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Oh jee wizz, uh… Dude, are you ready for the rabbit hole… Here we go!

I believe that Bob loved Billy very much despite his disability, however his love was corrupted with insecurity. This is 1980s Lithuania (year date is comfirmed on a poster in CBA), people wouldn’t be thrilled if your baby came out all weird and think you were cursed by god or just plain unlucky. Probably even pity you and tell you that “It’s not your problem to deal with,” like a baby is just a minor invconvenience that can be put aside. Not only that, the attitude towards disabled is either pity or unfriendliness. Even worse, if you’re in a war then you’re just another burden. Because of this, though Bob loves Billy he feels ashamed for bringing him into the world with a body like his; and sub-conciously is also ashamed of Billy being born this way as though Billy had a choice in this — but he didn’t, that’s just how he was born!

And so in order to protect his own pride and also Billy’s safety, he kept Billy hidden away from the public. He homeschooled him and tended to his every need. People outside always speculated on what Bob did inside his house, so there’d be the occasional nosy person. This upped Bob’s insecurity, so he became paranoid of the sounds in his own house.

Then the day of the accident comes and Billy is orphaned, for the first time he is finally let out into the public so that he can be transferred to an orphanage (it’s actually a military camp with ROTC). He has gone outside before of course, but only alone and with very few people to see him. But now everyone has their eyes on him, son of Bob the Great II! Well by everyone, I really mean the other kids and the workers in the orphanage. Billy’s identity as Bob’s son is still kept secret.

Eventually though when he’s an adult he moves out of CBA’s dull military town into the bright colourful one you see in BBEG! Here his relationship to Bob is finally publicised, but one problem… He’s viewed not as Bob’s son, but rather as Bob’s “well-made robot.” Billy came up with this robot gimmick himself, feeling guilty at the thought of undoing all of his dad’s hardwork to keep it all a secret. Of course as he gets older he realises how dumb this is — and even considers dropping the robot gimmick — but he’s done it for so long that he doesn’t really care what people think as long as his family’s name is said in good grace.

this ask hit me like a sack of bricks