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cinematicnomad · 4 years

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LET’S TALK ABOUT BUCK’S PARENTS!!

specifically, james and linda buckley from my fic so show me (family). they went through a couple iterations in my mind before i finally settled on the characters who came to be in that fic. i’m one of those people who loves reading all those A+ parenting tagged fics for john winchester and howard stark and more, so when i first got into this fandom i definitely binged through all the fics on ao3 about buck’s parents. i read the fics where buck’s parents were monsterous abusers, the fics where they were rich distant assholes, where they were divorced, where they were dead, etc etc etc.

(quick! a fic rec: my favorite depiction of the buckley parents comes from @bibuddie’s amazing fic series the things we lost in the fire which is achingly beautiful and seriously heart wrenching. buck and maddie’s parents in this fic feel like real, lived people who are not one note—they’re not evil or over the top assholes, they’re just...two people who don’t know how to connect with their kids and it’s had serious ramifications for their relationships. if it interests you, just make sure to pay attention to the tags and archive warnings before reading because it deals with some heavy topics.)

as soon as i started toying with ~*ideas*~ of writing a 911 fic, i knew i was interested in tackling buck’s parents. i mentioned to @crazyassmurdererwall that i was fiddling around with an idea and we talked about it for a while, working through my thoughts. they certainly evolved over time. i made this gifset about maddie and buck’s shared past around the time of that conversation (my first 911 gifset!) to keep track of what was canon for my own benefit.

over time i really glommed onto maddie’s line from 3x11 “my mom and dad aren’t bad people. they’re just bad parents.”

(this got long!! will anyone read this?? probably not)

and i started really thinking: what does that look like? some early iterations of the buckley’s in my mind involved maddie not knowing about how they treated buck (i tend to headcanon that buck and maddie have the same age gap as oliver stark and jennifer love hewitt, so about 12 years) but i wound up moving away from that idea. and then there were ideas about them being too invested in their kids lives, wanting to have an opinion on everything (this kind of came from the canon fact about them not liking doug and letting maddie know) but i wound up moving passed that too: i figured parents who were extra involved would have been mentioned in re: maddie’s kidnapping, the ladder truck bombing, buck’s embolism, the tsunami, maddie’s relationship with chimney, etc, etc.

that’s when i kind of started looking at buck more closely. and actually the first thing i wrote for the fic was the scene with buck and eddie talking about his parents—i pulled up my notes app and just knocked that whole scene out and didn’t know what i was going to do with it. obviously it changed some once i started writing the fic (i had no intention of using that scene when i started writing the opening of eddie at the firehouse). and while considering buck i thought about the fact that he was clearly seeking out a family connection through the 118, how he was willing to wait for weeks (months?) after abby left and didn’t think anything was wrong when they weren’t speaking to each other, how he didn’t tell maddie or anyone when his leg was hurting, how his first instinct when he spotted eddie during the tsunami was to hide, and more.

which is kind of how i settled on james and linda buckley. two people who i imagine are mid- to upper middle class, who planned to have maddie in their late-twenties and were looking forward to having the most of their 40s to themselves only to, surprise, conceive buck in their late 30s/early 40s. and i don’t see them as people who resent the fact that they had buck, more just a little befuddled by it all. i pictured them as the type of parents who cared about buck’s grades but weren’t the type to check if he was doing his homework or intervene if help was needed unless it was dire—they’d pay for a tutor if a teacher suggested it was necessary but they’d never come up with the idea themselves.

and i saw them as the types of parents who just ... don’t engage on a personal level. they’re happy to talk about the news and politics and pop culture and history, but i don’t see them as the types to check in with buck and maddie about their friends or relationships or feelings. i pictured them as people who loved their kids but were a little uninterested in the actual act of parenting—not actively resentful or hateful, just...not their top priority. i genuinely believe (in this fic) they love buck and maddie, that they’re proud of them, that they were worried about maddie in her relationship with doug, that if buck had asked after the bombing they would have dropped everything to be by his side. but i just don’t think they would ever be compelled to make that effort without first being prompted.

