Bucky

Bucky is a recurring character in the Total Drama series.

## Biography

Bucky was on his way to become an Olympic athlete. He trained very hard as a gymnast as his parents encouraged him, and he excelled. His dream of becoming an Olympic athlete was over after a career ending injury. This left Bucky greatly depressed. After encouragement from his parents, Bucky found a job as an assistant for a children’s puppet television show. He soon started doing camerawork.

After his career as a gymnast ended, Bucky had more time to develop romantic relationships. He had a long term girlfriend to whom he proposed marriage after his parents encouraged him to settle down and have children. She turned him down after telling him that she didn’t think he truly loved her. Bucky was again greatly depressed after this turn of events. He confided with one of his former fraternity brothers who gave him needed support. The two became even closer, and Bucky discovered that he had intense romantic feelings for him. While the two never became a couple, Bucky was now certain that he was attracted to men, something he questioned and denied prior. Bucky remained closeted for years, and felt he passed for straight.

After viewing reruns of Total Drama Reality, Bucky took inspiration from a gay contestant named Tsuyoshi. Bucky was motivated to tell his parents about his sexuality, and expected their support, but they were clearly disappointed. Despite their reaction, Bucky was relieved to finally be honest with them, as well as himself. As for his career, Bucky was offered the position of camera operator on the Total Drama series.

Bucky joined the crew of Total Drama because it was secretly his greatest guilty pleasure.

## Trivia

* Bucky is a camera operator introduced in Total Drama: Best of the Best.
* Bucky is his nickname, as he describes himself as having bad teeth as a kid.
* Bucky has an extended biography as a tribute to his character, as well as his lack of screen time to express more of it.
* I was able to recreate Bucky’s character image based on a thumbnail recovered of him.
* Bucky was holding a camera in his original character image. I didn’t feel like drawing it, again. I also considered updates in technology dating the image.
* I did try to recreate Bucky’s plaid shirt, but it was a lot of work. While I am not fully satisfied with it, I think it’s presentable enough.
* Bucky having his plaid shirt on one of his swimwear images is a reference to a swimwear I did for him originally. I did not make a base for him when originally making his image, so I kept the plaid shirt on to cover a mistake I made with his anatomy.
* Bucky’s base is included as an underwear pic. I included it because he mostly wears baggy and mundane clothes, while wearing something more colorful beneath. That represents his keeping his sexuality hidden under his straight seeming exterior.
* Bucky wears his backwards cap in every image as I didn’t draw him without it. I also find it amusing that he wears it in all situations.
* I intended to have Tsuyoshi’s love interest be a fellow contestant, but after deciding on Dante, the fan response was not positive. I decided to create a non-contestant character to fill that role.
* Bucky confessing his romantic interest to Tsuyoshi is meant to be a major step with his admitting his sexuality over national television.
* When creating Bucky, I wanted to work on his personality and backstory to make him more than just a stereotype or a convenient love interest.
* Bucky’s husky build is due to his back injury, though he is muscular from his gymnast past, and likely still works out, though less intensely. His build is also meant to juxtapose Tsuyoshi.
* The fan response to Bucky was overwhelmingly positive. I consider Bucky among my top ten most popular characters among readers, despite him never being a contestant.
* Bucky and Tsuyoshi won best couple during a wiki award show.

## Gallery

Bucky in his sleepwear.Bucky in his swimwear with flannel.Bucky in his swimwear.Bucky in his undies.The salvaged thumbnail of Bucky’s original image.