Buddy | |||
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A young woman aching to explore her life, her power, and her freedom. | |||
Party Member | |||
Full Name | Buddy Armstrong (born: Nancy Yado) | ||
Nickname | Buddy | ||
Class | Wanderer | ||
Race | Human | ||
Sex | Female | ||
Relationships | Brad Armstrong - Adoptive Father Richard Weeks - Adoptive Uncle Sticky Angoneli - Adoptive Uncle Cheeks Gaywood - Adoptive Uncle Rando - Adoptive Brother Dr. Yado - Biological Father Mrs. Yado - Mother (deceased) | ||
Gameplay | |||
Appearances | LISA: The Joyful | ||
Equip Types | |||
Weapon Types | Sword | ||
Armor Types | Accessory / Poncho / Bandages | ||
Skill Types | Skills | ||
Traits | |||
Target Rate | 100% | ||
Evasion | 5% | ||
Hit Rate | 95% | ||
Crit Chance | 4% | ||
Features | |||
State Resist: Dead |
- "... Rando. I was born into THIS Olathe, not whatever place you're talking about. This is my normal. I'm not a baby, and I'm sure as hell not some dumb country kid. Now let me sleep. So tomorrow I'll have lots of energy to go out and 'play'. "
- ―Buddy talking to Rando
Buddy is the adopted daughter of Brad Armstrong, and the only known female in Olathe. She plays a major role in the story, as her kidnapping kick starts the plot of the game. She is also the protagonist of the expansion, LISA: THE JOYFUL.
Background[]
Name: Buddy
Fighting Art: Survival Based Attacks
Past Occupation: None
Likes: The Sky
Favorite Food: An expired candy bar that Cheeks gave her once.
Most Hated Thing: Feeling Trapped
Buddy is wildly curious.
Appearance and Personality[]
Buddy is first seen as a baby when discovered by Brad, and as she gets older she has long hair, a pink poncho, and occasionally a mask when going outside with Brad. Throughout the course of the game her appearance changes bit by bit; over time her poncho becomes ripped, her hair is up in a ponytail, and she's suffered a huge gash across her left eye. Several masks are available to Buddy as cosmetic choices as they become obtained, a Red Skull Mask, a mask with a depiction of Terry Hintz's face, and a Joy Mask.
She is at first happy and curious about the outside world, oblivious to the danger being outside poses. As time goes on, she expresses that she wants to make her own decisions instead of being under someone else's control. Typical of any child her age, Buddy has very strong emotions and is prone to stubbornness while also being playful and inquisitive. At the start of LISA: The Joyful, her primary motivation is revenge. Her sense of determination is best shown when telling Rando that his only options with regards to her are to help her or get out of her way.
The story often compares her to Brad and the twos' actions and journeys directly parallel one another. They are both at heart kind and good people in extremely unfavorable circumstances with their perceptions and motivations clouded by trauma and an inability to properly connect with others. Buddy eventually comes to realize that Brad truly did care for her and vice versa, a revelation which shakes and confuses her goals. Whether she attempts to move past the guilt or wallow in her own sorrow is the player's choice and one that directly correlates to the ending they are awarded; Buddy's other choices also affect the epilogue subsequent to said ending.
As you progress through the game her opinion of Brad also becomes very negative, primarily due to his violent actions and her understanding of the situation behind them. She is told by everyone around her that she is the most important thing alive and Brad seems to ignore that for his own goals. Buddy is also told about Brad's addiction to Joy and whether you choose to keep taking joy or not does not affect the outcome when it comes to Buddy's view of Brad.
Battle[]
Buddy is a nimble character, whose best skill is dishing out high damage. Her main quirk is time attacks, which if timed correctly will deal critical hits. She later gains a strong healing skill, along with skills that can stun and poison the enemies. She is a TP character, and all of her skills cost 5-20 TP.
However, if her timed attacks are hit too soon (or too late), they won't crit. She also lacks any group damage skills, meaning she's best fit for one-on-one battles.