(my FAVORITE moment in the fic to write about their lack of awareness when it comes to kids: after Eddie agrees to go to lunch with the Buckley’s, “...James looks pleased. He claps a hand on Eddie’s shoulder, jostling Chris in the process and waking the boy up.” I liked that disconnect—he’s sincerely happy and wants to get to know Eddie and is being totally friendly, but he’s just hyper unaware of Chris.)

over time, i figured that buck would pick up on that. which is how you get to where buck is in the fic: he loves his parents, but he doesn’t see them as people to turn to during a crisis and he doesn’t expect them to come take care of him.

this has gotten very long and gone on a wild tangent but basically: i really loved writing james and linda in this fic. two people who i believe genuinely do love buck, who are hurt by his revelations during the lunch scene, and who will work to improve their relationship now that they know how buck feels about it.

come into my ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines!

#ask #harringtoncastle #this got very long winded #APOLOGIES FOR THAT!!#but basically i've been in meetings all day hearing about layoffs happening around my university #which is stressing me out so i decided to ramble about some headcanons!#also i can't remember how old i headcanon'd they were but james and linda were the top birth names from whatever year it was #so show me (family)#about kat writes

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datleggy · 4 years

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I’m autistic and one of the things I have trouble with is change. I’ve watched 911 since the third episode and now they have a second one? Idk. I’ve been seeing a lot of good things about it but I’m not sure if I want to watch it. Basically what I want to know is if it’s worth watching. Is it good? Are there any parallels between the new one and the Buck one? Who are the characters and what are they like? Will you start writing for this series instead of the other one? %

so, this got WAY longer than i thought it would, sorry!!! TL;DR is at the very very end!

tbh i didn’t wanna really give 911 lonestar a chance originally, i was lowkey annoyed bc it felt like they were like “oh u guys want buck and eddie, who are CLEARLY meant to be and have all this canon chemistry and relationship development to eventually get together??? lol NOPE but here’s a spinoff where u get ur white/latino gay ship :D”

which i do genuinely hope to god isn’t the case, like, i really need OG 911 to be like PSYCH here u go, some DIAZ-BUCKLEY fam. as a treat.

i did end up watching it bc curiosity and too many awesome gifsets finally got to me lol

and im only a couple of episodes in (haven’t had a chance to watch the 3rd ep bc of work and other things D: ) and so far i gotta say, i like the OG 911 calls that they get sent to more than 911 lonestars calls but again, im only 2 ep in, maybe they get more “woah thats crazy/hilarious/hearbreaking!” as the show goes on.

i honestly don’t see too many parallels between Buck and TK—the only thing i noticed where they’re pretty similar is how much they both enjoy easy physical contact. buck is very touchy feely and comfortable about showing affection/feelings and i feel like TK is the same regarding physical contact (with his dad at least)? but that’s about it.

for what it’s worth i do think the show is pretty entertaining and worth a watch!

my main reason for watching past the first episode is my enjoyment of the characters. i just think they’re all neat.

this is from a post i made when i first watched the show lol:

captain strand: good dad to all of his children

tk: hot gay messy boi

grace ryder: a fave, no nonsense beauty, judds better half

judd ryder: tragic big boi

captain blake: chaotic good w baby voice

marjan: wild feral messy gurl

mateo: if anybody’s mean to my SON im throwin hands bih

paul: again, if anybody’s mean to my SON im THROWIN hands

officer reyes: ready to dick tk down

here’s a more descriptive/longer summary of the characters if u wanna know more, if not skip down to the bolded sentence below lol:

owen strand is the captain (played by rob lowe) and to me he gives off chris traeger vibes (from parks and rec if u watched?) but with more depth. i like his character a lot, he’s a caring dad, seems like he knows what he’s doing, and like, c’mon, it’s rob lowe (i fell in love with him a million years ago when he played soda pop in the outsiders nipr;guebwuogrnofw)

tk is his son and a hot gay mess w some substance abuse issues (tho a lot has happened to him in only 2 ep i really don’t know how to feel about him entirely, bc besides stuff happening TO him, i don’t feel like he’s reacted in a way that shows much of his character?) idk maybe it’s just me. but he is a certified cutie so. lol

grace ryder, she’s smart (one of the only characters with more than ONE brain cell lmao) and gorgeous and an emergency 911 operator. she’s very supportive of her husband and what he’s going thru (which is A LOT), she herself has been thru a lot bc of the big incident at the beginning of the series and is still somehow held strong in spite of it all, she’s a personal fave of mine.

