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rewritethisstxry · 9 months

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Hello and welcome to my mixed mosh little corner of tumblr. Here I write for a variety of fandoms and characters. Primarily will be featuring drabbles with the occasional longer piece. Headcanons will feature from time to time.

At the time I do NOT consent for my work to be translated or posted anywhere else.

Below you will find some more information on who and what I write.

MINORS DNI. Due to the nature of potential content, only 18 and older are allowed.

Characters || Rules || Masterlist || Slasher/horror writing blog : @slxsherwriter

What I will write:

Angst

Fluff

Smut

Platonic relationships

Alpha/Omega dynamics

What I won’t write:

Snuff

Rape, rape play, non con

Underage

Inc*st

Real person fic

Marvel: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Alexei Shostakov, Peter Parker, Victor Creed, Deacon Frost, Peter Quinn, Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, Bruce Banner, Brock Rumlow, Nathan Summers, Eddie Brock, Cletus Kasady, Otto Octavius

DC Universe: Bruce Wayne, Harvey Bullock, Jim Gordon, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Jonathan Crane, Clark Kent, Arthur Curry

Stranger Things: James Hopper, Steve Harrington, Jonathan Byers

Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronan Dex, Carson Beckett

Sons of Anarchy: Jackson “Jax” Teller, Harry “Opie” Winston, Filip “Chibs” Telford, Juan Carlos “Juice” Ortiz, Lincoln Potter, Galen O'Shay

The Walking Dead: Rick Grimes, Shane Walsh, Negan Smith

What We Do in the Shadows: Nandor the Relentless, Guillermo de la Cruz, Laszlo Cravensworth

Resident Evil: Karl Heisenberg, Albert Wesker, Chris Redfield

Ted Lasso: Ted Lasso, Coach Beard, Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent

Good Omens: Gabriel, Aziraphale, Crowley

Video Games: Connor RK800, CaptainJonathan Price, Simon Ghost Riley, Sniper

Movies: Finn Brody (Godzilla), Raleigh Becket (Pacific Rim), Terry Malone (Black and Blue), Abe Guevara (Point Blank), Bobby O’Neill (The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard), Guy Clifton (The Crash), Roy Pulver (Boss Level), Sloan (Into the Ashes) Braxton Wolff (The Accountant), Ethan Sawyer (Those Who Wish Me Dead), Bradley James (Grudge Match), Sam Rossi (Sweet Virginia), Mr. McCarthy (Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl), Grady Travis (Fury), Griff (Baby Driver), Adam Frawley (The Town), Buddy (Baby Driver), Clyde Brenek (The Posession), Patrick Sullivan (The Accidental Husband), Harvey Russell (Rampage), Jude Fisher (Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding), Luke Vaughn (Heist), Franklin Clay (The Losers), Max (The Resident), Nicomund the Red/Santa Claus (Violent Night), Doug Dennison (Sleepless), Frank Masters (The Equalizer), Hellboy (2019), Alex Baldr (Max Payne), Matt Graver (Sicario), Douglas Hunsiker (The Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Steve Emmett (Boa vs Python), Joe Braven (Braven), Lee Christmas (The Expendables), Deckard Shaw (Fast & Furious)

Musicals: Jack Kelly (Newsies), Dewey Finn (School of Rock), Hades (Hadestown)

Tv shows: Ike Evans (Magic City), Jason Crouse (The Good Wife), John Winchester (Supernatural), Mason Baldwin (Elementary), Colton Fisk (The Equalizer), Kevin Tidwell (Life), Declan Murphy (Law & Order: SVU), Eugene McGillicutty (Royal Pains), Chuck Martin (ER), Dickie Flood (Th Practice), Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)

Tolkien: Boromir, Faramir, Eomer

#fandom imagines #fandom writing #dc comics #marvel #sons of anarchy #lord of the rings #what we do in the shadows #pacific rim #resident evil #Ted lasso #walking dead #stranger things #good omens #obscure characters #obscure writings

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ginnyrules27 · 1 year

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To clarify about the ships in your Choosing series, yes, all the ships. Existing and new.

