Extremely happy with this run - good enough for 2nd place and deathless.
Deathless was a fantastic challenge. I love how this game & run in particular is so punishing on one mistake. In terms of errors, there wasn't much in this run, and I look forward to returning to it. Magma was a little messed up as I got to the boss on a bad timer, so it gave me a bad pattern, and the toad ship end game allowed me to finish. I messed up horribly and somehow still got the quick kill.
Big thanks to everyone in the Bucky community who helped contribute with strats, and huge thanks to my girlriend, @Kat_kunoichi for always being there and supportive of me. :D
This was a big one to check off on my speedrun bucket list. I've always wanted to run Bucky deathless and try to finish in top 3. @cyghfer introduced me inadvertently to speedrunning with his HARD! run in 2014 for GDQ, so it's been cool to see what top 3 actually requires for HARD! mode.