Skills[]
Skill Name | Description | Level Learned | TP Cost |
Stab | A quick and jarring stab. | 1 | 0 |
Decisive Stab | A well placed and deadly stab. It's difficult to land this finishing blow. | 1 | 10 |
Flash | Show your bare chest to enemies. Can sometimes fluster them. | 10 | 10 |
Throat Lunge | A visceral slash to the throat. It's difficult to land this finishing blow. | 13 | 15 |
Sleep Bomb | A smoke bomb that contains sleeping powder. It's a 50/50 chance at putting the enemy to sleep. | 15 | 5 |
Wild Strikes | A flash of random wild thrusts. | 17 | 12 |
Mend | Take a deep breath and recover some HP. | 18 | 7 |
Leech Bomb | A smoke bomb that contains poison powder. It's a 50/50 chance at poisoning the enemy. | 19 | 8 |
Joker Strikes | A flash of even more random wild thrusts. | 20 | 17 |
Final Stab | A well placed and deadly stab. It's difficult to land this finishing blow. | 21 | 10 |
Behead | A visceral slash to the throat. It's difficult to land this finishing blow. | 22 | 15 |
Statistics[]
Statistics analysis
Core Statistics | |||||||||
Level | HP | SP | ATK | DEF | SATK | SDEF | AGI | LUCK | |
5 | 800 | 90 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 49 | 32 |
Story[]
Buddy was named Nancy Yado, daughter of Dr. Yado, who was born solely to spark a war that will break mankind's spirit and shape the world in Yado's image. All of the inciting events in Lisa: The Painful were part of Yado's plan to create a world full of mutants, and that Buddy was a mere catalyst.
LISA: THE PAINFUL[]
Buddy is first discovered as an infant in a lonely desert by Brad Armstrong. He takes her in and, with some difficulties, raises her as his daughter. For the most part the two are able to rely on one another well enough though Brad still struggles with his trauma. Brad comes home one day to find that his house lies in ruins, his friend Cheeks dying soon after with Rick, Sticky, and most importantly, Buddy herself, all nowhere to be found.
After Brad defeats Wally, he enters a small cave and finds Buddy. She asks where Brad has been and insists Sticky told her to stay put before Brad scares her into coming with. Immediately after leaving the cave, there is an ambush from Buzzo, who force-feeds Brad three doses of Joy, causing him pass out. Buddy escapes from everyone at the scene and flees to the Deserted Island, where she meets an old and withered Marty Armstrong. Brad discovers the two and attacks Marty. Buddy jumps in front of Marty to protect him, but Brad kicks her across the room. As Brad is fighting Marty, Buddy jumps in front of Marty again but is attacked by Brad knocking her out of the way, again. She then flees the island, with Brad to chasing after her to the heart of Rando territory, Rando Land.
Near the end of the game, Buddy is grabbed by Mr. Angoneli who uses metal claws to slice across Buddy's left eye. He believes that he has left his mark on the world by scarring Buddy's face. Before Mr. Angoneli can do any more damage, Brad kills him while Buddy flees even further into Rando's territory.
Brad then chases Buddy until they meet what remains of the Rando army, as well as Rando himself. Buddy runs past the soldiers to stand beside Rando. Brad then slaughters every last soldier and severely beats up Rando, he attempts to reconcile with Buddy only for her to completely and utterly reject him as a father figure and friend. It is at this point that the game ends with Brad mutating and approaching an unconscious Buddy, and JOYFUL begins soon after.
LISA: THE JOYFUL[]
Read more: LISA: THE JOYFUL
Buddy wakes up to a mutated Brad approaching her and proceeds to back. Their encounter interrupted by Buzzo, who puts a rope around Brad's neck and takes him away. She flees from the carnage caused by Brad at the end of the Painful, encountering a group of raiders lead by a man named Bolo. Rando appears and politely requests they leave Buddy alone. Bolo's men prepare to attack before a massive Joy Mutant ambushes the raiders, giving Buddy and Rando the opportunity to escape. The two hide in a nearby cave as Rando asks if Buddy trusts. The player can agree to trust him and join Rando's party or refuse to which Rando will join Buddy's party instead.
