Turtle | Lynn

Buck in season 1 thought he was a sex addict because he was touch-starved.

weeks or months pass and maddie misses a week of school, and then a small moving truck pulls up her driveway and you see it from your front yard. maddie helps carry some things out, and when her parents disappear inside you jog over and ask her where she’s moving to. she says she’s not supposed to tell. you ask why, and she changes her answer to “i don’t know where we’re going,” and you instantly know something’s wrong. you’re 11 years old and there’s not anything you can do to help. you ask why they’re moving, and she says because of daniel. you ask what she means and her parents come out onto the lawn carrying bags. mrs buckley shrieks at you through tears and mr buckley gives you a stern and broken look, cracked open with pain, while he urges you to go home.

seeing maddie buckley when you move to los angeles was not on your 2026 bingo card, a girl you used to walk your dog with, a girl you think about only every now and then and feel a pang of concern for. but there she is, laughing with a familiar looking man, and you smile wide, calling out and waving them over.

maddie looks confused, and then pleasantly surprised.

weeks or months pass and maddie misses a week of school, and then a small moving truck pulls up her driveway and you see it from your front yard. maddie helps carry some things out, and when her parents disappear inside you jog over and ask her where she’s moving to. she says she’s not supposed to tell. you ask why, and she changes her answer to “i don’t know where we’re going,” and you instantly know something’s wrong. you’re 11 years old and there’s not anything you can do to help. you ask why they’re moving, and she says because of daniel. you ask what she means and her parents come out onto the lawn carrying bags. mrs buckley shrieks at you through tears and mr buckley gives you a stern and broken look, cracked open with pain, while he urges you to go home.

seeing maddie buckley when you move to los angeles was not on your 2026 bingo card, a girl you used to walk your dog with, a girl you think about only every now and then and feel a pang of concern for. but there she is, laughing with a familiar looking man, and you smile wide, calling out and waving them over.

maddie looks confused, and then pleasantly surprised.

So May's graduation party. We have the blue and red of parenthood heavily at play, since Maddie is about to find out she's pregnant.

So this happens. Notice the guitars complete the color theory. Same with Maddie alone with the blue guitar, and Chim's red hat.

And notice the guitars aren't really visible in everyone else's pictures.

But this post is to say, look at the guitars.

The pictures with Chris have the red element from our little color wheel theory, with the hat, the guitar, and the red microphone, which is blue for everyone else.

We also have a moment of Harry and May being the blue and red elements, I talk about how they use this with Harry, May, and Bobby in this post if you wanna read more. Same with Denny's blue shirt to his red hat. And a little shoutout to how they do the blue and green with henren through the details.

But the thing that I really want to point out is Buck's yellow guitar to Eddie's blue one. Because if they are doing the blue and red with madney and all the kids, then this is on purpose. Especially when Chris is red and yellow (Eddie's color that's heavily present with Buck at the time), even the picture with Buck doesn't have blue elements, when Denny, Harry, and May are blue and red.

Long live the blue and yellow, all praise the 911 crew.

Buck instantly breathed a sigh of relief that his kid, Theo wasn't being bullied. But immediately after, the stress set in of having to now explain to a four-year old what ADHD & disabilities meant. God how does he do that? Buck looked to Eddie, pleading look on his face for his best friend to step in. But before Eddie could, Christopher spoke up.

"It's not a bad thing Theo. If someone is diasbled, it just means that they have a disability." "What's that? Is that like what mommy & daddy had and then they left?" Theo asked, suddenly cautious. "No!" Buck interjected immediately. "No, buddy it just means that uhm people with disabilities, well, they're born a bit different and need a bit more help to do things." "I have one too Theo." Chris added on, picking up his previous conversation. "I have a physical disability, which means my body isn't really working how other people's body works. That's why I have crutches and my chair to help me. But you, well you have a disability that's about your brain. it just works faster and in a more fun way than most people. That's why it's hard for you to sit still during bath time but when it's game time you're reallly good at being focused."

Chris didn't know if any of what he was saying was helping Theo, but he knew his lil brother needed to know that there was nothing wrong with him. He also knew that his dads would probably try to be nice but talk around the issue rather than say it like it is and Chris really didn't want to do that to Theo. If Chris had looked up at his dads, he would have seen that both Eddie and Buck were looking at him with so much pride in their eyes.

"So... your body doesn't work right, and my brain doesn't work right?" Theo asked, his face looking curious albeit a bit sad.

"Different. There's nothing right or wrong about our brains and body. They just work different to other people." Christopher clarified, insistant.

Eddie noticed Buck's eyes tearing up and Eddie couldn't say he didn't feel the swell of tears himself.

"Your brain is awesome because it's your brain. It's just different from most people's. But that doesn't mean it's bad. I love it." Chris reaffirmed again. "It just means we're special?" Theo asked, now wide with awe in his eyes. "Yea, Theo. It just means we're special. And sometimes we need more help than other people but it NEVER means that we're bad. I love helping you remember things, and you love helping me walk up stairs right?" Chris questioned, knowing how much Theo loved to help Chris, especially with his physio exercises. "YEA!" Theo shouted. "And you don't think it's weird I talk funny?" "NO! You talk like CHRIS and I love CHRIS." Theo shouted more enthusiastically this time. By that point, Buck had given into his tears as he sat there trying to hide them just streaming down his face as he grips tight to Eddie's hand under the table. "Well that's good because I think the way you talk Theo is very BUCK-like and I LOVE you and Buck! Even if you two talk very fast." Chris stated matter-of-fact, finally glancing up at his dads, but not acknowledging their sappy tears.