OOC: Canon Information & Personality
Personality
Tucker’s personality can be divided into two timelines, the point where he is in Blood Gulch and his reappearance in Recreation.
During Blood Gulch Chronicles Tucker is immature, perverse, rude, vulgar, and on rare occasions, shows some common sense and good perception. He often complains every time he is required to do something, though the things he is asked to do are often dangerous, such as when Church asks him to go though the glitchy teleporter and he has to be convinced to do it with the threat of being shot. He is unhappy with having to participate in the war and will often avoid combat anyway he can, proclaiming that he is “a lover, not a fighter”. On top of this, he is also obsessed with women and getting laid.
Tucker is immature in that he relies on mostly juvenile humor and is constantly complaining about something. He, like most of the team, curses frequently but also makes crude jokes and never wants to do anything to help the Blues in battle. If anything, Tucker seems to be more focused on criticizing certain schemes or view points, such as Church’s insistence that the break-up between himself and Tex was mutual. Early on in the series, the Reds get the Warthog in an aerial drop. Tucker complains that they get a car and when Church points out they the Blues are getting a Tank in the next drop, Tucker remarks that “You can’t pick up chicks in a tank”. Church derides him, exclaiming that he “could bitch about anything”, and he’s right. Tucker could bitch about anything.
His perverse attitude is mostly directed towards women he wants to bed or women in general, as two years stuck with Blue Team and Tex has left him sex-starved, though for all we know this could be normal for him.”. Tucker’s response to women ranges from cheesy come-ons to an almost desperate wanting. When Tex shows up, he wastes no time in hitting on her and making implications. He isn’t really scared of implying sex to Tex until threat of death is made or she hits him, and even then it has yet to ring true with him. When Sister makes her debut and happily displays her promiscuity, Tucker is very enthusiastic about the possibilities only to feel rather jealous when Doc gives her what he claims is a routine medical examination while she’s naked. When Caboose is rehearsing what he’s going to say to trick Sheila using Tex as a stand in, he immediately jumps to the wrong conclusion and pretty much throws himself at Tex’s feet before she pistol whips him for it. Along those lines, anyone who says something that could be interpreted as having been a double entendre is usually answered with a witty one liner and a “Bow Chicka Bow Wow".
Despite all his flaws, Tucker seems to know the difference between a good plan and a bad plan when he sees one, even though he refuses to make any himself. Despite having the highest rank on Blue Team, Tucker seems to be adverse to holding a position in leadership, as he stepped aside and allowed Church to lead the team after Captain Flowers died. He shows enough insight to correct the flaws in the logic of others, like when he points out to both Grif and Simmons that a person is always in the present and always facing forward, or whenever Church concocts a plan that obviously won’t work. He is the only one out of the teams to know that both Red and Blue are being run by the same person, but because of his history of jumping to conclusions, the others tend to ignore him when he explains this.
When he reappears in Recreation, he makes known that he and Junior have the job of maintaining negotiations between the human race and the Covenant because they’re somewhat of an in-between. He seems to have grown a bit more book smart, but the façade is ruined when he admits that he has no idea what he is talking about and that they only make him learn certain things for his job. Still, his willingness to battle as well as his ability in combat have improved, with him being able to cripple C.T.’s Warthog with one strike. Despite his newfound combat prowess and an increase in strategic ability, Tucker is still iffy about being a leader and immediately inquires as to where Church is as soon as the Reds and Caboose arrive in the temple in what seems to be an effort to foist off the burden. When Epsilon-Church is booted up, Tucker is rather quick to follow what he says, all the while criticizing the fact that he can’t even control his body.
When it comes to his attitude, Tucker seems to have matured more. His sense of humor relies more on sarcasm, though he still has a love for double entendres. His obsession with women hasn’t been displayed as overtly as in BGC, though this may be because of the lack of women in Sandtrap. Still, he manages to squeeze in a remark about wanting to pick up some chicks in Episode 13, “because old habits die hard”. His insight is displayed again in this episode where he points out that he already knew that Church was an A.I., though he doesn’t specify how he knows.
