Platonic Buddie - Tumblr Posts

wait wait wait WAIT. eddietaylor has so much potential and would be fucking hilarious.

they have to hide their relationship from buck when its starting out bc it’s awkward and eddie is 1000% breaking the bro code and “how am i supposed to tell him i’m sleeping with his ex? is that illegal? it feels illegal.”

one day buck just collapses into bed and goes “i think eddie’s hiding something from me”

and tommy’s like “… okay?”

“yeah he keeps blushing when he looks at me and then looks away quickly and he keeps running when i try and talk to him and- oh my god.”

cue buck driving over to eddie’s and bursting into eddie’s bedroom like: “eddie do you have a crush on me because i REALLY don’t feel the same and if you do its gonna make work awkward and-”

and then taylor fucking kelly walks out of eddie’s bathroom having CLEARLY just taken a shower and pulls out the “not everythings about you, buck” line

eddietaylor would be 10x more interesting and fun to watch than buddie going canon

josie you’re starting off with a bang i see 👀 !!!! listen, eddietaylor would be soooooo hot. the enemies with benefits to friends with benefits to lovers storyline they’d have would be so good and i’d eat up every moment of it. kinda wish they brought taylor in for eddie and not buck to begin with, or at least, the second time around. ughhhh

I'd take it one step further and say if Buddie did ever go canon, it wouldn't actually be an endgame relationship. At least, as Buck and Eddie are now, it wouldn't be.

Buddie, I feel, would be a perfect example of Buck falling into a relationship without putting in the work to actually get there, yknow? Like, if Buddie did happen, it would probably start with one or both of them going "Well, we're practically dating anyways so we might as well."

(I don't actually agree with that take, even if they were co-parenting Chris [I personally see Buck more as an uncle figure, but I digress], they don't do anything that I wouldn't do for my own friends. But, just for the sake of the argument, imagine that that's their reasoning for getting together.)

Buck and Eddie are great friends, but the way they deal with relationships is... not the same at all.

Eddie would inevitably treat Buck like he does all of his other LI's, as a babysitter-with-benefits, because in this scenario he hasn't processed or dealt with the Shannon of it all.

Buck is a people pleaser, he gives 110% of himself in everything he does, and likely wouldn't mind being treated like a babysitter, or at the very least, wouldn't say anything about it until he explodes (see: Buck, Bothered and Bewildered). In my opinion, they're just not compatible as a couple, and their relationship would be... I don't want to say toxic, but not the healthiest, and you know for a fact that the people who ARE chanting "Buddie canon s8!!!" would explode at the very thought that Buck and Eddie wouldn't be the picture perfect relationship that they've read about in fanon.

The more I hear some buddie fans speak, the more it feels like...it isn't about the actual, on-screen relationship potential anymore. It's become this amorphous, idealized Thing that Must Be Won, like the MacGuffin in a heist movie - it doesn't matter what the MacGuffin IS, just that it motivates the characters' actions. It's like it's not about these characters, and whatever interaction they have, it's about this obsessed-over desire, turned over and over in the mind so many times like a word that you repeat until it loses meaning. It's just a Want, a prize to be strived for, and sharing the Wanting with others who also Want is a way to an in-group. I'm also convinced that if it actually happened - a lot of them wouldn't like it, because it could never live up to the fantasy MacGuffin relationship in their minds.

I’ve long held the belief that if Buddie ever went canon (it never was nor will it ever) that they’d never be happy with it. and the reason for that is they’re not in love with Buck and Eddie as they are in canon; they’re in love with the fanonized versions (and tbh a good portion don’t even love Buck the way they’re always, always complaining about the stories he gets versus Eddie).