Dimension 46'\[1] is the universe in which the majority of the plot of Gravity Falls, The Owl House, and Amphibia takes place. It is part of the multiverse of Rick and Morty.[2]
History[]
The future site of the valley of Gravity Falls was originally inhabited by Dinosaurs, over 65,000,000 years BCE. Uniquely, the prehistoric beasts of the area did not perish from the impact of a meteor, as purported by the common theory; conversely, many became buried alive in tree sap, preserved within the bowels of the Earth and remaining there for eons. According to tree ring interruptions and radiation tests, the entire valley of Gravity Falls was formed by an alien spaceship crash-landing into Earth around 35 million years later. Whether the craft caused the town's strange properties or the place's strange properties attracted the craft is still unknown, however numerous anomalies such as electrical interference and sick livestock are linked to the ship's existence beneath the town.
The first human inhabitants of the valley were Gravity Falls' native population, who mysteriously evacuated around 1000 AD after a shaman named Modoc learned of the prophecy that foretold the dreadful Weirdmageddon from his interactions with Bill Cipher. The valley was deemed a "cursed land" by the natives, who left behind troves of pottery, blankets, and art in local caves, relics that would one day be hoarded by the Northwests.
Bill attempted to get his portal built with the help of various other humans from the ancient Egyptians, Aztecs and even Easter Island heads. His attempts in the dark ages with a wizard gave rise to "Cipherstitions" in the old, causing him to flee to the new world to try and get his portal built there. Bill tried using New England settlers to no avail and even convinced the leaders of the then newly created America to help him. His attempts would lead to the rise and fall of a group in 1901 known as The Anti-Cipher Society that tried to defeat him and spread awareness about his deception. They were deemed a joke and disbanded.
About 1000 years before the events of the series, the world of Amphibia was highly advanced and its king, Aldrich Leviathan, at its capital city Newtopia was preparing to conquer Earth - when it was still medieval - to strip out its resources and commit genocide against Humans. This plan was subsequently foiled by one of his son's friends, Leif, who opened a portal to Earth to grant the Calamity Box to early Humans and keep it out of Amphibia’s reach.
In the mid-1600s, Caleb Wittebane would be transported to 46’\’s twin reality by a Witch named Evelyn and would be followed by his younger brother Phillip into the realm. Caleb and Evelyn carved Flapjack together and eventually got married, having at least one child together, but in his rage and witch hatred, Phillip killed his brother and Evelyn, dedicating his life to completely eradicating all life in the Demon Realm.
The town of Gravity Falls was officially founded in 1842 by the deposed 8½th president of the United States of America, Quentin Trembley, who discovered the valley after falling off a cliff due to riding his horse backwards. Though it was originally only a small settlement, Trembley acted as its first mayor, instituting a variety of legislature that reflected his insanity. The town flourished in the late 1840s from the Gold Rush, which was followed by a lesser-known "Flannel Rush", however both were at an end a year later, as miners were scared away by sightings of dinosaurs in the Gravity Falls mines.
Gravity Falls saw a population boom in the early 1860s as American pioneers travelled the Oregon Trail, many of whom ended up settling in the town. Among those who chose Gravity Falls as their home were settlers Grady and Fertilia Mecc, who are credited with the invention of the "High Five" and holding a record number of 42 offspring (two of which turned out to be time travelers who were mistaken for her children).
In or shortly before 1863, following the disappearance of Trembley, who sought immortality by preserving his body in peanut brittle and stashed himself in an underground cave beneath the Gravity Falls Cemetery, the U.S. government immediately enacted the Northwest Cover-up, in which Trembley's existence was erased from history and his identity as town founder and mayor was replaced by local nobody turned celebrity, Nathaniel Northwest. Having come into power as mayor and attained an illustrious wealth, Northwest enlisted the help of the town's lumberjacks in building his elaborate mansion in exchange for a lavish festival open to all the townsfolk, a promise he quickly reneged on following the manor's completion. The loss of tree covers on the hills surrounding the newly built Northwest Manor then led to the Great Flood of '63, which took the lives of many lumberjacks formerly involved in its construction.
