Buck, Bothered And Bewildered: Not In Fact A Bi Awakening But Rather The 118 Finding Out Buck's Bi And

Buck, bothered and bewildered: not in fact a bi awakening but rather the 118 finding out Buck's bi and Buck being so BEWILDERED at the fact they don't know that it BOTHERS him to the point of him trying to act gay with every remotely attractive man he and the 118 come across because look, i am engaging with the same sex in a flirtatious manner, because I am bi, I like women but I also like men, have done this whole time, it's actually baffling how you don't know considering my past and how I am obviously in love with my very male best frie-

Reasons Frank should be invited to the Firefam barbecues:

1. He’s basically an honorary member of the 118 extended family at this point

2. He can get the tea straight from the source

3. He’d probably solve impending problems before anyone realises there were problems to be had

4. He still hasn’t met Chim or Buck and heard about their collective mountain range of trauma

5. He’s always so serious, he should be allowed to let loose a little

6. I reckon he’d just love to study them all in a group setting

Buck and Eddie in a secret relationship getting caught by a member of the firefam and getting them to promise not to tell the others…

Buck and Eddie in a secret relationship getting caught by another member of the firefam and getting them to promise not to tell the others…

Buck and Eddie in a secret relationship getting caught by a third member of the firefam and getting them to promise not to tell the others…

Buck and Eddie in a secret relationship getting caught etc etc…

Buck and Eddie in a secret relationship being so insatiable that every member of the firefam has caught them separately and promised not to tell the others…

Buck and Eddie realising their secret relationship is not so secret but finding it hilarious that no one has worked out everyone knows and just deciding to wait it out and see who realises (or breaks) first.

...it happened...

IT FUCKING HAPPENED!!!!

I know lots of people have been saying that 7x04 is going to be the tipping point to whether buddie will go canon or not and the new stills are really backing this up. But I'm slightly(very) concerned it's not gonna turn out how we want it to (buddie canon).

Like, from what I personally am getting from the stills, Eddie seems to befriend Tommy without Buck knowing which leads to Buck's 'envy'.

The stills from the gym with Buck and his emotional support basketball are giving 'we were going to play now but oh look my new bestie is calling and wants to show me round the helicopters that's much more cool let's take a raincheck'.

Then you've got Buck just gatecrashing that and Tommy and Eddie having already bonded and having inside jokes and Buck being all :( about it.

THEN you have the basketball court which could either be Buck and Chimney going for a 1v1 game and bumping into Eddie and Tommy OR Eddie inviting Tommy along to a group game without telling Buck. Either way Tommy is once again taking up Eddie's attention. Which causes Buck's abandonment issues to rear their head resulting in The Incident.

Now this could very well be Buck realising his feelings for Eddie in a very roundabout way, but I'm concerned they're going to play it platonically, especially with the way they've been speed-running Buddie's best hits the past couple eps. They could easily pass it off as Buck worrying Tommy is replacing him as Eddie's BESTfriend, allowing the writers to really solidify their friendship to the new audience.

But hopefully, with Oliver's excitement over the episode and the general attached-at-the-hipness Buck and Eddie have had over the past 3 eps, maybe just maybe, Eddie could just be making friends outside of the 118 (which is probably a good thing tbh)(also another of their greatest hits) which prompts Buck's feeling realisation, getting the ball rolling on future buddie canon, which would leave this nice bestfriend-shaped gap in Eddie's life when it eventually happens that Tommy can just slide into, allowing him to be around more often, leaving everyone happy.

But that's the perfect scenario. I still think we're clowning HARD and it's just gonna be the aforementioned reassertion of Buck's position as Eddie's bestie. But one can hope.

Yes, Eddie and Buck are gonna be facing their past traumas in 7x03 (helicopters and ocean), but let's not forget that 2/5 occupants of that helicopter have been involved in helicopter crashes.

Eddie has managed to successfully get in a helicopter post-army, as witnessed in 4x12. Not saying that he doesn't have trauma around them and it won't be important but Hen's helicopter trauma seems more significant this time round.

The last time she was in a helicopter (LS 2x03) she was basically going against orders and had recently lost someone in a car accident and had been doubting her ability to do her job because of it. Then, obviously, the helicopter crashed.

This time? Hen's getting in a helicopter while defying orders after very recently losing someone in a car crash that led to her once again questioning her ability to do her job. It's almost like history is repeating itself...

Point is, 2/5 occupants have been in helicopter crashes, 2/5 occupants have water based trauma, 1 occupant was previously promised it was his turn to go in the helicopter next (and he takes turn-taking so seriously it literally killed him) and 1 occupant is a miracle survivor of another vehicular based crash...

Needless to say, this helicopter is doomed.