#(where Tommy didn't date Abby because that sucks)

[momotonescreaming]

Everyone's writing angsty break up fix it, and I love it, I really do. But what if I wrote Buck and Tommy just having a nice 6 month anniversary dinner. Because that's how I cope apparently.

Where Buck has a gift for Tommy as well, because of course he does, he's as invested as Tommy is. Where Tommy explains that he knows Buck doesn't like playing basketball, he knows he actually quite likes watching it with Tommy, if only to see his boyfriend so excited. That basketball game was the reason Tommy went to see Buck that fateful day they kissed, so going to Micelli's, bringing everything full circle felt right. Where Buck tells that lady that she's interrupting a date, sorry, could she ask someone else? Thinking of that first date and no longer afraid of everyone watching.

[inawickedlittletown]

Sooo I started to read other articles. I didn't after reading the ones that came out right after the episode that justifiably got everyone upset.

This one from tv insider had Tim saying this:

Moving on to Buck and Tommy’s breakup, talk about your approach to it. Why was Tommy sure that Buck would break his heart?

Tommy’s older and Buck is very new to this, and whether Tommy was correct or not, I think what he felt like was exactly what he said: I’m not your last, I’m your first, which is a special thing to be, but as Tommy says, it doesn’t usually end up being the same thing. And I think based on what we know of Buck, he’s maybe not wrong. Buck’s a little impulsive when he’s feeling a certain kind of way. He’s like, move on in, bring your couch. So I just think because Tommy’s a little older and wiser or maybe at some level he feels like he doesn’t deserve Buck, I don’t know. But I think he accurately diagnosed Buck. Buck’s still figuring himself out, and boy, that would be quite risky to move in with that guy as much as you would love to.

That does seem to be Buck’s go-to, which isn’t the best.

Exactly.

Are we going to see Buck single for a significant period of time now? Is he trying to figure out what he wants really out of a relationship?

Yeah, I think that’s right. As Tommy said, you’re still figuring yourself out, and his options have increased by 50 percent of the population. So knowing Buck, that’s going to be choice overload. He’s got to navigate that with a little self-awareness.

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So they definitely planned for this. That's what this reads like...they wanted to break them up so that they could send Buck through a period of exploration. Tim says everything Oliver said here in much nicer terms. His view of Buck is so...Idk, it's like he sees Buck as a kid that still doesn't know what he wants. And he decided to put that view right into Tommy's head too. It's a little jarring I guess but this show...has it ever been consistent?

What sucks is that 8x05 was written like they were doing so well. And then right off the back with 8x06 we have warning signs in the date scene with the girl that approaches Buck and how Tommy sort of shrugs off Buck checking her out. I really do wonder where hot waiter fit into this and I'm so glad we didn't see Tommy like checking hot waiter out or something. But I guess that scene was there to sow the seeds. We have Buck spiraling because of the Abby thing and we have Tommy maybe not realizing but reinforcing for himself that he's a stepping stone for Buck and being okay with it in the status quo.

The way that Tim speaks about Buck asking Tommy to move in, he makes it seem like Buck is just barreling in without thought...like if they went through with it Tommy might be proven right. But then what is the point of the scene with Josh where Buck is right on the cusp of an "I love you" just to then be like no actually Tommy knows how this ends and he can read Buck and knows they're not forever. But Tommy is not a mind reader.

Where there is hope is in that Tim doesn't outwardly say anything about Tommy being gone for good. As someone else pointed out the Lou interviews were done by buddie journalists with a bias so there is a question to how much that colored what we got and why they were so determined to close the door fully. Also...why did we get exit interviews in the first place for a character that only had three episodes...it's so odd.

The writers made a point of leaving this open. Do I think we'll get Tommy back any time soon. No. But after the doom and gloom and the time to mourn this a bit I want to be positive and there is really no knowing. Tim says he thinks Buck will be single for a while...okay fine...picture that being the rest of this season.

Buck won't just jump into another relationship...and Oliver gets his Buck slut era 2.0...what if S9 brings back Tommy? What if this is the long game...or at least the thing they can have in their back pocket if Lou is available later on to come back. But that's not something they can promise or that they can commit to and Lou isn't on contract clearly and Oliver wouldn't know if that's the plan...hell even Tim probably doesn't know if they'll do that. Or I'm giving him too much credit because as we've seen this season storylines have been rushed to close up at breakneck speeds so it would be an anomaly for him to prolong something like this.

All this to say, showing the network and Tim that bucktommy matters to a lot of people and that Tommy matters...it may just make a difference.

[danceworshipper]

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Love Interest: Maggie Grant @beloved-bucky

Current Friends List:

- Auggie and Charly Grant

- Evie Devitt

- Will Berkeley

- Abbi Bennet

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- Tommy is an ambivert I think? He's very social and good at social situations but he's also very good at being alone and just chilling. He loves to spend time with just him and his honey bees out on the balcony of his apartment where he has a little fountain and a whole planter thing going on so he can have a little paradise in the city (magically protected of course, we can't let anything happen to the bees). Oh also he has a LOT of anxiety sorry to any friends of his

- He's Scottish, idk from where exactly but city, not country. His face claim is a young Jonathan Taylor Thomas:

- It was originally someone else but the dude had like NO good pictures so. Here we are. We're gonna assume the random "short celebrities" article had his correct height of 5'6" - which isn't even short? Idk short king territory is like 5'4" and under I think but he's good enough

- Tommy's a Gryffindor just because I didn't have an HPHL Gryffindor yet. He's the reserve Beater, gets to play in matches a few times, but he didn't really want to be a full team member anyway; too much of a time commitment. He ends up an animagus in seventh year and my man is a fat little bumble bee! Funnily enough he loves bees but wasps scare the shit out of him

- If someone was to smell him in their Amortentia he'd smell like honey, wildflowers, and a fresh breeze. Maybe a hint of rainy summer nights in there too. His ideal date is either a quiet evening in with a home cooked dinner and some nice soft tunes while he and his partner just enjoy each other's company, OR a trip to a fair with loud music and rides and games and fireworks

- He has an older sister named Janet and a younger brother named Carter. Carter is a muggle like their father and Tommy loves him all the more for it. Janet's a little meaner but she has oldest daughter syndrome so it's kinda fair, because she's the oldest by a full five years. Tommy is only around a year older than Carter so they're very close

- Tommy's a morning person. Ew.

- He becomes a Prefect, but he didn't really want to. They picked him because he's a "good influence" which means he's just never gotten detention

- His favorite class is Herbology

- Favorite color is red. Nerd

- In the future he takes a stable office job at the Ministry doing paperwork and filing and boring stuff no one wants to do. It's not fun, but it pays well and leaves him time to be a dad and go out with his friends/partner and of course take care of his bees