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strayfagName/Handle: Sra
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Timezone: EDT
E-Mail Address: decadent.illusions[at]gmail.com
AIM/other messenger screenname: BangBangWhimper
Personal LJ username: [Bad username or site: sarrasi/ @ livejournal.com]
Series: DOGS: Bullets & Carnage
Series' Medium: Manga
Character you're applying for: Badou Nails
Character's role in their canon: Completely batshit retarded chain-smoking dual-wielding profanity-screaming SOB. Secondary protagonist I guess? It's sort of difficult to say with DOGS.
Character's age: Never stated, but I usually peg it at 23.
Character's gender: Male
Character’s “Real Name”: Oliver Riedel
Please give us a detailed personal history of your character: DOGS takes place in a futuristic city (assumed to be Berlin, Germany) that extends far beneath the surface. Not much is known about the city, but one thing is for certain: the golden age has passed and now the world is in rapid decline in every way. The literal underground is run largely by organized crime, disorganized crime, and anyone who can get their hands on a gun. Not surprisingly, the city isn't really a great place to live and much of the underground still largely resembles a low-class slum.
Badou was raised by his brother, Dave, who was a journalist/private investigator and the only real family he had. He stuck to Dave's side like a bad stain, following him on dangerous jobs and mostly just getting in the way. Despite being kind of a brat, he idolized his brother but he learned pretty quickly that Dave was completely goddamn useless at anything that wasn't hardcore. He had to learn to cook, clean, sew, swear and whine his way though life on his own. Big brother paid the bills. Sometimes. When he remembered. Badou learned to run pretty fast too.
Things were alright until his brother dug a little too deep and found something he shouldn't have. Badou was left bleeding and half-blind, while Dave was (presumably) killed. He fell into the depths after being stabbed several times, and if the fall didn't kill him it wasn't like their perusers were going to give him CPR and a friendly hug. At the time he'd been pursuing a case about disappearing children and a pathway that led to a place even deeper than the lowest levels of the underground.
Badou followed in his brother's uncertain footsteps, looking for leads in the investigation he had started. As this didn't pay at all, he worked at a grocery store the meantime so he wouldn't die of starvation or, worse, nicotine withdrawal. Apparently the only thing his brother left him was a string of bad habits, and the most significant one happens to be chain smoking. It's very rare to see Badou without a cigarette in his mouth, and on the off chance that he does run out of smokes, it's not a pretty picture.
Mainly Badou works as an information broker/PI, but since he happens to be a Grade A Shit Magnet, things rarely work out simply. On a routine job to take some pictures of a cheating spouse, he accidentally catches the boss of the Bourdoni family in the middle of some kinky masochistic pedo adventures. Of course, Badou takes a picture of it and proceeds to run for his goddamn life.
After making a narrow escape into a dumpster, he runs into a man named Mihai, who saves his sorry ass from certain demise. Turns out Mihai is a friend of a friend, and the two of them head back to Buon Viaggio together. Badou has a partner somewhere, but since he's busy playing video games, he tries and fails to hire Mihai to play bodyguard for a while longer. Luckily, his refusal doesn't really matter at all, since the Bourdoni crew manages to track Badou down and attack Buon Viaggio.
Mihai takes down a few of them (using stale bread, the man's hardcore), but he still won't work for Badou because he's a stingy, stingy old man. Using the picture to bargain for his freedom is out of the question too, since his camera got shot up in the initial attack. Pinned down and rapidly running out of options, Badou can think of only one thing: he really, really needs a smoke. And there happens to be one right by the door, hanging out in the pocket of an unconscious thug.
Showing more pathetic addiction than common sense, Badou sneaks over, recovers the cigarette, and is just about to smoke it when a stray bullet rips it in half. And he snaps.
Badou takes the guns from the unconscious thugs and proceeds to mow down the entire gang single-handedly while laughing like a maniac. Bourdoni himself is spared only because he has a smoke on him, and he'd rather part with the cigarette than his life.
Of course the kinky sexploits are discovered later anyway, and the whole gang falls apart so Badou is saved from everyone... except Kiri, the owner of Buon Viaggio, who forces him to work until he can pay for all the damage he caused.
