Billy Kong
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| Artemis Fowl character | |
|---|---|
| Billy Kong (formerly Jonah Lee) | |
| Gender | Male |
| Species | Human |
| First appearance | Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony |
Billy Kong is a character in the Artemis Fowl series of books, and is introduced in the fifth installment of the series. According to Foaly's research (which is most of the time 99.9% accurate), he was born in the early seventies, as Jonah Lee. His family lived in the beach town of Malibu, California, and his family was originally from Taiwan. His mother’s name was Annie, and his brother’s name was Eric. He has once killed a friend with a kitchen knife. He is also described as having colorful hair.
In the early eighties, when Billy Kong was still known as Jonah Lee, and when he was living with his mother and brother, his mother had to take up two jobs for a living. Jonah would be left with Eric in the evenings. One night, when Jonah was watching the television, Eric came home all bloody. This peaked Jonah’s interest, and Eric decides to tell his little brother a tale that will keep his little brother out of trouble and danger. Eric tells Jonah that he and his friends were attacked by demons— creatures who are human by day and monsters by night. According to Eric, they attack humans and are able to peel off masks from their faces. In truth, Eric had simply been seeing a girlfriend of the local gang leader, and the gang leader had found out. That night, the gang leader sent out his gang after Eric, and Eric had been hurt, but he still got away. He spouted the demon story so that Jonah would stay at home at night, keep the doors and windows locked, and not go outside at night and get in danger.
Eric was finally killed in a gang fight one night and Jonah was forced to believe that demons did not exist, beginning to realise his brother had made up the story. However, later as Billy Kong, he becomes involved in the demon-catching plan of Minerva Paradizo’s. This causes him to lose his grip on reality, and he believes once again that demons killed his brother. The specimen of the demon that Minerva abducts happens to be No1, a warlock demon who is not at all bloodthirsty. Billy Kong, the ever vengeful and violent murderer, decides to kill No1 and in the process jeopardizes Artemis Fowl’s rescue plans, Minerva’s plans, and No 1’s life.
The last mention of Billy Kong was when Domovoi Butler turned him in to the police for an old murder in Taipei, where he is wanted by the police as Jonah Lee.