Gotcha! :D

Whoo, hold on to your hats people cause this will be a long one. Putting a read more after this so I don't spoil it for people who don't want spoilers but at this point, people know the characters are coming lol :D

Ships: (edited due to errors in original post)

Existing characters:

Ben/Mal

Evie/Doug

Lonnie/Jay

Carlos/Jane

Harry/Uma

Chad/Ginny

Harriet/Sammy

Ryan/CJ

Emir/Emma

Akiho/Elle

Phillip Jr/Melody

Evan/Hermie Bing

Conner/Rowyn

Rachel/Aziz

Robin/William

Rose/Li

Ruby/Caspian

Ashaki/Robert

Henry/Claudine

OC Who Shall Not Be Named/Audrey

Kitty/Roland Hood

Lucy/Bobby Hood

Hadie/Alex Charming

Celia/Cyrus (an OC who's only been named, he's one of the Hun kids)

Nick/Brooke

Jake/Morgan

Freddie/Ally

Gil/Macaria

Neal White/Grace Hatter

Quinn/Brenden

Jade/Miguel

Dizzy/Lacey LeGume

Locklyn/One of the Stabbington Cousins (I hc their names 'Switch' and 'Blade')

Strat/Gillian LeGume

Georgia LeGume/Rick Ratcliffe

Derek/Piper LeGume

Edmund/Paige Hatter

New Characters/Next Gen:

Stephanie/Ethan

Maurice/Chloe

Bianca/Aiden

Christopher/Hali

Helena/Jason

Danielle/Cameron

Sebastian/Hazel

Percy/Clara

Ursa/Lei

Emmett/Maddie

Milah/Jaxson

Brandon/Archer

Emily/Elliot

Kristy/Leo

Ryder/Faith

Eva/Willow

Hannah/Colton

River/Roman

Riley/Raelynn

Katie/Hamed

Caroline/Rebecca

Joya/Winston

Charlize/Raegan

Luna/Ali

Alec/Arianna

Nicole/Matthew

Wyatt/Arabella

Paige/Luke

Gwen/Logan

Markos/Lily

Felicity/Breanna

Luke/Breanna

Nova/Caleb

Gideon/Crystal

Genevieve/Eloise

Gabriella/Maya

Okay I think that's everyone...@descenderwithanamethyst did I forget any ships?

#responding to ask box #ask box #answering ask box

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genderenvyelimination · 1 year

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First Round Masterlist

3/12/2023:

Zuko | Avatar: The Last Airbender vs. Red | Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Asmodeus | Obey Me! vs Garry | Ib

Spencer Reid | Criminal Minds vs. ENA | ENA

John Doe | Malevolent vs Lyfrassir Edda | The Bifrost Incident

Blackbeard | Our Flag Means Death vs. Percy Jackson | Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Otachi | Pacific Rim vs. Kurama | Naruto

Thanatos | Hades vs. Obito | Naruto

Lydia Deetz | Beetlejuice vs. John Mitchell | Being Human UK

Milo Thatch | Atlantis vs. Hiccup | How to Train Your Dragon

Loki | Norse Mythology vs. Kaworu | Neon Genesis Evangelion

Chat Noir | Miraculous Ladybug vs. Stevonnie | Steven Universe

3/14/2023:

Byleth | Fire Emblem vs. Fiver | Watership Down

Toruk Makto | Avatar: Way of Water vs. Aragorn | LOTR

Alma Winograd-Diaz | Undone vs. Jennifer Check | Jennifer's Body

Meta Knight | Kirby vs. Anakin Skywalker | Star Wars

Sylvester Ashling | Epithet Erased vs. Emmet | Pokemon

Thursday Plurbonym Boyporridge | Strange Aeons vs. Wizard | wizardisananimal

Bears in Trees | Band vs. 4th Phase Ghouls | Ghost BC

Electra | Starlight Express vs. Gerard Way | MCR

Hare | Tales from EarthSea vs. Sonic | Sonic the Hedgehg

Hero Killer Stain vs. Hawks | BNHA

Ekko | Arcane vs. Papa Emeritus IV/Copia | Ghost Band

Will Wood | Will Wood and the Tapeworms vs. The Toy Soldier | The Mechanisms

3/15/2023:

