Curzon Cankerblight

Curzon Cankerblight is one of the main running antagonists in Return to the Falls.

## Curzon Cankerblight

### Occupation

Marketseller, scammer, interdimensional gateway

## Appearances

### Appears in

It Came From Thrifty's, The Historic Horrors of Family Northwest

### Description

Curzon is effectively an interdimensional beast that acts as a rift between planes of reality. Opportunistic and manipulative, he has laid dormant under Gravity Falls for over a century, wheeling and dealing with the town’s anomalies and more unscrupulous families. He has firm connections with Bill Cipher and many other interdimensional criminals, and is capable of producing incredible amounts of energy - so much so that his essence is capable of creating interdimensional communication. This means he is naturally unstable and, when creating portals or vortexes, susceptible to pain and overloading.

For Bill Cipher, he is an unmissable opportunity. For the Northwests, he was an excellent business contact, and for the town, he was an unseen enemy that has had part in the town’s daily life for years.

### Appearance

Curzon's appearance varies dependent upon both how much he wants to show, or his levels of innate energy. Originally nothing more than a sinister, beaming face in the shadows, he is quickly revealed to be an enormous centipedal creature, constructed of twirling black mist, with inky blue saliva.

His body is able to twist and manipulate into several personalities that act distinctly from himself, an essential part of his business in the Crawlspace.

His true form - or, at least, the closest we have seen to it - is far more monstrous, with an ever-changing number of eyes and fangs, and a much denser appearance that splatters and webs in his location, particularly in corners and walls. He can use this to "infect" buildings.

All forms of him have a large cigar hanging from his teeth, though if he feels the effects of nicotine, nobody has bothered to ask.

He is marked by a strong smell of liquorice, aniseed and fennel, and leaves a vague, blue, damp trail wherever he moves.

Curzon's key voice is an amiable, pronounced cockney accent, though one that seems more influenced by Dick Van Dyke than a true Cockney. When he lets down his pretence, he instead develops a pronounced, ghostly hiss that drawls.

### History

Curzon's origin is unknown, though it can be presumed he originates from somewhere in the United Kingdom, considering the multiple accents of his identities.

He first appeared in Gravity Falls in 1841, and quickly established a certain rapport with Quentin Trembley - who, in his infinite wisdom and appreciation for the strange, permitted Cankerblight to make the town his home. Curzon soon burrowed into the town of Gravity Falls to create an elaborate maze of tunnels. Trembley, becoming suspicious opted to import a group of Cornish knockers to keep watch on the beast, including the sole appearing one, Pascoe. He also tried to create a population of subterraneans to monitor him, by bricking people up underground.

Curzon eventually made a deal with Nathaniel Northwest, who helped mask Curzon's existence by creating The Crawlspace, in exchange for unlimited access to his numerous curses and manipulations of reality. Curzon was furnished in luxury by Nathaniel and provided access to one of the Northwest's most prized connections - Bill Cipher.

The Northwests quickly set up a laboratory, and accepted Curzon's help to communicate with the Triangular demon, who did so through the body of the disgraced Cornelius Northwest in the Communication Chamber, powered by Curzon's own interdimensional essence. This left him substantially weaker and reduced - perhaps a planned side effect from the Northwest - while still leaving him with incredible power.

Curzon's numerous pieces of work included helping the Cutebiker family sell merchandise via cursed snowglobes, placing a curse on the Determined family and helping to ruin the Wentworth family name, among numerous other pieces of wheeling and dealing that, as of yet, is uncovered.

Curzon was first properly seen in ***Gravity Falls: Lost Legends*** during *Face It!,* plying his cursed wares.

He was properly encountered and outed in the Summer of 2013 after the Pines discovered his highly addictive Snowglobes at a Thrift store. He was eventually exposed in front of the town's weirdness population, and, furious, destroyed most of the Crawlspace in anger. He was presumed dead when the entirety of Geron Street was destroyed in a gas explosion, but sadly proved particularly durable. He was weakened, but still mobile.

Quentin Trembley was the first to voice concerns that Curzon was still out there, and, with the destruction of Geron Street, Cankerblight now had good reason to void his deal with the Northwest family.

While Preston was very aware and instrumental in covering up his family's dealings with the town’s underworld, he himself refused to honour any further deals with Cankerblight.

As a result, under the cover of a thunderstorm, Curzon tore down power lines to help recharge his energy supply and made his way to Northwest Manor, believing the family still resided there. In Preston's place, he met with Pacifica and Dipper - quickly confronting the two and explaining the crooked, hidden history of the family to Pacifica with sadistic glee.

He then attempts to open up communication with Bill Cipher, trapped in limbo, using the communication chamber.

Stanley is forced to try and shut the thing off. In the process, Curzon's essence is expunged from the machine, recharging him into his true form - a considerably more sinister, shapeless and monstrous form of himself. He seeps through the entire mansion, twisting and manipulating it into a grotesque mockery of itself, with moving stairways and corridors that fold and blend.

Curzon mocked Pacifica further with more tales of the past, including the Northwest family's Chapel dedicated to Bill Cipher, and their manipulation of Susan's Inventor Grandfather to build the machinery - opening a window into the past so she could see it with her own eyes.

Pacifica, in a rage, pelts Curzon furiously with debris, causing him immense pain and rendering him unstable. In the process, the boundaries between Curzon's links and reality were worn thin, giving Bill a chance to escape. He attempts to rip through Curzon's body, betraying him. He remains there to this day with no means of escape.

In order to defeat Cankerblight once and for all, and stop Bill from attempting to enter their reality, the Pines hit him with the Stanford Electric Dynamo. The perpetual electricity of the device causes Curzon to mutate and trash wildly, until he reaches breaking point, and collapses like a black hole into Bill's purgatory. In the process, he's removed from their dimension forever - stranded permanently with Bill Cipher inside his limestone statue, in the middle of the forest.

Curzon's inspiration in Gravity Falls: Lost LegendsCurzon's first appearance in It Came From Thrifty'sCurzon's "true" appearance in It Came From Thrifty'sCurzon's true true appearance in The Historic Horrors of Family Northwest