It's uncertain how and when, but sometime before all of this, Badou hooked up with a guy named Heine (in a platonic heterosexual life partner kind of way) and they started doing commission work for Bishop and a genetically altered cat-woman called Granny Liza. While a good portion of the commission work he does is just crap like hunting down cheating spouses and stray cats, he takes on more dangerous and high-paying work when partnered with Heine, mostly things to do with children from the underground who've had their genes tampered with.
For one of their commissions Badou ends up snooping around a shop for some kidnapped children. He gets caught by some thugs who then proceed to beat the crap out of him. (There is a pattern here.) Badou just keeps asking for cigarettes until Heine shows up to 'save' him from certain death. Partner-tan breaks in and goes through guns a' blazing... leaving Badou to fend for himself, still tied to the chair the mobsters put him in. Badou, who still hasn't gotten a cigarette back, snaps and grabs some of the discarded guns to finish of the guys Heine missed on his way, with his hands still tied behind his back no less.
He gets another cigarette off one of the dead or nearly-dead mobsters and finds Heine sitting on the floor while a bunch of the genetically modified kids huddled in the corner of the room. The kids are a relic of the last century when human modification was in vogue. Now they've got no place to go and the government isn't going to do much to try looking for them. So despite the fact that so many of them go missing or end up sold into prostitution, the only person really looking out for them is Granny Liza. But what's Badou supposed to do about it, really?
The not-so-dynamic duo free the kids and leave the mess for the cops before heading back down to the church to get patched up and paid. They decide to treat themselves - because, dude, money - and eat out at the local pasta place. Heine heads to Granny's for the next assignment while Badou heads for the restaurant.
While Badou waits at Buon Viaggio, Mihai brings up the topic of Heine. He cautions Badou about not knowing Heine's true nature, and Badou responds with a shrug. He knows Heine is genetically altered, that he heals quickly and has a weird collar fused to the back of his neck, but he's still human. Probably. Close enough. It's not like Heine's going to eat him in his sleep. He gave up that suspicion after the first few... after a while.
They end up taking a short breather, doing simple jobs and chilling out. The gang they just broke up only goes after Heine for retribution, and he takes care of it himself, so Badou's got no worries.
Later on Badou and Heine go to meet with Granny Liza. By chance they meet up with a woman named Naoto Fuyumine who is stalking them like a creeper also searching for information on the level beneath the underground. After questioning them and yielding no results, she goes in as well to ask Granny Liza for information.
Badou and Heine pick up with an arbitration job this time. Bourdoni's downfall left some open territory and a couple of gangs are trying to claim it, including young upstarts from her own group. She asks them to go in and do some peace talks. While Badou protests due to a very serious chance of becoming swiss cheese, Heine agrees for both of them and leaves him to sort out the details as usual because that's what Heine does. Heine is an asshole.
Meanwhile, Badou learns about Naoto's past and another connection to the children who were abducted: they were taken by a group dressed in black and wielding katanas, the same as the person who Naoto wants revenge on, and the people who attacked Badou himself and killed his brother.
Heine and Badou go off to do their arbitration job. It's Heine and Badou and a gang. There's really no possible outcome except flying bullets and some even more ridiculously pissed off gang members. The two of them hide behind a pillar while Badou freaks out. Watching a movie and saying he wants to be "hard boiled" is entirely different from spending his days being shot at, but since this is still an arbitration job, Badou at least tries screaming "Love and peace!" into the chaos.
When finally runs out of smokes, and both he and Heine gleefully go to town on both gangs.
As if there wasn't enough chaos already, a couple of little girls join the fray. Loki and Noki are also genetically altered, much like Heine, to be living weapons. They call Heine "big brother" and ask him to play via sharp dangerous things aimed at his face. Naoto is apparently also worthy of their attention, but Badou gets taken out by Heine early on before he can get himself killed. A full out fire fight breaks out between the four of them, so it's much like any normal family gathering, but with guns.
On the upside, the leaders of the two gangs they came to arbitrate are now cowering behind their pillar and discussing what a great idea it would be to be friends and get the hell out before any more crazy shit goes down.
