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Buddy
Buddy is a close friend of Brother, co-founder of the Gullwings and navigator of the airship Celsius in Final Fantasy X-2. Yuna must speak to him when choosing a destination on the airship.
Profile
Appearance
Buddy is an Al Bhed man with dark blond hair who wears a purple shirt and blue pants.
Personality
Buddy acts as the more focused and level-headed counterpart to the erratic Brother. He often gets annoyed by Brother's antics.
Story
Final Fantasy X-2
Buddy was on the airship Fahrenheit with Yuna during her battle with Sin, but is disappointed to discover she does not remember him.
After the start of the Eternal Calm, Buddy and Brother journeyed to Spira's north where they found an airship after being led to it by a gull. Freezing and starving, Buddy and Brother ate the gull to survive. Buddy and Brother salvaged the airship, named it Celsius, and made it the headquarters of their new sphere hunting group, which they called "Gullwings" in honor of the gull.
Buddy keeps supporting the group and acts as a meliorating influence to the hot-headed Brother. He gives the Gullwings' field operatives—Yuna, Rikku and Paine, or "YRP" for short—readings from the Sphere Oscillo-finder and tips on where to find lost spheres. He is usually stationed on the Celsius's cockpit, but when the group delivers the Awesome Sphere to either Youth League or New Yevon, Buddy comes along. After the sphere is delivered, they leave since Buddy receives a distress signal from the Celsius. It is revealed that the Leblanc Syndicate broke into their airship and stole their half of the sphere they obtained from Zanarkand. The Gullwings decide to get three syndicate uniforms to sneak to the manor and take back the stolen sphere.
After the Gullwings and the Leblanc Syndicate discover that Vegnagun is gone, Brother contacts Yuna, telling her that they should go back to Celsius immediately. At the Celsius, Buddy and Brother tell them that fiends are appearing from the temples. They decide to be called "Your Friendly Neighbourhood Gullwings" where they will take out fiends and charging for it. While YRP battles the fiends, Buddy negotiates with the clients. When Yuna returns to the Bevelle Underground from the Farplane in Djose Temple, they contact her and Yuna responds.
They plan to hold a concert to lessen the conflict between the Youth League and New Yevon. Buddy brings Yuna to the Moonflow to ask Tobli for help but he accidentally drops her off at the wrong place. When YRP finally catch up to Tobli, Buddy contacts them, telling them that Brother orders them to bring all of Tobli's Hypello to the airship. Buddy drops the Hypello off to various places in Spira to promote the concert. Buddy then drops YRP to the Thunder Plains while they will pick up the spectators. After they defeat the monster fiend, Buddy drops all the spectators off. YRP return to the airship but Buddy tells them that the Youth League and New Yevon members have been locking horns ever since they got on the airship. After the concert, they see Nooj and Gippal talking via a CommSphere Gippal fixed that they dropped to the Farplane.
The Gullwings decide to go to the Farplane to help Nooj and Baralai and Yuna wants to talk to Shuyin in an attempt to soothe the vengeful shadow. After they destroy Vegnagun and put Shuyin's spirit to rest, the Gullwings decide not to attend the event in Luca held by Nooj, Gippal, and Baralai and they go home to Besaid.
Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~
After landing in Besaid for Tidus and Yuna's reunion, the Celsius malfunctions and even Shinra is stumped on how to repair it. Thus the Gullwings stay in the village. When Buddy, Brother and Shinra talk among themselves in Al Bhed, a man named Briar points Shinra out as a "Bedore" and tries to attack him. Paine and the other Gullwings subdue him and tie him up at the Besaid Temple.
Gameplay
Blitzball
Buddy appears as a member of the "Gull Wings" blitzball team when the Besaid Aurochs allow them to take their place in the new season as they are too busy helping Wakka and Lulu take care of their baby.
Creature Creator
Buddy can be recruited as a party member in the International and HD Remaster versions through the Creature Creator system. To recruit Buddy, the player must set up a Special Monster Pod in one of various locations in Chapter 3, including Besaid and Kilika. Buddy wields a wrench in battle and can use any of the common dresspheres. One of his most useful abilities involves him running behind the enemy and then attacking, making him deal double damage.
Fiend Arena
Buddy is fought in the Fiend Arena in the International and HD Remaster versions, paired up with Brother. His weapon of choice is a large, heavy wrench.
Voice
Buddy is voiced by Ken Taira in Japanese and by Ogie Banks III in English.
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Etymology
Buddy's Japanese name is "Dachi." In Japanese language, "dachi" (だち) or (ダチ) is a shortened version of "tomodachi" (友達, ともだち, or トモダチ), meaning "friend."