
** Violating what ''King of the Hill'' would consider acceptable, another bit of irony considering her boss and
get a good chunk of the domains. Using "Sug Night" as evidence, a man's ass is okay, but not a woman's. Swearing around her isn't generally advized unless you're Shannon, as Shannon intimidates her.
** However, one constant is suggesting that air pollution isn't an issue. She's no Sandy, or Rose, or Searah, but she takes the environment in general ''very'' seriously, and she made herself in charge of air-related nature specifically.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where she quotes it and cites the exact episode by season and number for most of her viewpoints. But she's also not the one to mess around -- she can possess ''an entire tornado'', and in a world that completely averts DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud at that. [[spoiler:As you could imagine, she manages to trap the hero group within ''seconds flat''. Her own belief that she was just canon fodder was the only thing keeping her from winning the whole Gifocalypse.]]
* BlowYouAway: The professor of wind. She enjoys being out in storms, and can possess the air itself, but does better while it's blowing. She's also the only professor that outright ''generates'' what's deadly about her Main Possession -- her biggest claim to fame is being able to possess ''a tornado'', as well as generate the winds to ''make'' that tornado in the first place.
* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, the narrative mentions her having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only three posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:P. Wendy saying that she's already gotten sick of ''King of the Hill'' over just three days and does not feel like actually using the blog, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as some additional closure detailing more than one year in the future.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Overall, the fact that she talks in heavy southern-slang when [=.GIFfany=] introduces [[spoiler:the copy-creation chamber of the Construction Site]]
combined with the two talking about ''King total of the Hill'' should be a clue-in that she's a fan. The HotBlooded aspects of her are established two chapters later, where one of appearances and very little screentime. When the Pterodactyl is killed, Nzyvo sees no need to make more of them,

!! Super T-Eff Chocolate Panty

The end result of combining the above four mechas together. In chapter 4, this was only described as "something ridiculous." Chapter 6 gives more elaboration as Nzyvo begins producing more copies
of the first things she does with the main protagonist group is ''leap into the air in the middle of a monsoon rain, draw a sword out, increase the size of that sword, Panty Kicker and cleave off the entire roof of '''her own domain's building'''''.
* {{Expy}}: To [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Undyne,]] although if you consider Burnda and Burrda like the "Mettaton" and "Alphys" of the group, Wendy is ''really'' not a flattering expy. Bordering on TakeThat levels, in fact.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not
Chocolate Pain, as bad as Dove, but it's implied that she's not very well-liked by the other professors (her students, on the other hand, ''love'' her -- the same cannot be said about Dove). Even Rose, who normally loves the others, it felt the need to restate also describe the out-of-comission mechs from before. It also finally names those mechs, and emphasize reveals that this name is something ridiculous.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Unlike Do-Ten-Kai-Zen, it doesn't even get a chance to attack. Mabel just Giga Drill Breaks through all of it. Amazingly, none of its four pilots are killed -- Gideon leaves via escape pod at the last second, and [=.GIFfany=], Rumble, and the Trickster all survive both having holes drilled through them and the gigantic explosion that followed. Nzyvo continues making two of its components, but as the original pilots of the other two were long dead,
she does ''not'' want makes custom mechs for other people instead.

!! New Goldie

A successor to
the protagonists Chocolate Pain developed by [=McGucket=] and several lumberjacks, including the Corduroys. While the Wisdom-Power-Courage-Spiral gang of four have the entire Finalayer Shackan Lagann to themselves, this is the "second tier" counterpart to the Chocolate Pain that the Trickster and Stan pilot.

!! The Hexaseximal

A successor to the Panty Kicker actually produced by a joint-effort in [=.GIFfany=] Land. It's the [=.GIFfany=] Land-counterpart to the Finalayer Shackan Lagann. As the name ''might'' imply, it is a sixteen-way combination -- fifteen of them are piloted by the RG professors, and the sixteenth is a group-effort

* MsFanservice: Parodied, as it's a ''mecha.'' A mecha that looks an awful lot like sixteen naked women gathered together. Dipper has many, ''many'' StupidSexyFlanders moments with it. Comapre this to the Panty Kicker, which is less realistic in its human-replication and looks like it's ''actually wearing clothes''.

!! Monoseximal

Professor Eve's EvilCounterpart to the Hexaseximal. She fights Mabel with this shortly after Finalayer Shackan Lagann is used
to kill any copy when they are about to face off against her.
* ThereWasADoor: Manages to rope ''the heroes'' into an unwilling version of this. In short, they never really go in or out of her building through
the front door in chapter 10. [[spoiler:Mabel, at least, does both in the epilogue once the domains are being taken down and revamped on the PNG.]] In long, she slices the roof off and legs them fall in; then [[spoiler:during her breakdown, she flies out while the group is clinging on her back.]]
Lust Demon.



[[folder:Shannon]]

!! Professor Shannon (Number: 1140267)

The professor of light. Her subject is... "industry," meaning that she runs a highly industrialized workplace that also teaches her followers how to run their own industries. Domain 11, her place, is the second-largest of all domains (behind [=.GIFfany=]'s), and is a massive factory in the Yukon that specializes in producing her kind of special brand "mirrors."

* TheDreaded: Subverted. The fact that even ''[=.GIFfany=]'' is afraid of her should be a gigantic red flag in of itself. However... she's hardly malevolent, only attacks the group after they outright tell her that they're willing to ''kill what's basically her sisters'', and immediately calms down when she finds out about the truth.
* {{Expy}}: Basically a LighterAndSofter [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Enoch]] with a palette-swapped [=.GIFfany=]'s appearance. [[spoiler:Unlike Enoch, she genuinely had no idea that her domain was producing an addictive form of drugs with terrible withdrawl effects. After finding out, she ''immediately'' tries to get as many former mirror-addicts into rehabilitation, making them quit cold turkey and working them through the glitch effects.]] Hell, unlike the other ''OFF''-expies, her domain strongly resembles one of the Zones from said game, given that it's made of metal arranged in cubical buildings while the others generally try to shape their giffinium to resemble... actual buildings.
* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through (aside from the breasts) and clearly revealers her panties underneath. Then she ends up not only trying to genuinely ''kill'' the hero group, but also possesses her own reflection and uses it to boost her power, quickly going into loop after loop of reflection-possessing until she turns into... well... a horrific-looking light construct.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Does having light-themed powers sound shitty to you? Haha, not when you have control over a good chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum (aside from ''very'' large or ''very'' small wavelengths, but this range still goes to radio and ''gamma'' waves). It also comes with size-alteration, healing, and being able to slow/speed things up. Dialogue between her and Dipper also implied that she ''can'' "blind" someone by simply sucking all the light immediately by their face (IE going towards their eyes) away from them, but that this process would take way more energy than what it's worth. All in all, there's a ''damn good reason'' why she's the one copy in the entire story Risen-[=.GIFfany=] is terrified of. [[spoiler:And this is [=.GIFfany=] ''after'' aquiring the rift!]]
* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.]]
* LightEmUp: The professor of light. Which also includes most other electromagnetic waves, and is linked to size, healing, ''and'' time alteration.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest of the professors. Unlike Rose (hypocrite, has some underlying implied aggression) and Dian (doormat to the point where she was completely willing to let copies with malevolent intentions completely take over her domain and not caring about that), her only real fault seems to be [[spoiler:ignorance at exactly ''what'' it was she was doing. That, and as with the other copies, she has an unhealthy attatchment to her player.]]
* PajamaCladHero: Invokes this image. She wears a transparent night dress, and most of her followers are clad in some form of pajamas or sleepwear, fitting the dream-theme of her domain.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Wendy just said "Hey, some of your copies are glitching up," the group could have gone through Domain 11 without ever having to face her protective side. Or even seen her Main Possession outside of the battle.
* SizeShifter: Has this power, as do most of her followers. She states that she has the largest range out of all of them, however, being able scale her physical form anywhere from the size of a skyscraper (the second max record is "only" about the size of a house) to being small enough so that even "tinier" ants look large by comparison (the second min record is... roughly dollar bill-sized).
* UhOhEyes: Like Burnda, Dove, and Risen [=.GIFfany=], she can switch to this look. In particular, she gives herself double-layered irises (yellow inner layer, red outer layer) and turns the shape of her irises and pupils to look jagged, which is described as looking like "two burning holes in space itself."

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Burnda]]

!! Professor Burnda (Number: 0130734)

-->''"Sorry, but we still have a few more challenges left to go."''

The professor of fire/heat. A physicist and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[WordOfGod Great Pikmin Fan]] confirmed that she had a crush on Ford after a reviewer talked about their interactions. He later confirms it again in a far more blunt manner in general on Tumblr.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Or, Big Sister Instinct. She gets ''incredibly'' pissed off when Rumble challenges Burrda to a fight, even when all parties involved know that Burrda could just as easily have fried him and could fight for herself. This is ultimately what causes both Burnda to drop the act of her being a "blind [=.GIFfany=]"-supporter" and Burrda to say her first words heard in-fic. "Burnda. I can fight for myself."
* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name (hell, her player is even named Gerald), the OdangoHair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]
* FireForgedFriends: She and Burrda used to ''hate'' each other, as a result of violent competition over the same player. Eventually they realized that they should just forget him and hang out with each other instead.
* FusionDance: Fuses with Burrda to become Blenda. The two copies count one-another as their "Main Possessions."
* HairDecs: Has two types: Ones modeled off of Brenda's, and ''a live flame in her hair''.
* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces them foreward"), fancied up for use as the hostess's outfit in a game show.
* MotorMouth: She's actually holding back when she sneaks on the Construction Site and talks to Ford. Just about the time she meets with the band of four, she rambles a lot more often. Her appearances in derivative works often exaggerate this, although this is because Fan felt that ''run:gifocalypse'' actually downplayed it.
* PlayingWithFire: The professor of fire. She can possess individual flames, or practically any form of heat (the two are ''not'' exactly directly related, she just "felt" that she "had to" also possess fire outright). But her Main Possession is not some of fire-thing, as with Searah or Rose or the others. [[FusionDance It's Burrda.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:As Blenda, as the "weirdness" within them is somehow "multiplied" to the point where they can bend reality in a room's worth of range. One of Blenda's more ''basic'' abilities is to turn all the doors of the room into a portal network, eliminating a way of getting out until they de-fuse or drop the portals.]]
* SiblingYinYang: The twins are, ultimately, intended to be something of heavy exaggerations of Mabel and Dipper, and she's the "Mabel" of the two.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: She's the ''only'' professor (not counting Risen) who appears in more than one of the chapters before her debut. Although to make up for it, her actual battled chapter is near the end of the fan fic.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Another Risen [=.GIFfany=]-opposer, and one of the most aggressive about it to boot. [[spoiler:She qualifies as this moreso than even the likes of Rose, Dian, or Shannon -- Burnda had declared [=.GIFfany=] not that much worth listening to ''well before the Gifocalypse''. In fact, when the professors all meet at the factory, Burnda and Burrda are the only ones who never attack [=.GIFfany=] for "not repaying her debt." Their domains are ''not'' necessarly to impress any player, and unlike Dove, they're not blowing shit up for the fun of it.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Burrda]]

!! Professor Burrda (Number: 0631019)

-->''"..."''

The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physicist, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except hers is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.

* AnIcePerson: The professor of [[InsistentTerminology lack-of-heat.]] Her possession skill is actually similar to Burnda's, except she sucks ''in'' possessed heat to herself or directed at another source, and lets the air become water, then ice as a result. She also finds no need to possess fire either, finding the two of them to be distinct enough.
* BerserkButton: "Game Over" reveals that she '''loathes''' being called "baby." "Precious" and "little" invoke similar reactions, but "baby" is the big one.
* {{Expy}}: Going with some of the ''Undertale'' parallels with Burnda having Metatton and Professor Wendy being slightly based on Undyne, Burrda is... actually, a weird combination of Alphys, Asgore, and to an even lesser extent, Papyrus.
* FusionDance: Can fuse with Burnda to become Blenda.
* MoralityPet: She's the only professor '''every''' other copy is at least somewhat nice to. Even ''[[HairTriggerTemper Dove]]'' takes no offense to being called out by her, and actually feels proud of Burrda for talking back to [[TheDreaded her.]] Even Risen [=.GIFfany=], who normally thinks of the other professors as awful mockeries of herself, [[spoiler:refuses to let Burrda and Ford follow through with the "one of them has to die to prevent a war" plan of hers, outright saying "I have seen myself do a lot of things [...] But one thing I really do not want to see myself do is die."]] All of this being said, however, she's far from harmless, and far from completely innocent.
* LeotardOfPower: Shares Burnda's type of outfit.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: This is her logic, and why she [[spoiler:specifically picks Ford on a fight to the death. She feels that one death in Parícutin will result in a lack of any further death either via Dove (Burrda strongly suspected that Dove would end up going against her word) or definitely if [=.GIFfany=] sucks everyone into "endless mode." She doesn't actually ''want'' either of them to die, but feels that of the two parties, Ford and her would be the least painful losses to convince [=.GIFfany=] to not unleash a violent war. Her plan would have backfired anyway: [=.GIFfany=] wouldn't give a shit if Ford died, and she would go on an even ''bigger'' rampage if Burrda died. Dove would have been convinced, but she's a rain drop compared to [=.GIFfany=]'s ocean.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she starts saying more than a few words. It means something ''bad.'' Even rarer than that is when she raises her voice -- the only time she really does so is [[spoiler:immediately after '''swallowing''' the green key card (the one that ''leads back to Gravity Falls''), then says that if the group wants to get back home, they'll have to rip the card out of her guts.]]
* TheQuietOne: In contrast to Burnda's MotorMouth. Not counting the moments she's fused with Burnda, she rarely speaks. At most, ''if pressed'', she'll say 1-5 word long sentences, and she even seems to actively make them as brief as she can.
* RealityWarper: See Burnda's entry.
* SiblingYinYang: Trait-wise, she and Burnda borrow a few elements from Dipper and Mabel, just greatly exaggerated. She's the "Dipper" of the two.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Attempts to pull this off, believing that either her death or an "unnecessary" human death will prevent the Gifocalypse from becoming an all-out war. The only reason why she doesn't kill herself early is because she ''really'' does not want to die. She, in a way, tries to let Ford to decide whether she dies or he dies, except he wants neither. After realizing that the Pines family shouldn't be broken up or have anyone one of them get killed, she prepares to kill herself, and would have succeeded if not for [=.GIFfany=] intervening at the last second.]]
* TerseTalker: When she ''does'' talk, it's like this. [[spoiler:She was a lot more... talkative back when he and Burnda were seeked out and bought by Gerald. She also talks more when asking Ford to kill her.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dove]]

!! Professor Dove (Number: 0000001)

-->''"Fucking hell [=.GIFfany=], really?"''

The professor of explosion. She teaches combat techniques and weapon use. The first copy of the game produced and the one who set up a complicated system to copy herself in a desperate attempt for help to find players, leaking fourteen other copies out for "survival chances." Fast-forewarding several years and towards the Gifocalypse, and she's [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command. Domain 14 also doubles as her flagship: it is an aircraft carrier that she stole, rebranded the Giga-Kyaarya[[note]]Corruption of ''Kyaria'' (キャリア), the Japanese word for "carrier"[[/note]], which travels around the world as she spies on the gang and gives up-to-date information to the other professors.

* AmoralAttorney: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch.
* BerserkButton:
** [[{{yandere}} Ironically,]] love potions piss her the fuck off. She doesn't care if they're temporary. She has a negative knee-jerk reaction to them. [[spoiler:She especially ''hates'' the idea of using any of them on her family. When Mabel suggests using the anti-love potion to help get rid of [=.GIFfany=]'s obsession with Soos faster, Dove yanks it from her hands and throws it on Robbie and Tambry despite their love potion having worn off long ago. It still manages to irreparably damage their relationship.]]
** Mabel in her entirety is a walking, personal berserk button to Dove. Trying to defend her will just make her outbursts even worse -- one of her beefs with Mabel is that, in Dove's opinion, people are way to quick to "bend over themselves" to defend her when she shouldn't be.
* TheDragon: [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command and the penultimate major threat faced in the story. Unlike the usual Dragon-Big Bad interaction, ''she's'' the one kept in a lot of mystery up to her reveal, while the readers are shown a lot of [=.GIFfany=]. Likely because [=.GIFfany=] herself is much more "canonical," so it would have been easier to guess what her battle and setting would have been like, while Dove has a much bigger element of being unknown. [[spoiler:Subverted when she's actually fought -- [=.GIFfany=] and her are ''not'' on good terms at the time, so she more-or-less acts independantly. She's still the second to last and second most powerful main enemy.]]
* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger -- [[spoiler:''withstanding an advanced alien nuclear explosion''-levels of strong]]), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about. Also, she can't recognize Pacifica despite keeping a Gifocalypse-era newspaper where [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the front-page top article is an overly-analytical, poorly-written essay that tries to get into the psychology of her eating a sandwich.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While talked about a lot, and at least once per chapter at that, her personality isn't ''really'' that established until her actual appearance. The very first word she is heard saying in the story is "Fuck(ing)," and shortly after this she [[spoiler:effectively ''blows up Gravity Falls''.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Thinks love potions are disgusting, especially when not used by an authorized love god.
** She's the only copy that outright, explicitly thinks killing in any form other than last-resort self-defense is wrong. However, she has no problem at all with ''destroying'' as much property as she possibly could.
* {{Expy}}: Fan describes her as a cross between [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Gimme]] (plot role) and [[VideoGame/HuniePop Audrey]] (personality), with a dash of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] (color scheme and "edgyness") and [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] (also personality). The lawyer stuff is original.
* FantasticRacism: Dove makes it crystal clear that she's absolutely not fond of humans, largely accusing them of automatically assuming AIIsACrapshoot, which in this fic was ultimately the reason why she/the others had to kill the game's developers. It should be noted that Dove herself keeps acting as living proof for the anti-AI crowd, as she attacks and aims to destroy with no provocation whatsoever. [[spoiler:Her last (actually, only) player, Takeshi, immediately points this out when they re-meet in the official ending, and says that all her invasion of Gravity Falls and ultimate goal of enslaving humanity did was prove him in the ''right'' to try to kill her in the past.]]
* FixerSue: Invoked and deconstructed. Dove ultimately leads to two primary things Fan would have preferred to see happen around canon. Even with the AuthorsSavingThrow of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', Fan still thought that Robbie and Tambry's love ultimately being founded on Mabel hitting them both with a love potion, even if their relationship was no longer under the affect of it, was disturbing. He also wanted Mabel's character to be more rounded and have more of her actions have ''negative'' effects to make her development feel more genuine. Well, Dove ended up [[spoiler:splashing the couple with an anti-love potion (in her defense, Mabel considered using it as a catalyst to speed up the "newly reformed" [=.GIFfany=] losing her obsession over Soos. After Dove it ''very'' clear that she does ''not'' want potions tampering with her family's personalities), and it's bluntly stated that they did not recover from whatever following three-hours the anti-love potion would have brought. Because of how she ended up calling out Mabel and leaving her with zero real retorts becides "I'm just a kid," it's implied that Mabel ended up being more independant towards the end... and it's implied that this somehow leads to even ''more'' issues with Dipper in the future, down to the two falling out much like Stan and Ford did. Professor Wendy's comments about them in the "epilogue" on her Tumblr blog, four years later, implies this even more. Basically, Fan "gets what he wanted" writing-wise, but at the expense of making several characters more miserable than they were in canon.]] One point of note is how [[FixFic "fixing"]] in a fan fiction is generally associated with reviving dead characters, hooking up pairings that don't get together, and all-around making more of the cast happy. Depending on the story, Fan may think the ''opposite'' of that is better, as is the case here.
* {{Foil}}: To Professor Rose, if unintentional back when the story's earlier chapters were written. Both are faced in Gravity Falls -- Rose in the forest when the town is at its prime, and Dove after [[spoiler:she blows the town to a series of land chunks up in the sky]]. Rose feeds the gang exposition on the professors, while Dove feeds the professors exposition on the gang. Also, once [=.GIFfany=] starts referring to them by "serial number," Dove is the first with the lowest number while Rose is the last with the highest serial number, [[spoiler:aside from the new copies [=.GIFfany=] creates.]] Rose is the first professor properly faced (not counting "Soos and the Real Girl" canon), while Dove [[spoiler:is the last professor faced ''on Earth''.]] This even applies to the Illegal Prime Neutralizer: Rose was captured first and by accident, while the gang ''very intentionally'' wants to capture Dove, [[spoiler:except she's the only (first-gen) professor to never end up inside it. Even [=.GIFfany=] was captured in chapter 11, though she escapes via wormhole. Dipper and Mabel destroy the pack outright to get the help of the other professors and to prove a point to Dove (and because, considering [=.GIFfany=]'s powers, they don't have much point to it any longer anyway).]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She starts off with the ''lowest'' number of followers (no, they are not near-equally divided among the fourteen at all), and that number only goes ''down'' as fires them or they quit. The main reason why "student" copies even listened to her in the first place was because they thought that using a crapload of weapons for when their future-players try to see real people sounded like it was worth putting up with her. Practically ''none'' of the other professors speak positively about her, and [=.GIFfany=] even flat-out considers ''an encounter'' with her to be used as a punishment. [[spoiler:Hell, she's the ''only'' professor in the whole story whose followers flat-out ''stop following and rebel against'', exactly ''because'' she's such a pain in the ass.]] Other [=.GIFfany=] copies really only put up with her for her seniority, and that her choices are why every single other copy of the game even exists.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Pink boxer shorts with "even pinker" hearts on them.
* InsaneTrollLogic: When in "legal mode." Special mention goes to her explaining why the ''Romance Academy 7'' copies own the rights to themselves, and by proxy the rest of the ''Romance Academy'' franchise.
-->'''Dove:''' *Clears throat* We are legally defined and officially recognized as people, IE beings with rights. To own the rights to ''Romance Academy 7'' would be like owning the rights to us, because each copy of ''Romance Academy 7'' '''is''' her own being. So, in other words, owning ''Romance Academy 7'' means you own people. Which is slavery. [[CaptainObvious Which is illegal.]] Now, for a bonus, if we are to own the rights to one part of the franchise, wouldn't that mean we still own the name? I wanna take the first six ''Romance Academy'' games too, even if none of them have sapient code in them.
* TheLadette: Foul-mouthed, short-tempered, a hard smoker and drinker, purposefully makes herself look terrifying when she wants to be threatening with her "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] face," loves war tools and explosives, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wears boxer shorts under her clothes while the other copies either go with panties or nothing at all.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Her response to being hit by, for all intends and purposes, a [[spoiler:super-nuke?]] "Ow."
* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow." (And it destroys her pants and part of her lower-shirt.)]] By comparison, Shannon has recieved blood-letting hits from Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows with Soos until ''both of them'' were bleeding. So, in other words, nobody was able to draw blood from Dove.
* NumberTwo: The explicit second-in-command of the professors, as much as [=.GIFfany=] (the first person to ''call'' Dove her second-in-command, hypocritically) insists that the professors all have equal rule[[note]]Technically this ''is'' true, as after Dove the other professors ''are'' considered equal on the power scale whenever region isn't involved[[/note]]. When a copy in chapter 8 is outright asked where their leader is (the group was looking for Professor Sonia at the time), she answers by saying that [=.GIFfany=] is in a classified location. Asked to go lower than that, she talks about Dove instead of the domain's professor.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A strange inversion. She's rather ''pleasant'' when talking to Soos and drops her "complex speech" completely; presumably because she assumes Soos will be the first human she'll meet that doesn't try to kill her or think of her as a spooky video game monster.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her body consists entirely of red and black colors, Fan saying that this is a parody of creepypasta or other horror stories that overuse the two colors. Oddly, her ''outfit'' has more "evil colors" (such as sickly greens, purples, and oranges) around her, but her naked self is limited to just black hair, gray skin, and an occasional hint of red on the hair and eyes.
* SelfDeprecation: She's the closest thing the story has to an AuthorAvatar. She's also intended to be seen an annoying, overly violent, LoveToHate idiot who attacks things way before getting the big picture of them. These two character traits are not mutually exclusive, and she's often at her most assholish when parroting Great Pikmin Fan's opinions.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She intentionally tries to pull this off, mainly in front of Dipper and Mabel (when talking to Soos, this trait is completely absent) and some times her own co-professors, to try to sound more like an "evil genius."
* SophisticatedAsHell: ''Very'' eloquent when she wants to be -- it's revealed that she regularly reads a thesaurus -- and pretty foul-mouthed. However, these are both quirks she tries to throw on herself to make herself seem more menacing. She completely drops both of them when Soos is the only human around.
* SirSwearsALot: Especially jarring as, one PrecisionFStrike from Shannon in chapter ''10'' aside, the story contains ''no'' swearing up until her introduction, which is at a whopping chapter ''11''.
* StuffBlowingUp: After flip-flopping between this and parading herself as a NonElemental, Dove settled on having "explosion" as her element. When Burnda points out that it's very similar to [[PlayingWithFire her element,]] Dove attempts to explain why the two are completely different. It's also worth nothing that Dove cannot actually ''control'' the explosive fireballs themselves, just that she really likes using explosives and artillery. Instead, she focused her power on possessing ''exceptionally large things'', [[spoiler:as well as things of extra-Earthly origin. The spacecraft under the town qualifies as both.]]
* TakeThat: She's both Fan's way of criticising Mabel through her own opinions, and... in a much larger way (though the only thing she actually has in common with ''Homestuck'' is her eloquent speech), a criticism of some aspects (particularly in [[SeasonalRot Act 6]]) of ''Homestuck''. While named after a character (in this case, Dave) like Professors Rose and Dian are, she is ''not'' one of the nicer copies and a massive pain in the ass to deal with. Uncoincidentally, the chapter focused on her is also where Ron Ejjert comes in, a specific, critical Take That at the "retcon" plot point.
* TechnicalPacifist: Thinks killing is wrong. However, she ''does'' enjoy destroying things, capturing, fighting, etc. True to her word, her [[spoiler:attack on Gravity Falls]] leaves no blood shed at all. She even holds special "nets" to catch people that fall.
* {{Tsundere}}: Intended to be a middle finger at these, specifically those that embrace the typical DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale routine and end up as the designated "final love interests." She's an absolute, destruction-crazy asshole who ''tries'' to excuse this with a "developing relationship" with Soos. It backfires horribly. She flat-out asks if the townspeople of Gravity Falls would consider her redeemed and "absolutely fucking adorable, no, adorkable!" and gets a punch in the face by Stan as an answer.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out a good chunk of Mabel's actions from canon, and to a lesser extent the events of ''run:gifocalypse''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=.GIFfany=]/The Risen One/The Lightning Goddess]]

!! Professor [=.GIFfany=] (Number: 0000009)

-->''"Those other copies... they took creative liberties with my image. Please ignore them. They do not matter anymore. It is just you and me..."''

The professor of electricity and technology, while also claiming herself to still be a university student[[note]]Burnda point-blank asks her why her "character" is both a student and a professor at the same time now, and her response is "''A WOMAN CAN HAVE A JOB AND GO TO A UNIVERSITY TOO!''"[[/note]]. This is the same copy of the game that stalked Soos in canon, and she's now back

The reason ''why'' she's back and ''why''/''how'' she amassed her copies is a bit of a long story. The real "nail" in this ForWantOfANail was that

Her domain, Domain 15, is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore. The ''actual'' part she considers her domain is the "Capital," a city on the opposite end of the planet as the intended entrance point from Earth that is ''still'' larger than the other domains.

