Canon info
History:
A part-time store clerk and private investigator, Badou is a friend and accomplice (of sorts) to Heine Rammsteiner.
Although the particulars of Badou's connection to the Underground which extends far beneath his home city remain somewhat hazy, we know that his elder brother, a freelance journalist with whom Badou worked in his youth, attempted to investigate the world beneath, trying to uncover the truth behind the disappearances and violence which plagued the city. The investigation cost Badou's brother his life, while in the same attack Badou's right hand and eye were run through, leaving both scarred and the latter useless.
Though he recovered over time, clearly his brother's death seven years ago remains one of the key events in Badou's life. It is largely due to his brother's influence that Badou chain-smokes the way he does, and seemingly his elder brother is the inspiration behind Badou's claim to want to lead "a hard boiled life."
This purported desire is motivation if not always for the actions Badou takes, then at least for the stylistics with which he approaches many of them. After a mishap on one PI job during which he was distracted by $5000 worth of reward money for a missing cat, Badou "drops in" on Domino Borudoune, the head of the west 4th street family, bottoming in an S&M scene and takes the opportunity to snap a few pictures. In the ensuing showdown Badou comes out on top, while Borudoune loses everything.
When Heine raids Marcel Carselino's place to rescue the young mutant girl, Nill, Badou is his backup, making him an enemy of that crime family, members of which would have subsequently killed him had Heine not come to save his ass. They continue to try when opportunity arises, which it does fairly regularly, since Badou's not one to cower or go into hiding for the sake of staying out of trouble.
Subsequently hired by the Priest and then by an old lady named Miss Liza who fosters local mutants, Badou begins to investigate some of the more recent local disappearances. He thus starts to retrace the threads initially left loose after his brother's death, threads which, it seems, will weave parts of his own history with Heine's and with others' with ties to the Underground: he hears Giovanni named as the solicitor of the recent kidnappings, begins to unravel the links with Naoto's past, and is finally approached by the man responsible for the loss of his eye and for his brother's murder.
Invited anonymously by the latter to a live symphony performance, Badou attends with the objective of learning something further in his investigation, but given his shameless disinterest in classical music he spends most of the performance asleep in his seat….
Personality:
Badou is a pretty tough nut to crack…so long as he's got a cigarette between his lips, that is. A chronic-one might fairly say compulsive-chain smoker, Badou would prefer to be able to stay calm, levelheaded, and a bit emotionally disengaged, but when his temper breaks, it breaks big. The quickest route to explosion is to deprive him of nicotine: too long without smokes and he'll come out of any corner he's backed into with guns blazing. Literally. And when provoked he's a fierce and utterly fearless opponent.
He's not always so obviously badass though. In fact it wouldn't be unfair to characterize him as (hyperbolically, rather than clinically) bipolar: quiet and pensive one moment, hyper and explosive the next, he seems to flit between a near-brooding internalization of his troubles and over-the-top extrovert hyperactivity, between streaming tears and unflinching audacity. At times this makes him seem to have taken a page (or several) from the book of Scooby Doo's Shaggy, but Badou's slapstick is always interspersed with the fact that, at the end of the day, he is neither incapable nor an idiot.
Even though he sometimes acts like he doesn't, Badou has street smarts and a fair bit of pragmatism: he's learned domestic skills like sewing because they were things that he needed to know and he doesn't seem to give a damn what anyone thinks of him for stuff like that so long as his way of doing things works for him.
A part-time store clerk and private investigator, Badou is a friend and accomplice (of sorts) to Heine Rammsteiner.
Although the particulars of Badou's connection to the Underground which extends far beneath his home city remain somewhat hazy, we know that his elder brother, a freelance journalist with whom Badou worked in his youth, attempted to investigate the world beneath, trying to uncover the truth behind the disappearances and violence which plagued the city. The investigation cost Badou's brother his life, while in the same attack Badou's right hand and eye were run through, leaving both scarred and the latter useless.
Though he recovered over time, clearly his brother's death seven years ago remains one of the key events in Badou's life. It is largely due to his brother's influence that Badou chain-smokes the way he does, and seemingly his elder brother is the inspiration behind Badou's claim to want to lead "a hard boiled life."
This purported desire is motivation if not always for the actions Badou takes, then at least for the stylistics with which he approaches many of them. After a mishap on one PI job during which he was distracted by $5000 worth of reward money for a missing cat, Badou "drops in" on Domino Borudoune, the head of the west 4th street family, bottoming in an S&M scene and takes the opportunity to snap a few pictures. In the ensuing showdown Badou comes out on top, while Borudoune loses everything.
When Heine raids Marcel Carselino's place to rescue the young mutant girl, Nill, Badou is his backup, making him an enemy of that crime family, members of which would have subsequently killed him had Heine not come to save his ass. They continue to try when opportunity arises, which it does fairly regularly, since Badou's not one to cower or go into hiding for the sake of staying out of trouble.
Subsequently hired by the Priest and then by an old lady named Miss Liza who fosters local mutants, Badou begins to investigate some of the more recent local disappearances. He thus starts to retrace the threads initially left loose after his brother's death, threads which, it seems, will weave parts of his own history with Heine's and with others' with ties to the Underground: he hears Giovanni named as the solicitor of the recent kidnappings, begins to unravel the links with Naoto's past, and is finally approached by the man responsible for the loss of his eye and for his brother's murder.
Invited anonymously by the latter to a live symphony performance, Badou attends with the objective of learning something further in his investigation, but given his shameless disinterest in classical music he spends most of the performance asleep in his seat….
Personality:
Badou is a pretty tough nut to crack…so long as he's got a cigarette between his lips, that is. A chronic-one might fairly say compulsive-chain smoker, Badou would prefer to be able to stay calm, levelheaded, and a bit emotionally disengaged, but when his temper breaks, it breaks big. The quickest route to explosion is to deprive him of nicotine: too long without smokes and he'll come out of any corner he's backed into with guns blazing. Literally. And when provoked he's a fierce and utterly fearless opponent.
He's not always so obviously badass though. In fact it wouldn't be unfair to characterize him as (hyperbolically, rather than clinically) bipolar: quiet and pensive one moment, hyper and explosive the next, he seems to flit between a near-brooding internalization of his troubles and over-the-top extrovert hyperactivity, between streaming tears and unflinching audacity. At times this makes him seem to have taken a page (or several) from the book of Scooby Doo's Shaggy, but Badou's slapstick is always interspersed with the fact that, at the end of the day, he is neither incapable nor an idiot.
Even though he sometimes acts like he doesn't, Badou has street smarts and a fair bit of pragmatism: he's learned domestic skills like sewing because they were things that he needed to know and he doesn't seem to give a damn what anyone thinks of him for stuff like that so long as his way of doing things works for him.