Call me Dru (She/They). :D Ace/grey-ace/bi-romantic. Queer. Ship queer ships (canon/non-canon). Ship het too. If you have a problem with non-canon then idek. Also I got anxiety issues.
On TikTok, this person named Issie (her twitter is issieplz) spoke about her headcanon of Buck knowing Eddie's "date night cologne", and I loved the idea. So I had to my own version of it.
so you’re telling me that somewhere, deep down, Eddie knows that if he doesn’t make it out of one of the close calls one day, Buck will not make it. he simply could not keep surviving in a world where Eddie doesn’t anymore. and Eddie knows that and he takes out his heart out of his chest and hands it out to Buck, in the form of giving him the responsibility of his only son that he loves more than anything in the world, more than himself. more than he ever loved anyone. and he just says to Buck if anything happens to me you’re the only person i trust to take care of him. and now Buck can not quit if Eddie is gone, he has to take care of Christopher. and he always will, he would do anything for him. he will not quit anymore, he has a reason to fight, stronger than ever.
It just hit me that Buddie have basically paralleled actual married canon couples through accidents and fondness etc. They're not even together yet and they've lived through so much, built so much together. So if we imagine just how much more intimate or knowing or connected they’re going to be when they do get together?? When they're both aware of this mutual love and are intentionally together?? These two were screaming each other's names when disaster struck, idk how much worse we'll see them if anything even hints at happening later
Honestly one of my favourite things about Buddie is how much and how little would be changed by them getting together
Because on the one hand ohmygod huge feelings realisation and getting to acknowledge the love that was always there and them being able to officially be a couple
And on the other hand, Buck & Eddie have deeply intertwined lives and a family together and would do anything for each other and lose it if they see each other in danger? Yeah that’s just the status quo! They’re already like that! Buck & Eddie can’t be normal about each other? Yeah, fork found in kitchen
something that i think gets a little overlooked when talking about buddie and the shooting is how it establishes them and chris as a family in the most insane way. because as much as i love “you act like you’re expendable but you’re wrong”, technically buck was right in what he said.
like, if you take the situation at face value, yeah, it would have been objectively better for chris if his dad’s platonic bff who he’s not related to was shot instead of his dad (and only living parent). like as much as they love each other, that in theory, it’s not insane for buck to say that it would have been better for chris if he had been shot. he’d be sad, but he wouldn’t have lost his dad.
the fact that both the show and eddie make a point of saying “actually, no, the loss of either of us” is unhinged. like?? buck says “i’m not christopher’s dad” and eddie (and the show??) explicitly goes “incorrect!”
wild. still manifesting a will mention by the finale btw
Buck & Eddie: Screaming for each other - 3x15 & 6x10 combined
After The Well collapsed on top of Eddie in 3x15 “Eddie Begins”, Buck screamed for him and he tried to dig Eddie up with his hands.
After Buck was struck by lightning in 6x10 “In a Flash”, Eddie screamed for him and he tried to pull Buck up with his hands.
Instead of creating and using GIFs to show how palpable Buck and Eddie screaming for each other was in 3x15 and 6x10, I decided to create a video because it’s more effective when their simultaneous screams can be heard at the same time. The scenes from both episodes have been combined into one video to illustrate how losing each other is the worst thing that could happen to them.
Buck and Eddie are soulmates! They’re in love with each other and they have been for 5 years!