#eddiemaddie

[nubuckleather]

really hope “idk why we never talk to each other … hi, ryan” was a little nod to some maddie/eddie shenanigans this season like im on my knees …

[userautumn]

maddie/eddie mommy kink. send post

[soldierandawar]

I respect rarepair shippers so much. Lowkey feel like yall are the backbone of fandom. When everyone else is falling apart yall are like, “what if I put these controversial or people that no one else really thinks about together.” And then you go and make some beautiful content. It’s great. Thank you for your service.

[lesbianrobin]

ok so here is my pitch for my dream buddie catalyst:

eddie and maddie are trapped in some sort of likely-fatal time sensitive situation together (drowning related probably because it's Them) (have they overused it yes is it still thematically appropriate YES) where one person could potentially sacrifice themselves for the other to survive. i want eddie and maddie using their combined experience and ingenuity to survive together and discussing who should be prioritized which means they talk about parenthood and how they both feel they've failed their children by "running," how their lives have been so defined by trauma and they don't want to scar their children any further by leaving them again. of course they're doing everything they can to get out together, but as the situation deteriorates throughout the episode(s) (c'mon something like this could be at LEAST a two-parter) they can't help returning periodically to the world's most morbid debate.

i want buck and chim on the outside both going out of their goddamn minds. they know that eddie and maddie are stuck (wherever), know that they're probably alive, but aren't sure in what condition and if they'll stay that way. rescue operations begin as everybody walks on eggshells around buck and tries to comfort chim, who wants absolutely none of it. time is running out.

eddie says that he couldn't possibly let maddie sacrifice herself for him and look buck and chim in the eye afterwards. maddie says that she couldn't do that either. she says that at least jee-yun would still have her father, and eddie says that christopher would still have buck. maddie says that of course none of them would just abandon christopher if something were to happen to him but—

and eddie cuts her off and says it's in my will. if i die, christopher will have buck. buck will have christopher.

they just look at each other for a weighted moment. maddie makes a decision. she says ...i meant it, you know. that i couldn't let you die down here (wherever here is i don't KNOW okay i'm not here to think up convoluted emergencies i'm here for drama) and look my baby brother in the eye knowing that i could have changed it. eddie says i know, okay, but it's different, you're his sister, and maddie says, yeah, but you're his... and she pauses. and eddie says what? best friend? partner? that doesn't—

and maddie says you're his. eddie, you're his.

and eddie... i want to see something slot into place. i want to watch him understand as maddie spills everything she's been suspecting since the day that buck came out to her and maybe since before she and eddie even met. maddie says you know, when i first came to california, you were all he talked about? you're still all he talks about. you and christopher. you're his. i couldn't... eddie, you're out of your mind if you really don't think that losing you would break him just as much as losing me. he would forgive us both, because he's buck, but i couldn't... i'm no saint, eddie, i want to survive. i don't want my daughter to grow up without me. but i can't do that to him. i don't know if he'd survive it. even if he did, the guilt would eat me alive.

meanwhile. buck is barely holding on to his sanity as rescue efforts are underway and time is running out. chimney is keeping it together as best he can but there isn't much that he and buck can do. he can't let himself fall apart because buck is already a stiff breeze away from clawing his own skin off and somebody has to keep their cool. something goes wrong—suddenly, their short amount of time has gotten shorter, and they may only have enough of a window to get one out before it's too late for the other. buck, who has been ranting and arguing and screaming this whole time... is silent. he is silent, and he stares straight ahead at nothing in particular, and we know that no matter which way the scales tip, his soul will be destroyed all the same.

eddie regards maddie for a moment. grief, heartbreak, anger, all flicker over him, but what settles is determination. he says that neither of them are going to leave again. that they'll survive together, or not at all, or leave it to the universe to decide.

of course they make it out. by the skin of their teeth, they make it out, working together, clawing their way back to life and love and possibility. maddie makes it out first, and eddie sees buck as she falls into chim's waiting arms. he watches as buck sees his sister, and reaches out to take her hand with trembling fingers and white knuckles, but there is no relief, no happiness in his red-rimmed eyes. just a deep, unspeakable grief, until his eyes slide past maddie and meet eddie's.

finally: relief. and then he is in buck's arms, a perfect parallel to chim and maddie, and we see eddie's face over buck's shoulder, and we know. he is in love, and buck is in love, and eddie knows, and he sinks into his partner's embrace with joy and acceptance.

after that, who knows? maybe a grand confession. a moment of quiet understanding. a passionate post-rescue kiss. a chaste, tender kiss in some kitchen or other. maybe eddie panics later, or maybe he's found peace for once. maybe buck has realized something and he makes the first move. maybe it happens immediately. maybe it takes a while, takes discussions about how it'll affect work and christopher and whether it's worth risking all that they have for all that they want.

and maybe they'll ask whether it's even a risk at all.

