#buck and eddie in the flashbacks: we're just having sex

[lover-of-mine]

Sevenish Sentence Sunday!

I was tagged by @try-set-me-on-fire @honestlydarkprincess @alyxmastershipper @wildlife4life @wikiangela @cowboy-buck @disasterbuckdiaz @giddyupbuck thank yooooooou!!!!!!

I was also tagged by some people to do inspiration saturday but i never do inspiration saturday because unless I'm talking about the wayf fic, I'm just following the voices oskaoskaosk but since I'm writing this bit of it that's actually inspired by the lyrics of the song, I will go with that now. My inspiration is Luke Hemmings voice singing "MAKING ALL OUR PLANS IN THE SANTA CRUZ SAND THAT NIGHT" and it's one of the 2 scenes that started this off and made me call this a song fic and name it after wrapped around your finger by 5sos (the song is not available worldwide but i did upload an audio for a live version here if you're curious). prev snippet.

"God, I miss him," Buck said once Eddie put his phone down and he chuckled. "Tell me about it."  "Can we raid him off camp?" Buck asked, shifting on the sand so he could look at Eddie, who glanced at him, looking amused. "I don't think he would be happy with us if we did." "He'll get over it, ice cream for dinner for a week or something," Buck shrugged, and Eddie laughed. "I can't in good conscience let him have that much sugar," he said, moving so he was facing Buck too while he pouted. "Fine, I'll just bribe him with a new game, or like, a Switch or something."  "Or we could just let him stay at camp for another five days."  "How is that better?" Buck complained and Eddie ran a hand over his face, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I don't know? To teach him some independence or something?" He asked, frowning at Buck, "what else were people telling me to let him go in the first place?"  "That it would be good for him?" He offered, face softening and Eddie all but sighed. "Not sure how good it is for me."

i will tag @bucks118 and @housewifebuck if they feel like sharing <3

[johanna-swann]

The thing about Marisol and Natalia - the thing is this.

I like Natalia. She's an interesting character and I would love to see more of her. BUT. It makes no (and I mean absolutely zero) sense for Buck to date anyone at this point. After everything he's been through he's just learning that being himself and by himself is enough. Introducing Natalia as his love interest instead of a new friend outside of the 118 bubble was a (amatonormativity induced) mistake in my opinion.

With Marisol on the other hand it's the exact opposite? It's definitely in line with Eddie's character development to try dating again. He's over the whole Ana thing and Shannon's death, he's in a good place mentally speaking and has the time to get back into the dating world - on his own terms. Because he wants it so, not because of what others expect of him. But then they (re-)introduce Marisol of all people in a way that not only feels super rushed, it also goes completely against Eddie's "dating people from calls never works" rule. With the way Eddie and Marisol's remeeting is written it also implies that this is going to be Miss Right for Eddie and that we're watching an epic lovestory unfold. Except we don't really know anything about her and they don't really know each other either. We're just supposed to root for them because Marisol used the word "magic" while talking about glue, I guess. (Natalia at least has an interesting job going for her, a topic that connects her and Buck.)

So yeah. They should've been more subtle about the whole Marisol thing, not oversell it this much and Natalia shouldn't be a love interest at all. Not yet at least, I would've waited until mid season 7 before having Buck date again.

Ultimately of course I still hope Buddie might become a thing, I'm just saying: Other pairings could work just as well if they did it right and didn't keep retconning characters' backgrounds and developments.

Because that's another thing that irked me about season 6B. They were suddenly all about romanticising Eddie and Shannon's relationship?

The way I understood it is they were highschool sweethearts who got pregnant way too young and barely out of school and then married because with a child on the way it was expected of them. I don't think they were even living together yet. Then Eddie pretty much immediately joined the army and he was gone, only came back for a few months when Christopher was born and re-enlisted. He had only just got back home when Shannon suggested moving to LA which is why Eddie refused and then Shannon ran off on her own. They started having sex again later, but never really got back together and Shannon even wanted a divorce.

It's established that they fought a lot about all kinds of things, that it was never easy and that the only thing that ever really worked between the two of them was the sex. We know this because there were flashbacks, because Eddie told us so and because Shannon told us so. Yes, they wanted to try their best to be a family for Christopher and I'm sure they loved each other.

But why is Eddie suddenly talking about how their relationship was simply "magical" and he wants to find that again??? Even if he loves Shannon and is forever grateful for Chris, the relationship itself (married for the wrong reasons without really wanting to, never really present at the same time, barely spending time together, leaving each other, using sex to avoid having to talk to each other, not able to communicate their needs) sounds like a nightmare.