Overall, as soon as Tucker is introduced in Recreation, it’s clear that he’s become more mature than he was previously. He is much more comfortable with his energy sword and doesn’t panic or avoid combat situations as much as he used to. He doesn’t seem as obsessed with women, though this is debatable as there are none around currently and he still harbors a latent desire to pick up women. Tucker is now capable of carrying out small plans and actions, such as locking the temple to keep himself and the relic safe and broadcasting a distress signal. He has basically grown up a bit and become more competent while everyone else wasn’t around.
Canon Character Relations
Throughout the series Tucker has a varying relationship with the majority of his teammates and the occasional member of Red Team. Church in him have a sort of love-hate relationship in that, while they’re friends in the loosest of definitions and do seem to have moments where they actually care about each other, they will ultimately sacrifice each other to save themselves. Tucker has no problem with blowing Church to oblivion when he has a built in bomb on his robot body, while Church’s last words to Tucker is that he “always hated you [Tucker] the most”. At the same time, Church genuinely seems to feel bad whenever Tucker gets hurt, although this is usually because they need to keep a numerical advantage on Red Team. Tucker at the least seems to consider Church a sort of friend with a very antagonistic backdrop.
Just like most of the people in Blood Gulsh, Tucker is exasperated with Caboose’s stupidity, even though he deals with it less often than Church does. He’s mostly annoyed at Caboose for mangling his catch phrase, and poking fun at his ancestry by calling Tucker the “Other Black One” when they talk to Andy after finding out Tucker first name. He also seems to be ashamed whenever Caboose brings up his semi-affair with Crunchbite.
Tucker is obviously attracted to the two female members of the team for no other reason than that they are women. Tex’s personality outright frustrates him along with scaring the hell out of him. Still, he finds it difficult not to hit on her even though the outcome often ends in bodily harm. This isn’t so much of a difficulty to learn, as Tucker probably knows how his behavior will be received. It is more than likely that it’s simply how Tucker is hardwired.
He also overlooks Sisters ditzy attitude and lack of tact because she’s promiscuous and he wants to get laid. Though he is often confused by her lack of tact, like everyone tends to be, it doesn’t lessen his attraction towards her. There’s a hint of mutual attraction there because they’re both willing to sleep with each other, but it never actually gets anywhere on screen. Tucker does, however, make a passing snide comment to Grif about having fucked Sister, but the validity is never confirmed.
When it comes to Red Team, Tucker honestly doesn’t appear to care about the war during his interaction with them. When they all finally arrive at the temple Tucker is in he asks if they “are killing each other or pretending to work together” this time around, making it obvious that he doesn’t care either way. He seems pretty sure that Donut is gay and thinks Sarge is a little crazy, though he isn’t sure to what extent. As for Grif, Tucker perceives him to be like Church because of Church pointing out their parallels, meaning he sees Grif as someone who complains and eats a lot.
As well as his teammates, Tucker also has a son named Junior. This little bundle of joy was granted to him via date rape by Crunchbite. Junior seems to awaken some sort of latent parental streak in Tucker , though it doesn’t stretch very far. At most, he’ll stick up for his kid when someone insults him and try to import life lessons that aren’t really relevant to the little spawn. This is probably because his idea of a perfect parental relationship is that of a divorced father who has visitation rights. Though Junior is confirmed to be alive after the explosion of the ship at the end of BGC, he has yet to make a reappearance. It has been said that he works with Tucker due to their status as in-betweens of the aliens and humans, though they have yet to interact on screen to date.
Background Information
Tucker was apparently born in Detroit on some unknown date at some unknown time that doesn't really matter because it's all off screen info. He and Captain Flowers were the only two people in Blue Base by the time Church arrived from Sidewinder after Tex killed everyone there. Eventually, due to Church messing around in the timestream, Flowers died of an aspirin overdose, supposedly being allergic to it,and Tucker looted his armor from his corpse.
