'I will love you because not despite' I am sitting in my room in total darkness ugly crying to this god bless
in ref to my tags on this post
ok no but LITERALLY i could write an entire thesis on the relationship buck has with fatherhood. when chris and buck are introduced in 2x03, i think it's really easy to dismiss the look buck gives chris/eddie as just like. a friend being glad his friend is reunited with his son. but literally everything we know about buck's relationship with his parents refute that wholly, because the look buck gives them isn't just "i'm so glad chris is safe" it's also "oh, so that's what a good father looks like"
and like, we see from the moment buck becomes a part of the diaz's lives that he's making the genuine effort his parents never made with him and maddie. he enlists carla's help, he makes sure bobby is okay with chris being at the station, he gives and he gives and he gives because no one afforded him that growing up besides his sister.
100% buck has always felt like he's been loved despite not because. despite him being reckless, despite him being headstrong, despite him sometimes making the wrong choices. but buck-- buck loves christopher because. because he accepts buck without question, because he makes people happy, because he made eddie into the father and man he is. buck loves christopher because he's chris, not despite that
and that's only amplified during 4x14 when buck takes care of christopher while eddie is in the hospital. because buck had literally no reason to need to do that. carla, abuela, pepa--a host of other people could have been the ones to take care of chris, to support him while his dad is away. but buck chooses to, he chooses to take the "harder job" and be with chris, because he knows that's what eddie would want. buck doesn't even know about the will at this point, so he's just proving the fact that he loves chris because. and not because he's legally obligated to, either, but because he loves chris. buck is going through something fucking awful, had to watch his best friend get shot in front of him, and instead of choosing to look after himself in that moment, he chooses to look after the kid that he loves like his own.
anyway im totally normal about buck's perception of love and parenthood as you can probably tell










