Constantly moving from one adopted home to the other, Billy won’t give up in search of his true parents. However, because he has developed this pessimistic nature towards other families, he has surrounded himself in isolation and pessimism. He violently expresses his anger towards his newly adopted family and siblings as he lashes out at them aggressively claiming, “I’m not your brother. We’re not family. None of you really are” (19)! Because fate has left him without his actual family, he uses the free will that he has to be cold hearted and selfish. Every day he looks at a photograph of his birth parents wondering if he will ever be able to find …show more content…
He needs to let reality sink in, because he has a family that cares dearly for him, along with the fate of the world lying in his hands. Negligence cannot be used as a source of escape. He has to make the correct decisions using his free will, because nobody knows where destiny will take him now that he has been meant to be something more in the world. This story is proof that the struggle between fate and free will can exist across multiple platforms. Such a universal concept can be found throughout the history of mankind, it just shows that even in a comic book can it be a hidden theme behind the story. We don’t know where Billy goes from here, but it seems that he will be definitely enjoying life once again now that he is a god-like mortal gaining support from a new