Lewis Pepper | Mystery Skulls vs. The Curious | Creeped Out

Raine Whispers | The Owl House vs. El-Ahrairah | Watership Down

Kris Dreemur | Deltarune vs. Doug Eiffel | Wolf 359

Elias | Ancient Magnus Bride vs. Ash Crimson | King of Fighters

Testament | Guilty Gear vs. Megamind | Megamind

Undertaker | Black Butler vs. Cure Chocolat | Kira Kira Precure a la Mode

Young Tim Curry Characters | Clue vs. Rumi | Just Roll With It

Richard III | Requiem of the Rose King vs. Simon Petrikov |Adventure Time

Denji | Chainsaw Man vs. Sasori | Naruto

Hunter | Rain World vs. Sam Winchester | Supernatural

Eddie Munson | Stranger Things vs. Magnus Chase | Magnus Chase

3/16/2023:

Hiei | Yu Yu Hakusho vs. Kaname Date | Ai: the Somnium Files

Bold and Brash | Spongebob Squarepants vs. Lucienne | Sandman (THEY BOTH WON?)

E-boy Wojak | Meme culture vs. Cal Kestis | Jedi: Fallen Order

Team Rocket | Pokemon vs. Nico de Angelo | Percy Jackson/ Riordanverse

Ludwig Von Drake | Disney vs. Red Lizard | Rain World

Julian Devorak | Arcana vs. Professor Venomous | OKKO

Giovanni Potage | Epithet Erased vs. Ryuko | Kill La Kill

Mr. Fox | Fantastic Mr. Fox vs. Zim | Invader Zim

Dio Brando | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure vs. Sasuke Uchiha | Naruto

Yamato | One Piece vs. Roy Mustang | Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Lemon Grab | Adventure Time vs. Fujimoto | Ponyo

Mizuki | Project Sekai vs. Gomez Addams | Addams Family

3/17/2023:

Arven | Pokemon Scarlet and Violet vs. Reigen | Mob Psycho 100

Pure Vessel | Hollow Knight vs. Lord Shen | Kung Fu Panda 2

Trunks | Dragon Ball vs. Dr. Robotnik | Sonic

Five Pebbles | Rain World vs. The Goblin King | Labyrinth

Turrican OST | Turrican Game vs. Ganon's Corpse | Breath of the Wild 2

Edgar Allen Poe | Bungo Stray Dogs vs. Mollymauk Tealeaf | Critical Role

Dwight Enys | Poldark vs. Will Graham | Hannibal

Scrooge McDuck | Ducktales 2017 vs. Dr. Emmett Brown | Back to the Future

Rohan Kishibe | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure vs. Bilbo Baggins | Hobbit

Micheal Afton | Five Nights At Freddy's vs. Cecil Palmer | Welcome To Nightvale

Carla | Dumbing of Age vs. Larry | Pokemon

Tragedians | Pathologic vs. Zagreus | Hades

Alucard | Castlevania vs. Robin | One Piece

#genderenvyelimination #this is going to get loooooooooooong

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therealvinelle · 2 years

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I know your opinion about imprint and agree with your takes. That said, Bella, being in a really dark place troughout the books, sounds like the perfect candidate for the kind of unhealty, unbalanced and codependent relationship that is created by imprint. Do you think a relationship like that would make her "happy" (in the stepford wives way of every happy ending in twilight) ? With her gift, would she be imprinting material genetically speaking? Why do you think her gift didn't make it happen in NM, with the Cullens gone and Victoria around? Loads of questions, I know. Please,don't say that I should just write the fic, I'm no writer. At all.

