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Badou Nails
Real Name: Oliver Riedel
Room: M74
Age: (Assumed) early twenties
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Green [Wears an eye patch over his right eye]
Height: Average.
Backstory
Dogs takes place not so far into th future, in a dystopian city that extends far beneath the ground. 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. The literal underground is run largely by organized crime, disorganized crime, and anyone who can get their hands on a gun. When Badou was young, just going out on the street in broad daylight was a risk most people didn't take unless they needed to. Not surprisingly, the city wasn't really a great place to live and much of the underground still largely resembles a low-class slum.
Badou kept himself on the right side of the law - or what passed for law - for a good part of his life. He was raised by his brother, who was a journalist/private investigator and the only family he had. Badou's brother became a role model to him. It just happened that all of his habits were poison. Badou learned quickly that his brother was completely goddamn useless at everyday things. He had to learn to cook, clean, sew, swear and whine his way though life on his own. His brother paid the bills. Sometimes. When he remembered.
...Badou learned to run pretty fast too.
Things were alright until his brother found something he probably shouldn't have. The next thing Badou knew, his big brother was gone, disappeared somewhere in the lower strata. 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 went searching for him, carefully looking for leads in the same investigation his brother had started. As this didn't pay at all, he worked in various places in the meantime so he wouldn't die of starvation or, worse, nicotine withdrawal. Likely because of a yet-to-be-revealed traumatic past full of eye-gouging, Badou has apparently picked up many of his brother's bad habits. This includes chain smoking.
When I say chain smoking, I mean he can't breathe normal air anymore and perpetually stinks like the inside of a generously used ash-tray. On the off chance that he does run out of smokes, he goes berserk and causes about as much damage as a raging elephant on LSD. That kind of bad habit. But I digress.
Badou spent some time as an Information Agency/PI, catching stray pets and taking illicit photos of mob bosses and getting his ass kicked. It's uncertain how and when, but along the way he hooked up with a guy named Haine and they started doing commission work for Bishop and a genetically enhanced cat-woman called Granny Liza. While a good portion of the commission work he does is just crap like the aforementioned stray pet hunting, he takes on more dangerous (and high-paying) work when partnered with Haine, 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 facility. He gets caught by, what else, angry mobsters. The mobsters proceed to beat the crap out of him and ask him what he thinks he's snooping for. Badou just keeps asking for cigarettes until Haine shows up to 'save' him from certain death.
Haine breaks in and goes through guns-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 Haine missed on his way through.
He gets another cigarette off one of the dead or nearly-dead mobsters and finds Haine 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 turn them over to 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. Haine 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 Haine. He cautions Badou about not knowing Haine's true nature, and Badou responds with a shrug. Haine might be some kind of weird freak mutant but he's still human. Probably. Badou doesn't really care that much. It's not like Haine's going to eat him in his sleep. He gave up that suspicion after the first few...after a while.
Later on Badou and Haine go to meet with Granny Liza. By chance they meet up with a woman named Naoto who is also searching for information on the world beneath the underground. After questioning them and yielding no results, she goes in as well to ask Granny Liza for information.
Badou and Haine pick up with an arbitration job this time. Another gang is trying to expand its territory and she asks them to go in and do some peace talks. While Badou protests due to a very serious chance of getting a nosebleed, Haine agrees for both of them and leaves him to sort out the details as usual because that's what Haine does.
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 woman who Naoto wants revenge on.
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Haine and Badou go off to do their arbitration job. It's Haine and Badou and a gang. There's really no possible outcome except flying bullets and some even more ridiculously pissed off gang members in a situation that looks pretty damn familair. The two of them hide behind a pillar Badou freaks out and tells Haine that this isn't his kind of work. Watching a movie and saying he wants to be "hard boiled" is entirely different from spending his days being shot at. Haine, who is busy having some kind of happy zen moment, just rambles about some movie that made him cry. Since this is still an arbitration job, Badou at least tries screaming "Fuck you!" and "Love and peace!" into the chaos.
Badou finally runs out of smokes, and both Badou and Haine snap and turn on the gang members.
As if there wasn't enough chaos already, Loki and Noki show up to fight with Haine and Naoto. They call Haine "big brother" and ask him to play via sharp dangerous things aimed at his face. A full out fire fight breaks out between the five of them and Badou starts screaming, "Family should not fight! My brothers (and sisters)!!! All of you guys shut up and fuck off!!!"
