Buddy Pine || 29 || Human || Ryan Cooper || MOST WANTED
Buddy Pine doesn’t have a cool back story. He was born to a mother and a father, who loved him even as their marriage fell apart. He knew the moment they started pulling away from each other that something was wrong. His mother would work late, his father would stay up in his study with the door shut and locked. Buddy was left to basically raise himself. He grew up glued to the TV — or, more accurately, he grew up glued to the story of a hero. A vigilante man in a mask who saved people from bad guys.
Buddy began to idolize this man, picturing himself saving people just like “Mr. Incredible”. He wanted to do what that man did. He wanted to be big and strong and just like the man he saw on the TV. When “Mr. Incredible” was supposed to be coming to town for a press conference, he begged and pleaded with his parents to take him. This might be his only chance to meet a real life superhero.
And he did. He got an autograph and a picture, but that wasn’t enough for Buddy. While his parents were distracted — fighting again — he slipped off, going back to find his hero. When he did, he found “Mr. Incredible” with his mask off, complaining into a phone about having to do the conference. The more he listened, the angrier he became. Still, he gave his hero the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was a bad day?
When Buddy stepped up to “Mr. Incredible”, he began to ramble on about how much he loved the man, how much he wanted to be like him. He told the man about his plans to be just like him when he got older, and that’s when things took a turn for the worst. “Mr. Incredible” shot him down, telling him over and over that Buddy would never be like him. That he shouldn’t even try. That it was too dangerous for someone like Buddy to do what he did.
Buddy was crushed. He went home in a depression. He was surrounded by “Mr. Incredible” at home. Newspaper clippings decorated his walls, and the more he looked at them, the more his love turned to hate. How dare that man say he couldn’t do anything? That he couldn’t help people? He could be just as great or better than “Mr. Incredible”. That day forward he set out to do just that. He took every kind of self defense his parents would pay for, he went to school and got more degrees than he probably deserved.
He’d almost forgotten about “Mr. Incredible” until he saw a documentary about him. It ended on a cliffhanger, as no one knew where he’d gone. But Buddy wasn’t going to have that. He sought out someone who could find out, and found a woman by the name of Mirage. She said she was good at finding people who didn’t want to be found and, sure enough, she found him. “Mr. Incredible” was married, had two kids, and had another on the way.
Buddy moved to Disney, bringing his partner-in-crime with him. “Mr. Incredible” was living a happy life, unaware that he’d ruined Buddy’s. As payback, Buddy positioned himself to become close to the man’s oldest child. He would get his revenge on the father through the daughter, and maybe even the son.
Mirage is his best friend.
Bob Parr is someone he hates.