Buddy Ha

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

The All-Seeing, The All-Transcending Sage, Araham, The Awakened One, Bhagavato, Bibek "Buddy" Ha, The Blessed One, The Buddha, Buddy Cobain, Buddy Grohl, Bull Among Men, Dispeller of Darkness, The Dharmaraja, Enlightened One, The Eye, Jina, Kinsman of the Sun, Knower-of-Many-Worlds, Lokanatha, Lokavidu, One-Who-Had-Thus-Gone, Radiant One, The Sage of the Shakyias, Sammasambuddho, Shakyamuni, Siha, Sugata, Tathagata, Torchbearer, Varapañña (Aliases)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Mentored by Tutors, Spiritual Study, Centuries of Experience

### Marital Status

Polyamorous Relationship (Maggie Carpenter, Girlfriend & Josh Carpenter, Boyfriend)
Widowed (Yaśodhara, Wife, Deceased)
Exes (Gopā, Mrgarjā, and Manodharā, Mistresses, Deceased)

### Residence

Apartment above his bakery — Near South, Star City, OR

## Physical Description

### The Tale of the Sage of the Shakyas

Siddhartha Guatma was born in Lumbini (modern day: Nepal). His father, Śuddhodana Guatama, was the oligarch of the Shakya clan. Siddharta's mother was Princess Maya Devi who died shortly after the birth of her son. Despite his family's wealth and noble birthright, Siddharta was regarded as being of menial origin and rough-spoken due to his family's tribal roots and traditions, contrary to the majority practices of the dominant Vedic culture.

While others of his tribe resisted Vedic culture, preferring their tribal religion of worshipping trees and snake gods, Siddharta kept an open-mind and was interested to learn if there were merits to the knowledges contained in the Vedas. In his youth, Siddharta was exposed to the teachings of many influential Vedic philosophers and thinkers of the era. So enthralled by these philosophies was the young Siddharta that he was known to debate publicly with others, where he would argue the merits of a rival philosophy to counter his opponent — regardless of Siddharta's own stances, just to provoke a stimulating and spirited debate.

Though he valued the teachings of the Vedas, Siddharta did not believe they were infalliable and he began to consider how to build upon or reform these teachings. During this time, it is also worth mentioning that Achaemid conquest of the area was underway, which also exposed Siddharta to the ideas of Mazdaism and Zoroastrianism — while he was being trained as a warrior to defend his people. Of course, the immense wealth of Śuddhodana kept Siddharta off the battlefield.

As a young man, Siddharta would marry Yaśodhara. This began a life of stagnation that Siddharta was deeply unsettled living. As his wife was a Shakya as well, she tired to steer her husband away from further study of the Veda. Yaśodhara would seduce Siddhartha away from his studies long enough to become pregnant with their child. This would lead to an existential crisis for Siddharta at twenty-nine years old. The very night following his son's birth, Siddharta awoke from a disturbing nightmare in which all his material possessions and relationships were drowning him. Before he could reconsider whether the nightmare was merely a disturbing dream or prophetic vision, Siddharta shaved his beard, abandoned his jewelry and expensive clothing to disguise himself, and then fled into the night.

Siddhartha began an anscetic lifestyle, often fasting and meditating for prolonged periods of time in a quest for the enlightenment that he so desperately sought. At the age of thirty-five, Siddharta finally found what he was looking for, while meditating under a fig tree in India. Awakening from meditation with a newfound power he identified as nirvana, Siddharta ceased to be and so he took a new name: *Buddha* — or "the enlightened one."

Buddha would go on to teach others his ways on the Gangetic Plain — regardless of social standing, from nobles to servants, ascetics and householders. Buddha even counted murderers and cannibals among his students. Yaśodhara would even travel with Rāhula to join the Buddha when word reached them of his teachings, giving them quite the shock to find that Buddha was their long lost husband and father Siddharta. Yet, so profound and charismatic was the Buddha that he was able to win them over despite having abandoned them years prior.

Under the Buddha's teachings, many of his pupils also attained nirvana. At the age of 80, after having taught and counseled kings, and having taught others to detach in order to pursue lives free of suffering and attain nirvana, Buddha succumbed to food poisoning, brought about by a blacksmith's poorly cooked pork dish.

Though, that was not the end for Buddha. Having attained nirvana, upon finding himself in the Void, the Buddha discovered his soul ascendant. After spending some time in the Void exploring and practicing, the Buddha was able to return to Earth and manifest a new body for himself.