In 1883, the Great Train Crash occurred, in which a passing conductor grew distracted by a "flash of light" and inadvertently sent his train off a cliff. This event coincided with the arrival of a mysterious stranger in town, who found employment as a watch repairman and left an encoded letter in a box labelled PINES in the Gravity Falls Library. In 1920, the "Maple Syrup Prohibition" led to secret pancake speakeasies. In 1937, a plane crashed into the mountains and a woman escaped into the forest. The words "Amelia was here" are carved into the mountainside. In 1947, a flying saucer was sighted by a local farmer. In 1960, Greasy's Diner opened, built partially from the wreckage of the 1883 Great Train Crash.
In 1952, Bill possessed the dead body of an infamous con man named Silas Birchtree, who used his charisma to start a cult named Ciphertology in the Kansas town of Orchard Lake. Almost every citizen became a member of his cult, except for Emmaline Butternubbins, a local nag who knew about his true identity. Bill then ordered his members to build a portal for him, but before he could finish it, his signals were picked up by the law enforcement, who arrived to shoot down the cultists, along with Bill in Silas' body. Bill tried to deliver one last message to people, but Silas' body got decapitated, as he left it, and his cult seemingly disbanded. Bill would later attempt to get his portal built with the help of animation in the 1930s that led to a failed and cancelled series about him, using nuclear tests to get it going, hiding cryptic messages in music, creating computers and even dolls. Despite all these failed attempts, his closest chance at success came when one day, someone broke the Shaman's curse, allowing him to return to Gravity Falls, Oregon.
In the late twentieth century, a young man named Stanford Pines, who had spent the past six years investigating the town's plethora of unnatural creatures and oddities, hit a roadblock in his research and was left without answers as to how the improbabilities of Gravity Falls had come to be. During the roadblock, he uncovered the cave containing the ancients' stories of Bill Cipher. Heedless of the warnings, Ford repeated the incantation aloud, breaking the curse and summoning Bill into his mindscape. Bill recognized Ford's brilliant but cocky and insecure nature, and his near friendlessness as ideal conditions for manipulation, choosing to introduce himself to Ford as a muse who chose one brilliant mind every century to inspire.
It was Bill who revealed to Ford that Gravity Falls' weirdness was caused by a rift between dimensions, through which the other side's weirdness leaked through. With Bill's assistance, Stanford drafted blueprints to create an interdimensional gateway beneath it and his home (later becoming the Mystery Shack), recruiting his college roommate and friend Fiddleford McGucket for assistance. Ford and Fiddleford performed their first trial with the active portal, which quickly went awry, as the rope that was attached to the dummy they intended to send through the portal became tangled with Fiddleford, sending him briefly through the portal head-first. Upon his return, an alienated Fiddleford muttered incoherencies before uttering a prediction about "the beast with just one eye." It is later revealed that Fiddleford saw Bill removing his exoskeleton to feed. He promptly abandoned the project.
The suspicion planted in him by Fiddleford led to a confrontation between Ford and Bill, during which Ford learned that Bill had tricked him, as the portal was meant to act as a gateway to the Nightmare Realm, allowing the demon to bring chaos and destruction into their universe. Horrified and betrayed, Ford shut down the project and attempted to destroy all knowledge of the portal. Refusing to part with his life's work, Ford deactivated the device and created Project Mentem, a machine capable of bio-electrically encrypting thoughts, which prevented Cipher from wreaking havoc in the mindscape. Despite these precautions, Ford remained deeply paranoid and fearful of the catastrophe he'd nearly caused; he took to journaling and even amending previous journal entries with invisible ink.
