Story so far
When the machine heart stops early and the team isn't ready, Mordecai cannot be the one to remove the organs — doing so would constitute an attack on Epitome Tagg. Bucket Boy does it instead, yanking the whole cluster of heart and lungs out with a wet squelch and throwing the mess over his shoulder onto the ground.
After Mordecai casts the Water Breathing Scroll and gills form on Louis's neck, Bucket Boy jams stops into the slits to hold them open so they will persist once the water breathing ends, then tentatively pulls them back out once Louis wakes. The system notes it almost gave the kill credit for Tagg to "the Bucket Boy kid" before awarding it to Mongo instead.
Appearance
A child working the operating table alongside the adults, hands bloody to the wrist.
Role
The one non-restricted pair of hands able to pull the organs without it counting as an attack.
Relationships
Mordecai — Does the removal Mordecai legally cannot.
Louis — Holds his new gills open with stops.
Mongo — Lost the Tagg kill credit to him by system ruling.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 22
- Crocodilian former Penis Parade attendant and low-tier healer who assists Imani and will run the field hospital in combat.
Chapter 24
- One of the figures leaning over Carl's cot in the infirmary as the teleport plot unfolds.
Chapter 37
- A young crocodilian medic who drags a wounded Yenk into the FUPA and watches Carl beat his companion to death.
Chapter 38
- Frontline healer at the castle entrance whose Heal spell mends wounds without actually relieving the pain.
Chapter 66
- Crawler among the party searching the Desperado Club for the missing dancers.
Chapter 79
- Crocodilian NPC stripper whose private shame is that he does not remember the past lives his colleagues describe.
Chapter 92
- Runs the new clinic beside the Larracos castle where Kiwi is taken in active labor.
Chapter 94
- Bucket Boy stands between the laboring Kiwi's legs looking green and is warned to vomit outside.
Chapter 96
- The kid who yanks Tagg's organs free when Mordecai legally can't, and plugs Louis's new gills.