Trivia / Billie Bust Up!

• Dear Negative Reader: Near the time a clip showcasing Scrimshaw's singing released, controversies centered around his voice actor, Sean Chiplock, arose. The team then hid all comments, and soon after, Katie Nelson, the creator, debunked many of the claims against Chiplock, including defending Elliot Gindi, shipping two characters who were thought to be brothers from Genshin Impact, and harassment. She also dismissed claims of Chiplock saying the N-word over a decade ago.
• Directed by Cast Member: Michael Kovach, Fantoccio's voice actor, also voice directs the game.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: According to Word of God, Barnaby is autistic like his voice actor Gabriel C. Brown.
• Fake Scot: Sean Chiplock, who is American, voices Scrimshaw, who has an Scottish accent.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Fantoccio, who is pansexual according to the wiki, is voiced by Michael Kovach, who is asexual.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Gabe Velez was thrown from the game in light of rape allegations by his ex-partner, Niomi Sun.
• Stunt Casting:
  • Michael Kovach as Fantoccio is due to his status as the go-to voice actor for indie productions.
  • Sean Chiplock is a very high profile voice actor.^note  Subaru Natsuki in Re:Zero, Rean Schwarzer in the Trails Series, Diluc in Genshin Impact, Purple Yam Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom, among other well-known roles in anime and video games. He was also chosen to be the voice of Scrimshaw.
• Trans Character, Cis Actor: The non-binary Aristotle is voiced by male voice actor Edward Bosco.
• What Could Have Been: On occasion, the streams hosted on the developer's Youtube channel mention or showcase ideas that were later scrapped. For example, 46 minutes into the Autism Acceptance stream, there's mention of how giant Trolls were originally meant to be a reoccurring threat, and would represent Billie's friends that had been transformed by magic, but the concept was dropped for feeling too repetitive.

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