Speaking of, Heine and Naoto whip out some crazy flying monkey ninja moves and they all fight for a while until Loki and Noki flee. Their buddy-buddy act doesn't last beyond the fight, and after dragging them out of the building Badou finds himself playing mediator between Heine and Naoto while they try to assassinate each other with their eyes. Because that's exactly how he wanted to spend the rest of his day. He orders Heine back to the church to get changed at least so they don't get arrested for wandering around covered in blood in broad daylight, and tells the two of them to go kill each other where they won't bother anyone.
Before they can leave a police officer (an old acquaintance of Badou's) stops them. He doesn't seem terribly surprised to see the state of the trio. When he asks if Badou is getting into trouble or still following his brother's trail, Badou says casually that his brother is dead and he's better off without him.
When Naoto asks, he admits that he investigated it. He pulls up his eyepatch to show the scar he earned back then and warns Naoto against pushing her luck with the underground: if she does, she might end up like him. It's nice that she has her vendetta at all, but does she really want to bury herself that deep?
The party head back to the church to get patched up but the Bishop is uncharacteristically absent when they arrive. Once Naoto and Heine have changed, Badou warns Naoto again not to go stirring up trouble where she doesn’t know anything and prompts Heine to tell them about his connection to the level below. Though Badou knows some of the story, he's never asked for the rest of it because Heine is crazy and he doesn’t need his life to come to an abrupt end. He points out that those kids who were calling Heine brother didn't seem like biological siblings and asks for the story about the "collar" (the piece of metal in the back of Heine's neck).
Badou learns that Heine was trapped in an underground facility as a child and has no memories of life before that. When he woke up in the facility he had the metal collar around his neck and there were many other children but, according to Heine, all of them are gone now.
A woman named Angelika Einstürzen acted as their "physician"/psycho mommy. She made them fight huge beast creatures and eachother, but their bodies miraculously healed within seconds. It's assumed that Einstürzen is the one who altered the children to make them into weapons.
Badou thinks the whole thing sounds like bad comic book story that doesn’t make any sense, but Heine himself doesn't seem to remember much else. If there's a way back there, he doesn’t know anymore.
So once again, they hit a dead end and Naoto and Heine resume their death-by-eye-contact match. Badou ignores them in favor of Nill, the only other sane person in the church, and goes all Martha Stuart Mode on the clothes the girl was trying to repair. Apparently he sews with expert ease... much to the shock (and amusement) of Naoto and Heine who are, collectively, a bag of dicks for bonding over the loss of his Macho Man Points.
The reprieve is short lived. An explosion shakes the church, and Naoto and Heine take off at a run, leaving Badou behind and Nill cowering beneath a table. Badou thinks she's got the right idea. Unlike the wonder duo, he's not the type to run towards danger or jump at any job that pays. He may have taken on a lot of Dave's bad habits, but he's not going down like his brother did.
At least, so he thinks until he wakes up in Landel's Institute. At first he assumes it's some kind of funky dream about walls made of boobs, but reality sets in pretty quick after he starts exploring with Alkaid. On his first night he ends up helping save Clark Kent from an SC'd Edward Cullen, but since everyone's new to the institute or otherwise occupied the whole situation's pretty confusing.
Over the course of the next few days, he begins talking to other patients and trying to acquire cigarettes and a lighter, and occasionally information about the institute as well. This leads him to trading with Artemis Fowl for some older transcripts of the institute announcements. They get along unexpectedly well, and the two of them slowly begin forming a sort of familial relationship, along with Schuldig, Yohji, Allelujah and Haku, Arty's boyfriend. Badou and Haku never really got along well, but he was good friends with the rest of the "family". He thought Alle was a complete badass despite having two personalities and all. Badou and Artemis in particular shared some pretty traumatic times, including one night in Disraeli's office when they relived Badou's worst memory together.
Aside from Arty's group, he formed a lot of new friendships. He and Alkaid spent a lot of time exploring together, and they were pretty close right up until she disappeared. Naturally, Badou didn't take this too well, but there wasn't a lot he could do about it at the time. She re-appeared briefly, much to his relief, but after she disappeared a second time... well. It's kind of bitter-sweet for him to know anyone can show up, or come back to the institute since he's got his own ideas about where "released" patients go.