[thatbuddie]

i know it could be just the place to rest in between takes but…. madney + buddie double date save me…. save me madney + buddie double date….

[hoziersong]

okay eddie's whole situation sucks rn but it's the PERFECT segue for him to get to interact with maddie. who also knows what it's like to feel like you've failed your child. i mean we know the best way to strike up friendships in the 911 universe is through shared trauma right. wouldn't this be perfect

[bibuckaroo]

okay, i got here late so i don’t know if somebody ever thought of that, but like eddie and maddie appear in the same episode so i keep making connections with them because there are so! many! parallels! (and pls 911, why can’t you just make them besties? i’m on my knees here, two beautiful brown eyed people) and ever since that scene with maddie talking about how cute chim is and buck thinking she meant eddie (and how insane is that now that buck is canonically bi?), i couldn’t let go of the idea of maddie not clarifying that it was chim she was talking about (maybe because buck didn’t make the kid comment) and her and eddie actually do become really close because they both adore buck, meanwhile buck and chim think there’s something going on between them because buck tells chim maddie thought eddie was cute and they’re both freaking out (chim knows fully well why he’s freaking out but buck is just so, so confused, it’s his sister and the guy who was his instant best friend, shouldn’t he be happy for them? but instead he just gets a feeling that it’s so wrong) and then, there’s a rollercoaster of misunderstandings but with a happy ending ofc.

and if you want to take a step further, the reason maddie doesn’t clarify is because she realizes buck truly does have a crush and decides to put the fake dating trope to good use (this is fake dating with a twist, guys), propositioning eddie so they can see if buck and chim would be interested in them like that. pls, someone write this!!!

[cranberrymoons]

i mean i do want eddiemaddie scenes as much as the next guy but i a little bit understand why we haven’t gotten them 🤨 because left alone in a room together and running out of small talk after five minutes, maddie (who is insane in many of the same ways that buck is insane) would eventually say sooooo…… when are you going to ask my brother out? and then eddie would have a another panic attack

[starburst-and-sunshine]

buddie fans pisses me off sometimes. no, tommy didn't hang out with eddie because he wanted to kiss him and he didn't kiss buck just because he couldn't kiss eddie. buck is NOT someone tommy settled for. eddie and tommy are friends; gay people can hangout with people of the same sex without trying to kiss them you loser. the scrapped eddietommy storyline was as much of a thing as the scrapped eddiemaddie storyline (not)

[eddiegettingshot]

jlh is a buddie warrior because she's an eddieryangirl and buddie means she gets to do eddiemaddie. like this is so clear to me now.

[nubuckleather]

and if i said the hotshots versions of maddie and eddie should be dating as a little nod

[userautumn]

within the context of eddiemaddie i think it would be so interesting to see how maddie would interact with chris. its never really a dynamic i've thought about before because we don't even see maddie and eddie interact much in canon.

oh my god sorry none of this has anything to do with what you just said but imagine if it was pre-relationship Maddie at the pier with Christopher that day.............. imagine Maddie, no training, not a firefighter, trying to keep Christopher alive — and Eddie KNOWS they're at the pier. Vomit !!!!!

[mischiefbuckley]

Jennifer and Ryan constantly mentioning the lack of Eddie and Maddie scenes and them interacting in the show the past few months in interviews like yes please give me the EddieMaddie besties era for season 8 I would love to see it

[lesbianrobin]

the eddiemaddie parallels drive me crazy but i will say sometimes i think about it too hard and i'm like damn... sigmund freud woulda loved evan buckley 😔💔

[thatbuddie]

romcom meet cute, anybody? 👀

[hunybody]

so who is making the eddiemaddie parallels amv set to no children. it can’t be me because i’ll throw up but it should be someone. here look it’s easy: the lyric says ‘and i hope that if i ever found the strength to walk out you’d stay the hell out of my way / i am drowning’ and it would be spliced up with eddie and maddie fighting with their parents and leaving their families and maddie in the ocean and eddie under the water.