#Buck and his couch
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Not being negative but how certain are we that Natalia is not the couch buck has been searching for since the premiere that Oliver says he will realize what his couch is in the finale.
Hey Nonnie
There are a lot of reasons why we know Natalia isn't the right couch.
To start with, the show has very carefully been connecting the Diaz boys to the couch metaphor right from the start of the season (its a metaphor that actually goes back all the way to season 2 but I'm focusing on this season) Chris is the one to make the comment about Bucks lack of couch - the whole scene revolves around it - the not having something, the wanting to pick the right one for himself.
Then there is the couch he ends up with - its not one he's picked for himself - its one his mother has picked for him. the connection of this new couch to his parents is important - we get several pointed remarks about Buck being a miracle or being born to save others from Margaret. But we also see this new couch is uncomfortable and Buck doesn't fit on it - its not the right couch. This couch is Natalia - she describes him as a miracle and that was deliberate - it links her to the couch through using the same words as Margaret. Not only that but Buck didn't pick Natalia himself - she asked him out - the show has been emphasising Bucks need to choose not be chosen so here we have another moment when Buck isn't the one making the choice - further linking Natalia to the couch metaphor. The new couch might look the part in his loft, but its superficial - the reality is it's uncomfortable and it's too small. Natalia might look good on paper, but in reality its not right - uncomfortable and small can be exchanged out with awkward and ill fitting or even narrow minded by this i mean she doesn't know buck beyond that surface level - and its likely she never really will - because she is fascinated by his cheating death rather than him as an actual person - her mind is narrowed in on that one thing about him.
Then we have the Diaz's couch - the one Buck is comfortable on, the one he fell asleep on in milliseconds. The show has been very loud about ensuring the Diaz couch is part of the metaphor - they continued it on in 6x15 with Chris fast asleep on the couch in a similar position to Buck and with a gap on either side of him - a space for Eddie and an empty space on the other side where Buck fell asleep a couple of episodes prior. they made sure to have Eddie enter the room in a similar way - the camera angles etc were the same - the path Eddie trod was the same - his retreat to the kitchen - the same.
Its also important to note that Oliver actually said that he Couch metaphor would play out until Bucks final scenes rather than him realising what his couch is. its an important distinction to make because while I fully expect it to play out that we see Buck over at the Diaz house and on that couch again, we don't have the full context and we don't know that that means Buck knows fully that the Diaz couch is actually the couch he wants. It might be just as much about him acknoweldging that is current couch isn't what he wants, getting rid of it and taking the Diaz boys to help him pick a new couch and we'll see all ofthem sitting on that one at the end of the season- in Bucks loft - the only place we've seen the Buckley-Diaz's all together this season.
Because while the Diaz couch might be the final destination for Buck, there is no evidence to say that is exactly where we will end up at the end of this season. Buck choosing to buy himself a new couch (with Eddie) is in some ways a more meaningful metaphor for him. Oliver has talked about Buck needing his partner to meet him where he is at and Buck and Eddie aren't going to jump straight in to moving in with each other when they do get together. Showing us Buck getting to choose a new couch with the Diaz boys says much more about him being met where he is at than Buck ending up on their couch ever could because Buck isn't really ready for that and he isn't going to be by the end of the season. Plus in my own personal view the idea of Buck getting to bring his couch with him when he and the Diaz boys do move in together - them having two couches is much more interesting and meaningful as a symbol of them growing and accommodating each other and a symbol of their combined sitting room being more a space to share with others - to welcome guests - than either of them currently have.
I hope this answers your question Nonnie - the couch metaphor is one of my favourites and it really has so many different potential final outcomes for this season so I may be way off base with where we end up with Buck and his couch but I just don't see the show speed running this last bit when they've spent so much time and care getting Buddie to where they are. Remember it has taken Eddie over a season to get to where he is in acknowledging his feelings (even if not verbally) and Bucks trauma lies deeper than even Eddies - different in nature and I think Buck will make huge steps fairly quickly once he can actually get properly started, but he's been stalling at the moment. The show wouldn't give the depth it has to Eddie without giving Buck a similar level of care - I'm not saying its going to take another season to get them together, just that its not going to happen in the 3 episodes we have left in season 6. Season 7 has always been my timeline and I'm still confident in that being the case!