Badou spent a good chunk of time discussing findings and theories with other patients as well. With information from the transcripts/ongoing announcements, he thought the institute might be a sort of testing ground for people with special abilities, sort of a way to see how the abilities work in a controlled environment when you put the patients under all kinds of stress. Considering what happens to the MU/SC patients, he thought they were trying to find a way to transfer those powers into other people or permanently brainwash the people already there into participating in whatever war they were referring to. They could do it at least temporarily. (Seeing it in person with Heine as a visitor really shook him up.)
He talked about this stuff with Renamon primarily. He didn't have a clue about magic before coming to the institute, so she's got some really good insight he wouldn't have thought of otherwise. She's the one who suggested that they might be siphoning off the patients' own power to keep their abilities limited. They disagreed on some things, but for the most part it was a beneficial friendship.
Later on, even Heine and Mihai also showed up at the institute as patients. While it was kinda shitty that they had to be there, it was also something of a relief to Badou because a lot of shit was going down at the time. Since Mihai came from a later canon point than the boys, he filled Badou in on a lot of the canon details he missed during his stay, like the name of the man who killed his brother, and his plan to get rid of Badou as well.
Unfortunately for that guy, he had to get in line. Keeping his track record with doctors, from their very first session Makiko scared the shit out of him, and it only got worse from there. She spent their sessions threatening to kill all of his friends and/or rip out his remaining eye. Possibly to eat it. During an eventful trip to Doyleton, she even managed to lure Arty into an alleyway before the three DOGS boys showed up to bail him out – just barely, and only because Makiko decided it was too much trouble to kill him there.
Near the end of his stay in the institute, a lot of the family disappeared, and Arty was in a pretty bad state to say the least. With Makiko being batshit creepy lady on top of that... life was not super special awesome.
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality: Badou takes no stake in heroics. At the first sign of danger, he will either duck for cover or turn tail and run for his ever-loving life. It's not a great life or anything but, as he sees it, he's got all the right holes in his body already and he's not looking for any more. Unfortunately for him, he has insanely shitty luck. Though he hates being dragged into fights most of the time, he always ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if he can't outrun the danger he gets his ass handed to him pretty hard.
This doesn’t mean that he's a wimp though. Badou is defiant to the point of near-suicidal stupidity. He can and will kick ass and take names under certain circumstances and even when he's beaten down he doesn't submit to anyone, even if all he can do is complain and beg for smokes. (Everyone's gotta go sometime, right?) He can be about as loud, vulgar and whiny as they come, especially when it hasn't been his day (which is usually the case, but not necessarily so). Other than that, he's got a fairly devil-may-care laid-back attitude and he's pretty easy to get along with.
Though he does come off a little less than competent, Badou's a lot more perceptive than most people realize. He's not the best PI/information broker in the world, but he's got a good idea of what's going on in the underground and who's involved, especially when it comes to gangs and their relations with one another. He knows what he's doing. He's street smart and curious, and he's got the instincts of a journalist. Except, you know, a journalist who has to live.
Getting back to his ~sweet and accepting~ personality, it's obvious that most of his friends could snap and kill him with great ease, but to Badou everyone is just human. He tries not to worry much about things that happened in peoples' pasts - what they've done, what they could do - unless they start to affect him personally. Though he's still looking for his brother himself, the extent to which it effects him isn't immediately apparent. Sure, he's got family issues, but who doesn’t? He might wear his morals a little loose, but he's still a comparatively decent person in the end, which counts for a lot more in a world where almost everyone and their psycho scientist mom...isn't.
That is, unless he runs out of cigarettes. Taking a cigarette away from Badou is about as smart as pulling the pin on a hand grenade and playing hot potato with it. Once he runs out of nicotine, it's a good idea to stay the hell out of his way. Badou will most likely put several dozen holes in whatever has been pissing him off most recently and not stop until a) he takes everyone out, b) he finds another cigarette or c) he takes everyone out AND finds another cigarette. In this state, he's unpredictable and absolutely freaking insane. Extreme caution or a boot to the face are strongly advised.
