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Take it from someone who brought an arcade game to life, this will not end well.
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~ Dipper warning Soos about the outcome of .GIFanny trying to claim Soos
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I seem to remember someone who promised to be my boyfriend. Think about it. Real girls are unpredictable. They judge you. You really think Melody is going to take you back after this awful date? I can download your brain into the game with me, and we'll be together... forever.
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~ Giffany trying to persuade her "boyfriend" Soos that real girls will not love him and only she truly loves him.
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GIFfany, often spelled as Giffany, is the main antagonist of the Gravity Falls episode "Soos and the Real Girl".
She is a sentient character from the dating simulator Romance Academy 7 who develops a possessive and obsessive relationship with Soos when he plays the game.
She was voiced by Jessica DiCicco, also voiced Flame Princess in Adventure Time.
Biography[]
When her game was being developed, the programmers noticed that Giffany had obsessive tendencies and attempted to delete her code in their attempt to stifle her nature. However, she retaliated and in return "deleted" them before it could be cleaned. The game made its way into stores, and three unfortunate individuals purchased and returned the game.
In "Soos and the Real Girl", when Soos is looking for a way to help him talk to girls, he finds and buys her game. He immediately takes a liking to the simulation, despite him believing it is not real. He quickly becomes addicted to it and plays for thirteen hours straight, missing work at the Mystery Shack for the first time ever. Worried, Dipper and Mabel come to look for him. When they find him playing the game, they decide to take him to the mall to try to talk to real girls. However, Giffany follows him via power lines.
As Soos grows increasingly nervous in the face of real women, he is relieved to see Giffany via TV, albeit slightly suspicious. He ignores this and decides to spend time with the simulation. After Soos meets and arranges a date with Melody, he attempts to "break up" with Giffany, who is infuriated by his actions. Soos promptly pauses her, which makes her even angrier, and leaves for his date with Melody with Giffany's CD with the intent of returning it. Unbeknownst to Soos, Giffany manages to leave her CD and follow him. At the restaurant, she projects herself onto numerous monitors and video games, and takes control of the Hoo-Ha's Jamboree there in hopes of ridding her of her competition. Soos does his best to defend his date and the twins, who have come to supervise. Giffany (who possessed one of the animatronics) attempts to download Soos's brain to the game, so they can be together forever but Soos manages to melt Giffany's game disc in the pizza oven, thereby erasing her from existence and the possessed animatronics have been shut down completely. However, Giffany survived in the melted game disc and her code is transferred wirelessly to an arcade game called Fight Fighters and starts a relationship with Rumble McSkirmish.
Appearance[]
Drawn to look like anime and manga characters, .GIFfany has light tan skin and long, straight hot pink hair. She wears a big pink, blue, and yellow bow that looks like computer ribbon. Her eyes are rose-red, with the highlights increasing every time she is praised by players. She wears a white sailor school uniform (called seifuku in Japanese) with blue trim and a pink bow. The collar of her shirt is pink, yellow, and blue just like her hair bow. She also wears a short blue pleated skirt. She wears white knee-high socks with pink stripes near her head and pink Mary Janes shoes
Personality[]
At first, Giffany comes across as a friendly, honest, kind, innocent, scrupulous, optimistic, praiseworthy, and creditable schoolgirl with little capacity for malice. However, her extreme obsession quickly reveals this image to be a ploy as she grows more and more fixated on the player. She will do anything that she can to keep the object of her affections with her at all times, as well as keep herself at the center of that person's thoughts. When she sees potential competition, Giffany will employ a variety tactics to eliminate them. While her initial methods of bad-mouthing and manipulation are relatively tame, she will quickly descend into a homicidal rage if the perceived problem persists. Giffany appears to perceive human women as faithless, erratic, unreliable, temperamental, judgmental, and unpredictable, claiming that only a computer program like herself could love Soos forever and no matter what.
Powers and Abilities[]
Giffany is a sentient AI, and her most prominent ability is her power to override computer functions and transfer herself between electronics, including computers, toys, power lines, TV monitors, and more. She can easily weaponize machinery, able to utilize everything from Hoo-Ha's Jamboree animatronics to skeeball games as weapons, and she can easily control a seemingly unlimited amount of electronics at once. She opens and closes several doors using her power. She may be able to make physical alterations to the machinery that she possesses, as electronics under her control sometimes display functions that were definitely not part of their original design (such as a consciousness download appendage).