Tucker plays second fiddle to most of the cast until he has to hack, using the term loosely, into the Red's radios to shut them down so that the Omega AI has nowhere to jump to. Because of this he manages to find out that both teams are being run by the same command, although the Reds don't believe him because Vic and the Blue's don't either because of his habit of jumping to conclusions. Despite this, Vic coerces Omega to kill Tucker and the AI hires Wyoming to do it.
After Church throws them forward into the future, the cast discovers Omega's base and Tucker finds his kickass sword, which he uses to kill the Red Zealot. Eventually, Blue Team meets an alien (Crunchbite) who informs them by translation from Andy (a talking bomb) that Tucker's sword can only be used by him, since he is the person who first found it. Crunchbite was originally going to claim it and go on a sacred quest for his people but since Tucker had already took the sword, he blackmails Blue Team into helping him, taking Tucker on the quest and allowing Tex, who expects a reward to go along.
In the end, the sword turns out to be a the key to a gate and a spaceship, which Crunchbite tries to fly off with before Wyoming shoots the ship down and destroys it. Angry at seeing her "reward" destroyed, Tex chases after him and leaves Tucker by himself. Somehow, he makes his way back to Blue Base in Blood Gulch although he's extremely. Eventually -after Caboose, Andy and Church guess at why he's apparently sick (the swamp, the sword and bad hygiene respectively)- Doc reveals that the alien impregnated him with a parasitic embryo. Tucker would later go on to proclaim that he has no remembrance of this and that all he can remember is the Alien hovering over him in his sleep. So he was pretty much date raped and knocked up by an alien.
Church refuses to believe this but is proven wrong when Tucker gives birth to Junior, a smaller alien with cyan armor. He shows a decent amount of compassion for it (him?). After Wyoming and Gary (Gamma) arrive and hold the Blue's hostage, Tucker realizes he's using a time loop every time something goes wrong, as it's his enhancement ability. Tucker is the only one who notices this (supposedly due to his sword) and he eventually stabs Wyoming in the chest and steal his sniper rifle, using it to kill Wyoming clones and force Caboose to move out of the way and keep him from getting shot by Gary.
In trying to stop Tex from kidnapping his kid, Tucker is knocked out by her and has his sword stolen. He later tries to talk with Flower's (who was brought back to life after being a host for Omega) before the latter get's shot in the head before revealing vital information. At the end of Blood Gulch Chronicles, he is transferred out and sent on a mission by command. He makes a reappearance in Reconstruction in voice only when he slips a message to Grif about something "being under the sand".
He is mentioned again when Donut delivers a distress message from him to the Caboose and the Red Team, who abandon Valhalla to Lopez (La Pesado), Simmons and an unconscious Donut to go chase after the distress signal Tucker had also been broadcasting. Later, Tucker is revealed to be holding out in an Alien temple supposedly made by the Forerunners and having some kind of ridiculously powerful artifact inside of it. He is also shown to have recovered his sword and reveals that he and Junior are working as ambassadors between the Covenant Elites and the human race. After voicing his disappointment in the arrival of the Reds and Caboose, he recruits them to help him destroy or protect the artifact.
The artifact is later revealed to be something like 343 Guilty Spark, but dormant. Eventually, it is revealed to be a husk and Caboose puts Epsilon into it. After this, the door to he temple gives way and there is a skirmish between the aliens and C.T.'s men takes place. C.T. kidnaps Epsilon-Church and the Aliens, Reds, and Blues give chase The fight ends in a stand off between Tucker and C.T. (who is shown to have a large amount of hate reserved for Tucker) on the roof of the Temple. The Epsilon-Church uses his face laser to kill C.T.
Miscellaneous
Tucker is no stranger to being knocked out, at it is a running gag for him throughout the course of Blood Gulch.
He is also never allowed to use the Sniper Rifle and because of this, has amazingly good eyesight and is a rather good shot.
Tucker also has a catch phrase: Bow Chicka Bow Wow, which is said whenever someone makes a double entendre that can be interpreted as sexual innuendo in a conversation. He can also hear double entendres from far off because of this.
Tucker is well aware that Church is actually an AI. He also knows Epsilon isn't Church, but doesn't really care and calls him Church anyway because it's just easier.
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