Bud Nielsen

Bud Nielsen is the second protagonist of Dobutsu Boys.

Personality
Bud is an outgoing young man with talents in music. He's extremely caring towards the ones he loves. He may seem completely confident and strong on his own but that's just the outside. In reality he depends a lot on others for help and deals with emotions of feeling out of place and feeling like he doesn't exist when no one's with him. As such he loves groups and love.

Bud has a unique form of music he performs that he describes as 50% beach Rock, 35% psychedelic rock, and 15% prog Rock. He first learned guitar from his outgoing musician dad, Aziz, and his musical style is influenced by him. He's also not against getting very wild onstage, the most wild he's gotten was getting nude and pulling tank onstage for a makeout.

To match his "jock" personality Bud does some athletic activities. He can swim greatly and does boxing so he can have some form of defense for him and anyone he loves.

Relationships
Tank- Bud and Tank are boyfriends and in a devoted relationship. Bud will most likely do anything for tank and is usually around him to make sure he's safe. Even though tank most likely won't leave him, Bud is extremely nervous about his relationship with tank. bud is almost always in need of tank helping him keep everything together, demonstrated by him reminding tank about keeping him from falling back into bad habits such as smoking cigarettes or pulling on his own mane. Bud doesn't really dislike anything about tank, sure he may get uncomfortable or nervous when tank changes suddenly but overall he's usually fine. Tank always ends up being the right answer for bud's comfort and happiness.

Leonardo- Leonardo is bud's closest platonic friend, they have an immense amount of trust for each other. They work out together on weekends.

Kyle- kyle and Bud are friends who bonded over music and having boyfriends who cheated on them.

Kidd- many other students think that kidd's obvious crush on tank would make Bud mad at him or harbor animosity. In reality they get along well and are good friends.

Aziz- Aziz is one of Bud's dads and the one who really wanted a child. He and Bud have an extremely tight relationship, as he hangs out with Bud and his friends all the time and shares his life and relationship knowledge with them. He even gave Bud his similar passion for music, especially the guitar.

Leopold- Leopold is bud's other (and quieter) dad. Even though he wasn't entirely on board with the idea of having a child he's happy and cares about Bud as much as Aziz does. While being a little bit more distant from Bud than Aziz it's clear that they do trust each other a LOT.

Carna- Carna is bud's genetic mother, sharing her brown fur and calming face. Despite not knowing much about each other they do have a small mother-son bond.

Chief- Chief is bud's ex, don't mention chief around Bud.

Family
Aziz Nielsen- father

Leopold Tayler- father

Aamir Nielsen- uncle