Deadpan Snarker: Bucky is very prone to snarking, especially whenever he's around Koenig.After a successful career as a middleweight boxer, he joined the LAPD to escape the draft, only for his father's membership in the Germand Bund Party to cause Alien Squad to blackmail him into snitching on his Japanese friends, something that still haunts him. Dark and Troubled Past: Bleichert's mother died while he was still a child when she drank rubbing alcohol that a scammer sold her and claimed was booze, leaving him trapped with an abusive father.His fellow police believe this after he turns in John Vogel and results in Fritz's suicide.

He forced himself to forget how to speak German just to spite his father.

He then caps it off by using the winnings from his fight with Lee to put him in a nursing home filled with Jews, viewing it as an Ironic Hell for his father. Calling the Old Man Out: He berates his father for his abuse, indirectly causing his mother's death, and in his view forcing him to snitch on Hideo Ashida and his other Japanese friends thanks to joint the German Bund Party.Discovering that he covered up crucial evidence to the Black Dahlia case in exchange for a massive bribe from Georgie Tilden only destroys it further. Broken Pedestal: Discovering Lee was the mastermind behind the Boulevard-Citizens bank robbery and actively used him to eliminate witnesses shatters Bleichert and destroys a lot of his faith in the man.Been There, Shaped History: Bleichert was a participant in both the Zoot Suit Riots as well as the Black Dahlia murder.He also blackmails Madeline Sprague into having sex with him. Anti-Hero: He's cynical, shrewd, cold, voyeuristic, and has a violent temper, but his heart's ultimately in the right place and he's a loyal friend.A former middleweight boxer who joined the LAPD to escape being conscripted into the military.

Nowhere Boulevard by Katherine Black