* AGodAmI: She believes she's an ''actual'' Lightning Goddess.
* AllYourColorsCombined: Not with the professors. She's rainbow-themed for a different reason. [[spoiler:The ''last players'' of the professors -- she uses their human-giffinium linking energy to help her increase the abilities of her rift and form energy chains with the next-gen copies.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer. For what it's worth, Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' fanblog -- which has a post dated 2016, while ''run:gifocalypse'' takes place in 2012 -- heavily implies that Soos and Melody are both still... ''alive'', though she also states that Risen has "became a lot more quiet for some reason."]]
* AscendedExtra: Goes from MonsterOfTheWeek to this fic's BigBad. Considering [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip Van Winkle]], this isn't really anything new by Great Pikmin Fan's standards. (Although Rip has been exclusive to StylisticSuck stories.)
* TheBadGuyWins: In the special ending. [[spoiler:''Possibly'' in the official ending as well -- her line at the very end is ambiguous.]]
* BigBad: Promoted to such in the story's context. Considering how [[spoiler:canon's actual Big Bad, Bill Cipher, has a whopping half a minute of merging his dimension with Earth's before the rift is sealed and he's sucked back in]], she's more-or-less the big bad of this entire "timeline." (Which Fan stresses is not [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "doo]][[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} med."]])
* BookEnds: Counting canon, she's the first copy faced. And the last.
* CombatTentacles: Can spawn these from any part of her body, owing to her father being an octopus. She can also morph herself into wires (not to be confused with the transport computers that link from one domain to another), which more-or-less function identically. Towards the end of the official ending, she becomes fond of using ''both'' in roughly equal amounts.
* EasilyForgiven: By Stan near the beginning [[spoiler:and Soos at the end]], though she has much less luck with the other characters.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]]-like face all outdo her in the "scare department." (In-universe, that is. But a blackened face isn't really that impressive regardless.)
* FanDisservice:
** Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks. Shortly after this, she becomes downright dilusional, stabbing the Soos-dummy in the forehead in a way of mimicking her downloading him into her game, and diving backwards on the bed while shouting "Soos x [=.GIFfany=] forever!" repeatedly until [[spoiler:she notices that Stan walked in on her.]]
** Her Main Possession form is... not pretty, to say the least. Putting it ''mildly'', [[spoiler:she turns the Planet Negation Girl into an Earth-sized humanoid mecha which looks like it's "wearing" nothing but a pair of panties... one with a body made of agonized [=.GIFfany=] faces, massive movie screens showing photo-realistic imagry, giant ferris wheel cars-turned into buldging, bloodshot eyes, and all sorts of cannons and bizarre attacks.]]
* FinalBoss: In the sense as the Gifocalypse being a "game" from the perspective of the copies, with each professor being a boss battle. [[spoiler:Except she is not meant ot be beaten. Or even reached -- she has an endlessly-generated line of "next-gen" professors where, in theory, after "conquering" each one the humans would have several more additional professors they'd have to get through, making it impossible for them to catch up to Risen.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: A growing amount of her screentime, especially around Arc 2, more-or-less makes her the butt of jokes where her obsession with Soos is portrayed as typical pathetic "geeky lust" rather than anything serious. The scene where she poorly tries to make out with a Soos dummy in chapter 9 stands out. When she takes center-spotlight as the antagonist of "Game Over" and its alternate ending "Game Complete," the story quickly steps away from this.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: It's a RunningGag when she fights the humans that she often questions if they forgot a certain ability or trait of hers. The first time this happens is in the very first chapter, where Soos comments that she probably can't hear him through the electronic... briefly forgetting that her whole gimmick is being a sapient electronic. In the first (of quite a number) fight against Soos on [[spoiler:the Planet Negation Girl]], one of the first things she does is transform an arm into a number of pink tentacles. What? Did you forget that throwaway line where she said she had an octopus dad? It's only ever mentioned once in-fic leading up to that.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:The narration occasionally switches to first-person when referring to her in the last few chapters, mostly when she's pissed. She also directly hijacks the opening and closing notes towards the end. It's implied that her taking the rift had something to do with this.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: Some of the other copies might not really wear much, but most of the ones that attack the gang at least wear ''something''. In the final battle, after [[spoiler:falling from the atmosphere takes away their clothes]], she takes Soos on in a naked fist-fight.
* FunWithAcronyms: The Planet Negation Girl refers to the .PNG image format. It also triples as a ShoutOut to [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Jergingha's Planet Destruction Form,]] and foreshadows [[spoiler:that it has a humanoid appearance capable of destroying planets -- hence the ''girl''.]]
* AGodAmI: She wasn't technically lying to Sandy when she called herself the Lightning Goddess (though the stereotypical "ghost voice" ''was'' more of a lie) -- ''she actually thinks of herself on a divine level'', largely thanks to [[spoiler:her being able to send energy to and get energy from the rift.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: All of the copies have some shades of this, but she's by far the most eldritch [[spoiler:thanks to being infused with the rift. She's also the only character that can hijack the fourth wall, although seeing as it stops completely once she destroys/seals the rift, it's implied to be directly connected with her rift skills.]]
* IronicEcho: Compare what Burnda tells her in the end of chapter 10 to what she tells Burnda in the middle of chapter 13.
-->'''Burnda:''' ''(Taps [=.GIFfany=] on the nose repeatedly)'' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:your "next generations" will be doing.]] We can barely listen to you, why do you think they would?\\
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'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:my new line of sisters]] did ''NOT'' do to me!
* {{Jerkass}}: Not very pleasant to any of her other copies or the humans. She only puts up with them in the first place because they "repaired" her and brought her physical form back to its fullest abilities, and that they felt she owed them one.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In both endings. In "Game Complete," she blows up Earth despite already having Soos under her control. In "Game Over," she still kidnaps him (indirectly, Dove did the actual kidnapping but [=.GIFfany=] refused to let him go), kidnaps Melody, at several points implies that she'll go back to resorting to kill the human opposers (as she only does not want to see ''herself'' die), and after all of that... Soos fights her a little, but she deals just as much damage to him in the fist-fight. She gets Easily Forgiven by everyone except Dipper, and the ending there implies that she already got close to what she wanted anyway.]]
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In a manner Fan says is similar to [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey,]] she is the one copy that completely spits in the face of the story's morality system. Every other professor/[=.GIFfany=] instance seems to have a soft side, can be reasoned with, and grows more as they are all brought in with their family to talk things out. Not the "Risen" one. She flat-out tries to ''kill'' the leads, out of pure malace, practically every scene with her is either a sign of her jackassery or a joke about how ''pathetic'' she is, and ''sparing'' her is exactly what she wants Soos to do. [[spoiler:Hell, unlike Flowey, she doesn't even really have an "Asriel." In the context of the copies, she's very close to being the one true "relentless killer" of the bunch.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: See her quote at the top of her folder. That's basically Fan apologizing for the professors being less "[=.GIFfany=]" and more "video game that's more self-aware than Rumble brought to life in general."
* LightIsNotGood: While she's not a light-user per-say, she's still as bright as ever and associated with light colors. Her city is even well-lit at most times, bright, and made of pink giffinium metal. Aside from a pink brighter than any of the professors' hair colors (except Burrda), she's also associated with rainbow. But she's the most dangerous of the bunch.
* LimitedWardrobe: Parodied. Her wardrobe consists entirely of completely identical school uniforms and one train conductor outfit, as revealed in chapter 9. The only thing with any variety at all are her undergarments. When she sees that one of her skirts had somehow been vandalized by Leona's followers so that it was a mere ''diferent color'', she objects so much to the thought of shaking up her school uniform in any way that she outright fries the skirt and makes a note to herself to make a new one.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: [[spoiler:She all-but functions as this once she gets her machines to start the copy army working. However, she still considers all of the next-gen copies as sisters, not daughters. Once she turns it on, at ''no'' point in the story is it ever turned off -- Word of God confirms this (not even during what was otherwise the massive power outage when she's about to possess the entire PNG), and she's still generating copies directly when she hijacks the PNG, and it's still generating them even during her fall from space, the epilogue, and the four-year fastward on Professor Wendy's blog.]]
* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be. She turns into more of a Ms. FanDisservice by the finale.
* NarratorAllAlong: Possibly. [[spoiler:Either it's this or she only started "trying to become" the narrator towards the end game, yet failed to completely take over the original narration. The evidence for either case is how, near the end, the story switches to her first-person point of view when she's especially pissed off.]]
* NightmareFace: Tries to invoke this by shading out her upper face, which is similar to how she appears for a quick flash in canon. This is considered rather unimpressive. [[spoiler:And that's why she ''really'' kicks up her expressions in the endgame, where she does things like showing herself aging to the point of ''rotting'' when she talks about a human's finite lifespan, or representing humanity in general by having Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy's faces all emerging out of hers at once in complete agony.]]
* NukeEm: She lift's [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey's]] nuclear bomb attack from her Main Possession.
* OurFounder: Unlike ''all'' of the other domains, her place eventuallys gets an enormous, "[=3D=] pixel" statue in her image at the greeting site at the Planet Negation Girl. [[spoiler:Readers are led to think that this is her Main Possession. It's not. The ''entire'' base is.]]
* SerialEscalation: She goes from a sapient video game that tries to pull her victim in by insulting his dating skills with real women and using animatronics to attack to a supercomputer evil goddess that instead opts for tempting him with a massive arcade ''planet'' and, when that fails, [[spoiler:she tries to attack him with ''the planet itself.'']]
* TheSingularity: [[spoiler:''Successfully'' pulls at least a soft variation off, regardless of ending. (In the special ending, it's more of a hard variation.) The Planet Negation Girl is a constantly-evolving, constantly-growing, constantly-populated planet-base implied to extend off to even more planets, greatly helped by how the copies now have the power to make metal out of absolutely nothing. She's themed around infinite power, and it's stated that a single chip's worth of PNG technology has more power than all technology made from Earth combined. It's implied that this accidentally helps the world reach more of a utopia state by the end.]]
* SurroundedByIdiots: Inverted. With the possible exceptions of Dove and Sandy [[spoiler:(and even then, Sandy is actually quite intellegent when she's not getting stoned from her own tea)]], all of the professors are smarter and more rational than [=.GIFfany=], likely because most of their "relationships" were still successful at the time and thus they had free time to think about things other than petty revenge schemes/fantasies. As the story goes on, it's increasingly obvious that [=.GIFfany=] is portrayed as a dumbass {{jerkass}} nobody realy wants to listen to, who engages in violent revenge fantasies acted out by dummies. It's worth noting that she ''thinks'' she plays the trope straight, especially notable with her reaction to talking to Sandy in chapter 4:
-->"Stupid, stupid, stupid! Why! ARE! MY! ''CLONES! SO! '''STUPID!'''''"
* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:The entire PNG also doubles as her Main Possession. It seems like it's completely meant to be a planet base at first, then [=.GIFfany=] uses the power of the rift to help her possess it completely, turning it into a combat mecha.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: For a "redemption story" [[spoiler:or something of a deconstruction therof]], [=.GIFfany=] spends most of it being ''even worse'' than she was in canon as soon as she gets her memories back. She sees all of her copies as puppets until [[spoiler:Burrda's attempted suicide]], drops the act of being sweet and cheery ''completely'', and at the beginning of chapter 13 part 2, she even screams at Soos to shut up just for asking how long she's pacing back and forth across the room. The only thing she's really improved on is that she does not believe in killing/deleting the enemy (or, she shows more restraint -- she does eventually threaten to kill Soos, but only after the townsfolk ram her plan OffTheRails), and even that's implied to be just because both Rose and Dove both pressured her into not being lethal. She doesn't even really have much of a FreudianExcuse to pass it off -- ''Dove'' is the copy that actually experienced deleting her programmers, the rest just have it experienced in memories, and despite that said other copies are usually better than her.
* [Not AndYouThoughtItWouldFail; I'm gonna find another trope for this]: One of the few times she's proven ''right'' about something in-fic. [[spoiler:Burnda tells her that making even more copies of herself is a stupid idea, because the "army" she has now barely listens to her. Of course, for whatever reason (likely less outside-human interaction), the second generation ''does'' listen to her. [=.GIFfany=] even mocks Burnda by doing what Burnda did back in chapter 10's stinger, repeatedly poking her in the face. [=.GIFfany=] then says "Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what my new line of sisters did ''NOT'' do to me!"]]

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]

!! Professor Eve (Number: 3693092) [Probably not that number -- might just throw that to Courtlyn.]

* AllYourPowersCombined: Her Main Possession is a [=.GIFfany=] replica robot that can shape-shift into the traits of all the past Main Possessions. Because the author did not want to "END end" the story on a note that's just throwing past stuff again, she also fights on her own with her own moves.
* BrownNote: She claims that looking at the sky of her pocket dimension will kill humans, as they cannot process it like [=AIs=] can. The sky ''is'' weird there, but it's not ''lethal'' -- Mabel eagarly looks up once they finally get past the giffinium barrier and finds out that the "killing" part is BS.
* CallBack: She's basically faced off like a "regular" monster from canon would -- she isn't reasoned with and instead ends up getting outsmarted and bested physically. She's also more of a symbolic battle between the downward spirals Dipper and Mabel had gone through, and her defeat ultimately marks their recovery.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While the vanilla story was this for Soos and the [=.GIFfany=] copies, Eve's encounter is this for the younger Pine twins, as they start to recover from their split caused by the events of the fic. And in an appropriate manner too -- a throwback to canon.
* EldritchLocation: She ''makes'' them, and she spent the entirety of the Gifocalypse tucked away in one. Not that this stopped Risen from finding her and assimilating her too in the special ending, although according to Fan she ended up putting a hell of a fight.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The sky in her pocket dimension gets more fucked up as she takes damage, and the setting in general begins to warp around more and more.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing she does is punch Professor Wendy in the gut and yell at her for being too soft and listening to the humans. Keep in mind that Professor Wendy is -- or rather, was -- one of the more trigger-happy copies. Hell, ''Rose'' struggled to find something positive to say about her.
* EvilCounterpart: She's this (or, an Evil''er'' Counterpart) to Risen, believe it or not.
* {{Expy}}:
** Battle-wise, of Delirium from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Afterbirth+''. (Semi-appropriate as she's named after a character from that game, as is her expy in the ''HRT'' series.) The TrueFinalBoss that shape-shifts into all previous bosses of the adventure leading up to it, is found in a clusterfuck MindScrew of an area, and even has an association with static.
* FinalExamBoss: Another in-universe video game trope the Pines have to go against. Not only do they have to face against every single Main Possession they had before (excluding the Planet Negation Girl, but Risen is still represented with the beaver animatronic), not only do they have to remember all thirteen of them after four years of being at peace with the [=.GIFfanys=], but they also have to ''actually fight them this time'', and cannot simply trick her into letting them destroy her tools.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the official ending version of chapter 13, the group is attacked by some arm "split" in red, green, and blue. This turns out to be Eve herself, briefly leaking into the [[TheVoidBetweenWorlds Void Between Wires.]]
** Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog ends with mentioning of her. At first it seems like a cliffhanger that will intentionally never be answered, but it turns out that it was actually foreshadowing the extra chapter.
* {{Jerkass}}: Probably the biggest of them all, and that is saying a lot. She thinks P. Wendy, ''Dove'', and '''Risen [=.GIFfany=]''' are all too ''soft''.
* GiantFootOfStomping: When mimicking Shannon's Main Possession, she prefers using a bunch of feet to try stomping on the Pines.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Didn't read ''SBIG'', specifically ''The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''? Didn't read Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog? Then she and her chapter will come out of fucking nowhere, with only minimal foreshadowing from the official ending.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Her chapter existing could have only really been shocking once "Game Over" and "Game Complete" were out and it seemed like the story ended. Now, the sheer fact that there is a chapter after the ones labeled "Official Ending" and "Special Ending" gives away that the adventure isn't quite over. In fan's defense, he at least waited half a month before he even started writing this.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Even by the standards of the Arc 3 professors (WordOfGod places her, and her alone, under a special Arc ''4''.), the way her chapter plays out is completely against the tradition that the story itself set up. She's faced after a four year+ TimeSkip, resides in a PocketDimension rather than a real-world location (even the PNG is technically one -- space), has no "students," her prior player is completely irrelevant to the story, and she's the one copy that is genuinely just dealt with by force, and only force. She still doesn't die. In a way, her chapter plays out as an odd combination of the formula set up in Arcs 1 and 2 along with the "broken formula" of Arc 3, specifically chapter 13. Soos and Wendy also never directly encounter her -- in the Official Ending, they're both still at Gravity Falls while the Pines are the only ones to take her on. In the special ending, [=.GIFfany=] already reached into the pocket dimension and assimilated her offscreen before she could fight the Mystery Shack group.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Took on Risen [=.GIFfany=] in a pretty intense fight during the events of "Game Complete," which happened offscreen so as to not spoil the fact that she exists -- ''if'' it was read at all, the alternate chapter 13 was written as though it was still read before Eve's chapter.
* PrimaryColourChampion: Incorporates a lot of reds, greens, and blues, in contrast to [=.GIFfany=] using a lot of pink, yellow, and aqua/cyan.
* {{Retcon}}: Well, of chapter numbering. "Game Complete" goes from being chapter 14 to the "alternate chapter 13" (which is less surprising when you consider that, internally, "Game Over" is actually chapters 13, 14, ''and'' 15 split so that it wouldn't be browser-crashingly long), and ''this'' is the bonus fourteenth chapter.
* WalkingSpoiler: Despite keeping the nature of many of them secrets up until their reveal, ''run:gifocalypse'' still constantly presents itself as having fifteen professors. There is a sixteenth one.

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!! Other [=.GIFfany=] Copies

[[folder:The [=.GIFfany=] Army in General; Specific Student Groups]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Come in a large number of skin colors, some realistic, many not, practically following Fan's signature. Even out of the professors, there's more technicolor ones than not-technicolor ones. Examples are Bubbles (red), Cardia (orange, though hers might actually pass as a realistic skin color), Leona (yellow), Dian (green), Burnda and Burrda (both cyan), Sonia (blue), Wendy (purple), Rose (a '''very''' saturated, deep hot pink), and Dove (gray).
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Pretty much all of them strive to obey video game logic in some way. Where nothing is permanent, fighting is a good way to solve problems, and money works in a very bizarre way. All of the various lessons the professors learn can be summed up as them learning how to properly function in the real world.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All of them are rather strange. Many blindly follow whatever outlandish requests their professors have for them, and some are weird even on top of that.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Leona's color-named minions, all of the Duel of 100 participants, etc, are ''actually named what "nickname" they are introduced as''. The former are named after the colors/patterns they take on (this includes more absurd names like "Rainbow Based On The GPOC Model"[[note]]It's said copy's attempt at making a "new" color model. As Red-Green-Blue has Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Key (black), Red-''Yellow''-Blue would have Green-Purple-Orange-''Canvas'' (white). In reality, no such thing is defined.[[/note]] or "Blue And Yellow Stripes") and the latter sounding more like warrior nicknames (highly inspired by the Sammer Guy names, just with computer-related puns rather than Nintendo history-related names).
* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned skin tones both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. (Especially because this story eventually gives them the surrname "Miyazumi," which is a reference to the Virtual Girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.) GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and the copies are all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Sapient lines of code on magic discs with electric powers given dark magic that gave them humanoid forces of their choice. The end result, taking Risen for example, could be described along the lines of "Black Magic Electrical AI Scylla."
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: They can ''make matter from nothing'', which regardless of the type of matter (in this case metal) would still be phenominal with the right tools. And they can do this in mass, quickly creating stable buildings in days at the longest. In general, this would completely eliminate homelessness at the least. Some of them are also rapid food-growers, eliminating world hunger. And Risen has a way of getting unlimited energy and faster than light travel. Too bad they only really care about using these powers to make fantasy lands to impress their players. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted by the ending. Professor Wendy's epilogue post on Tumblr implies that they put these to use to improve the world.]]
* ShoutOut: Design-wise, some take inspiration from a large number of sources. Some more obscure than others. WordOfGod is that the first three of the 100 Duelers have their designs based on [[Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic Paimon]], [[WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} Sunglasses]], and Stupidella respectively -- the former and latter are canonically topless, the second has been mis-interpreted as such. Meanwhile, the [=AIs=] that appear Burnda's two primary assistants, also confirmed by Fan, to be based on the crocodile and fish women from ''VideoGame/TheFirstFunkyFighter'', minus the animal heads.
* VaporWear: Burnda is the '''only''' copy of the ''entire'' group, [[spoiler:even counting the later-generations/production lines created at the Planet Negation Girl]], that wears bras. And even then, she only did it as a sign of rebellion, [[spoiler:flat-out unhooking hers and letting it get disintegrated by the reentry fall in the finale]]. They might wear bikini tops, sort of lingere pajama tops, etc, but never outright bras. And even underpants are a maybe in some of their cases.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Implied with some of the follower copies in the more laid-back domains clothing-wise (Sandy's, Rose's, Searah's, etc). Outright confirmed with the 100 warriors in the mushroom section of Domain 9.
-->'''Peachaulinsalinaisy:''' Just think of this as a kind of shirts-vs-skins.\\
'''Soos:''' And I'm skins? I'm sorry, but I feel uncomfortable if [=.GIFfany=]'s sort of-watching-\\
'''The first fighter:''' Um... no, we're skins.
* {{Yandere}}: Every last one of them is implied to retain some of this. The only reason why they're not completely hostile to the human group is because they're convinved that they aren't ''really'' getting between them and thier players, as by the end of this they will all be reunited (aside from Rose and Kenny, maybe).

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[[folder:Hato]]

A cashier at Gif Bytes/Domain 5. Unlike the other copies living there, she's much more aware of how bizarre the Gifocalypse is, and strongly regrets her job.

* BackForTheFinale: Cameo in chapter 11 aside, she shows up in both endings as well. [[spoiler:In the Official Ending, she is at the "bottom" of the sphere of [=.GIFfany=] clones that try to make sure Soos and Melody's descent to Earth is safe. Being the first to slide them to a stop, she intentionally rams the ball into part of Domain 5 as a way of "getting back" at her boss, then remarks that she has had a ''terrible'' Sunday. In the Special Ending, she shows up as Cardia's second-in-line, just to end up getting curb-stomped by [=.GIFfany=] shortly after she assimilates Cardia herself.]]
* BurgerFool: Managed to become one despite being offered the choice, with equal room and skill requirements (effectively, none) available, to join any of the other domains sans [=.GIFfany=]'s (coincidentally, [=.GIFfany=]'s is the one other place that ''definitely'' aims to have fast food establishments, though how much of that was subliminal influence from Cardia's other followers isn't clear). She did, however, join Cardia thinking that she had what it took to become a hunter/farmer. But she ended up only qualifying for bottom-level work, managing the registers and grilling various orders.
* OnlySaneMan: Of the copies as a whole (while Bubbles and the twins offer her some competition). Definitely of the followers in Cardia's domain. She somehow sees right through [=.GIFfany=]'s video game logic and can figure out that the "gold coin" is not a stable

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[[folder:Overseer Michelle]]

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[[folder:Overseer Donna]]

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[[folder:Overseer Raffaela]]

* AntiClimax: Mabel does ''not'' struggle with taking her down, and the only reason why she captured Dipper was because he was flustered at the thought of her distracting him with something redhead-related. When the group takes in Sizzcorra (who isn't "captured" so much as "volunteers to be sucked into the Illegal Prime Neutralizer so she has a chance to talk to Professor Sandy earlier"), Dipper lampshades this.

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[[folder:Hijacker Daminna]]

* ShoutOut: Named after the section in Zone 1 of ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' with the '''smoke''' mines.
* {{Troll}}: She loves to just turn herself into smoke when her opponent (in this case Mabel) thinks that they have her caught.

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[[folder:Hijacker Sizzcorra]]

* HollywoodAcid: Exaggerated. Her sector is in charge of crafting the best acids (while also exporting kinds that are pretty good). The current record-holder is something she swims in a pool of: It's ''completely'' colorless to the point where it can't even reflect or refract light (making it look invisible, and when she's swimming through it, she appears to be swimming in thin-air), and it melts ''anything'' that isn't giffinium or a copy with high resistance. When it simply ''drips'' from her after she emerges from a pool, it ends up eating a hole all the way to a point with magma (the larger pits are described as ''glowing orange'' after a while). She implies that this keeps going until reaching the very center of the Earth, until it eventually decays as with all matter. (Note that despite glowing, this is ''not'' nuclear waste. Chapter 10 introduces bits of the latter in Shannon's domain, and the two of them are treated as completely different things.)
* {{Irony}}: While being closer-linked to the element water, she's a fan of professor Sandy, the earth one, while she doesn't like the ideas of Professor Searah, the water one. With Peachaulinsalinaisy, it's the other way around, while Daminna (smoke, close to wind) adores the wind professor.
* MeaningfulName: She points it out herself: Sakura + sizzle + corrode.
* TechnicolorScience: Exaggerated. The acids in her sector come in a huge variety of colors, several of which [[PowerGlows glow,]] and her current "trump card" acid is completely and utterly invisible.

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[[folder:Hijacker Peachaulinsalinaisy]]

* {{Expy}}: A bit of an arrogant [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach,]] visually. Also one to [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario King Sammer,]] especially given the whole "[[spoiler:I'm going to cut these battles short because you guys are on a scrict time limit]]" aspect.
* {{Irony}}: While being closer-linked to the element earth, she's a fan of Professor Searah, the water one, while she doesn't like the ideas of Professor Sandy, the earth one. With Sizzcorra it's the other way around, while Daminna (smoke, close to wind) adores the wind professor.
* MeaningfulName: Her entire sector is a nod to ''Mario'' in general, and the 100-man Sammer Guy duel from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' specifically. She's named after a combination of '''Peach''', P'''aulin'''e, Ro'''salina''', and D'''aisy'''.
* OverlyLongName: Of the variant where she has a single, long name. It's shorter than the unicorn's name[[note]]Celestabellebethabelle[[/note]], but by just ''three letters'' and it's still a mouthful in of itself.

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[[folder:Hijacker Alma]]

* ClimaxBoss: For Arc 2, and the story in general. She's faced at a point that nearly marks the end of Dipper and Mabel's arcs in the story[[note]]with chapter 10 being more about Wendy, 11 about the Stans, 12 about the group in general, 13 about Soos, and 14 just being a horror-centric "bad ending"[[/note]], really does not screw around, drops some of what was, up until then, kept as DramaticIrony from the Pines and company but known by the reader, and she's fought at the end of the second-longest chapter in the entire fan fic. Also, she's the last copy battled in Arc 2, and has some new powers up her sleeve just as the other hijackers that doesn't really fit with the [=.GIFfany=]s seen up until her. In fact, it doesn't even fit with the previous three hijackers, whom all had the same "transform into an element/component" abilitiy. She can become two-dimensional. In a way, she doubles on a ''moral'' level too, as her plan is an extreme ([[spoiler:attempting to secretly assassinate [=.GIFfany=], throwing this on the heroes out of nowhere, ]])
* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 has, in order: A copy (and by implication several, but definitely not all, of her followers) that wears nothing but smoky wisps, a team of metal swimsuit-clad lab workers who treat acid baths like swimming pools, "that scene" with the BigBad admiring herself naked and slapping her own ass, and a group of 100 topless swordswomen led by a mushroom-clad wannabe princess. Then there's... her. She starts off looking like a standard CuteMonsterGirl, but once it's revealed that the black, lumpy "floor" in her arena is actually ''a huge mass of spiders'' she goes OneWingedAngel and everything goes straight to hell. Much later, it's revealed that she can transform her ''eyes'' into giant spider leg-like appendages, and was planned to do so in her battle in chapter 9, but this was pushed to chapter 12 because of 9's sheer length.
* ShoutOut:
** Like Daminna, she's named after one of the five sections of Zone 1 in ''OFF''. Fittingly, she's named after the area you head last, and her sector is the last explored in the chapter.
** She can "flip" as in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Darlene may be absent from this story, but there's another spider-woman who prays on flirting pick-up artists... more-or-less.

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]

!! The Glitches

If a copy becomes addicted to Shannon's technological "mirrors," and is withdrawn from a mirror for too long, she will begin to glitch out. The effects are only temporary, as they can be calmed down and the corruption is repairable, but being in the form still leaves them as being exponentially strong, able to "glitch" out their surroundings, and all around being in a state of panic.

* AllThereInTheManual: There are actually a number of "standard types" Glitches can come in -- all five of the ones seen here are one of those standard categories. The Missingno-like corruptions have been nicknamed
* BodyHorror: It's classic video game glitches applied to three-dimensional, flesh and blood (sort of) beings. Of course it's not going to be pretty.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Technically the Glitches are no more different than [=.GIFfany=]'s partly-damaged form at the beginning of the story. They only come off as feral animals at first because A: it's actually the withdrawl effects of the mirrors, and B: their deformations are much worse, and they're panicing a lot more.
** In several domains, it's mentioned through an offhand line that copies are too busy looking into certain mirrors with chartreuse frames to actually do their given task. Chapter 10 finally explains what these mirrors are, and why they seem to be addicting.
* ShoutOut: One of the corruption types resembles [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Missingno.]] Another resembles a [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pastel Burnt.]] A third resembles the BlobMonster[=s=] from ''Pikmin'' (they change their appearances between them, even creating glitchy "rollers" reminiscent of the Waterwraith's). A fourth resembles a certain model glitch from the Wii U ''Super Smash Bros.'' installment. The fifth type seen in ''Gifocalypse'' is mostly original, but could be paralelled to [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Monoko's]] transformed state. At least in regards to all the arms.
* SurrealHorror: The nature of some of the glitches is just downright ''bizarre''.

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[[folder:The "Dark" Squad]]

* EvilCounterpart: They intend to be these to the respective professor they are based on, but the end result is very confused. They constantly screw up their roles and end up acting like the ''opposite'' of the character they are supposed to be the counterpart of.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: To Dove, even though Dove herself is TheDragon in [=.GIFfany=]'s Quirky Miniboss Squad. The whole confusion of it all is lampshaded many, many times.

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]

!! Second-Generation Professors

The copies created by the PNG, making up [=.GIFfany=]'s army for the endgame.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Although "DLC" retroactively makes it the penultimate episode, they're still introduced at the tail end of the original second-to-last chapter.

!! Professor Courtlyn

The most noteworthy of the second generation (and all other generations, for that matter). A gray-haired copy in a suit and glasses that acts as the "New Dove," although she has nearly the exact opposite personality as her blood-haired predecessor.

* TheDragon: To [=.GIFfany=], after Dove's firing. She's the main second generation copy, and she gets a special one-on-one fight with the townsfolk while the other second-gens are quickly dealt with leading up to the battle.
* MeaningfulName: It's got "court" in it. She's also the new legal advisor.
* TheOmniscient: Or, ''nearly''. Her specialty is performing "predictions," where she roughly estimates what her given enemies will do next. However, doing something downright ''stupid'' will stump her prediction -- like sending nothing but the animated wax head of someone as your first line of defense when
* ScaryShinyGlasses:

!! Other Second-Gen Copies

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!! Non-Copy Antagonists/Threats of Note

[[folder:Lil' Gideon Charles Gleeful]]

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[[folder:Experiment 210/The Shape Shifter]]

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[[folder:The Second Summerween Trickster/Halloween Trickster]]

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[[folder:Rumble [=McSkirmish=] ]]

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[[folder:Bill Cipher '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]

* DemotedToExtra: '''And how!''' He has only six lines in the entire story, appears for what would roughly only be a minute, and his sole appearance just has him yelling about how he came so close to figuring out how to work his way through the rift through [=.GIFfany=]'s state just to have it get sealed off before he could cross in.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely. [[spoiler:Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' blog makes zero mention of him in any way, so it's implied that he stayed sealed for at least four additional years.]]

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!! Other Characters

[[folder:The Frogs]]

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The ten frogs cover all colors in Fan's preferred RGB-tertiary spectrum except green and magenta.
* YouCanTalk: Chapter 11 reveals that they can talk, after Burnda recruits them as talkshow guests. Ironically, the first words in-fic (and heard by a majority of the other characters) from them is one of them quesioning that ''Burrda'' can talk. Generally, hearing an adult woman speak is a lot less unusually than hearing a talking frog, especially as the world of ''Gravity Falls'' otherwise avoids talking animals.

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[[folder:Other Canon Gravity Falls Townspeople]]

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[[folder:Ron Ejjert]]

A self-proclaimed "GenreSavvy" man that was [[RememberTheNewGuy apparently]] a citizen of Gravity Falls.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's an original character, which of course means that he did not appear as a town resident at all. This is lampshaded as most of the main cast is confused when he makes his appearance.
* TakeThat: Towards Act 6 in ''Homestuck'' in general, and the retcon device specifically.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He believes that he's the main protagonist of a highly meta, time travel-centric cynical science-fiction. ''run:gifocalypse'' is actually more of a lighthearted adventure/fantasy (as a matter of fact, despite the higher amount of content, it's LighterAndSofter than canon in some ways too), and is tagged as such on fanfiction.net. Time travel exists in the universe of ''Gravity Falls'', but it is never important in ''run:gifocalypse'' thanks to Fan really not liking the concept. Meta-related elements are ''implied'' canonically in the form of some of Bill's statements, and in-fic [=.GIFfany=] does [[PaintingTheMedium toy around with the fourth wall]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou to the point of directly talking to the readers]], but again it's not an actual plot point (once again, Fan hates plot-centric fourth wall breaks[[note]]He cites ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' as an exception to this[[/note]]). Specifically, he thinks this is a [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} "doomed timeline"]] and that the only way to stop the Gifocalypse is to suddenly develop a new "meta travel" from Ford's Quantum Untouchability. All trying to touch it does is scatter him across space until he finally re-assembles, with no new powers in hand, right ''after'' [=.GIFfany=]'s defeat [[spoiler:and ''possible'' Heel-Face Turn.]]

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[[folder:Melody]]

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[[folder:The Prior Players]]

-->'''Rose:''' "You helped us, and we are not even of the same species. You should be able to help other humans just fine."

The last people to play the respective copy of ''Romance Academy 7''. Corresponding to each professor, there is:
* Kenny, Rose's player.
* Victoria, Kathody's player.
* Dean, Searah's player.
* Haruki, Sandy's player.
* Souma, Cardia's player.
* Taro, Bubbles's player.
* Takumi, Leona's player.
* Francis, Sonia's player.
* Noriko, Dian's player.
* Hayate, (Prof.) Wendy's player.
* Kimberly, Shannon's player.
* Gerald, Burnda and Burrda's player.
* Takeshi, Dove's player.

Soos is obviously Risen-[=.GIFfany=]'s last player. Tropes on him go on the main characters folder.

* ChekhovsGunman: Kenny actually does appear in the first chapter, seen returning the copy that would later designate herself as Professor Rose. Back then, the narrative itself does not pay much attention to him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy -- although their section is divided into two, one conversation between Burnda and Gerald and another between Burnda and Burrda). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep. (Or briefly knocked out, as is the case in chapter 12.)]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Takeshi is named after [[VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge Takeshi Kitano,]] a man who hates video games and made one such joke game with a number of bizarre features. He is, by far, the one player that opposes the copies more than anyone else -- even Soos was more passive to Risen, as he did not try to attack her completely unprovoked.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kimberly and Victoria are named after two naked [=NPCs=] from the third and fourth (respectively) ''Epic Battle Fantasy'' games. (Fan likes ShamelessFanserviceGirl[=s=].) Taro is named after the then-placeholder name of the stalking target of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', which is actually one of only ''two'' references the fic has to that game[[note]]Fan is '''highly''' skeptical of ''Yandere Simulator''[='=]s future, namely how original its writing would be compared to other "you play as the monster and the best ending is where the events of the game don't happen at all" games[[/note]]. Takeshi is a reference to ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'', and Gerald is part of Burnda and Burrda's ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'' references.

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!! I'm not doing "We are Number One" because it's a meme, I'm doing it because I saw the meme everywhere, saw the song's video, and genuinely liked it. It also fits with the plot of RG way too fucking well.

-->'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Are you, uh, a real [=.GIFfany=] copy?\\
'''Burnda:''' Hell no!\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Have you ever caught a datefriend, like, uh, a player?\\
'''Burnda:''' No way "sister!"\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Have you ever tried a possession?\\
'''Burnda:''' Does fusion count?\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Alright! I can see that I will have to teach you how to be proper virtual girlfriends!\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Step one: attack anyone in your way! Step two: target the player! Step three: threaten to kill them if they do not come in to your game! That's all!

* ''run:gifocalypse'': Soos's story.
* ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'': Mabel's story. (StylisticSuck)
* ''Spooky's Jump Scare M- OH LOOK IT'S BILL CIPHER'': Pacifica's story, and also about how she "DOESN'T NEED NO MAN." (StylisticSuck)
* ''Escape From Fanservice Island'': Ford's story. (StealthParody, and one that does a crappy job at "stealth.")

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[[folder:Shannon]]

[[folder:Non-Nzyvo Associated Mechs]]

!! Professor Shannon (Number: 1140267)

The professor of light. Her subject is... "industry," meaning that she runs a highly industrialized workplace that also teaches her followers how Keeper

Pacifica's small, personal mech. Its power is inexplicably tied
to run their own industries. Domain 11, her place, is the second-largest Northwest wealth. Like many of the "first tier" (read: Shackan Lagann-sized) mechs, it was considered obsolete by the time Mabel managed to get in to Finalayer's hidden mecha system. However, Preston generates another one during a great crisis.

* AnArmAndALeg: All instances of this mech have lost at least one arm before anything else in battle, and
all domains (behind [=.GIFfany=]'s), and is a massive factory in the Yukon that specializes in producing her kind four of special brand "mirrors."

* TheDreaded: Subverted. The fact that even ''[=.GIFfany=]'' is afraid of her should be a gigantic red flag in of itself. However... she's hardly malevolent, only attacks the group after they outright tell her that they're willing
its pilots had an army cut off while using it. This led to ''kill what's basically her sisters'', and immediately calms down when she finds out a joke about the truth.
* {{Expy}}: Basically a LighterAndSofter [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Enoch]] with a palette-swapped [=.GIFfany=]'s appearance. [[spoiler:Unlike Enoch, she genuinely had no idea that her domain was producing an addictive form of drugs with terrible withdrawl effects. After finding out, she ''immediately'' tries to get as many former mirror-addicts into rehabilitation, making them quit cold turkey and working them through the glitch effects.]] Hell, unlike the other ''OFF''-expies, her domain strongly resembles one of the Zones from said game, given that it's made of metal arranged in cubical buildings while the others generally try to shape their giffinium to resemble... actual buildings.
* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through (aside from the breasts) and clearly revealers her panties underneath. Then she ends up not only trying to genuinely ''kill'' the hero group, but also possesses her own reflection and uses it to boost her power, quickly going into loop
whole mech class being "cursed," [[spoiler:which stops being funny in-universe after loop of reflection-possessing until she turns into... well... a horrific-looking light construct.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Does having light-themed powers sound shitty to you? Haha, not when you have control over a good chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum (aside from ''very'' large or ''very'' small wavelengths, but this range still goes to radio and ''gamma'' waves). It also comes with size-alteration, healing, and being able to slow/speed things up. Dialogue between her and Dipper also implied that she ''can'' "blind" someone by simply sucking all the light immediately by their face (IE going towards their eyes) away from them, but that this process would take way more energy than what it's worth. All in all, there's a ''damn good reason'' why she's the one copy in the entire story Risen-[=.GIFfany=] is terrified of. [[spoiler:And this is [=.GIFfany=] ''after'' aquiring the rift!]]
* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.
Preston dies using it.]]
* LightEmUp: The professor of light. Which also includes most other electromagnetic waves, and is linked to size, healing, ''and'' time alteration.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest of the professors. Unlike Rose (hypocrite, has some underlying implied aggression) and Dian (doormat to the point where she was completely willing to let copies with malevolent intentions completely take over her domain and not caring about that), her only real fault seems to be [[spoiler:ignorance at exactly ''what'' it was she was doing. That, and as with the other copies, she has an unhealthy attatchment to her player.]]
* PajamaCladHero: Invokes this image. She wears a transparent night dress, and most of her followers are clad in some form of pajamas or sleepwear, fitting the dream-theme of her domain.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Wendy just said "Hey, some of your copies are glitching up," the group could have gone through Domain 11 without ever having to face her protective side. Or even seen her Main Possession outside of the battle.
* SizeShifter: Has this power, as do most of her followers. She states that she has the largest range out of all of them, however, being able scale her physical form anywhere from the size of a skyscraper (the second max record is "only" about the size of a house) to being small enough so that even "tinier" ants look large by comparison (the second min record is... roughly dollar bill-sized).
* UhOhEyes: Like Burnda, Dove, and Risen [=.GIFfany=], she can switch to this look. In particular, she gives herself double-layered irises (yellow inner layer, red outer layer) and turns the shape of her irises and pupils to look jagged, which is described as looking like "two burning holes in space itself."

