#911ls asks

This moldy waffle 😬 but don’t worry they are already blocked, my love for tarlos is stronger than their cartoon stink lines 🌈

Had the show been longer, we would’ve gotten all the fun and filler episodes of our dreams 😔

⚰️ Mwahahaha, I have heard the Mateo dying speculation 👀 And I really hope Lone Star doesn't actually kill off Enzo since it would be the laziest plot twist ever that we are all already expecting. I will say that at Epiccons, when asked what are three words Ronen, Rafa and Natacha would use to sum up their characters journey in season 5, Rafa and Ronen both said "Happily ever after" and Natacha said, "we don't die." Then Natacha asked, "Does anyone die?" and Rafa replied, "Yes." And then she pointed to Rafa, Ronen and herself and said, "We-don't-die." 😂 So I at least know Marjan, TK and Carlos are safe! Maybe LS will surprise us in who they do kill!!

Canonically that can’t be true haha, Iris’s 28th birthday happens during season one which makes her birth year around 92, and Carlos states she was “a few” years ahead of him in school. Ohhh lone star timeline you are such a famous mess

Omg yes she probably did, tried to convince them it was self defense / he was just protecting her from those guys harassing her. Something I love so so so so much about season one TK is how inherently good he is, even while he's in the midst of some of the worst pain he's ever been in. He goes to a bar to intentionally start a fight so that he can feel something beyond the grey, but he chooses to do it in a way that protects and stands up for a woman being harassed. The moment he walks into the 126 for the first time his immediate reaction is "No we shouldn't be here. These people are grieving and it's not our place to tell them how to do that, this isn't right." He's known Marjan for like two weeks when he risks his life to save her in the grain silo. He's rooting so hard for Paul to find love and then when it doesn't work out he takes Paul to the gay club with his very undefined situationship so that Paul can feel included and be reminded that he's not alone. One of his first thoughts after waking up and finding out he was shot is about how the boy who shot him is coping, and he wanted to go see him so the kid could know TK's okay and that it wasn't his fault. He's just so KIND. Amidst his personal turmoil and heartache and grief, he just radiates so much kindness and empathy.

You're so right and this is something I really do love so much about the way this show on the whole treated Carlos. He's allowed to be all of these things that sort of aren't cool, or might be things he could be mocked or teased for but he never is. He's a bit more quiet and serious than other characters, but his implied introversion is never treated as a weakness or as something that he needs to fix before he deserves friends. He keeps to himself in his tidy little home. Despite being a complete smoke-show he doesn't have much sexual experience, if any (it's never made explicit in canon that TK was his first but it's certainly canon compliant to assume that he was, since other partners are never even mentioned and Carlos said he felt "broken" until the night they met). I know him having some level of anxiety isn't something everyone headcanons but Carlos definitely has traits (avoidance, being a home-body, etc) that are common for people with anxiety and while those things do present some problems for him, they aren't treated disdainfully by the people in his life. TK loves him just as he is and if Carlos grows into his confidence by the end of the show it's because TK made him feel safe to do so, not because TK needed him to change. I could just talk forever about how rare it is to have a character exhibiting traits like shyness and introversion and insecurity and not have those be burdens that they need to overcome, especially when that character is a man of color. He's so rare and so important.

They really really did! The casual intimacy is something they got so right, it always made Tarlos so good. The eye contact, the inside jokes, the best-friend-ism of it all. The little touches like Carlos reaching into squeeze the inside of TK's elbow when he comes to the 126 for chili. Getting two kinds of tacos and trading halfway through. Dressing up in nice outfits to have dinner together at home. How clingy they are (inviting 40 people over for a birthday party and then only hanging out with each other), how truly delighted they are by each other. TK's bubbly "hey baby!"s when Carlos shows up at the firehouse, Carlos's pleased smile when Wyatt identified him as "TK's husband". It all felt so real.

Carlos Tomas Reyes has never done anything wrong in his whole life so jot that down