hyperfixateur

when you lecture narcissistic parents they tend to think that you are completely against them, that you hate them and everything you’re doing is to piss them off. they think your whole life revolves around them and having eddie doing that gesture is a way to show her that this is not the case. this isn’t about hating helena or ramon this is about eddie being a father to chris. he even made sure to say that this whole thing doesn’t take away the fact that they’re still his grandparents and chris still love them but they aren’t his parents.

“Nobody wants to be accused of queerbaiting so I kind of stopped writing those characters together. And I think it hurt the show because I was so afraid to be accused of something that I wasn’t going where I would naturally go with the stories. I just decided that I just have to write the thing that I think is right. I just have to be honest with the story I’m telling and let the chips fall where they may”

this is pretty telling! if he was so afraid of being accused of queerbaiting, to the point that he stopped writing them together, why would he bring up possible feelings from buck ? unless there’s actually something coming ! the writers could have easily kept their friendship separate from buck’s love life, but instead, they’re making eddie to be key part of it, and that alone says a lot. because otherwise, it would just reinforce the very thing tim said he was trying to avoid.

i know he’s a pathological liar but this is a serious topic.

his coming out came so late in his life that he knows what it might looks like on someone. he spent his whole life repressing himself, molding into what people expected, even almost marrying a woman (which eddie has done).