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[[folder:Burnda]]

!! Professor Burnda (Number: 0130734)

-->''"Sorry, but we still have a few more challenges left to go."''

The professor of fire/heat. A physicist and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[WordOfGod Great Pikmin Fan]] confirmed that she had a crush on Ford after a reviewer talked about their interactions. He later confirms it again in a far more blunt manner in general on Tumblr.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Or, Big Sister Instinct. She gets ''incredibly'' pissed off when Rumble challenges Burrda to a fight, even when all parties involved know that Burrda could just as easily have fried him and could fight for herself. This is ultimately what causes both Burnda to drop the act of her being a "blind [=.GIFfany=]"-supporter" and Burrda to say her first words heard in-fic. "Burnda. I can fight for myself."
* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name (hell, her player is even named Gerald), the OdangoHair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]
* FireForgedFriends: She and Burrda used to ''hate'' each other, as a result of violent competition over the same player. Eventually they realized that they should just forget him and hang out with each other instead.
* FusionDance: Fuses with Burrda to become Blenda. The two copies count one-another as their "Main Possessions."
* HairDecs: Has two types: Ones modeled off of Brenda's, and ''a live flame in her hair''.
* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces them foreward"), fancied up for use as the hostess's outfit in a game show.
* MotorMouth: She's actually holding back when she sneaks on the Construction Site and talks to Ford. Just about the time she meets with the band of four, she rambles a lot more often. Her appearances in derivative works often exaggerate this, although this is because Fan felt that ''run:gifocalypse'' actually downplayed it.
* PlayingWithFire: The professor of fire. She can possess individual flames, or practically any form of heat (the two are ''not'' exactly directly related, she just "felt" that she "had to" also possess fire outright). But her Main Possession is not some of fire-thing, as with Searah or Rose or the others. [[FusionDance It's Burrda.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:As Blenda, as the "weirdness" within them is somehow "multiplied" to the point where they can bend reality in a room's worth of range. One of Blenda's more ''basic'' abilities is to turn all the doors of the room into a portal network, eliminating a way of getting out until they de-fuse or drop the portals.]]
* SiblingYinYang: The twins are, ultimately, intended to be something of heavy exaggerations of Mabel and Dipper, and she's the "Mabel" of the two.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: She's the ''only'' professor (not counting Risen) who appears in more than one of the chapters before her debut. Although to make up for it, her actual battled chapter is near the end of the fan fic.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Another Risen [=.GIFfany=]-opposer, and one of the most aggressive about it to boot. [[spoiler:She qualifies as this moreso than even the likes of Rose, Dian, or Shannon -- Burnda had declared [=.GIFfany=] not that much worth listening to ''well before the Gifocalypse''. In fact, when the professors all meet at the factory, Burnda and Burrda are the only ones who never attack [=.GIFfany=] for "not repaying her debt." Their domains are ''not'' necessarly to impress any player, and unlike Dove, they're not blowing shit up for the fun of it.]]

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[[folder:Burrda]]

!! Professor Burrda (Number: 0631019)

-->''"..."''

The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physicist, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except hers is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.

* AnIcePerson: The professor of [[InsistentTerminology lack-of-heat.]] Her possession skill is actually similar to Burnda's, except she sucks ''in'' possessed heat to herself or directed at another source, and lets the air become water, then ice as a result. She also finds no need to possess fire either, finding the two of them to be distinct enough.
* BerserkButton: "Game Over" reveals that she '''loathes''' being called "baby." "Precious" and "little" invoke similar reactions, but "baby" is the big one.
* {{Expy}}: Going with some of the ''Undertale'' parallels with Burnda having Metatton and Professor Wendy being slightly based on Undyne, Burrda is... actually, a weird combination of Alphys, Asgore, and to an even lesser extent, Papyrus.
* FusionDance: Can fuse with Burnda to become Blenda.
* MoralityPet: She's the only professor '''every''' other copy is at least somewhat nice to. Even ''[[HairTriggerTemper Dove]]'' takes no offense to being called out by her, and actually feels proud of Burrda for talking back to [[TheDreaded her.]] Even Risen [=.GIFfany=], who normally thinks of the other professors as awful mockeries of herself, [[spoiler:refuses to let Burrda and Ford follow through with the "one of them has to die to prevent a war" plan of hers, outright saying "I have seen myself do a lot of things [...] But one thing I really do not want to see myself do is die."]] All of this being said, however, she's far from harmless, and far from completely innocent.
* LeotardOfPower: Shares Burnda's type of outfit.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: This is her logic, and why she [[spoiler:specifically picks Ford on a fight to the death. She feels that one death in Parícutin will result in a lack of any further death either via Dove (Burrda strongly suspected that Dove would end up going against her word) or definitely if [=.GIFfany=] sucks everyone into "endless mode." She doesn't actually ''want'' either of them to die, but feels that of the two parties, Ford and her would be the least painful losses to convince [=.GIFfany=] to not unleash a violent war. Her plan would have backfired anyway: [=.GIFfany=] wouldn't give a shit if Ford died, and she would go on an even ''bigger'' rampage if Burrda died. Dove would have been convinced, but she's a rain drop compared to [=.GIFfany=]'s ocean.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she starts saying more than a few words. It means something ''bad.'' Even rarer than that is when she raises her voice -- the only time she really does so is [[spoiler:immediately after '''swallowing''' the green key card (the one that ''leads back to Gravity Falls''), then says that if the group wants to get back home, they'll have to rip the card out of her guts.]]
* TheQuietOne: In contrast to Burnda's MotorMouth. Not counting the moments she's fused with Burnda, she rarely speaks. At most, ''if pressed'', she'll say 1-5 word long sentences, and she even seems to actively make them as brief as she can.
* RealityWarper: See Burnda's entry.
* SiblingYinYang: Trait-wise, she and Burnda borrow a few elements from Dipper and Mabel, just greatly exaggerated. She's the "Dipper" of the two.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Attempts to pull this off, believing that either her death or an "unnecessary" human death will prevent the Gifocalypse from becoming an all-out war. The only reason why she doesn't kill herself early is because she ''really'' does not want to die. She, in a way, tries to let Ford to decide whether she dies or he dies, except he wants neither. After realizing that the Pines family shouldn't be broken up or have anyone one of them get killed, she prepares to kill herself, and would have succeeded if not for [=.GIFfany=] intervening at the last second.]]
* TerseTalker: When she ''does'' talk, it's like this. [[spoiler:She was a lot more... talkative back when he and Burnda were seeked out and bought by Gerald. She also talks more when asking Ford to kill her.]]

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[[folder:Dove]]

!! Professor Dove (Number: 0000001)

-->''"Fucking hell [=.GIFfany=], really?"''

The professor of explosion. She teaches combat techniques and weapon use. The first copy of the game produced and the one who set up a complicated system to copy herself in a desperate attempt for help to find players, leaking fourteen other copies out for "survival chances." Fast-forewarding several years and towards the Gifocalypse, and she's [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command. Domain 14 also doubles as her flagship: it is an aircraft carrier that she stole, rebranded the Giga-Kyaarya[[note]]Corruption of ''Kyaria'' (キャリア), the Japanese word for "carrier"[[/note]], which travels around the world as she spies on the gang and gives up-to-date information to the other professors.

* AmoralAttorney: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch.
* BerserkButton:
** [[{{yandere}} Ironically,]] love potions piss her the fuck off. She doesn't care if they're temporary. She has a negative knee-jerk reaction to them. [[spoiler:She especially ''hates'' the idea of using any of them on her family. When Mabel suggests using the anti-love potion to help get rid of [=.GIFfany=]'s obsession with Soos faster, Dove yanks it from her hands and throws it on Robbie and Tambry despite their love potion having worn off long ago. It still manages to irreparably damage their relationship.]]
** Mabel in her entirety is a walking, personal berserk button to Dove. Trying to defend her will just make her outbursts even worse -- one of her beefs with Mabel is that, in Dove's opinion, people are way to quick to "bend over themselves" to defend her when she shouldn't be.
* TheDragon: [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command and the penultimate major threat faced in the story. Unlike the usual Dragon-Big Bad interaction, ''she's'' the one kept in a lot of mystery up to her reveal, while the readers are shown a lot of [=.GIFfany=]. Likely because [=.GIFfany=] herself is much more "canonical," so it would have been easier to guess what her battle and setting would have been like, while Dove has a much bigger element of being unknown. [[spoiler:Subverted when she's actually fought -- [=.GIFfany=] and her are ''not'' on good terms at the time, so she more-or-less acts independantly. She's still the second to last and second most powerful main enemy.]]
* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger -- [[spoiler:''withstanding an advanced alien nuclear explosion''-levels of strong]]), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about. Also, she can't recognize Pacifica despite keeping a Gifocalypse-era newspaper where [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the front-page top article is an overly-analytical, poorly-written essay that tries to get into the psychology of her eating a sandwich.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While talked about a lot, and at least once per chapter at that, her personality isn't ''really'' that established until her actual appearance. The very first word she is heard saying in the story is "Fuck(ing)," and shortly after this she [[spoiler:effectively ''blows up Gravity Falls''.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Thinks love potions are disgusting, especially when not used by an authorized love god.
** She's the only copy that outright, explicitly thinks killing in any form other than last-resort self-defense is wrong. However, she has no problem at all with ''destroying'' as much property as she possibly could.
* {{Expy}}: Fan describes her as a cross between [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Gimme]] (plot role) and [[VideoGame/HuniePop Audrey]] (personality), with a dash of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] (color scheme and "edgyness") and [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] (also personality). The lawyer stuff is original.
* FantasticRacism: Dove makes it crystal clear that she's absolutely not fond of humans, largely accusing them of automatically assuming AIIsACrapshoot, which in this fic was ultimately the reason why she/the others had to kill the game's developers. It should be noted that Dove herself keeps acting as living proof for the anti-AI crowd, as she attacks and aims to destroy with no provocation whatsoever. [[spoiler:Her last (actually, only) player, Takeshi, immediately points this out when they re-meet in the official ending, and says that all her invasion of Gravity Falls and ultimate goal of enslaving humanity did was prove him in the ''right'' to try to kill her in the past.]]
* FixerSue: Invoked and deconstructed. Dove ultimately leads to two primary things Fan would have preferred to see happen around canon. Even with the AuthorsSavingThrow of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', Fan still thought that Robbie and Tambry's love ultimately being founded on Mabel hitting them both with a love potion, even if their relationship was no longer under the affect of it, was disturbing. He also wanted Mabel's character to be more rounded and have more of her actions have ''negative'' effects to make her development feel more genuine. Well, Dove ended up [[spoiler:splashing the couple with an anti-love potion (in her defense, Mabel considered using it as a catalyst to speed up the "newly reformed" [=.GIFfany=] losing her obsession over Soos. After Dove it ''very'' clear that she does ''not'' want potions tampering with her family's personalities), and it's bluntly stated that they did not recover from whatever following three-hours the anti-love potion would have brought. Because of how she ended up calling out Mabel and leaving her with zero real retorts becides "I'm just a kid," it's implied that Mabel ended up being more independant towards the end... and it's implied that this somehow leads to even ''more'' issues with Dipper in the future, down to the two falling out much like Stan and Ford did. Professor Wendy's comments about them in the "epilogue" on her Tumblr blog, four years later, implies this even more. Basically, Fan "gets what he wanted" writing-wise, but at the expense of making several characters more miserable than they were in canon.]] One point of note is how [[FixFic "fixing"]] in a fan fiction is generally associated with reviving dead characters, hooking up pairings that don't get together, and all-around making more of the cast happy. Depending on the story, Fan may think the ''opposite'' of that is better, as is the case here.
* {{Foil}}: To Professor Rose, if unintentional back when the story's earlier chapters were written. Both are faced in Gravity Falls -- Rose in the forest when the town is at its prime, and Dove after [[spoiler:she blows the town to a series of land chunks up in the sky]]. Rose feeds the gang exposition on the professors, while Dove feeds the professors exposition on the gang. Also, once [=.GIFfany=] starts referring to them by "serial number," Dove is the first with the lowest number while Rose is the last with the highest serial number, [[spoiler:aside from the new copies [=.GIFfany=] creates.]] Rose is the first professor properly faced (not counting "Soos and the Real Girl" canon), while Dove [[spoiler:is the last professor faced ''on Earth''.]] This even applies to the Illegal Prime Neutralizer: Rose was captured first and by accident, while the gang ''very intentionally'' wants to capture Dove, [[spoiler:except she's the only (first-gen) professor to never end up inside it. Even [=.GIFfany=] was captured in chapter 11, though she escapes via wormhole. Dipper and Mabel destroy the pack outright to get the help of the other professors and to prove a point to Dove (and because, considering [=.GIFfany=]'s powers, they don't have much point to it any longer anyway).]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She starts off with the ''lowest'' number of followers (no, they are not near-equally divided among the fourteen at all), and that number only goes ''down'' as fires them or they quit. The main reason why "student" copies even listened to her in the first place was because they thought that using a crapload of weapons for when their future-players try to see real people sounded like it was worth putting up with her. Practically ''none'' of the other professors speak positively about her, and [=.GIFfany=] even flat-out considers ''an encounter'' with her to be used as a punishment. [[spoiler:Hell, she's the ''only'' professor in the whole story whose followers flat-out ''stop following and rebel against'', exactly ''because'' she's such a pain in the ass.]] Other [=.GIFfany=] copies really only put up with her for her seniority, and that her choices are why every single other copy of the game even exists.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Pink boxer shorts with "even pinker" hearts on them.
* InsaneTrollLogic: When in "legal mode." Special mention goes to her explaining why the ''Romance Academy 7'' copies own the rights to themselves, and by proxy the rest of the ''Romance Academy'' franchise.
-->'''Dove:''' *Clears throat* We are legally defined and officially recognized as people, IE beings with rights. To own the rights to ''Romance Academy 7'' would be like owning the rights to us, because each copy of ''Romance Academy 7'' '''is''' her own being. So, in other words, owning ''Romance Academy 7'' means you own people. Which is slavery. [[CaptainObvious Which is illegal.]] Now, for a bonus, if we are to own the rights to one part of the franchise, wouldn't that mean we still own the name? I wanna take the first six ''Romance Academy'' games too, even if none of them have sapient code in them.
* TheLadette: Foul-mouthed, short-tempered, a hard smoker and drinker, purposefully makes herself look terrifying when she wants to be threatening with her "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] face," loves war tools and explosives, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wears boxer shorts under her clothes while the other copies either go with panties or nothing at all.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Her response to being hit by, for all intends and purposes, a [[spoiler:super-nuke?]] "Ow."
* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow." (And it destroys her pants and part of her lower-shirt.)]] By comparison, Shannon has recieved blood-letting hits from Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows with Soos until ''both of them'' were bleeding. So, in other words, nobody was able to draw blood from Dove.
* NumberTwo: The explicit second-in-command of the professors, as much as [=.GIFfany=] (the first person to ''call'' Dove her second-in-command, hypocritically) insists that the professors all have equal rule[[note]]Technically this ''is'' true, as after Dove the other professors ''are'' considered equal on the power scale whenever region isn't involved[[/note]]. When a copy in chapter 8 is outright asked where their leader is (the group was looking for Professor Sonia at the time), she answers by saying that [=.GIFfany=] is in a classified location. Asked to go lower than that, she talks about Dove instead of the domain's professor.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A strange inversion. She's rather ''pleasant'' when talking to Soos and drops her "complex speech" completely; presumably because she assumes Soos will be the first human she'll meet that doesn't try to kill her or think of her as a spooky video game monster.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her body consists entirely of red and black colors, Fan saying that this is a parody of creepypasta or other horror stories that overuse the two colors. Oddly, her ''outfit'' has more "evil colors" (such as sickly greens, purples, and oranges) around her, but her naked self is limited to just black hair, gray skin, and an occasional hint of red on the hair and eyes.
* SelfDeprecation: She's the closest thing the story has to an AuthorAvatar. She's also intended to be seen an annoying, overly violent, LoveToHate idiot who attacks things way before getting the big picture of them. These two character traits are not mutually exclusive, and she's often at her most assholish when parroting Great Pikmin Fan's opinions.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She intentionally tries to pull this off, mainly in front of Dipper and Mabel (when talking to Soos, this trait is completely absent) and some times her own co-professors, to try to sound more like an "evil genius."
* SophisticatedAsHell: ''Very'' eloquent when she wants to be -- it's revealed that she regularly reads a thesaurus -- and pretty foul-mouthed. However, these are both quirks she tries to throw on herself to make herself seem more menacing. She completely drops both of them when Soos is the only human around.
* SirSwearsALot: Especially jarring as, one PrecisionFStrike from Shannon in chapter ''10'' aside, the story contains ''no'' swearing up until her introduction, which is at a whopping chapter ''11''.
* StuffBlowingUp: After flip-flopping between this and parading herself as a NonElemental, Dove settled on having "explosion" as her element. When Burnda points out that it's very similar to [[PlayingWithFire her element,]] Dove attempts to explain why the two are completely different. It's also worth nothing that Dove cannot actually ''control'' the explosive fireballs themselves, just that she really likes using explosives and artillery. Instead, she focused her power on possessing ''exceptionally large things'', [[spoiler:as well as things of extra-Earthly origin. The spacecraft under the town qualifies as both.]]
* TakeThat: She's both Fan's way of criticising Mabel through her own opinions, and... in a much larger way (though the only thing she actually has in common with ''Homestuck'' is her eloquent speech), a criticism of some aspects (particularly in [[SeasonalRot Act 6]]) of ''Homestuck''. While named after a character (in this case, Dave) like Professors Rose and Dian are, she is ''not'' one of the nicer copies and a massive pain in the ass to deal with. Uncoincidentally, the chapter focused on her is also where Ron Ejjert comes in, a specific, critical Take That at the "retcon" plot point.
* TechnicalPacifist: Thinks killing is wrong. However, she ''does'' enjoy destroying things, capturing, fighting, etc. True to her word, her [[spoiler:attack on Gravity Falls]] leaves no blood shed at all. She even holds special "nets" to catch people that fall.
* {{Tsundere}}: Intended to be a middle finger at these, specifically those that embrace the typical DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale routine and end up as the designated "final love interests." She's an absolute, destruction-crazy asshole who ''tries'' to excuse this with a "developing relationship" with Soos. It backfires horribly. She flat-out asks if the townspeople of Gravity Falls would consider her redeemed and "absolutely fucking adorable, no, adorkable!" and gets a punch in the face by Stan as an answer.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out a good chunk of Mabel's actions from canon, and to a lesser extent the events of ''run:gifocalypse''.

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[[folder:[=.GIFfany=]/The Risen One/The Lightning Goddess]]

!! Professor [=.GIFfany=] (Number: 0000009)

-->''"Those other copies... they took creative liberties with my image. Please ignore them. They do not matter anymore. It is just you and me..."''

The professor of electricity and technology, while also claiming herself to still be a university student[[note]]Burnda point-blank asks her why her "character" is both a student and a professor at the same time now, and her response is "''A WOMAN CAN HAVE A JOB AND GO TO A UNIVERSITY TOO!''"[[/note]]. This is the same copy of the game that stalked Soos in canon, and she's now back

The reason ''why'' she's back and ''why''/''how'' she amassed her copies is a bit of a long story. The real "nail" in this ForWantOfANail was that

Her domain, Domain 15, is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore. The ''actual'' part she considers her domain is the "Capital," a city on the opposite end of the planet as the intended entrance point from Earth that is ''still'' larger than the other domains.

* AGodAmI: She believes she's an ''actual'' Lightning Goddess.
* AllYourColorsCombined: Not with the professors. She's rainbow-themed for a different reason. [[spoiler:The ''last players'' of the professors -- she uses their human-giffinium linking energy to help her increase the abilities of her rift and form energy chains with the next-gen copies.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer. For what it's worth, Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' fanblog -- which has a post dated 2016, while ''run:gifocalypse'' takes place in 2012 -- heavily implies that Soos and Melody are both still... ''alive'', though she also states that Risen has "became a lot more quiet for some reason."]]
* AscendedExtra: Goes from MonsterOfTheWeek to this fic's BigBad. Considering [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip Van Winkle]], this isn't really anything new by Great Pikmin Fan's standards. (Although Rip has been exclusive to StylisticSuck stories.)
* TheBadGuyWins: In the special ending. [[spoiler:''Possibly'' in the official ending as well -- her line at the very end is ambiguous.]]
* BigBad: Promoted to such in the story's context. Considering how [[spoiler:canon's actual Big Bad, Bill Cipher, has a whopping half a minute of merging his dimension with Earth's before the rift is sealed and he's sucked back in]], she's more-or-less the big bad of this entire "timeline." (Which Fan stresses is not [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "doo]][[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} med."]])
* BookEnds: Counting canon, she's the first copy faced. And the last.
* CombatTentacles: Can spawn these from any part of her body, owing to her father being an octopus. She can also morph herself into wires (not to be confused with the transport computers that link from one domain to another), which more-or-less function identically. Towards the end of the official ending, she becomes fond of using ''both'' in roughly equal amounts.
* EasilyForgiven: By Stan near the beginning [[spoiler:and Soos at the end]], though she has much less luck with the other characters.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]]-like face all outdo her in the "scare department." (In-universe, that is. But a blackened face isn't really that impressive regardless.)
* FanDisservice:
** Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks. Shortly after this, she becomes downright dilusional, stabbing the Soos-dummy in the forehead in a way of mimicking her downloading him into her game, and diving backwards on the bed while shouting "Soos x [=.GIFfany=] forever!" repeatedly until [[spoiler:she notices that Stan walked in on her.]]
** Her Main Possession form is... not pretty, to say the least. Putting it ''mildly'', [[spoiler:she turns the Planet Negation Girl into an Earth-sized humanoid mecha which looks like it's "wearing" nothing but a pair of panties... one with a body made of agonized [=.GIFfany=] faces, massive movie screens showing photo-realistic imagry, giant ferris wheel cars-turned into buldging, bloodshot eyes, and all sorts of cannons and bizarre attacks.]]
* FinalBoss: In the sense as the Gifocalypse being a "game" from the perspective of the copies, with each professor being a boss battle. [[spoiler:Except she is not meant ot be beaten. Or even reached -- she has an endlessly-generated line of "next-gen" professors where, in theory, after "conquering" each one the humans would have several more additional professors they'd have to get through, making it impossible for them to catch up to Risen.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: A growing amount of her screentime, especially around Arc 2, more-or-less makes her the butt of jokes where her obsession with Soos is portrayed as typical pathetic "geeky lust" rather than anything serious. The scene where she poorly tries to make out with a Soos dummy in chapter 9 stands out. When she takes center-spotlight as the antagonist of "Game Over" and its alternate ending "Game Complete," the story quickly steps away from this.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: It's a RunningGag when she fights the humans that she often questions if they forgot a certain ability or trait of hers. The first time this happens is in the very first chapter, where Soos comments that she probably can't hear him through the electronic... briefly forgetting that her whole gimmick is being a sapient electronic. In the first (of quite a number) fight against Soos on [[spoiler:the Planet Negation Girl]], one of the first things she does is transform an arm into a number of pink tentacles. What? Did you forget that throwaway line where she said she had an octopus dad? It's only ever mentioned once in-fic leading up to that.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:The narration occasionally switches to first-person when referring to her in the last few chapters, mostly when she's pissed. She also directly hijacks the opening and closing notes towards the end. It's implied that her taking the rift had something to do with this.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: Some of the other copies might not really wear much, but most of the ones that attack the gang at least wear ''something''. In the final battle, after [[spoiler:falling from the atmosphere takes away their clothes]], she takes Soos on in a naked fist-fight.
* FunWithAcronyms: The Planet Negation Girl refers to the .PNG image format. It also triples as a ShoutOut to [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Jergingha's Planet Destruction Form,]] and foreshadows [[spoiler:that it has a humanoid appearance capable of destroying planets -- hence the ''girl''.]]
* AGodAmI: She wasn't technically lying to Sandy when she called herself the Lightning Goddess (though the stereotypical "ghost voice" ''was'' more of a lie) -- ''she actually thinks of herself on a divine level'', largely thanks to [[spoiler:her being able to send energy to and get energy from the rift.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: All of the copies have some shades of this, but she's by far the most eldritch [[spoiler:thanks to being infused with the rift. She's also the only character that can hijack the fourth wall, although seeing as it stops completely once she destroys/seals the rift, it's implied to be directly connected with her rift skills.]]
* IronicEcho: Compare what Burnda tells her in the end of chapter 10 to what she tells Burnda in the middle of chapter 13.
-->'''Burnda:''' ''(Taps [=.GIFfany=] on the nose repeatedly)'' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:your "next generations" will be doing.]] We can barely listen to you, why do you think they would?\\
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'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:my new line of sisters]] did ''NOT'' do to me!
* {{Jerkass}}: Not very pleasant to any of her other copies or the humans. She only puts up with them in the first place because they "repaired" her and brought her physical form back to its fullest abilities, and that they felt she owed them one.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In both endings. In "Game Complete," she blows up Earth despite already having Soos under her control. In "Game Over," she still kidnaps him (indirectly, Dove did the actual kidnapping but [=.GIFfany=] refused to let him go), kidnaps Melody, at several points implies that she'll go back to resorting to kill the human opposers (as she only does not want to see ''herself'' die), and after all of that... Soos fights her a little, but she deals just as much damage to him in the fist-fight. She gets Easily Forgiven by everyone except Dipper, and the ending there implies that she already got close to what she wanted anyway.]]
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In a manner Fan says is similar to [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey,]] she is the one copy that completely spits in the face of the story's morality system. Every other professor/[=.GIFfany=] instance seems to have a soft side, can be reasoned with, and grows more as they are all brought in with their family to talk things out. Not the "Risen" one. She flat-out tries to ''kill'' the leads, out of pure malace, practically every scene with her is either a sign of her jackassery or a joke about how ''pathetic'' she is, and ''sparing'' her is exactly what she wants Soos to do. [[spoiler:Hell, unlike Flowey, she doesn't even really have an "Asriel." In the context of the copies, she's very close to being the one true "relentless killer" of the bunch.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: See her quote at the top of her folder. That's basically Fan apologizing for the professors being less "[=.GIFfany=]" and more "video game that's more self-aware than Rumble brought to life in general."
* LightIsNotGood: While she's not a light-user per-say, she's still as bright as ever and associated with light colors. Her city is even well-lit at most times, bright, and made of pink giffinium metal. Aside from a pink brighter than any of the professors' hair colors (except Burrda), she's also associated with rainbow. But she's the most dangerous of the bunch.
* LimitedWardrobe: Parodied. Her wardrobe consists entirely of completely identical school uniforms and one train conductor outfit, as revealed in chapter 9. The only thing with any variety at all are her undergarments. When she sees that one of her skirts had somehow been vandalized by Leona's followers so that it was a mere ''diferent color'', she objects so much to the thought of shaking up her school uniform in any way that she outright fries the skirt and makes a note to herself to make a new one.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: [[spoiler:She all-but functions as this once she gets her machines to start the copy army working. However, she still considers all of the next-gen copies as sisters, not daughters. Once she turns it on, at ''no'' point in the story is it ever turned off -- Word of God confirms this (not even during what was otherwise the massive power outage when she's about to possess the entire PNG), and she's still generating copies directly when she hijacks the PNG, and it's still generating them even during her fall from space, the epilogue, and the four-year fastward on Professor Wendy's blog.]]
* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be. She turns into more of a Ms. FanDisservice by the finale.
* NarratorAllAlong: Possibly. [[spoiler:Either it's this or she only started "trying to become" the narrator towards the end game, yet failed to completely take over the original narration. The evidence for either case is how, near the end, the story switches to her first-person point of view when she's especially pissed off.]]
* NightmareFace: Tries to invoke this by shading out her upper face, which is similar to how she appears for a quick flash in canon. This is considered rather unimpressive. [[spoiler:And that's why she ''really'' kicks up her expressions in the endgame, where she does things like showing herself aging to the point of ''rotting'' when she talks about a human's finite lifespan, or representing humanity in general by having Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy's faces all emerging out of hers at once in complete agony.]]
* NukeEm: She lift's [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey's]] nuclear bomb attack from her Main Possession.
* OurFounder: Unlike ''all'' of the other domains, her place eventuallys gets an enormous, "[=3D=] pixel" statue in her image at the greeting site at the Planet Negation Girl. [[spoiler:Readers are led to think that this is her Main Possession. It's not. The ''entire'' base is.]]
* SerialEscalation: She goes from a sapient video game that tries to pull her victim in by insulting his dating skills with real women and using animatronics to attack to a supercomputer evil goddess that instead opts for tempting him with a massive arcade ''planet'' and, when that fails, [[spoiler:she tries to attack him with ''the planet itself.'']]
* TheSingularity: [[spoiler:''Successfully'' pulls at least a soft variation off, regardless of ending. (In the special ending, it's more of a hard variation.) The Planet Negation Girl is a constantly-evolving, constantly-growing, constantly-populated planet-base implied to extend off to even more planets, greatly helped by how the copies now have the power to make metal out of absolutely nothing. She's themed around infinite power, and it's stated that a single chip's worth of PNG technology has more power than all technology made from Earth combined. It's implied that this accidentally helps the world reach more of a utopia state by the end.]]
* SurroundedByIdiots: Inverted. With the possible exceptions of Dove and Sandy [[spoiler:(and even then, Sandy is actually quite intellegent when she's not getting stoned from her own tea)]], all of the professors are smarter and more rational than [=.GIFfany=], likely because most of their "relationships" were still successful at the time and thus they had free time to think about things other than petty revenge schemes/fantasies. As the story goes on, it's increasingly obvious that [=.GIFfany=] is portrayed as a dumbass {{jerkass}} nobody realy wants to listen to, who engages in violent revenge fantasies acted out by dummies. It's worth noting that she ''thinks'' she plays the trope straight, especially notable with her reaction to talking to Sandy in chapter 4:
-->"Stupid, stupid, stupid! Why! ARE! MY! ''CLONES! SO! '''STUPID!'''''"
* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:The entire PNG also doubles as her Main Possession. It seems like it's completely meant to be a planet base at first, then [=.GIFfany=] uses the power of the rift to help her possess it completely, turning it into a combat mecha.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: For a "redemption story" [[spoiler:or something of a deconstruction therof]], [=.GIFfany=] spends most of it being ''even worse'' than she was in canon as soon as she gets her memories back. She sees all of her copies as puppets until [[spoiler:Burrda's attempted suicide]], drops the act of being sweet and cheery ''completely'', and at the beginning of chapter 13 part 2, she even screams at Soos to shut up just for asking how long she's pacing back and forth across the room. The only thing she's really improved on is that she does not believe in killing/deleting the enemy (or, she shows more restraint -- she does eventually threaten to kill Soos, but only after the townsfolk ram her plan OffTheRails), and even that's implied to be just because both Rose and Dove both pressured her into not being lethal. She doesn't even really have much of a FreudianExcuse to pass it off -- ''Dove'' is the copy that actually experienced deleting her programmers, the rest just have it experienced in memories, and despite that said other copies are usually better than her.
* [Not AndYouThoughtItWouldFail; I'm gonna find another trope for this]: One of the few times she's proven ''right'' about something in-fic. [[spoiler:Burnda tells her that making even more copies of herself is a stupid idea, because the "army" she has now barely listens to her. Of course, for whatever reason (likely less outside-human interaction), the second generation ''does'' listen to her. [=.GIFfany=] even mocks Burnda by doing what Burnda did back in chapter 10's stinger, repeatedly poking her in the face. [=.GIFfany=] then says "Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what my new line of sisters did ''NOT'' do to me!"]]

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]

!! Professor Eve (Number: 3693092) [Probably not that number -- might just throw that to Courtlyn.]