Rando and Buddy enter a cave on the way to a shelter and are seemingly ambushed. It's soon revealed the ambush was actually Rando's friends, the Unics. They had tied up and knocked out Buddy in an attempt to restrain her because she was "so violent". The Unics also killing one of their members named Dale after he attempted something with Buddy while she was tied up. Once Buddy reawakened, she killed all the Unics she could before Rando joined her once more.
As the two go to pass by the list The List, the major divider between Western and Eastern Olathe, Rando explains its purpose: a sort of scoreboard among the warlords of Eastern Olathe, with the strongest at the top and the weakest at the bottom. Buddy resolves that she get her name to the top of The List by taking out everyone she needs to.
Near the halfway point of the game, the two come upon the corpse of a mutated Bob Friday, the one member of the Unics that got away. Rando attempts to convince Buddy that all this slaughter isn't helping and she should strive for peace. Buddy retorts saying that she is showing the men of Olathe the same compassion they show her and that she would've been "beaten and raped countless times by now" if she wasn't standing up for herself. After this argument, Buddy lays down to rest only to wake up and see that Rando is missing. She goes to fight the final warlords on The List alone.
As Buddy continues on she once again encounters Rando after he had been attacked by Bolo's gang. She finds him suspended over a pit, tied up in barbed wire, and attempts to save him; despite him begging her to let go. Bolo appears and his intentions are made obvious as he approaches Buddy, who is stuck holding onto the barbed wire rope keeping Rando from dropping into the pit. It is at this point that the player makes a choice between letting Rando go and holding onto the barbed wire.
Hold On[]
As Rando shouts at Buddy to let go of the wire, Buddy calmly tells him that it'll be fine since she's going to save him. The screen pans to the left as Bolo approaches Buddy, but before anything can happen, the large Joy Mutant from earlier swoops and kills Bolo. Rando tells Buddy the truth about the Unics and how they were his friends and Buddy lets him fall to the bottom of the pit, leaving him severely injured. Buddy can then go down into the pit and finish him off.
Let Go[]
Before Buddy lets go of the wire, she apologizes to Rando for doing so, and Rando says he understands before he falls. Buddy then sets her sights on Bolo and begins a fight with him. (If you do choose to let go and fight Bolo, beware that he can cause de-buffs like fallen, and his moves are high damage.) Buddy can then go down into the pit and find Rando dead.
Completing The List[]
After all of the leaders of Olathe are dead, Buddy heads west of The List, and finds Yado playing his trumpet, standing next to the large Joy Mutant from before named Sweetheart. Yado, surprised that Buddy has made it to this point, commands Sweetheart to attack Buddy. Before Buddy can kill the mutant, Buzzo takes over for her, and urges Buddy to find Yado and retrieve the vaccine that will stop her from undergoing a Joy mutation.
Heeding Buzzo's advice, Buddy continues on and finds Yado, who is perched upon a throne made of mutant flesh. Buddy insists she wants the throne, despite Yado's refusal to fight her. After Yado has been damaged a bit, Buddy's head starts to hurt, and Yado begins to attack, dealing fairly large amounts of damage himself. Once he's taken enough damage in this form, Buddy hallucinates she is fighting a distorted Rando holding a flower. After defeating "Rando", (And Yado in the process) Buddy hallucinates about Brad. She fights the Brad hallucination as he slowly changes from his younger self to how he looked after fighting the Rando army, never hurting Buddy.
When the hallucination stops, Buddy is standing in front of an injured Yado and his dismembered throne of flesh. Buddy questions Yado as to who he is, and he reveals that he is her biological father, the creator of the Joy-filled world she lives in. Before he can say any more, Yado is knocked off the ledge by a sword thrown by Buzzo, who is severely injured from his fight with Sweetheart. Buddy questions him as to whether Yado is actually her father. Buzzo assures her that Yado was just a crazy old man, adding that Buddy gave Brad true purpose. Buzzo apologizes to Buddy before slowly mutating from his Joy consumption.