#kym answers things#nonnie asks#911 spoilers#couch metaphor#Buck and his couch#911 on fox#911 fox#evan buckley#eddie diaz#christopher diaz
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The couch issue.
When Christopher mentions the missing couch Buck goes on a small self discovery spiral and learns that maybe, a leap of faith is the best next step.
Buck hadn't even realized that it was weird not to have a couch until Christopher told him and let's be honest it is weird. What kind of person doesn't have a couch? Someone who just got out of their parents house, Buck 1.0 didn't have a couch- sure the house he lived in with seven others had a couch. And after his roomate era, there was Abbys couch that first he and then Maddie crashed on but it was never his own couch. And after Abby there was Ali and her couch and then Taylor with her own couch, the only one who took it with her when she left.
So Chris pointing out he had no couch did sting, not because it meant he was failing as an adult but maybe because his couch was always attached to someone, people who left. When he told Maddie she called him delusional. Either way Buck really needed to get his shit together.
"Hen."
"Buck."
Buck walked inside sitting down on Hen's brown couch.
"What's going on Buck?"
"I need to get a new couch." He tried to sound serious not desperate, which he isn't.
"Okay and you need me because?"
"Because I don't know where to find one."
Hen looked at him, just looked and Buck felt like he was Butt naked on Hen's couch.
"Buck, obviously there is more to the couch issue, unless you want to open up to me, I will give you the address to the nearest IKEA."
Buck can't help the laugh that escapes him. Hen might be right, it's not about couches, and choosing the right one. Maybe it's about girlfriends who all came with couches and took up so much space in his life or left him behind haunting their relationship. So yeah maybe this was about his next girlfriend and not a couch.
"So?"
"I don't want to screw up my next relationship like I did with Taylor and Ali and Abby."
Hen sighs getting out if the arm chair and grabbing getting them so tea.
"So you don't. Trying to force another relationship doesn't work. Like Eddie and Ana."
"I guess but I don't want to be alone anymore."
"Well maybe thats what you need right now, to be alone. I was alone a long time before I met Eva and then Karen. It took a few tries to get where I am, you will get there too."
Buck hummed taking another sip of his green tea -which was supposed to be relaxing- sibking furher into Hens couch.
"Buck for the love of god, stop thinking So loudly." Chim tapping his shoulder, "What is on your mind."
"I am tired of being single," Buck whined, drawing out the I, "It's like the universe just stopped working. Like it's neither shouting nor whispering just quiet." He sighed against the beige colored pillow.
"There are only couples around me. And also I need a new couch."
Chim sat down next to him pushing Bucks legs from the couch.
"You still don't have a couch? It's been 4 months."
"Hen said the couch is a metaphor for a new partner."
"Yeah right and karaoke is a metaphor for love."
"For you and Maddie it is."
"Shut up."
Athena looked at him with a certain glow in her eyes, Buck didn't want to be dramatic, but this was a crucial meet up.
"Buckaroo, I'm happy to see you, how have you been? Heard that you don't have couch." She put down their coffee mugs, Buck sinking further into the armchair. "I am really at a loss here 'Thena."
Buck sighed, "I want to start a new relationship but I'm not sure if it's, the right time and worth the risk."
"Well, if you are sure, about the person than whats stopping you. I wasn't sure with Bobby and look at us now. We're happy and going strong. Sure it was work and some days it still is but the good outweighs the bad. And a leap of faith is often what we need."
Buck looked at her, and after her words he was really going to take the leap.
"Thanks Athena. Enough about me hows May?"
Buck smiled, his new couch just arrived and Eddie was on his way with Chris, dinner then movies and a few rounds of Mario Kart. Just the weekend he needs. The door opened and the familiar click of crutches echoed through his loft.