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Timezone: EDT
E-Mail Address: decadent.illusions[at]gmail.com
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Series: DOGS: Bullets & Carnage
Series' Medium: Manga
Character you're applying for: Badou Nails
Character's role in their canon: Completely batshit retarded chain-smoking dual-wielding profanity-screaming SOB. Secondary protagonist I guess? It's sort of difficult to say with DOGS.
Character's age: Never stated, but I usually peg it at 23.
Character's gender: Male
Character’s “Real Name”: Oliver Riedel
Please give us a detailed personal history of your character: DOGS takes place in a futuristic city (assumed to be Berlin, Germany) that extends far beneath the surface. Not much is known about the city, but one thing is for certain: the golden age has passed and now the world is in rapid decline in every way. The literal underground is run largely by organized crime, disorganized crime, and anyone who can get their hands on a gun. Not surprisingly, the city isn't really a great place to live and much of the underground still largely resembles a low-class slum.
Badou was raised by his brother, Dave, who was a journalist/private investigator and the only real family he had. He stuck to Dave's side like a bad stain, following him on dangerous jobs and mostly just getting in the way. Despite being kind of a brat, he idolized his brother but he learned pretty quickly that Dave was completely goddamn useless at anything that wasn't hardcore. He had to learn to cook, clean, sew, swear and whine his way though life on his own. Big brother paid the bills. Sometimes. When he remembered. Badou learned to run pretty fast too.
Things were alright until his brother dug a little too deep and found something he shouldn't have. Badou was left bleeding and half-blind, while Dave was (presumably) killed. He fell into the depths after being stabbed several times, and if the fall didn't kill him it wasn't like their perusers were going to give him CPR and a friendly hug. At the time he'd been pursuing a case about disappearing children and a pathway that led to a place even deeper than the lowest levels of the underground.
Badou followed in his brother's uncertain footsteps, looking for leads in the investigation he had started. As this didn't pay at all, he worked at a grocery store the meantime so he wouldn't die of starvation or, worse, nicotine withdrawal. Apparently the only thing his brother left him was a string of bad habits, and the most significant one happens to be chain smoking. It's very rare to see Badou without a cigarette in his mouth, and on the off chance that he does run out of smokes, it's not a pretty picture.
Mainly Badou works as an information broker/PI, but since he happens to be a Grade A Shit Magnet, things rarely work out simply. On a routine job to take some pictures of a cheating spouse, he accidentally catches the boss of the Bourdoni family in the middle of some kinky masochistic pedo adventures. Of course, Badou takes a picture of it and proceeds to run for his goddamn life.
After making a narrow escape into a dumpster, he runs into a man named Mihai, who saves his sorry ass from certain demise. Turns out Mihai is a friend of a friend, and the two of them head back to Buon Viaggio together. Badou has a partner somewhere, but since he's busy playing video games, he tries and fails to hire Mihai to play bodyguard for a while longer. Luckily, his refusal doesn't really matter at all, since the Bourdoni crew manages to track Badou down and attack Buon Viaggio.
Mihai takes down a few of them (using stale bread, the man's hardcore), but he still won't work for Badou because he's a stingy, stingy old man. Using the picture to bargain for his freedom is out of the question too, since his camera got shot up in the initial attack. Pinned down and rapidly running out of options, Badou can think of only one thing: he really, really needs a smoke. And there happens to be one right by the door, hanging out in the pocket of an unconscious thug.
Showing more pathetic addiction than common sense, Badou sneaks over, recovers the cigarette, and is just about to smoke it when a stray bullet rips it in half. And he snaps.
Badou takes the guns from the unconscious thugs and proceeds to mow down the entire gang single-handedly while laughing like a maniac. Bourdoni himself is spared only because he has a smoke on him, and he'd rather part with the cigarette than his life.
Of course the kinky sexploits are discovered later anyway, and the whole gang falls apart so Badou is saved from everyone... except Kiri, the owner of Buon Viaggio, who forces him to work until he can pay for all the damage he caused.
