Thank you. I'm glad you like it so far. Thanks for commenting!

Yeah, Tank makes it hard to sympathize with him at times, but I still really do. He's very shy and awkward at making friends. It's not that he doesn't want to. That was a particularly nasty attack Ripp made on him, I think. Ripp is better at psychological damage than Tank is (Tank would probably say that he "fights like a girl"). Tank was probably really relieved when the fight switched to a physical one.

Buck is really great. He'll be a teen when we next see him, and we'll start to see him move more fully into his role as the glue that keeps the family together.