#ao3 buddie#buddie fic#grey writes#this took a while#and a big turn#but i like it and its done#season 6 fic#season 6 ep 1 fic#Buck and his couch#the couch issues#the couch theory#buddie#evan buckley#911#eddie diaz#911 fox
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#exactly what happened#Eddie later having Buck so snuggled into his couch#911#911 on fox#911 fox#buddie#911 spoilers#eddie diaz#evan buck buckley#evan buckley#buddie 911#911 abc#911 buddie#911 on abc#911 s7#911 season 7#buck and eddie#eddie x buck#eddie and buck#buck x eddie#edmundo diaz#edmundo eddie diaz
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like yes yes eddie needs to choose and buck needs to be chosen but also
Eddie needs to get over the very big trauma of losing his wife. Last time he dated someone he had literal panic attacks at the thought of her being mistaken for Chris’s mother and as much as we saw him work through in therapy we never?? really?? talked?? about?? that?? So, yeah, Eddie needs to realize that he’s at a point where he’s ready to risk his heart and give love a second chance
(and maybe realize he already did becase there already is a partner in his life who gets consistently confused for Chris’s guardian and it feels natural to him?? but he still needs to realize he’s ready for love)
And Buck needs to be ready to be in a relationship where he’s loved for who he is, where he doesn’t bend and twist to fit someone else’s expectations. And for that Buck needed to die, and needed to come back, and now he needs to process that trauma and steady himself.
(and Buck loves so quickly, so openly, so loudly, and he gives so much of himself and he wants to be loved that way, and maybe he’ll realize that he already?? is?? loved?? but he needs to let himself accept it)
so basically, it’s not only a matter of choice... eddie needs to be ready to love and buck needs to accept that he is loved if they are ever going to find each other properly together
and that, my funny little friends, is the point of their arcs were we are at right now
#buddie#911 fox#evan buck buckley#eddie diaz#i'm not going to lose hope over this because i remember a million shows where this had been the path#how many relationships this castle and becket have before they finally were at the point where they could be together??#hey remember when chenford were in two fairly stable long term relationships because they needed to open up to love again#AND they needed to be in the /wrong/ relationships to finally realize WHAT they wanted???#eddie deciding he's ready to date/love again is a NECESSARY step for buddie and what they needed right ow#just like buck processing his trauma and maybe having a potential relationship in which he gets to say 'no this isn't right for me i deserve#more' is what he needs to realize he HAS that love#anyway the couch isn't a theory it's a laimotif and its a proper literal metaphor in the show#and we know where that's been popping up lately#so like unless they suck at their job i can't see this being the end#CHILL#911 spoilers#ish
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Sometimes, being lost is not knowing how to get from where we are to where we wanna be, where we need to be. A few choice words can sometimes be the life raft that gets you home. To be seen. To be found. Isn’t that what we’re all searching for?
#911edit#evanbuckleyedit#usercorinne#usersmia#userkourt#alielook#userchelsea#userdahlias#911verse#daily118#buckdaily#911#evan buckley#buck's big search for a home arc was obviously not wrapped up in the finale#so consider this gifset unfinished. i will update it probably when the show ends#oh and i feel like this does show that. it was never actually about the couch. it was about making a house a home#and having something that he can wholly call his own#my edit
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not to get all "actually☝️" about it but. the whole point of this is the fact that it isn't at all eddie's fault and buck just doesn't know how to properly process or recognize his feelings and know what he's missing *until* he gets presented with a specific situation. in truth buck has no right to be mad at eddie for building bonds with other ppl and it's why he has to do some introspection. this is not a "oh no poor buck eddie apologize to him!!!" thing, it's about buck getting, for lack of a better term, a good emotional humbling. eddie deserves good friendships and relationships, full stop. and if he likes the way he feels when he hangs out with tommy then great!! he's his own person and not a tool to further buck's character. but you also can't expect buck to immediately recognize that because, again, and for the millionth time, the whole POINT is that he doesn't. so if it has to get ugly and uncomfortable and embarrassing for him to do so then that is what will happen and that doesn't make either of them bad people. this is not a blame to be passing around. it's just them being human beings
#and now for a more controversial opinion im the tags:#ppl who are saying that everything that happens to eddie is always made about buck in the end. ummm. i really don't see it??#eddie has had his own moments of introspection and emotional journeys#(single parenthood. death of his wife. ptsd. therapy. just off from what i remember)#and buck has as well#(sex addiction. issues with his sister and his parents)#and if you don't think buck deserves an ACTUAL emotional introspection instead of the surface stuff that has gotten nowhere before#(couch. multiple girlfriends that he breaks up with after a couple episodes. etc)#then idk what to tell you. you just might not like buck at all#and i say this as a total eddie girl. because i have been since i watched s2 and onward#what is your mania with comparing them? jesus christ some of you just dont know how to appreciate characters without arguing against others#and i'm kinda getting mad now#disk horse#911#911 spoilers#911 abc#eddie diaz#evan buckley#tommy kinard#buddie
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Eddie getting jealous of the women in Buck's life because they get to be fucked by Buck and Buck getting jealous of the men in Eddie's life because he wants to be the only one to fuck Eddie.