Ford eventually felt the need to abandon his research and hide his journals, thus preventing details on the portal's operation from falling into the wrong hands. Hiding his second and third journals locally and converting his offsite laboratory into a makeshift fallout shelter, designed to survive an apocalypse, Ford finally contacted estranged brother Stanley in an urgent call for help. Hurt and enraged at being summoned only to be sent as far as possible, Stan spitefully claimed he'd get rid of the journal by burning it, which prompted Ford to react in defense of his research. The brawl escalated into a fistfight within the laboratory that inadvertently reactivated the portal. As the fight neared the active portal, Stan angrily shoved the journal back into Ford's hands, which inadvertently pushed Ford into the gateway's range. While a helpless Stan watched, Ford tossed him the journal before disappearing through the gateway. Stan spent the next 30 years attempting to get the portal back online, opening the Mystery Shack and becoming a successful businessman in the process under the name of his brother.
In 2012, Mason “Dipper” Pines and his sister Mabel were sent to the valley of Gravity Falls to live with and work for their uncle Stanford Pines in his tourist trap known as the Mystery Shack. Expecting a boring summer, but after Dipper discovered the secret journal of an unknown author, the Pines twins were taken aback as Gravity Falls proved to be the weirdest and most unexpected adventure of a lifetime as they battled ghosts, monsters, nightmares, and…gnomes. They were temporarily forced out of the shack by Gideon Gleeful, who was in possession of Journal 2 and had deducted the mysterious Journal 1 to be hidden in the house. He was defeated and exposed as a fraud to the town of Gravity Falls, but it turned out he was correct as Journal 1 was in the possession of Stan Pines, who now had the other two and was using the blueprints inside them to power a mysterious device.
As time went on, Stan struggled with the idea of telling Dipper and Mabel the truth about what he was doing but was suddenly arrested and brought in by the government agents for interrogation. He managed to escape custody and discover that Dipper and Mabel had too, and they have discovered the interdimensional portal in the basement, ready to shut it down. After Stan convinces Mabel not to turn off the portal, it opens a portal between Earth and the Nightmare Realm before the sheer force of it destroys the portal itself. A man walks out of the portal and is revealed to be the long-lost twin of Stan: Ford, the author of the journals.
Stan’s reckless maneuverability of the portal opened an interdimensional rift that Ford had to quickly contain and took Dipper to Crash Site Omega to collect some adhesive to permanently seal it, but before it can be done, Mabel accidentally takes the pack with it into the forest because she’s sad about Dipper’s choice to stay with Ford in Gravity Falls, and is visited by Blending Blandin, a time traveler she helped earlier with Dipper. He offered to make summer longer for her if she gives him the rift, for which she was unaware of its importance as Ford never tells her anything. She gives him the rift and he smashes it and reveals he was possessed by Bill Cipher and knocks her unconscious.
After opening the rift, Bill gains a physical form and imprisons Mabel in a bubble. He introduces himself to the people of Gravity Falls, claiming to be their new ruler as well as introducing his friends to the people. He begins "redecorating" the town by unleashing Eye-Bats that petrify and abduct the townspeople, summoning the Fearamid, and sending out bubbles that instill madness in everything they touch. When Bill and his friends prepare to cause havoc, Ford attempts to shoot Bill back into the rift with his quantum destabilizer but only hits his tophat. When Bill notices Ford and Dipper, he blasts the clock tower. Bill captures Ford and turns him into a golden statue to use as a "back-scratcher", after which Dipper, who has gotten back to street-level, tries to attack him. Bill creates a forcefield around his eye, knocking Dipper backwards, causing him to fly into a tree. Bill then telekinetically seizes the three journals, burning them in front of Dipper, with two crippled pages surviving. Bill flies away to the Fearamid leaving Dipper, 8 Ball, and Teeth behind. Dipper manages to run away before they eat him.
Dipper finds Wendy and Soos and goes with them to rescue Mabel from her prison bubble, only to discover it has been made a paradise that she doesn’t want to leave. Dipper apologizes to Mabel and agrees to never leave her side, so they all escape and return to the Mystery Shack, where Stan and several other survivors had been hiding out. Meanwhile, Bill had discovered that Gravity Falls itself was keeping him and his apocalypse quarantined from the rest of the world, so he had to unfreeze Ford in an attempt to extract the equation to break the barrier, much to his failure. The survivors sought the help of McGucket, an insane robotics extraordinaire, to convert the Mystery Shack into the Shacktron and take down Bill. When he arrived, they successfully defeated the Henchmaniacs, temporarily blinded Bill, parachuted into the Fearamid and disassembled the Throne of Human Agony, rescuing all captured Humans.
