anyway i was thinking again abt the deleted files in origins that implied you could bring loghain into the fade and he would see kid cailan and i was thinking abt loghain in the fade in inquisition and how unwell i could make him abt it

thinking about the age gap between buck and tommy...... thinking about how tommy is mid-40s at least and is/was single even though he's looking for love and wants to be in love because he's willing to delay his hard-fought-for gratification if things aren't "real and right"... thinking about how vulnerable it all must feel to tumble into this thing with buck because, like, evan is new at this but tommy's been at it for a while and he wants something that's going to treat him gently.....thinking about him pursuing this thing with buck...... thinking about him actively being ready to take himself off the market because evan feels right..... thinking about him realizing how very fucking wrong he was when he realizes the man he's put himself out there for is already in love with his new best friend........ thinking about tommy getting hurt.....thinking about tommy being hurt even though he knows that's technically not fair, no one did anything wrong he just got here too late....... thinking about tommy sitting with the idea of getting there too damn late like he could have had everything he wanted if he stopped by the 118 after that call from howie to make sure everyone was okay........ everything he wanted if he just picked up a damn phone to see if the 118 wanted to hang out for old times sake........ thinking about tommy thinking about what ifs..... thinking about the pain he's going to be in even if it's fleeting and ultimately overshadowed by his happiness for them just......... thinking about tommy kinard and feeling sick about him. tbh.

You can make fun of Evan Buckley's tendency to flirt with hot men by making fool of himself with being territorial himbo, but he made two hot men fall for him. One kissed him and asked out and the other one babytrapped him. So it's working

Kaidan I Citadel DLC

Buck taking grainy, zoomed-in pictures of every single helicopter he sees and sending them to Tommy like “dis u babe? 🥰”

I present to you:

Tommy and Josh are friends. Somehow after some calls they got friendly and at one point decided to just hang out after exchanging numbers and texting for a while. They clicked. They found out they both were gay and it's so easy to finally have a friend that gets it.

So at one of their hangouts after the hurrican thing Tommy talks about the stunt the 118 pulled and he is like making fun before he talks about this guy being a literal golden retriever, trying to encourage the them and Josh just laughs and says "That's Buck alright." And Tommy just slowly turns to Josh with a look, a look that Josh has come to know and Josh goes "No Tommy, no."

And Tommy is all like "I didn't even say anything!"

And Josh is like "I get it trust me. First few times I meet him, I also crushed but that man is straight and also a giant idiot. His heart is too big and he wouldn't know how to turn you down. As his friend, I am telling you do not."

And Tommy goes "fine" and then they continue on with Tommy telling Josh about meeting up with Eddie and Josh makes a joke about the two army guys obviously bonding.

Cut to like three weeks later (They have both had different shift schedules and Josh has helped Maddie with the wedding) and they meet up after the restaurant date and Josh can sense something is wrong with his friend.

He wants to probe but Tommy just says "Thought I had a chance with a cute guy bit turns out he wasn't ready for something" and Josh gets it. He's been there, it sucks sometimes and he just offers his friend a shoulder to lean.

Another two weeks pass and when they meet up again Tommy is smiling. Like his nose scrunch smile which he only does when he is really smitten and Josh has truly only seen it once. So he immediately goes into questioning mood but Tommy just laughs and says "You know that cute guy? I think he is ready" but he won't elaborate further. And Josh is trying but Tommy just keeps giving vague answers and wow, Josh truly has never seen Tommy like this and feels a swell of happiness because whoever has his friend smiling like that better be good and worth it.

Josh also coincidentally has a meet up with the Buckley-Han family (they are already married to him basically) and he notices how Buck is glancing at his phone a lot and having this goofy smile and wow. He makes a joke about Buck having found a new girlfriend and Buck sort of freezes and now Josh feels bad but then he smiles such a soft smile it kind of hits him in the chest when he says "I am seeing someone and I am really happy." Cut to Chim wanting to probe but Buck not bugging and Josh just feeling happy for his friend. Maddie suddenly turns and ask "Did you want to bring them to the wedding?" and Buck kind of sheepishly replies "I already invited them." And Maddie softly chuckles talking about how gone her brother is and Josh is suddenly aware that Buck is using only they/them which isn't weird but it's not how Buck usually talks.

And Chim pipes up and says "With how much time you have been spending talking complaining about Tommy before, I have no idea where you suddenly got a date" and OMG.

Buck flushes a bit, Maddie laughs and Josh slaps a hand over his mouth to stop a giggle coming out.

Buck notices of course he does and when they are done later he pulls Josh aside and wants to talk but Josh just throws himself at Buck, hugging him.

"If you break his heart as his friend I have to hurt you. But as your friend, I couldn't be more happier for you" to which Buck kind of melts, chuckles and returns the hug.

