Tucker "Buttercup" Butterfield

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. After finishing his university contract, he spent two years at Sapphire's 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 Graceland Province. 
At the age of 10, he began wrestling a newborn beast every day. By the time he was 14, he was capable of wrestling a full-grown beast to the ground. At the age of 16, he butchered and ate the beast, which was delicious. 
- 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 05: Aurora. Buttercup was accompanying Lt. Commander Honeywell when the latter discovered the "Poltergeist Suit." A scary monster that David Alkema, Trajan Lear, and Max Jordan encountered in an abandoned shipyard was described as "as big as Warfighter Buttercup." 
- Worlds Apart Book 04: Winter. One of his hobbies was floral arrangements. - 
- Worlds Apart Book 06: Crucible. Buttercup 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. When the ship returned to Republic, he resigned from the crew and made his way back to Sapphire. He eventually 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 Wolf's Head genetic strains -- was named in his honor by a fellow professor.
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