It's uncertain how and when, but sometime before all of this, Badou hooked up with a guy named Heine (in a platonic heterosexual life partner kind of way) and they started doing commission work for Bishop and a genetically altered cat-woman called Granny Liza. While a good portion of the commission work he does is just crap like hunting down cheating spouses and stray cats, he takes on more dangerous and high-paying work when partnered with Heine, mostly things to do with children from the underground who've had their genes tampered with.
For one of their commissions Badou ends up snooping around a shop for some kidnapped children. He gets caught by some thugs who then proceed to beat the crap out of him. (There is a pattern here.) Badou just keeps asking for cigarettes until Heine shows up to 'save' him from certain death. Partner-tan breaks in and goes through guns a' blazing... leaving Badou to fend for himself, still tied to the chair the mobsters put him in. Badou, who still hasn't gotten a cigarette back, snaps and grabs some of the discarded guns to finish of the guys Heine missed on his way, with his hands still tied behind his back no less.
He gets another cigarette off one of the dead or nearly-dead mobsters and finds Heine sitting on the floor while a bunch of the genetically modified kids huddled in the corner of the room. The kids are a relic of the last century when human modification was in vogue. Now they've got no place to go and the government isn't going to do much to try looking for them. So despite the fact that so many of them go missing or end up sold into prostitution, the only person really looking out for them is Granny Liza. But what's Badou supposed to do about it, really?
The not-so-dynamic duo free the kids and leave the mess for the cops before heading back down to the church to get patched up and paid. They decide to treat themselves - because, dude, money - and eat out at the local pasta place. Heine heads to Granny's for the next assignment while Badou heads for the restaurant.
While Badou waits at Buon Viaggio, Mihai brings up the topic of Heine. He cautions Badou about not knowing Heine's true nature, and Badou responds with a shrug. He knows Heine is genetically altered, that he heals quickly and has a weird collar fused to the back of his neck, but he's still human. Probably. Close enough. It's not like Heine's going to eat him in his sleep. He gave up that suspicion after the first few... after a while.
They end up taking a short breather, doing simple jobs and chilling out. The gang they just broke up only goes after Heine for retribution, and he takes care of it himself, so Badou's got no worries.
Later on Badou and Heine go to meet with Granny Liza. By chance they meet up with a woman named Naoto Fuyumine who is stalking them like a creeper also searching for information on the level beneath the underground. After questioning them and yielding no results, she goes in as well to ask Granny Liza for information.
Badou and Heine pick up with an arbitration job this time. Bourdoni's downfall left some open territory and a couple of gangs are trying to claim it, including young upstarts from her own group. She asks them to go in and do some peace talks. While Badou protests due to a very serious chance of becoming swiss cheese, Heine agrees for both of them and leaves him to sort out the details as usual because that's what Heine does. Heine is an asshole.
Meanwhile, Badou learns about Naoto's past and another connection to the children who were abducted: they were taken by a group dressed in black and wielding katanas, the same as the person who Naoto wants revenge on, and the people who attacked Badou himself and killed his brother.
Heine and Badou go off to do their arbitration job. It's Heine and Badou and a gang. There's really no possible outcome except flying bullets and some even more ridiculously pissed off gang members. The two of them hide behind a pillar while Badou freaks out. Watching a movie and saying he wants to be "hard boiled" is entirely different from spending his days being shot at, but since this is still an arbitration job, Badou at least tries screaming "Love and peace!" into the chaos.
When finally runs out of smokes, and both he and Heine gleefully go to town on both gangs.
As if there wasn't enough chaos already, a couple of little girls join the fray. Loki and Noki are also genetically altered, much like Heine, to be living weapons. They call Heine "big brother" and ask him to play via sharp dangerous things aimed at his face. Naoto is apparently also worthy of their attention, but Badou gets taken out by Heine early on before he can get himself killed. A full out fire fight breaks out between the four of them, so it's much like any normal family gathering, but with guns.
On the upside, the leaders of the two gangs they came to arbitrate are now cowering behind their pillar and discussing what a great idea it would be to be friends and get the hell out before any more crazy shit goes down.
