#og 911

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[courtneyloves87]

Baylor is the next Grudd & Bathena from the whole entire 911 universe! 💕

And that's an early Valentine's Day post! 💕

[doublel27]

I think I started following you for TK and Carlos, but you're now one of my main sources of Buck and Eddie as well (because despite having never watched 911 I know who they are lol). And I honestly have become increasingly confused as to whether Buck and Eddie are actually together?? I know one of them is bisexual... but like... are they cannon? It is just a ship? What's their deal???

Oh my dear sweet summer child. You have opened a can of worms. Also, if you’re getting OG info from me then you’re getting a very narrow view.

BUT

Short answer: Buck and Eddie are not canon in terms of being in a romantic or sexual relationship.

However…what’s their deal? I’m glad you asked.

So it all started in season one, when 25 year old Evan Buckley was a hot mess express stealing fire trucks for hook ups with girls.

He then met a dispatcher almost twice his age named Abby who stalked him a little bit and he nearly died choking on a piece of bread but since our sweet summer child has both mommy and daddy issues he imprinted on her hard like a baby duckling

Her mom, who she had been taking care, of died and she went to Europe and promised she’d be back and left Buck staying in her house. (She would not be back gentle reader. But don’t worry it will come back around why this is important)

Season two starts up with a pining Buck and the entry of Eddie Diaz

This is literally our intro to him. Also What a Man is canonically playing as the soundtrack as Buck first lays eyes on him.

They speedrun enemies (onsided) to besties in a single episode.

Eddie has a son, Christoper.

Chris has CP and Eddie moved him to LA because this is where Chris’s mom ran away to when she left them.

Buck also imprints on Eddie and Chris, immediately helping them and getting Chris a home health aid. His sister jokes that he has a man crush and will finally maybe get over Abby. Eddie tries to get back with his ex-wife but she both neither wants to be a wife or a mom and is going to leave them again but gets hit by a car and dies.

And Buck and Eddie and Chris become increasingly more codependent.

Buck nearly gets crushed under a fire truck and can’t come back to work and babysits Chris during shifts and they almost die in a Tsunami and Buck thinks he did a bad job taking care if Chris but Eddie says there’s no one he would trust with his son more.

Buck tries to come back to work but he’s got blood clotting issues from nearly getting crushed by a fire truck and is bared from returning and therefore sues the department for wrongful termination (even though he wasn’t actually terminated he just couldn’t return to active duty). Then he couldn’t speak to anyone from the firehouse which led to the divorced dads era.

Angry, bitter fight in a grocery store with their coworkers ensues. Don’t worry it all works out and we go back to coparenting like normal.

Our boys are both unsuccessfully dating women and the queerbaiting accusations get tossed around. They are unfounded because 1. The show is written by queer people and 2. There have always been gay characters as main and recurring characters. They just all happen to be black. (See racism, lesbian erasure, and 911)

Things are going great until Eddie gets shot at work by a sniper right in Buck’s face.

[Gif redacted for trauma reasons]

It was highly traumatizing. Buck saves Eddie and Eddie is in a coma and Buck has to tell Chris and take care of him, you know, like a dad. Everyone points out he’s basically Chris’s other dad, not Eddie’s girlfriend who is also around sort of.

Buck confesses to Eddie when Eddie wakes from the coma that he wishes it was him that had gotten shot and died which is when Eddie reveals that would be really fucking dumb because Buck is who Eddie wants to take Chris if he dies.

Anywho. Everyone keeps dating women. Buck almost dies a few more times, and gets struck by lighting has an interesting coma carol and is obsessed with death. They remain co-parents of an adorable son.

Enter season seven and Tommy comes back into our lives. In the beginning it’s hard to see who he’s for, Buck or Eddie or just as a device. But he’s for Buck! There was rejoicing. Bi!Buck was no longer headcanon!

Buck comes out as bi, because you know, he thought it was normal for the first 32 years of his life that men were hot. Everyone knew that. Buck has a boyfriend now. People are mad it’s not Eddie. Fandom wars ensue and those of us that like both try our best to avoid the abuse to middling to terrible success.

Eddie has a girlfriend and then finds out that there is an exact doppelgänger of his dead ex-wife (told you she’d come back around) and begins having an affair with her on his current girlfriend. Everything blows up when he and doppelgänger wife are processing his ex-wife’s stuff and his girlfriend and son came home.

Chris leaves his dads and goes to live with his grandparents in Texas, and neither of them can convince him to stay. Eddie grows a terrible mustache. Buck continues dating Tommy. Interviews and canon keep calling Eddie straight but

We then find out that Tommy is the ex-fiancé of Buck’s season one obsession, Abby. Buck tries to process this with Tommy but Tommy has the most projecting ass low-self-esteem meltdown and breaks up with Buck.

Which brings us to now, two sad bestie coparents whose son is living in Texas.

And that’s what you missed on glee 911!

Did that clarify anything or just as confusing?

Canonically, IMO, they’re in a queerplatonic coparenting situationship with no sex, thus far.

What will happen next, gentle reader, who can say?

[kiankiwi]

Meant to make progress on a little!TK "sick at work" fic and ended up starting a trans Eddie pregnant word vomit fic :)

Anything specific anyone would like to see in the Eddie fic?

I'm starting with an NDE of course

@actualalligator @pimento-playing-hopscotch @laneybishop89

[paperstorm]

Different anon here and again feel free to ignore or not engage but I’m getting quite frustrated with the hype this bi Buck storyline is getting and it’s making me a bit itchy. It feels like all the pre-existing queer poc characters in the og (and the spin off) have been forgotten and a white man is getting huge amounts of praise and hype for a storyline that isn’t actually that groundbreaking or original. Oliver Stark seems to be doing ok in the interviews and he at least mentions the pre-existing queer characters that have been in the show for years but the media seem obsessed with this new storyline and it’s starting to feel like nothing else matters in what is supposed to be an ensemble show. Interviewers asking Angela Bassett if she talked to Oliver about “what it was like to kiss a man”. Why are we still asking this question and certainly why are we asking an Oscar nominee when it’s nothing to do with her? I’m all for representation and more queer stories but treat them the same whether they are L G B or T. Don’t act as if one is so much more significant than the others.

Having not seen any of the press stuff I agree with this wholeheartedly in principle. The show has always had canon black lesbians in it and from what I’ve heard their characters are well done, that shouldn’t matter less than Buck. Someone who thought he was straight realizing he’s bi in his 30s is a great story and more queer rep is never bad but we do give a massively outsized amount of attention to queer cis white men. Stories told about women or trans people never ever get as much attention from anyone - fans or the media - and that is a problem that has roots in misogyny that we need to reckon with and begin to work on.

[courtneyloves87]

Mr. Oliver Stark as Evan Buckley and Mr. Ryan Guzman as Edmundo Diaz bka "Buddie" from the OG 911 show! 💯🚀🧬

[courtneyloves87]

The interracial lovers in the whole entire 911 universe! 😍💕🧑🏻‍🚒

Bathena, Grudd & Baylor! 💗💍♾️

[courtneyloves87]

Now, Taxie is the female version of Buddie from the OG 911 show! 💯🚕👄💒💅🏿💍💕😍

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