#buddie speculations

[gayofthefae]

If Eddie and Marisol break up in episode 5 that would be so funny. Because that literally just means they didn't break both of them up in episode 1 because it would be too quick and obvious.

[watchyourbuck]

[gayofthefae]

...people from her work pushed her into his arms romantically also.

Also, I tagged my Breaking Point Meta posts because maybe hour 6 didn't mean season 6 but rather year 6 for them...

Tia Pepa was married before. Eddie was married before. It took her six years to find someone else? Eddie has known Buck for five years?? She met her husband because of people from her work??? The dots are connecting....

[imakatperson22]

Eddie: Kicks the 3rd woman he’s dated out of his house because of repressed catholic guilt after avoiding having sex with her.

Buck: absolutely flailing as a baby disaster bisexual and sending his date running for the hills before they even finish their meal.

Chris, “out of town” somewhere, sitting on a curb and smoking a cigarette: Jesus Christ, these two fucking idiots…

[stolenkissesdiaz]

tommy calling buck ‘evan’ during their entire relationship and the first, and only time, he calls him buck is after he breaks up with him. eddie calling buck ‘evan’ only once and it was when he gave buck his goddamn son. the only time tommy called him buck was before leaving and the only time eddie called him evan was when he gave buck proof of him and chris staying. of them wanting buck. of them keeping buck. id say “which could meaning nothing!” but it actually means everything.

[universescreaming]

Something about even when Tommy is taking care of Buck there being this distance between them, Tommy is on the couch and turning off the lights while Buck is still trying to talk, Tommy is in the foreground of Buck having another “who are you without your family” moment in a graveyard, Tommy in the hospital, wearing a visitor badge, close but never touching, there but never there.

Something about Tommy being all over this episode and still barely there at all. He is in Buck- Evan’s- life but he’s not in it, he’s on the outside, always behind this invisible fence

Something about “Buck. The people who know me, call me Buck”

Something about Buck telling Tommy- his BOYFRIEND- Tommy all about this curse and this story, but it’s Eddie who has to explain the holes in the story Buck doesn’t know he’s leaving

Something about Tommy being in the room with him when he wakes up with boils but Eddie is the one who checks him out and makes sure he’s okay

Something about Buck being the one we’re shown to get Hens text about Denny, signally everyone else in that room, that family, who got that text except for Tommy, Tommy having to ask what had happened, having to be explained that everything was going to be okay

He is there but he is not, he’s in the room but he’s not apart of it

Something about only dreaming about finding a love like that, something about “you don’t find it son, you make it”

Something about Buck constantly trying to make it work with people, trying to force it to work with people because that what he thinks he meant, because love is work right? It’s something you make work

Something about him always misunderstanding the assignment

Something about the last time Buck was in a graveyard he was shoulder to shoulder with Eddie, talking about how a girl he just met sees him, all the while leaning on Eddie in the aftermath of his death he has accepted but never understood

Something about him telling Tommy that the night they met being the most fun he’s had since dying, something about how he connects Tommy and Natalia to an event neither where there for, as two people who can never understand the horror of those 3 minutes and 17 seconds

Something about Buck throwing himself into danger and adrenaline time after time and chasing relationships that feel like that because that’s love right? Something that feels like being struck by lightening and surviving and non of the side effects

Something about Buck not being able to sleep after his death until he sits on Eddie’s couch, Eddie is the person he comes too for when he’s restless, for the calm after the storm

Something about “it’s about how she makes me feel” “like you’re flying high” “like I’m standing on solid ground”

Something about Tommy being jealous of the 118 and the family they’ve built because he’s not apart of it, and a part of him knows he never will be

Because the roles have all been filled and the family has already been made and he is trying to build something with Buck- Evan- thats already been built

[mazzystar24]

A friendly reminder next ep is called you dont know me which is a song about pining after your friend who’s in a relationship and thinks you’re just friends

[ebdaydreamer]

Buck at the start of 7x04:

Buck, 5 minutes later:

[gayofthefae]

She is a sort of life coach...those people are observant...

But what if Natalia is the one that does what some people wanted Taylor to do? Point out that Eddie and Buck are basically a couple. Point out everything they do with and for each other. Point out that they are co-parents. What if she's the one that pulls it out into the light? What if she is the one that makes it impossible to not see. What if...