Speaking of, Heine and Naoto whip out some crazy flying monkey ninja moves and they all fight for a while until Loki and Noki flee. Their buddy-buddy act doesn't last beyond the fight, and after dragging them out of the building Badou finds himself playing mediator between Heine and Naoto while they try to assassinate each other with their eyes. Because that's exactly how he wanted to spend the rest of his day. He orders Heine back to the church to get changed at least so they don't get arrested for wandering around covered in blood in broad daylight, and tells the two of them to go kill each other where they won't bother anyone.
Before they can leave a police officer (an old acquaintance of Badou's) stops them. He doesn't seem terribly surprised to see the state of the trio. When he asks if Badou is getting into trouble or still following his brother's trail, Badou says casually that his brother is dead and he's better off without him.
When Naoto asks, he admits that he investigated it. He pulls up his eyepatch to show the scar he earned back then and warns Naoto against pushing her luck with the underground: if she does, she might end up like him. It's nice that she has her vendetta at all, but does she really want to bury herself that deep?
The party head back to the church to get patched up but the Bishop is uncharacteristically absent when they arrive. Once Naoto and Heine have changed, Badou warns Naoto again not to go stirring up trouble where she doesn’t know anything and prompts Heine to tell them about his connection to the level below. Though Badou knows some of the story, he's never asked for the rest of it because Heine is crazy and he doesn’t need his life to come to an abrupt end. He points out that those kids who were calling Heine brother didn't seem like biological siblings and asks for the story about the "collar" (the piece of metal in the back of Heine's neck).
Badou learns that Heine was trapped in an underground facility as a child and has no memories of life before that. When he woke up in the facility he had the metal collar around his neck and there were many other children but, according to Heine, all of them are gone now.
A woman named Angelika Einstürzen acted as their "physician"/psycho mommy. She made them fight huge beast creatures and eachother, but their bodies miraculously healed within seconds. It's assumed that Einstürzen is the one who altered the children to make them into weapons.
Badou thinks the whole thing sounds like bad comic book story that doesn’t make any sense, but Heine himself doesn't seem to remember much else. If there's a way back there, he doesn’t know anymore.
So once again, they hit a dead end and Naoto and Heine resume their death-by-eye-contact match. Badou ignores them in favor of Nill, the only other sane person in the church, and goes all Martha Stuart Mode on the clothes the girl was trying to repair. Apparently he sews with expert ease... much to the shock (and amusement) of Naoto and Heine who are, collectively, a bag of dicks for bonding over the loss of his Macho Man Points.
The reprieve is short lived. An explosion shakes the church, and Naoto and Heine take off at a run, leaving Badou behind and Nill cowering beneath a table. Badou thinks she's got the right idea. Unlike the wonder duo, he's not the type to run towards danger or jump at any job that pays. He may have taken on a lot of Dave's bad habits, but he's not going down like his brother did.
At least, so he thinks until he wakes up in Landel's Institute. At first he assumes it's some kind of funky dream about walls made of boobs, but reality sets in pretty quick after he starts exploring with Alkaid. On his first night he ends up helping save Clark Kent from an SC'd Edward Cullen, but since everyone's new to the institute or otherwise occupied the whole situation's pretty confusing.
Over the course of the next few days, he begins talking to other patients and trying to acquire cigarettes and a lighter, and occasionally information about the institute as well. This leads him to trading with Artemis Fowl for some older transcripts of the institute announcements. They get along unexpectedly well, and the two of them slowly begin forming a sort of familial relationship, along with Schuldig, Yohji, Allelujah and Haku, Arty's boyfriend. Badou and Haku never really got along well, but he was good friends with the rest of the "family". He thought Alle was a complete badass despite having two personalities and all. Badou and Artemis in particular shared some pretty traumatic times, including one night in Disraeli's office when they relived Badou's worst memory together.
Aside from Arty's group, he formed a lot of new friendships. He and Alkaid spent a lot of time exploring together, and they were pretty close right up until she disappeared. Naturally, Badou didn't take this too well, but there wasn't a lot he could do about it at the time. She re-appeared briefly, much to his relief, but after she disappeared a second time... well. It's kind of bitter-sweet for him to know anyone can show up, or come back to the institute since he's got his own ideas about where "released" patients go.
