Editing Billy Keikeya

{{Character Data
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|series=TRS
|colony= Presumably [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Billy Keikeya
|seen= Miniseries
|lastseen=Sacrifice
|death= Shot by [[Kern Vinson]], c. {{ACH|1}} {{TRS|Sacrifice}}
|parents= Un-named Parents (deceased)
|siblings= Un-named Brother (deceased)<br> Un-named Sisters (deceased)
|children=
|marital status= Romantically involved with [[Anastasia Dualla]]
|role= Presidential Chief of Staff to [[Laura Roslin]]
|actor= [[Paul Campbell]]
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'''Billy Keikeya''' is the Chief of Staff to President [[Laura Roslin]] following the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. Despite his relative youth, Keikeya quickly proves himself as Laura's personal assistant; primarily due to his experiences with his school's debate team. Nevertheless, he is gifted and capable, and much more insightful than people might otherwise assume.

==Biography==
As a result of his abilities, Laura Roslin selects Keikeya to accompany her to the decommissioning ceremonies for the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''{{RDM|Galactica}}''. During this time, he recognizes that not only is Roslin ill, she is in fact suffering from cancer {{TRS|Miniseries}}.

His parents had moved to [[Picon (RDM)|Picon]] two months prior to the Cylon attack to be with Keikeya's sisters and their families. It is assumed they died there. Keikeya mentions he had a brother that also died on Picon {{TRS|Sacrifice}}.

Following the loss of President [[Richard Adar]]'s cabinet, Roslin is sworn-in as President, and Keikeya finds himself promoted to the position senior aide to the President. One of his first tasks is to work with her to tally the number of survivors in the fleet {{TRS|33}} and establish records for the dead. Later, he engages in attempts to get the 1,500 prisoners aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' to help the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] obtain water supplies {{TRS|Bastille Day}}, after ''Galactica''{{'|s}} water supplies are sabotaged {{TRS|Water}}. Despite his dubious mathematical aptitude (as shown in "[[33]]"),  Keikeya is an exceptionally organized individual, who also acts as the senior spokesperson for Roslin's administration {{TRS|Litmus}}.

[[File:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|Billy Keikeya and Anastasia Dualla on a date in the forward observation lounge {{TRS|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}]]Off-duty, Keikeya strikes up a friendship with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a member of ''Galactica''{{'|s}} CIC staff, which blossoms into romance {{TRS|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}, despite the fact that Dualla and Keikeya share irreconcilable viewpoints about [[Tom Zarek]]. Keikeya believes that Zarek was a prisoner of conscience who saw his fellow Sagittarons being mistreated by the other [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Colonies]] {{TRS|33}}.

As Roslin continues the [[Chamalla|unconventional treatment]] of her cancer, Keikeya's concerns increase. When she passes out due to an overdose of chamalla, he unknowingly makes a call for help on an open channel. The call is intercepted by the often irksome [[Colonial Press]].

Later, he questions Roslin's hallucinations and her actions during her search for the [[Arrow of Apollo]].  He believes that her actions would irreparably damage the Colonial [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|government]] {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I}}. Still, Keikeya stands by her side as Roslin and her [[Presidential Security Service|personal security]] agents prepare to thwart Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s attempt to arrest her {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}.

Roslin is arrested when she subverts the separation of military and civilian government by convincing {{callsign|Starbuck}} to purloin the captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] for a jump back to Caprica. Other government aides and officers such as Keikeya, [[Gaius Baltar]] and the members of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] are still free to do as they wished within the Fleet.  Keikeya rarely leaves Roslin's side during her internment in ''Galactica'''s brig and routinely keeps her briefed on the deteriorating situation within the Fleet in the wake of the attempt on Commander Adama's life by a Cylon infiltrator.

When {{callsign|Lee Adama}} formulates a plan to break the President out of the brig and fly her to safety on ''[[Cloud 9]]'', Keikeya is supportive of the effort, but ultimately does not follow her down the path she was about to take. The two part company in ''Galactica'''s hangar bay with Keikeya staying behind and Roslin hiding on other ships in the Fleet before Col. Tigh and Commander Adama can recapture her {{TRS|Resistance (episode)}}.

''Galactica'' prepares for a return to Kobol to find President Roslin, who go there with over a third of the Fleet in search of the [[Tomb of Athena]]. Commander Adama brings Keikeya along with him and his insertion team because he feels that, aside from himself and Lee Adama, Keikeya is the only other person that Roslin will listen to. When Keikeya humbly denies the assumption that Roslin placed any stock in his opinions, Adama stuns him by saying Roslin feels that he would become President himself some day. Adama tells him that Roslin said he reminded her of former President Adar on his first campaign for public office. Keikeya had no idea how to respond to Adama's lofty comparison when Adama says, "Don't let it go to your head...Adar was a moron."

On the surface of Kobol, Keikeya reunites with Roslin. She is overjoyed to see him once again. Keikeya is also one of the few people to enter the Tomb of Athena and see the map to Earth {{TRS|Home, Part II}}.

Keikeya later proposes to Dualla, giving her his high school debate ring. However, she rejects his proposal. Later, Keikeya witnesses Dualla on a date with {{callsign|Lee Adama}} on ''Cloud 9''. As Keikeya begins to criticize Dualla, the bar is taken hostage by a group of civilians demanding the transfer of [[Sharon Valerii]] into their custody. During a rescue attempt by ''Galactica'' marines, the terrorist [[Kern Vinson]] attempts to shoot Dualla. Keikeya knocks one terrorist aside, grabbing his gun and shoots Dualla's would-be murderer in the chest, killing him.  Unfortunately, Vinson gets off a burst as he falls, mortally wounding Keikeya. President Roslin later tends to Keikeya's body in ''Galactica''{{'|s}} morgue, crying that he was "so young" {{TRS|Sacrifice}}.

== Behind the Scenes ==
Billy Keikeya was an original character created by [[Ronald D. Moore]] for the [[Re-imagined Series]], with no counterpart in the [[Original Series]]. Actor [[Paul Campbell]] described him as a "very compassionate person and... a real back-of-the-room-type of character that no one pays any attention to, even though he is really paying close attention to everything that’s going on."<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=128}}</ref>

Campbell, who had never seen the original show, was advised by Moore and [[David Eick]] to watch ''[[W:The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]]'' as research for the role.<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=128}}</ref> He viewed the relationship between Billy and [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] as a complex one, "like a mother/son relationship in some ways, but it’s also a really close friendship, so Billy’s both the son and the confidant."<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|pages=128-129}}</ref> Regarding Billy's romance with [[Anastasia Dualla]], Campbell noted that "Billy is very attracted to Dualla... But Billy is also incredibly insecure and has no history of relationships with females, and that makes it more difficult for them."<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=129}}</ref>

== Notes ==

*In his [[Podcast:Home, Part II|podcast]] for "[[Home, Part II]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] indicates that Keikeya is an atheist, and that his reticence is motivated by a distaste for the cloak of prophecy Roslin has assumed<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Home, Part II|act=2|id=atheistBilly|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.
* In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]], Billy remarks that he owned a dog named [[Jake (Billy's dog)|Jake]].
* Billy's last name, Keikeya, is similar to the name of one of the three queens of [[w:Ayodhya|Ayodhya]] in the Hindu epic, ''[[w:Ramayana|Ramayana]]''.

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