WARNING: Some spoilers are unmarked.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The 2024 release of The Book of Bill has some dark parallels to this story. In the book it's implied the destruction of the 2nd Dimension was an accident as opposed to the more deliberate destruction as portrayed here. Canon Bill's constant insistence he was beloved by everybody in his dimension reeks of an attempt to cover up the fact he was treated like an outcast for being able to see the 3rd Dimension. His attempt to bring the 2nd Dimension into the 3rd resulted in a horrific apocalypse that left Bill as the Sole Survivor. Bill's dialogue confirms that he does understand he was responsible for this and he feels immensely guilty about it, but one trillion years of refusing to—or being unable to—grow up have resulted in him convincing himself he "liberated" his home dimension. In the end, Canon Bill's stuck in the Teraprism; an Epiphanic Prison literally tailored to redeem the worst of the worst. Unfortunately Bill's still too stuck denying his atrocities to make even the first step toward reformation. It's hard to say if Canon Bill would be dismissive of the version of him in this fanfic for admitting his faults, or envious that he's growing to become a better person.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In Chapter Eleven, Steven marvels over Bill's cooking skills and tells him he could open up a restaurant, while also thinking that he himself didn't have the talent. Or any talent. The demon supports this. In the show proper, we have "Restaurant Wars", which came out way after this chapter was written. In it, Steven is quite capable of cooking and starting up his own restaurant.
- In Chapter Twenty-Three, Connie and Wendy visit the library via Lion. Here, Lion leaves, which is mildly funny. Months later, Buddy's Book debuts, where Connie and Steven visit the library via Lion. And again, Lion leaves. Which makes this moment even more hilarious.
- The Woobie: Why wouldn't you call Bill Cipher one of these after reading all this? Granted, he started off as a Jerkass Woobie, and even a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, but...
- Steven also counts, and Pyronica after her time in the Void.
