Billybob (Walnut and Lisa's Dad)

Billybob, Walnut and Lisa's dad, is a slave who only appears for a brief time in Act I of the comic.

Appearance
Walnut and Lisa's dad is a blue man who wears a straw hat, a vest, and worn-down pants.

Origins
Walnut and Lisa's dad is shown to be a resigned man who is chained down to a wagon and being transported by two white men in Act I. He makes an escape from the wagon by leaping from it and allowing his chains to be broken by the wagon's wheel. He embraces his daughter Walnut and gives her the missing wing piece to her angel toy. After vaulting the angel into the air, Walnut runs to catch it, but when she turns around she sees that the white men have killed her father and are throwing his limp body back onto the wagon. The white men refer to Walnut and Lisa's dad as a "thing."

Act II confirms that Walnut and Lisa's dad is Billybob, whom the Overseer makes a show of missing, though it's implied that the Overseer simply wishes Billybob had left useful inventions behind. The Overseer appears to think that Billybob had left the plantation on his own accord, when he was actually killed by a rock wound to the head.