Lavernius Tucker

**Captain Lavernius Tucker** is a human male from Universe AC-1, simulation trooper, and leader of the Reds and Blues. He serves as a major character throughout the *RvBvRWBY* series, and *Marvel's Avengers: Odyssey*. Born in Detroit and raised by a single mother, Tucker enlisted in the UNSC Army during the Great War as a pretended licensed military physician. He was subsequently caught for his fake identity, along with multiple reports of sexual harassment claims made against him. Rather than be court martialed, Tucker was sent to Project Freelancer, under the guise of that humanity had fallen into a civil war. Being enlisted into the Blue Army, Tucker was selected to be transferred to Outpost 1A, aka "Blood Gulch" under the orders of Captain Butch Flowers. Tucker would end up becoming acquainted with the third member of their team, Leonard Church. Flower's time as leader would be cut short after a fatal heart attack, combined with an overdose of aspirin. While Church decided to assume the role of *de facto* leader of Blue Team, Tucker opted to take Flowers's aqua armor as his own.

Tucker's time in Blood Gulch pitted him against the Red Team on the other side of the canyon.

## Biographical Information

### Alias

* Tucker
* Private Tucker
* Lavernius
* Dr. Cloitus
* The Great Hero
* Captain
* Dirty Blue
* The Teal One
* Pig
* The Aqua Soldier
* Terrible Excuse for a Soldier
* The Leader of the Reds and Blues

## General Information

### Relatives

* Unnamed mother (deceased)
* Junior (son)
* Several unnamed children
* Kaikainia Grif (love interest)

### Affilations

* Reds and Blues
* Blue Team
* UNSC (formerly)
* New Republic (formerly)
* Coalition
* Ozpin's Inner Circle

### Occupation

* Simulation Trooper
* UNSC soldier (formerly)
* Ambassador to the Sangheili (formerly)

## Other Information

### Appears In

RvBvRWBY series* Retribution
* A Soldier's Debt
* Shattered Eclipse
* Beyond the Stars

## Appearance

#### Physical Appearance

Tucker is described as being a young man in his early to mid-20s, with light brown skin, shirt spikey black hair, and brown eyes. He also often has stubble on his face as well.

#### Armor

Tucker, like the rest of the Reds and Blues, wears a suit of power armor that grants him protection, shields, and deflect bullets. The color of his armor is a aqua marine, but can be confused for either teal and cyan.

## Personality

An ambitious young man, Lavernius Tucker's life changed so much in a small amount of time. During his time in Blood Gulch, Tucker was smart-aleck, sarcastic, rude, prone to juvenile humor, and obsessed with women; bearing many characteristics of a juvenile teenager. He constantly boasted about his relationships with various woman in his life, which either annoyed or disgusted his team. However his claims weren't backed up by any evidence, implying that he was simply trying to impress everyone in the canyon. Much like Dexter Grif, a member of Red Team, Tucker also had a knack for slacking off on the job, not really caring about the Red and Blue Civil war.

He often tried to flirt and hit on both Tex and Kai, which ended in failure with the former, but not the latter. He even tried to have sex with her in a cave, but that backfired as well for him. While unknown, it is also implied Tucker tried to flirt with Team RWBY, but also failed. The only exception being Ruby Rose, whom Tucker admitted looked "too young".

Yet beyond his rather disgusting demeanor, Tucker has the heart of a soldier and a good man. While not interested in the war like his peers (save of Sarge), Tucker has displayed intelligence when hunting the rogue AI Omega, and often called several topics into question. By 2554, two years after his time in Blood Gulch, Tucker has become more mature and trustful, while still holding onto his quirks. During the war on Chorus, Tucker began to show his talent as a capable leader, caring for the lives of his fellow men and doing everything it took to see a mission through. However, he is quite open of his dislike for being in command, still preferring to pass off such responsibilities to more capable hands, although this is less out of selfishness and more towards concern his decisions will doom others.

By the events of *A Soldier's Debt*, Tucker has accepted his role as leader of Blue Team and as a co-leader of the Reds and Blues. He deeply values their trust and friendship and is willing to risk his life to safe the ones he views as family. He still holds onto his ladies-man persona as a quirk, either complimenting woman kindly or flirting only a bit as a joke.