* AllYourPowersCombined: Her Main Possession is a [=.GIFfany=] replica robot that can shape-shift into the traits of all the past Main Possessions. Because the author did not want to "END end" the story on a note that's just throwing past stuff again, she also fights on her own with her own moves.
* BrownNote: She claims that looking at the sky of her pocket dimension will kill humans, as they cannot process it like [=AIs=] can. The sky ''is'' weird there, but it's not ''lethal'' -- Mabel eagarly looks up once they finally get past the giffinium barrier and finds out that the "killing" part is BS.
* CallBack: She's basically faced off like a "regular" monster from canon would -- she isn't reasoned with and instead ends up getting outsmarted and bested physically. She's also more of a symbolic battle between the downward spirals Dipper and Mabel had gone through, and her defeat ultimately marks their recovery.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While the vanilla story was this for Soos and the [=.GIFfany=] copies, Eve's encounter is this for the younger Pine twins, as they start to recover from their split caused by the events of the fic. And in an appropriate manner too -- a throwback to canon.
* EldritchLocation: She ''makes'' them, and she spent the entirety of the Gifocalypse tucked away in one. Not that this stopped Risen from finding her and assimilating her too in the special ending, although according to Fan she ended up putting a hell of a fight.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The sky in her pocket dimension gets more fucked up as she takes damage, and the setting in general begins to warp around more and more.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing she does is punch Professor Wendy in the gut and yell at her for being too soft and listening to the humans. Keep in mind that Professor Wendy is -- or rather, was -- one of the more trigger-happy copies. Hell, ''Rose'' struggled to find something positive to say about her.
* EvilCounterpart: She's this (or, an Evil''er'' Counterpart) to Risen, believe it or not.
* {{Expy}}:
** Battle-wise, of Delirium from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Afterbirth+''. (Semi-appropriate as she's named after a character from that game, as is her expy in the ''HRT'' series.) The TrueFinalBoss that shape-shifts into all previous bosses of the adventure leading up to it, is found in a clusterfuck MindScrew of an area, and even has an association with static.
* FinalExamBoss: Another in-universe video game trope the Pines have to go against. Not only do they have to face against every single Main Possession they had before (excluding the Planet Negation Girl, but Risen is still represented with the beaver animatronic), not only do they have to remember all thirteen of them after four years of being at peace with the [=.GIFfanys=], but they also have to ''actually fight them this time'', and cannot simply trick her into letting them destroy her tools.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the official ending version of chapter 13, the group is attacked by some arm "split" in red, green, and blue. This turns out to be Eve herself, briefly leaking into the [[TheVoidBetweenWorlds Void Between Wires.]]
** Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog ends with mentioning of her. At first it seems like a cliffhanger that will intentionally never be answered, but it turns out that it was actually foreshadowing the extra chapter.
* {{Jerkass}}: Probably the biggest of them all, and that is saying a lot. She thinks P. Wendy, ''Dove'', and '''Risen [=.GIFfany=]''' are all too ''soft''.
* GiantFootOfStomping: When mimicking Shannon's Main Possession, she prefers using a bunch of feet to try stomping on the Pines.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Didn't read ''SBIG'', specifically ''The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''? Didn't read Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog? Then she and her chapter will come out of fucking nowhere, with only minimal foreshadowing from the official ending.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Her chapter existing could have only really been shocking once "Game Over" and "Game Complete" were out and it seemed like the story ended. Now, the sheer fact that there is a chapter after the ones labeled "Official Ending" and "Special Ending" gives away that the adventure isn't quite over. In fan's defense, he at least waited half a month before he even started writing this.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Even by the standards of the Arc 3 professors (WordOfGod places her, and her alone, under a special Arc ''4''.), the way her chapter plays out is completely against the tradition that the story itself set up. She's faced after a four year+ TimeSkip, resides in a PocketDimension rather than a real-world location (even the PNG is technically one -- space), has no "students," her prior player is completely irrelevant to the story, and she's the one copy that is genuinely just dealt with by force, and only force. She still doesn't die. In a way, her chapter plays out as an odd combination of the formula set up in Arcs 1 and 2 along with the "broken formula" of Arc 3, specifically chapter 13. Soos and Wendy also never directly encounter her -- in the Official Ending, they're both still at Gravity Falls while the Pines are the only ones to take her on. In the special ending, [=.GIFfany=] already reached into the pocket dimension and assimilated her offscreen before she could fight the Mystery Shack group.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Took on Risen [=.GIFfany=] in a pretty intense fight during the events of "Game Complete," which happened offscreen so as to not spoil the fact that she exists -- ''if'' it was read at all, the alternate chapter 13 was written as though it was still read before Eve's chapter.
* PrimaryColourChampion: Incorporates a lot of reds, greens, and blues, in contrast to [=.GIFfany=] using a lot of pink, yellow, and aqua/cyan.
* {{Retcon}}: Well, of chapter numbering. "Game Complete" goes from being chapter 14 to the "alternate chapter 13" (which is less surprising when you consider that, internally, "Game Over" is actually chapters 13, 14, ''and'' 15 split so that it wouldn't be browser-crashingly long), and ''this'' is the bonus fourteenth chapter.
* WalkingSpoiler: Despite keeping the nature of many of them secrets up until their reveal, ''run:gifocalypse'' still constantly presents itself as having fifteen professors. There is a sixteenth one.

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!! Other [=.GIFfany=] Copies

[[folder:The [=.GIFfany=] Army in General; Specific Student Groups]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Come in a large number of skin colors, some realistic, many not, practically following Fan's signature. Even out of the professors, there's more technicolor ones than not-technicolor ones. Examples are Bubbles (red), Cardia (orange, though hers might actually pass as a realistic skin color), Leona (yellow), Dian (green), Burnda and Burrda (both cyan), Sonia (blue), Wendy (purple), Rose (a '''very''' saturated, deep hot pink), and Dove (gray).
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Pretty much all of them strive to obey video game logic in some way. Where nothing is permanent, fighting is a good way to solve problems, and money works in a very bizarre way. All of the various lessons the professors learn can be summed up as them learning how to properly function in the real world.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All of them are rather strange. Many blindly follow whatever outlandish requests their professors have for them, and some are weird even on top of that.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Leona's color-named minions, all of the Duel of 100 participants, etc, are ''actually named what "nickname" they are introduced as''. The former are named after the colors/patterns they take on (this includes more absurd names like "Rainbow Based On The GPOC Model"[[note]]It's said copy's attempt at making a "new" color model. As Red-Green-Blue has Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Key (black), Red-''Yellow''-Blue would have Green-Purple-Orange-''Canvas'' (white). In reality, no such thing is defined.[[/note]] or "Blue And Yellow Stripes") and the latter sounding more like warrior nicknames (highly inspired by the Sammer Guy names, just with computer-related puns rather than Nintendo history-related names).
* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned skin tones both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. (Especially because this story eventually gives them the surrname "Miyazumi," which is a reference to the Virtual Girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.) GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and the copies are all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Sapient lines of code on magic discs with electric powers given dark magic that gave them humanoid forces of their choice. The end result, taking Risen for example, could be described along the lines of "Black Magic Electrical AI Scylla."
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: They can ''make matter from nothing'', which regardless of the type of matter (in this case metal) would still be phenominal with the right tools. And they can do this in mass, quickly creating stable buildings in days at the longest. In general, this would completely eliminate homelessness at the least. Some of them are also rapid food-growers, eliminating world hunger. And Risen has a way of getting unlimited energy and faster than light travel. Too bad they only really care about using these powers to make fantasy lands to impress their players. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted by the ending. Professor Wendy's epilogue post on Tumblr implies that they put these to use to improve the world.]]
* ShoutOut: Design-wise, some take inspiration from a large number of sources. Some more obscure than others. WordOfGod is that the first three of the 100 Duelers have their designs based on [[Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic Paimon]], [[WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} Sunglasses]], and Stupidella respectively -- the former and latter are canonically topless, the second has been mis-interpreted as such. Meanwhile, the [=AIs=] that appear Burnda's two primary assistants, also confirmed by Fan, to be based on the crocodile and fish women from ''VideoGame/TheFirstFunkyFighter'', minus the animal heads.
* VaporWear: Burnda is the '''only''' copy of the ''entire'' group, [[spoiler:even counting the later-generations/production lines created at the Planet Negation Girl]], that wears bras. And even then, she only did it as a sign of rebellion, [[spoiler:flat-out unhooking hers and letting it get disintegrated by the reentry fall in the finale]]. They might wear bikini tops, sort of lingere pajama tops, etc, but never outright bras. And even underpants are a maybe in some of their cases.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Implied with some of the follower copies in the more laid-back domains clothing-wise (Sandy's, Rose's, Searah's, etc). Outright confirmed with the 100 warriors in the mushroom section of Domain 9.
-->'''Peachaulinsalinaisy:''' Just think of this as a kind of shirts-vs-skins.\\
'''Soos:''' And I'm skins? I'm sorry, but I feel uncomfortable if [=.GIFfany=]'s sort of-watching-\\
'''The first fighter:''' Um... no, we're skins.
* {{Yandere}}: Every last one of them is implied to retain some of this. The only reason why they're not completely hostile to the human group is because they're convinved that they aren't ''really'' getting between them and thier players, as by the end of this they will all be reunited (aside from Rose and Kenny, maybe).

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[[folder:Hato]]

A cashier at Gif Bytes/Domain 5. Unlike the other copies living there, she's much more aware of how bizarre the Gifocalypse is, and strongly regrets her job.

* BackForTheFinale: Cameo in chapter 11 aside, she shows up in both endings as well. [[spoiler:In the Official Ending, she is at the "bottom" of the sphere of [=.GIFfany=] clones that try to make sure Soos and Melody's descent to Earth is safe. Being the first to slide them to a stop, she intentionally rams the ball into part of Domain 5 as a way of "getting back" at her boss, then remarks that she has had a ''terrible'' Sunday. In the Special Ending, she shows up as Cardia's second-in-line, just to end up getting curb-stomped by [=.GIFfany=] shortly after she assimilates Cardia herself.]]
* BurgerFool: Managed to become one despite being offered the choice, with equal room and skill requirements (effectively, none) available, to join any of the other domains sans [=.GIFfany=]'s (coincidentally, [=.GIFfany=]'s is the one other place that ''definitely'' aims to have fast food establishments, though how much of that was subliminal influence from Cardia's other followers isn't clear). She did, however, join Cardia thinking that she had what it took to become a hunter/farmer. But she ended up only qualifying for bottom-level work, managing the registers and grilling various orders.
* OnlySaneMan: Of the copies as a whole (while Bubbles and the twins offer her some competition). Definitely of the followers in Cardia's domain. She somehow sees right through [=.GIFfany=]'s video game logic and can figure out that the "gold coin" is not a stable

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[[folder:Overseer Michelle]]

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[[folder:Overseer Donna]]

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[[folder:Overseer Raffaela]]

* AntiClimax: Mabel does ''not'' struggle with taking her down, and the only reason why she captured Dipper was because he was flustered at the thought of her distracting him with something redhead-related. When the group takes in Sizzcorra (who isn't "captured" so much as "volunteers to be sucked into the Illegal Prime Neutralizer so she has a chance to talk to Professor Sandy earlier"), Dipper lampshades this.

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[[folder:Hijacker Daminna]]

* ShoutOut: Named after the section in Zone 1 of ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' with the '''smoke''' mines.
* {{Troll}}: She loves to just turn herself into smoke when her opponent (in this case Mabel) thinks that they have her caught.

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[[folder:Hijacker Sizzcorra]]

* HollywoodAcid: Exaggerated. Her sector is in charge of crafting the best acids (while also exporting kinds that are pretty good). The current record-holder is something she swims in
a pool of: It's ''completely'' colorless to the point where it can't even reflect or refract light (making it look invisible, and when she's swimming through it, she appears to be swimming in thin-air), and it melts ''anything'' that isn't giffinium or a copy with high resistance. When it simply ''drips'' playable character from her ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', a game Fan has poured many hours in to.

!! BAT MECH

The mecha twin-piloted by the "Bat Twins" (Candy and Grenda, who name themselves
after she emerges from a pool, it ends up eating a hole all the way to a point with magma (the larger pits are described as ''glowing orange'' after a while). She implies that this keeps going until reaching the very center of the Earth, until it for eventually decays as with all matter. (Note that despite glowing, this is ''not'' nuclear waste. Chapter 10 introduces bits of becoming [[BadassNormal the latter in Shannon's domain, and the two of them are treated as completely different things.)
* {{Irony}}: While being closer-linked to the element water, she's a fan of professor Sandy, the earth one, while she doesn't like the ideas of Professor Searah, the water one. With Peachaulinsalinaisy, it's the other way around, while Daminna (smoke, close to wind) adores the wind professor.
* MeaningfulName: She points it out herself: Sakura + sizzle + corrode.
* TechnicolorScience: Exaggerated. The acids in her sector come in a huge variety of colors, several of which [[PowerGlows glow,]] and her current "trump card" acid is completely and utterly invisible.

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[[folder:Hijacker Peachaulinsalinaisy]]

* {{Expy}}: A bit of an arrogant [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach,]] visually. Also one to [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario King Sammer,]] especially given the whole "[[spoiler:I'm going to cut these battles short because you guys are on a scrict time limit]]" aspect.
* {{Irony}}: While being closer-linked to the element earth, she's a fan of Professor Searah, the water one, while she doesn't like the ideas of Professor Sandy, the earth one. With Sizzcorra it's the other way around, while Daminna (smoke, close to wind) adores the wind professor.
* MeaningfulName: Her entire sector is a nod to ''Mario'' in general, and the 100-man Sammer Guy duel from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' specifically. She's named after a combination of '''Peach''', P'''aulin'''e, Ro'''salina''', and D'''aisy'''.
* OverlyLongName: Of the variant where she has a single, long name. It's shorter than the unicorn's name[[note]]Celestabellebethabelle[[/note]], but by just ''three letters'' and it's still a mouthful in of itself.

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[[folder:Hijacker Alma]]

* ClimaxBoss: For Arc 2, and the story in general. She's faced at a point that nearly marks the end of Dipper and Mabel's arcs in the story[[note]]with chapter 10 being more about Wendy, 11 about the Stans, 12 about the group in general, 13 about Soos, and 14 just being a horror-centric "bad ending"[[/note]], really does not screw around, drops some of what was, up until then, kept as DramaticIrony from the Pines and company but known by the reader, and she's fought at the end of the second-longest chapter in the entire fan fic. Also, she's the last copy battled in Arc 2, and has some new powers up her sleeve just as the other hijackers that doesn't really fit with the [=.GIFfany=]s seen up until her. In fact, it doesn't even fit with the previous three hijackers, whom all had the same "transform into an element/component" abilitiy. She can become two-dimensional. In a way, she doubles on a ''moral'' level too, as her plan is an extreme ([[spoiler:attempting to secretly assassinate [=.GIFfany=], throwing this on the heroes out of nowhere, ]])
* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 has, in order: A copy (and by implication several, but definitely not all, of her followers) that wears nothing but smoky wisps, a team of metal swimsuit-clad lab workers who treat acid baths like swimming pools, "that scene" with the BigBad admiring herself naked and slapping her own ass, and a group of 100 topless swordswomen led by a mushroom-clad wannabe princess. Then there's... her. She starts off looking like a standard CuteMonsterGirl, but once it's revealed that the black, lumpy "floor" in her arena is actually ''a huge mass of spiders'' she goes OneWingedAngel and everything goes straight to hell. Much later, it's revealed that she can transform her ''eyes'' into giant spider leg-like appendages, and was planned to do so in her battle in chapter 9, but this was pushed to chapter 12 because of 9's sheer length.
* ShoutOut:
** Like Daminna, she's named after one of the five sections of Zone 1 in ''OFF''. Fittingly, she's named after the area you head last, and her sector is the last explored in the chapter.
** She can "flip" as in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Darlene may be absent from this story, but there's another spider-woman who prays on flirting pick-up artists... more-or-less.

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]

!! The Glitches

If a copy becomes addicted to Shannon's technological "mirrors," and is withdrawn from a mirror for too long, she will begin to glitch out. The effects are
only temporary, as they can be calmed down and the corruption is repairable, but being in the form still leaves them as being exponentially strong, able to "glitch" out their surroundings, and all around being in a state of panic.

* AllThereInTheManual: There are actually a number of "standard types" Glitches can come in -- all five of the ones seen here are one of those standard categories. The Missingno-like corruptions have been nicknamed
* BodyHorror: It's classic video game glitches applied to three-dimensional, flesh and blood (sort of) beings. Of course it's not going to be pretty.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Technically the Glitches are no more different than [=.GIFfany=]'s partly-damaged form at the beginning of the story. They only come off as feral animals at first because A: it's actually the withdrawl effects of the mirrors, and B: their deformations are much worse, and they're panicing a lot more.
** In several domains, it's mentioned through an offhand line that copies are too busy looking into certain mirrors with chartreuse frames to actually do their given task. Chapter 10 finally explains what these mirrors are, and why they seem to be addicting.
* ShoutOut: One of the corruption types resembles [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Missingno.]] Another resembles a [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pastel Burnt.]] A third resembles the BlobMonster[=s=] from ''Pikmin'' (they change their appearances between them, even creating glitchy "rollers" reminiscent of the Waterwraith's). A fourth resembles a certain model glitch from the Wii U ''Super Smash Bros.'' installment. The fifth type seen in ''Gifocalypse'' is mostly original, but could be paralelled to [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Monoko's]] transformed state. At least in regards to all the arms.
* SurrealHorror: The nature of some of the glitches is just downright ''bizarre''.

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[[folder:The "Dark" Squad]]

* EvilCounterpart: They intend to be these to the respective professor they are based on, but the end result is very confused. They constantly screw up their roles and end up acting like the ''opposite'' of the character they are supposed to be the counterpart of.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: To Dove, even though Dove herself is TheDragon in [=.GIFfany=]'s Quirky Miniboss Squad. The whole confusion of it all is lampshaded many, many times.

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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]

!! Second-Generation Professors

The copies created by the PNG, making up [=.GIFfany=]'s army for the endgame.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Although "DLC" retroactively makes it the penultimate episode, they're still introduced at the tail end of the original second-to-last chapter.

!! Professor Courtlyn

The most noteworthy of the second generation (and all other generations, for that matter). A gray-haired copy in a suit and glasses that acts as the "New Dove," although she has nearly the exact opposite personality as her blood-haired predecessor.

* TheDragon: To [=.GIFfany=], after Dove's firing. She's the main second generation copy, and she gets a special one-on-one fight with the townsfolk while the other second-gens are quickly dealt with leading up to the battle.
* MeaningfulName: It's got "court" in it. She's also the new legal advisor.
* TheOmniscient: Or, ''nearly''. Her specialty is performing "predictions," where she roughly estimates what her given enemies will do next. However, doing something downright ''stupid'' will stump her prediction -- like sending nothing but the animated wax head of someone as your first line of defense when
* ScaryShinyGlasses:

!! Other Second-Gen Copies

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!! Non-Copy Antagonists/Threats of Note

[[folder:Lil' Gideon Charles Gleeful]]

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[[folder:Experiment 210/The Shape Shifter]]

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[[folder:The Second Summerween Trickster/Halloween Trickster]]

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[[folder:Rumble [=McSkirmish=] ]]

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[[folder:Bill Cipher '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]

* DemotedToExtra: '''And how!''' He has only six lines in the entire story, appears for what would roughly only be a minute, and his sole appearance just has him yelling about how he came so close to figuring out how to work his way through the rift through [=.GIFfany=]'s state just to have it get sealed off before he could cross in.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely. [[spoiler:Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' blog makes zero mention of him in any way, so it's implied that he stayed sealed for at least four additional years.]]

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!! Other Characters

[[folder:The Frogs]]

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The ten frogs cover all colors in Fan's preferred RGB-tertiary spectrum except green and magenta.
* YouCanTalk: Chapter 11 reveals that they can talk, after Burnda recruits them as talkshow guests. Ironically, the first words in-fic (and heard by a majority of the other characters) from them is one of them quesioning that ''Burrda'' can talk. Generally, hearing an adult woman speak is a lot less unusually than hearing a talking frog, especially as the world of ''Gravity Falls'' otherwise avoids talking animals.

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[[folder:Other Canon Gravity Falls Townspeople]]

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[[folder:Ron Ejjert]]

A self-proclaimed "GenreSavvy" man that was [[RememberTheNewGuy apparently]] a citizen of Gravity Falls.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's an original character, which of course means that he did not appear as a town resident at all. This is lampshaded as most
members of the main cast is confused when he makes his appearance.
* TakeThat: Towards Act 6 in ''Homestuck'' in general, and
team without any sort of superpowers or non-human origins/abilities]]). Reflecting its pilots, it has no outstanding powers

!! BURN THIS BOOK

The mecha intended for
the retcon device specifically.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He believes that he's the main protagonist of a highly meta, time travel-centric cynical science-fiction. ''run:gifocalypse'' is actually more of a lighthearted adventure/fantasy (as a matter of fact, despite the higher amount of content, it's LighterAndSofter than canon in some ways too), and is tagged as such on fanfiction.net. Time travel exists in the universe of ''Gravity Falls'', but it is never important in ''run:gifocalypse'' thanks to Fan really not liking the concept. Meta-related elements are ''implied'' canonically in the form of some of Bill's statements, and in-fic [=.GIFfany=] does [[PaintingTheMedium toy around with the fourth wall]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou to the point of directly talking to the readers]], but again it's not an actual plot point (once again, Fan hates plot-centric fourth wall breaks[[note]]He cites ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' as an exception to this[[/note]]). Specifically, he thinks this is a [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} "doomed timeline"]] and that the only way to stop the Gifocalypse is to suddenly develop a new "meta travel" from Ford's Quantum Untouchability. All trying to touch it does is scatter him across space until he finally re-assembles, with no new powers in hand, right ''after'' [=.GIFfany=]'s defeat [[spoiler:and ''possible'' Heel-Face Turn.]]

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[[folder:Melody]]

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[[folder:The Prior Players]]

-->'''Rose:''' "You helped us, and we are not even of the same species. You should be able to help other humans just fine."

The last people to play the respective copy of ''Romance Academy 7''. Corresponding to each professor, there is:
* Kenny, Rose's player.
* Victoria, Kathody's player.
* Dean, Searah's player.
* Haruki, Sandy's player.
* Souma, Cardia's player.
* Taro, Bubbles's player.
* Takumi, Leona's player.
* Francis, Sonia's player.
* Noriko, Dian's player.
* Hayate, (Prof.) Wendy's player.
* Kimberly, Shannon's player.
* Gerald, Burnda and Burrda's player.
* Takeshi, Dove's player.

Soos is obviously Risen-[=.GIFfany=]'s last player. Tropes on him go on the main characters folder.

* ChekhovsGunman: Kenny actually does appear in the first chapter, seen returning the copy that would later designate herself as Professor Rose. Back then, the narrative itself does not pay much attention to him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy -- although their section is divided into two, one conversation between Burnda and Gerald and another between Burnda and Burrda). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep. (Or briefly knocked out, as is the case in chapter 12.)]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Takeshi is named after [[VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge Takeshi Kitano,]] a man who hates video games and made one such joke game with a number of bizarre features. He is, by far, the one player that opposes the copies more than anyone else -- even Soos was more passive to Risen, as he did not try to attack her completely unprovoked.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kimberly and Victoria are named after two naked [=NPCs=] from the third and fourth (respectively) ''Epic Battle Fantasy'' games. (Fan likes ShamelessFanserviceGirl[=s=].) Taro is named after the then-placeholder name of the stalking target of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', which is actually one of only ''two'' references the fic has to that game[[note]]Fan is '''highly''' skeptical of ''Yandere Simulator''[='=]s future, namely how original its writing would be compared to other "you play as the monster and the best ending is where the events of the game don't happen at all" games[[/note]]. Takeshi is a reference to ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'', and Gerald is part of Burnda and Burrda's ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'' references.

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!! I'm not doing "We are Number One" because it's a meme, I'm doing it because I saw the meme everywhere, saw the song's video, and genuinely liked it. It also fits with the plot of RG way too fucking well.

-->'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Are you, uh, a real [=.GIFfany=] copy?\\
'''Burnda:''' Hell no!\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Have you ever caught a datefriend, like, uh, a player?\\
'''Burnda:''' No way "sister!"\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Have you ever tried a possession?\\
'''Burnda:''' Does fusion count?\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Alright! I can see that I will have to teach you how to be proper virtual girlfriends!\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Step one: attack anyone in your way! Step two: target the player! Step three: threaten to kill them if they do not come in to your game! That's all!

* ''run:gifocalypse'': Soos's story.
* ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'': Mabel's story. (StylisticSuck)
* ''Spooky's Jump Scare M- OH LOOK IT'S BILL CIPHER'': Pacifica's story, and also about how she "DOESN'T NEED NO MAN." (StylisticSuck)
* ''Escape From Fanservice Island'': Ford's story. (StealthParody, and one that does a crappy job at "stealth.")
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*** [=.GIFfany=] = Jergingha: The BigBad

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*** [=.GIFfany=] = Jergingha: The BigBad [[spoiler:battled in space and with the biggest mecha in the story by far.]]



* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Memory Banks, she was ''incredibly'' hostile to [=.GIFfany=] when pressuring her to hold up her end of the "deal."

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Memory Banks, she was ''incredibly'' hostile to [=.GIFfany=] when pressuring her to hold up her end of the "deal.""]]



* {{Expy}}: She's partly based on Fan's earlier ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character, down to name (her name was Kathy), using a scythe, and her love for freaking people out. She's a lot more of an asshole, though. Her color scheme is completely different too (Kathy having pale skin and "blood red" hair, Kath''od''y have tanned skin and yellow hair).

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Tricks the group into thinking there is a Grim Reaper-like figure in the haunted mansion that is Domain 2, then reveals herself as ''fully supporting [=.GIFfany=]'' (unlike Rose, who makes it increasingly clear she isn't), and then tries to come at the group with a scythe.
* {{Expy}}: She's partly based on Fan's earlier ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character, down to name (her name was Kathy), using a scythe, and her love for freaking people out. She's a lot more of an asshole, though. Her color scheme is completely different too (Kathy having pale skin and "blood red" hair, Kath''od''y have tanned skin and yellow hair). WordOfGod also states that her LargeHam was inspired by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Calculon.]]



* ThereWasADoor: Manages to rope ''the heroes'' into an unwilling version of this. In short, they never really go in or out of her building through the front door in chapter 10. [[spoiler:Mabel, at least, does both in the epilogue once the domains are rebuilt and improved.]] In long, she slices the roof off and legs them fall in; then [[spoiler:during her breakdown, she flies out while the group is clinging on her back.]]

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* ThereWasADoor: Manages to rope ''the heroes'' into an unwilling version of this. In short, they never really go in or out of her building through the front door in chapter 10. [[spoiler:Mabel, at least, does both in the epilogue once the domains are rebuilt being taken down and improved.revamped on the PNG.]] In long, she slices the roof off and legs them fall in; then [[spoiler:during her breakdown, she flies out while the group is clinging on her back.]]



The professor of fire/heat. A physician and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda.

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The professor of fire/heat. A physician physicist and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda.
Burrda.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[WordOfGod Great Pikmin Fan]] confirmed that she had a crush on Ford after a reviewer talked about their interactions. He later confirms it again in a far more blunt manner in general on Tumblr.



* MotorMouth: She's actually holding back when she sneaks on the Construction Site and talks to Ford. Just about the time she meets with the band of four,

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* MotorMouth: She's actually holding back when she sneaks on the Construction Site and talks to Ford. Just about the time she meets with the band of four, she rambles a lot more often. Her appearances in derivative works often exaggerate this, although this is because Fan felt that ''run:gifocalypse'' actually downplayed it.



* SpotlightStealingSquad: She's the ''only'' professor (not counting Risen) who appears in more than one of the chapters before her debut. Although to make up for it, her actual battled chapter is near the end of the fan fic.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing she does is punch Professor Wendy in the gut and yell at her for being too soft and listening to the humans.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing she does is punch Professor Wendy in the gut and yell at her for being too soft and listening to the humans. Keep in mind that Professor Wendy is -- or rather, was -- one of the more trigger-happy copies. Hell, ''Rose'' struggled to find something positive to say about her.



* FinalExamBoss: Another in-universe video game trope the Pines have to go against. Not only do they have to face against every single Main Possession they had before (excluding the Planet Negation Girl), not only do they have to remember all thirteen of them after four years of being at peace with the [=.GIFfanys=], but they also have to ''actually fight them this time'', and cannot simply trick her into letting them destroy her tools.

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* FinalExamBoss: Another in-universe video game trope the Pines have to go against. Not only do they have to face against every single Main Possession they had before (excluding the Planet Negation Girl), Girl, but Risen is still represented with the beaver animatronic), not only do they have to remember all thirteen of them after four years of being at peace with the [=.GIFfanys=], but they also have to ''actually fight them this time'', and cannot simply trick her into letting them destroy her tools.



* EvilCounterpart: They intend to be these to the respective professor they are based on, but the end result is very confused.

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* EvilCounterpart: They intend to be these to the respective professor they are based on, but the end result is very confused. They constantly screw up their roles and end up acting like the ''opposite'' of the character they are supposed to be the counterpart of.



The copies created by the PNG, making up [=.GIFfany=]'s army for the endgame.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Although "DLC" retroactively makes it the penultimate episode, they're still introduced at the tail end of the original second-to-last chapter.

!! Professor Courtlyn

The most noteworthy of the second generation (and all other generations, for that matter). A gray-haired copy in a suit and glasses that acts as the "New Dove," although she has nearly the exact opposite personality as her blood-haired predecessor.

* TheDragon: To [=.GIFfany=], after Dove's firing. She's the main second generation copy, and she gets a special one-on-one fight with the townsfolk while the other second-gens are quickly dealt with leading up to the battle.
* MeaningfulName: It's got "court" in it. She's also the new legal advisor.
* TheOmniscient: Or, ''nearly''. Her specialty is performing "predictions," where she roughly estimates what her given enemies will do next. However, doing something downright ''stupid'' will stump her prediction -- like sending nothing but the animated wax head of someone as your first line of defense when
* ScaryShinyGlasses:

!! Other Second-Gen Copies




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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kimberly and Victoria are named after two naked [=NPCs=] from the third and fourth (respectively) ''Epic Battle Fantasy'' games. (Fan likes ShamelessFanserviceGirl[=s=].) Taro is named after the then-placeholder name of the stalking target of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', which is actually one of only ''two'' references the fic has to that game[[note]]Fan is '''highly''' skeptical of ''Yandere Simulator''[='=]s future, namely how original its writing would be compared to other "you play as the monster and the best ending is where the events of the game don't happen at all" games[[/note]]. Takeshi is a reference to ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'', and Gerald is part of Burnda and Burrda's ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'' references.



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!! I'm not doing "We are Number One" because it's a meme, I'm doing it because I saw the meme everywhere, saw the song's video, and genuinely liked it. It also fits with the plot of RG way too fucking well.

-->'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Are you, uh, a real [=.GIFfany=] copy?\\
'''Burnda:''' Hell no!\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Have you ever caught a datefriend, like, uh, a player?\\
'''Burnda:''' No way "sister!"\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Have you ever tried a possession?\\
'''Burnda:''' Does fusion count?\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Alright! I can see that I will have to teach you how to be proper virtual girlfriends!\\
'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Step one: attack anyone in your way! Step two: target the player! Step three: threaten to kill them if they do not come in to your game! That's all!

* ''run:gifocalypse'': Soos's story.
* ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'': Mabel's story. (StylisticSuck)
* ''Spooky's Jump Scare M- OH LOOK IT'S BILL CIPHER'': Pacifica's story, and also about how she "DOESN'T NEED NO MAN." (StylisticSuck)
* ''Escape From Fanservice Island'': Ford's story. (StealthParody, and one that does a crappy job at "stealth.")

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** [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also rainbow on occasion

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** [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also a bright rainbow on occasionoccasion, sometimes simplified to pink/yellow/aqua
** [[spoiler:Eve: Dark mint green, also a dim rainbow on occasion, often simplified to red/green/blue]]



* [Not AndYouThoughtItWouldFail; I'm gonna find another trope for this]: One of the few times she's proven ''right'' about something in-fic. [[spoiler:Burnda tells her that making even more copies of herself is a stupid idea, because the "army" she has now barely listens to her. Of course, for whatever reason (likely less outside-human interaction), the second generation ''does'' listen to her. [=.GIFfany=] even mocks Burnda by doing what Burnda did back in chapter 10's stinger, repeatedly poking her in the face. [=.GIFfany=] then says "Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what my new line of sistrs did ''NOT'' do to me!"]]

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* [Not AndYouThoughtItWouldFail; I'm gonna find another trope for this]: One of the few times she's proven ''right'' about something in-fic. [[spoiler:Burnda tells her that making even more copies of herself is a stupid idea, because the "army" she has now barely listens to her. Of course, for whatever reason (likely less outside-human interaction), the second generation ''does'' listen to her. [=.GIFfany=] even mocks Burnda by doing what Burnda did back in chapter 10's stinger, repeatedly poking her in the face. [=.GIFfany=] then says "Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what my new line of sistrs sisters did ''NOT'' do to me!"]]



[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]

!! Professor Eve (Number: 3693092) [Probably not that number -- might just throw that to Courtlyn.]

