#i know eddie doesn't want christopher moved back to texas and away from his support system

[nancywheeeler]

lmao sorry first unredacted weewoo show post incoming, but changing your will after almost dying in an underground well collapse to make your 20something coworker your child's legal guardian and then not telling him until you almost died a second time is absolute nonsense behavior. was eddie just never planning on telling buck had he not got shot? was buck going to find out at eddie's funeral that he's legally responsible for christopher and oh by the way definitely about to be involved in a prolonged custody battle with eddie's parents.

[deluweil]

I know ya'll are like this is proof of buddie canon,

And as someone who's been here from the beginning, I will believe it when I see it, not before.

There are four ways Eddie little pointless adventure can go,

1. He moves to El Paso, Christopher does not want to see him, his parents put as many obstacles as possible, Buck joins him in a true copying of Station 19 where at the end of the season Vic leaves and Travis meets her at the airport telling her his home is wherever she is and they leave together.

Prompting the spin off of Buck and Eddie together in El Paso. With an angsty backstory in the background and stuff.

2. Eddie and Buck go canon while they're looking for a house for Eddie, Buck asks Eddie not to move, kisses him they have some angsty back and forward in which Eddie goes to see the house up close, misses Buck and decides he doesn't want this, he convinces Christopher to go home with him and comes back to a delighted Buck.

3. Both of them go to see the house, Eddie loves it but it doesn't feel the right kind of happy, they both confess their feelings in El Paso and come back to LA hopefully after Eddie grows a backbone with his emotional support Buck, and tells his parents to go fuck themselves and his son that he can be mad at him all he wants at home in LA, but they can't work this out while they're in two different states so far apart from each other.

Christopher will probably come around either when he hears that, Thank God, no more poor substitutes for mothers will come through their door because he finally gets his Buck and Eddie together.

Or he's still sullen and teenager-y until Eddie’s next nde and then he'll come around, after crying to Buck that he doesn't want his dad to die thinking he hates him.

It will probably be the second option.

4. Eddie moves, Buck misses him like a missing limb, he goes to visit after one FaceTime too many and they end up together, either doing this long distance, or Buck moves to el paso, or they are both along with Christopher comes back to LA.

Some people are mad that I'm holding Christopher accountable for his behavior, and I will probably at some point make a long post about it, but the thing is, that unlike Buck's small family, Christopher had so many people and family to choose from to separate himself from his dad, but he chose the one pair of people that he knows will keep Eddie away at all cost, will let him get away with whatever just so that he stays with them.

And will give Eddie a pause before he will finally decide to get over his guilt over his one mistake of a stalker showing up against his will in his house, and stirring up painful shit for him and his son, and will come get him much later than he would have otherwise.

Because Eddie is sure he doesn't deserve to be redeemed, he actually thought up until his conversation with Father Brian that he didn't even deserve to drink juice, ok?

That's how bad the guilt is. Does Eddie have a lot of self work to do after TM erased all his progress cause he's a vindictive little bitch? Yes.

Is Christopher, which went through so much with his father and even at one point asked Eddie if he is the one making him sad, is the most ooc he's ever been written so far? Yes.

Can he be held accountable for his actions? At the moment of the ghost Shannon reveal, not entirely.

But six months later? Absolutely.

At this point, he's enjoying himself too much to go back to Eddie and his school and his duties, and he doesn't even discuss with Eddie his plans for the future.

Just hints that say, 'No, I barely want to talk to you and send me the autograph to my room on Texas as a reward for giving you half a breadcrumb every time you call'.

I am mad at Christopher for choosing the one pair of people he knew would do as much damage as possible and would take him away and keep him in a heartbeat.

Because, make no mistakes children are not stupid, they learn patterns of behavior, they see and hear everything, Christopher knows how hard it is for Eddie to deal with his parents and he is taking full advantage of it.

I am mad at Eddie for not putting his foot down and that he didn't send his parents packing the moment they showed up at his doorstep.

And I am mad at the Diaz parents for being the narcissistic assholes who want a second chance at raising their son's kid by taking him away from his father and rubbing it in on top of it.

This whole storyline is just one big cluster fuck, and I get that buddie canon is a potentially exciting future, but with Eddie’s storyline in shambles, which as an Eddie girl is the only thing I care about right now, I find it hard to be excited.

Also we've been here before, this is the same game plan as S5 5x10 and S5b which fox and the showrunner chickened out of last time.

So, yes, buddie may happen, but I ain't getting excited before they actually do. This show has given me trust issues, plain and simple.

[distractionpie]

i really want the 8b finale to be Eddie getting his ass in gear re: making moves to bring Christopher home, but barring that, I could also get behind Christopher to upgrading from uber to get his ass on a flight back to LA just to call his dad out for letting half a year pass without fighting for him to come back and yell misguided accusations that Eddie doesn't care and is glad to be rid of him. Of course Eddie said all that stuff about being able to come back at any time but since then he's been all forced supportive cheeriness on calls and not giving any sign that he wants Chris home.

We the audience know it's Eddie's self loathing but Chris is 14 and old enough to do the math on being an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy, and his dad left for the army and then his mom left completely (and then came back but then was gone again anyway). We've seen Chris verbalise the worry that he's part of what makes Eddie sad when Eddie was struggling with his trauma, and then when things semed like they were going good Eddie pulls moves like going after Kim which show that he's not happy with how his life turned out, and it would be easy for teenage Chris to see himself as the biggest part of Eddie's life that he didn't choose and can't get away from. Plus it would be so Helena to let slip a few comments about how Eddie never wanted to be father and ran from it until he couldn't anymore. how it was only his pride that meant he didn't just give Christopher to them like he should have in the first place.

It would be easy for Christopher to start dwelling on those pieces more than the fact Eddie said he could come back anytime, to build up this narrative in his head where maybe it is better for everyone if he's in Texas (even if he misses his dad all the time at the same time as being mad at him) but also he's so mad about it and mad about the percieved dishonesty that he just has to confront Eddie (and in doing so finally force some more mature conversations about their family trauma)