Pat (Napat Jindapat)

> *"You always act like a gangster. But a gangster like you always butts into people's business and helps them."*
> *-* Pran to Pat
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**Pat** (full name **Napat Jindapat**) is one of the main characters of Bad Buddy, the president of the Engineering faculty at South Tech University, and Pran's love interest. He is portrayed by Ohm Pawat.

His name in Pran's phone is แค่เพื่อน (kha puen), which means "just a friend," and more notably is the first half of the show's title in Thai. Pran sets this nickname in Episode 1; his nickname in Pat's phone is the second half of the show's title in Thai, although it is unknown when Pat sets this nickname.

He lives in Apartment 444 in Tinidee during most of university.

## Appearance

Pat has black hair and dark brown eyes. Pran often remarks that Pat's eyes are "fierce-looking." Pat is 6'1". His wardrobe is rather colorful, and he most often wears tropical shirts and muscle tees when not at school, with occasional colorful t-shirts. Like other Engineering students, he has a navy blue Engineering faculty uniform, which he often wears with another shirt underneath. Many of his shirts tend to have English lettering with American or other western references, varying from advertising Tim Hortons and Lucky Charms to merely having the words "Baseball Mom" on them. He is seen wearing shorts, jean shorts, jeans, or black or white trousers. He usually wears black converse, and occasionally flip-flops.

As a child, Pat had a bowl cut. During high school, Pat mostly had straight bangs, though it appears middle-parted in a few scenes. Similarly, in university Pat usually has his hair middle or side parted, but in a few scenes he has straight bangs. After he graduates, he usually wears his hair slicked back.

Pat is confident in his body and unashamed in it, shown by how frequently he takes off his shirt in the show, particularly for Pran's appeal. He is muscular and athletic, and works out regularly. Though Pran is seen to favor more lightness and speed during rugby, Pat can run just as fast and is able to catch up with Pran.

He seems to have an affinity for the black and white color combination, as seen in his bag and his apartment in episode 12.

By Episode 12, he is shown to wear a metallic gold-framed leather watch.

Due to Pa's use of the word "hia" for him, it is likely that Pat's family is Thai-Chinese.

## Personality, Hobbies, & Talents

Pat is impulsive, practical, and commanding, at least around his peers. In Episode 1, a food truck vendor refers to him as "someone so icy," and Safe says that Pat is the "boss of his faculty... even [their] seniors don't want to mess with him." However, many of Pat's fronts and ambitions were pressured onto him by Ming, who wanted Pat to follow in his footsteps as a top-class Engineering student and as a rugby player. Ming had also pressured Pat into competing with Pran during their childhood by any means necessary. Due in part to this, Pat is intelligent, athletically talented, charismatic, proactive, confident, musically gifted, and a capable leader. Additionally, he is more often than not the most responsible member of his friend group.

Pat has dated a few girls in the past—Nan, a cheerleader from 8th grade, who tricked him into buying her items in online games; and an unnamed girl who Pat bought a surf skate for before she promptly dumped him. He also offers to pay for his friends' food twice, and pays for Pran's food without asking even before they start dating. Korn also jokes about him being a "sugar daddy," and Pat quite literally jokes about being Pran's sugar daddy in Episode 7. Despite this, it is not shown that he or his family is much richer than Pran's, especially as he is happy to share his dorm with his sister in his sophomore year of university. It is possible that Ming is more generous with his allowance to Pat, especially since Pat mentions that his father was planning on buying him an electric drum kit in Episode 4.

With Pran, Pat is incredibly silly and immature, often using verbal and physical antics to intentionally get on Pran's nerves. He is shameless both with his affection and his bullying of Pran, whether it's shoving Pran's head under his t-shirt or clinging while Pran does the dishes. He also enjoys trying to get Pran to smile (of which he is quite successful), as he has a special fondness for Pran's dimples. Pat likes to bring out Pran's competitive streak as well, even when they're dating. Being competitive by nature, Pat frequently exhibits confident, arrogant, and stubborn behavior, though in university and with Pran, often underlies his competitiveness with a goofy charm. Pran describes him as a "dog" on several occasions, particularly when Pat is clingy or waxes poetic about Pran's scent. Pat loves being affectionate and initially wishes to show off his relationship with Pran despite them dating in secret. He does this by taking subtle pictures of things that remind him of Pran and posting them on his Instagram.

