Billy Chance's Questionnaire

Billy Chance currently lives in a once-abandoned mall in Nebraska, having moved there after buying and refurbishing it after finding it in a Contract. 

The mall is a 1980s style, with stores converted into shelters in the lower floor, and normal bedrooms in the upper, with a lot of existing stores and maintainence tunnels leading to the innards of it. The mall is controlled by a being dubbed "Marlin" by Billy, infesting the Mall and growing flesh in its walls.

The main area of the Mall remains as it was, though Marlin's body can be further reached through the elevators. Floors 3-0 are Main Mall, -1 to -3 are storage floors, -4 is both the IT area and where Marlin's mind is stored, and beyond that is the digestive tract (-5 stomach, -6 intestines, -7 output chamber linked up to the sewers).

Most is inaccessible to anyone but Billy, and Marlin tends to try to eat intruders despite the indigestion it causes. 

Billy used to live In Louisina and made his name there, before starting his Mission. 

Billy has a very large amount of money, in the billions, allegedly a share of a sum of bet money with J.D Rockefeller from some favour performed for the tycoonist later on, or various business or shares made in his youth that he still collects on.

He spends it on everyone he meets, generally. Buying homes, paying rents, helping people grow, and his conflicting views on wealth but emphasis on charity means he's intending to give it all away eventually, and not for lack of trying.

He doesn't need much himself, not requiring food, water, fuel or clothes, so mostly also provides for his boyfriends. 

Until recently, Billy's main drives were protecting the innocent where he could, spreading the word of God, in deeds, and collecting the missing aspects of his Phoenix Fire that were stolen by the Unburied. 

Now, with his Flame returned, he intends to focus more on the first, followed closely by the second. He is fully committed to putting his life and safety to the wind to save people, and has made that clear from the day he started as a Contractor. 

He would and has killed for it, though one sticking point is his love for Jeremy and Langston, which may cause conflicting feelings about leaving them to pursue his mission.

Right now his main strategy is finding movements to follow, backing them financially and then going around to spread the message. Equal rights, fighting for freedom in whichever place needs him. In addition, he plans on starting and maintaining communities of likeminded Christians, spreading his own messages to the people. 

The most defining event of Billy's life is hard to answer, so here's two. 

The first was the discovery of his abilities. He'd often been blessed with some talents, but after a scuffle in his youth caused him to nearly die, he'd pray to God to save him, and his faith helped manifest his powers. He was already a Firebird, but that act set his abilities on their course, as instruments of the justice and love he believes to have received that day. 

Another is the day his powers were taken. After fighting in both World Wars, he had made a number of enemies, looking to take on the Angel that saved many in the trenches. Old members of an undead gang, a revived nazi officer and a few soldiers he knew collaborated to form the Unburied...who ended up catching Billy in a trap, stealing the Fire from him to regain immortality. One rejected the fire, and this piece led to Billy being able to reform, weakened, and seek the rest, leading him on the path to becoming a Contractor. 

Jeremy, the Swedish huldrekell he met on a birthday party trip to Vegas. Jeremy was there with his coworkers, Billy for a contract. The two hit it off, and decided to keep talking, running into eachother again on a trip to the Alps, getting contact information and eventually getting together.

Jeremy is a rock to Billy, reliable and easy to speak to, even if others think he's cold, and knowing him he knows soft spots Jeremy daren't show anyone else. Except Langston. 

Langston was met later, on the same Alps trip, a time-looping man having a terrible time. The two began with Billy helping with a wound, and giving him some attention considering he wasn't doing so hot. They began as relatively close, travelling together for a bit when Langston didn't know where to go, before both realise they liked eachother a lot. 

Another person in Billy's life is Dorris. Meeting him on the contracts was good, and the two often find themselves talking. Billy acts protective of Dorris, acting almost parental sometimes, though that's common for Billy. What Billy finds most endearing about him is his tenacity, having been through so much so young but still managing to push through...though he always emphasises there's support if the puppet-turned boy needs it. 

Billy had a good childhood, or at least as good as he could have had. His mother was Henrietta King (Chance), and his father was Moses Chance, a local pastor. They were both younger when they had him, and his phoenix abilities were very minor before Awakening. 

He was raised Southern Baptist, mostly homeschooled, but attended some school, dropping out in his teens to become a delinquent. Graduated to full-on outlaw after some robbery, before having his change of heart, stopping altogether. 

When he was around other people, he fit in quite well, rather charming, though it was often hampered by his crudeness, which attracted the attention of more bullies. He wasn't openly gay, but struggled with that idea for quite a while, which did make him automatically alienated once he got caught with someone. 

His parents disciplined him, and taught him the basics of education, and when he started on his mission he often went to his father for advice, despite the fact he's condemn his methods now. 

He has been in love before. Nancy Knowles, briefly, until he realised it was more a strong platonic than a romantic feeling.

A man called Bernard Young as well, who helped him become a sheriff and wipe away his original outlaw status. He was older, more experienced, and the two had a short relationship before it stopped due to rumour. 

And a few more, but the most recent are Jeremy and Langston, met in the last year, who he loves very much. Jeremy for his knowledge, and sweet interior, hard exterior, and Langston, the opposite in emotional openness but more freely craving affection. They also love eachother, a happy coincidence, all complementing eachother as a trio. 

Billy's biggest fears for a long time were the ocean, considering his weakness to the cold and water. In addition, since he grew up in a dustbowl town, he wasn't the best swimmer. Until his most recent developments, his incomplete phoenix fire could be slowed and withered by ice and the cold, and he'd have nightmares about being dropped in the ocean and never coming up. 

This weakness had led him to avoid most bodies of water, and boats, taking planes when he has to travel in the modern day. 

However, more recently his fears have evolved, that of him being unable to complete his mission, since the scope of it has evolved so much. The fear of not being what he must be is one that he hasn't faced before, but in learning more about his abilities, and expanding his faith, he has been thinking. 

Though, this has not distracted from his mission, his will to do what he has to do...even in the water, as he has been relearning how to swim, and is getting alright at it.

His nightmares of the ocean still continue though. Now, they are less about the ocean itself, more about his immortality meaning he'd be stuck there forever. 

His most prized possessions are his hat and coat, and his bike/horse Ambergris, both of which he has had for a long while. 

His hat and coat are his reminders of his past, and what he used to be and what he can become now. They are more symbols than special in and of themselves. He also still has his house key from his family home in Lousiana, which he carries on him, also to remind himself of where he came from. 

Ambergris is different, his horse from his younger years, named after his family cow, and now reborn as an aspect of his phoenix fire, a perpetual companion. 

(Also, inserting this here, Billy's relationship with Langston and Jeremy has been retconned to not have properly developed into a relationship, moreso a friendship and travelling together for while but the age and lifespan difference meant Billy didn't see it as that sort of relationship. It's in the other questionnaires but it is not canon anymore.)