Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent far more time than is reasonable obsessing over the set details of Eddie’s house for this series of posts and also Buck’s apartment, because his is next on my list, and I noticed something about Christopher’s room.
From our first glimpse of Chris’s room in s2e04 onward, there is a terrarium/fish tank on Chris’s dresser. Here is its first appearance:
And here is its last appearance in s4e08:
Because the next time we see Christopher's room in s4e13 and s4e14, the terrarium is gone and has been replaced by a record player and speakers.
I was struck by that, because it's kind of a peculiar item for a boy of nine or ten years old to have in his room. But that feeling only lasted for a few moments, until I remembered who else has a record player on constant display from nearly the moment he has his own place.
Here is Buck’s record player from s3e01 and s3e03:
Obviously, the only explanation that I will accept is that whenever Christopher is at Buck’s place, they listen to records together and Christopher loves it a lot and got super into it and eventually Buck bought him his very own record player and speakers to have in his room for his birthday or Christmas (what months are between these two episodes?) or just because. And and… seriously… the specific model that Chris has…
Look at this work of art. This is a Crosley Voyager Turntable that retails for around $100, bluetooth speakers and accessories not included. This specific model -- gorgeous orange velvet y’all -- seems to have been a special edition just for Urban Outfitters. Obviously there are more impressive and expensive turntables out there, but this is just so perfect for a kid, I think.
I'm losing my entire mind. If that’s not a gift that says “I love you with all my heart” I don’t know what is. Just picturing the excitement of Chris opening it and Buck trying not to burst at the seams with joy as he watches Chris opening it and Eddie’s utter fondness leaking from every pore as he watches both of them… I'm going to expire.
Also, at this point, no one will ever disabuse me of the notion that Chris’s favorite color is orange.
I’ll admit that I'm generally kind of unimpressed with the set dressing on 9-1-1. And, when I first started taking screenshots of Buck’s apartment for building a model of it, I kind of rolled my eyes at the record player’s existence, since the man has never mentioned having such a hobby one single time. But, I was willing to grant them leeway, since he has to do something with his free time at home and it’s obviously never been watching culturally relevant films (much to Chimney’s chagrin).
But now you can pry audiophile Buck and his new apprentice, Chris, from my cold dead hands.
Anyway, thank you for joining me on this little journey. If (I’m crossing my fingers so hard here, lol) anyone happens to feel inspired by this post and winds up writing a fic about it, please let me know so I can read it.
Thinking of scenes we could get post-Buddie canon, and I absolutely need a callback to s2 and Buck trying to find a pet-name for Eddie because "We're dating now, I can't just call you Eddie!" And he keeps going through more and more ridiculous names like snookums, and sugarplum, while Eddie rolls his eyes the whole time.
But then something happens, either Eddie in danger on a call and they're both shaken up after, or they lose someone on a call, and Eddie is upset. And Buck just folds him in his giant arms and holds him close and quietly just shushes him and says "it's okay, baby, I got you". Eddie just *melts* and Buck is kinda suprised and pulls back a little and goes "yeah?" and Eddie just buries his face in Buck's neck and nods while Buck gives a soft chuckle and pulls him in tighter and calls him "baby" again.
After that, Buck goes back to ridiculous pet names when they're around the station and on calls, joking around, but whenever they both need some comfort or are having an intimate moment, Buck always calls him "baby".
Until they get married and then Buck exclusively calls him "husband" at all times at any given opportunity for several months at least, and then it gets folded into regular rotation.
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