BILLY

Skills
Marksmanship: A++
The ability to shoot quickly and artfully with any firearm.
An A++ rank indicates a genius only seen once every 100 years.

Quick Draw: A+
A specialized ability that allows the Servant to shoot incredibly quickly.
This Servant is so skilled that his opponent has no time to tell he has drawn his gun.

Eye of the Mind (False): C
This Servant is able to sense danger thanks to his sharp sixth sense.

Noble Phantasm
Thunderer
A three-shot counterattack from Billy the Kid’s beloved Colt M1877 double-action revolver (nicknamed Thunderer).
The gun itself is not the Noble Phantasm. Rather, it is any situation when Billy the Kid shoots this gun. In this way, it is similar to a personal skill.

As a Servant, Billy experiences it as time slowing down, giving him the ability to perfectly assess the situation and counter it with gunfire. Regardless of what attack he faces, be it a sniper attack from an Archer or a sword slash from a Saber, Billy can flawlessly deduce his opponent’s location and hit their weakest spot with just three bullets.
Because Billy is a Servant, Thunderer’s range is much larger than it was when he was alive.
Thunderer can only counter attacks that can be evaded. It fails to manifest properly against attacks that always hit. Thunderer’s most devastating feature is that, among the many Noble Phantasms categorized as techniques, it has one of the lowest mana costs. It only consumes about as much mana as an E-rank Noble Phantasm.

First person pronoun: boku
Second person pronoun: kimi
Third person pronoun: kare/kanojo

Personality
Cheerful but cruel. Overflowing with naïveté, he is the strongest, fastest gunslinger. At least, that’s how Billy the Kid presents himself. He holds an affable relationship with his Master, never showing any desire to go against his orders. But in reality, this is only a facade. Billy’s true personality is that of a calculating pragmatist. His smile is merely something he plasters on his face.

He is reckless, but he is not a fool. His mother gave him the equivalent of a high school education, so he has become skilled at making logical decisions. This can clearly be seen during the his most infamous shootout.

Relationship with his Master/His wish for the Grail
Initially, Billy will put on his usual cheerful facade. He carefully observes how his Master sees him, and the result will affect how he proceeds. If his Master treats Billy as his superior, he will keep using his smile. But if his Master sees Billy as a comrade in arms or a friend, he will drop his act and reveal his true self: A somewhat blunt man who is full of pride as an outlaw.
His wish for the Grail is a simple one: “To find myself in a truly amusing situation.”

Quotes
“Howdy! I’m Billy the Kid, a gunman from the Wild West. As your Servant, I promise to protect you!”

“Ahaha! Time for a shootout! Let’s get killing!”

“…Spending your whole life smiling isn’t actually that fun, you know.”

“I’m done smiling. My Master, my friend. Is there anything I can do for you?”

“My friend, even if I end up dying, I will shoot these bullets for you.”

Historical Facts
Billy the Kid, real name William Henry McCarty Jr.
The face of American Old West. He garnered significant popularity even during his own lifetime.
His popularity is easy to see: A surviving photograph fetched $2 million at auction, and newly discovered photographs are estimated to go for around $5 million.
He was born on November 23, 1859. He never knew his father’s identity, but his mother apparently gave him a high school education. Surviving letters authored by him are elegant for an outlaw of the time.

The story goes that he became an outlaw at age 12, when he killed a man who insulted his mother. After that, he took up a job escorting commodities while also horse rustling and committing murder-robberies. In town, he often mingled with other outlaws, though under his ever-present smile he was constantly thinking of ways to avoid trouble.

He was being careful when working at John Tunstall’s ranch, but perhaps it was his destiny as an outlaw to get caught up in a violent dispute involving Tunstall and his personal enemies. At the close of the Battle of Lincoln, Billy’s ex-friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett, arrested him. However, he escaped from jail less than a year later. Sheriff Garrett chased after him, eventually finding him in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. When Billy left his room in search of food, Garrett shot and killed him in the dark. It is unknown why Garrett did this - maybe he thought he couldn’t win in a fair fight.

He was an exceptional outlaw in every sense. Virtually nothing we know about him can be said to be true with 100% certainty, especially his relationship with Pat Garrett. Were they really friends, or not? Did Garrett finish him off in the dark out of kindness, or not?

The event where Billy gained his Noble Phantasm is a good example of how quickly his mind works. One day, Billy targeted a gunman known for being particularly violent at a saloon. Billy walked right up to him and asked if he could take a look at the man’s gun. When he was holding it, he discreetly removed the bullets from it, despite the risk of his identity being revealed. After that, Billy calmly shot three bullets into the man, who now had an empty gun.
This particular story is apocryphal, but is a testament to how quick-witted he truly was.

Known as the Boy Bandit King, he is said to have killed 21 men by age 21. A decade after his death, the curtain closed on the Old West. Outlaws were now treated as petty criminals, and the land known as the frontier began to be absorbed by the rest of the country proper.

Maybe Billy the Kid was the Old West itself, and it was his death that brought an end to the age where outlaws could live freely.

Connections
Geronimo: Billy feels somewhat uncomfortable because his predecessors robbed Geronimo and his people of their home. Despite this, he feels a strong connection with him because they lived on the same land.

Edison: They were actually alive at the same time. Billy is a bit jealous that the outlaw era came to and end and people like Edison became influential instead, but he’s also happy about it.

Robin Hood: They fought together during the fifth singularity. They get along well because they’re both outlaws and resistance fighters. They hang out in Chaldea, too.

Shimaudon’s comments
I worked really hard on Billy’s design. I changed his hairstyle over ten times and came up with a bunch of patterns for his clothes. After consulting Takeuchi-san, this is what I decided to go with. The part of his bio that describes how he appears positive and friendly on the surface but turns out to be someone else the more you get to know him really stuck in my mind when I was working on his final ascension art, and I tried to make it reflect that. I think I did a pretty good job. It seems like people really like the picture, so I’m glad I put in all that effort.