and it was so interesting to note as i made it the ways they do it too, like i know a lot of us headcanon eddie’s love language to be acts of service and buck’s to be words of affirmation, and its fascinating to see that they acknowledge this and love the other in the way they know they’re receptive to. like as much as eddie is an emotionally repressed little lego man, he’s constantly telling buck he loves him through words “i forgive you” “i know you did” “there’s no one i trust with my son more than you”, and buck loves him all in doing (e.g. trying to dig him out in eddie begins, running all over for chris in tsunami eps, crawling under the truck to get to him, etc)