(My thoughts on imprinting.)

I think I'll answer this ask in points.

Do you think a relationship like that would make her "happy" (in the stepford wives way of every happy ending in twilight) ?

No.

First, there's the matter of when this would even happen.

Sam imprints when she's visiting La Push in Twilight

Bella is minding her own business, crushing on Edward Cullen, when a stern-looking older boy takes a look at her and suddenly takes to following her everywhere. He tells her that he's a warrior for his tribe, and she is his chosen bride.

Bella is mortified, and tells him as nicely as she can that she's not interested, could he find himself another uh, bride?

As she would avoid La Push like the plague after something like this, Sam is unable to get near Bella without Edward also being there. Now you have a situation where it's one Cullen facing off against one phaser, with Edward filled with the holy purpose of protecting his lady love. This in turn has Alice freaking out, because she can't see her brother, and she goes to find him along with Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie, and Carlisle and Esme too if this happens while everyone's at home.

Now you have Sam vs. five or seven vampires, where Sam's pursuing a girl who's made it clear she wants to be left alone, and Sam's making it clear he won't be giving up.

I think we cut this one short right here.

Jared, Paul, Quil, or Embry imprint in New Moon, prior to Jacob phasing

Bella's made a friend in Jacob and is finally making some progress with her depression when suddenly one of the guys who'd joined that creepy cult come after her, speaking words of undying love.

He knows the Cullens are vampires, too, and calls them leeches while expressing what a good thing it is they left Bella alone. He phases in front of her, and gives her the "I'm your slave now" schpiel.

Bella, who just wants to be left alone and to build motorcycles with Jacob, tries desperately to avoid the guy.

This means no more La Push.

Jacob phases, and Bella realizes she's lost even him.

She finds the meadow, meets Laurent, learns Victoria is after her, and the wolves then show up to kill him.

Honestly, I think she runs away at that point. It's not worth Jacob getting killed trying to protect her from Victoria, and he will if she stays. And there's nothing for her in Forks, anyway, not when her friend in Jacob is gone and her stalker imprint won't ever leave her alone.

If she goes to Renée her imprint would only follow her, though.

I think, honestly, she ends up going to Volterra. There are vampires there, they can turn her, kill her, whatever. Victoria will no longer have her target, and Bella's death should free Jared/Paul/Quil/Embry from his imprint.

@theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin has a fic for that.

Jacob imprints on Bella after phasing

There's a post for this one.

With her gift, would she be imprinting material genetically speaking?

It depends on why people are imprinted on. If it's because they're potentially useful to the tribe, then Bella could be an asset. If it's a matter of bloodlines, then Bella's out of the running.

Paul imprinting on Rebecca always seemed to me as being an indicator it's the latter, not the former. She had gone to college away from La Push, and would in every likelihood have found herself a life elsewhere with a non-Quileute partner. As of Rachel marrying Doug the surfer, and Jacob being wrapped up with the Cullens, Rebecca had become the only Black descendant eligible and likely to have kids who'd phase.

Paul imprinting on her ensured the Black line would not die out.

Why do you think her gift didn't make it happen in NM, with the Cullens gone and Victoria around?

Because Bella's gift doesn't seem to work that way. It can influence Bella, give Bella prophetic dreams and make her able to wield a shield to neutralize gifts, but it can't make Edward not desire her blood nor make James not want to kill her.

It seems to me you need to be from a phaser bloodline to have someone imprint on you, or else be an anomaly known as Renesmee. Bella was neither, and so no one imprinted on her.

Please,don't say that I should just write the fic, I'm no writer. At all.

Pfft, no worries, I won't.

#the carnivorous muffin #the carnivorous muffin fic #twilight #twilight shapeshifters #twilight imprinting #twilight meta #twilight renaissance #bella swan

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bangzhasanxiety · 4 months

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Me, luring my friend into watching 911 with me: no one dies😊

The show: kills chimney like 3 times, Buck died that one time, Shannon😞, Oh let’s kill all of Bobby’s family for character growth, let’s kill his friend too, let’s give them Doug’s death as victory, remember Eddie’s army friends, yeaaaaah they all died too, that one guy who proposed to his GF and then died on that escalator because yeah, oh and Emmett, wait wait what about….

