Rebilly

Reilly is the het ship between Rebecca Chambers and Billy Coen from the Resident Evil fandom.

Resident Evil 0
On the night of July 23, 1998, Rebecca and her fellow Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) members investigate a series of unexplained cannibalistic murders and animal attacks. As they’re flying over the Arklay Mountains, their helicopter malfunctions and they crash land. Rebecca and her fellow Bravo Team search the area and find a wrecked Marine MP truck, with its occupants dead. Rebecca finds a file of 26 year old Lieutenant Billy Coen. Bravo Team operates on the assumption Billy caused the deaths of the guards and the crash as a means of escape. Rebecca’s captain, Enrico Marini, orders the team to find him.

Bravo Team splits up and Rebecca finds a recently abandoned train infected with zombies. As she’s investigating the area, a man comes up from behind her, pointing a handgun in her direction. Rebecca turns and recognizes him as Lieutenant Billy Coen from the file she read earlier. Billy jokes if she’s been fantasizing about him, only for Rebecca to immediately deadpan he was the prisoner that was being transferred for execution. Billy drops the light playfulness, seeing her as a member of S.T.A.R.S, commenting how “her kind” doesn’t want him around. He ends their conversation and begins to walk to away, only for Rebecca to follow, yelling he’s under arrest. Billy tells her no thanks, as he’s “already worn handcuffs,” lifting his left hand revealing he’s still cuffed. Rebecca threatens she could shoot him, but Billy is already gone.

Not long later, Rebecca receives a walkie-talkie radio call from Enrico, informing her of more information found about Billy. Enrico tells her Billy has killed 23 people, in addition to having been institutionalized. Rebecca is horrified and attempts to gather more information, but the poor radio signal stops this. The last thing Rebecca hears is Enrico telling her to keep her guard up as Billy wouldn’t think twice about killing her.

A few minutes later, Rebecca enters into another area of the train where she encounters Billy again. Billy tells her it’s going to be dangerous from there and why don’t they cooperate to survive. Rebecca is baffled as to why she should cooperate with him of all people. Billy calls her a “little girl,” and reminds her there are zombies on the train and how he would like to get out of there, believing they wouldn’t have a good chance at doing it alone. Rebecca is confused as to why she should trust him – a wanted felon. She coldly tells him she doesn’t need his help and how she can handle herself, following it by saying not to call her “little girl”. Billy questions what he should call her then, with Rebecca informing him of her name, though telling him to refer to her as “Officer Chambers”. Billy calls her Rebecca instead and asks her to “go and try” while he waits for her.

Inside the dining hall, Rebecca finds man sitting alone. She asks if he’s okay, but the man dissolves into a pile of leeches, having been them mimicking human form. Rebecca is swarmed by the leeches, covering her body. Billy shoots the creatures off her and the leeches crawl away. As Rebecca catches her breathe, he asks if she’s okay. Rebecca gives him a thumbs up as response. The two hear a man singing outside the train, with Billy questioning who that is. They suddenly feel a jolt as the train begins to move, unsure of who’s controlling it. Since saving Rebecca, Billy again makes an attempt at forming an alliance, asking they cooperate with each other from then on. Rebecca is defiant, but Billy snaps at her, asking if she likes being “worm-bait”. Rebecca finally agrees, though threatens to shoot him if he tries anything funny.

Rebecca and Billy head for the front of the train where they find no one is controlling it. Realizing they might derail, they manipulate breaks on the front and rear of the train. The train slows down, but it’s too late to stop and it drives through a cliff and into an underground train station, derailing in the process. Injured, though alive, Billy and Rebecca meet back up. They locate a ladder and climb up into a building which used to be a school used by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals in the 1970s. They explore their new surroundings and open a secret tunnel hidden behind a large portrait of the school’s director, Dr. James Marcus.

Rebecca and Billy find themselves in a cellar full of torture devices. They spot a vent Rebecca could probably fit through. Billy lets Rebecca climb on his shoulders to enter into another room with more devices. The unknown man watches her through CCTV footage, claiming he’s territorial as he’s already claimed the building they’re in. He unleashes a large monkey B.O.W on her. Rebecca is thrown back and the ground beneath her breaks. She manages to save herself by hanging onto exposed metal. She struggles to hang on and screams out to Billy for help. Billy comes to her aid and pulls her to safety. Rebecca thanks him, though Billy tells her he was only “keeping his word,” as they had promised to cooperate with each other. Rebecca says nothing as she gets a radio call from Enrico. Enrico questions whether Rebecca has located Billy yet. She tells him she has not as Billy stands right next to her. She informs her captain she’ll continue to search for Billy, ending their call. Billy is stunned, only able to whisper her name. Rebecca tells him how this is her first mission and she’s “already disobeying orders”. As they’re having a heart-to-heart, Rebecca needs to know the truth about Billy – did he really kill 23 people? She claims she won’t judge him. Billy takes in a deep breath and explains how his Marine unit suffered casualties due to faulty intelligence when searching for a guerrilla base in an African jungle. His commanding officer ordered they fire on innocent villagers. He refused to take part, resulting in him being scapegoated by the unit, with a court-martial finding him guilty to cover-up the other scandals.

Resident Evil 0

 * Billy saves Rebecca from being swarmed by mutated leeches.
 * Billy asks Rebecca if she’s okay.
 * Billy gives Rebecca ammo.
 * Billy helps Rebecca stand up.
 * Billy lets Rebecca climb on his shoulders.
 * Billy pulls Rebecca to safety.
 * Rebecca doesn’t sell out Billy to her captain.
 * Billy tells Rebecca the truth of his capture.

Fanon
is a semi-popular ship within the Resident Evil fandom. During the earlier years of the fandom, it was one of the most popular, but over the past 20+ years other ships have taken its spot. This could be in part to how Rebecca isn’t a main character and how Billy is a one-off character, only appearing in one game. Those who do ship are fond of Rebecca and Billy keeping in touch after parting ways at the end of RE0, and often explore what became of their relationship after the fact.

On AO3, has 105+ ships in its romantic/het tag, and 5+ in its platonic/general tag.

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