No because wait. Give me a minute of your time.
This is so indicative of something. Buck’s always saying shit that sounds weird or that people look at him weird for, but the fact that is EDDIE who feels the need to explain is very… interesting. Because Buck clearly isn’t uncomfortable being who he is, he is not apologetic about these comments he makes that people don’t understand.
It’s almost as if Eddie was in charge of Buck, but it definitely isn’t as a son, or as someone he takes care of, because is Buck who’s usually taking care of him & Chris. So it’s not that dynamic.
The more you watch the show and analyze it, the more you realize Buck’s always inside his own head. Something’s always happening in that little nogging of his (hence, the fact that he couldn’t really wait for his leg to heal before trying to go back to work, because he couldn’t see the big picture, only the direct info his brain was being fed), while Eddie is grounded.
Eddie is grounded mostly because he has to. The PTSD doesn’t allow for a hell lot of daydreaming that don’t involve the risk of getting triggered (my aunt has PTSD, so I speak from her own words). So the only possible explanation within canon compliant is that Eddie is Buck’s link to the real world.
Buck is always in some cloud, while Eddie is (metaphorically) holding his hand. “He’s harmless” he told Marjan, because Buck didn’t notice he was being rude while staring.
“That’s not how he remembers it” he told Buck himself, trying to make him understand neither Chris or him hated him. He had given everything to save his son.
And then there’s the scenes from the gif set. Buck is, once again, saying something related to his current hyperfixation (which is mostly connected to either a recent trauma or the infinite love he has for his chosen family), and Eddie realizes he’s the only one who understands what he’s saying, and feels the need to connect Buck with the rest of the world. Make people understand just HOW smart he is, because it’s a little hard to make his case when the man constantly comments out of place.
(And by the way, the fact that they ALL spend a lot of time together but it’s usually ONLY Eddie who knows what Buck is talking about also says a lot).
And that behavior is… not particularly friendship-coded. Yes, it could be, but it isnt necessarily. Eddie could chose not to say anything, laugh with Buck but not explain, or even ask out loud when he himself doesn’t know or understand something (the green juice gif or the ‘software upgrade’ to Buck 3.0).
Yet he says something. Every single time. He watches him shine within his own walls and then translates for the rest of the group, and I can assure you, as a simple viewer… that it is NOT to make himself feel better or to avoid some kind of embarrassment (because we KNOW that the group associates Buck with Eddie - i mean, Bobby’s always pairing them off together, and when Eddie went missing underground no one would let Buck go down, ’so we can have two cut off ropes?’ said Hen-, so maybe Eddie doesn’t want people to think he’s the weird one, but NO).
It’s because he loves him. He loves him, he understands him. It is not pity or shame or embarrassment, or annoyance. It’s love.
And the love I think it is isn’t friendship.
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