#911 fox #one day they will kill one of the main cast #and that day I will literally break my tv #i’m not joking #tv: 911 #my friend is traumatised and decided to watch lone star to comfort herself #she’s suffering <3 #I laugh at her #but the truth is I cry too

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rileychester · 5 months

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What James did was unacceptable, you do not lock someone, especially a CHILD outside in winter overnight.

But if the show does have Ste end the marriage over this, which I think they will.

Then I wonder what direction they plan to take James?

I really hope they don't turn him more into Mac and this is his chance to redeem himself.

This reminds me so much of the time that Brendan gave Doug the money for the deli, Ste found out, and Brendan tried to take control of everything including Ste. How Ste tricked Brendan and ended that relationship for good.

Only for Brendan to start redeeming himself and actually changing (though probably because Emmett was leaving) and they got back together.

Not that I think James and Ste will get back together. But with Rafe and Dilly after Sienna, I think Ste will need James's help. Will that open the door for a Ste and James possibility? Not a reunion, just a possibility for the future.

#james nightingale #ste hay #hollyoaks

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j-nightingalesb1tch · 2 years

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MY FAVOURITE LGBTQA+ CHARACTERS PLAYED BY LGBTQA+ ACTORS

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kwebtv · 2 years

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William Martin Gulager (/ˈɡuːləɡər/; November 16, 1928 – August 5, 2022), better known as Clu Gulager. Television and film actor and director born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He first became known for his work in television, appearing in the co-starring role of William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBC television series The Tall Man and as Emmett Ryker in another NBC Western series, The Virginian.

In 1958 he appeared as Roy Carter in the episode "The Return of Roy Carter" (written by Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek) in the Western television series Have Gun – Will Travel starring Richard Boone.

Gulager stated, "Lew Wasserman saw me on a Playhouse 90 episode where I played an Elvis Presley-type character. I became the first contract player at Universal". In the spring of 1959, he signed with MCA-TV, where he appeared as Tommy Pavlock in the episode "The Immigrant" of NBC's series The Lawless Years, a 1920s crime drama. In the fall of 1959, he appeared in the episode "The Temple of the Swinging Doll" of NBC's short-lived espionage drama Five Fingers, starring David Hedison.

On June 3, 1959, he guest-starred as the unscrupulous photographer Elliott Garrison in "The Andrew Hale Story" on NBC's Wagon Train. On October 11, 1959, Gulager appeared as a U.S. Navy sailor in the "Appointment at Eleven" episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and again as an escaped convict in "Pen Pal" on November 1, 1960. On The Untouchables, he played the role of real-life vicious mob killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Gulager was hailed for his utterly chilling performance as the psychopathic Coll. Late in 1959, he was cast as Beau Chandler in the episode "Jessie Quinn" of the NBC Western series Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds. The episode is a tale of intrigue involving the Texas Revolution. Capt. Holden attempts to send weapons to Sam Houston, but forces of Antonio López de Santa Anna in Mexico threaten to blow up Holden's vessel, the Enterprise.

From 1960 to 1962, Gulager played Billy the Kid in The Tall Man, opposite Barry Sullivan as Sheriff Pat Garrett. The episodes portray Billy as a sympathetic character without resorting to the "misunderstood young man" theme used in such films as The Outlaw (1943) and The Left Handed Gun (1958). In 1961, Gulager guest-starred in another NBC Western, Whispering Smith, Audie Murphy's only attempt at series television. Gulager portrayed Deputy Sheriff Emmett Ryker from 1964 to 1968 on The Virginian, the 90-minute Western series in which he starred with James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, Roberta Shore, Randy Boone, Gary Clarke, and Diane Roter. Gulager appeared more than 60 times in other roles in film and television, including the film Winning (1969) and the CBS series Three for the Road. He also appeared several times on NBC's Bonanza. (Wikipedia)

