#and i don't think they can just deny Shannon with the way eddie imploded his life for kim

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Do you think when (maybe I should say 'if' but it really only feels like a matter of time at this point lol) they do a queer eddie plotline they will say he never loved shannon at all or how will they handle it? After the whole kim debacle I don't see that happening anymore but I don't know what to expect to be honest.

Okay, I'm being bitchy today but I swear I don't want to sound like a bitch rn, this is a genuine question: why are some of you so scared of the idea that Eddie loved Shannon? I know the headcanon that Eddie is strictly gay is the most popular one, particularly I don't subscribe to it, but why is everyone convinced he can't have loved Shannon and be queer? Eddie believes he loved her. He will never be able to fully parse the feelings he had for her because, one they met when they were too young, and two she's dead so he can't analyse that with her to be like "oh, yeah, I'm gay and I don't think I was in love with you". Eddie loved Shannon. That's a fact of Eddie's character. You can debate whether he was in love with her or not or if her was attracted to her or not. But you cannot say Eddie did not love her. If you do, you're denying half of Eddie's character construction. Eddie is allowed to have loved a woman and still be queer. And personally, I need the show not to touch Eddie's relationship with Shannon like that. I need the show to have Eddie say something like "I loved Shannon, but I love Buck now" and just move on. The discourse around Eddie and Shannon is already insane without them having Eddie say he didn't love her.