#seeing eddie with chris like that...

[sadgayeddie]

[boasamishipper]

unpopular opinion but i think a ship that's not canon but both halves are canonically insane about each other is infinitely better than a ship that's canon and boring

[softestbuckley]

manifesting more domestic moments between buck and eddie in 8B after christoper comes back but with the added layer of mutual pining and ridiculous longing gazes because they're aware of their feelings for the other but they still haven't confessed because they're afraid of ruining what they have

[chronicowboy]

eddie gets stopped on the street one time by a tiktoker with a microphone and they ask him "who's the hottest man alive?" and eddie's all i'm straight sorry and the tiktoker is like so? and eddie goes ��� oh okay 😊 my best friend buck 😊 and then walks away with a little skip in his step

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Eddie Diaz - owner not only of a cute frog sponge holder in the kitchen, but also of a of kitsch cowboy boot toilet brush holder!!!

Oh how I adore thee!!!

[butchdiaz]

i hope his house is haunted. so badly. i hope the lights flicker and the doors slam in the middle of the night and there are literal ghosts in the corner of his bedroom and he literally doesn't blink an eye. the pertually cursed and haunted man who doesn't believe in ghosts or curses. this is just another tuesday for him.

[eddiegettingshot]

sometimes i see what people think actually happened on the show and it makes me pause and blink. because where r u getting that from. i don’t mean headcanons or hee hee ha ha or playing with fanon i mean the Actual Events That Happened. i think we need to start citing our sources.

[wolvesofinnistrad]

Bucktommy never beating the "double income no kids gay uncles" allegations

[sadgayeddie]

Eddie Diaz. Army vet, came from Texas, joined the 118 right before the big earthquake. Angry guy. Hey, you'd be angry, too, if you lost your kid. I mean, you'd have to stop being a kid first and then have one but… Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean "lost"? What happened to Christopher? His grandparents took him to Texas. After a nasty custody battle. They said Diaz was unfit. That he couldn't be a firefighter and a single dad.

[louferrignojrofficial]

buddie scenes in an episode ≠ a good episode. it’s crazy how some people watch buck and eddie have scenes together and then they loved the episodes and have little to no questions about the logic or the actual storylines. it’s just all a path to buddie canon and about how they are in love with each other.

[adhdevankinard]

Perhaps a hot take but I would actually prefer if Eddie’s story ended at S8 with him deciding to prioritize his son and stay in El Paso. It would be even better if Eddie wants to return to LA but decides, again, that Christopher is more important than his own wants and ultimately stays in Texas with him. And because I’m so ✨media literate✨ I think that would be a satisfying conclusion to Eddie’s character arc, which has always revolved around Christopher.

And if I’m being real, Eddie’s SLs have stagnated. The most interesting and satisfying one he has had recently has been when he was in El Paso reconnecting with Christopher. I would rather he go out on a SL like that rather than rehash the same SLs for another season.

And it would leave the door open for Ravi to finally be a main. If the show really does need a shot in the arm (as TM has implied it does after Bobby’s death), making Ravi a main would be a smart move. While Ravi is not a new character, we still don’t know a lot about him, and that creates so so many new story opportunities that are just not possible with the other mains who we’ve been watching for the past 8 seasons and are now more or less “stuck” in their arcs. And the audience already knows him so he wouldn’t be a completely new character that they would have to adjust to being on the team (and potentially not like). And he can take on the Single Guy Role that would be left open by Eddie leaving and Buck settling down.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Ok well i had the brief thought “what about an ER nurse Eddie au?” and then this popped fully formed into existence so fuck it Friday pt 2.. warnings for smoking and vague references to critically injured kids

“That doesn’t seem very healthy.”

Smoke curls up from the cigarette held loosely in Eddie’s hand. “It’s not, particularly.”

Buck’s hands are in his pockets as he strolls away from the glass doors out into the ambulance bay where Eddie is doing the mature, professional equivalent of playing hide and seek. He comes to a stop barely a foot or two away from where Eddie leans against grimy concrete. “Didn’t know you were a smoker.”

“I’m not,” Eddie sighs, “Particularly.” He looks over Buck’s face as he takes a drag, cataloging bruises and cuts. He hadn’t been the one to look him over before he was discharged, probably because he was out here avoiding having to do so. “Only when it’s- only after the bad shifts.” And only once a month, even if the bad shifts come again and again. He bought this pack in January, it’s stale as shit.

Buck’s eyes follow the smoke as it drifts skyward. “Rough one today?”

Eddie thinks he probably doesn’t have to explain to Buck that it’s sometimes better when a kid is dead on arrival so he doesn’t have to try his best to administer care he knows will be useless. He doesn’t have to explain a day where nothing goes right and he loses more people than he can save and he still has to walk away from someone’s parent or wife or sister, left behind forever in a waiting room on the worst day of their life, and go on to lose the next person too. Doesn’t have to explain why he’s out here, and not in there. “Mm. We’ve got this repeat customer, always hate to have him back.”

