BADRINATH HARCHAND SPOILER!

Usually called Bud, Badrinath Harchand is the young pilot chosen to make the Type J9 Griffon perform like something out of a video game. He has extraordinary reflexes and an instinctive feel for Labor control, but not the adult sense of consequence that should accompany a machine capable of tearing through a city block. Bud becomes fascinated with Noa after facing her Ingram and treats her as both an older-sister figure and the opponent he most wants to beat. That combination makes the Griffon fights stranger than a normal hero-versus-villain rivalry: to Bud, this really is a game.