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, Haine and Naoto do some crazy flying monkey shit and they all fight for a while until Loki and Noki flee. Their buddy-buddy act doesn’t last beyond the fight, and Badou finds himself playing mediator between Haine 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 talks them into going to get changed at least so they don't get arrested for wondering around covered in blood and crap in broad daylight.
Before they can leave an officer (an old acquaintance of Badou's) stops them to say hello. 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. His brother really is dead. He pulls up his eye patch 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. It looks like things are starting to heat up. Once Naoto and Haine have changed, Badou warns Naoto again not to go stirring up trouble where she doesn’t know anything and prompts Haine 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 Haine is a crazy bitch and he doesn’t need his life to be artificially shortened, really. He points out that those kids who were calling Haine brother didn't seem like biological siblings and asks for the story about the "neck ring" (a large piece of metal in the back of Haine's neck, often referred to as his collar).
Haine says Naoto doesn’t have a neck ring, but he begins to tell the story of his past. Badou learns that Haine 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. There were many other children in the facility but, according to Haine, all of them are gone now.
A woman named Angelica Einstellshen acted as their "physician". She entered the room with a giant beast-creature that attacked the first few children, but once she stopped it their bodies healed within seconds. It's assumed that Einstellshen is the one who altered the children's bodies to make them into weapons.
She proceeded to mindfuck Haine while they watched her beast tear apart the other children, telling her she will give him all of her love if he awakens. He does awaken and kill Einstellshen's other two beasts, and by the end of it only he and a young girl are still able to speak. The other children were either killed or traumatized.
Badou thinks the whole thing sounds like bad comic book story that doesn’t make any sense. When Naoto asks about how to get in, Haine says he doesn’t know anymore.
So once again, they hit a dead end and Naoto and Haine resume their death-by-eye-contact match. Badou ignores them and goes all Martha Stuart Mode on the clothes Nill was trying to repair. Apparently he sews with expert ease…much to the shock (and amusement) of Naoto and Haine who are, collectively, a bag of dicks for bonding over the loss of his Macho Man Points.
Suddenly, an explosion shakes the church!
Naoto and Haine take off at a run, leaving Badou to WTF at their quickly disappearing asses.
Personality
TBA
At Landel's
Powers: No guns make Badou a sad panda. :< Here's a detailed/altered power section for the game.
As dubbed by Erin, "Berzerker Mode": As far as I know, Badou is a normal human. That means no abnormally enhanced speed, power, or megadeathlazer action. (Outside of Berzerker Mode, he's an exceptionally good runner since he's been doing it most of his life and he has great stamina. He can outrun most (human) mafia guys out to kill him and still have room for a bag of Doritos.) If this changes as the manga goes on, we'll say it's been reduced to normal due to Landel's Magic to keep things consistent. Therefore, I'm going to chalk up a lot of his fighting in "Berzerker Mode" to skill and a fairly strong shot of adrenaline.
When Badou runs out of cigarettes, it's the only time we actually see him use his more spectacular skills. He's an amazing shot even in a firestorm so his reflexes and skills are good enough to keep him from sprouting any bullet holes, even if it's partially because the other team is too freaked out by him to shoot properly. (The other team is most often regular humans.) In Landel's terms, it's the same deal as a good swordsman; he'd know which way to dodge to protect vital points and when to attack but he's not particularly amazing at any of those things. If the monster is attacks faster than a normal human, Badou is not faster than said monster. While he'll usually be able to dodge or run if he sees it coming from a while off, any kind of attack he doesn't see from the beginning - and he has a huge blind spot - will most likely make contact. He isn't elegant either, so he tends to attack blindly and constantly until his opponent goes down or he finds a weak point to exploit. If he knows any kind of street fighting, it's not much.
Badou doesn't seem to register injuries or pain in this state, but having a normal human body means not being able to push it beyond its limits. For example, if someone broke both of his legs, he wouldn't be getting up to chase after them. He would still try to hop after them if they only broke one. If he got dizzy from blood loss, he would ignore it even if he had to stumble into walls to keep going. If he lost so much blood he would be physically unable to move, he would be...Well, physically unable to move. Does that make sense? As long as his body's not broken in some way he'll still keep fighting like a retard.
"Berzerker Mode" would happen only when Badou runs out of nicotine. He's supplied with a single extra patch every night - if it's taken from him before the night is over, or if it runs out too early, he'll likely switch the moment he gets into trouble. One of three things need to happen for him to revert to normal: 1) He finds another cigarette/nicotine patch 2) He kills the enemy 3) He's been going for six posts.
Upon leaving "Berzerker Mode", Badou will be effectively useless/helpless since he'll be feeling the pain of all the injuries he collected very, very suddenly coupled with extreme fatigue.