#this is a bottom eddie post if you can't tell#bottom eddie rights#buck getting feral over eddie fucking his lights out amen#my couch theory is that they fuck nasty on it#buddie#bottom eddie diaz#top evan buckley#eddie diaz#evan buckley
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Everyone’s discussing Eddie being trapped and Buck not realizing, but I’m SO confident that Chris Is The Answer, so let me offer…Eddie’s trapped and Bobby knows, but Eddie tells him not to tell Buck. He needs Buck safe for Chris’ sake. And trying to get to Eddie would put Buck in danger too.
#getting chimney out is less risky#or something#and Buck NEEDS his family if Eddie doesn’t make it#so it’s better if he just doesn’t know trying to get Eddie out is an option#queue buck finding out Eddie’s trapped and LOSING HIS MIIIIIIND#will call back#‘Chris and I need you too’#end season on the Diaz couch#911 fox#911 spoilers#911 spec#buddie#bean brain
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No but imagine Buck-and-Eddie as roommates AND Buck still dating Tommy by end of s7/beginning of s8.
#9-1-1 on abc#911 on abc#911 abc#eddie diaz#evan 'buck' buckley#buddie#buckeddie#buck x eddie#tommy kinard#bucktommy#gay eddie diaz#bi buck#911 is a DRAMA i WANT eddie to be jealous#i want him and buck to get so domestic but also have buck spend more time with tommy so that eddie begins to feel left out and crashes dates#i want Eddie figuring out he's gay and in love with Buck and trying to keep both secret#i want Eddie coming out to the team + Buck mirroring Buck's coming out#i want Buck and Tommy trying to set Eddie up and Tommy picking up on Eddie's feelings#i want Tommy calling Eddie out on his feelings and says he isn't backing down#i want men FIGHTING over evan buckley#i want eddie to confess to Buck in the worst way possible buck has to spend the next few days couch surfing bc he doesn't know what to do#and of course he ends up with eddie but also maybe we get bucktommeddie#like we have a whole other SEASON we get to enjoy i would be so disappointed if we skip all the good build up just to cut to buddie together
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I’m sorry, but the parallel of Buck being so uncomfortable and not being able to sleep on his new couch but then being so comfortable on Eddie’s couch that he falls asleep as soon as he sits down is just-
MY HEART-
#911#911 on fox#911 fox#911 6b#911 6b spoilers#evan buckley#eddie díaz#911 buck#911 eddie#buddie#buddie 911#911 buddie#911 the couch#my heart literally can't take it#like seeing buck trying to sleep on the new couch and failing#but the second he's in eddie's presence and sits down on his couch#he's out like a light#the couch metaphor is VERY strong this episode#still not trying to get my hopes up#but this episode makes me wonder#and the fact that buck asked Eddie about the shooting and how he felt#im a bit bummed they didn't get into buck's side of the shooting#but I'm glad they at least gave us that#maybe buck's perspective comes down the road the next time he and eddie talk#presumably because it looks like they're setting up some sort of mental health arc for buck post-lightning#maybe buck has a breakdown and everything spills out including that#we can only wait and see
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The mess on the couch Margaret bought - that can’t be cleaned - the mess created by bringing a child into the world - while death is looming nearby.
