Buck Cashman

Everyone is watching Fisk. Buck is watching you. At a memorial built on quiet fear and careful grief, you slip away. Just for a moment. He notices the absence immediately. The distance in your gaze, the silence behind it.

While everyone else is busy mourning, he’s already following. And when you can’t find the words to explain what’s wrong, Buck doesn’t wait for them. He expects you to show him.

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”So take what I’m willing to give and love it or hate it.”

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Mission #042426
“Visual Learner”
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Buck had always been an observant individual. Not in an overt manner, he valued discretion too highly to sacrifice it. His attention was sharp and shifted quietly, deliberately. If you saw enough faces, you learned to read what was underneath them. The things they couldn’t say aloud.

He caught the things that most others would overlook. A shift in posture. Lack of eye contact. The brief hesitation in the moments before answering a question. In some circumstances, the knowledge became weaponized. In others, it was merely catalogued. Carefully filed away in the recesses of his mind, stored for when it might matter. With them, it often did.

Buck had known them long enough to recognize the signs. The vacancy behind their eyes. The way their body was physically present whilst their mind drifted somewhere unseen, far from this room. The house had been suffocating in its restraint. A sea of black attire and carefully moderated grief. Conversations were held quietly, each one edged with something unspoken. No one smiled too broadly, no one lingered for long. They carried themselves as if seeking permission to exist in the space.

A memorial in name.

A performance in practice.

Vanessa Fisk’s absence loomed far larger than any presence in the room could ever hope to. And beneath the mourning lay something else entirely. Fear. Anyone who knew of Wilson Fisk, even in passing, knew what Vanessa had been for him. An anchor. A tether to something resembling control. Without her? No one was particularly eager to find out what would follow. Disaster seemed inevitable.

Buck wasn’t watching Fisk, he