[ The difference here is that Billy doesn't have the two or three years of distance that the Billy Noh-Varr comes to actually know has. This is Billy, right at the crossroads of his power — with Cassie dead, his powers very much the cause of it (Billy could never stop believing this), and that heavy burden of learning that the adults of the world are no better at being alive than a kid like him is.
Especially the heroes that he's looked up to all his life.
It's not everyday that your personal heroes call you a future villain to your face. It's silly, but it sinks deep into the most resilient walls an otherwise normal teenager might have, and the trauma that follows from that point on just drives a knife through the cracks and pierces down to bone with ease.
Given the time to grow up, even just a little, changes people. Billy hasn't had the time. ]
Okay, [ he agrees, reluctantly. Billy would rather not, truth be told, but Noh-Varr is the first familiar face that he's seen (that he fairly knows, anyway), and a non-friendly that one knows is better than the dangers one doesn't, right?
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Especially the heroes that he's looked up to all his life.
It's not everyday that your personal heroes call you a future villain to your face. It's silly, but it sinks deep into the most resilient walls an otherwise normal teenager might have, and the trauma that follows from that point on just drives a knife through the cracks and pierces down to bone with ease.
Given the time to grow up, even just a little, changes people. Billy hasn't had the time. ]
Okay, [ he agrees, reluctantly. Billy would rather not, truth be told, but Noh-Varr is the first familiar face that he's seen (that he fairly knows, anyway), and a non-friendly that one knows is better than the dangers one doesn't, right?
What's the worst that can happen? ] Lead the way.