A SHORT SUMMARY OF WHY I LOVE BILLY
i’ve never shared this publicly because it’s just way too personal but i feel like i have to for the people that assume i like billy just because “i think he’s hot”
just for the record i have nothing against antis as they have every right to hate billy. he’s a hateable character. that’s literally why he was created. so i get it. and i’m not excusing anything he’s done. I just know he could’ve been better had the duffers given him a chance. i honestly HATED him when i first watched s2, literally was waiting for his ass to die. but my dad was severely abused growing up. won’t even tell me all the stories of my grandfather except for a few. never met the guy, thought he was dead my whole life and i didn’t even find out he was alive UNTIL he died when i was 15. didn’t know his name until i was 19. he did however tell me that when he was 12, his dad got so violent that my dad almost killed him with an iron skillet to protect himself. and i watched s2 with him, and when that scene came on he literally said, and i remember it so clearly, “damn i know the feeling.” from then on out my dad was rooting for the kid because he had been in those same shoes. that moment is what made me switch. i hated every bit of him up until then. so yes, my father, an abuse victim related to billys character and was rooting for him to break the cycle like he did. he’s told me he used to get into so many fights growing up, like he’d just snap because he couldn’t help it. However, he got out of the toxic environment when he was 18 years old, grew as a person and i have never EVER felt in danger in his presence. literally the best dad in the whole world. that’s the kind of potential i saw for billy. that’s why i was, and still am rooting for him.
i’m also going to repeat myself one more time, NONE OF BILLY’S ACTIONS ARE EXCUSED. NONE. all i’m saying is that we understand WHY they happened and knowing that, with the right help he could have gone down a different path.