Ford then revealed the Bill Cipher Zodiac as the only way to defeat Bill by linking all people with their destined symbols and joining hands. Unfortunately, after Stan got into a fight with Ford over his grammar correction, Bill discovered and destroyed the zodiac, turning everyone but the Pines into banners. In order to spare the kids, Ford agreed to let Bill enter his mind and let him break out of the Falls and destroy the universe. Unbeknownst to Bill, however, Stan and Ford had secretly swapped places so that Bill would enter Stan’s mind, and Ford could erase it with the memory gun (Ford’s metal plate wouldn’t let him erase himself). This succeeded and Bill was destroyed (he was later reborn in Dimension 5150 by the Axolotl), undoing the events of Weirdmaggedon and freeing the town. Stan was retrieved by his family and brought to the remains of the Mystery Shack where his memories were slowly regained thanks to help from his family.
As the week went on, Stan’s memory fully recovered and the town of Gravity Falls slowly recovered from the events of Weirdmageddon, enacting the “Never Mind All That! Act”. Ford tossed his three journals and The Book of Bill, (which had arrived earlier) into the Bottomless Pit. At the Pines twins’ 13th birthday party, Stan announced his retirement from the Mystery Shack to spend some time with his brother and promoted Soos to its manager. Dipper and Mabel left the Falls at the end of the week to Piedmont, California.
In 2019, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy were teleported from Los Angeles, California to Amphibia via the Calamity Box. Anne returns several months later with the Plantars: Sprig, Polly, and Hop Pop and returns to her home to reunite with her mom and dad. They spend several months attempting to get back to Amphibia while dodging a Cloak-Bot, the FBI, and the Plantars’ reckless failures to survive in Earth culture. Sometime after Christmas, Anne’s new friend Terri developed an interdimensional portal of her own and Anne discovered she can use her connection to the Calamity Gems to power it. She and the Plantars return to Amphibia and Anne’s parents explain everything they can to the FBI. Sometime later, King Andrias' Frobot military force teleported to Earth, hovering above Los Angeles, California to start conquering the planet. However, thanks to Calamity Anne and the defeat of Darcy, the invasion failed, saving Earth and humanity. After the "Frog-vasion", Anne, Sasha, and Marcy return to Amphibia to ensure their safety and later return to Earth and continue on with their lives.
In 2020, Luz Noceda was about to be sent to Reality Check Summer Camp by her well-meaning mother Camila because of her “enthusiastic” behavior in school. However, her copy of The Good Witch Azura was stolen from her by a little owl which she chased into an abandoned house at the edge of her town. Shortly afterwards, a Basilisk emerged from the entrance shapeshifted to appear as Luz and was met by her mother, who apologized for her decision and offered to drive her to the camp rather than send her on a bus. “Luz” spent the summer sending letters to her mother and having a great time at the camp and later returned to her new home as Luz. Eventually, the real Luz made contact with her from the Demon Realm, the twin reality of 46’\, where she had chosen to stay rather than go to her unwanted camp. Her way home had recently been destroyed, and she had attempted to create a new Portal Door, but was only able to view into her reality through reflections. Upon laying into her, Luz eventually convinced Vee to help her find a way home from there, but she wound up captured by a wannabe witch hunter and Luz had to contact her mother and tell her the truth about where she had really been to help free Vee. They succeeded and Camila accepted Vee as her daughter as well, but Luz ended up promising her mother she would stay in the Human Realm permanently.
