Editing Billy McBardigael (section)

== Background/History ==
{{Infobox Character
|name=Billy McBardigael
|image=Billy_Portrait.jpg
|fullname=Billy McBardigael
|alias=The Construction Worker
|gender=Male
|nationality=Dutch
|birth=Unknown (approximately 60 years old)
|birthplace=Unknown 
|status=Alive, retired 
|related=[[Edward McHaggis]] (cousin), [[Luciana McHaggis]] (cousin-in-law) 

|associated=<li>[[Edward McHaggis]]</li>
<li>[[Alexa Morrison]]</li>
<li>[[Damian Morrison]]</li>
<li>[[Jim]]</li>
|factions=McBardigael Construction, Claymore MC, The Big Four
|rank=CEO (McBardigael Construction), Advisor/Strategist
|factionstatus=Retired from syndicates operations (late 2024)

|first=Rise of the Syndicates
|last=Chapter IV: The Great Breakup (November 2024)
|arcs=Rise of the Syndicates, Rise of Claymore MC, The Great Breakup

|writer=Quinton Ocean, The Animation Elf
}}
Billy McBardigael was born into the tough, no-nonsense McBardigael family. His upbringing was far from ordinary. When he was just three years old, he was already tagging along to the construction site where his father and uncles worked. It was said that Billy "helped" from the moment he could hold a tool, though in reality, he mostly got underfoot and caused the occasional crisis. Nevertheless, those early years ingrained in him a sense of resilience and familiarity with hard labour. By six, Billy was sneaking cigarettes off the workers, the beginning of his gritty, rough-around-the-edges persona.

Billy never received a formal education. Instead, he was raised on construction sites and in back alleys, picking up lessons on how to survive in a world that wasn't kind to the weak. He learned how to handle heavy machinery before he learned to read, and by his teenage years, he could outwork and outsmoke any of the older men on site. Billy was tough because he had to be, and in his world, vulnerability wasn't an option.

At '''around''' the age of sixteen, everything changed. Billy returned home one day to find his family house engulfed in flames. He could hear the screams of his parents and siblings, but he couldn't break through the door or shatter the windows in time. Helpless, he watched as his entire family perished. This tragedy left Billy deeply scarred, though the full effect it had on him remained a mystery even to those closest to him. Some said the fire burned out whatever softness he had left, replacing it with something cold and calculating. Others thought it left him with an unquenchable thirst to control the chaos that had once consumed his life.

In the years that followed, Billy threw himself into his work with an intensity that was equal parts determination and desperation. He founded [[McBardigael Construction]], turning his knowledge of building and his fierce work ethic into a successful business. Billy wasn't content just to build skyscrapers and apartment complexes; he wanted his company to be involved in everything – construction, mechanization, electrical work, you name it. His reputation for getting things done, no matter the legality or cost, began to attract attention from all the wrong places, and soon enough, Billy was dipping his toes into the criminal underworld of Los Santos.