How the whole scene is a metaphor for Bucks life - how his entrance into the world was messy and death was looming - how his birth was an attempt to keep death at bay but it came anyway and has held the hand of the Buckleys ever since. How the Buckleys tried to clean up the mess but their secret created an uncomfortable life for Buck - one that couldn’t be kept hidden and once revealed exposed the mess. How the couch is unsalvageable in much the same way Bucks relationship with his parents is - the mess will always be there in the centre of things.
How the couch is orange and how orange is a colour of superficiality arrogance and pride.
How Kameron batted Natalia away initially but ended up holding her hand - holding the hand of death while bringing life into the world - the same way Margaret was when Buck was born.
How Buck holding that baby and needing a few seconds but ultimately being able to hand it over and let go is a representation of him breaking the cycle even if he is still connecting himself to death he has broken one link in the chain - the link to his birth.
#I don’t know where im trying to go with this#just that there is more to that scene and that couch#and that Natalia needed to be there as deaths representative for buck to break free of the death aspect of his birth#and how the couch being destroyed is in some way a representation of the superficiality of the Buckley parents buying him a couch (repeating#their cycle of giving gifts and attention when buck is hurt)#and it’s destruction is buck acknowledging/accepting that about them and choosing to move on from it#how Buck hasn’t faced his more recent connection with death so Natalia being around makes sense and how her helping him pick a couch#is symbolic of bucks next journey - giving him outside perspective on his death (hence her being on the balcony)#so much couch theory it’s making my head spin!!!#kym rambles#911 on fox#911 fox#evan buckley#bucks couch#911 abc
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irl buck coming out at his sister's wedding would be r/AITA material
but on TV, well...
#911 abc#bucktommy#evan buckley#i hope his parents get that middle class WASP lemon sucking face#i hope tommy swoops in with his helicopter to save the day like a knight in shining armor#gives buck one of those “kick my foot up” kisses#with swelling orchestral background music#margie needs a fainting couch and the smelling salts for the vapors#she can do that trembly old lady about to cry voice she likes so much#will I get any of this?#no but a bitch can dream#this is a buckley parents hate blog
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not to go back to the couch, but to go back to the couch: abby told buck she was going to dublin on her couch (on which buck clinged for months as he clinged on the rest of her stuff), ali helped him buy his very own couch and dumped him while he was sitting on it with his broken leg and shattered dreams - coincidentally the same couch where he found albert and veronica one night and fell even more into the ‘there is no loyalty or love in this world for me’ spiral -, taylor then invaded his house with her cool velvety version and it was there that they told each other ‘no more lies’ before a lie ended it all.
that’s it, not even his half-revealed skype therapy session was anywhere near his couch.
#the couch is good only when the diaz boys are over#also. the only positive couches he’s actively interacted with are eddie’s (for an unreasonable amount of time too);#maddie’s when she was moving in; the one at the station; and realistically the rest of his friends’ couches are a good place for him#buck needs to find his couch#couch meta ig#evan buckley#911 spoilers 
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guys... I know I'm the clown of the town and I've been fooled before but it's happening. I'm telling you it's happening. it will be canon this season or the next one but it is happening I promise you. do i sound crazy? yes. am I wrong? no, I'm not, shut up
#eddie knows how long buck was desd HE KNOWS IT TO THE SECONDS#eddie dating arc? while we have the whole buck and his couch? IT'S HAPPENING#and you can fucking quote me i dont care because WE ARE GETTING BUDDIE CANON#911 fox#911 show#911 speculation#911 spoilers#eddie díaz#evan buckley#evan buck buckley#buck buckley#buddie#buckley diaz family#buddie canon
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#I ACTUALLY MIGHT DIE FROm THIS#911 fox#holy shit#the couch theory is so important to me i wan tto die#buddie#buck hates his couch and he goes straight to eddies?????
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buddie x you don't go to parties by 5sos
#look the song got the word couch in what was i supposed to do NOT MAKE AN EDIT????#here have some buck hanging on to eddie like his life depends on it 🫶#buddie#evan buckley#eddie diaz#911 spoilers#911 fox#911edit#buddieedit#lyrics#the 5sos/911 agenda continues!#m*edits
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