Billy Batson

Captain Marvel

Billy Batson

## Biography

### Early Life

Billy Batson was born on April 1st, 1995 to Merrill “C.C” Sinclair and Jocelyn Batson, who were in a relationship at the time of Billy’s birth. However, one day, Merrill walked out and didn’t come back. Jocelyn struggled with the physical, mental, and financial strain of raising a child and one day left Billy outside of a fire station in Fawcett City and disappeared from his life.

Billy was taken in by CPS and moved around foster homes. When he was ten, he wound up with Rosa and Victor Vasquez. Rosa and Victor were very caring for Billy - but he was standoffish and wasn’t looking for a family. He went to school with the other kids - Mary, Freddy, Eugene, Pedro, and Darla. While the other kids looked out for one another, Billy thought of himself as a loner.

That changed when two boys began picking on Freddy and stole one of his crutches. Billy chased after them, stole the crutch, and beat one of them with it. A local beat cop saw this and gave chase, prompting Billy to run into the subway and sneak into an empty rail car. While riding, the words on the electronic sign suddenly turned to runic symbols and the entire car was enveloped in a blinding white light. Billy blinked, and the door opened, depositing him into the Rock of Eternity.

From the darkness emerged the wizard Mamaragan, who told Billy he possessed great courage and brought him to this place to make him his champion. When Billy tried to ask questions, the Wizard cast a charm, urging Billy to speak “the magic word”, Shazam. Billy did, and at this moment, the power of the Living Lightning was bestowed upon him.

### Captain Marvel

Billy blinked and saw he had gained the magical alter ego of an adult man, and a shiny super-suit to go with it. He was sent back out to the streets of Fawcett City, where he accidentally foiled a jewelry store robbery and then overloaded a substation. He called up to the Wizard asking for help and yelled out the magic word again, transforming himself back into Billy.

He tried to return to life as normal, now closer with Mary and Freddy than the others of the foster home. However, he still tried to keep this secret, until one night he returned to the room he shared with Freddy and realized he forgot to transform back into Billy. Freddy was obviously scared to see a grown man standing in the room, until Billy transformed back and explained himself. Freddy, of course, thought this was awesome.

They spent the next few weeks making Billy internet famous under the name of “Captain Marvel”, with Freddy tagging along on Billy’s heroic expeditions and videoing them from a distance. As he grew in popularity, people took notice, specifically Doctor Thaddeus Sivana, who held a particular interest in magic and the macabre. Sivana hired Felix Faust to lure Captain Marvel into a trap, planning to siphon his magic with a spell Faust conjured.

However, this is where Billy proved his worth, and his strength. Using the abilities of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury. He beat Faust and Sivana and returned to Fawcett City. After getting back, he told the entire Vasquez household about his abilities. Shortly after doing so, he was out fighting crime, when he turned around and found Wonder Woman himself waiting to speak with him.

In the aftermath of this meeting, Billy became Diana’s nominee to the Class of ‘06 of the Justice League. Billy was cagey with his personal life and elected not to tell the Justice League that he was secretly an eleven-year-old. The longer he kicked this can down the road, the easier it became for him to lie about it.

However, Billy was forced into revealing the truth after fighting the Injustice League, and meeting his match with Black Adam - the former champion of Mamaragan. Black Adam escaped the encounter with the League, and Billy made it his mission to track him down. He recruited a small team- the Hawks, Doctor Fate, Metamorpho, and Vixen to infiltrate Kahndaq and investigate the King.

This mission would go horribly wrong, with Black Adam discovering the team and using the Living Lightning against him and revealing his secret identity to the League. In secret, Batman had tagged along on the mission (thanks to Metamorpho alerting him) and was able to diffuse the situation and pull the team out. On the javelin ride home, Bruce agreed to keep his secret, but asked him to be the Titans’ den mother for the time being in order to learn from them.

