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Brad Bakshi

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Brad Bakshi is one of the main characters in the Apple TV+ streaming series Mythic Quest. He serves as the Head of Monetization for Mythic Quest Studios. Brad is portrayed by Danny Pudi, first appearing in the Season 1 episode "Pilot".

Brad is the head of the Mythic Quest monetization department, who frequently uses manipulation to make the game even more profitable. He enjoys playing God and toying with real human beings, bending them to his will. He is often seen as sociopathic since he doesn't necessarily care about what others think about him as long as he can gain something from it. It is Brad's dream to build his own money bin, much like the one Scrooge McDuck has. According to him, the children's cartoon, DuckTales, had a strong impact on him growing up and he too wants to 'swim in his hoarded wealth'.

Biography[]

Background[]

Brad is of mixed Indian and Polish heritage, and can speak Polish.[2]

Although we don't get a very big glimpse into Brad's life before joining Mythic Quest, we know that he most likely had a traumatic childhood.

In "Breaking Brad", it's revealed that Brad is the 'soft' one when put in comparison with his older brother, Zack. When they were younger, the two of them were given pigs to raise and slaughter. However, Brad grew attached and couldn't kill his pig, Kate, when the time came. Zack ended up killing her and the experience seems to have scarred Brad greatly. During the episode, Zach also belittles Brad, calling him 'motu' (meaning fat), taunts him with birthday cake while being fully aware of Brad's eating disorder, and turns the other Mythic Quest staff against him by putting on the 'caring older brother' act.

His father was also, according to Zack, verbally abusive towards Brad, and called him a pussy.

It is also revealed that he got a scholarship for fencing and minored in archery. He is a skilled fighter and managed to almost beat everyone during the 2021 Everlight event.

Raven's Banquet Launch[]

Brad shared an office with David Brittlesbee, despite the latter being the Executive Producer of Mythic Quest Studios.[3] With several days to go until the launch of Mythic Quest's first expansion, Raven's Banquet, the addition of a shovel into the game caused a creative rift between Ian and Poppy. Brad knew that the item as designed would not sell. With Ian "noodling" on the design before code lock, Poppy sought out Brad and told him that she wanted to leak the shovel to Polygon, get them to like it and write about it, forcing Ian to keep it in the game as originally designed. Brad suggested leaking it to the streamer Pootie Shoe instead, due to the influence his opinion on the game had.[1]

Knowing that Pootie would find the shovel to be lame, Brad worked with C.W. Longbottom to develop a backstory for a new item called "Ian's Shovel", the best weapon in the game that would be held in a sexy wood nymph loot box. When Pootie revealed his opinion about the shovel, Brad took the concept to Poppy hoping that she would help them patch the code and put the loot box in the game. Poppy finally realized that Brad had manipulated her, calling him an "asshole." Ian and Poppy worked on the shovel design together, giving it a dual purpose as a weapon. When Raven's Banquet launched, Brad reported that the game was selling thousands of shovels an hour.[1]

When Pootie Show brought the long-running mystery of the Masked Man back into the public view, Brad wanted Ian and C.W. to reveal it at an event held at an in-game casino that he was proposing to be added to the game. Poppy refused to work on it, forcing Brad to outsource the work to a studio in Bucharest. Poppy told Brad that he was a soulless money-suck and they didn't need him.[3]

To prove a point, Brad left the studio, removing all of his furniture and belongings in the office he shared with David. David was worried about what Brad was doing, but Poppy told him that Brad was just throwing a tantrum and it would all blow over by the morning. However, by the next morning, Brad had logged into Mythic Quest using his financial access privileges and essentially shut down the store and made everything, including overpowered weapons and legendary loot boxes, free. He also deactivated Poppy's Lyft account since it was tied to the company credit card, and had David's vehicle clamped.[3]

David and Poppy sought Brad out to fix everything, but Brad had already done so as Ian had agreed to reveal the Masked Man at the casino. Ian was not happy with it, but understood that Brad's work brought the money in that allowed them to continue making the game.[3]

Shortly after, Mythic Quest was found to have a problem with Nazis in the player base. David set out to ban them immediately, but Brad, not wanting to lose a revenue stream, manipulated David into creating a diverse Ethics Committee to determine which players should be banned from the game. By the time that the committee had concluded that Nazis should be banned, Ian and Poppy had solved the Nazi issue by isolating all the players in their own server.[2]

After learning that Pootie Shoe had decided to quit streaming Mythic Quest, Brad and Ian attended StreamerCon in an effort to find a new livestreamer. Initially, Brad had his sights set on LOL_Trevor, believing that his own business acumen would be more than enough to convince a twelve year old to agree to their financial terms. However, Trevor demanded a percentage of the gross, baffling Brad and placing him on the back foot. Later, Brad attempts to pivot to Aiko, a virtual AI livestreaming program developed by Stephen although it is ultimately rejected. Brad and Ian dismiss Poppy's attempts to position Dana Bryant as their new streamer until they see her give an inspiring talk to a group from Girls Can Code and then agree, but only because they believe it was their idea in the first place.[4]

Personality[]

It seems at first like Brad doesn't care about Mythic Quest and is only doing his job in the most evil and bothersome way possible. Throughout Season 1, he is often thought of by the staff at Mythic Quest as an sociopath.

He is petty at times, as can be seen from "The Casino", where he took his belonging (including his desk) from his shared office, made every purchasable item in Mythic Quest free, and told an entire group of coders to go home, just to get a point around. The only reason he came back was because Ian offered him what he wanted, the Masked Man Casino.

Brad doesn't seem to care about the wellbeing or happiness of his co workers and doesn't seem to have any trouble manipulating or humiliating them to get what he wants. In The Convention, he, along with Ian, didn't listen to what Poppy was trying to say, kept ignoring her, and whenever she finally got her chance to talk, belittled and mocked her. In Non-Player Character, he messed with C.W. and tricked him into thinking that a machine was capable of writing great prose and that he was no longer needed. The machine turned out to be an air conditioner and the piece of writing Brad presented to C.W. turned out to be his own work from his book, Tears of the Anaren. In Brendan, when Dana requested that she take a break from streaming, he quickly rejected it, saying 'You're right, I don't care about your personal life'.

Brad also seems to like taking bets but in a strange way. Instead of money, he prefers to ask for hair from the other person. In Permadeath, When Poppy agreed to bet with him on who was going to win the Masked Man fight, he specifically said 'not money, hair'. He also got David to shave his eyebrows, his moustache and take out his eyelashes when he lost their Street Fighter game in Quarantine.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Pilot"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dinner Party"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "The Casino"
  4. ↑ "The Convention"
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