Bucky

**Bucky** is an eccentric local artist.

## History

### Youth

Bucky attended the St. Nicholas Training School with Mabel, Irene, and Maximus. They were all friends, along with Brownie, who had dropped out. When school got out for the summer, they went to a party, where they did acid together. On their way home, Maximus drove and the others fell asleep. When they woke up, they questioned Maximus about why they'd stopped. When he told them he'd seen an alien, they laughed at him and told him it was just the drugs.

### Copper Figurines

Bucky was sleeping on a bench when Big Hill and Cheese Williams, who was going a ride along with Big, came to check on him. Bucky assured them that he was fine, that he had simply fallen asleep reading a book on string theory. Then his book must have been stolen.

Later, Big pulled Bucky over after he ran a red light. Bucky didn't pull over until Cheese told him to pull over or he'd be shot. Bucky then pulled over and moved to the passenger seat. Big wasn't fooled by this and asked him about driving a stolen truck. Bucky claimed it wasn't stolen because the owners weren't using it. Bucky also admitted to placing the copper figurines around town, saying he was using them to fight disease. Cheese looked that up and verified that copper had been used to fight cholera. Bucky also admitted to stealing the copper from meth heads, who were messing up the town with their drugs. Big told Bucky to take the truck back and stop putting the figurines around town.

### Helping Willie Jack

Bethany kicked Bucky out again. He went to Auntie B for a haircut and told her about the day he first met Bethany. Auntie B said she was stupid if she didn't take Bucky back. While he was getting his hair cut, Willie Jack and Bear came to Auntie B and admitted they put a curse on Jackie. Bucky told them if they put a curse on someone, it would come back on them. Willie Jack already knew that, which was why she wanted to undo it.

Bucky found them as they were leaving and gave each of them one of his copper figurines to carry with them. He also told them he could help them break the curse. They just needed a personal belonging of the person they cursed. They went to the IHS to ask Jackie's Aunt Bev for something. While Bucky waited outside, Old Man Fixico gave him the book "Man Moon," which he claimed would fix Bucky's woman problems.

Bucky and Willie Jack came upon White Steve, Weeze, and Bone Thug Dog and Willie Jack told Bucky to pull over. She asked them if they had any of Jackie's things. They gave her some things. As they were getting ready to leave, Brownie pulled up and he and Bucky faced off. They agreed that the next morning, they'd go down to the river and reverse the curse.

The next day, Bucky and Brownie conflicted as they walked Willie Jack and Cheese through the process. They tossed Jackie's things into the river and sang Free Fallin'. Then Brownie said the curse was gone, but they needed to stop being shitasses.

### Camping Trip

At the request of Irene, Bucky, along with Big and Brownie, took Cheese on a camping trip to get him out of the house when she noticed he was avoiding his friends. They took him out to the woods and taught him to fish and to notice and enjoy the nature around him. After they ate, Cheese, bewildered by the elders' declaration that they would just sit around, started a feelings circle. He shared that he was generally happy and then passed the stick to Brownie and Bucky, who expressed similar feelings. Finally, Big said he'd lost two friends and put it all on himself. As a man, he was taught not to feel things and he regretted not doing more. He started crying and Bucky and Brownie soon followed, telling Cheese that Cheese reminded them of their friend, Maximus, whom they lost because they didn't believe him and allowed it to divide them. With all three men sobbing, Cheese declared the feelings circle a success and promised not to become like Maximus. He called his friends, who brought Sonic and joined them in the woods.

### Fixico's Funeral

When Old Man Fixico died, Bucky was one of the many who came to mourn him. He spent the time catching up with Maximus and talking with his old friends.

## Relationships

### Romantic

He is married to Bethany, who frequently kicks him out of the house.

## Notes and Trivia

* As a teen, he aspired to be a scientist.

## Appearances

 **#02** | "NDN Clinic"
 **#03** | "Uncle Brownie"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 House Made of Bongs, 3x05
2. ↑ Come and Get Your Love, 1x05
3. ↑ The Curse, 2x01
4. ↑ Run, 2x02
5. ↑ Frankfurter Sandwich, 3x06
6. ↑ Dig, 3x10
7. ↑ The Curse, 2x01