10 Things You Didn't Know

[notlewis]

That's it. It's Sunday, I'm bored, it's time for a meme that I stole from xi_rpg.

RULES
1. Post with your character
2. Post ten things that you believe are true about your character that people might not know - nobody cares if you use headcanon, it's up to you.
3. Watch as others do the same; comment IC or OoC!
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

Comments

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I did this one the first time (I swear we did it before but I can't find the post in this comm) but let's try it again and see if I can come up with different ones!

1. Billy loves theatre. He hasn't tried much acting himself, but he worked as the director of Angel Grove High's school plays. The performances and the costumes appeal to him---the chance for people to assume new identities and expose new aspects of their personalities.

2. He spent much of his childhood with the rest of the first Ranger team trying to fit in with them by sharing in their hobbies, because he was told that inventing things in the garage 'isn't a real hobby' and that he was wasting his life away. He tried volleyball lessons with Trini, karate lessons with Jason, guitar and gymnastics lessons with Kimberly, and dance lessons with Zack. At various points during the series he displays all those talents in small doses.

3. Billy is a big-time approval seeker. He likes doing things for the benefit and entertainment of others, whether it's an impressive science project, homework help, or a brilliant solution to a problem in battle. When he fails to live up to his own standards, he fears everyone will reject him.

4. Upon receiving his powers, Billy's first two applications of Ranger technology were to invent a communication/teleportation device and a flying car. Later, he also tried to expand the application of morphing technology to other uses by making a rubber chicken 'morph' into a Power Eagle.

5. Billy filled his foreign language requirement at Angel Grove High with a Latin correspondence course, because no teacher in Angel Grove knows Latin. He was drawn to the language by its importance to the history of science.

6. Related to the above, as a small child he owned a stuffed blue wolf named Lupus that he confided in and cuddled. He grew exasperated explaining to adult after adult that he named him after the Latin word for wolf, not the disease. Lupus sat on Billy's dresser right up until the day that the Ohm destroyed Angel Grove.

7. Billy seems to have trouble holding onto a relationship. He's had four different love interests in one year, and two of them in the span of three weeks, but none of them remained interested in him longer than a week. Ranger duties and secrets tend to kill any chance of love with outsiders. He's been kissed on the cheek once, but nothing further than that.

8. He learns best from instruction manuals. Give him a diagram of martial arts moves or a detailed football rulebook and he can play any game the more athletic members of the team can play.

9. Why was Billy, a reclusive nerd, in such good shape when the Rangers started fighting? Simple: he gained all that muscle and flexibility from running from bullies, from extra sports practice sessions in an attempt to avoid dragging the team down and being laughed at in gym class, and from pulling himself out of trash cans.

10. Billy hates having his ears tweaked. Seriously, don't do it. It's a sensitive spot.

BONUS FACTS

[morphitudinous]

11. In regards to tactile contact, Billy doesn't mind receiving it (as long as it's not the ears). He won't admit this, but he even likes it. He was jumpier about it when he was younger, as the only people who would touch him then were bullies shaking him down for lunch money, but constant petting and hanging-on from Jason and Zack brought him around. ((No, seriously. Watch any episode of MMPR. Those Rangers can't keep their hands off each other. And Kim and Trini aren't any better about keeping their hands to themselves.))

12. Being the somewhat socially awkward one Billy doesn't touch people as freely as his friends would, but he tries. If he knows a person well and doesn't think they'll yell at him for it, he'll rub an anxious person's shoulder or pat their arm. When they succeed at something and it's celebration time, he'll gently pat their back. He doesn't do the hearty macho backslap thing because it can dislodge things if you aren't careful. Hugs are reserved for Trini Adam people he trusts in emotional situations, whether it's a happy or scary one.

13. The key words Zordon used to describe Billy are 'patient and wise'. The words Dulcea used (in regards to the ninja powers he never got the chance to quest for before being rescued) were 'cunning and swift'. The word his actor David Yost used was 'loyal'. I tend to agree with Yost, but characterize it as 'stubborn' also.

14. He was a bit disappointed to go from having a Triceratops to a Unicorn zord, but he's felt better about it since Jamie told him about the vicious unicorn he met. (And, as Adam keeps insisting, Lion to Frog is a worse downgrade.)

15. Even though he has the body of a Greek god, he's incredibly shy about showing it. He's the only male Ranger from MMPR who never takes his shirt off onscreen, not even while swimming. Part of this stems from bad gym class experiences, and the rest stems from the quite noticeable scar on his stomach left by an appendicitis surgery accident.

16. He's mostly come to terms with B5's death, but he's still avoiding Brainy out of an irrational fear that he can't shake off.

17. Despite his concern with appearing adult and responsible and his firm belief that work comes first, he loves to play games with friends. His arm just has to be twisted a little.

18. One of Billy's bigger weaknesses is his love of the unusual. Though he constantly fights off monsters, he will happily try to befriend almost anyone who doesn't attack him first, no matter what they look like. Thus his ready acceptance of Goliath, even if he kinda looks like Goldar.

19. Billy's brain is his most precious possession, so the fact that Stacy and certain crew members can read him that way is quite an unsettling adjustment. He really doesn't like that his memories were altered, no matter how horrific the Ohm attack was.

20. Finally, he is afraid of fish due to a fish bite from his childhood. Yet he eventually marries a fish/human hybrid. Go figure.