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they're a family, your honor

an update to this set i made a year ago (exactly one year ago, in fact!) based on the tags left by @vvivacious101

1. buck during the tsunami worrying how he was going to tell his best friend that he lost his son

2. buck talking about maiming his best friend, something he did due to misguided feelings

3. buck spiraling out because he lied to his best friend

4. eddie confessing to a priest that HE lied to his best friend

5 + 6. buck being sad that his best friend is in texas and then being in deep denial when maddie brings up the fact he might be in love with his best friend

the tonal shift between henchim and buddie is insane to me. we have chimney saying things like, 'you are my best friend. my very opinionated, sometimes wrong best friend. you were trying to protect me, and i love you for that.' versus buck and eddie who almost hide behind the term best friend? also the fact that we had only heard buck call eddie his best friend ONCE prior to buck's bi arc.

aside from saying it to tommy before their first kiss, buck has only said it when talking to maddie. and eddie has only said it to a priest. it's almost like they can use the term best friend when they felt guilt or if they are in denial.

either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don't want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she's smiling but there's something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there's no passion, there's just the movements of the day. sometimes she'll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

her world isn't real - it's neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn't need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don't you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn't need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you're just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she'll just track her period, she doesn't NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn't effective. you just watch happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again, and it's jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn't be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.