* AllYourPowersCombined: Her Main Possession is a [=.GIFfany=] replica robot that can shape-shift into the traits of all the past Main Possessions. Because the author did not want to "END end" the story on a note that's just throwing past stuff again, she also fights on her own with her own moves.
* BrownNote: She claims that looking at the sky of her pocket dimension will kill humans, as they cannot process it like [=AIs=] can. The sky ''is'' weird there, but it's not ''lethal'' -- Mabel eagarly looks up once they finally get past the giffinium barrier and finds out that the "killing" part is BS.
* CallBack: She's basically faced off like a "regular" monster from canon would -- she isn't reasoned with and instead ends up getting outsmarted and bested physically. She's also more of a symbolic battle between the downward spirals Dipper and Mabel had gone through, and her defeat ultimately marks their recovery.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While the vanilla story was this for Soos and the [=.GIFfany=] copies, Eve's encounter is this for the younger Pine twins, as they start to recover from their split caused by the events of the fic. And in an appropriate manner too -- a throwback to canon.
* EldritchLocation: She ''makes'' them, and she spent the entirety of the Gifocalypse tucked away in one. Not that this stopped Risen from finding her and assimilating her too in the special ending, although according to Fan she ended up putting a hell of a fight.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The sky in her pocket dimension gets more fucked up as she takes damage, and the setting in general begins to warp around more and more.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing she does is punch Professor Wendy in the gut and yell at her for being too soft and listening to the humans.
* EvilCounterpart: She's this (or, an Evil''er'' Counterpart) to Risen, believe it or not.
* {{Expy}}:
** Battle-wise, of Delirium from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Afterbirth+''. (Semi-appropriate as she's named after a character from that game, as is her expy in the ''HRT'' series.) The TrueFinalBoss that shape-shifts into all previous bosses of the adventure leading up to it, is found in a clusterfuck MindScrew of an area, and even has an association with static.
* FinalExamBoss: Another in-universe video game trope the Pines have to go against. Not only do they have to face against every single Main Possession they had before (excluding the Planet Negation Girl), not only do they have to remember all thirteen of them after four years of being at peace with the [=.GIFfanys=], but they also have to ''actually fight them this time'', and cannot simply trick her into letting them destroy her tools.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the official ending version of chapter 13, the group is attacked by some arm "split" in red, green, and blue. This turns out to be Eve herself, briefly leaking into the [[TheVoidBetweenWorlds Void Between Wires.]]
** Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog ends with mentioning of her. At first it seems like a cliffhanger that will intentionally never be answered, but it turns out that it was actually foreshadowing the extra chapter.
* {{Jerkass}}: Probably the biggest of them all, and that is saying a lot. She thinks P. Wendy, ''Dove'', and '''Risen [=.GIFfany=]''' are all too ''soft''.
* GiantFootOfStomping: When mimicking Shannon's Main Possession, she prefers using a bunch of feet to try stomping on the Pines.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Didn't read ''SBIG'', specifically ''The Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''? Didn't read Professor Wendy's CharacterBlog? Then she and her chapter will come out of fucking nowhere, with only minimal foreshadowing from the official ending.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Her chapter existing could have only really been shocking once "Game Over" and "Game Complete" were out and it seemed like the story ended. Now, the sheer fact that there is a chapter after the ones labeled "Official Ending" and "Special Ending" gives away that the adventure isn't quite over. In fan's defense, he at least waited half a month before he even started writing this.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Even by the standards of the Arc 3 professors (WordOfGod places her, and her alone, under a special Arc ''4''.), the way her chapter plays out is completely against the tradition that the story itself set up. She's faced after a four year+ TimeSkip, resides in a PocketDimension rather than a real-world location (even the PNG is technically one -- space), has no "students," her prior player is completely irrelevant to the story, and she's the one copy that is genuinely just dealt with by force, and only force. She still doesn't die. In a way, her chapter plays out as an odd combination of the formula set up in Arcs 1 and 2 along with the "broken formula" of Arc 3, specifically chapter 13. Soos and Wendy also never directly encounter her -- in the Official Ending, they're both still at Gravity Falls while the Pines are the only ones to take her on. In the special ending, [=.GIFfany=] already reached into the pocket dimension and assimilated her offscreen before she could fight the Mystery Shack group.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Took on Risen [=.GIFfany=] in a pretty intense fight during the events of "Game Complete," which happened offscreen so as to not spoil the fact that she exists -- ''if'' it was read at all, the alternate chapter 13 was written as though it was still read before Eve's chapter.
* PrimaryColourChampion: Incorporates a lot of reds, greens, and blues, in contrast to [=.GIFfany=] using a lot of pink, yellow, and aqua/cyan.
* {{Retcon}}: Well, of chapter numbering. "Game Complete" goes from being chapter 14 to the "alternate chapter 13" (which is less surprising when you consider that, internally, "Game Over" is actually chapters 13, 14, ''and'' 15 split so that it wouldn't be browser-crashingly long), and ''this'' is the bonus fourteenth chapter.
* WalkingSpoiler: Despite keeping the nature of many of them secrets up until their reveal, ''run:gifocalypse'' still constantly presents itself as having fifteen professors. There is a sixteenth one.

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* [No name yet], Dove's player.

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* [No name yet], Takeshi, Dove's player.




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* MeaningfulName:
** Takeshi is named after [[VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge Takeshi Kitano,]] a man who hates video games and made one such joke game with a number of bizarre features. He is, by far, the one player that opposes the copies more than anyone else -- even Soos was more passive to Risen, as he did not try to attack her completely unprovoked.



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# '''February 2nd'''14th (2016)'''



# October 31st...?
# Somewhere around November 1st-15th?
# December 30th? (2016)
# De...cember... 30th...? (2016?)

!! [This is unrelated to RG...?]

[[folder:???]]

!! Professor Eve (Number: 3693092)

* PrimaryColourChampion: Incorporates a lot of reds, greens, and blues, in contrast to [=.GIFfany=] using a lot of pink, yellow, and aqua/cyan.

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[[/labelnote]]

Oh, shoot. Quick note to myself so I won't forget: have a joke about Blenda's "working name" being "Professor Burrnda" (I almost typed that for Burnda's name while editing this), which would be read/said as "Burnda With Two Rs," but that they dropped it for being a stupid name for a fusion.

!! For Gif's StylisticSuck ''Journals'' self:

* RadishCure:
** Undergoes a completely accidental instance. She admits that she's still a little "Soos-crazy" even after her complete HeelFaceTurn, and really wants him to herself, but he's usually... "seeing" either her other copies or Rumble or Melody instead. During certain events in the debate, however, they have a massive falling out ([[FriendVersusLover both his family and lovers get into a borderline war with one-another and him at the center of it,]] and when they "make up" it's a moment that counts as YourCheatingHeart more than anything), and she's the first one to actually come to his comfort. Cue Soos, in a fit of desperation, saying that he wants to be downloaded into [=.GIFfany=]'s game and just live with her forever (it helps that she was the ''first'' to call Melody out for shagging Stan behind everyone's back, especially during the hostile rivalry of Nazi-calling from both sides of the "debate," and most of her arguments were about how much the whole thing weighed on Soos). And cue [=.GIFfany=] freaking out over it, saying that she doesn't want this anymore, and working her ass off to try getting the harem to make back up.
** Instead of building an army (as in ''Gifocalypse''), the reason why there are more [=.GIFfany=] copies than the ones initially produced as the factory were due to a backfired version of this trope. Dipper gets sick of all the naked [=.GIFfanys=] running around both the Mystery Shack and Soos's house (despite having their own entire city to hang out in), and convinces #9 to make a device that makes even more of them exponentially to see if he can make Soos, Melody, and Stan (the latter of whom is not involved in a relationship, he just thought it would be a good idea to use them to rebrand the Mystery Shack as a sexy tourist trap) eventually get sick of all the overflowing copies. Especially considering [[{{Yandere}} what]] [[AmbiguousDisorder loose]] [[CloudCuckooland cannons]] the bulk of them are. Mabel warns him that this is a really, really bad idea, and Dipper even links to this very website's trope page only for Mabel to point out the number of times that the trope had ''failed''. Even Stan thinks it won't work ("This is NOT 'make a kid smoke a lot so he doesn't smoke,' it's more of 'give a guy porn so he doesn't look at porn ist' makes sense'"). Sure enough, not only do Soos and Melody (along with Rumble, but he wasn't one of Dipper's concerns) end up loving it. The only negative thing that comes from it is in ''[=SBIGlets=]'', when [[spoiler:Tad Strange absorbs the souls of all the new copies to become an Asriel-expy]].

!! Other Radishes:

* ...Fuck I can't think of any right now.

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# October 31st...?
'''October 28th'''
# Somewhere around November 1st-15th?
'''November 25th'''
# December 30th? (2016)
'''December 30th (2016)'''
# De...cember... 30th...? (2016?)

!! [This is unrelated to RG...?]

[[folder:???]]

!! Professor Eve (Number: 3693092)

* PrimaryColourChampion: Incorporates a lot of reds, greens, and blues, in contrast to [=.GIFfany=] using a lot of pink, yellow, and aqua/cyan.

[[/folder]]

[[/labelnote]]

Oh, shoot. Quick note to myself so I won't forget: have a joke about Blenda's "working name" being "Professor Burrnda" (I almost typed that for Burnda's name while editing this), which would be read/said as "Burnda With Two Rs," but that they dropped it for being a stupid name for a fusion.

!! For Gif's StylisticSuck ''Journals'' self:

* RadishCure:
** Undergoes a completely accidental instance. She admits that she's still a little "Soos-crazy" even after her complete HeelFaceTurn, and really wants him to herself, but he's usually... "seeing" either her other copies or Rumble or Melody instead. During certain events in the debate, however, they have a massive falling out ([[FriendVersusLover both his family and lovers get into a borderline war with one-another and him at the center of it,]] and when they "make up" it's a moment that counts as YourCheatingHeart more than anything), and she's the first one to actually come to his comfort. Cue Soos, in a fit of desperation, saying that he wants to be downloaded into [=.GIFfany=]'s game and just live with her forever (it helps that she was the ''first'' to call Melody out for shagging Stan behind everyone's back, especially during the hostile rivalry of Nazi-calling from both sides of the "debate," and most of her arguments were about how much the whole thing weighed on Soos). And cue [=.GIFfany=] freaking out over it, saying that she doesn't want this anymore, and working her ass off to try getting the harem to make back up.
** Instead of building an army (as in ''Gifocalypse''), the reason why there are more [=.GIFfany=] copies than the ones initially produced as the factory were due to a backfired version of this trope. Dipper gets sick of all the naked [=.GIFfanys=] running around both the Mystery Shack and Soos's house (despite having their own entire city to hang out in), and convinces #9 to make a device that makes even more of them exponentially to see if he can make Soos, Melody, and Stan (the latter of whom is not involved in a relationship, he just thought it would be a good idea to use them to rebrand the Mystery Shack as a sexy tourist trap) eventually get sick of all the overflowing copies. Especially considering [[{{Yandere}} what]] [[AmbiguousDisorder loose]] [[CloudCuckooland cannons]] the bulk of them are. Mabel warns him that this is a really, really bad idea, and Dipper even links to this very website's trope page only for Mabel to point out the number of times that the trope had ''failed''. Even Stan thinks it won't work ("This is NOT 'make a kid smoke a lot so he doesn't smoke,' it's more of 'give a guy porn so he doesn't look at porn ist' makes sense'"). Sure enough, not only do Soos and Melody (along with Rumble, but he wasn't one of Dipper's concerns) end up loving it. The only negative thing that comes from it is in ''[=SBIGlets=]'', when [[spoiler:Tad Strange absorbs the souls of all the new copies to become an Asriel-expy]].

!! Other Radishes:

* ...Fuck I can't think of any right now.
'''December 30th (2016)'''
# February 14th? (2017)

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* ElementalEmbodiment: WordOfGod is that all of the [[spoiler:first-gen]] professors just aimed to loosely be "elemental people" or "elemental gods." The exception is [=.GIFfany=], who, sticking with her octopus-father in-game story, is a scylla.



** Soos and [=.GIFfany=]:

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** Soos and [=.GIFfany=]: Ordinary life vs technological singularity.



* MakingASplash: Can possess water.



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Her Main Possession is a large, hard-to-hit statue of [=.GIFfany=]'s head. She's also pretty intellegent when she's not high, and her students are able to quickly capture the Shack team with ease.
* DishingOutDirt: Can possess rocks.



* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, she mentions having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only three posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:P. Wendy saying that she's already gotten sick of ''King of the Hill'' over just three days and does not feel like actually using the blog, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as the closest thing the fic has to closure.]]

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* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, she the narrative mentions her having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only three posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:P. Wendy saying that she's already gotten sick of ''King of the Hill'' over just three days and does not feel like actually using the blog, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as some additional closure detailing more than one year in the closest thing the fic has to closure.future.]]



* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not as bad as Dove, but it's implied that she's not very well-liked by the other professors (her students, on the other hand, ''love'' her). Even Rose, who normally loves the others, felt the need to restate and emphasize that she does ''not'' want the protagonists to kill any copy when they are about to face off against her.

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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not as bad as Dove, but it's implied that she's not very well-liked by the other professors (her students, on the other hand, ''love'' her).her -- the same cannot be said about Dove). Even Rose, who normally loves the others, felt the need to restate and emphasize that she does ''not'' want the protagonists to kill any copy when they are about to face off against her.



* FantasticRacism: Dove makes it crystal clear that she's absolutely not fond of humans, largely accusing them of automatically assuming AIIsACrapshoot, which in this fic was ultimately the reason why she/the others had to kill the game's developers. It should be noted that Dove herself keeps acting as living proof for the anti-AI crowd, as she attacks and aims to destroy with no provocation whatsoever.

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* FantasticRacism: Dove makes it crystal clear that she's absolutely not fond of humans, largely accusing them of automatically assuming AIIsACrapshoot, which in this fic was ultimately the reason why she/the others had to kill the game's developers. It should be noted that Dove herself keeps acting as living proof for the anti-AI crowd, as she attacks and aims to destroy with no provocation whatsoever. [[spoiler:Her last (actually, only) player, Takeshi, immediately points this out when they re-meet in the official ending, and says that all her invasion of Gravity Falls and ultimate goal of enslaving humanity did was prove him in the ''right'' to try to kill her in the past.]]



Her domain, Domain 15, is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore.

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Her domain, Domain 15, is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore.
anymore. The ''actual'' part she considers her domain is the "Capital," a city on the opposite end of the planet as the intended entrance point from Earth that is ''still'' larger than the other domains.

* AGodAmI: She believes she's an ''actual'' Lightning Goddess.
* AllYourColorsCombined: Not with the professors. She's rainbow-themed for a different reason. [[spoiler:The ''last players'' of the professors -- she uses their human-giffinium linking energy to help her increase the abilities of her rift and form energy chains with the next-gen copies.]]



* AscendedExtra: Goes from MonsterOfTheWeek to this fic's BigBad. Considering [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip Van Winkle]], this isn't really anything new by Great Pikmin Fan's standards. (Although Rip has been exclusive to StylisticSuck stories.)
* TheBadGuyWins: In the special ending. [[spoiler:''Possibly'' in the official ending as well -- her line at the very end is ambiguous.]]



* BookEnds: Counting canon, she's the first copy faced. And the last.



** Her Main Possession form is... not pretty, to say the least. Putting it ''mildly'', [[spoiler:she turns the Planet Negation Girl into an Earth-sized humanoid mecha which looks like it's "wearing" nothing but stars over its breasts and a pair of panties... one with a body made of agonized [=.GIFfany=] faces, massive movie screens showing photo-realistic imagry, giant ferris wheel cars-turned into buldging, bloodshot eyes, and all sorts of cannons and bizarre attacks.]]

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** Her Main Possession form is... not pretty, to say the least. Putting it ''mildly'', [[spoiler:she turns the Planet Negation Girl into an Earth-sized humanoid mecha which looks like it's "wearing" nothing but stars over its breasts and a pair of panties... one with a body made of agonized [=.GIFfany=] faces, massive movie screens showing photo-realistic imagry, giant ferris wheel cars-turned into buldging, bloodshot eyes, and all sorts of cannons and bizarre attacks.]]
* FinalBoss: In the sense as the Gifocalypse being a "game" from the perspective of the copies, with each professor being a boss battle. [[spoiler:Except she is not meant ot be beaten. Or even reached -- she has an endlessly-generated line of "next-gen" professors where, in theory, after "conquering" each one the humans would have several more additional professors they'd have to get through, making it impossible for them to catch up to Risen.
]]



* FunWithAcronyms: The Planet Negation Girl refers to the .PNG image format. It also triples as a ShoutOut to [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Jergingha's Planet Destruction Form,]] and foreshadows [[spoiler:that it has a humanoid appearance capable of destroying planets -- hence the ''girl''.]]



* HumanoidAbomination: All of the copies have some shades of this, but she's by far the most eldritch [[spoiler:thanks to being infused with the rift. She's also the only character that can hijack the fourth wall, although seeing as it stops completely once she destroys/seals the rift, it's implied to be directly connected with her rift skills.]]



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In both endings. In "Game Complete," she blows up Earth despite already having Soos under her control. In "Game Over," she still kidnaps him (indirectly, Dove did the actual kidnapping but [=.GIFfany=] refused to let him go), kidnaps Melody, at several points implies that she'll go back to resorting to kill the human opposers (as she only does not want to see ''herself'' die), and after all of that... Soos fights her a little, but she deals just as much damage to him in the fist-fight. She gets Easily Forgiven by everyone except Dipper, and the ending there implies that she already got close to what she wanted anyway.]]



* LightIsNotGood: While she's not a light-user per-say, she's still as bright as ever and associated with light colors. Her city is even well-lit at most times, bright, and made of pink giffinium metal. Aside from a pink brighter than any of the professors' hair colors (except Burrda), she's also associated with rainbow. But she's the most dangerous of the bunch.



* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be.

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* MotherOfAThousandYoung: [[spoiler:She all-but functions as this once she gets her machines to start the copy army working. However, she still considers all of the next-gen copies as sisters, not daughters. Once she turns it on, at ''no'' point in the story is it ever turned off -- Word of God confirms this (not even during what was otherwise the massive power outage when she's about to possess the entire PNG), and she's still generating copies directly when she hijacks the PNG, and it's still generating them even during her fall from space, the epilogue, and the four-year fastward on Professor Wendy's blog.]]
* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be. She turns into more of a Ms. FanDisservice by the finale.



* OurFounder: Unlike ''all'' of the other domains, her place eventuallys gets an enormous, "[=3D=] pixel" statue in her image at the greeting site. [[spoiler:Readers are led to think that this is her Main Possession. It's not. The ''entire'' base is.]]

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* NukeEm: She lift's [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey's]] nuclear bomb attack from her Main Possession.
* OurFounder: Unlike ''all'' of the other domains, her place eventuallys gets an enormous, "[=3D=] pixel" statue in her image at the greeting site.site at the Planet Negation Girl. [[spoiler:Readers are led to think that this is her Main Possession. It's not. The ''entire'' base is.]]
* SerialEscalation: She goes from a sapient video game that tries to pull her victim in by insulting his dating skills with real women and using animatronics to attack to a supercomputer evil goddess that instead opts for tempting him with a massive arcade ''planet'' and, when that fails, [[spoiler:she tries to attack him with ''the planet itself.'']]
* TheSingularity: [[spoiler:''Successfully'' pulls at least a soft variation off, regardless of ending. (In the special ending, it's more of a hard variation.) The Planet Negation Girl is a constantly-evolving, constantly-growing, constantly-populated planet-base implied to extend off to even more planets, greatly helped by how the copies now have the power to make metal out of absolutely nothing. She's themed around infinite power, and it's stated that a single chip's worth of PNG technology has more power than all technology made from Earth combined. It's implied that this accidentally helps the world reach more of a utopia state by the end.
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* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:Her entire domain also doubles as her Main Possession. It seems like it's completely meant to be a planet base at first, then [=.GIFfany=] uses the power of the rift to help her possess it completely, turning it into a combat mecha.]]

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* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:Her [[spoiler:The entire domain PNG also doubles as her Main Possession. It seems like it's completely meant to be a planet base at first, then [=.GIFfany=] uses the power of the rift to help her possess it completely, turning it into a combat mecha.]]]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: For a "redemption story" [[spoiler:or something of a deconstruction therof]], [=.GIFfany=] spends most of it being ''even worse'' than she was in canon as soon as she gets her memories back. She sees all of her copies as puppets until [[spoiler:Burrda's attempted suicide]], drops the act of being sweet and cheery ''completely'', and at the beginning of chapter 13 part 2, she even screams at Soos to shut up just for asking how long she's pacing back and forth across the room. The only thing she's really improved on is that she does not believe in killing/deleting the enemy (or, she shows more restraint -- she does eventually threaten to kill Soos, but only after the townsfolk ram her plan OffTheRails), and even that's implied to be just because both Rose and Dove both pressured her into not being lethal. She doesn't even really have much of a FreudianExcuse to pass it off -- ''Dove'' is the copy that actually experienced deleting her programmers, the rest just have it experienced in memories, and despite that said other copies are usually better than her.



* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned races both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and the copies are all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."

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* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned races skin tones both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. (Especially because this story eventually gives them the surrname "Miyazumi," which is a reference to the Virtual Girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.) GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and the copies are all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent.""
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Sapient lines of code on magic discs with electric powers given dark magic that gave them humanoid forces of their choice. The end result, taking Risen for example, could be described along the lines of "Black Magic Electrical AI Scylla."
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: They can ''make matter from nothing'', which regardless of the type of matter (in this case metal) would still be phenominal with the right tools. And they can do this in mass, quickly creating stable buildings in days at the longest. In general, this would completely eliminate homelessness at the least. Some of them are also rapid food-growers, eliminating world hunger. And Risen has a way of getting unlimited energy and faster than light travel. Too bad they only really care about using these powers to make fantasy lands to impress their players. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted by the ending. Professor Wendy's epilogue post on Tumblr implies that they put these to use to improve the world.]]

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Fan said that any resemblance to any actual disorders is coincidental. Canonically, [=.GIFfany=] could be passed off as "selfish, abusive video game that thinks in video game logic and wants someone to play her." These copies, including Risen herself, are much harder to pin. And no real explanation is given from this, either, since theoretically, all copies start from the same "template" and diverge from there.
** Cardia stutters a lot, is very tense and jittery most of the time, has a poor grip on reality, and tends to think of really bizarre solutions for situations when talking things out could work just fine. After her HeelFaceTurn, she's also by far the most overly apologetic of the bunch.
** Burrda has a ''strong'' aversion to verbal communication (unlike the ''Hair Idealization''[='=]s handling of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], she's never explicitely shown to be uncomfortable, just that she usually prefers displaying words on a screen, and if she ''must'' speak, she [[TerseTalker gets out as few words as possible]]), generally comes off as being depressed all the time,
** Dove has an obsession with trying to come off as important and imposing (so much that she looks through a thesaurus, gathers as many complicated words as she can, and using them in a SophisticatedAsHell manner), has a gait identical to [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed's,]] often travels in "random paths," chaotically fires people as stress relief, and has an obsession with debating people to prove them wrong.
** Risen/canonical [=.GIFfany=] is ''highly'' implied to be flat-out delusional. She gets far too invested in a fantasy acted out on with Soos and Melody dolls in chapter 9 until Stan walks in on her and breaks her out of it, [[spoiler:she takes a little too long to realize when Melody swapped herself out with the doll of her [=.GIFfany=] made]], and when she tells Professor Wendy that Soos cheated on her and murdered her in cold blood it's left ambiguous as to whether or not she was just bullshitting that for sympathy or if she ''actually remembers herself as the victim in that incident.'' In addition to all of this, she's a rather heavy MoodSwinger In the StylisticSuck ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', Ryan Christian (a TakeThat at Brian Griffin and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' as a whole) pauses himself a lot when trying to identify what's wrong with her, before eventually settling on calling her schizophrenic. However, as that's a guy who is obsessively hateful and hostile to the point of coming off as delusional himself, his credibility would be a negative number if quantified.



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The fact that she's able to tell the tile puzzle in chapter 7 alone should be a dead give away. For those unaware of how Color Eye works in GPF's stories, look at [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/RGB_color_wheel_360.svg/2000px-RGB_color_wheel_360.svg.png this]] image. The color at the very bottom is blue. The slot to the immediate left of it is "ablue." The one immediately to the right is "tablue." Can you easily tell the difference without greatly adjusting your monitor? Mabel can. One dead giveaway sign of Color Eye, even in its weaker stages, is that every single color on that image would appear completely distinct to someone "infected" with it.
* Color Eye is also ''highly'' contageous, meaning that Dipper and Stan would definitely be affected -- possibly Soos, Wendy, and everyone Mabel even remotely talks to. It's that easy to spread. Despite this, the others show no ease at being able to tell the colors apart at all.
* Fan said that, in RG's verse, Mabel simply has color distinction ''like'' she has Color Eye from eating certain kinds of questionable candy like Smile Dip. She had "just the right mix" of certain dangerous products in the past, resulting in her having a weaker form of the effects of Color Eye, minus being able to pass it on to someone simply by breathing air towards them.

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The fact
!! For Gif's StylisticSuck ''Journals'' self:

* RadishCure:
** Undergoes a completely accidental instance. She admits
that she's able still a little "Soos-crazy" even after her complete HeelFaceTurn, and really wants him to tell herself, but he's usually... "seeing" either her other copies or Rumble or Melody instead. During certain events in the tile puzzle in chapter 7 alone should be debate, however, they have a dead give away. For those unaware of how Color Eye works in GPF's stories, look at [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/RGB_color_wheel_360.svg/2000px-RGB_color_wheel_360.svg.png this]] image. The color massive falling out ([[FriendVersusLover both his family and lovers get into a borderline war with one-another and him at the very bottom is blue. The slot to the immediate left center of it is "ablue." The one immediately to the right is "tablue." Can you easily tell the difference without greatly adjusting your monitor? Mabel can. One dead giveaway sign of Color Eye, even in its weaker stages, is it,]] and when they "make up" it's a moment that every single color on counts as YourCheatingHeart more than anything), and she's the first one to actually come to his comfort. Cue Soos, in a fit of desperation, saying that image would appear completely distinct he wants to someone "infected" be downloaded into [=.GIFfany=]'s game and just live with it.
* Color Eye is also ''highly'' contageous, meaning
her forever (it helps that she was the ''first'' to call Melody out for shagging Stan behind everyone's back, especially during the hostile rivalry of Nazi-calling from both sides of the "debate," and most of her arguments were about how much the whole thing weighed on Soos). And cue [=.GIFfany=] freaking out over it, saying that she doesn't want this anymore, and working her ass off to try getting the harem to make back up.
** Instead of building an army (as in ''Gifocalypse''), the reason why there are more [=.GIFfany=] copies than the ones initially produced as the factory were due to a backfired version of this trope.
Dipper gets sick of all the naked [=.GIFfanys=] running around both the Mystery Shack and Soos's house (despite having their own entire city to hang out in), and convinces #9 to make a device that makes even more of them exponentially to see if he can make Soos, Melody, and Stan (the latter of whom is not involved in a relationship, he just thought it would definitely be affected -- possibly Soos, Wendy, and everyone a good idea to use them to rebrand the Mystery Shack as a sexy tourist trap) eventually get sick of all the overflowing copies. Especially considering [[{{Yandere}} what]] [[AmbiguousDisorder loose]] [[CloudCuckooland cannons]] the bulk of them are. Mabel warns him that this is a really, really bad idea, and Dipper even remotely talks to. It's that easy links to spread. Despite this, the others show no ease at being able to tell the colors apart at all.
* Fan said that, in RG's verse,
this very website's trope page only for Mabel simply has color distinction ''like'' she has Color Eye to point out the number of times that the trope had ''failed''. Even Stan thinks it won't work ("This is NOT 'make a kid smoke a lot so he doesn't smoke,' it's more of 'give a guy porn so he doesn't look at porn ist' makes sense'"). Sure enough, not only do Soos and Melody (along with Rumble, but he wasn't one of Dipper's concerns) end up loving it. The only negative thing that comes from eating certain kinds of questionable candy like Smile Dip. She had "just it is in ''[=SBIGlets=]'', when [[spoiler:Tad Strange absorbs the souls of all the new copies to become an Asriel-expy]].

!! Other Radishes:

* ...Fuck I can't think of any
right mix" of certain dangerous products in the past, resulting in her having a weaker form of the effects of Color Eye, minus being able to pass it on to someone simply by breathing air towards them.

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The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physicist, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except her's is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.

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* BerserkButton: "Game Over" reveals that she '''loathes''' being called "baby." "Precious" and "little" invoke similar reactions, but "baby" is the big one.
* {{Expy}}: Going with some of the ''Undertale'' parallels with Burnda having Metatton and Professor Wendy being slightly based on Undyne, Burrda is... actually, a weird combination of Alphys, Asgore, and to an even lesser extent, Papyrus.



* MoralityPet: She's the only professor '''every''' other copy is at least somewhat nice to. Even ''[[HairTriggerTemper Dove]]'' takes no offense to being called out by her, and actually feels proud of Burrda for talking back to [[TheDreaded her.]] Even Risen [=.GIFfany=], who normally thinks of the other professors as awful mockeries of herself, [[spoiler:refuses to let Burrda and Ford follow through with the "one of them has to die to prevent a war" plan of her's, outright saying "I have seen myself do a lot of things [...] But one thing I really do not want to see myself do is die."]] All of this being said, however, she's far from harmless, and far from completely innocent.

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* MoralityPet: She's the only professor '''every''' other copy is at least somewhat nice to. Even ''[[HairTriggerTemper Dove]]'' takes no offense to being called out by her, and actually feels proud of Burrda for talking back to [[TheDreaded her.]] Even Risen [=.GIFfany=], who normally thinks of the other professors as awful mockeries of herself, [[spoiler:refuses to let Burrda and Ford follow through with the "one of them has to die to prevent a war" plan of her's, hers, outright saying "I have seen myself do a lot of things [...] But one thing I really do not want to see myself do is die."]] All of this being said, however, she's far from harmless, and far from completely innocent.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she starts saying more than a few words. It means something ''bad.'' Even rarer than that is when she raises her voice -- the only time she really does so is [[spoiler:immediately after '''swallowing''' the green key card (the one that ''leads back to Gravity Falls''), then says that if the group wants to get back home, they'll have to rip the card out of her guts.]]



* TerseTalker: When she ''does'' talk, it's like this. [[spoiler:She was a lot more... talkative back when he and Burnda were seeked out and bought by Gerald.]]

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* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Attempts to pull this off, believing that either her death or an "unnecessary" human death will prevent the Gifocalypse from becoming an all-out war. The only reason why she doesn't kill herself early is because she ''really'' does not want to die. She, in a way, tries to let Ford to decide whether she dies or he dies, except he wants neither. After realizing that the Pines family shouldn't be broken up or have anyone one of them get killed, she prepares to kill herself, and would have succeeded if not for [=.GIFfany=] intervening at the last second.]]
* TerseTalker: When she ''does'' talk, it's like this. [[spoiler:She was a lot more... talkative back when he and Burnda were seeked out and bought by Gerald. She also talks more when asking Ford to kill her.]]



* AmmoralAttorney: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch.
* BerserkButton: [[{{yandere}} Ironically,]] love potions piss her the fuck off. She doesn't care if they're temporary. She has a negative knee-jerk reaction to them. [[spoiler:She especially ''hates'' the idea of using any of them on her family. When Mabel suggests using the anti-love potion to help get rid of [=.GIFfany=]'s obsession with Soos faster, Dove yanks it from her hands and throws it on Robbie and Tambry despite their love potion having worn off long ago.]]
* TheDragon: [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command and the penultimate major threat faced in the story. Unlike the usual Dragon-Big Bad interaction, ''she's'' the one kept in a lot of mystery up to her reveal, while the readers are shown a lot of [=.GIFfany=]. Likely because [=.GIFfany=] herself is much more "canonical," so it would have been easier to guess what her battle and setting would have been like, while Dove has a much bigger element of being unknown.

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* AmmoralAttorney: AmoralAttorney: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch.
* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
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[[{{yandere}} Ironically,]] love potions piss her the fuck off. She doesn't care if they're temporary. She has a negative knee-jerk reaction to them. [[spoiler:She especially ''hates'' the idea of using any of them on her family. When Mabel suggests using the anti-love potion to help get rid of [=.GIFfany=]'s obsession with Soos faster, Dove yanks it from her hands and throws it on Robbie and Tambry despite their love potion having worn off long ago. It still manages to irreparably damage their relationship.]]
** Mabel in her entirety is a walking, personal berserk button to Dove. Trying to defend her will just make her outbursts even worse -- one of her beefs with Mabel is that, in Dove's opinion, people are way to quick to "bend over themselves" to defend her when she shouldn't be.
* TheDragon: [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command and the penultimate major threat faced in the story. Unlike the usual Dragon-Big Bad interaction, ''she's'' the one kept in a lot of mystery up to her reveal, while the readers are shown a lot of [=.GIFfany=]. Likely because [=.GIFfany=] herself is much more "canonical," so it would have been easier to guess what her battle and setting would have been like, while Dove has a much bigger element of being unknown. [[spoiler:Subverted when she's actually fought -- [=.GIFfany=] and her are ''not'' on good terms at the time, so she more-or-less acts independantly. She's still the second to last and second most powerful main enemy.]]



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A strange inversion. She's rather ''pleasant'' when talking to Soos and drops her "complex speech" completely; presumably because she assumes Soos will be the first human she'll meet that doesn't try to kill her or think of her as a spooky video game monster.



* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She intentionally tries to pull this off, mainly in front of Dipper and Mabel (when talking to Soos, this trait is completely absent) and some times her own co-professors, to try to sound more like an "evil genius."
* SophisticatedAsHell: ''Very'' eloquent when she wants to be -- it's revealed that she regularly reads a thesaurus -- and pretty foul-mouthed. However, these are both quirks she tries to throw on herself to make herself seem more menacing. She completely drops both of them when Soos is the only human around.