Buck’s eyes flick to his face before they settle somewhere around his elbow. “Yeah?”

“Yeah. He seems like a nice guy. I worry about him. He’s here too often.”

Buck doesn’t look up. “What was he in for this time?”

“Minor concussion. Bruising. Lacerations.” Eddie sucks cancer into his lungs. “Heard a house fell on him.” Exhales it into the night.

Buck does look up this time, eyes a darker blue out here in the shadows. “Part of a house. Just a staircase and the- like, the balcony, really.”

“Maybe he should stay away from those.”

“From houses?” Buck asks, half his mouth twitching into a smile.

Eddie rests his head on the wall behind him. “Guess that’s not really practical.”

“No.” Buck is quiet for a moment, one hand slipping out of his pocket and running through his hair. Eddie wonders what he looks like, when he’s not here. He’s more styled, sometimes, when things aren’t very bad. He wonders if he’s usually all gelled up and neat. Eddie kind of likes the loose curls. “I’m sorry.”

“For what?”

“Making your day worse.” Buck looks genuinely apologetic, and Eddie shakes his head.

“The guy made it out okay this time.” Buck is just close enough that Eddie can kick at his boot with his sensible orthopedic sneaker. “You didn’t even need stitches.”

“That’s good.” Eddie’s left foot is pressed along the inside of Buck’s right, and Buck is staring down at them. “His favorite nurse was on break. I would have missed you if someone else had to do them.”

Eddie laughs, just a few bursts of soundless oxygen. “You gotta find new ways to see me before something happens that I can’t fix.”

Buck moves, taking the few steps necessary to lean against the wall beside him. Carefully, he takes the cigarette from Eddie’s hand, holds it between two of his own fingers, and takes a drag. Eddie watches it happen like he’s monitoring somebody’s pulse ox, and when Buck coughs he laughs again, louder this time. “Fuck,” Buck says, laughing too. “Thought that would be cooler than it was.”

“Smoking isn’t cool, firefighter Buckley,” Eddie says, taking the cigarette back and pulling from it again between smiling lips.

“Hm,” Buck says, grinning out into the night. Then he sighs, and rolls his head along the concrete to look at Eddie. “I think there’s nothing you can’t fix.”

They’re very close. “There’s lots I can’t fix.”

Buck shrugs like he disagrees. “I also think I’d like to find other ways to see you.”

Buck’s eyes are even more in shadow at this angle, and they’re the color of the lake back in El Paso that he and a bunch of kids went to after graduation, drunk off beer somebody’s cousin got for them, skinny dipping with breathless terrified delight under bright constellations. “Then ask me.”

Buck inhales as Eddie exhales. “What time’s your shift end?”

“5:30 AM. So, probably 6:15.”

Buck traces the two fingers he’d used to hold the cigarette down Eddie’s arm. “You wanna get breakfast with me?”

“Yes. I would.”

Buck smiles, and Eddie snubs out the cigarette on the wall between them. “I’ll meet you here?”

“Alright.” He takes a step forward, then a step to the right so he’s standing in front of Buck. “Two hours.”

“Uh huh.”

He should really get back inside. They’re understaffed, as always, and there are too many patients, as always, and not enough beds, as always. “See you then.” He doesn’t make any move to leave.

“See you then,” Buck almost whispers. He leans forward, and Eddie still doesn’t move, so he presses a tiny kiss to the corner of his mouth for just a moment. His lips are warm. Eddie hadn’t noticed it was cold outside.

Buck pulls back and leans against the wall again. Eddie smiles, puts a hand in his pocket, and walks back toward the doors.

[insomniacirl]

Hear me out. I think it would be the most beautiful thing in the world if Buddie figured out their relationship in s9 but kept it secret until there's a big accidental reveal in the final episode... but guys. The final scene.

Give me Eddie and Buck getting home after telling everyone and they're sat on the sofa together laughing just so so happy- and then Eddie turns to look at him with so much love in his eyes and really softly says "God.. I think I want to marry you." and Buck looks back at him with the softest expression and they kiss.

END OF SEASON.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about Eddie learning Buck will be there for him off the job, even without Chris being in the equation.

Something something about that being an important realisation for him to finally make because he’s always hidden behind his son when it comes to Buck (and his love life more generally - even Shannon in reality was for Chris not himself) but he won’t be able to this time.

Something something about that realisation being the key to giving himself permission to examine his heart and feel his true feelings.

[celestielbeing]

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[mybrainshyperfixtations]

okay so i just finished 315 (eddie begins) and yes i sobbed. i knew what was coming i still cried anyways.

also can we talk about how buck was in over half of eddie’s flashbacks when he was drowning. the writers were so setting up for buddie to be canon are you kidding me. speculations for possible s4 buddie canon before network shot it down seem very real