Martín Buenavista

"You've always made me proud, even if you were away from me." - **Martín** to Léa in Beyond Worlds: Azul.

## Biographical Information

### Home

Manila, Philippines (formerly), Pasadena, California

## Relationships

### Family

Lianne Akamine (ex-wife), Léa Navarro (daughter), Red Ordonia (daughter)

### Love Interest(s)

Lianne Akamine (formerly), Meredith Ordonia (formerly)

## Production Information

### Debut

Beyond Worlds

**Martín Buenavista** is Léa Navarro's biological father, as well as Red Ordonia's. He was also the ex-husband of **Lianne Akamine** before she marries **Julius Navarro**. Martín is an antagonist of Beyond Worlds along with Robert Callaghan, and he was one of the tritagonists of Beyond Worlds: Azul. He is a robotics engineer, and he was known to be one of the scientists who studied Xenorium, a new element, and he developed it to power the electric toys he gives her daughter to play with, namely Copper. Martín was also the one who engineered Lia to replace her daughter.

## **BACKGROUND**

Martín was married to **Lianne Akamine** and already had their daughter when Martín decided to cheat on his wife with another woman, **Meredith Ordonia**, who would later be pregnant with Red. Upon knowing that he cheated, Lianne divorces Martín and got full custody of their daughter. Martín kidnaps their daughter to raise as his own, hiding out in an isolated part of Manila, Philippines. When the daughter turns 7, a new police recruit, **Julius Navarro**, catches him and charges him with 10 years of imprisonment for interfering with child custody.

## **PERSONALITY**

According to Léa, Martín was a man who didn't care for anything else besides what he wants and gives false promises and commitments to other people and hurt them the second he was done with them, like how Martín cheated on his wife, **Lianne**, just months after Léa was born. Although he didn't actually love Lianne, he loved Léa to the extent that he had to kidnap her and raise her in secret while hiding from the police so she wouldn't be taken away from him. He even manipulates and bribes Léa with the toys he makes for her, like Copper, to make her stay. Martín becomes attached to his own daughter that he plans to make a "clone" of hers to replace her absence, resulting in Lia.

Eventually, after realizing that Martín only needs professional and medical help and that he actually loves her, Léa figures out that he means well even if he did wrong things. Martín promises to change for Léa's benefit, apologizing that he shouldn't have done what he did. He even destroys her daughter's android clone to prove his point that he would never do such a thing anymore.

## **PHYSICAL APPEARANCE**

Martín is around 5'6" in height, and he was mentioned to have graying hair among his black locks. The writers would like to imagine him wearing glasses behind his russet brown eyes. By the time he was back in Léa's life when he moved to Pasadena with Lia, he would've been wearing a polo shirt under a black jacket, and bluish-black pants with rubber shoes.

## **TRIVIAS**

* Beyond Worlds had Martín portrayed as an antagonist, working alongside Callaghan to make Léa's life more miserable for choosing her step-family more than him- Martín wasn't even given a name back then. In Beyond Worlds: Azul, he was now named, and that he wasn't planned to be the antagonist of the series anymore. That role was given to Lia.
* As shown in the *Epilogue* of the reboot, Martín and Hiro would be very close because of their similar occupations- although Hiro would still be smarter than Martín by a long shot.
* Léa and Red both look like their mothers, and both of them are quick-tempered. This could mean that they must've inherited their temper from Martín, because both **Lianne** and **Meredith** are portrayed as calm and understanding.