Tucker “Buttercup” Butterfield

Tucker “Buttercup” Butterfield was a warfighter on board the Pathfinder Ship Pegasus at the time of its departure on its original Odyssey Project Mission. 
Buttercup was assigned to the landing team that explored the planet EdenWorld. Warfighter Buttercup was a very large, heavily muscled man over two and a half meters in height. Prior to joining the Odyssey Project, Buttercup was a starting linebacker for the University of Sapphire at New Cleveland Armpit Avengers groundball squadron. He spent a year at the Academy of Military Arts and Combat Science, training under PSD-Off Instructors and Sumacian Advisors. He was born and raised on a cattle ranch in Sapphire's Jutland Province. -- Worlds Apart Book 02: EdenWorld
 Warfighter Buttercup later served as Commander Keeler's bodyguard on the planet Hearth, where he held off a horny old lady using a shock weapon. - Worlds Apart Book 03: Bodicea. 
His name came up in conversation on the planet Winter. - Worlds Apart Book 04: Winter. 
One of his hobbies was making floral arrangements. - Worlds Apart Book 05: Aurora. 
He was one of the relatively small number of Sapphirean crew to leave the ship after the Battle of 225 Crux; due mostly to his loyalty to Lt. Commander Adrian Honeywell, who was tactical chief at the time. The two were widely suspected of having a sexual relationship. While it is true they experimented with each other, they mutually decided not to pursue things both for the sake of military discipline and because they discovered they weren't into each other in that way. 
Following his exit from the story, Buttercup served as a tactical officer on the Pathfinder Ship Lexington Keeler during its refit. Later, he made his way back to Sapphire and became a well-respected professor of Botany at the University of Sapphire at New Cleveland, where he married one of his students and raised a small family in the city's suburbs. The Buttercup Hybrid -- a type of carnivorous orchid combining Sapphirean and Bodicean genetic strains -- was named in his honor by a fellow professor.
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