Bambi

* Season 1 & 2
* Season 3

8-11 Months (Season 3)

Anne Boonchuy

Luz Noceda

Ariel

Marcy Wu

Dipper Pines

Mabel Pines

Sasha Waybright

Amity Blight

Preston Northwest

King Andreas

Bambi is the titular main protagonist of *Bambi 1* & *2* and is a main character in The Disney Club. The son of Elaine and The Great Prince of Wildwood Heart Forest, he became friends with an... interesting group of humans and often joins them on their equally interesting adventures.

## Personality

As he is still quite young, Bambi is very naïve and optimistic. He always tries to look on the brighter side of things and is very trusting, as seen by how quickly he became friends with the main gang despite all his mother's warnings about how dangerous Man can be. That said, he's quite shy and insecure (especially over his role as the future Prince of the Forest), never one to try and pick a fight. He also used to be quite reclusive, preferring to stay close to his ever-gentle mother. As he continues to grow and mature over the course of the series, he becomes a lot braver and more outgoing, ready to grab life by the horns and is just as eager as the rest of the gang to go on. He does still get really nervous at times, especially around Faline as he starts to develop romantic feelings for her, but he's generally a lot bolder than when he was.

Even as a child though, Bambi is very thoughtful, polite, and heroic. He's not fearless obviously, but he's incredibly selfless, always willing to stand up and do what's right, often putting his friends' safety before his own, in spite of being a scrawny little fawn makes his bravery outstanding enough to earn him a large amount of respect from his peers.

He's also surprisingly very tactically minded (though possibly by accident). Since he's obviously too young to fight off some of the group's more dangerous foes directly, he'll often lure them into traps the others have set up or at the very least try to use himself as a diversion to divert an opponent's attention. Though when pushed too far, he's not afraid to get his hoofs dirty. He has a long fuse for sure, but push his buttons enough and he will show his ugly side, especially when he's being taunted about his father or when someone threatens his friends.

## Skills

* Agility

As a deer, Bambi is able to run at exceptional speeds and jump great distances. His small stature helps this a great deal, allowing him to crawl and move through small spaces.

* "Observing"

A gift that all Princes of the forest share, Bambi is able to do what his father refers to as "observing" - in essense, he looks, listens and smells for danger all at the same time. This is apparently so the Great Princes can "feel the forest", like feel vibrations through their hooves for abnormalities in forest activity. It took him a good while to develop these skills properly, but Bambi was eventually able to hone these inherited abilities, making them a great way for him to alert his friends to oncoming enemies (though only in forestall areas).

## Relationships

### Elaine

Since birth, Bambi has always loved his mother as much as she loved him. She always took care to watch out for him, to be patient with him and even play with him. Through her he came to know the world and through her trust was allowed to discover new experiences on his own, such as befriending some of the Men (or humans) that lived just outside the forest later discovering snow. He learned many lessons from her: from learning about the joys and dangers of the meadow, to survival during winter, to even knowing about his father, the Great Prince of the Forest, and to knowing to fear (most) Men.

### The Great Prince

Though he is his father, for a long time, Bambi and the Great Prince didn’t connect for the longest time, mostly due to the Prince’s duty of protecting the forest. He obviously looks up to him, he just, for the longest time, didn't know how to do so much as talk with him.

### Faline

Faline is one of Bambi's closest friends and later in life, his significant other.

Of course, you wouldn't get that impression when the two first met. When Bambi first met her, he was taken aback by her very hyper attitude, and only really started playing with her only because his mother insisted.

But as the two fawns have continued to bond and "play" together, they do start to form a genuine friendship.

### Candace Flynn

As she was the first human he ever met face to face, Bambi formed an immediate connection with Candace. When the Young Prince met and joined up with her and her gang of friends a little later into the summer, the two quickly formed a strong friendship, which soon developed into a big sister/little brother-type bond.

### Anne Boonchuy

While he's not as close to her as he is to Candace, Bambi and Anne have a very solid friendship.

### Sasha Waybright

While she can be a little off-putting with how brutal she can be at times (both with her words and her fists), Bambi and Sasha do maintain a very solid friendship.

## Notes

Bambi’s role in the series is mainly to act as both the "animal mascot" and the “little brother” of the gang, acting a source of sweetness and innocence in the midst of utter chaos that has strong ties to practically everyone in the group and sometimes has to be the one to keep the team together, in a dynamic similar to Nemo (another character voiced by Alexander Gould) and the Tank Gang in Finding Nemo. In fact, this is similar to how the writing staff described Bambi in the original film, as “the new guy at school, and they’re showing him around. Just a curious little fawn, very excited about all these new things”.

* However, it *is* important to make sure to not overly caricaturize him so as to make something like SNL's Bambi 2002. Rather, he's meant to act similarly to the Forest Animals in Snow White, where he still acts like a normal fawn that has a few cartoon-y moments like using his tail to grabs things and whatnot, with the only real difference between him and the deer in that movie being that Bambi's able to speak (and of course, that's justified given there was an entire scene in the original dedicated to him saying his first words). He does sometimes sing and dance (or hop around to the beat at least) with the rest of the gang (because c'mon, it's Disney), but that's the most extravagant, unrealistic thing he really does. This even sort of applies to his character development, which is actually inspired by how deer age in real life, with his story picking up after the first three scenes of the original film (his birth, his first steps/words, and his first interactions with Faline and Man) when he's about two months old, which is around the time in their lives that normal fawns are capable of going off on their own without much needing to nurse off of their mothers. Still though, he does stay close to his mother and sleep in the thicket with her until... well, you know... mostly just so he still has a reliable home to go to, at least until... that day.

Due to the nature of the series, Bambi’s personality is based primarily off of how he was presented in Bambi II. Of course, the trigger for his character growth is recontextualized from wanting to impress his father (though that is still a major reason for him wanting to change) to more so just wanting to get braver so he can help out his friends more.

The idea behind giving Bambi and Candace a sort of sibling relationship is to give Candace her own Perry in a sense and allow to be the big sister that she couldn't be with Phineas and Ferb (that's not meant to be a knock against the boys, it's just obvious that they've "matured" pretty well without her influence) and so Bambi has a main guiding hand to help direct him around the rather intimidating world he's stepped out into, as well as another shoulder to lean on and share his woes outside of his parents, especially when... *it* happens.