watch eddie start to get tipsy and want to be so supportive of newly out baby bi buck that he’s like “let’s go find a lgbt party for you!!!” and then everyone at the party starts thinking they’re like together together (“you guys are such a hot couple!”) and buck goes to correct the first person who says it but now a slightly drunker eddie grabs him by the bicep and shouts “this is my partner buck!!! he’s bisexual!!!” and everyone just cheers and well… buck just forgets to correct anyone and that is how 50 or so people believe for the entire night that eddie and buck are getting married to each other because they keep talking about a wedding and their son and they’re touching and beaming and radiating love.
One of my favorite buddie fanfic tropes is friends to fiancés like they figure out they love each other and just immediately let’s get married yea absolutely
sorry still laughing at eddie walking into a clearly intimate, date style restaurant, seeing tommy and buck sitting there without anybody else, one check that tommy paid, and coming to the conclusion that buck and tommy were "hanging out with the boys" edmundo you are so stupid and so gay no wonder he has never once questioned his relationship with buck. was putting buck in your will just a dudebro thing, too? was trying to haul his dead, limp body towards you and then yelling at the doctors to do more just a casual interaction between guys? does raising a kid with him, home cooked meals, school bake sale cookies, and homework help, like...count as "hanging out with the boys" because you, buck, and chris are all guys? eddie fr just assumes everyone else also said no homo in their minds and goes into the most tender, in love, gay situations imaginable without even stopping for a second to question or understand his feelings and actions. gay people are so stupid god bless.
if you told the me who sat through bucktaylor saying i love you to each other that a few years later oliver stark would be confirming that buck turning around and “whatta man” playing as he saw eddie for the first time was, in fact, buck being attracted to eddie and not knowing how to process that emotion i would’ve dropped dead like a victorian child after shotgunning an energy drink
Q: When you first met that character, and you seemed a little standoffish and maybe threatened, and not a big fan. Do you think it's because deep down you had these... something there brewing, but you didn't know what it was?
Buck’s repressed baby bi brain screamed fuck that guy when he first saw Eddie and he just didn’t realise it was an instruction and not an insult 🤷♀️✨💖
Eddie always shouts Buck's name now because the last time he shouted more than 8 times Buck didn't respond because he was dead so he is always extremely excited to call out to Buck because Buck will respond. Someone needs to sedate me.
Buddie fic where early on in their relationship Buck asks Eddie on a date but Eddie turns him down, saying he’s not interested in men. It’s early enough that it doesn’t change anything and it’s not a big deal except buck’s initial attraction and crush develops over time until he’s in love with Eddie. They still go through the same disasters and heartaches, the same emotional triumphs, but there’s an ache in Buck that he can’t ever really ignore.
And then years into their friendship Eddie has had enough self discovery (and therapy) to come out as gay.
Buck’s initial reaction is to be so fucking proud of Eddie. He’s seen him struggle for so long and it really looks like this weight has been lifted from his shoulders. And his next reaction is to curl up in his bed and try not to sob because if Eddie likes men then that means it was only ever about Eddie not being able to love Buck. Buck being a man has nothing to do with Eddie rejecting him.