Bill the poser

Bill is an interesting character. He is too likable to be unliked, but he is too unlikable to be liked.

Bill is a big tiger who is in the drama club. He is always cheerful and outward, practically the opposite of Legosi.

But unlike Legosi who barely talks about himself, or at least not in a positive way… Bill is ALL talk. A poser carnivore so to say.

Despite his cheerfulness, Bill is extremely nervous and desperate after acknowledgement. Two personality traits that clashes since when he actually GETS attention by becoming Louis’ replacement in the play, he is so close to a nervous breakdown that he resorts to drinking rabbit-blood to boost himself.

His defining moment as both a poser and sucker for acknowledgement is when Bill and his friends accidentally goes to the Back-Ally Marked. When an old animal offer them the chance to buy one of his fingers, Bill immediately says yes and includes the others in the purchase without asking them first, even makes a speech about them becoming adults and that they need to eat meat to be functioning parts of society.

Here is the thing… Why didn’t Bill just buy and eat the finger alone?

Because he needs the others to be with him so he doesn’t feel bad about it. He attempts to get their approval by making himself look like a leader-type. He did not want his first time eating meat to be something he did alone.

Bill does everything to boost his apparently very small ego. Even share failed sex stories like these:

Bill is probably worried that this unknown female might be right about him, but he tells the story to make himself sound like the victim here. But he also does it in a way so that he sounds like a alpha-male who has sex with females so hard that it makes them uncomfortable. And to be sure he looks better than someone else in comparison, he casually calls Legosi a virgin.

The problem here might be that Bill is a tiger. He was born as a big and powerful animal, and he is proud of that. But that also means that he acts in a way he feels like he has to in order to live up to his species. That makes him a prick.

It’s sad since Bill is actually an okay guy when he stops playing “tiger”. He is honestly very compassionate and he is the first to react when one of his herbivore friends gets hurt or are scared and can take charge of a chaotic situation with a surprisingly cool head. He is a nature-born leader when he is not obsessed with his king of the jungle bullshit or trying to win appeal.

So it is honestly no surprise that he becomes the passionate leader of the drama club when it needs such a leader the most. With both Legosi and Louis gone, the guys who are normally the heroes to his villain act so to say, Bill man the hell up and will do anything to keep life in the club as well as being as good a friend he can to smaller animals he holds dear.Bill is normally grinning like a moron and acts kinda smug. But someone implying that he would eat one of his friends pisses him off so much that he actually loses his pretentious cool and threatens to kill one of the basketball jerks.

Bottom-line: Bill is a good guy. He is just trying too hard to be an asshole.