#re tommy kinnard and his astounding lack of personality beyond being a creepo

[theyjusthowl]

I'm not about to jump onto someone's post to hate dump but somehow it has become a popular opinion on my feed (?????) that if something happened to Chris Eddie would go full blown helicopter and drown in his guilt and like. No. We are not Eddie understanders, not with that headcanon.

He's the undisputed king of gentle parenting we've literally seen him on the sidelines kicking and screaming internally but he always lets Chris do his thing. He never ever has and never will put him in a gilded cage or let his unresolved teenage angst bleed over his son. Eddie Diaz is a Good Dad TM and a big chunk of that is recognizing his own fears should never cripple or shape his son's opinions and desires.

Be so fr right now I know a lot of people hate Eddie and they try to conflate him with his trauma like they can't exist separately in the same universe and they like to think that Eddie is boring when he's not brooding.

That's not Eddie. Eddie is a goofball. He's sassy, and opinionated, and hot headed, and he has such a strong will to persevere and find the good things in life because he's on a healing journey. He's not torturing himself because he's undeserving of love ffs, he might have a somewhat skewed set of rules and self expectations he wants to fulfill because it's The Right Thing To Do, and that ultimately has to do with his parents' shortcomings, but that right thing has included loving and being loved from day one y'all, if there's one thing he's looking for it's love, not approval.

Some people are just opposed to seeing Eddie in a positive light because they dislike him. It's okay, you can say so instead of writing essays on Eddie's many flaws and why he's not right for Buck etc etc. They don't have to be right for each other I mean have we seen each other's love interests? They couldn't have been more mismatched if they'd tried.

Whoever these people think Eddie is, he's not. They're fundamentally misunderstanding my good friend Eddie Diaz, and it shows.