#the Diaz family

[epiaphany]

2x02 // 7x10

from "Thank God for you, kid" to "You're not even gonna look at me?"

[hawaiianlove808]

It’s almost time 😍😍😍

Season 8 coming soon!!!

[eddiebuckley-diaz]

Real talk:

I’m really glad that Eddie is taking the initiative to mend the bridge between him and Chris. Their relationship is so imperative and must be maintained above all else.

I am also devastated that now Buck will be abandoned again by someone he loves when it has happened so many times.

[rockinoutinhell]

Just rewatched the tsunami arc and had a few realizations. It was 100% a choice that when Buck goes to carry the bear he puts it over his shoulder and supports it with his arm the same way he later does to Chris when running from the tsunami wave (this is why I love this show) .

I would also like to point out how Eddie and Buck hold Christopher in moments following when they had thought they had lost him. These weren't the best images cause I think Buck hugs him this way a few seperate times in Sink or Swim (possibly later episodes as well), and Eddie does as well. They both have one arm wraped around him and one hand on the back of his head to support him and hold him against them. This just further cements in my mind how this episode sort've showed how Christopher had become not just his "best friend's son" but maybe more than that for Buck.

(This is probably phrased horribly, and my grammar probably sucks but I hope it makes sense).

[imnotzuza]

give them a break challenge

[eddiesbuck1]

Evan Buckley

This is a testament of the love he feels for Eddie and Christopher. The diaz's is not too far away in his thoughts, his home. He have pictures of them throughout his home. That is his family. His loves

[a--a---a]

i want a day in the life of chris and eddie prior to chris returning from el paso. like i want there to be clear joy: playing chess with abuelo, hanging out with his friends, enjoying a sunset or a laugh around a campfire, having a good day at school, and then i want it to be this close up of chris where he's looking at his dad's contact on his phone (it's a funny picture). and then i want it to go back to eddie, who's sitting next to buck at a bar or on the couch. he's laughing and sipping his beer and staring longingly at his best friend (i think he Knows about his feelings by this point), and then he's looking down at his phone wistfully, pulling up his texts to the last message chris sent him (a meme or a one word text). and at the end? i want eddie's face to perk up, because chris is calling. and he answers the phone like "hey, chris. what's up? is everything okay?" and the episode just ends with "dad, i'm ready to come home."

[schrijverr]

The Son I Never Got to Be

While in El Paso after running away from home to his grandparents, Chris stews in his anger towards his dad. However, the room he is staying in used to be Eddie’s and Chris stumbles across his high school diary. While he starts reading it to see if his dad ever wrote down anything embarrassing, it causes him to realize how different his childhood has been form Eddie’s, that his family isn’t what he always thought it had been. And that the bridge between him and Eddie isn’t as burnt and the damage not as permanent as Eddie fears.

AKA: a view of season 8A from Chris’s perspective where he starts to get a look behind the curtain of the generational trauma his family holds and finds some grace and forgiveness for Eddie along the way.

Ships: None

Warnings: Homophobia, misogyny, internalized homophobia, ableism, child abuse, generational trauma, grief, bullying, f slur, underage sex mention, injury, canon minor character death mention, insecurity

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I'd usually post the fic here too, however, it's too long for tumblr to handle (it was also too long for AO3 to handle as a one shot, which has never happened to me before), so I'm just gonna give y'all a link :D

[singitforthegirls]

Sucess! XD I've been having some troubles, but back on track again. 💃🏼🥳

Now to probably do the backstitch on the names and then move to the rest of the pattern. 😁😁🥹

[epiaphany]

That’s a lot of lights

epiaphany's 911 advent calendar - 16/24

[hawaiianlove808]

911 season 7 premiere

[pineapplehazard]

The Diaz house + Buck

So many memories, so many happy, sad, exciting, heartbreaking moments in this house that might disappear of Buck's life at the same time as its owner...

there's theories of eddie giving him the house (like Abby did), or even just the couch and hmmm,, Ouch? did you have to?

I don't know if i'll be more heartbroken if the theories are right or wrong (and then we never see the house again?)

[911experience]

Eddie. STAND UP. The longer he allows Chris to stay in Texas, the worse the transfer back to LA is going to be. Chris has a whole life there now, it’s absurd.

I literally hate this. I hate Eddie’s parents and I hate that Eddie has let this go on so long

[rosstrytobe]

ME WHEN I LIE

[morganski-19]

Eddie tries so hard not to be his parents. He tries so hard to try and be open with Chris. He tries so hard to be there, and to actively show his kid how much he loves him. He apologizes when he yells, and when he wasn't listening to Chris. When he actually checks himself, and realizes that he is falling into those habits, he takes a step back and explains where his mindset and his actions come from. He is about setting boundaries with respect, and having actual conversations with Chris.

Which is why this arc hurts so much, from so many different angles. Eddie is trying to give Chris space, trying to give him the autonomy to choose for himself. But in doing that, he is letting Chris run away from his problems, and punish the both of them in the process. Eddie knows what his parents are like. He knows that they have finally gotten what they wanted, and will actively try to keep Chris away from him forever.

Chris doesn't have all the information. Eddie's protected him from a lot of the comments his parents have made over the years about Shannon, about himself, about Chris. He has protected Chris from his own battles, trying to make sure Chris isn't affected by them.

All of this makes me wonder why Chris is still mad at Eddie. Obviously, he is mad at Eddie for the Kim thing, and he has a right to be. But, Chris has picked up on Eddie's mental health crisis in the past. In season 5, he could see how tired Eddie was, how much he missed being a firefighter. While he did not understand the extent of how deeply traumatized his dad was, he could see that something was wrong.

Now, Chris is older. I would like to believe that he can recognize that his dad was suffering. That he was acting out of his own grief. He again, wouldn't know all of Eddie's motivations, because he is still a kid, and has been sheltered from his dad's struggles with this. But he could possibly understand that Eddie was acting like this because of his trauma.

With that thought process, it makes me wonder if Chris isn't as mad about that anymore. What if he's now mad that his dad let him go to Texas at all. That he let him make this rash decision out of anger. Let him go live with his grandparents, who are probably saying rude comments about his parents right to his face. That Eddie isn't fighting more to bring him back home.

I'm not sure if they're going with this route, but I can see it being a conversation Eddie and Chris have when he gets back. I can see this being something that Eddie struggles with while trying to mend his relationship with Chris.

This whole situation is beyond complicated, and I'm honestly scared how it will turn out. All I can hope for is for Eddie to eventually learn that he can fight for his son without overstepping his boundaries. And that Chris can learn to forgive his dad, and they can move forward from this together.

[eddiebuckley-diaz]

Christopher feeling so safe with Buck to talk about how much he struggles with abandonment from his mom leaving is beautiful. You have this child who knows that he can turn to this other parental figure because Buck knew (however briefly) Shannon and Buck knows what happened when Shannon left the first time. Instead of Christopher feeling like he has to keep those thoughts in to protect hurting his dad, Chris can actually turn to another parental figure to help him.

It just says a lot on how Buck has become a co-parent in a really healthy way for Christopher.