#billy: ok first of all i’m not so jot that down

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Lucas and Billy bonding headcanons?

Ok if anyones gonna teach Lucas to hone his skill in basketball it’s obviously going to billy. Who was good. So jot that down

Like I can see billy going to pick up max from the sinclairs one day and Lucas is outside shooting hoops and Billy makes some casual remark about Lucas’ form being off when he keeps missing shots and at first Lucas is like “fuck off dude I’m not listening to you” but he reluctantly takes billys advice and …welp he made the shot

And next time billys around Lucas grits his teeth and asks him for more advice and that’s how they end up shooting hoops together after school and working on Lucas’ game

And billy will casually ask max after game nights how it went and what Lucas’ scoring average was and max is like “why do you care about how Lucas plays…” and Billy’s like “I care about sports, max! Because I am a man! Men care about sports!”

So anyway I think them building any sort of relationship starts with that, and then of course gets deeper with fighting the end of the world together, particularly having to work together to save max from whatever trouble she gets herself into

I don’t see them ever becoming particularly close just because I don’t imagine billy getting close to a lot of people in general, but I do like to think of them down the road when they’re both adults and Lucas and max are married or close to it so Lucas and Billy are practically family, they do form a sort of camaraderie. Like they’ll lament together when max is in a pissy mood and mad at the both of them or at family dinners they can hold conversation about March madness or whatever the fuck goes on in professional basketball idk. They’ll be on the couch watching whatever big sports event is going on (super bowl, Olympics, insert whatever championship level game here) and sometimes they’re rooting for opposite teams so it’s a bloodbath but sometimes they’re rooting for the same team and they’ll cheer and celebrate together and hug (which max always thinks is cute and tries to snap a picture) or one will be bitching and moaning (usually billy) about their team sucking while the other one is gloating

I feel like a lot of stupid bets are made during games too which results in max being like “what the hell is wrong with you two” and contemplating her life choices

But at the end of the day I see them forming a mutual respect for each other and that’s what’s most important. Lucas is good to max and that’s all billy really cares about. And Billy’s made his amends and become a stand up guy (well…as much as Billy is capable of anyway but he’s doing his best!) and there’s a longstanding truce between the two of them that keeps the peace