Pat never hesitates to stand up for what he believes in, using whatever means necessary, as shown in Episode 9 when he defended Wai at the bar, even though Wai had been rude to him repeatedly during the day. He is also unafraid of any sort of violence, as when the gun appears he attempts to wrestle it out of its owner's hands. In Episode 1, he had initially picked the fight with Wai because Wai had flipped him off over a football game, also showing that he has a short fuse when it comes to rudeness; during Wai's confrontation with the Engineering gang, Korn says that when Pat "gets mad he just can't control it," though it is unknown whether this is true or Korn just says it to make Wai fear him more. Pran confesses in Episode 11 that he likes Pat because he "always acts like a gangster... but a gangster like you always butts into people's business and helps them."

In the original Bad Buddy trailer, Pat is described to be "the crappy one." He is good at math, being an engineer and also in the original trailer offering to help Pran with his Physics homework, while Pran helps him with his English homework. Many decorations in his dorm and later apartment have math-related graphs and equations on them.

Pat plays the drums and Thai xylophone, is good at rugby and soccer, and is a decent enough actor for the Architecture play to replace Chart as one of the main leads. He is also shown to enjoy reading, gaming, and chess, by the set decorations in his bedroom and dorm room.

He sleeps with an "old" doll named Nong Nao. His LINE ID is patlnwza55+, of which "lnwza" is a common username tag from 2010 Thai gamers, due to looking like เทพซ่า (god), and "55" meaning "haha" or "lol." He has an iPhone with a grey and light blue phone case.

His handwriting is notably sloppy.

## Relationships

**Pran** - His so-called rival since before they were born, ends up being his boyfriend anyway

**Pa** - Best siblings

**Ink** - his lesbian bff

**Korn** - his transmasc bff

**Mo and Chang** - those dudes

**Ming Jindapat** - Pat looks up to and respects his father up until Episode 10, when he finds out the truth about Ming's history with Dissaya. Prior to this, Pat's main ambition is to keep his father proud and happy, regardless of his relationship with Pran. Pat and Ming are shown to be close in Episode 2 when Ming speaks informally to him ("meung," the way Pat and Pran often greet each other), gives him nepotistic advice due to having been classmates with Professor Pichai, and offers friendly banter with his son in teasing him about having girls over and "using protection." In Episode 6, when Pat goes to look for Pran at his family's house and is stopped by Dissaya, Ming is quick to come to his son's defense and scolds Dissaya for being unnecessarily rude to him. However, the need for his father's approval puts an unhealthy amount of stress on Pat, as when he talks about doing things other than rugby in sophomore year, Ming insists that he keep playing rugby, and Pat follows his father's wishes for the most part. When Ming discovers that Pat has been skipping rugby practices in favor of the Architecture play, he confronts Pat about it and expresses how disappointed he is in Pat, that he usually "doesn't intervene" in Pat's life because he thought Pat knew his priorities. However, by the end of Episode 10 it is implied that Pat's trust in his father is irreparably broken, as in Episode 12 Pat states that he doesn't visit home often and though he works for his father's company, they often do not work together because it usually ends in a conflict. Despite this, he is polite and respectful to his father over dinner, and attempts to make conversation with him at multiple points.

**Pat's Mother**

## Quotes

"The world's one and only handsome guitar pick." - Pat, Episode 3

"You're such a masculine wife." - Pran to Pat, Episode 3

"I consist of many good qualities. I even like myself. We will see... if you can find someone half as good as me." - Pat, Episode 4

"Yes, I am the hero. You guys are the supporting actors." - Pat, Episode 9

## References

1. ↑ Episode 11
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/6480Y/status/1558620868107960321
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/aroceu/status/1558663992142434306/photo/1
4. ↑ Episode 7 pt 3/4
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8wpp4uwIAQ&t=759s
6. ↑ Episode 2
7. ↑ Episode 3
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/6480Y/status/1558620862042996736