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i feel like we always talk about buddie’s first meeting from buck’s viewpoint, which is fair enough bc that’s how we experience it when we’re watching it. but eddie’s is low-key just as insane. imagine you start a new job in a very intense environment, your boss and coworkers are so excited to have you there and you settle in super quickly because they’re making it so easy. but then there’s this big guy who’s angry about you existing, either trying to impress or intimidate you (you’re not really sure which it is), you try and talk it out but he’s not having it, and you think ah well can’t win ‘em all. then he volunteers to extract a grenade from some guy’s leg with you, a super high pressure situation, and he’s still trying to make it a dick-measuring contest. you don’t care. but he does well and is very helpful so you extend an olive branch, “you can have my back any day.” and this fucker goes absolutely starry-eyed, tries to regain his composure, fails, your boss is watching the whole exchange, then an ambulance blows up. by the end of your shift big guy assumes you made it into the hot firefighter calendar because he thinks you’re that attractive. give it a few months, strangers are assuming you and big guy have a son together. wild.

eddie trying to pull a dead weight 6’2 beefy buck up to him with his bare hands has the same energy as buck trying to dig through 40 feet of mud by hand to get to eddie when the well collapsed

The desperation of love, overcoming years of training and common sense, when the only thought in your mind is "i can't live without him, i need him back", genuinely unhinged romance

Sound on. It's truly a masterpiece.

I love that everyone just knows

I FEEL THIS on a personal level

bucktommy was literally awesome and i can say this now that that man is bones in the ground. what if two guys who don’t even like each other got together bc of triangulated desire from the other guy that they’re both obsessed with. what if they were together for six months and seemingly never had one meaningful conversation. what if on their six month anniversary one of them got the other one literally nothing and the other one got him tickets to a sport he doesn’t like and then jokingly said he can bring the guy they’re obsessed with instead of him and the first guy goes really? 😄. what if they both dated the same woman and this sends the first guy down a spiral leading him to ask the other guy to move in with him bc he’s crazy. what if the other guy says no and breaks up with him in his first and only moment of clarity in their entire relationship. awesome