Luz, Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hunter were later transported to 46’\ after the Day of Unity was prevented by releasing the Collector to subvert the damage and stop Emperor Belos. They spend several months in the Human Realm attempting to return home and discover a hidden rebus that leads to Titan’s Blood, the fuel for portal travel. Meanwhile, Hunter and Luz find evidence that Belos followed them to the Human Realm and the pair attempt to confront him but ultimately come to the conclusion that he is currently hiding. On Halloween, the others are planning to surprise Luz with the Titan’s Blood map, but she’s made aware of it by Hunter, who wants to check on it before Belos can. As it turns out, Hunter was possessed by a small piece of Belos, who reveals himself to Luz at the Gravesfield Cemetery. Once Luz’s friends arrive, Belos reveals that Luz had at some point traveled back in time and inadvertently caused him to meet the Collector and cause the Day of Unity. After a big battle, Belos crushes Flapjack and Hunter overpowers him, so he uses the blood to return to the Demon Realm and continue his plan to eradicate Witchkind. Hunter has been mortally wounded, so Flapjack sacrifices what energy remains in him to revive Hunter, granting him his Palisman dash ability. After an emotional moment, Luz, her friends, and unexpectedly her mom, head through the portal to the Demon Realm to save the Boiling Isles. Vee stays behind to keep up appearances.
Shortly following her triumph over Belos, the Collector, before their return to the stars, created for Luz a brand-new portal door connecting the Owl House to the abandoned house in Gravesfield, allowing Luz and her mother to return to the Human Realm. At some point following this, Camila would purchase the abandoned property, allowing Luz direct access to the portal whenever she wanted. Over the next four years, Luz utilizes this door to travel between realms, allowing her to continue school in the Human Realm while also being able to see her loved ones in the Demon Realm. During these years, Luz takes part in helping repair the damage done to the Isles' infrastructure, though this would come at the cost of being able to celebrate her 15th, 16th, and 17th birthdays. In 2024, Luz went to the University of Wild Magic in the Demon Realm and moved there, presumably with Amity. In 2029, Anne now works at the Aquarium of the Pacific in a new section for frogs named after Amphibia. She was visited by Sasha and Marcy to celebrate her birthday, which was also on the ten-year anniversary of Frog-vasion.
In 3012, Time Baby, the Guardian of 46’\, will thaw from the glaciers in the Antarctic and completely take over the Earth. At the same time, Time Baby’s future self will regenerate his molecular structure after Bill destroyed it 1000 years ago and will likely return to his time. In the year 207̃012, the world has been completely conquered by Time Baby and what is left of humanity now operates on a time travel-based society.
Appearances[]
Earth as seen in Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls[]
- All of Gravity Falls
Amphibia[]
Season 1[]
- "Anne or Beast?" (mentioned)
- "Best Fronds" (flashback)
- "Trip to the Archives" (mentioned)
- "Bizarre Bazaar" (mentioned)
- "Reunion" (flashback)
Season 2[]
- "Wax Museum" (mentioned)
- "Marcy at the Gates" (flashback)
- "The Plantars Check In" (mentioned)
- "Little Frogtown" (mentioned)
- "Hopping Mall" (mentioned)
- "After the Rain" (mentioned)
- "True Colors"
Season 3[]
- "The New Normal"
- "Hop 'Til You Drop"
- "Thai Feud"
- "Adventures in Catsitting"
- "Fight at the Museum"
- "Temple Frogs"
- "Fixing Frobo"
- "Anne-sterminator"
- "Mr. X"
- "Sprig's Birthday"
- "Spider-Sprig"
- "Hollywood Hop Pop"
- "If You Give a Frog a Cookie"
- "Froggy Little Christmas"
- "Escape to Amphibia"
- "The Beginning of the End"
- "All In"
- "The Hardest Thing"
The Owl House[]
Season 1[]
- "A Lying Witch and a Warden"
- "Witches Before Wizards" (mentioned)
- "The Intruder" (mentioned)
- "Once Upon a Swap" (mentioned)
- "Something Ventured, Something Framed" (mentioned)
- "Sense and Insensitivity" (pictured)
- "The First Day" (mentioned)
- "Really Small Problems" (mentioned)
- "Enchanting Grom Fight"
- "Young Blood, Old Souls"
Season 2[]
- "Separate Tides" (mentioned)
- "Keeping up A-fear-ances"
- "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" (mentioned)
- "Hunting Palismen" (mentioned)
- "Eda's Requiem" (mentioned)
- "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" (mentioned)
- "Eclipse Lake" (mentioned)
- "Yesterday's Lie"
- "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" (flashback)
- "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" (mentioned)
- "Any Sport in a Storm" (mentioned)
- "Reaching Out"
- "Edge of the World" (mentioned)
- "King's Tide"
Season 3[]
- "Thanks to Them"
- "For the Future" (flashback)
- "Watching and Dreaming"
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Trivia[]
- It is currently unknown if this dimension has any version of the Smith/Sanchez family.
