I’ve been thinking about Eddie’s family giving Buck various nicknames. Bc if you’re Latino you know that you’re usually given a nickname based off some random crap or a physical attribute (I’m never called by my government name at home unless I’m in trouble or it’s serious) and every time Buck comes around the nickname is different. The first nickname he gets is pretty run of the mill: güero, because well. He’s a white man. And Eddie rolls his eyes at it because his mom’s side is literally white but the tíos wave him off. The second nickname is ojitos because the little kids joke his blue eyes are too much to look at and the tias love them so when he’s asked to bring napkins from the kitchen it’s directed at him with “ojitos”, which Eddie teases him endlessly about. The third is pollo after he dropped a package of marinated chicken on the sidewalk and spent the next fifteen minutes chasing a family dog to get a drumstick away from her because he’s heard horror stories about dogs and chicken bones. That one sticks for a while because everyone thinks it’s funny that the big firefighter is nicknamed chicken. The fourth is from a tipsy tio that couldn’t stop laughing when he made the connection and settled on Los Bukis for Buck because, well, Los Bukis are his favorite band and Buck literally goes by a Buck and it sounds the same okay. And every time Eddie and Buck make heart eyes at each other he sings Tu Cárcel at the top of his lungs. The fifth nickname is a little mean but Buck can’t stop grinning at it because with familial meanness comes a sense of intimacy that means he’s part of the club. Mancha, referring to the birthmark above his eye. It’s from one of Eddie’s sisters, Adriana, who said it so casually she must have been calling Buck it in private since he started dating Eddie. At first Eddie was sibling level pissed at her but Buck took it in stride, not upset or hurt, just laughed off the idea of ppl calling him stain and changed his contact name in her phone to Manchas with a yellow heart emoji next to it. The only time they call Buck “Evan” is the day he gets to abuelitas house before Eddie, the entire family’s sitting and standing around the kitchen trying to steal fresh tortillas off the comal, and he asks if it would be okay if he proposed to Eddie. He knows he doesn’t need their permission, but Eddie’s California family means the world to him and if Buck can include them in on this milestone in their life he will. Everyone’s stunned into silence for a moment, the smell of burnt tortilla filling the kitchen, before Los Bukis tio slaps Buck on the Buck and says “Evan, we would love nothing more for you to become a Diaz” and ojitos tias squish his face saying “mí Evan” wistfully, and he gets a text from the group chat with Adriana and Sophia that they guess they should change his name to “Evan Buck Manchas Diaz” in their phone huh?