#eddie diaz you will get your coming out arc i swear

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This explains so much:

Firstly, why her name is Kim. Secondly, the ultimate result of this storyline - which is Eddie working through the blame and guilt he feels for Shannon's death using Kim (because she ultimately is a plot device) but not before he ultimately tries turning her into Shannon (actively symbolized by him holding the 'S' key chain) which I think the people in his life (Chris, Buck, his parents) will realize and call him out for. But unlike in Vertigo, it may perhaps be Kim who confronts Eddie rather than the other way around especially after she learns he was seeing her behind another woman's back.

Eddie ultimately has to confront the "type" of women he is interested in, "why" he's interested in them, and if it is not only psychologically healthy (spoiler: it's not) but also if it is truly what he wants and, if not, what does he want?

Finally, to take a look at Vertigo on its head - it is the condition in which a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. I think Eddie has this, emotionally speaking. He believes he is moving on from Shannon's death because he is dating again not realizing he is searching for another Shannon showing that he has not moved on he is STUCK.