Why after TLM it’s still 90% certain Blind Ivan worked with Stanford

1) Let’s start with my reasoning behind there being another, third person, working with Stanford besides Fiddleford, especially on the Project Portal:

a) three-part harmony:



b) 3 Portal shutdown keys:

c) Look at those 3 human-like silhouettes below:

Wouldn’t it seem more logical to somehow distinguish the crash dummy from the rest that is humans? Also the pose that “dummy” makes while entering the portal looks very human-like. Stanford: “Many long nights were spent perfecting the machine. (…) The time had come to test it.”

The reason why we use crash dummies for tests is to check if an action is safe for humans = it was planned from the start that someone was to enter the Portal = the third member of Project Portal. d) This picture from the Last Mabelcorn:

Why are they standing so far from each other?? It looks as if there was something between them… maybe someone who got erased from their memory but the empty space remained! Okay, maybe it’s for the aesthetics but… still.. it’s just odd. Especially if you consider this quote from SotBE: “You’ve never met me before. And if you had, you wouldn’t remember. I am Blind Ivan, and we are the Society of the Blind Eye.”

He was the person who didn’t remember anything from his life besides his time in the Society and was attributed “a life of regret” in SotBE’s credits:

“Gideon’s Tantrums = Bud Gleeful, Misspelled Tattoos = the “Head, Chin” bodyguard, Shandra’s Rejections = Toby Determined, Society’s views =Woodpecker Guy, A fear of witches = the guy who gave Waddles to Mabel , A life of regret = Blind Ivan, these are the things that they try to forget”

It seems pretty logical for a person who regrets his past so much he decided to erase his whole identity from his memory to also make sure no one else remembers seeing him before, including Fiddleford and Stanford. e) What Dipper read aloud from Journal 3 in Dreamscaperers:

“It is possible to follow the demon into a person’s mind and prevent his chaos. One must simply recite this incantation:” If it was only Ford who was possessed what use could this be? He can’t enter his own mind and after Bill’s betrayal, when Ford could need someone’s help in getting Bill out of his mind, Fiddleford already quit the project so there was no one who could do this for him. So the incarnation must have been used by Stanford on someone else or vice versa. So again: there must have been a third person involved.

f) If Ford installed the metal plate in his head after Bill’s betrayal = after Fiddleford left the project: HOW DID IT HAPPEN? Hospitals don’t do such operations just because a person is afraid of a demon entering their mind. Doing this yourself is impossible, plus Ford has a degree in Theoretical Physics, not Medicine. There must have been someone else Ford at least remotely trusted = worked with before, who did it for him. g) Stanford stitching his memories together?: Ford in AToTS: “But I couldn’t make it alone. I decided to call up my old college buddy, Fiddleford McGucket, a young but brilliant mechanic, who was wasting his talent trying to make personal computers some garage in Palo Alto.”

- It’s highly unrealistic that Fiddleford, who had a wife and a son, didn’t consult them before agreeing to move out and work on the Portal and instead said yes immediately as we were shown in AToTS.



Fiddleford in SotBE: “ For the past year I have been working as an assistant for a visiting researcher” If Fiddleford lived in GF and met Ford there, then perhaps, the “college buddy” was someone else… “the third person”?



got you interested? look under the cut:



2) Why Blind Ivan specifically?

a) more focus on and comparison of the picture above:



b) I just won’t believe we were introduced a character who regretted and erased form his and other’s memory his whole life and doesn’t have any significance besides SotBE. Not in Gravity Falls.

c) Design of the crash dummy isn’t random:

AToTS storyboards design: huge resemblance of Stanley, got changed on purpose to…

Final version: a look-alike of Ivan d) “And two eyes? This thing’s deluxe!” - Bill, Sock Opera:

I’m aware there’s a theory circulating that perhaps one of Ford’s eyes is prosthetic - and that being the reason for him now fixing the cracked lens in his glasses: BUT: Eye damage in Ivan’s case is apparent. In Ford’s? There was absolutely no mention of it. Other reasons for Ford not fixing his glasses: - he officially doesn’t exist = he can’t get a doctor’s prescription for new glasses - he’s a busy scientist and, as we have seen, he doesn’t even have time for changing his clothes or sleeping properly… e) hereissomething: I can’t help but think that McGucket and Blind Ivan have had a history we don’t know about yet. Look at how his face changes when Ivan walks past” [x]

f) this theory, AKA:“where the heck did Ford get all those black magic spells from???: http://headful-of-feathers.tumblr.com/post/128062308372/black-magic-cult-blind-ivan-and-what-does-ford

3) Bonus: pondering on “Bill’s next pawn”

Blind Ivan is a literal “malleable blank slate” (Dipper’s words from TSC). And looking at this screencap of him in The Love God:

he seems extremely lost and would probably be delighted if a certain someone offered him his personality and life back in return for “a small favour”.

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Please share your opinion and reblog maybe, I spent way too much time on this… D:

Also, I would like to thank: nearsightedgirl and thewittyarsonist for their help / inspiration for forming this theory :).