Billy was glad to take this way out. During this brief tenure on the Titans, he met Zatanna. He and Zee spent some time studying the Living Lightning (with Billy having a few “sleepovers” at the Shadowcrest), where he learned he could share the power of the Living Lightning with others. Upon his return to Fawcett City, he excitedly asked Mary and Freddy if they wanted to try it out. They went out into the backyard and said the magic word, transforming the two into their own magical avatars.

Billy excitedly took Freddy and Mary to Titans Tower the next day, only for Zatanna to become very upset at him - and the Titans refused to consider their admittance. After a bit of convincing, Zatanna agreed to take Mary on as a protege - but denied Freddy due to his age, which prompted Freddy, in anger, to reveal to everyone that he and Billy were the same age.

Billy was embarrassed and angry, so the ride back to Fawcett City was long and quiet. Shortly after, the Justice League met with Billy and told him they were placing him on a brief leave of absence until everything quieted down. Billy agreed to their terms and took some time off. He spent his summer break locked in the Rock of Eternity, reading from all of the Wizard’s books and learning as much as he could about mastering his abilities. He also befriended the Rock’s caretaker, a humanoid tiger named Tawky Tawny.

At the end of summer, Billy came back to the Vasquez family sporting a longer hairdo. With full mastery of his powers, he started teaching the same to Freddy and Mary, although Mary was just as apt due to her summer having been spent with her new BFF, Zatanna. Billy’s return as Captain Marvel was felt everywhere - with the family becoming the target of even more baddies - as Sivana was corrupted by an interdimensional caterpillar into forming “the Monster Society”, hellbent on stealing the Living Lightning for himself.

While Rosa and Victor were away, the Monster Society made a move on the family, this time with Black Adam aiding them. To save everyone, Billy teleported them all to the Rock of Eternity, where he shared the Living Lightning with Pedro, Darla, and Eugene, fully rounding out the Marvel Family. With the help of Mary’s mastery of the mystic arts, Black Adam was imprisoned within the Rock, and the Monster Society was defeated.

When Rosa and Victor returned from vacation, they were surprised to find a house full of superheroes. Billy was promptly grounded and told to stay in Fawcett City for a little while, with his foster parents becoming worried about his commitments with the Titans and the Justice League.

Billy became a part-timer on the League and rescinded his den mother duties to Red Tornado. He focused on school, where he started dating Amber Joyce, a theater nerd with big aspirations. She brought him out of his social shell and convinced him to start acting and join the A/V Club. She also introduced him to her uncle, Dudley Marvin, who ran the WHIZ Radio Station, and got him an after-school job as an intern. When he graduated high school, he became a disc jockey there. Freddy would sometimes sit in with him, where he got Billy into trouble for playing too many Elvis tunes, as “the King” was Freddy’s idol. Shortly after this, the Justice League and Titans both shut down, and Billy thought about hanging up the cape for good.

### Guardian of Magic

However, just as this thought emerged, it vanished, when Eclipso went on a rampage in an attempt to destroy all magic. This attack broke the veil of magic from the rest of the world, and the Rock of Eternity suddenly appeared above Fawcett City, and the Marvel Family found themselves to be its round the clock defenders. Despite their defenses, Doctor Sivana broke into the Rock with Johnny Sorrow and freed Black Adam yet again. Upon his escape, Black Adam took it upon himself to kill the Wizard before reclaiming his throne in Kahndaq.

After Eclipso’s defeat, Billy and the Sentinels of Magic created the Circle of Eternity to uphold the veil between magic and the real world - with Billy at the center of it all. He quit his job at WHIZ and broke up with Amber, then dedicated himself full-time to the Circle of Eternity, even after the Justice League returned. He was scarcely on Earth, often exploring other realms like the Magiclands.

Billy has spent all of his time since then with the Circle of Eternity. He’s been on the outs from the Vasquez Family and scarcely exits the Captain Marvel avatar. Recently, Mary visited the Rock of Eternity, and found that Captain Marvel’s hair had turned white from his overworking. Rumor has it that Mary and Freddy have been working with Zatanna and the new Doctor Fate to find a way to force the Living Lightning out of Billy - with Freddy planning to take his place.