[gayofthefae]

A guy on a call who was married to a woman (maybe even married young) but realized he was gay talking to Eddie a la Buck, Actually

because let's be honest he knows queer people and all but he needs queer education first. Like who's gonna tell him that's even an option and when is it gonna come up.

[watchyourbuck]

I think the reason Eddie crashes the bucktommy date is bc Buck mentions him three times in a row and ends up summoning him like in Bloody Mary

[lenaboskow]

desperately need buck to text tk next ep

buck: omg was i hitting on you??

tk: were you... not?

tk: i thought you were trying to make diaz jealous

buck: no?? omg this is explains so much

tk: so... you and diaz finally together?

buck: me and eddie? no. don't know where you got that idea from. anyways (proceeds to explain 7x04)

tk: ...

tk: again, you're sure you don't have a thing for diaz

[bisexual-buck]

"But Buck was trying to get Eddie's attention."

Well I have some thoughts on that! I think Buck does like Tommy, and there's no confusion for him about that. His feelings for both people can coexist!

My interpretation of last night's events for our chaotic bisexual kind of played out as him trying to get both Tommy's and Eddie's attention at different times. And not really knowing why. I think he was having feelings he couldn't really process because he didn't have the right context for those feelings and hasn't really felt them before.

So call me a clown but my thoughts are that he was definitely feeling jealous of both of them. With Eddie, he's primarily been close with only women outside of the 118, not other guys. Buck's subconscious feelings (not known to him at the time or even fully now) may have been along the lines of "Eddie likes women, I have no competition" and then in swoops Tommy (someone Buck already thinks is really cool and wanted to get to know even if he didn't quite know why yet) and his brain goes "I have competition" about both Eddie taking his new interest's attention and Tommy taking his long time interest's attention.

But then Tommy comes back into focus and clearly shows interest in Buck, so it clicks! This was that feeling! Part of the puzzle has been solved— it's just the rest that isn't as obvious to him yet.

Because without understanding his sexuality, Buck has likely only ever viewed Eddie as a friend even if along the way he has felt things that friends don't typically feel. So what we have right now is an opportunity for Buck to explore his bisexuality as a completely separate thing from Eddie, and then come to understand what he has also been feeling for Eddie without realizing before.

Or I'm completely wrong but only time will tell.

[makorragal-312]

How Buck and Eddie's conversations with Chris are gonna go:

Eddie: Hey son.

Chris: Hey dad.

Eddie: I heard that you're seeing someone. Thought I'd give you some advice.

Chris: Didn't you dump Ms. Flores by telling her to go home?

Eddie:

Eddie: You're right. This is clearly a Buck conversation.

-a few hours later-

Buck: Hey Chris!

Chris: Hey Buck.

Buck: So...your dad tells me that you're-

Chris: Dad called you to give me dating advice, didn't he?

Buck: Uh, yeah.

Chris: Didn't your last girlfriend almost get Uncle Bobby in trouble by reporting on that crazy firefighter?

Buck: W-Well yeah-

Chris: And didn't you take Natalia couch shopping after knowing her for, like, a couple of weeks?

Buck:

-outside Chris' room-

Eddie: Well?

Buck: We are so not equipped for this conversation.

Eddie: Fuck.

[sunflowerdigs]

Like everyone else, I'm not sure exactly how 911 is going to handle Eddie's re-evaluating of himself. But the interview today was so great because Ryan seems really committed to a holistic view of the character that doesn't necessarily center just one aspect, but instead pulls all aspects in and shows how each one has played a part in who Eddie is and who he wants to be. Eddie is latino, a (lapsed) Catholic, and a veteran with a Silver Star. He's a dad to a great kid with CP, a husband to a dead wife who left him, and a best friend to a guy who loves his kid. And he's some flavor of queer, though he doesn't know it. And all of those things have shaped him and informed his choices, beliefs, and fears. And so all of them need to come into play as he rediscovers who he is.

This arc could be so beautiful and profound if 911 let's it be.

[natvksblog]

Eddie: Hen I think I like Buck

Hen: You think?!!

Eddie: yeah I'm not su-

Hen: you baby trapped him! You got shot and worried if HE was injured! You RAN on the ladder when he was struck by lightning! AND YOU THINK?!!