Bobby Pendragon

Robert "Bobby" Pendragon
Pendragon, left, as he appears in "The Rivers of Zadaa"
First appearance	The Merchant of Death
Created by	D. J. MacHale
In-universe information
Alias	Bradley Schweizer
Nickname	Bobby
Species	Traveler
Gender	Male
Occupation	Traveler
Family	Press Tilton (uncle). Also a mother, father, sister and dog. (All of whom disappeared mysteriously.)

Bobby Pendragon is the eponymous main character from D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series.

Description

Bobby is about 5'5 at the beginning of the series, however, by the "Pilgrims of Rayne", he is just under 6 feet. In "The Never War" he weighs 110 pounds. This gives him a body mass index of 18.3, so he is an extremely slim boy.

Bobby Pendragon is the protagonist of the Pendragon series. He was a fairly average fourteen year old boy and suburban basketball star living in the fictional suburb of Stony Brook, Connecticut at the beginning of the series. However his uncle (Press Tilton), soon informs him that he is a Traveler and must help save "Halla" ( described as every time, place and thing that ever has, or ever will, exist) from Saint Dane, the series' antagonist, who wants nothing more than to plunge each territory into chaos.

One night, Press takes Bobby to an abandoned subway in the Bronx in New York, where they are attacked by Second Earth’s "quigs," which guard the flumes from Saint Dane's enemies. Quigs take different forms on each territory. Press also engages in a gun battle with Saint Dane while Bobby tries to get to a doorway in the subway tunnel, concealing a "flume." Bobby and Press escape by taking a flume to Denduron. Flumes are tunnels that transport the Travelers to different territories.

Bobby's adventures are chronicled in a collection of journals that he writes to his best friends and acolytes (assistants) on Second Earth, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde. As he follows Saint Dane from territory to territory, Bobby forms friendships with the Travelers of the other territories. He also grows wiser and becomes a better strategist every time he battles Saint Dane, but Saint Dane always seems to get the upper hand.

Bobby ages throughout the series; he turns fifteen in The Never War, sixteen in Black Water and he has become 17 by The Quillan Games.

Although first in love with Courtney, in book 6 it was revealed that he has come to love Loor, the Traveler of Zadaa. Loor reciprocates his feelings but refuses to get involved stating that a relationship beyond that of a friendship would interfere with their mission. Although it seems that Bobby has "broken up" with Courtney, she seems unwilling to allow the relationship evanesce back to a friendship. When reading of Bobby's feelings for Loor, she merely states, "This isn't over."

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