okay so my 'Eddie was always intended to be Buck's love interest' conspiracy theory starts with the fact that he and maddie as a duo were the direct replacement for abby – maddie is a replacement for the Main Character At Dispatch and eddie is the Main Character Love Interest 😌 in his first few episodes he is intro'd as a queer-coded character – women aren't his type, he gets clocked by a christmas elf, even Pepa assumes buck is More Than A Friend when she meets him at the hospital – and eddie doesn't deny it!!! not really. he says :) he's a friend <3 in that way you do when your nosy older relative is prying into your love life, but he fully knows what she's implying when she asks about buck and this is a hill I will die on.
ALSO buck and eddie both spend all of season 2-3 and most of season 4 getting closer to each other and being weird about each other without significantly dating anyone else until something ~mysteriously shifted~ mid-S4. also related is my conspiracy theory that albert was originally supposed to be buck’s bi awakening which would have made his car accident even more devastating than it already was!!!!!!!!!!! anyway. :)