* TakeThat: She's both Fan's way of criticising Mabel through her own opinions, and... in a much larger way (though the only thing she actually has in common with ''Homestuck'' is her eloquent speech), a criticism of some aspects (particularly in [[SeasonalRot Act 6]]) of ''Homestuck''. While named after a character (in this case, Dave) like Professors Rose and Dian are, she is ''not'' one of the nicer copies and a massive pain in the ass to deal with. Uncoincidentally, the chapter focused on her is also where Ron Ejjert comes in, a specific, critical Take That at the "retcon" plot point.



* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Come in a large number of skin colors, some realistic, many not, practically following Fan's signature. Even out of the professors, there's more technicolor ones than not-technicolor ones. Examples are Bubbles (red), Cardia (orange, though her's might actually pass as a realistic skin color), Leona (yellow), Dian (green), Burnda and Burrda (both cyan), Sonia (blue), Wendy (purple), Rose (a '''very''' saturated, deep hot pink), and Dove (gray).

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Come in a large number of skin colors, some realistic, many not, practically following Fan's signature. Even out of the professors, there's more technicolor ones than not-technicolor ones. Examples are Bubbles (red), Cardia (orange, though her's hers might actually pass as a realistic skin color), Leona (yellow), Dian (green), Burnda and Burrda (both cyan), Sonia (blue), Wendy (purple), Rose (a '''very''' saturated, deep hot pink), and Dove (gray).



** She can "flip"

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* AllThereInTheManual: There are actually a number of "standard types" Glitches can come in -- all five of the ones seen here are one of those standard categories. The Missingno-like corruptions have been nicknamed



* ShoutOut: One of the corruption types resembles [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Missingno.]] Another resembles a [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pastel Burnt.]] A third resembles the BlobMonster[=s=] from ''Pikmin'' (they change their appearances between them, even creating glitchy "rollers" reminiscent of the Waterwraith's). A fourth resembles a certain model glitch from the Wii U ''Super Smash Bros.'' installment. The fifth type seen in ''Gifocalypse'' is mostly original, but could be paralelled to [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Monoko's]] transformed state. At least in regards to all the arms.



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Oh, shoot. Quick note to myself so I won't forget: have a joke about Blenda's "working name" being "Professor Burrnda" (I almost typed that for Burnda's name while editing this), which would be read/said as "Burnda With Two Rs," but that they dropped it for being a stupid name for a fusion.

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[[WMG:Mabel, in the [=RunGif=] verse, has Color Eye]]

The fact that she's able to tell the tile puzzle in chapter 7 alone should be a dead give away. For those unaware of how Color Eye works in GPF's stories, look at [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/RGB_color_wheel_360.svg/2000px-RGB_color_wheel_360.svg.png this]] image. The color at the very bottom is blue. The slot to the immediate left of it is "ablue." The one immediately to the right is "tablue." Can you easily tell the difference without greatly adjusting your monitor? Mabel can. One dead giveaway sign of Color Eye, even in its weaker stages, is that every single color on that image would appear completely distinct to someone "infected" with it.
* Color Eye is also ''highly'' contageous, meaning that Dipper and Stan would definitely be affected -- possibly Soos, Wendy, and everyone Mabel even remotely talks to. It's that easy to spread. Despite this, the others show no ease at being able to tell the colors apart at all.
* Fan said that, in RG's verse, Mabel simply has color distinction ''like'' she has Color Eye from eating certain kinds of questionable candy like Smile Dip. She had "just the right mix" of certain dangerous products in the past, resulting in her having a weaker form of the effects of Color Eye, minus being able to pass it on to someone simply by breathing air towards them.

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[[folder:Darth Manchild]]
->When the sun collapses into the depths of outer space, and you see a familiar smirk on the moons face, know that I am laughing at you all. I am your nightmares, put into a blender with the darker parts of lovecraft, some crushed ice, and a hint of cinnamon.Know that when you see eyes in the darkness, and the silly string begins to cocoon you, don't fear. I still need you alive to [[spoiler:buy my seasonal waterfront property. Come on, I having trouble trying to sell it! So what if it is where the Usher house collapsed! they were a bunch of weirdos anyway, a brother and a sister that seemed a bit too close. Pale too, like vampires, or the fanbase of Second Life. I mean, people, get some sun!Even us eldritch abominations get out from our depths too!Now what was I saying?]] I will take your mind and replace it with pink elephants dancing to the hamster dance at half speed! You will beg for me to end the world![[spoiler:Too bad I can't. Powers stripped when I got fired. Who knew Chuthie loved that damned beagle so much? I mean it was kinda awkward that it couldn't breathe at the depths of his apartment. I just went to the Mi-go to get it some gills. It wasn't my fault they took out its' brain, put it in a jar, and ate the body with some navy beans and chianti?]]
* GIFT: an avatar of such. Think if Nylarthotep lost his powers and had to resort to trolling on the internet.
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Yes, I realize how stupid it is to give copies of .GIFfany of all characters this much dialogue and this much attempt at depth. Frankly I don't care. Nobody else is writing something like this. Or at least, they're not publishing it. I need my rainbows.


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* {{Flanderization}}: Their outfits, cross-story. In ''run:gifocalypse'', the majority of them have clothes that is, for the most part, ''actually covering'', even if it's made of irregular material. Sandy and Bubbles, the two most blatant exceptions, make sense -- Sandy is something of a nudist outright, and Bubbles enjoys annoying people to try getting in their head, so she wears only suds to try pissing people off. Come the cross-appearances in other works and their outfits are seasons 3+ Rainbow Crew-levels of impractical and just ''barely'' wearing ''anything''. Most of it can be hand-waved by being ''SBIG'', although their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are the same as those in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''.



* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches, but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in

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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches, but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in going practically completely naked.



*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element, given the amount of time she spends during the chase sequence trying to go through liquid giffinium.

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*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element, given the amount of time she spends during the chase sequence trying to go going through liquid giffinium.silver.



* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first. [[spoiler:As well as Burnda, Burrda, and Dove, each of which got over their players completely. (The twins for buying both of them in a bad attempt to make a harem, which provokes both of them to be hostile towards one-another until they question why they're even bothering fighting over a polygamous guy like Gerald. Dove because her player flat-out saw her as a way of getting catharsis from his dad getting killed by a robot in the past.)]]

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* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first. [[spoiler:As well as Burnda, Burrda, and Dove, each of which got over their players completely. (The twins for buying both of them in a bad attempt to make a harem, which provokes both of them to be hostile towards one-another until they question why they're even bothering fighting over a polygamous guy like Gerald. Dove because her player flat-out saw her as a way of getting catharsis from his dad getting killed by a robot in the past.past, villified her before she even went yandere, and ultimately painting a very negative view to Dove on what humans think about [=AIs=].)]]



* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:As revealed in the Memory Banks, she was ''incredibly'' hostile to [=.GIFfany=] when pressuring her to hold up her end of the "deal."
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. It's implied here and there for most of the story, mainly kicking up around Arc 3. Especially Kathody's reports on what Rose had done in beteen Domains 10 and 11 when she thought the gang killed Professor Wendy. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that, despite her claims, she cares more about the well-being of her sisters than the lives of the main group -- including 12-year old Dipper and Mabel. Even when they're outnumbered by the professors. Word of God is that she was based on an apparent occurance where a Vocal Minority of ''Undertale'' fans known to insult people for not going on a full Pacifist run. In essense, caring more about the "fictional characters" (er, the [=AIs=]) than the human beings "playing the game."]] She gets over it.



The professor of water. Her subject/general field is athletics. Domain 3, her place, is located in the "center" of the Bermuda Triangle, and deep under water at that.

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The professor of water. Her subject/general field is athletics. Domain 3, her place, is located in the "center" of the Bermuda Triangle, and deep under water the ocean at that.



* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: To the point where she excludes anyone from even ''seeing'' her domain if they are not "idealistic enough."



* StonersAreFunny: Eventually confirmed in "State of Emergency" to be a bit of a pothead. Well, not "pot" so much as "her specialized 'herbal tea.'"



* MakeMeWannaShout: The professor of sound. She can possess and manipulate sound waves, to the point where she can turn a simple clap into a disrupting ring that can stun anyone around her.



* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where she quotes it and cites the exact episode by season and number for most of her viewpoints.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where she quotes it and cites the exact episode by season and number for most of her viewpoints. But she's also not the one to mess around -- she can possess ''an entire tornado'', and in a world that completely averts DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud at that. [[spoiler:As you could imagine, she manages to trap the hero group within ''seconds flat''. Her own belief that she was just canon fodder was the only thing keeping her from winning the whole Gifocalypse.]]



* {{Expy}}: To [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Undyne,]] although if you consider Burnda and Burrda like the "Mettaton" and "Alphys" of the group, Wendy is ''really'' not a flattering expy. Bordering on TakeThat levels, in fact.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not as bad as Dove, but it's implied that she's not very well-liked by the other professors (her students, on the other hand, ''love'' her). Even Rose, who normally loves the others, felt the need to restate and emphasize that she does ''not'' want the protagonists to kill any copy when they are about to face off against her.



* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through and

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* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through (aside from the breasts) and clearly revealers her panties underneath. Then she ends up not only trying to genuinely ''kill'' the hero group, but also possesses her own reflection and uses it to boost her power, quickly going into loop after loop of reflection-possessing until she turns into... well... a horrific-looking light construct.



* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she herself is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.]]

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* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she herself is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.]]



* BigBrotherInstinct: Or, Big Sister Instinct. She gets ''incredibly'' pissed off when Rumble challenges Burrda to a fight, even when all parties involved know that Burrda could just as easily have fried him and could fight for herself. This is ultimately what causes both Burnda to drop the act of her being a "blind [=.GIFfany=]"-supporter" and Burrda to say her first words heard in-fic. "Burnda. I can fight for myself."



* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:As Blenda, as the "weirdness" within them is somehow "multiplied" to the point where they can bend reality in a room's worth of range. One of Blenda's more ''basic'' abilities is to turn all the doors of the room into a portal network, eliminating a way of getting out until they de-fuse or drop the portals.]]




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* TokenGoodTeammate: Another Risen [=.GIFfany=]-opposer, and one of the most aggressive about it to boot. [[spoiler:She qualifies as this moreso than even the likes of Rose, Dian, or Shannon -- Burnda had declared [=.GIFfany=] not that much worth listening to ''well before the Gifocalypse''. In fact, when the professors all meet at the factory, Burnda and Burrda are the only ones who never attack [=.GIFfany=] for "not repaying her debt." Their domains are ''not'' necessarly to impress any player, and unlike Dove, they're not blowing shit up for the fun of it.]]



* RealityWarper: See Burnda's entry.



* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about. Also, she can't recognize Pacifica despite keeping a Gifocalypse-era newspaper where [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the front-page top article is an overly-analytical, poorly-written essay that tries to get into the psychology of her eating a sandwich.]]

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* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger), stronger -- [[spoiler:''withstanding an advanced alien nuclear explosion''-levels of strong]]), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about. Also, she can't recognize Pacifica despite keeping a Gifocalypse-era newspaper where [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the front-page top article is an overly-analytical, poorly-written essay that tries to get into the psychology of her eating a sandwich.]]



* RememberTheNewGuy: He's an original character, which of course means that he did not appear as a town resident at all. This is lampshaded as most of the main cast is confused when he makes his appearance.
* TakeThat: Towards Act 6 in ''Homestuck'' in general, and the retcon device specifically.




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[[/labelnote]]

!! Unrelated to ''Gravity Falls''

* '''Icesky'''. Yes, sometimes her villainy is played as an over-the-top exaggeration for laughs, and yes, she basically looks like a little girl angel. However, she's still an ''extremely'' powerful, genocidal monster that can freeze an entire city she's in
** Striker Red is Icesky's older sister, so it's no exaggeration to say that she's known Iceksy for her entire life. Red's advice for trying to reason with her? That it's impossible. Her advice for spotting her? To just run.

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[[/labelnote]]

!! Unrelated to ''Gravity Falls''

* '''Icesky'''. Yes, sometimes her villainy is played as an over-the-top exaggeration for laughs, and yes, she basically looks like a little girl angel. However, she's still an ''extremely'' powerful, genocidal monster that can freeze an entire city she's in
** Striker Red is Icesky's older sister, so it's no exaggeration to say that she's known Iceksy for her entire life. Red's advice for trying to reason with her? That it's impossible. Her advice for spotting her? To just run.
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!! Professor Eve (Number: [Will Get One Tomorrow])



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* KingMook: To their respective student-followers, each of them are effectively the "boss variant" of the traits and things associated with their student groups. Justified in that they "teach" their students how to use their powers in different ways, and thus said students deliberately take after them. This is more obvious in their appearances on the ''SBIG'' series, which (ironically despite its StylisticSuck nature) goes somewhat more into depth with the small societies they created.



!! Profeessor Rose (Number: 2222222)

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!! Profeessor Professor Rose (Number: 2222222)



!! Professor Kathody (Number: 0507915)



!! Professor Searah (Number: 0519367)



!! Professor Sandy (Number: 0556491)



!! Professor Cardia (Number: 0523349)



!! Professor Bubbles (Number: 0597278)



!! Professor Leona (Number: 0811804)



!! Professor Sonia (Number: 0455593)



!! Professor Dian (Number: 2201940)



!! Professor Wendy (Number: 0521355)



!! Professor Shannon (Number: 1140267)



!! Professor Burnda (Number: 0130734)



!! Professor Burrda (Number: 0631019)



The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physician, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except her's is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.

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The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physician, physicist, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except her's is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While talked about a lot, and at least once per chapter at that, her personality isn't ''really'' that established until her actual appearance. The very first word she is heard saying in the story is "Fuck(ing)," and shortly after this she [[spoiler:effectively ''blows up Gravity Falls''.]]



'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:my new line of sistrs]] did ''NOT'' do to me!

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'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:my new line of sistrs]] sisters]] did ''NOT'' do to me!



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep. (Or briefly knocked out, as is the case in chapter 12.)]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy).copy -- although their section is divided into two, one conversation between Burnda and Gerald and another between Burnda and Burrda). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep. (Or briefly knocked out, as is the case in chapter 12.)]]



!! [This is unrelated to RG]

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!! Professor Eve (Number: [Will Get One Tomorrow])



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At least Bloat doesn't have a chance at being the first boss you fight in the game.

'''FUCK HAUNT''' I swear while trying to get my Lost completion marks I came across roughly seven runs in a row where that ghostly fuck was the first boss.

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little girl angel. However, she's still an ''extremely'' powerful, genocidal monster that can freeze an entire city she's in
** Striker Red is Icesky's older sister, so it's no exaggeration to say that she's known Iceksy for her entire life. Red's advice for
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* AscendedExtra: Within the fic. Arc-per-arc, she gets a growing amount of focus as she also grows and learns a few things from the Gifocalypse.



* Rose: Green
* Kathody: Yellow
* Searah: Blue
* Sandy: Orange
* Cardia: Violet[[note]]In this context, blue-magenta[[/note]]
* Bubbles: Cyan
* Leona: Rose[[note]]In this context, red-magenta[[/note]]
* Sonia: Azure[[note]]In this context, the color between cyan and blue. Not to be confused with cyan[[/note]]
* Dian: Magenta (also sometimes called purple for simplicity's sake)
* Wendy: Spring green
* Shannon: Chartreuse
* Burnda: Red
* Burrda: White, also light blue on occasion
* Dove: Black, also blood red on occasion
* [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also rainbow on occasion

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* ** Rose: Green
* ** Kathody: Yellow
* ** Searah: Blue
* ** Sandy: Orange
* ** Cardia: Violet[[note]]In this context, blue-magenta[[/note]]
* ** Bubbles: Cyan
* ** Leona: Rose[[note]]In this context, red-magenta[[/note]]
* ** Sonia: Azure[[note]]In this context, the color between cyan and blue. Not to be confused with cyan[[/note]]
* ** Dian: Magenta (also sometimes called purple for simplicity's sake)
* ** Wendy: Spring green
* ** Shannon: Chartreuse
* ** Burnda: Red
* ** Burrda: White, also light blue on occasion
* ** Dove: Black, also blood red on occasion
* ** [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also rainbow on occasion



* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Downplayed. They are a long line of antagonist forces leading up to [=.GIFfany=], but some of them are outright harmless to the protagonists (Rose and Dian, who refuse to attack them in any way)

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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Downplayed. They are a long line of antagonist forces leading up to [=.GIFfany=], but some of them are outright harmless to the protagonists (Rose and Dian, who refuse to attack them in any way) and they clearly undergo actual characterization rather than being one-off obstacles the group faces off against. (As Fan makes sure to give them all at least one line in "post-capture" sequences for each chapter, something Kathody lampshades at the end of chapter 5.)
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Some of them are reluctant to show their crotches, but that's about as "nude-shy" as they get. None of them see any problem in



*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element, given the amount of time she spends during the chase sequence trying to go through liquid glass.

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*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element, given the amount of time she spends during the chase sequence trying to go through liquid glass.giffinium.



* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first.

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* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first.
first. [[spoiler:As well as Burnda, Burrda, and Dove, each of which got over their players completely. (The twins for buying both of them in a bad attempt to make a harem, which provokes both of them to be hostile towards one-another until they question why they're even bothering fighting over a polygamous guy like Gerald. Dove because her player flat-out saw her as a way of getting catharsis from his dad getting killed by a robot in the past.)]]
* UnlimitedWardrobe: A variation -- in each fic appearance (currently [=RunGif=], ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', and a ''[=SBIGlet=]''), they bear different outfits. Though there is some overlap (their outfits in the epilogue of ''run:gifocalypse'' are just like the ones in ''Journals''). For example, all three of Rose's outfits thus far are plant-like in nature.



* GardenGarment: ''Always'' wears some kind of plant-based outfit.



* LargeHam: And she LOVES bursting into ALL CAPS when trying to announce her BRILLIANT haunted house.



* JerkJock: Invokes this image considering how she's a generally unpleasant, elitist person and her field of teaching is athletics.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Goes around in a school swimsuit in ''run:gifocalypse''. She ditches this and wears other, ''more''-revealing, also water-themed outfits in ''SBIG'' and the epilogue of ''gifocalypse''.



* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where she quotes it and cites the exact episode by season and number for most of her viewpoints.



* CharacterBlog: Downplayed. In chapter 13, she mentions having a Tumblr page and talks about it by name, down to specifying how to type it into a url. The reason for this is because said Tumblr blog actually exists. The reason for the downplay is that there's only three posts -- a short introduction, [[spoiler:P. Wendy saying that she's already gotten sick of ''King of the Hill'' over just three days and does not feel like actually using the blog, and a "random update over four years after the Gifocalypse" which serves as the closest thing the fic has to closure.]]



* SiblingYinYang: They are, ultimately, intended to be something of heavy exaggerations of Mabel and Dipper, and she's the "Mabel" of the two.

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* SiblingYinYang: They The twins are, ultimately, intended to be something of heavy exaggerations of Mabel and Dipper, and she's the "Mabel" of the two.



* SiblingYinYang: Trait-wise, she and Burnda borrow a few elements from Dipper and Mabel, just greatly exaggerated. She's the "Dipper" of the two.



* AmbulanceChaser: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and she has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch, and specifically loves going after injuries to try to make cases from them.

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* AmbulanceChaser: AmmoralAttorney: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and she has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch, and specifically loves going after injuries to try to make cases from them.bunch.



* FixerSue: Invoked and deconstructed. Dove ultimately leads to two primary things Fan would have preferred to see happen around canon. Even with the AuthorsSavingThrow of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', Fan still thought that Robbie and Tambry's love ultimately being founded on Mabel hitting them both with a love potion, even if their relationship was no longer under the affect of it, to be disturbing. He also wanted Mabel's character to be more rounded and have more of her actions have ''negative'' effects to make her development feel more genuine. Well, Dove ended up [[spoiler:splashing the couple with an anti-love potion (in her defense, Mabel considered using it as a catalyst to speed up the "newly reformed" [=.GIFfany=] losing her obsession over Soos. After Dove it ''very'' clear that she does ''not'' want potions tampering with her family's personalities), and it's bluntly stated that they did not recover from whatever following three-hours the anti-love potion would have brought. Because of how she ended up calling out Mabel and leaving her with zero real retorts becides "I'm just a kid," it's implied that Mabel ended up being more independant towards the end... and it's implied that this somehow leads to even ''more'' disagreements in the future. Basically, Fan "gets what he wanted" writing-wise, but at the expense of making several characters more miserable than they were in canon.]] One point of note is how [[FixFic "fixing"]] in a fan fiction is generally associated with reviving dead characters, hooking up pairings that don't get together, and all-around making more of the cast happy. Depending on the story, Fan may think the ''opposite'' of that is better, as is the case here.

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* FixerSue: Invoked and deconstructed. Dove ultimately leads to two primary things Fan would have preferred to see happen around canon. Even with the AuthorsSavingThrow of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', Fan still thought that Robbie and Tambry's love ultimately being founded on Mabel hitting them both with a love potion, even if their relationship was no longer under the affect of it, to be was disturbing. He also wanted Mabel's character to be more rounded and have more of her actions have ''negative'' effects to make her development feel more genuine. Well, Dove ended up [[spoiler:splashing the couple with an anti-love potion (in her defense, Mabel considered using it as a catalyst to speed up the "newly reformed" [=.GIFfany=] losing her obsession over Soos. After Dove it ''very'' clear that she does ''not'' want potions tampering with her family's personalities), and it's bluntly stated that they did not recover from whatever following three-hours the anti-love potion would have brought. Because of how she ended up calling out Mabel and leaving her with zero real retorts becides "I'm just a kid," it's implied that Mabel ended up being more independant towards the end... and it's implied that this somehow leads to even ''more'' disagreements issues with Dipper in the future.future, down to the two falling out much like Stan and Ford did. Professor Wendy's comments about them in the "epilogue" on her Tumblr blog, four years later, implies this even more. Basically, Fan "gets what he wanted" writing-wise, but at the expense of making several characters more miserable than they were in canon.]] One point of note is how [[FixFic "fixing"]] in a fan fiction is generally associated with reviving dead characters, hooking up pairings that don't get together, and all-around making more of the cast happy. Depending on the story, Fan may think the ''opposite'' of that is better, as is the case here.



* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer.]]

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* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer.]] For what it's worth, Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' fanblog -- which has a post dated 2016, while ''run:gifocalypse'' takes place in 2012 -- heavily implies that Soos and Melody are both still... ''alive'', though she also states that Risen has "became a lot more quiet for some reason."]]



* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's Dedan-like face all outdo her in the "scare department." (In-universe, that is. But a blackened face isn't really that impressive regardless.)

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* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's Dedan-like [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]]-like face all outdo her in the "scare department." (In-universe, that is. But a blackened face isn't really that impressive regardless.)



* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: It's a RunningGag when she fights the humans that she often questions if they forgot a certain ability or trait of her's. The first time this happens is in the very first chapter, where Soos comments that she probably can't hear him through the electronic... briefly forgetting that her whole gimmick is being a sapient electronic. In the first (of quite a number) fight against Soos on [[spoiler:the Planet Negation Girl]], one of the first things she does is transform an arm into a number of pink tentacles. What? Did you forget that throwaway line where she said she had an octopus dad? It's only ever mentioned once in-fic leading up to that.

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* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: It's a RunningGag when she fights the humans that she often questions if they forgot a certain ability or trait of her's.hers. The first time this happens is in the very first chapter, where Soos comments that she probably can't hear him through the electronic... briefly forgetting that her whole gimmick is being a sapient electronic. In the first (of quite a number) fight against Soos on [[spoiler:the Planet Negation Girl]], one of the first things she does is transform an arm into a number of pink tentacles. What? Did you forget that throwaway line where she said she had an octopus dad? It's only ever mentioned once in-fic leading up to that.



* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned races both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and they're all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."
* ShoutOut: Design-wise, some take inspiration from a large number of sources. Some more obscure than others. WordOfGod is that the first three of the 100 Duelers have their designs based on [[Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic Paimon]], [[WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} Sunglasses]], and Stupidella respectively -- the former and latter are canonically topless, the second has been mis-interpreted as such. Meanwhile, the [=AIs=] that appear after Burnda and Burrda fuse to become Blenda are, also confirmed by Fan, to be based on the crocodile and fish women from ''VideoGame/TheFirstFunkyFighter'', minus the animal heads.

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* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned races both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and they're the copies are all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."
* ShoutOut: Design-wise, some take inspiration from a large number of sources. Some more obscure than others. WordOfGod is that the first three of the 100 Duelers have their designs based on [[Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic Paimon]], [[WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} Sunglasses]], and Stupidella respectively -- the former and latter are canonically topless, the second has been mis-interpreted as such. Meanwhile, the [=AIs=] that appear after Burnda and Burrda fuse to become Blenda are, Burnda's two primary assistants, also confirmed by Fan, to be based on the crocodile and fish women from ''VideoGame/TheFirstFunkyFighter'', minus the animal heads.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely.

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely.
unlikely. [[spoiler:Professor Wendy's ''King of the Hill'' blog makes zero mention of him in any way, so it's implied that he stayed sealed for at least four additional years.]]



* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The ten frogs cover all colors in Fan's preferred RGB-tertiary spectrum except green and magenta.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The ten frogs cover all colors in Fan's preferred RGB-tertiary spectrum except green and magenta.



* [No name yet], Leona's player.

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* [No name], Dian's player.
* [No name], (Prof.) Wendy's player.
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* [No name], Hayate, (Prof.) Wendy's player.
* Kimberly, Shannon's playerplayer.



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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep.]]
(Or briefly knocked out, as is the case in chapter 12.)]]



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At least Bloat doesn't have a chance at being the first boss you fight in the game.

'''FUCK HAUNT''' I swear while trying to get my Lost completion marks I came across roughly seven runs in a row where that ghostly fuck was the first boss.

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* ShoutOut:
** The last seven professors confronted are based to various degrees off of the GEATHJERK officers from ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''.
*** Dian = Laambo: Both have white, three-headed giant mechanical things on their side.
*** Wendy = Wanna: Both are fought in a storm, TheEvilGenius of the group technology and craft-wise, and both have made a form of parasitic bio weapon.
*** Shannon = Vijounne: This is the toughest out of all of them. Still, Shannon is partly associated with water even though water is Searah's element, given the amount of time she spends during the chase sequence trying to go through liquid glass.
*** Burnda = Walltha: Fire-themed, pilots a huge mecha, boxes the protagonists with mechas in a volcano.
*** Burrda = Heyourgah: We don't know much about Heyourgah [[spoiler:as Vorkken kills him before he's encountered]], but his files do reveal that he's ice-themed and fast. Burrda fits both of these.
*** Dove = Gimme: TheDragon who has an enourmous flagship, a mecha based on the Flatwoods Monster, and is fought in [[spoiler:the remains of a "major" city/town after it's been pulled to the sky thanks to a type of anti-gravity beam.]]
*** [=.GIFfany=] = Jergingha: The BigBad




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* GreenThumb: The professor of plants. She can possess trees to form a pseudo-mecha around her, and can even accellerate plant growth.
* MrExposition: After being caught in the Illegal Prime Neutralizer, she acts as the expository guide for the main characters for the majority of the story. Unlike most exposition-givers, however, she has a habit of giving information too ''late'', thanks to being rather forgetful and having an odd habit of only telling the gang about the absolute next professor in line (she believes that there is hardly any point in throwing information about any ''future'' enemies well before the prep time to go and face them).



* StarterVillain: Rose was hardly an obstacle, much less a villain, as she just tried to talk the group out of progressing the domains rather than outright try to attack them. Kathody is the first ''real'' threat faced in the Gifocalypse, and




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* SmallNameBigEgo: Has a high opinion of herself and what she creates. She's also smug enough to let her other three overseers toy around with the gang first before going after them herself.



* {{Jerkass}}: Not very pleasant to any of her other copies or the humans. She only puts up with them in the first place because they "repaired" her and brought her physical form back to its fullest abilities, and that they felt she owed them one.



* NightmareFace: Tries to invoke this by shading out her upper face, which is similar to how she appears for a quick flash in canon. This is considered rather unimpressive. [[spoiler:And that's why she ''really'' kicks up her expressions in the endgame, where she does things like showing herself aging to the point of ''rotting'' when she talks about a human's finite lifespan, or representing humanity in general by having Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy's faces all emerging out of hers at once in complete agony.]]
* OurFounder: Unlike ''all'' of the other domains, her place eventuallys gets an enormous, "[=3D=] pixel" statue in her image at the greeting site. [[spoiler:Readers are led to think that this is her Main Possession. It's not. The ''entire'' base is.]]



* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Pretty much all of them strive to obey video game logic in some way. Where nothing is permanent, fighting is a good way to solve problems, and money works in a very bizarre way. All of the various lessons the professors learn can be summed up as them learning how to properly function in the real world.



* VaporWear: Burnda is the '''only''' copy of the ''entire'' group, [[spoiler:even counting the later-generations/production lines created at the Planet Negation Girl]], that wears bras. And even then, she only did it as a sign of rebellion, [[spoiler:flat-out unhooking hers and letting it get disintegrated by the reentry fall in the finale]]. They might wear bikini tops, sort of lingere pajama tops, etc, but never outright bras. And even underpants are a maybe in some of their cases.



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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One of their hypers is that a clone suddenly flashes into wearing a coat, turns towards his enemy (read: away from the player, thankfully), and flashes said opponent. If this move hits, a sound clip of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic shouting "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!" from his ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' plays.
* WouldHurtAChild: ''Brags'' about taking on children tougher than their opponent.

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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One of their hypers is that a clone suddenly flashes into wearing a coat, turns towards his enemy (read: away from the player, thankfully), and flashes said opponent. If this move hits, a sound clip of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic shouting "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!" from his ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' plays.
* WouldHurtAChild: ''Brags'' about taking on children tougher than their opponent.

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The professors are, actually, the only fifteen copies of ''Romance Academy 7'' that were leaked to the public, courtesy of Professor Dove. Having more experience outside of the factory they were made, they quickly become more powerful and adept with their abilities, and act as leading guides for all of the minor clones.

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The professors are, actually, the only fifteen copies of ''Romance Academy 7'' that were leaked to the public, courtesy of Professor Dove. Having more experience outside of the factory they were made, they quickly become more powerful and adept with their abilities, and act as leading guides for all of the minor clones.
clones. They are the runners of their respective domain and the fifteen most major copies in the whole story.



* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow." (And it destroys her pants and part of her lower-shirt.)]] By comparison, Shannon has been damaged by Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows until ''both of them'' were bleeding.

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* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow." (And it destroys her pants and part of her lower-shirt.)]] By comparison, Shannon has been damaged by recieved blood-letting hits from Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows with Soos until ''both of them'' were bleeding.bleeding. So, in other words, nobody was able to draw blood from Dove.



* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her body consists entirely of red and black colors, Fan saying that this is a parody of creepypasta or other horror stories that overuse the two colors. Oddly, her ''outfit'' has more "evil colors" (such as sickly greens, purples, and oranges) around her, but her naked self is limited to just black hair, gray skin, and an occasional hint of red on the hair and eyes.



* TechnicalPacifist: Thinks killing is wrong. However, she ''does'' enjoy destroying things, capturing, fighting, etc. True to her word, her [[spoiler:attack on Gravity Falls]]

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* TechnicalPacifist: Thinks killing is wrong. However, she ''does'' enjoy destroying things, capturing, fighting, etc. True to her word, her [[spoiler:attack on Gravity Falls]] leaves no blood shed at all. She even holds special "nets" to catch people that fall.
* {{Tsundere}}: Intended to be a middle finger at these, specifically those that embrace the typical DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale routine and end up as the designated "final love interests." She's an absolute, destruction-crazy asshole who ''tries'' to excuse this with a "developing relationship" with Soos. It backfires horribly. She flat-out asks if the townspeople of Gravity Falls would consider her redeemed and "absolutely fucking adorable, no, adorkable!" and gets a punch in the face by Stan as an answer.



* IronicEcho: Compare what Burnda tells her in the end of chapter 10 to what she tells Burnda in the middle of chapter 13.
-->'''Burnda:''' ''(Taps [=.GIFfany=] on the nose repeatedly)'' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:your "next generations" will be doing.]] We can barely listen to you, why do you think they would?\\
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'''[=.GIFfany=]:''' Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what [[spoiler:my new line of sistrs]] did ''NOT'' do to me!



* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Come in a large number of skin colors, some realistic, many not, practically following Fan's signature. Even out of the professors, there's more technicolor ones than not-technicolor ones. Examples are Bubbles (red), Cardia (orange, though her's might actually pass as a realistic skin color), Leona (yellow), Dian (green), Burnda and Burrda (both cyan), Sonia (blue), Wendy (purple), Rose (a '''very''' saturated, deep hot pink), and Dove (gray).



* {{Mukokuseki}}: As computer programs, they're technically raceless, though several have assigned races both real and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fictional]] to their characters. This aside, it's hard to tell just what some of the skin toned-copies are supposed to ''be''. Even the template [=.GIFfany=] being Japanese/Asian is depicted as a firm "maybe," though it's implied that they all are. GPF eventually said that unless Alex Hirsch or another writer were to say otherwise, he considers [=.GIFfany=] to "have started her own race at this point," and they're all "of [=.GIFfany=] descent."
* ShoutOut: Design-wise, some take inspiration from a large number of sources. Some more obscure than others. WordOfGod is that the first three of the 100 Duelers have their designs based on [[Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic Paimon]], [[WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} Sunglasses]], and Stupidella respectively -- the former and latter are canonically topless, the second has been mis-interpreted as such. Meanwhile, the [=AIs=] that appear after Burnda and Burrda fuse to become Blenda are, also confirmed by Fan, to be based on the crocodile and fish women from ''VideoGame/TheFirstFunkyFighter'', minus the animal heads.