Badou spent a good chunk of time discussing findings and theories with other patients as well. With information from the transcripts/ongoing announcements, he thought the institute might be a sort of testing ground for people with special abilities, sort of a way to see how the abilities work in a controlled environment when you put the patients under all kinds of stress. Considering what happens to the MU/SC patients, he thought they were trying to find a way to transfer those powers into other people or permanently brainwash the people already there into participating in whatever war they were referring to. They could do it at least temporarily. (Seeing it in person with Heine as a visitor really shook him up.)
He talked about this stuff with Renamon primarily. He didn't have a clue about magic before coming to the institute, so she's got some really good insight he wouldn't have thought of otherwise. She's the one who suggested that they might be siphoning off the patients' own power to keep their abilities limited. They disagreed on some things, but for the most part it was a beneficial friendship.
Later on, even Heine and Mihai also showed up at the institute as patients. While it was kinda shitty that they had to be there, it was also something of a relief to Badou because a lot of shit was going down at the time. Since Mihai came from a later canon point than the boys, he filled Badou in on a lot of the canon details he missed during his stay, like the name of the man who killed his brother, and his plan to get rid of Badou as well.
Unfortunately for that guy, he had to get in line. Keeping his track record with doctors, from their very first session Makiko scared the shit out of him, and it only got worse from there. She spent their sessions threatening to kill all of his friends and/or rip out his remaining eye. Possibly to eat it. During an eventful trip to Doyleton, she even managed to lure Arty into an alleyway before the three DOGS boys showed up to bail him out – just barely, and only because Makiko decided it was too much trouble to kill him there.
Near the end of his stay in the institute, a lot of the family disappeared, and Arty was in a pretty bad state to say the least. With Makiko being batshit creepy lady on top of that... life was not super special awesome.
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality: Badou takes no stake in heroics. At the first sign of danger, he will either duck for cover or turn tail and run for his ever-loving life. It's not a great life or anything but, as he sees it, he's got all the right holes in his body already and he's not looking for any more. Unfortunately for him, he has insanely shitty luck. Though he hates being dragged into fights most of the time, he always ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if he can't outrun the danger he gets his ass handed to him pretty hard.
This doesn’t mean that he's a wimp though. Badou is defiant to the point of near-suicidal stupidity. He can and will kick ass and take names under certain circumstances and even when he's beaten down he doesn't submit to anyone, even if all he can do is complain and beg for smokes. (Everyone's gotta go sometime, right?) He can be about as loud, vulgar and whiny as they come, especially when it hasn't been his day (which is usually the case, but not necessarily so). Other than that, he's got a fairly devil-may-care laid-back attitude and he's pretty easy to get along with.
Though he does come off a little less than competent, Badou's a lot more perceptive than most people realize. He's not the best PI/information broker in the world, but he's got a good idea of what's going on in the underground and who's involved, especially when it comes to gangs and their relations with one another. He knows what he's doing. He's street smart and curious, and he's got the instincts of a journalist. Except, you know, a journalist who has to live.
Getting back to his ~sweet and accepting~ personality, it's obvious that most of his friends could snap and kill him with great ease, but to Badou everyone is just human. He tries not to worry much about things that happened in peoples' pasts - what they've done, what they could do - unless they start to affect him personally. Though he's still looking for his brother himself, the extent to which it effects him isn't immediately apparent. Sure, he's got family issues, but who doesn’t? He might wear his morals a little loose, but he's still a comparatively decent person in the end, which counts for a lot more in a world where almost everyone and their psycho scientist mom...isn't.
That is, unless he runs out of cigarettes. Taking a cigarette away from Badou is about as smart as pulling the pin on a hand grenade and playing hot potato with it. Once he runs out of nicotine, it's a good idea to stay the hell out of his way. Badou will most likely put several dozen holes in whatever has been pissing him off most recently and not stop until a) he takes everyone out, b) he finds another cigarette or c) he takes everyone out AND finds another cigarette. In this state, he's unpredictable and absolutely freaking insane. Extreme caution or a boot to the face are strongly advised.