Room: M74
Age: (Assumed) early twenties
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Green [Wears an eye patch over his right eye]
Height: Average.
Backstory
Dogs takes place not so far into th future, in a dystopian city that extends far beneath the ground. 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. The literal underground is run largely by organized crime, disorganized crime, and anyone who can get their hands on a gun. When Badou was young, just going out on the street in broad daylight was a risk most people didn't take unless they needed to. Not surprisingly, the city wasn't really a great place to live and much of the underground still largely resembles a low-class slum.
Badou kept himself on the right side of the law - or what passed for law - for a good part of his life. He was raised by his brother, who was a journalist/private investigator and the only family he had. Badou's brother became a role model to him. It just happened that all of his habits were poison. Badou learned quickly that his brother was completely goddamn useless at everyday things. He had to learn to cook, clean, sew, swear and whine his way though life on his own. His brother paid the bills. Sometimes. When he remembered.
...Badou learned to run pretty fast too.
Things were alright until his brother found something he probably shouldn't have. The next thing Badou knew, his big brother was gone, disappeared somewhere in the lower strata. 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 went searching for him, carefully looking for leads in the same investigation his brother had started. As this didn't pay at all, he worked in various places in the meantime so he wouldn't die of starvation or, worse, nicotine withdrawal. Likely because of a yet-to-be-revealed traumatic past full of eye-gouging, Badou has apparently picked up many of his brother's bad habits. This includes chain smoking.
When I say chain smoking, I mean he can't breathe normal air anymore and perpetually stinks like the inside of a generously used ash-tray. On the off chance that he does run out of smokes, he goes berserk and causes about as much damage as a raging elephant on LSD. That kind of bad habit. But I digress.
Badou spent some time as an Information Agency/PI, catching stray pets and taking illicit photos of mob bosses and getting his ass kicked. It's uncertain how and when, but along the way he hooked up with a guy named Haine and they started doing commission work for Bishop and a genetically enhanced cat-woman called Granny Liza. While a good portion of the commission work he does is just crap like the aforementioned stray pet hunting, he takes on more dangerous (and high-paying) work when partnered with Haine, 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 facility. He gets caught by, what else, angry mobsters. The mobsters proceed to beat the crap out of him and ask him what he thinks he's snooping for. Badou just keeps asking for cigarettes until Haine shows up to 'save' him from certain death.
Haine breaks in and goes through guns-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 Haine missed on his way through.
He gets another cigarette off one of the dead or nearly-dead mobsters and finds Haine 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 turn them over to 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. Haine 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 Haine. He cautions Badou about not knowing Haine's true nature, and Badou responds with a shrug. Haine might be some kind of weird freak mutant but he's still human. Probably. Badou doesn't really care that much. It's not like Haine's going to eat him in his sleep. He gave up that suspicion after the first few...after a while.
Later on Badou and Haine go to meet with Granny Liza. By chance they meet up with a woman named Naoto who is also searching for information on the world beneath the underground. After questioning them and yielding no results, she goes in as well to ask Granny Liza for information.
Badou and Haine pick up with an arbitration job this time. Another gang is trying to expand its territory and she asks them to go in and do some peace talks. While Badou protests due to a very serious chance of getting a nosebleed, Haine agrees for both of them and leaves him to sort out the details as usual because that's what Haine does.
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 woman who Naoto wants revenge on.
-
Haine and Badou go off to do their arbitration job. It's Haine and Badou and a gang. There's really no possible outcome except flying bullets and some even more ridiculously pissed off gang members in a situation that looks pretty damn familair. The two of them hide behind a pillar Badou freaks out and tells Haine that this isn't his kind of work. Watching a movie and saying he wants to be "hard boiled" is entirely different from spending his days being shot at. Haine, who is busy having some kind of happy zen moment, just rambles about some movie that made him cry. Since this is still an arbitration job, Badou at least tries screaming "Fuck you!" and "Love and peace!" into the chaos.
Badou finally runs out of smokes, and both Badou and Haine snap and turn on the gang members.
As if there wasn't enough chaos already, Loki and Noki show up to fight with Haine and Naoto. They call Haine "big brother" and ask him to play via sharp dangerous things aimed at his face. A full out fire fight breaks out between the five of them and Badou starts screaming, "Family should not fight! My brothers (and sisters)!!! All of you guys shut up and fuck off!!!"
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, Haine and Naoto do some crazy flying monkey shit and they all fight for a while until Loki and Noki flee. Their buddy-buddy act doesn’t last beyond the fight, and Badou finds himself playing mediator between Haine 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 talks them into going to get changed at least so they don't get arrested for wondering around covered in blood and crap in broad daylight.