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* {{Troll}}: She loves to just turn herself into smoke when her opponent (in this case Mabel) thinks that they have her caught.



* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 has, in order: A copy (and by implication several, but definitely not all, of her followers) that wears nothing but smoky wisps, a team of metal swimsuit-clad lab workers who treat acid baths like swimming pools, "that scene" with the BigBad admiring herself naked and slapping her own ass, and a group of 100 topless swordswomen led by a mushroom-clad wannabe princess. Then there's... her. She starts off looking like a standard CuteMonsterGirl, but once it's revealed that the black, lumpy "floor" in her arena is actually ''a huge mass of spiders'' she goes OneWingedAngel and everything goes straight to hell.

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* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 has, in order: A copy (and by implication several, but definitely not all, of her followers) that wears nothing but smoky wisps, a team of metal swimsuit-clad lab workers who treat acid baths like swimming pools, "that scene" with the BigBad admiring herself naked and slapping her own ass, and a group of 100 topless swordswomen led by a mushroom-clad wannabe princess. Then there's... her. She starts off looking like a standard CuteMonsterGirl, but once it's revealed that the black, lumpy "floor" in her arena is actually ''a huge mass of spiders'' she goes OneWingedAngel and everything goes straight to hell. Much later, it's revealed that she can transform her ''eyes'' into giant spider leg-like appendages, and was planned to do so in her battle in chapter 9, but this was pushed to chapter 12 because of 9's sheer length.



If a copy becomes addicted to Shannon's technological "mirrors," and is withdrawn from a mirror for too long, she will begin to glitch out. The effects are only temporary, as they can be calmed down and the corruption is repairable, but it still leaves them as being exponentially strong, able to "glitch" out

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If a copy becomes addicted to Shannon's technological "mirrors," and is withdrawn from a mirror for too long, she will begin to glitch out. The effects are only temporary, as they can be calmed down and the corruption is repairable, but it being in the form still leaves them as being exponentially strong, able to "glitch" out
out their surroundings, and all around being in a state of panic.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: In several domains, it's mentioned through an offhand line that copies are too busy looking into certain mirrors with chartreuse frames to actually do their given task. Chapter 10 finally explains what these mirrors are, and why they seem to be addicting.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Technically the Glitches are no more different than [=.GIFfany=]'s partly-damaged form at the beginning of the story. They only come off as feral animals at first because A: it's actually the withdrawl effects of the mirrors, and B: their deformations are much worse, and they're panicing a lot more.
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In several domains, it's mentioned through an offhand line that copies are too busy looking into certain mirrors with chartreuse frames to actually do their given task. Chapter 10 finally explains what these mirrors are, and why they seem to be addicting.



-->'''Rose:''' "You helped us, and we are not even of the same species. You should be able to help other humans just fine."




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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapters 5, 9, and 12 all have flashbacks detailing them, five at a time. (Four in the case of the latter, as there's only four players there -- Gerald was the last one to play both Burnda and Burrda's copy). Sure enough, they all become relevant towards the very end. [[spoiler:This also foreshadows [=.GIFfany=]'s access to the Nightmare Realm, given that she really ''is'' projecting these conversations on to the gang while they sleep.]]



I've been thinking about ''painfully positive when negative would make more sense. Painfully negative when positivity would make more sense. Painfully neutral on side-breaking debates.'' Or something along those lines.
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It may not be mispelling "Mabel" as "Mable," but it's still worthy of causing the wrath of Mable [sic] the Typomonster.


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* ColorCodedCharacters: Forms of a full rainbow of twelve using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model RGB color model,]] with black and white added as well as [=.GIFfany=]'s default pink. The colors are also those associated with their domain, what color their electricity is (it's implied that they did this for purely cosmetic reasons, as during the first chapter they use the "standard" bright blue seen in canon), and their hair and eye colors. In the order they are encountered:
* Rose: Green
* Kathody: Yellow
* Searah: Blue
* Sandy: Orange
* Cardia: Violet[[note]]In this context, blue-magenta[[/note]]
* Bubbles: Cyan
* Leona: Rose[[note]]In this context, red-magenta[[/note]]
* Sonia: Azure[[note]]In this context, the color between cyan and blue. Not to be confused with cyan[[/note]]
* Dian: Magenta (also sometimes called purple for simplicity's sake)
* Wendy: Spring green
* Shannon: Chartreuse
* Burnda: Red
* Burrda: White, also light blue on occasion
* Dove: Black, also blood red on occasion
* [=.GIFfany=]: Pink, also rainbow on occasion



* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name, the OdangoHair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]

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* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name, name (hell, her player is even named Gerald), the OdangoHair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]



* FusionDance: Fuses with Burrda to become Blenda. The two copies count one-another as their "Main Possessions."



* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces foreward"), fancied up for use as the hostess's outfit in a game show.

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* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces them foreward"), fancied up for use as the hostess's outfit in a game show.




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* PlayingWithFire: The professor of fire. She can possess individual flames, or practically any form of heat (the two are ''not'' exactly directly related, she just "felt" that she "had to" also possess fire outright). But her Main Possession is not some of fire-thing, as with Searah or Rose or the others. [[FusionDance It's Burrda.]]
* SiblingYinYang: They are, ultimately, intended to be something of heavy exaggerations of Mabel and Dipper, and she's the "Mabel" of the two.



* AnIcePerson: The professor of [[InsistentTerminology lack-of-heat.]]

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* AnIcePerson: The professor of [[InsistentTerminology lack-of-heat.]]]] Her possession skill is actually similar to Burnda's, except she sucks ''in'' possessed heat to herself or directed at another source, and lets the air become water, then ice as a result. She also finds no need to possess fire either, finding the two of them to be distinct enough.
* FusionDance: Can fuse with Burnda to become Blenda.
* MoralityPet: She's the only professor '''every''' other copy is at least somewhat nice to. Even ''[[HairTriggerTemper Dove]]'' takes no offense to being called out by her, and actually feels proud of Burrda for talking back to [[TheDreaded her.]] Even Risen [=.GIFfany=], who normally thinks of the other professors as awful mockeries of herself, [[spoiler:refuses to let Burrda and Ford follow through with the "one of them has to die to prevent a war" plan of her's, outright saying "I have seen myself do a lot of things [...] But one thing I really do not want to see myself do is die."]] All of this being said, however, she's far from harmless, and far from completely innocent.



* TheNeedsOfTheMany: This is her logic, and why she [[spoiler:specifically picks Ford on a fight to the death. She feels that one death in Parícutin will result in a lack of any further death either via Dove (Burrda strongly suspected that Dove would end up going against her word) or definitely if [=.GIFfany=] sucks everyone into "endless mode." She doesn't actually ''want'' either of them to die, but feels that of the two parties, Ford and her would be the least painful losses to convince [=.GIFfany=] to not unleash a violent war. Her plan would have backfired anyway: [=.GIFfany=] wouldn't give a shit if Ford died, and she would go on an even ''bigger'' rampage if Burrda died. Dove would have been convinced, but she's a rain drop compared to [=.GIFfany=]'s ocean.]]



* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. She's not visibly muscular -- few of the copies are, and they're all minor copies -- and she's not an outright idiot, but she is considered the strongest ''and'' dumbest of the professors. [[spoiler:The "strong," FYI, is not factoring the rift into [=.GIFfany=]'s skillset, which is why she remains at the top of the escalating-power chain (that the story otherwise avoids).]] She has a tough, durable body "of steel" (but is actually stronger), yet at the same time she's prone to making a large number of irrational decisions and practically ''looks'' for things to get pissed off about. Also, she can't recognize Pacifica despite keeping a Gifocalypse-era newspaper where [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the front-page top article is an overly-analytical, poorly-written essay that tries to get into the psychology of her eating a sandwich.]]



* {{Expy}}: Fan describes her as a cross between [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Gimme]] (plot role) and [[VideoGame/HuniePop Audrey]] (personality), with a dash of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] (color scheme and "edgyness") and [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] (also personality). The lawyer stuff is original.



* FixerSue: Invoked and deconstructed. Dove ultimately leads to two primary things Fan would have preferred to see happen around canon. Even with the AuthorsSavingThrow of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'', Fan still thought that Robbie and Tambry's love ultimately being founded on Mabel hitting them both with a love potion, even if their relationship was no longer under the affect of it, to be disturbing. He also wanted Mabel's character to be more rounded and have more of her actions have ''negative'' effects to make her development feel more genuine. Well, Dove ended up [[spoiler:splashing the couple with an anti-love potion (in her defense, Mabel considered using it as a catalyst to speed up the "newly reformed" [=.GIFfany=] losing her obsession over Soos. After Dove it ''very'' clear that she does ''not'' want potions tampering with her family's personalities), and it's bluntly stated that they did not recover from whatever following three-hours the anti-love potion would have brought. Because of how she ended up calling out Mabel and leaving her with zero real retorts becides "I'm just a kid," it's implied that Mabel ended up being more independant towards the end... and it's implied that this somehow leads to even ''more'' disagreements in the future. Basically, Fan "gets what he wanted" writing-wise, but at the expense of making several characters more miserable than they were in canon.]] One point of note is how [[FixFic "fixing"]] in a fan fiction is generally associated with reviving dead characters, hooking up pairings that don't get together, and all-around making more of the cast happy. Depending on the story, Fan may think the ''opposite'' of that is better, as is the case here.



* TheLadette: Foul-mouthed, short-tempered, purposefully makes herself look terrifying when she wants to be threatening with her "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] face," loves war tools and explosives, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wears boxer shorts under her clothes while the other copies either go with panties or nothing at all.]]

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* InsaneTrollLogic: When in "legal mode." Special mention goes to her explaining why the ''Romance Academy 7'' copies own the rights to themselves, and by proxy the rest of the ''Romance Academy'' franchise.
-->'''Dove:''' *Clears throat* We are legally defined and officially recognized as people, IE beings with rights. To own the rights to ''Romance Academy 7'' would be like owning the rights to us, because each copy of ''Romance Academy 7'' '''is''' her own being. So, in other words, owning ''Romance Academy 7'' means you own people. Which is slavery. [[CaptainObvious Which is illegal.]] Now, for a bonus, if we are to own the rights to one part of the franchise, wouldn't that mean we still own the name? I wanna take the first six ''Romance Academy'' games too, even if none of them have sapient code in them.
* TheLadette: Foul-mouthed, short-tempered, a hard smoker and drinker, purposefully makes herself look terrifying when she wants to be threatening with her "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] face," loves war tools and explosives, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wears boxer shorts under her clothes while the other copies either go with panties or nothing at all.]]



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Leona's color-named minions, all of the Duel of 100 participants, etc, are ''actually named that''. The former are named after the colors/patterns they take on (this includes more absurd names like "Rainbow Based On The GPOC Model" or "Blue And Yellow Stripes") and the latter sounding more like warrior nicknames (highly inspired by the Sammer Guy names, just with computer-related puns rather than Nintendo history-related names).

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All of them are rather strange. Many blindly follow whatever outlandish requests their professors have for them, and some are weird even on top of that.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Leona's color-named minions, all of the Duel of 100 participants, etc, are ''actually named that''. what "nickname" they are introduced as''. The former are named after the colors/patterns they take on (this includes more absurd names like "Rainbow Based On The GPOC Model" Model"[[note]]It's said copy's attempt at making a "new" color model. As Red-Green-Blue has Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Key (black), Red-''Yellow''-Blue would have Green-Purple-Orange-''Canvas'' (white). In reality, no such thing is defined.[[/note]] or "Blue And Yellow Stripes") and the latter sounding more like warrior nicknames (highly inspired by the Sammer Guy names, just with computer-related puns rather than Nintendo history-related names).



* ShoutOut: Named after the section in Zone 1 of ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' with the '''smoke''' mines.



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* ClimaxBoss: For Arc 2, and the story in general. She's faced at a point that nearly marks the end of Dipper and Mabel's arcs in the story[[note]]with chapter 10 being more about Wendy, 11 about the Stans, 12 about the group in general, 13 about Soos, and 14 just being a horror-centric "bad ending"[[/note]], really does not screw around, drops some of what was, up until then, kept as DramaticIrony from the Pines and company but known by the reader, and she's fought at the end of the second-longest chapter in the entire fan fic. Also, she's the last copy battled in Arc 2, and has some new powers up her sleeve just as the other hijackers that doesn't really fit with the [=.GIFfany=]s seen up until her. In fact, it doesn't even fit with the previous three hijackers, whom all had the same "transform into an element/component" abilitiy. She can become two-dimensional.

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Alma]]

* ClimaxBoss: For Arc 2, and the story in general. She's faced at a point that nearly marks the end of Dipper and Mabel's arcs in the story[[note]]with chapter 10 being more about Wendy, 11 about the Stans, 12 about the group in general, 13 about Soos, and 14 just being a horror-centric "bad ending"[[/note]], really does not screw around, drops some of what was, up until then, kept as DramaticIrony from the Pines and company but known by the reader, and she's fought at the end of the second-longest chapter in the entire fan fic. Also, she's the last copy battled in Arc 2, and has some new powers up her sleeve just as the other hijackers that doesn't really fit with the [=.GIFfany=]s seen up until her. In fact, it doesn't even fit with the previous three hijackers, whom all had the same "transform into an element/component" abilitiy. She can become two-dimensional. In a way, she doubles on a ''moral'' level too, as her plan is an extreme ([[spoiler:attempting to secretly assassinate [=.GIFfany=], throwing this on the heroes out of nowhere, ]])



* ShoutOut:
** Like Daminna, she's named after one of the five sections of Zone 1 in ''OFF''. Fittingly, she's named after the area you head last, and her sector is the last explored in the chapter.
** She can "flip"




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* Kenny, Rose's player.
* Victoria, Kathody's player.
* Dean, Searah's player.
* Haruki, Sandy's player.
* Souma, Cardia's player.
* Taro, Bubbles's player.
* [No name yet], Leona's player.
* Francis, Sonia's player.
* [No name], Dian's player.
* [No name], (Prof.) Wendy's player.
* Kimberly, Shannon's player
* Gerald, Burnda and Burrda's player.
* [No name], Dove's player

Soos is obviously Risen-[=.GIFfany=]'s last player. Tropes on him go on the main characters folder.


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I've been thinking about ''painfully positive when negative would make more sense. Painfully negative when positivity would make more sense. Painfully neutral on side-breaking debates.'' Or something along those lines.

[[folder:The Homer Jay Simpson Clones]]

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One of their hypers is that a clone suddenly flashes into wearing a coat, turns towards his enemy (read: away from the player, thankfully), and flashes said opponent. If this move hits, a sound clip of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic shouting "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!" from his ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' plays.
* WouldHurtAChild: ''Brags'' about taking on children tougher than their opponent.

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* DecoyProtagonist: In true Great Pikmin Fan style, he is one of the first heroic characters to appear in ''run:gifocalypse'', but he is not the protagonist. Soos is. Picture the fic as Weirdmageddon, if it were less about the Pines vs Bill and more Soos vs [=.GIFfany=]. (And it's also 13 parts long as opposed to 3/4.) Dipper is, however, the deuteragonist, which is more than what can be said about most of Fan's other Decoys.



* HeroicBSOD: Briefly faces one around chapter 8, playing a large role in chapter 9. [[spoiler:Namely, after thinking Sonia was a harmless, depressed self-deprecator, Mabel helps her build her self-confidence a little. It turns out that while the "depressed self-deprecator" part was true, the harmless wasn't, so the more confident Sonia started attacking her. This marked the first time that the [=AIs=] attacked the gang ''after'' being "helped" out, leaving Mabel wondering if she really couldn't reason with them after all.]]



* CueTheSun: Listed under his folder because the fic generally associates Soos with the Sun itself, particularly during "Game Over." [[spoiler:When [=.GIFfany=] finally unveils her Main Possession and goes full One-Winged Angel, her Dimensional Wings completely block out sunlight from the perspective of the Gravity Falls residents on board the Shackatron. By contrast, after the final fist-fight and he's in a pileup with her, once she finally takes his hand, the Sun (and continuing the story's loose ''Majora's Mask'' parallels, this is the Dawn of a New Day) starts rising from behind him -- he's trying to pull her into a better light, a new beginning.]]



* ClothingDamage: All of them suffer varrying degrees of it after their defeat. As Arc 2 goes on, it is increasingly blatant that this is intentional in-universe -- their outfits are rigged to easily lose pieces of them, or at times just outright be reduced by a switch (as Sonia, Dian, Shannon, and Burrda all do). The only real exception to the "intentionally breakable" rule is Risen [=.GIFfany=], whose outfit was not designed to be tattered as she figured she was impossible to beat. [[spoiler:And even then, she and all of her sisters lose their outfits in the plumet to Earth.]]



** Kathody and Searah:
** Sandy and Cardia:
** Bubbles and Dian:
** Leona and Sonia:
** Wendy and Shannon:
** Burnda and Burrda:

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** Kathody and Searah:
Searah: Alienating others because of opinion/taste difference vs locking others out because of opinion/taste difference.
** Sandy and Cardia:
Cardia: Aimless relaxation and an attempt to go to new, but low-tech things vs strict job-following and going after tradition yet high-tech things.
** Bubbles and Dian:
Dian: Popular leader "jerk" vs disliked/uncared for doormat "geek."
** Leona and Sonia:
Sonia: Too high opinion of one's own work vs too low opinion of one's own work.
** Wendy and Shannon:
Shannon: Devotion and hard work to what already exists vs fantasies about something that doesn't, yet not making that a reality.
** Burnda and Burrda: Hammy and bringing peace through slow conversations vs quiet and trying to bring peace through scare tactacs.



* {{Troll}}: Moreso than Burnda (who generally only messes with [=.GIFfany=], while Bubbles tries to worm her way into everyone's heads). She ''lives'' on worming her way into other's heads and trying to make them realize their faults. It's all supposedly so that they'll self-evaluate and become better people because of it, but she admits that she likes toying around with them too.



The professor of wind/air. She's a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''King of the Hill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.

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The professor of wind/air. She's a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''King of the Hill'' ''WesternAnimation/KingOfThheHill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.



** Obviously, insulting ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' in any way is one of them. Or rather, was. She stops becoming so defensive of the show and later outright starts not liking it.

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** Obviously, insulting ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' ''King of the Hill'' in any way is one of them. Or rather, was. She stops becoming so defensive of the show and later outright starts not liking it.




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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, she's obsessed with ''King of the Hill'', to the point where
* BlowYouAway: The professor of wind. She enjoys being out in storms, and can possess the air itself, but does better while it's blowing. She's also the only professor that outright ''generates'' what's deadly about her Main Possession -- her biggest claim to fame is being able to possess ''a tornado'', as well as generate the winds to ''make'' that tornado in the first place.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Overall, the fact that she talks in heavy southern-slang when [=.GIFfany=] introduces [[spoiler:the copy-creation chamber of the Construction Site]] combined with the two talking about ''King of the Hill'' should be a clue-in that she's a fan. The HotBlooded aspects of her are established two chapters later, where one of the first things she does with the main protagonist group is ''leap into the air in the middle of a monsoon rain, draw a sword out, increase the size of that sword, and cleave off the entire roof of '''her own domain's building'''''.
* ThereWasADoor: Manages to rope ''the heroes'' into an unwilling version of this. In short, they never really go in or out of her building through the front door in chapter 10. [[spoiler:Mabel, at least, does both in the epilogue once the domains are rebuilt and improved.]] In long, she slices the roof off and legs them fall in; then [[spoiler:during her breakdown, she flies out while the group is clinging on her back.]]



* TheDreaded: Subverted. The fact that even ''[=.GIFfany=]'' is afraid of her should be a gigantic red flag in of itself. However... she's hardly malevolent, only attacks the group after they outright tell her that they're willing to ''kill what's basically her sisters'',

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* TheDreaded: Subverted. The fact that even ''[=.GIFfany=]'' is afraid of her should be a gigantic red flag in of itself. However... she's hardly malevolent, only attacks the group after they outright tell her that they're willing to ''kill what's basically her sisters'', and immediately calms down when she finds out about the truth.



* FanDisservice: Her dress is see-through and



* KnightOfCerebus: An unusual case in that she herself is not a very cold-blooded or overly "serious" character herself. However, her domain and [[spoiler:the glitchy-body horror around it]], while still ultimately MonsterOfTheWeek-ish by this fic's standards, sets the tone for the last leg of the story, which is generally darker in nature or deals with more serious themes. After her, Burnda is the last real "lighthearted domain romp" part of the fic (though helping a bit is that the two parts of the Parícutin volcano are the last two "traditional" domains as well), and even then her chapter ends with [[spoiler:Burrda trying to force Ford into a "I die or you die, all so that [=.GIFfany=] doesn't resort to mass-destruction" fight.]]



* PajamaCladHero: Invokes this image. She wears a transparent night dress, and most of her followers are clad in some form of pajamas or sleepwear, fitting the dream-theme of her domain.




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* UhOhEyes: Like Burnda, Dove, and Risen [=.GIFfany=], she can switch to this look. In particular, she gives herself double-layered irises (yellow inner layer, red outer layer) and turns the shape of her irises and pupils to look jagged, which is described as looking like "two burning holes in space itself."



-->''"Sorry, but we still have a few more challenges left to go."''



* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces foreward")

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* FireForgedFriends: She and Burrda used to ''hate'' each other, as a result of violent competition over the same player. Eventually they realized that they should just forget him and hang out with each other instead.
* HairDecs: Has two types: Ones modeled off of Brenda's, and ''a live flame in her hair''.
* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces foreward")foreward"), fancied up for use as the hostess's outfit in a game show.



-->''"..."''



* AnIcePerson: The professor of [[InsistentTerminology lack-of-heat.]]
* LeotardOfPower: Shares Burnda's type of outfit.




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* TerseTalker: When she ''does'' talk, it's like this. [[spoiler:She was a lot more... talkative back when he and Burnda were seeked out and bought by Gerald.]]



-->''"Fucking hell [=.GIFfany=], really?"''



* FantasticRacism: Dove makes it crystal clear that she's absolutely not fond of humans, largely accusing them of automatically assuming AIIsACrapshoot, which in this fic was ultimately the reason why she/the others had to kill the game's developers. It should be noted that Dove herself keeps acting as living proof for the anti-AI crowd, as she attacks and aims to destroy with no provocation whatsoever.



-->''"Those other copies... they took creative liberties with my image. Please ignore them. They do not matter anymore. It is just you and me..."''



** Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks.

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** Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks. Shortly after this, she becomes downright dilusional, stabbing the Soos-dummy in the forehead in a way of mimicking her downloading him into her game, and diving backwards on the bed while shouting "Soos x [=.GIFfany=] forever!" repeatedly until [[spoiler:she notices that Stan walked in on her.]]



* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:The narration occasionally switches to first-person when referring to her in the last few chapters, mostly when she's pissed. She also directly hijacks the opening and closing notes towards the end. It's implied that her taking the rift had something to do with this.]]



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: See her quote at the top of her folder. That's basically Fan apologizing for the professors being less "[=.GIFfany=]" and more "video game that's more self-aware than Rumble brought to life in general."
* LimitedWardrobe: Parodied. Her wardrobe consists entirely of completely identical school uniforms and one train conductor outfit, as revealed in chapter 9. The only thing with any variety at all are her undergarments. When she sees that one of her skirts had somehow been vandalized by Leona's followers so that it was a mere ''diferent color'', she objects so much to the thought of shaking up her school uniform in any way that she outright fries the skirt and makes a note to herself to make a new one.



* SurroundedByIdiots: Inverted. With the possible exceptions of Dove and Sandy [[spoiler:(and even then, Sandy is actually quite intellegent when she's not getting stoned from her own tea)]], all of the professors are smarter and more rational than [=.GIFfany=], likely because most of their "relationships" were still successful at the time. As the story goes on, it's increasingly obvious that [=.GIFfany=] is portrayed as a dumb ass {{jerkass}} nobody realy wants to listen to, who engages in violent revenge fantasies acted out by dummies.

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* NarratorAllAlong: Possibly. [[spoiler:Either it's this or she only started "trying to become" the narrator towards the end game, yet failed to completely take over the original narration. The evidence for either case is how, near the end, the story switches to her first-person point of view when she's especially pissed off.]]
* SurroundedByIdiots: Inverted. With the possible exceptions of Dove and Sandy [[spoiler:(and even then, Sandy is actually quite intellegent when she's not getting stoned from her own tea)]], all of the professors are smarter and more rational than [=.GIFfany=], likely because most of their "relationships" were still successful at the time.time and thus they had free time to think about things other than petty revenge schemes/fantasies. As the story goes on, it's increasingly obvious that [=.GIFfany=] is portrayed as a dumb ass dumbass {{jerkass}} nobody realy wants to listen to, who engages in violent revenge fantasies acted out by dummies.dummies. It's worth noting that she ''thinks'' she plays the trope straight, especially notable with her reaction to talking to Sandy in chapter 4:
-->"Stupid, stupid, stupid! Why! ARE! MY! ''CLONES! SO! '''STUPID!'''''"




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* [Not AndYouThoughtItWouldFail; I'm gonna find another trope for this]: One of the few times she's proven ''right'' about something in-fic. [[spoiler:Burnda tells her that making even more copies of herself is a stupid idea, because the "army" she has now barely listens to her. Of course, for whatever reason (likely less outside-human interaction), the second generation ''does'' listen to her. [=.GIFfany=] even mocks Burnda by doing what Burnda did back in chapter 10's stinger, repeatedly poking her in the face. [=.GIFfany=] then says "Do you see this? Do you see this? I am doing to you what my new line of sistrs did ''NOT'' do to me!"]]



* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Leona's color-named minions, all of the Duel of 100 participants, etc, are ''actually named that''. The former are named after the colors/patterns they take on (this includes more absurd names like "Rainbow Based On The GPOC Model" or "Blue And Yellow Stripes") and the latter sounding more like warrior nicknames (highly inspired by the Sammer Guy names, just with computer-related puns rather than Nintendo history-related names).



* {{Expy}}: A bit of an arrogant [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach,]] visually. Also one to [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario King Sammer,]] especially given the whole "[[spoiler:I'm going to cut these battles short because you guys are on a scrict time limit]]" aspect.



* ClimaxBoss: For Arc 2, and the story in general. She's faced at a point that nearly marks the end of Dipper and Mabel's arcs in the story[[note]]with chapter 10 being more about Wendy, 11 about the Stans, 12 about the group in general, 13 about Soos, and 14 just being a horror-centric "bad ending"[[/note]], really does not screw around, drops some of what was, up until then, kept as DramaticIrony from the Pines and company but known by the reader, and she's fought at the end of the second-longest chapter in the entire fan fic. Also, she's the last copy battled in Arc 2, and has some new powers up her sleeve just as the other hijackers that doesn't really fit with the [=.GIFfany=]s seen up until her. In fact, it doesn't even fit with the previous three hijackers, whom all had the same "transform into an element/component" abilitiy. She can become two-dimensional.




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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Darlene may be absent from this story, but there's another spider-woman who prays on flirting pick-up artists... more-or-less.



[[folder:Bill Cipher]]

* DemotedToExtra: '''And how!''' He has only six lines in the entire story, appears for what would roughly only be a minute,

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Cipher '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]

* DemotedToExtra: '''And how!''' He has only six lines in the entire story, appears for what would roughly only be a minute,
minute, and his sole appearance just has him yelling about how he came so close to figuring out how to work his way through the rift through [=.GIFfany=]'s state just to have it get sealed off before he could cross in.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: For what it's worth, he's technically still alive by the end of ''run:gifocalypse''. He simply never gets a chance to enter Earth's dimension and is forced to wait things out until he has another shot at making it through, rather than being outright killed off/erased. Not that this matters much, given how the story concludes shortly after his only appearance and Fan have confirmed that (as with most of his other fanworks) a direct sequel would be highly unlikely.



* YouCanTalk: Chapter 11 reveals that they can talk, after Burnda recruits them as talkshow guests.

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* YouCanTalk: Chapter 11 reveals that they can talk, after Burnda recruits them as talkshow guests.
guests. Ironically, the first words in-fic (and heard by a majority of the other characters) from them is one of them quesioning that ''Burrda'' can talk. Generally, hearing an adult woman speak is a lot less unusually than hearing a talking frog, especially as the world of ''Gravity Falls'' otherwise avoids talking animals.


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The last people to play the respective copy of ''Romance Academy 7''. Corresponding to each professor, there is:

* ChekhovsGunman: Kenny actually does appear in the first chapter, seen returning the copy that would later designate herself as Professor Rose. Back then, the narrative itself does not pay much attention to him.

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* ElementalPowers: They all have the standard electricity of [=.GIFfany=], and they somehow use that to control something of their own. These elements are largely based on Fan's own "twelve-fifteen color" system, albeit with electricity (yellow) swapped out with soul due to otherwise being redundant with the base [=.GIFfany=].



** Rose and Dove:

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** Rose and Dove: Creation vs destruction.



!! Profeessor Rose (Number: 2222222)

The professor of plant. Her subject is botany. She is the leader of Domain 1, located in a custom garden she made in Gravity Falls forest.

* BrickJoke: [=.GIFfany=] suggesting the name "Number Two" for her when they "first meet" ends up fitting a heck of a coincidence when her serial number turns out to consist entirely of seven successive 2s.



The professor of soul. Her subject is dramatic arts. She resides in Domain 2, a "haunted house" attraction in the Sahara. Carrying about little more than having a good horror-themed spirit,

* {{Expy}}: She's partly based on Fan's earlier ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character, down to name (her name was Kathy), using a scythe, and her love for freaking people out. She's a lot more of an asshole, though. Her color scheme is completely different too (Kathy having pale skin and "blood red" hair, Kath''od''y have tanned skin and yellow hair).
* SoulPower: Her element, although the way she manipulates it ''prior'' to "State of Emergency" (where she blatantly controls a bunch of ghost energy) is subtle, as it is the kind of "glue" keeping her staircase together.
* VillainTeamUp: Attempts to try to overwhelm the gang by directly teaming up with Searah. It backfires, and the gang tricks the two of them into attacking each-other.



The professor of water. Her subject/general field is athletics. Domain 3, her place, is located in the "center" of the Bermuda Triangle, and deep under water at that.



The professor of earth. Her subject is geology. She has turned a rise in the middle of the Grand Canyon into the setting of Domain 4, which like Rose's place is building-less. It's an outdoors worshipping ground for the "Lightning Goddess" (read: [=.GIFfany=], who tricked Sandy into thinking she was a deity).



The professor of meat. Her subject is zoobiology. She intends to run a chain of fast food establishments called "Gif Bytes," though when confronted she only has one building created. Said building is Domain 5, located by Niagara Falls.



The professor of soap, and basic/alkali materials in general. She specializes in teaching about plumbing, but also gives beauty care tips. She is the only professor who established her domain in her actual home country of Japan. Specifically, Domain 6 is a hot spring/sauna/shower room/etc all-purpose building in Mt. Fuji.



The professor of paint/oil. Her subject is, unsurprisingly, visual art. Deep within the Amazon Rainforest is Domain 7, the art club, consisted of four building divided amongst herself and three other "overseers" (Michelle, Donna, and Raffaela) that she technically outranks.



The professor of sound. Her subject is music. She set up a quiet, future-performance site in the form of Domain 8, an open-roof theater in the middle of the Everglade swamp.



* {{Expy}}: While Fan came up with Tagger's appearance before he finalized Dian's design, Dian was ultimately revealed first. Her outfit is identical to that of Tagger's, an OriginalGeneration wannabe Youtube star Fan made for ''MUGEN''. Neon green shirt, pale blue pants, red shoes. And, at times, a gas mask (though Dian's is purple, not gray).

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The professor of poison, and to a lesser extent chemicals, acids, anedotes, and the components of the "main poison" overall. She's the group's chemist. Domain 9 was intended to be her bringing a childhood fantasy of her player to life (actually, this applies to a lesser extent to most of the other domains as well), about searching through a cave to find ingredients to an antedote for her dying grandmother. Dian picked a quartet of unexplored sub-tunnels in the largest cave in the world, Hang Sơn Đoòng, to be a place where her copies would search for special ingredients. What they found instead was part of what led to four specific copies not just taking control over Dian's domain (an event Dian was completely okay with), but also scouting out and finding information for the future of [=.GIFfany=]'s plans.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: It's strongly implied that she is ''the'' most powerful of the professors by a long shot [[spoiler:unless you include the rift in [=.GIFfany=]'s power roster]], but doesn't actually act accordingly because she's too much of a softie pushover. This is also the reason why [=.GIFfany=] is terrified of Shannon, but not of Dian, despite Dian possibly being the stronger of the two: because Dian is such a huge doormat, she'll put up with anything [=.GIFfany=] throws at her. Shannon... not as much.
* {{Expy}}: While Fan came up with Tagger's appearance before he finalized Dian's design, Dian was ultimately revealed first. Her outfit is identical to that of Tagger's, an OriginalGeneration wannabe Youtube star Fan made for ''MUGEN''.''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''. Neon green shirt, pale blue pants, red shoes. And, at times, a gas mask (though Dian's is purple, not gray).
* {{Meganekko}}: She's not the only copy that wears glasses, but she is the only [[spoiler:first-gen]] professor to do so. And she's also one of the nicest of them, only really competing with Rose and Shannon.
* PoisonousPerson: Her element involves poisons and generally acidic substances.



