Randy "Buddy" Rand

This page needs further construction and has not yet been reviewed and edited. More images need to be added and the page needs to be reformatted to fit closer to the general formality of ChaCha and Pyoko's page. Some Grammar needs to be fixed. -Snow_Booper Randy "Buddy" Rand (ランディ・ランド [ボク] Randei Rando [Boku]) is a major character in the BuBu

ChaCha series. The son of amongus kill randy buddy randowner, ChaCha was immediately captivated with Buddy ever since he was born, and the two became the best of friends. One day, Buddy is playing with a toy car that his father gave him, and he wanders into the street. ChaCha sprints to his owner's rescue, but tragically is hit by a car in the process. As a result, ChaCha is killed on the spot, and Buddy is devastated. Buddy goes into his family's garage that evening and makes a remarkable discovery: ChaCha's spirit had entered the now-living toy car. They then decide to keep ChaCha's return a secret, and go on to live and venture out into Green Hill Town and beyond.

Background
Prior to ChaCha's reincarnation, Buddy's life was rather typical for a young child. Born to doting parents, Buddy was clearly loved by all of those around him, including ChaCha. Just as at age three, Buddy lived with his parents and ChaCha. However, Buddy was markedly less mature prior to ChaCha's return due to his younger age.

Personality
Buddy's personality, though typical for a three-year-old, causes viewers to immediately relate with him. In the Japanese original, he is exclusively referred to as "Boku", a Japanese word for "I". The English official website supports the theory that Buddy could be a partial placeholder for the viewer, as it is stated that one of BuBu ChaCha's purposes is to make the viewer "once again...feel like a child".

As a three-year-old, Buddy is naturally curious. During the course of his journeys with ChaCha, Buddy's thirst for knowledge is quenched by his new-found discoveries about the world. ChaCha's input and explanations of their adventures also contributes to Buddy to learn more and more about life.

Even with his gradual maturation, Buddy is still emotionally naive. Like most three-year-olds, Buddy reacts to dissapointment and pain by crying. This habit of Buddy's is evident in many episodes, especially when compared to similarly-aged characters as Mary, Nick, and Terry. However, this could be not because Buddy is necessarily more sensitive than his peers, but because he is a more central character in the series.

ChaCha
Although Buddy is friendly to all, ChaCha is likely Buddy's closest friend. Even prior to ChaCha's reincarntion, Buddy and ChaCha were inseperable. ChaCha even loved the newborn Buddy to the point of alienating his prior best friend, Bull.

After ChaCha's return, the duo became even closer. As ChaCha could speak to humans in his toy car form, their relationship further improved. With their communication improved, Buddy and ChaCha would go on various journeys

together.

During these adventures, ChaCha would assume the role of a teacher, or perhaps an older brother. Notably, several Japanese sources point to ChaCha's name reflecting his role in Buddy's life. "Chacha" is the Urdu word for "uncle", and one of the series' creators, Iku, is conversant in Urdu and spoke it around his originally Pakistani family.

Mary
Aside from ChaCha and his parents, Mary is likely the friend that Buddy encounters the most often. Due to Mary being Buddy's next-door neighbor, Buddy has a habit of crossing paths with Mary.

Mary takes advantage of her physical proximity to Buddy by interacting with him frequently. Oftentimes, Mary does this in a rather hostile manner. For example, Mary intentionally refers to Buddy by the wrong name. In the English dub, she has called Buddy names such as "Steve" and "Anthony". Buddy barely notices this quirk of Mary's; at most he will correct his neighbor and move on.

Mary also shows aggression towards Buddy in other ways. Fitting in with her precocious personality, Mary frequently will demean Buddy by telling him that he is playing dumb, and that he should already know the things that she tells him.

The series implies that this behavior is due to Mary having a crush on Buddy. In that case, Mary's anger towards Buddy are just the symptoms of a childhood crush that Buddy appears to be oblivious to.

When not channeling her feelings for Buddy through faux frustration, Mary will sometimes fall into depression over events in her family. At one point, Mary runs away from home due to her parents' quarrels. In another episode, Mary feels saddened over her parents apparently abandonning her due to their frequent arguments. Much later, Mary has a sense of insecurity over becoming an older sister, and takes this out on Buddy. As long as Mary is not demeaning him in the process, Buddy will console Mary on her troubles.

Additionally, Mary is typically the character who incites Buddy's natural curiosity by talking to him about the unusual. Once, Mary noticed that a baby dinosaur was in Green Hill Town's local park, and passed her observation on to Buddy. Later in the series, Mary tells Buddy of a snow prince in the sky, and he investigates this as well.

Mom
As Buddy is still a young child, his relationship with his mother is intimate. Buddy obviously loves his mother, and Connie clearly shares that sentiment for her son. When Buddy is feeling down, Mom is usually the first one to take action by comforting him. For example, when Buddy is deeply upset over Nick and Terry chasing Tau away from his favorite reading bench in the park, Connie soothes Buddy as he cries in her lap. Also, after being startled by a ghost story that Dad told Buddy, Mom not just scolded her husband, but gave Buddy a hug.

However, Mom's love for her son does not make her immune to occasionally upsetting her son. Just before Green Hill Town's masquerade contest, Connie makes Buddy a bridesmade costume. Once he realizes what his mother dressed him as, Buddy storms off to his room, as he knows that he is male, and therefore clearly not a "princess".