judd ryder is kind of a dick at first but i think its very understandable given the hell he’s been thru, im actually surprised at the amount that i like him. he’s very raw and vulnerable but has this “don’t worry im fine, back up” attitude that i loooove.

captain blake is the captain for EMTs, she’s got this soft teeny baby voice that contradicts so hard with her give no fucks ima do what i need to to find my missing sister actions irwughqwgoriegjf i like. she’s caring and does goes out of her way for the little guy.

marjan has ZERO chill but in a good way, i can already absolutely see her getting into trouble by doing some crazy impulsive thing on a call in order to rescue someone—-TBH she actually reminds me a lot of Buck from OG 911 in that way. like yea she’s reckless and impulsive but u can tell its bc she CARES and this firefighting thing is what she’s meant to do. i really like her.

mateo—-OH MAN. he’s 10000000% my favorite. it hurts me everytime he’s on screen, bc he’s such a sweet and HARD WORKING man and he deserves to be a firefighter and do what he wants/has been waiting for for so long, im so HAPPY captain strand gives him a chance. i think he might have some learning disability or maybe he grew up in a household where maybe his family was too busy or didn’t care to check up on how he was doing in school and they neglected to see how much he was struggling—this is all just pure speculation from the fact that on the show he tells captain strand during the interview that he’s always passed the physical exam to be a firefighter but keeps failing the written part :( i love my son.

paul is a trans firefighter who’s mainly known for his crazy good observational skills in the field—there’s an ep—ep 2?—that shows off his talent but like, i found it unintentional funny bc the way they did it was in a scene that honestly truly felt to me like a scene I MYSELF would write in a fanfiction if i wanted to show off a cool skill the character has but was also too lazy to make it look good???? lmaoooo im not trying to be mean but like, if u do watch it, its the 2nd ep i believe, the “office meeting” scene. other than that tho there’s only been a few scenes with paul in it (my personal fave being the skin care routine scene lol) but i look forward to more scenes of my son being a lil sherlock holmes :)

officer reyes is tk’s potential new mans. he seems like a good cop from what little ive seen of him doing police work. so, i saw a post someone made basically saying how ugly are the men in texas that officer reyes is out here thirsting over tk so HARD—and not to be rude, but he really is!!!! reyes is a goodlookin guy, so idk what’s up with that, maybe he likes messy bois? bc same.

p.s. im not sure how to feel about reyes and tk together yet bc it doesn’t really seem as if they have too much chemistry. hopefully that changes? i do kinda like that they haven’t started off their potential relationship on the best of foots, bc i love drama, an indisputable fact.

ONTO THE FINAL QUESTION!

OG 911 will always be my first love and i just don’t see this changing anytime soon. buddie will always be the #1 ship in my heart! and i have about a gazillion awesome prompts i need to work on so me switching over to 911 lonestar isn’t gonna happen. i love OG 911 way too much iuqhur4ogfoie3jwnwjinioj

tho i may occasionally—per the request of prompts i’ve gotten in the last week or so–take a couple of the characters from 911 lonestar and put them in a 911 fic as a crossover? we’ll see.

this ended up soooo long oruhibgruoeqwp i hope some of it helped tho?

tl;dt: 911 lonestar seems fun and the characters are interesting enough to keep me entertained so i say give it a chance :)

#long post is long #ask #anon #also i got ur other ask #NP! never a bother :)#911 lonestar #911 fox #tldr at the end #read more

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