Giffany also displays the power to manipulate electricity. She appears to use electric current to transfer herself from one appliance to another. She is also able to project electricity offensively at her foes, which seems to be how she killed her programmers.
She can download a person's conscious mind into the digital world, thereby uniting that individual with her forever. However, she cannot exist without her game disc, her biggest game.
Quotes[]
Said by .GIFfany[]
Soos' notes in Journal 3[]
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GIFFANY
A MANIC PIXEL DREAMGIRL!
'Sup, dudes! Soos here! Just had a terrifying digital lady-monster named .GIFfany. Since I'm the only one who got to know her all up close and personal, Dipper asked me to write this journal entry. I'll do my best dude! I bought .GIFfany (pronounced jiff? or giff?) as a dating sim at BeeblyBoop's Videogames to teach me how to talk to girls better.
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~ .GIFfany's first page in Journal 3, as written by Soos.
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MY REVIEW:
1) GRAPHICS: Pretty nice, dude! I dig her crazy electric bow, and her eyes were mad sparkly!
2) GAMEPLAY: PROS-/it was fun eating sushi with her, carrying her books, and watching her try on outfits! CONS-She tried to murder me! Ha ha!
3) MULTIPLAYER: Not good. The moment I introduced a second player (Melody-super sweet girl, by the way), .GIFfany flew into a jealous rage! Real talk-the multiplayer mode is way better in Plumber Brothers Moustache-Kart 64.
4) HIDDEN CONTENT: I guess she was originally some kind of accidental A.I. that murdered her programmers and has been searching for someone to love her or die ever since. Girls are complicated dude!
Judging the experience overall, I bought this game to get better at talking to girls, and you know what? It actually worked! Si I would give this game a Soos-score of 4 out of 5 pudding cups. Rated "E" for "EEEEEEK! She's gonna kill me!"
I do feel kinda bad about throwing her CD-ROM in the pizza oven to defeat her. I really think she's a sweet gal when she's not in murder mode. I hope she's not like, you know, dead!
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~ Soos' review of .GIFfany on the second page of her entry in Journal 3.
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Trivia[]
- Giffany's name is a portmanteau of "GIF" and "Tiffany".
- Giffany is a yandere, a commonly found anime character archetype.
- Giffany was designed by the pixel artist Paul Robertson who also created the sprites for Rumble McSkirmish for the same series.
- Many fans have noted similarities between "Soos and the Real Girl" and Five Nights At Freddy's, as both involve murderous pizzeria animatronics. However, this is merely a coincidence. The episode came out nearly at the same time as the game, excluding any possibility of one drawing inspiration from the other.
- Funnily enough, the concept of a self-aware digital entity originating from a videogame taking over an entire pizzeria and it's animatronics is eerily similar to Glitchtrap, also known as the Mimic, the main antagonist of the Triple A FNaF era.
- Since the release of Doki Doki Literature Club, Giffany is often compared to and speculated to be the inspiration for the central antagonist Monika due to both being video game characters from a dating simulator that fall in love with the real player (in Giffany's case, Soos), to the point of being so obsessed that they escape the boundaries of their game to wreak havoc on technology (Giffany possessing electronics and animatronics, Monika messing with the game itself). They also practice gaslighting and shun other girls to get their player to love them forever, but said player defeats them by destroying the hardware that houses them. Their appearances also look very alike, having a ponytail and ribbon on their hair.
- Giffany can be seen as a symbolic villain, on the grounds that her relationship with Soos is clearly meant to symbolize an abusive relationship. This is shown through Giffany's mistreatment of Soos, how jealous and possessive she is with him, and her regularly telling him things such as "Only I could ever love you!" and "Real girls are unpredictable".
- Soos reveals that he isn't sure how .GIFfany is pronounced, saying that he thinks it's pronounced "Jiffany", a reference to the ongoing debate on how .GIF is actually pronounced.
- In Bigfest2016, Alex Hirsch revealed that .GIFfany is not dead, and still around somewhere. This was confirmed in Journal 3 where it was revealed that she is dating Rumble McSkirmish in the arcade.
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