Billy Bones headcanon time?
- Not a cat person. Now, Billy doesn’t exactly hate cats, he’s just too busy to sit down, and not move for an hour because the damn feline insists on sleeping in his lap. Randall being Randall, obviously doesn’t take this very well, which is something he had to find out the hard way. The first time he tried to move Betsy off of his lap, Randall let out the loudest, angriest screech he had ever heard (which resulted in him jumping up in shock, bumping his head against the ceiling, and everyone laughing at him) and then proceeded to come after Billy with one of his soup spoons. It took Randall two weeks to stop spitting in his bowl.
- Like every person, Billy has made a few mistakes in his life. One of those mistakes was saying the words “I don’t believe in mermaids” in front of the wrong people. He spent the rest of the evening listening to rather questionable stories of mermaids doing the most absurd things imaginable (one man claimed that a mermaid temporarily turned him into a goldfish once. Billy didn’t have the heart to tell him goldfish didn’t live in the sea.) He wasn’t sure if those men were just incredibly drunk, or if they genuinely believed in mermaids, but he promised himself to never even mention the word “mermaid” again. Nor would he ever admit to anyone how he’d sometimes stare out into the ocean, searching the waters for a sign of them.
- Has a little brother, but never tells anyone about him. Every now and then, he writes a letter to the kid, telling stories about fearsome, but loyal pirates, and the odd things that happen in Nassau. He never sends any of the letters, too afraid of what his brother, or even the rest of his family would think, but it helps him feel a bit better whenever he’s homesick.
- Doesn’t get drunk a lot, but when he does, he turns into an idiot. He, for some reason, always ends up talking to the goats and chickens that are on board, begging them for forgiveness because “you… you’re my brothers too… and I’m going to eat you.” He gets incredibly reckless when he’s drunk as well, resulting in the crew daring him to do the most stupid, ridiculous things they can think of, and him happily going along with it. This one time, they dared him to poke the Captain’s nose, and well… “Who’s Billy?”