As he explored the world, teaching others as he went, the Buddha encountered a young Planetary Shaman and his wife briefly. They would part ways soon after, with Buddha satisfied to have met kindred spirits. Later, the Shaman's wife would track Buddha down and request his aid with what I think could be best summed up as an exciting interdimensional soul heist.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Ascendant Soul Physiology:** Buddha's new body is a manifestation brought on by immense intrinsic energy willed into being and made reality by a powerful soul. While theoretically all human souls are able to do this without the use of sorcery or uncommon heritage, it is extremely rare to find a soul with so much discipline as to make this possible.
	+ ***Dematerialization:*** The Buddha can shed his corporeal form at will to traverse the astral plane or transition to different dimensions with which he is familiar. As the process for his remanifestation is difficult and exhausting, he does not do this lightly — preferring to travel and visit places the old-fashioned way whenever available.
	+ ***Duplication:*** By exerting great power, the Buddha can will the intrinsic fields to create new soulless life forms, including duplicates of himself. These creations have no true independence and are merely extensions of his own consciousness until he breaks the connection and the organisms fall lifelessly to the ground until the energy that made them dissipates and returns to the ether.
	+ ***Enhanced Physicality:*** By merit his muscle fibers being renforced with intrinsic power, Buddha is more physically capable than his human appearance would suggest. He can run and leap like a deer, scale buildings and trees with the grace of a monkey, kick like a mule, swim with the ease of a dolphin, and go without food, water, or sleep for seven days without ill-effect.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Buddha does not age or suffer from most illness.
	+ ***Intrinsic Manipulation:*** Buddha can manipulate all intrinsic fields to archieve effects similar to sorcery. While he can archieve great effects using this ability, he freely admits that he is not as overtly powerful as the likes of Dr. Manhattan. Nor does he have the power or endorsement with any specific intrinsic field that could contend with a fully powered intrinsic avatar with the fully backing of their parliament.
	+ ***Illusion:*** Buddha can use intrinsic energy to create psychic illusions or manipulate light to create visible illusions without substance. He can similarly conjure up sound, scents, and various sensations that are not real.
	+ ***Levitation:*** Buddha can, at will, defy gravity to float freely or fly at incredible speed.
	+ ***Limited Cosmic Awareness:*** Buddha is aware of certain events happening on his plane of existence. He is also aware of the Tapestry, the Progenitors, and many other bits of esoteric knowledge and wisdom.
	+ ***Obfuscation:*** Buddha has the ability to cause mortal minds to overlook that which should be plain to see. He can use this illusion to conceal himself or others from being noticed completely or simply give them a veil or mundanity. He can also impart this same effect to an object or location. Though it may hurt their business, Buddha uses this effect on his bakery so as not to disrupt the customers when supernatural beings stop by the bakery to speak very plainly with the staff about matters that most would find alarming to hear spoken.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Buddha can perceive and interact with spirits and ephemerals. He is regarded as an ephemeral being himself.
	+ ***Weather Control:*** Buddha can influence the weather of his locality. While he cannot control the weather outright (he can't summon lightning to strike an enemy or can't make it snow immediately in the middle of a summer heatwave), he can ease it toward an outcome and it can gradually shift to align with his desire.

### Weaknesses

* **Detached:** Though Buddha does not regard this as a weakness in any way, he can come off as a little impersonal and lacking emotion. This can frustrate others as he is often only motivated to action when something interests him. When something or someone is no longer of interest to him, Buddha will simply walk away.
* **Polarity:** Buddha finds manipulation of two specific kinds of intrinsic energy difficult: vorpal and chthonic energy. This is likely due to those energies being attached to a specific charge (positive for vorpal; negative for chthonic). Buddha's powers will have little effect of beings made of either vorpal or chthonic energy (such as Fables) and beings that wield such power can often neutralize or dispel Buddha outright.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Enhanced / Expert
* **Occult:** 7 — Legendary
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Ranged:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 90
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

#### Guanyin

* Priness Miaoshan listened to his lectures. The teachings helped her go through her imprisonment and mistreatment.
* Miaoshan was reborn as the Bodhisattva Guanyin — an enlightened soul ascended to divinity. Her physical dead body caused her father great grieve and paired with his strange illness caused him to build a temple for his daughter. Upon the temple's completion, she appeared at her father's bedside to forgive him. She then kissed his forehead and gave him the last mercy, putting an end to his suffering.
* Guanyin has since become a prominent figure known for her mercy in several Eastern religions and folktales.

### Notes

* His aliases are based on different titles and names in epithets seen together in the canonical texts:
	+ Araham – Worthy of homage.
	+ Bhagavato – The Blessed one
	+ Dharmaraja – King of the Dharma
	+ Jina – Conqueror. Although the term is more commonly used to name an individual who has attained liberation in the religion Jainism, it is also an alternative title for the Buddha.
	+ Lokanatha – Helper of the World.
	+ Lokavidu – Knower of the many worlds.
	+ Sammasambuddho – Perfectly self-awakened.
	+ Siha – Lion.
	+ Sugata – Well-gone or Well-spoken.
	+ Varapañña – Of excellent wisdom.
* His other identities as Buddy Cobain and Buddy Grohl are references to 90's rock band Nirvana's lead singer and drummer, Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Buddy Ha

1. ↑ Network Files: The Sage
2. ↑ Network Files: Guanyin