On the way home, after some more heartfelt words because he knows how difficult and hard this can be, Josh stops the car at Tommy's flat, knocks up a storm and pushes past Tommy only to explode in the hallway as soon as the door is closed.

"YOU ARE DATING EVAN BUCKLEY AND YOU DIDN'T THINK TO TELL ME!"

And Tommy is a bit flabbergasted and laughs to which Josh kind of gets upset and says "I love you, I am fully in support of your relationship, I couldn't be happier, he is a catch but damn, are you telling me I could have had a chance?"

Which just causes a ridiculous laughing and giggling fit between two grown ass adults that Josh and Tommy will be happy to deny ever happened.

buck/tommy + touching

Crazy how quickly playing the lyre made me better at fingering

don't know how to word it exactly but what sways me more toward tommy as buck's love interest than any other LI before is how different the initial infatuations look in comparison

abby, ali, taylor and natalia all were interested in buck but in the 'walks into dangerous situations for a living and is hot' way (and also 'young and prioritizes me' for abby, to top it off, and 'died' for natalia)

but tommy is a firefighter, pilot, etc. and used to the whole 'walks into danger' bit and knows its bullshit so all he sees in buck is an adorable dork with a heart of gold, even more adorable enthusiasm, and some awkwardness thrown into the mix - and this is how buck actually is most of the time, even when he walks into danger without hesitation

and tommy still says, 'yeah, I like this one'.

The way that the Buck/Eddie/Tommy OT3 would be called Buddy, CLEARLY the solution to this particular predicament is polyamory.

lou pics that makes me doubt he's a 6'1 tall pure muscle man. he's just a smol bean filled with whimsy

i know we've all seen it fifty times by now but buck's face journey throughout that entire scene with eddie is just so. SOOOOOOO.

this face as eddie says "hang out with the boys" (right after he's done talking about god! btw)

"when you and marisol ran into me and tommy...we were on a date."

"really?" "mhm."

you can physically watch the trepidation melt off his face. he hesitated for a bit, thought hard about it for a second, but you can pinpoint the exact moment he lets go. he said it, it's out there, eddie knows, for better or worse. the way he delivers that little "mhm" is so completely vulnerable, but also final - this is it, i'm learning that this is who i am, and i'm far from knowing all of me but i am certain that this is one part.

then (after eddie made sure to say "not that it would have mattered" if he'd known that tommy was gay), open, easy - "we were on a date. yes."

to which eddie, wide-eyed and a little hesitant, says "okay", and buck replies: "is that....weird?"

and he's clearly ready to talk about it, to talk through any weirdness that might be there, because tommy being queer and buck being queer are not the same thing to eddie when buck is sitting right there and has been his best friend for five years, but then eddie says "no, absolutely not":

"this doesn't change a thing between us. okay?"

and buck is so obviously touched and grateful it makes me want to cry a little bit but THEN he tells eddie that tommy already "dumped" him - so if this, in theory, was something eddie was uncomfortable with deep down, he wouldn't really have to deal with it anyway - and eddie goes out of his way to encourage buck to pick the thread back up again.

the half-smile of "i kinda can't stop thinking about him"...

into "you should call him." / "really?"

and i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm simply so emotional about buck deciding that he was going to say something on a little bit of a whim, and being nervous but not afraid, because this is eddie, who has his back no matter what. eddie, who wasn't ever going to be anything other than supportive, or at least that's what buck tried to tell himself over and over in those few moments before he decided to say something, but it doesn't matter how sure you are of the other person's reaction - coming out to another human being is always some degree of completely nervewracking, especially if you're as new to knowing this part of you as buck is.

but he did it. and eddie did exactly what buck, in his heart of hearts, knew he was going to do: accepted him. reminded him that he's supported and, most importantly, loved. made sure that he felt it.

just look at this happy little face as eddie's on his way out, right after a huge exhale:

every single day oliver stark makes choices. and we just have to live with them

#local disaster bisexual being micromanaged by his boyfriends #yeah they share custody # it's a two person gig

Wait 😭😭😭 I’m rewatching Hen Begins and I forgot the part where they reveal that Hen inspired the other members of the 118 to file complaints about Captain Gerard.

Just imagine Tommy living under Gerard’s reign of terror, listening to that man spew homophobic bullshit left and right and just putting up with it. until Hen got there and stood up for herself. And him realizing in that moment I don’t have to take this shit either. I can stand up for myself too. I’m 😭😭😭

You can make fun of Evan Buckley's tendency to flirt with hot men by making fool of himself with being territorial himbo, but he made two hot men fall for him. One kissed him and asked out and the other one babytrapped him. So it's working