Billy Mullens

face cast: Charlie Tahan

William "Billy" Mullens was a childhood friend of Beatrice, whose disappearance prompted her interest in the strange and occult and eventually led to her involvement with Delta Green. He has appeared several times in different forms, names, times and spaces, and appears to be some kind of linchpin in the multiverse.

At the conclusion of Project Temple, Beatrice was forced to inject Billy with a liquefied time crystal, though she was able to preserve some part of him from being completely erased it is currently unknown how or what that means.

## Background

Billy was born in the rural town of Ash Gap, Virginia. Like many others in the area his family was incredibly poor. He was raised primarily by his grandmother.

He and Beatrice were also each other's first kiss, after watching *Back to the Future* together on July 4th, 1995.

### Disappearance

At some point in 1997 while exploring in the woods with Beatrice, Billy disappeared. Though his disappearance was officially marked as an animal attack, Beatrice, who witnessed it, insisted that he was taken by some sort of monster. None of his remains were found. This strange event is the main catalyst for Beatrice becoming involved in Delta Green.

Beatrice currently has two memories of what actually happened: first that he was taken that day to be a subject in Project Seeming, and second that he was killed and eaten by Anat.

## Project Seeming

Billy was one of the test subjects retrieved from The Orchard during Project Seeming. Due both to him being older and her believing him to be dead, it took Frost until their second meeting to recognize him (and he did not give any indication of recognizing her, though he did recall their childhood together).

## β - dimension

In this version of the world, Billy is named Jacob Tillman - later going by Esau Till - and is the son of Eli and Delilah Tillman. He went missing from his mother's car when he was a baby and was, apparently, taken to the Cornucopia House where he lived under the name Conradin Novak.

When the Agents raided Cornucopia House, Conradin stood out in particular for a number of reasons, including seeming to recognize that Frost (as Damien LeChance) was there. He scratched the broken fang symbol into the tree in the yard, and also seemed bonded with the monstrous ferret creature.

Following the destruction of Cornucopia House by the Agents, Conradin was eventually picked up and identified as Jacob Tillman, and returned to his father, Eli.

See FBI Case 11.6.11 for more background.

## Ε - dimension

In this world Billy is fully in the form of SEE-018, and when the Agents encounter him it is as the monstrous results of the experiments conducted on him by Dr. Martha Jackson and Geneva Brown. The Agents run into him as they are fleeing to the lake, and SEE-018 attacks Kara (as she is in the form of Geneva) intending to kill her for what she did to him.

He is stopped by Beatrice, who manages to stab a syringe of liquid time crystals directly into his eye and inject them into him, apparently erasing him from the multiverse, though Beatrice later admitted that she was, somehow, able to save part of him.

1. ↑ A reference to the protagonist of the short story Sredni Vashtar by Saki