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If I were a young teen in the Transcendence AU and I googled “Alcor the Dreambender” what kinds of articles and blogs and things would pop up?

It depends on when. TAU spans millenia. So does Alcor. Google…I’m not prepared to offer even an AU prediction on that.

If it’s way early on, you wouldn’t get many perfect matches before Google started returning things like “dream” on its own or stuff about the star or cyro companies with that name. Maybe there would be sites or blogs by people with a budding interest in the newly-discovered realm of demon summoning, listing known/discovered demons by names and titles. Lots of misinformation of course, and blatantly contradictory stuff. Maybe a news article or two if something really big happened and it was attributed to him, even tentatively. 

Go further, and you’ll have more demon enthusiast blogs and lists and first person accounts which may or may not be true. Possibly some memes, depending on what the collective consciousness of social media has grabbed onto in the meantime. More reports. Some PSA styled stuff about NOT summoning demons, especially these, and other posts by various individuals contradicting it with or without evidence. 

Get to and beyond the publishing and initial craze over Twin Souls, and good luck finding hits not related to that.

And on and on the rabbit hole goes, honestly. Fictional media, factually-styled stuff from various sources, memes and jokes and random chatter, occasional appearances of the name being used as a swear in some capacity, news reports, demonology research and publications, fanblogs, probably a thousand people online at any given time claiming to be the actual Dreambender (or just roleplaying)…

Are there Elves in the TAU? If so what are they like? Do they have a culture? Can they use magic?

There’s probably at least a handful of different species that might be called elves, each with their own cultures and stereotypes and so forth, and that may be a conservative guess!

There’s the Fay/Fey races, also known to some as Elves, who are tall and narrow and sharp as blades in both body and mind. They love beauty and music and dance and laughter, and for the most part they keep to themselves, which is perhaps for the best because they are not necessarily kind, though they are scrupulously true to their words. They tend to hang out in a border realm, caught between reality and dreamscape, organized in their courts and enjoying their lives in the twilight, though occasionally some may slip through into the mortal realm…or a mortal, in the wrong place at the wrong time and following the sound of music, might slip through into theirs. Their magic tends to be based on the power of dreams and sleep and enchantment, and is stronger in their own halfway realm than in ours.

There are races like Brownies and Leprechauns and other so-called “Small Folk,” distinct from fairies/pixies, who sometimes might be organized under “elves” as a collective name or category, depending on who’s speaking. Some of these resist that nomenclature, others embrace it, others don’t mind one way or another. They all have their own individual cultures and lifestyles and so on. Some have magic, some do not, and those that do vary in strengths and styles and so on.

I’m not sure the AU has explored the possibility of Tolkien-esque (or at least more human-like) elves that live among humans at this point. It’s a possibility, I suspect. Perhaps a few magic-induced minor mutations occur in humanity further down the line that result in certain features becoming prominent, or greater magical sensitivities, or other bits and pieces. 

At some point, Alcor goes bat sh*t crazy in object form, and on one hand, it’s incredibly anticlimatic, and on the other hand, it’s terrifying because a FREAKING ADORABLE STAR JUST TOOK DOWN AN ENTIRE CULT and also it’s terrifying for Alcor because that’s never happened before, and he feels even more like Bill.

Bill the triangle went off once in canon and there was nothing anticlimactic or adorable about that if I recall correctly.

Terrifying is really the only word for it. There is no dissonance. Even object form can get grotesque.

Everything about Dipper’s first reincarnation. Please. I recently learned that he has reincarnations after godcor, and I want to k ow everything!

Mod O here! I have a few things in mind for the incarnation I once wrote (and drew) as his hypothetical first:

He’s a second-born twin to a girl with Mabel’s soul. Their parents happen to be the physical and spiritual leaders of their tribe – the Head and the Soul. Typically these leaders are a married couple, with an heir by blood or adoption who grows up to fill one role, with whoever they marry taking on the other.

Imamu (r!Dipper) and Furaha (r!Mabel) actually grow up to be the Soul and Head (respectively) of the tribe as brother and sister instead of the traditional practice of one taking a role and marrying someone to fill the other. They are supremely well balanced for the act, and are remembered for generations after as the greatest leaders the tribe has ever had – they probably even become legends, in fact.

In this particular incarnation, Furaha is actually ace and Imamu is bi. He marries outside the tribe, but I don’t know what course that takes, other than there is love there and they choose each other, and that he’s fully an adult by our reckoning by that time. I want to say early 20s? In a culture where it’s not abnormal to marry at 16-18, he’s a late bloomer in that realm, but he’s happy with the person he finds when he finds them. Furaha doesn’t marry but she’s the best auntie to her own niblings.

Imamu is, as I said in the tags on my fic, a bit of an arrogant little snot as a teenager. He’s special, and he grew up knowing it. He’s got magical powers of light and fire and bears spectral wings when he feels like it, and the gods (i.e. the ascended Flock) clearly favor if not adore him. 

Despite all he has going for him, though, he goes through some tough life lessons at some point during his late teens, and he comes back down to earth, so to speak. I’m not sure he ever achieves perfect humility, but he’s no longer convinced that the world revolves around him, and he’s a better person for it.

Basically he lives a long and good life. There are rough spots of course, hardships and heartaches to balance triumphs and contentedness, but as far as a life goes it probably works out to a net positive. He dies wrinkled and white haired and surrounded by children and grandchildren, and within minutes of his twin sister.

Transdimensional arc: Dipper and Mabel meeting Alvie, with Dipper questioning on how Alcor managed to create a sentient virus that’s designed to his liking. And of course the twins growing attached to the virus.

You know that this would mean Alcor showing up in this other dimension, having to wait around for Bill to resurface, and in the meantime deciding to recreate Alvie in this universe using all the code he knows. Which, let’s be honest, he’d probably do, if only out of boredom and a need for chaos. 

Now, how well Alvie would work in a ‘verse where it’s all computers and very little magic, and where the computer capabilities are probably decades if not centuries behind what they would be when Alcor made him…um…

Maybe Alcor just figures out a way to retrofit the coding to something that can actually be supported by the non-magical computer systems of earth of that time. Somehow. Alvie -2.0. It’ll grow as the supporting technology does; it’s just starting off further back.