- 46’\ is a twin reality, meaning it is inexplicably linked to another reality. This reality is the Demon Realm, home to the Boiling Isles and the Witch species.
- 46’\ is connected to the Demon Realm through Portals powered by Titan’s Blood, which seem to use the Astral Plane as a bridge between the two worlds. This is exceedingly dangerous, as the lack of a second portal when crossing through could result in one getting trapped, eventually sinking into the water-like substance that would send you into an afterlife, killing them.
- A safer method of multi-dimensional travel is utilizing Portal Technology, although it come with its own risks and limitations.
- Giraffes did not evolve on Earth in this timeline, yet they arrived anyway from the Demon Realm, where they seemingly did evolve.
- 46’\ is connected to the Demon Realm through Portals powered by Titan’s Blood, which seem to use the Astral Plane as a bridge between the two worlds. This is exceedingly dangerous, as the lack of a second portal when crossing through could result in one getting trapped, eventually sinking into the water-like substance that would send you into an afterlife, killing them.
- After the events of Weirdmegeddon, Stanford Pines tossed his three journals and The Book of Bill into the Bottomless Pit. Journal 2 wound up in the Wartwood Archives whereas Journal 3 and the Book of Bill wound up in the hands of an alternate reality counterpart of Alex Hirsch 46’\. The current whereabouts of Journal 1 are unknown.
- The Journal that landed in Amphibia doesn’t have a chipped cover like Journal 1, and Journal 3 is known to be in the possession of an alternate Alex Hirsh, or our world’s Alex Hirsch wouldn’t have created our version of Journal 3, therefore the Journal in the Archives must have been Journal 2.
- Shmebulock is shown to own a mysterious Journal 4 - though it is unknown if Ford wrote it or if it's a fake.[3]
- There are countless pieces of evidence that prove Anne’s Earth, the Human Realm, and 46’\ share a multiverse, but only the last two have been proven as the same universe.
- The Core appears in the Theraprism, Dimension 5150.[4]
- Traces of Eda Clawthorne having visited 46’/.
- Wanted Poster in the Crawlspace.[3]
- Owlbert in the Crawlspace.[3]
- Stan’s ex-wife matches her appearance and personality perfectly and even shares her Human alias. He can even recall witnessing her escaping through the Portal Door, so this may have truly been Eda.
- The Interdimensional Portal connects to one of Rick C-137’s portals.[5]
- Journal 1 details the Boiling Isles.[3]
- Memory reel belonging to “Rick S.”, presumably the version of Rick from 46’\.[3]
- A mysterious book details Bill Cipher.[6]
- Journal 2 arrived in the Wartwood Town Archives.[7]
- Mabel Smith in MAB-3L.[3]
- “Rick was here” in Journal 3.[1]
- Titan’s Blood and Phillip Wittebane mentioned in the Book of Bill.[4]
- Anne is mentioned on Camila’s tablet.[8]
- Bill Cipher can be seen on one of Nuptia 4’s computers.[9]
- The Guardian of this reality is Time Baby.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press.
- ↑ Interview with Alex Hirsch and Jason Ritter.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Gravity Falls: Lost Legends by Disney Book Group. July 24, 2018. Published by Disney Press.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Book of Bill by Disney Book Group. July 23, 2024. Published by Hyperion Avenue Books.
- ↑ Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind
- ↑ True Colors
- ↑ Trip to the Archives
- ↑ King's Tide
- ↑ Big Trouble in Little Sanchez