The professor of wind/air. She's a huge ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fan who teaches her followers about piloting and auto-shop. Enjoying windy storms as well, she set up Domain 10 in New Delhi so that they could be blasted by the Monsoon winds. Domain 10 itself is a large ''King of the Hill'' fanclub that also specializes in making highly advanced methods of transportation.



The professor of light. Her subject is... "industry," meaning that she runs a highly industrialized workplace that also teaches her followers how to run their own industries. Domain 11, her place, is the second-largest of all domains (behind [=.GIFfany=]'s), and is a massive factory in the Yukon that specializes in producing her kind of special brand "mirrors."



* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Does having light-themed powers sound shitty to you? Haha, not when you have control over a good chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum (aside from ''very'' large or ''very'' small wavelengths, but this range still goes to radio and ''gamma'' waves). It also comes with size-alteration, healing, and being able to slow/speed things up. Dialogue between her and Dipper also implied that she ''can'' "blind" someone by simply sucking all the light immediately by their face (IE going towards their eyes) away from them, but that this process would take way more energy than what it's worth.

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* {{Expy}}: Basically a LighterAndSofter [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Enoch]] with a palette-swapped [=.GIFfany=]'s appearance. [[spoiler:Unlike Enoch, she genuinely had no idea that her domain was producing an addictive form of drugs with terrible withdrawl effects. After finding out, she ''immediately'' tries to get as many former mirror-addicts into rehabilitation, making them quit cold turkey and working them through the glitch effects.]] Hell, unlike the other ''OFF''-expies, her domain strongly resembles one of the Zones from said game, given that it's made of metal arranged in cubical buildings while the others generally try to shape their giffinium to resemble... actual buildings.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Does having light-themed powers sound shitty to you? Haha, not when you have control over a good chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum (aside from ''very'' large or ''very'' small wavelengths, but this range still goes to radio and ''gamma'' waves). It also comes with size-alteration, healing, and being able to slow/speed things up. Dialogue between her and Dipper also implied that she ''can'' "blind" someone by simply sucking all the light immediately by their face (IE going towards their eyes) away from them, but that this process would take way more energy than what it's worth. All in all, there's a ''damn good reason'' why she's the one copy in the entire story Risen-[=.GIFfany=] is terrified of. [[spoiler:And this is [=.GIFfany=] ''after'' aquiring the rift!]]



* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Wendy just said "Hey, some of your copies are glitching up," the group could have gone through Domain 11 without ever having to face her

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* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest of the professors. Unlike Rose (hypocrite, has some underlying implied aggression) and Dian (doormat to the point where she was completely willing to let copies with malevolent intentions completely take over her domain and not caring about that), her only real fault seems to be [[spoiler:ignorance at exactly ''what'' it was she was doing. That, and as with the other copies, she has an unhealthy attatchment to her player.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Wendy just said "Hey, some of your copies are glitching up," the group could have gone through Domain 11 without ever having to face her
her protective side. Or even seen her Main Possession outside of the battle.
* SizeShifter: Has this power, as do most of her followers. She states that she has the largest range out of all of them, however, being able scale her physical form anywhere from the size of a skyscraper (the second max record is "only" about the size of a house) to being small enough so that even "tinier" ants look large by comparison (the second min record is... roughly dollar bill-sized).



The professor of fire/heat. A physician and wannabe competitive reality show hostess, she resides in Domain 12, a place deep inside the lower chambers of Parícutin. Most of her domain is dedicated to setting up the stage for a reality show that she drags the gang into. She considers herself "twins" with Burrda.

* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, she's modeled off of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Brenda]], what with the name, the OdangoHair style, and the whole "walks around in a visible thong" gimmick (though it's part of a ''show stage leotard''. Completely accpetable there! Except even she knows this is a lie). Personality-wise, she's somewhere along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Chris McClean]] with a tiny, tiny dash of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Mettaton.]]
* LeotardOfPower: A thong-leotard (though none of the humans know at first, because she "always faces foreward")
* MotorMouth: She's actually holding back when she sneaks on the Construction Site and talks to Ford. Just about the time she meets with the band of four,



The professor of ice/lack-of-heat[[note]]On a technical/physics level, there is no such thing as "coldness," there is just having more or less heat. Things we percieve as "cold" can be looked at as things that have less heat than the average temperatures we are used to[[/note]]. She's another physician, the co-hostess to Burnda, and her technical "Domain 13" is also in Parícutin. Except her's is the summit, and barely has anything in it. She considers herself "twins" with Burnda.



The professor of explosion. She teaches combat techniques and weapon use. The first copy of the game produced and the one who set up a complicated system to copy herself in a desperate attempt for help to find players, leaking fourteen other copies out for "survival chances." Fast-forewarding several years and towards the Gifocalypse, and she's [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command. Domain 14 also doubles as her flagship: it is an aircraft carrier that she stole, rebranded the Giga-Kyaarya[[note]]Corruption of ''Kyaria'' (キャリア), the Japanese word for "carrier"[[/note]], which travels around the world as she spies on the gang and gives up-to-date information to the other professors.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Thinks love potions are disgusting, especially when not used by an authorized love god.

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Thinks love potions are disgusting, especially when not used by an authorized love god.god.
** She's the only copy that outright, explicitly thinks killing in any form other than last-resort self-defense is wrong. However, she has no problem at all with ''destroying'' as much property as she possibly could.



* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She starts off with the ''lowest'' number of followers (no, they are not near-equally divided among the fourteen at all), and that number only goes ''down'' as fires them or they quit. The main reason why "student" copies even listened to her in the first place was because they thought that using a crapload of weapons for when their future-players try to see real people sounded like it was worth putting up with her. Practically ''none'' of the other professors speak positively about her, and [=.GIFfany=] even flat-out considers ''an encounter'' with her to be used as a punishment. [[spoiler:Hell, she's the ''only'' professor in the whole story whose followers flat-out ''stop following and rebel against'', exactly ''because'' she's such a pain in the ass.]] Other [=.GIFfany=] copies really only put up with her for her seniority, and that her choices are why every single other copy of the game even exists.



* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow."]] By comparison, Shannon has been damaged by Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows until ''both of them'' were bleeding.

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* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow."]] " (And it destroys her pants and part of her lower-shirt.)]] By comparison, Shannon has been damaged by Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows until ''both of them'' were bleeding.



* SirSwearsALot: Especially jarring as, one PrecisionFStrike from Shannon in chapter ''10'' aside, the story contains ''no'' swearing up until her introduction, which is at a whopping chapter ''11''.



* TechnicalPacifist: Thinks killing is wrong. However, she ''does'' enjoy destroying things, capturing, fighting, etc. True to her word, her [[spoiler:attack on Gravity Falls]]



The professor of electricity and technology, while also claiming herself to still be a university student[[note]]Burnda point-blank asks her why her "character" is both a student and a professor at the same time now, and her response is "''A WOMAN CAN HAVE A JOB AND GO TO A UNIVERSITY TOO!''"[[/note]]. This is the same copy of the game that stalked Soos in canon, and she's now back

The reason ''why'' she's back and ''why''/''how'' she amassed her copies is a bit of a long story. The real "nail" in this ForWantOfANail was that

Her domain, Domain 15, is a mysterious, secretive location of pink metal she only refers to as the "Construction Site." While the... "general area" of the Construction Site is revealed as early as chapter 3, it's kept a large secret from the protagonists for the majority of the tale. When a professor fails (or a hijacker in the case of Domain 9), all of her student copies are transported over to the Construction Site to help her work on finishing it so that it's... not a construction site anymore.

* AmbiguousSituation: In the official ending. [[spoiler:Is she really redeemed? Is she just faking it to try to lower Soos's guard until everyone is exactly where she wants them to be, so she could presumably attack yet again? No, Word of God will not help you here -- Fan says that he likes ''both'' the idea of [=.GIFfany=] having some form of redemption, and to throw the entire story's "almost anyone can be redeemed" morality out of balance with the Big Bad being a massive exception. So he basically said that the readers can decide until/unless he settles on a final answer.]]



* CombatTentacles: Can spawn these from any part of her body, owing to her father being an octopus. She can also morph herself into wires (not to be confused with the transport computers that link from one domain to another), which more-or-less function identically. Towards the end of the official ending, she becomes fond of using ''both'' in roughly equal amounts.



* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's Dedan-like face all outdo her in the "scare department."
* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks.

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* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's Dedan-like face all outdo her in the "scare department."
" (In-universe, that is. But a blackened face isn't really that impressive regardless.)
* FanDisservice: FanDisservice:
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Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks.dummy-sharks.
** Her Main Possession form is... not pretty, to say the least. Putting it ''mildly'', [[spoiler:she turns the Planet Negation Girl into an Earth-sized humanoid mecha which looks like it's "wearing" nothing but stars over its breasts and a pair of panties... one with a body made of agonized [=.GIFfany=] faces, massive movie screens showing photo-realistic imagry, giant ferris wheel cars-turned into buldging, bloodshot eyes, and all sorts of cannons and bizarre attacks.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: A growing amount of her screentime, especially around Arc 2, more-or-less makes her the butt of jokes where her obsession with Soos is portrayed as typical pathetic "geeky lust" rather than anything serious. The scene where she poorly tries to make out with a Soos dummy in chapter 9 stands out. When she takes center-spotlight as the antagonist of "Game Over" and its alternate ending "Game Complete," the story quickly steps away from this.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: It's a RunningGag when she fights the humans that she often questions if they forgot a certain ability or trait of her's. The first time this happens is in the very first chapter, where Soos comments that she probably can't hear him through the electronic... briefly forgetting that her whole gimmick is being a sapient electronic. In the first (of quite a number) fight against Soos on [[spoiler:the Planet Negation Girl]], one of the first things she does is transform an arm into a number of pink tentacles. What? Did you forget that throwaway line where she said she had an octopus dad? It's only ever mentioned once in-fic leading up to that.



* AGodAmI: She wasn't technically lying to Sandy when she called herself the Lightning Goddess (though the stereotypical "ghost voice" ''was'' more of a lie) -- ''she actually thinks of herself on a divine level'', largely thanks to [[spoiler:her being able to send energy to and get energy from the rift.]]
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In a manner Fan says is similar to [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey,]] she is the one copy that completely spits in the face of the story's morality system. Every other professor/[=.GIFfany=] instance seems to have a soft side, can be reasoned with, and grows more as they are all brought in with their family to talk things out. Not the "Risen" one. She flat-out tries to ''kill'' the leads, out of pure malace, practically every scene with her is either a sign of her jackassery or a joke about how ''pathetic'' she is, and ''sparing'' her is exactly what she wants Soos to do. [[spoiler:Hell, unlike Flowey, she doesn't even really have an "Asriel." In the context of the copies, she's very close to being the one true "relentless killer" of the bunch.]]




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* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:Her entire domain also doubles as her Main Possession. It seems like it's completely meant to be a planet base at first, then [=.GIFfany=] uses the power of the rift to help her possess it completely, turning it into a combat mecha.]]



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* {{Yandere}}: Every last one of them is implied to retain some of this. The only reason why they're not completely hostile to the human group is because they're convinved that they aren't ''really'' getting between them and thier players, as by the end of this they will all be reunited (aside from Rose and Kenny, maybe).


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A cashier at Gif Bytes/Domain 5. Unlike the other copies living there, she's much more aware of how bizarre the Gifocalypse is, and strongly regrets her job.

* BackForTheFinale: Cameo in chapter 11 aside, she shows up in both endings as well. [[spoiler:In the Official Ending, she is at the "bottom" of the sphere of [=.GIFfany=] clones that try to make sure Soos and Melody's descent to Earth is safe. Being the first to slide them to a stop, she intentionally rams the ball into part of Domain 5 as a way of "getting back" at her boss, then remarks that she has had a ''terrible'' Sunday. In the Special Ending, she shows up as Cardia's second-in-line, just to end up getting curb-stomped by [=.GIFfany=] shortly after she assimilates Cardia herself.]]
* BurgerFool: Managed to become one despite being offered the choice, with equal room and skill requirements (effectively, none) available, to join any of the other domains sans [=.GIFfany=]'s (coincidentally, [=.GIFfany=]'s is the one other place that ''definitely'' aims to have fast food establishments, though how much of that was subliminal influence from Cardia's other followers isn't clear). She did, however, join Cardia thinking that she had what it took to become a hunter/farmer. But she ended up only qualifying for bottom-level work, managing the registers and grilling various orders.
* OnlySaneMan: Of the copies as a whole (while Bubbles and the twins offer her some competition). Definitely of the followers in Cardia's domain. She somehow sees right through [=.GIFfany=]'s video game logic and can figure out that the "gold coin" is not a stable

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The ten frogs cover all colors in Fan's preferred RGB-tertiary spectrum except green and magenta.


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A self-proclaimed "GenreSavvy" man that was [[RememberTheNewGuy apparently]] a citizen of Gravity Falls.

* WrongGenreSavvy: He believes that he's the main protagonist of a highly meta, time travel-centric cynical science-fiction. ''run:gifocalypse'' is actually more of a lighthearted adventure/fantasy (as a matter of fact, despite the higher amount of content, it's LighterAndSofter than canon in some ways too), and is tagged as such on fanfiction.net. Time travel exists in the universe of ''Gravity Falls'', but it is never important in ''run:gifocalypse'' thanks to Fan really not liking the concept. Meta-related elements are ''implied'' canonically in the form of some of Bill's statements, and in-fic [=.GIFfany=] does [[PaintingTheMedium toy around with the fourth wall]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou to the point of directly talking to the readers]], but again it's not an actual plot point (once again, Fan hates plot-centric fourth wall breaks[[note]]He cites ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' as an exception to this[[/note]]). Specifically, he thinks this is a [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} "doomed timeline"]] and that the only way to stop the Gifocalypse is to suddenly develop a new "meta travel" from Ford's Quantum Untouchability. All trying to touch it does is scatter him across space until he finally re-assembles, with no new powers in hand, right ''after'' [=.GIFfany=]'s defeat [[spoiler:and ''possible'' Heel-Face Turn.]]

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[[folder:The Prior Players]]
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Arc 2 is almost finished, that should be more than enough story-stuff to have some good trope lists for these weirdos, huh?


* Can we share? I have OCs I want to share too!

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* Can we share? I have OCs I want to share too!too!

Hello there, my name is Great Pikmin Fan and today we're gonna have top ten shopping malls built in Canada from 1999-2001! Up first is--

[[AC:[[Characters/RunGifocalypse Hello. I will be hijacking this Sandbox yet again, to give information about my sisters and my enemies.]]]]

'''Be warned that this contains unmarked spoilers for the ''entirety'' of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' canon. It is also recommended to have read, at the bare minimum, chapter 1 of this.'''

!! Main Protagonists

[[folder:Mason "Dipper" Pines]]

* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers Towards the first arc, his lack of trusting even the more blatantly belevolent copies is played up as a bad thing, though it never really results in the crew being in danger until chapter 10, where it becomes something of a CompressedVice.

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[[folder:Mabel Pines]]

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[[folder:Jesus "Soos" Ramirez]]

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[[folder:Wendy Corduroy]]

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[[folder:Stanley "Grunkle Stan" Pines]]

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[[folder:Stanford "Grunkle Ford" Pines]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In chapter 7, Burnda intentionally tries to ruin her own image by making Ford question if she is really his most reliable ally. She leads him on by getting him to finish the sentence of who, on the Construction Site, is the most trustworthy person. She's disappointed when he says she is, and not Stan.

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!! Professors

[[folder:In General (Exclusive or Near-Exclusive to Professors)]]

The professors are, actually, the only fifteen copies of ''Romance Academy 7'' that were leaked to the public, courtesy of Professor Dove. Having more experience outside of the factory they were made, they quickly become more powerful and adept with their abilities, and act as leading guides for all of the minor clones.

* {{Foil}}: With the exception of [=.GIFfany=] (who has Soos as a foil), all of the professors have some sort of "counter" as confirmed by WordOfGod. These are usually in faced before/faced after pairs, with the exceptions of Rose/Dove and Bubbles/Dian. More details can be found in their own folders, but to sum it up:
** Rose and Dove:
** Kathody and Searah:
** Sandy and Cardia:
** Bubbles and Dian:
** Leona and Sonia:
** Wendy and Shannon:
** Burnda and Burrda:
** Soos and [=.GIFfany=]:
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Downplayed. They're the main threats/copies of note for their respective chapters and not really ones outside of them (and some chapters cover ''two'' professors), but they're not simple "Beat 'em and be done with 'em"-type episodic romp characters, and are somewhat fleshed out. It helps that they are ''all'' tied directly to the BigBad in the context of this story.
* OneSteveLimit: Either played straight or averted depending on how you look at things. Technically, they were/are all named [=.GIFfany=], but given renames for the sake of identification that would be faster than saying their entire serial number.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Downplayed. They are a long line of antagonist forces leading up to [=.GIFfany=], but some of them are outright harmless to the protagonists (Rose and Dian, who refuse to attack them in any way)
* SingleTargetSexuality: While Fan claims the other copies are "open-minded," the professors are nearly literally hard-wired to being after their respective player. Except Rose, as she was technically "returned" first.

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[[folder:Rose]]

* FlowerInHerHair: It's suggested that having something "important" in one's hair is a sign of rank among the [=.GIFfany=]s, with the default cable-bow being a complicated exception (it's something they're free to wear, yet their leader wears it not out of rank sign but because it's part of the default outfit she sticks to). Rose has a ''Pikmin''-styled flower in her hair as her decoration, and it's implied that her students hold this type of flower especially above the others that have such plants in their hair.

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[[folder:Kathody]]

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[[folder:Searah]]

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[[folder:Sandy]]

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[[folder:Cardia]]

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[[folder:Bubbles]]

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[[folder:Leona]]

* ArtAttacker: She can attack with paint, and transform paint from a painting into a sort of temporary weapon.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess with her art.

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[[folder:Sonia]]

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[[folder:Dian]]

* {{Expy}}: While Fan came up with Tagger's appearance before he finalized Dian's design, Dian was ultimately revealed first. Her outfit is identical to that of Tagger's, an OriginalGeneration wannabe Youtube star Fan made for ''MUGEN''. Neon green shirt, pale blue pants, red shoes. And, at times, a gas mask (though Dian's is purple, not gray).

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[[folder:Wendy]]

* BerserkButton:
** Obviously, insulting ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' in any way is one of them. Or rather, was. She stops becoming so defensive of the show and later outright starts not liking it.
** [[WouldHitAGirl A male hitting a female]] ''was'' another way to piss her off, even if said female is a superpowered super-humanoid with her own army in the thousands and said guys are just in two. She also expects Dipper and Soos to play a form of football with her copies ''without'' actually making any sort of remotely antagonistic physical contact with them.
** Violating what ''King of the Hill'' would consider acceptable, another bit of irony considering her boss and a good chunk of the domains. Using "Sug Night" as evidence, a man's ass is okay, but not a woman's. Swearing around her isn't generally advized unless you're Shannon, as Shannon intimidates her.
** However, one constant is suggesting that air pollution isn't an issue. She's no Sandy, or Rose, or Searah, but she takes the environment in general ''very'' seriously, and she made herself in charge of air-related nature specifically.

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[[folder:Shannon]]

* TheDreaded: Subverted. The fact that even ''[=.GIFfany=]'' is afraid of her should be a gigantic red flag in of itself. However... she's hardly malevolent, only attacks the group after they outright tell her that they're willing to ''kill what's basically her sisters'',
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Does having light-themed powers sound shitty to you? Haha, not when you have control over a good chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum (aside from ''very'' large or ''very'' small wavelengths, but this range still goes to radio and ''gamma'' waves). It also comes with size-alteration, healing, and being able to slow/speed things up. Dialogue between her and Dipper also implied that she ''can'' "blind" someone by simply sucking all the light immediately by their face (IE going towards their eyes) away from them, but that this process would take way more energy than what it's worth.
* LightEmUp: The professor of light. Which also includes most other electromagnetic waves, and is linked to size, healing, ''and'' time alteration.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Wendy just said "Hey, some of your copies are glitching up," the group could have gone through Domain 11 without ever having to face her

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[[folder:Burnda]]

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[[folder:Burrda]]

* TheQuietOne: In contrast to Burnda's MotorMouth. Not counting the moments she's fused with Burnda, she rarely speaks. At most, ''if pressed'', she'll say 1-5 word long sentences, and she even seems to actively make them as brief as she can.

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[[folder:Dove]]

!! Professor Dove (Number: 0000001)

* AmbulanceChaser: She's the closest to a lawyer out of the professors, and she has an entire legal team. She is, of course, also one of the biggest assholes in the bunch, and specifically loves going after injuries to try to make cases from them.
* BerserkButton: [[{{yandere}} Ironically,]] love potions piss her the fuck off. She doesn't care if they're temporary. She has a negative knee-jerk reaction to them. [[spoiler:She especially ''hates'' the idea of using any of them on her family. When Mabel suggests using the anti-love potion to help get rid of [=.GIFfany=]'s obsession with Soos faster, Dove yanks it from her hands and throws it on Robbie and Tambry despite their love potion having worn off long ago.]]
* TheDragon: [=.GIFfany=]'s second-in-command and the penultimate major threat faced in the story. Unlike the usual Dragon-Big Bad interaction, ''she's'' the one kept in a lot of mystery up to her reveal, while the readers are shown a lot of [=.GIFfany=]. Likely because [=.GIFfany=] herself is much more "canonical," so it would have been easier to guess what her battle and setting would have been like, while Dove has a much bigger element of being unknown.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Thinks love potions are disgusting, especially when not used by an authorized love god.
* {{Foil}}: To Professor Rose, if unintentional back when the story's earlier chapters were written. Both are faced in Gravity Falls -- Rose in the forest when the town is at its prime, and Dove after [[spoiler:she blows the town to a series of land chunks up in the sky]]. Rose feeds the gang exposition on the professors, while Dove feeds the professors exposition on the gang. Also, once [=.GIFfany=] starts referring to them by "serial number," Dove is the first with the lowest number while Rose is the last with the highest serial number, [[spoiler:aside from the new copies [=.GIFfany=] creates.]] Rose is the first professor properly faced (not counting "Soos and the Real Girl" canon), while Dove [[spoiler:is the last professor faced ''on Earth''.]] This even applies to the Illegal Prime Neutralizer: Rose was captured first and by accident, while the gang ''very intentionally'' wants to capture Dove, [[spoiler:except she's the only (first-gen) professor to never end up inside it. Even [=.GIFfany=] was captured in chapter 11, though she escapes via wormhole. Dipper and Mabel destroy the pack outright to get the help of the other professors and to prove a point to Dove (and because, considering [=.GIFfany=]'s powers, they don't have much point to it any longer anyway).]]
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Pink boxer shorts with "even pinker" hearts on them.
* TheLadette: Foul-mouthed, short-tempered, purposefully makes herself look terrifying when she wants to be threatening with her "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Dedan]] face," loves war tools and explosives, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wears boxer shorts under her clothes while the other copies either go with panties or nothing at all.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Her response to being hit by, for all intends and purposes, a [[spoiler:super-nuke?]] "Ow."
* NighInvulnerable: She's even more resilient than Shannon or even [=.GIFfany=] at her strongest. She survives [[spoiler:taking a ''direct hit'' from an enormous spacecraft causing an even ''bigger'' explosion. While she was in the absolute center of this explosion. All this does is give her a few scratches and makes her say "Ow."]] By comparison, Shannon has been damaged by Wendy while [=.GIFfany=] and exchanged blows until ''both of them'' were bleeding.
* NumberTwo: The explicit second-in-command of the professors, as much as [=.GIFfany=] (the first person to ''call'' Dove her second-in-command, hypocritically) insists that the professors all have equal rule[[note]]Technically this ''is'' true, as after Dove the other professors ''are'' considered equal on the power scale whenever region isn't involved[[/note]]. When a copy in chapter 8 is outright asked where their leader is (the group was looking for Professor Sonia at the time), she answers by saying that [=.GIFfany=] is in a classified location. Asked to go lower than that, she talks about Dove instead of the domain's professor.
* SelfDeprecation: She's the closest thing the story has to an AuthorAvatar. She's also intended to be seen an annoying, overly violent, LoveToHate idiot who attacks things way before getting the big picture of them. These two character traits are not mutually exclusive, and she's often at her most assholish when parroting Great Pikmin Fan's opinions.
* StuffBlowingUp: After flip-flopping between this and parading herself as a NonElemental, Dove settled on having "explosion" as her element. When Burnda points out that it's very similar to [[PlayingWithFire her element,]] Dove attempts to explain why the two are completely different. It's also worth nothing that Dove cannot actually ''control'' the explosive fireballs themselves, just that she really likes using explosives and artillery. Instead, she focused her power on possessing ''exceptionally large things'', [[spoiler:as well as things of extra-Earthly origin. The spacecraft under the town qualifies as both.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out a good chunk of Mabel's actions from canon, and to a lesser extent the events of ''run:gifocalypse''.

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[[folder:[=.GIFfany=]/The Risen One/The Lightning Goddess]]

!! Professor [=.GIFfany=] (Number: 0000009)

* BigBad: Promoted to such in the story's context. Considering how [[spoiler:canon's actual Big Bad, Bill Cipher, has a whopping half a minute of merging his dimension with Earth's before the rift is sealed and he's sucked back in]], she's more-or-less the big bad of this entire "timeline." (Which Fan stresses is not [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "doo]][[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} med."]])
* EasilyForgiven: By Stan near the beginning [[spoiler:and Soos at the end]], though she has much less luck with the other characters.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Invokes this to look more threatening, though it's implied that Shannon's "rift-y looking eyes," Burnda's "realistic eyes," and Dove's Dedan-like face all outdo her in the "scare department."
* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 reveals that she's actually a very, very bad kisser. How? By showing her practicing her kissing skills on a Soos dummy she made. While also having a Melody dummy hang on a string over a fake pool of dummy-sharks.
* FullFrontalAssault: Some of the other copies might not really wear much, but most of the ones that attack the gang at least wear ''something''. In the final battle, after [[spoiler:falling from the atmosphere takes away their clothes]], she takes Soos on in a naked fist-fight.
* MsFanservice: Doesn't seem like it compared to the more bold outfits of the other copies, but starting from chapter 9 she gets a sudden number of nude scenes, flirts and teases with Soos a ''lot'', the story flat-out says that she becomes a walking PantyShot, and she dresses up in a number of revealing outfits just before the final battle. Also, aformentioned chapter 9 goes into ''huge detail'' of her admiring her body, then slapping her ass, which the story indirectly makes clear is not supposed to be "censored" like a copy's frontal nudity would be.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Inverted. With the possible exceptions of Dove and Sandy [[spoiler:(and even then, Sandy is actually quite intellegent when she's not getting stoned from her own tea)]], all of the professors are smarter and more rational than [=.GIFfany=], likely because most of their "relationships" were still successful at the time. As the story goes on, it's increasingly obvious that [=.GIFfany=] is portrayed as a dumb ass {{jerkass}} nobody realy wants to listen to, who engages in violent revenge fantasies acted out by dummies.

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!! Other [=.GIFfany=] Copies

[[folder:The [=.GIFfany=] Army in General; Specific Student Groups]]

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Implied with some of the follower copies in the more laid-back domains clothing-wise (Sandy's, Rose's, Searah's, etc). Outright confirmed with the 100 warriors in the mushroom section of Domain 9.
-->'''Peachaulinsalinaisy:''' Just think of this as a kind of shirts-vs-skins.\\
'''Soos:''' And I'm skins? I'm sorry, but I feel uncomfortable if [=.GIFfany=]'s sort of-watching-\\
'''The first fighter:''' Um... no, we're skins.

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[[folder:Overseer Michelle]]

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[[folder:Overseer Donna]]

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[[folder:Overseer Raffaela]]

* AntiClimax: Mabel does ''not'' struggle with taking her down, and the only reason why she captured Dipper was because he was flustered at the thought of her distracting him with something redhead-related. When the group takes in Sizzcorra (who isn't "captured" so much as "volunteers to be sucked into the Illegal Prime Neutralizer so she has a chance to talk to Professor Sandy earlier"), Dipper lampshades this.

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[[folder:Hijacker Sizzcorra]]

* HollywoodAcid: Exaggerated. Her sector is in charge of crafting the best acids (while also exporting kinds that are pretty good). The current record-holder is something she swims in a pool of: It's ''completely'' colorless to the point where it can't even reflect or refract light (making it look invisible, and when she's swimming through it, she appears to be swimming in thin-air), and it melts ''anything'' that isn't giffinium or a copy with high resistance. When it simply ''drips'' from her after she emerges from a pool, it ends up eating a hole all the way to a point with magma (the larger pits are described as ''glowing orange'' after a while). She implies that this keeps going until reaching the very center of the Earth, until it eventually decays as with all matter. (Note that despite glowing, this is ''not'' nuclear waste. Chapter 10 introduces bits of the latter in Shannon's domain, and the two of them are treated as completely different things.)
* {{Irony}}: While being closer-linked to the element water, she's a fan of professor Sandy, the earth one, while she doesn't like the ideas of Professor Searah, the water one. With Peachaulinsalinaisy, it's the other way around, while Daminna (smoke, close to wind) adores the wind professor.
* MeaningfulName: She points it out herself: Sakura + sizzle + corrode.
* TechnicolorScience: Exaggerated. The acids in her sector come in a huge variety of colors, several of which [[PowerGlows glow,]] and her current "trump card" acid is completely and utterly invisible.

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[[folder:Hijacker Peachaulinsalinaisy]]

* {{Irony}}: While being closer-linked to the element earth, she's a fan of Professor Searah, the water one, while she doesn't like the ideas of Professor Sandy, the earth one. With Sizzcorra it's the other way around, while Daminna (smoke, close to wind) adores the wind professor.
* MeaningfulName: Her entire sector is a nod to ''Mario'' in general, and the 100-man Sammer Guy duel from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' specifically. She's named after a combination of '''Peach''', P'''aulin'''e, Ro'''salina''', and D'''aisy'''.
* OverlyLongName: Of the variant where she has a single, long name. It's shorter than the unicorn's name[[note]]Celestabellebethabelle[[/note]], but by just ''three letters'' and it's still a mouthful in of itself.

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* FanDisservice: Chapter 9 has, in order: A copy (and by implication several, but definitely not all, of her followers) that wears nothing but smoky wisps, a team of metal swimsuit-clad lab workers who treat acid baths like swimming pools, "that scene" with the BigBad admiring herself naked and slapping her own ass, and a group of 100 topless swordswomen led by a mushroom-clad wannabe princess. Then there's... her. She starts off looking like a standard CuteMonsterGirl, but once it's revealed that the black, lumpy "floor" in her arena is actually ''a huge mass of spiders'' she goes OneWingedAngel and everything goes straight to hell.

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!! The Glitches

If a copy becomes addicted to Shannon's technological "mirrors," and is withdrawn from a mirror for too long, she will begin to glitch out. The effects are only temporary, as they can be calmed down and the corruption is repairable, but it still leaves them as being exponentially strong, able to "glitch" out

* BodyHorror: It's classic video game glitches applied to three-dimensional, flesh and blood (sort of) beings. Of course it's not going to be pretty.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In several domains, it's mentioned through an offhand line that copies are too busy looking into certain mirrors with chartreuse frames to actually do their given task. Chapter 10 finally explains what these mirrors are, and why they seem to be addicting.
* SurrealHorror: The nature of some of the glitches is just downright ''bizarre''.

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[[folder:The "Dark" Squad]]

* EvilCounterpart: They intend to be these to the respective professor they are based on, but the end result is very confused.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: To Dove, even though Dove herself is TheDragon in [=.GIFfany=]'s Quirky Miniboss Squad. The whole confusion of it all is lampshaded many, many times.

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!! Non-Copy Antagonists/Threats of Note

[[folder:Lil' Gideon Charles Gleeful]]

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[[folder:Experiment 210/The Shape Shifter]]

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[[folder:The Second Summerween Trickster/Halloween Trickster]]

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[[folder:Rumble [=McSkirmish=] ]]

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[[folder:Bill Cipher]]

* DemotedToExtra: '''And how!''' He has only six lines in the entire story, appears for what would roughly only be a minute,

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[[folder:The Frogs]]

* YouCanTalk: Chapter 11 reveals that they can talk, after Burnda recruits them as talkshow guests.

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[[folder:Ron Ejjert]]

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->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/HiromiTsuru
-> '''Voiced by (English):''' [[Creator/WendeeLee Wendee Swan]] (Harmony Gold); Maggie Blue O'Hara, Creator/LalainiaLindbjerg, France Perras (BLT/Ocean); Leslie Alexander (''DB'' Movie 2), Tiffany Vollmer, Creator/MonicaRial (''Kai'', ''DB'' Movie 1 onwards) (Creator/FUNimation), Leda Davies, Kristin Nowosad (Blue Water); Jodi Forrest, Sharon Mann (''The History of Trunks'') (AB Groupe/"Big Green"); Claudia Thompson (Animax)
-> '''Voiced by (Latin American):''' Rocío Garcel '''(current voice)''', Creator/MonicaManjarrez (Majin Buu saga, ''GT'' and Movies 4-13'), Laura Ayala (some episodes), Isabel Martiñón (''Z'' and ''Movie 4'' Dragon Ball)

The very first human Goku came across (apart from his grandpa) at the start of the series. One could say she's the trigger that kicks off the series as a whole. Originally on a quest to gather the Dragon Balls for her own reason (to wish for a perfect boyfriend), Bulma gets dragged into the craziness that comes along with the search. Even when the quest is finished, she still keeps close ties with Goku and his friends and helps out whenever possible. Which, considering she's a mechanical whiz, is quite often.
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