Before they can leave an officer (an old acquaintance of Badou's) stops them to say hello. 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. His brother really is dead. He pulls up his eye patch 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. It looks like things are starting to heat up. Once Naoto and Haine have changed, Badou warns Naoto again not to go stirring up trouble where she doesn’t know anything and prompts Haine 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 Haine is a crazy bitch and he doesn’t need his life to be artificially shortened, really. He points out that those kids who were calling Haine brother didn't seem like biological siblings and asks for the story about the "neck ring" (a large piece of metal in the back of Haine's neck, often referred to as his collar).
Haine says Naoto doesn’t have a neck ring, but he begins to tell the story of his past. Badou learns that Haine 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. There were many other children in the facility but, according to Haine, all of them are gone now.
A woman named Angelica Einstellshen acted as their "physician". She entered the room with a giant beast-creature that attacked the first few children, but once she stopped it their bodies healed within seconds. It's assumed that Einstellshen is the one who altered the children's bodies to make them into weapons.
She proceeded to mindfuck Haine while they watched her beast tear apart the other children, telling her she will give him all of her love if he awakens. He does awaken and kill Einstellshen's other two beasts, and by the end of it only he and a young girl are still able to speak. The other children were either killed or traumatized.
Badou thinks the whole thing sounds like bad comic book story that doesn’t make any sense. When Naoto asks about how to get in, Haine says he doesn’t know anymore.
So once again, they hit a dead end and Naoto and Haine resume their death-by-eye-contact match. Badou ignores them and goes all Martha Stuart Mode on the clothes Nill was trying to repair. Apparently he sews with expert ease…much to the shock (and amusement) of Naoto and Haine who are, collectively, a bag of dicks for bonding over the loss of his Macho Man Points.
Suddenly, an explosion shakes the church!
Naoto and Haine take off at a run, leaving Badou to WTF at their quickly disappearing asses.
Personality
TBA
At Landel's
Powers: No guns make Badou a sad panda. :< Here's a detailed/altered power section for the game.
As dubbed by Erin, "Berzerker Mode": As far as I know, Badou is a normal human. That means no abnormally enhanced speed, power, or megadeathlazer action. (Outside of Berzerker Mode, he's an exceptionally good runner since he's been doing it most of his life and he has great stamina. He can outrun most (human) mafia guys out to kill him and still have room for a bag of Doritos.) If this changes as the manga goes on, we'll say it's been reduced to normal due to Landel's Magic to keep things consistent. Therefore, I'm going to chalk up a lot of his fighting in "Berzerker Mode" to skill and a fairly strong shot of adrenaline.
When Badou runs out of cigarettes, it's the only time we actually see him use his more spectacular skills. He's an amazing shot even in a firestorm so his reflexes and skills are good enough to keep him from sprouting any bullet holes, even if it's partially because the other team is too freaked out by him to shoot properly. (The other team is most often regular humans.) In Landel's terms, it's the same deal as a good swordsman; he'd know which way to dodge to protect vital points and when to attack but he's not particularly amazing at any of those things. If the monster is attacks faster than a normal human, Badou is not faster than said monster. While he'll usually be able to dodge or run if he sees it coming from a while off, any kind of attack he doesn't see from the beginning - and he has a huge blind spot - will most likely make contact. He isn't elegant either, so he tends to attack blindly and constantly until his opponent goes down or he finds a weak point to exploit. If he knows any kind of street fighting, it's not much.
Badou doesn't seem to register injuries or pain in this state, but having a normal human body means not being able to push it beyond its limits. For example, if someone broke both of his legs, he wouldn't be getting up to chase after them. He would still try to hop after them if they only broke one. If he got dizzy from blood loss, he would ignore it even if he had to stumble into walls to keep going. If he lost so much blood he would be physically unable to move, he would be...Well, physically unable to move. Does that make sense? As long as his body's not broken in some way he'll still keep fighting like a retard.
"Berzerker Mode" would happen only when Badou runs out of nicotine. He's supplied with a single extra patch every night - if it's taken from him before the night is over, or if it runs out too early, he'll likely switch the moment he gets into trouble. One of three things need to happen for him to revert to normal: 1) He finds another cigarette/nicotine patch 2) He kills the enemy 3) He's been going for six posts.
Upon leaving "Berzerker Mode", Badou will be effectively useless/helpless since he'll be feeling the pain of all the injuries he collected very, very suddenly coupled with extreme fatigue.
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