After defeating Buzzo, Buddy is stopped from taking Yado's vaccine by a hallucination of Rando and Brad, both urging her to stay and mutate, becoming the queen of Olathe. Here, the player may make a choice to Leave them (Take the vaccine) or Join them. (Mutate)
Inoculated Ending[]
Buddy takes the vaccine and does not transform into a mutant. She goes on to use Yado's trumpet seemingly to control what remains of the Joy Mutants around Olathe. Buddy also buries Rando and births a son. Mutant Brad is present as well although he may just be a hallucination.
Mutated Ending[]
Buddy is seen standing in the same valley as the Vaccinated ending, but she is a towering mutant instead. Mutant Brad is seen torn in half, with each half thrown to opposite ends of the valley. Mutant Buddy is seen looming over Dustin's corpse, obsessing over something as all Joy Mutants do. Additionally, she can be seen holding a child in her hand, who appears to be the same child shown in the Inoculated Ending.
Trivia[]
- In the LISA Gameplay trailer, Buddy, who is wearing her mask, is seen asking Brad, Rick, Sticky and Cheeks if they are going after the killer of Mr. Collins.
- Buddy has Northern Asian and Russian ancestry. [1]
- Buddy is Dingaling's least favorite main character. [2]
- Buddy's parents are Dr. Yado and the dead woman in the Joy Lab. [3]
- Dingaling is not sure if she could beat Satan. [4]
- Buddy is a pubescent child. [5]
- Buddy has a messiah complex. [6]
- Part of Yado's plan was Brad finding Buddy. [7]
- Buddy was too new to taking Joy to be affected by withdrawal. [8]
- In the very beginning of The Painful RPG you can investigate the inside of Brad's house after you find Cheeks dead. On top of a dresser is a dead man with a rusty knife buried in his chest. After watching the opening of The Joyful and seeing how Brad "trained" Buddy to survive in Olathe, its safe to assume Buddy wasn't kidnapped without a fight.
- Austin always envisioned Buddy with a big nose.[9]
References[]
- ↑ @Dingalinggames are brad and buddy any specific ethnicity?
- ↑ @Dingalinggames Who is the absolute worst person in any game you've made?
- ↑ @Dingalinggames is there a confirm on who Sweetheart is? And who are Buddy's parents
- ↑ @Dingalinggames Could Buddy defeat Satan/Mike?
- ↑ @Dingalinggames How old is Buddy? I keep seeing fanart with her boobs hanging out of a napkin sized poncho, its freaking me out
- ↑ @Dingalinggames Love The Way Buddy Is portrayed in Joyful incredibly realistic to Her Situation. Does she have a Bit of a Messiah complex?
- ↑ @Dingalinggames Was Brad finding Buddy part of Yado's plan all along? Buzzo does say he made a deal with Yado so he could keep Brad.
- ↑ @Dingalinggames Festus love. <3 Quick question. For balance, did you not give Buddy the withdrawal status to encourage people to use Joy?
- ↑ Was there any specific inspiration from other games/media for Buddy's design and gameplay in Joyful? I was always curious about her looks being similar to those of a samurai (like her hair).
Brad Armstrong • Rando • Buzzo • Buddy • Lisa • Marty Armstrong | |
Terry Hintz • Crisp Ladaddy • RT • Rooster Coleman • Olan Hoyt • Nern Guan • Rage Ironhead • Percy Monsoon • Mad Dog • Shocklord • Fardy Hernandez • Queen Roger • Carp • Harvey Alibastor • Clint Olympic • Buckets • Buffalo Van Dyke • Tiger Man • Ollie Nickels • Geese Thompson • Dick Dickson • Jack • Sonny Backluwitz • Yazan Barghouti • Beastborn • Fly Minetti • Ajeet Mandeep • Garth • Bo Wyatt • Birdie Hall | |
Dr. Yado • Richard "Rick" Weeks • Tony "Sticky" Angoneli • Cheeks Gaywood • Columbo |