#Clu Gulager #TV #Obit #Obituary #O2022 #The Tall Man #The Virginian #The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove

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our-flag-means-death-ao3feed · 1 year

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three, four

by emmett

If you had asked Edward Teach at, oh, literally any time in his life prior to this exact moment, whether or not he’d ever willingly allow himself to be shuffled out of the room with the children so that the adults could talk, he would have told you to go fuck yourself with whatever uncomfortable utensil was closest to hand. He'd had discovered however, in the last few moments, that discretion is in fact the better part of not having to be in the middle of that domestic and had nicked off out the back door with Stede and Mary’s equally judicious children.

in which Ed meets the parents kids family, Stede gets the telling off he deserves, Doug is Doug, and Louis and Alma gain a parent or two.

Words: 3240, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Doug (Our Flag Means Death), Mary Allamby Bonnet

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Doug (Our Flag Means Death), Mary Allamby Bonnet/Stede Bonnet

Additional Tags: Meet the Family, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff, Edward 'Accidentally Good With Children' Teach, Doug 'It's Free Children (and I plan to love them like my own)' OFMD

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/44340133

#Our flag means death #ofmd

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trickster-archangel · 2 years

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Blood and Shadow

Blame this whole brain mush on the fact that I added Calum Scott's Dancing on my own to my Buddie playlist, leading to thinking about Jolene, leading to thinking about Lil Nas X's Jolene cover, leading to thinking about heteronormativity and comphet, leading to thinking about character's death as a plot device, and its role in 9-1-1.

Humour me.

Coming from the Supernatural fandom, I am quite resigned to witnessing the wildest character killing hunt, even important side characters who had been featured for several seasons (mainly female and POC characters), as a cheap plot device to push the main character's arc forward and shock the audience. So I was pleasantly surprised to notice that in 9-1-1 this isn't quite the same situation, having witnessed very few characters being killed up to this point of the story (I don't think Ramon will die, for the same reason I'm about to explain), and it made me think that those few deaths were really necessary and really meaningful both for the surviving characters involved and us, the audience.

Actually, this whole brain mush started with a not-happened death, or Why didn't they kill Michael?! Since the actor will almost be gone for good after the suing, and all with the brain tumour and the hospital fire, it could've been very easy to simply kill him out of the story, dramatically and honourably.

But they didn't. So, again: why?

PSA: I didn't have the bare time to have a full rewatch, so I might be forgetting someone here. If so, please bear with me and feel totally free to add your own.

I'm now taking into account the following deaths, in no particular order: Kevin, Shannon, Doug, Daniel, Bobby's family, Emmett, Abby's mother. I'm totally NOT considering every single victim from every single episode.

The only side characters we witnessed as interacting with the main ones in the present, thus becoming a real part of the whole story, and not of the single character's arc, are Abby's mother, Shannon, and Doug (just like Michael…who isn’t dead).

If we think about the others, they are just background characters, past characters, memories…they don't belong to the real, mainstream story, the 118 story, the firefam-as-a-whole's story, because they act like gear kicking motivator for the single character's story and arc. With the blatant exception of Hen, who started her own arc with herself being shot and almost dying, and with saving, not losing, her coach.

There's something affecting myself individually about an arc starting with a gruesome death, because it's my own history. So I'm maybe projecting, but humour me.

KEVIN. He belongs to Chimney's past, but if you think about it, his death wasn't really necessary because Chimney had already chosen his path. His death becomes a beautiful and heart-rending memento only in hindsight, after 5x16, when Chimney manages to save Albert and redeem himself in his own eyes. Not anybody else's. His own. But Kevin had to die to tell us something, to make us understand something: that family doesn't end with blood. Sure, the Lees were devastated, especially because Kevin wouldn't have died if he (like Albert years later) wouldn't have wanted so badly to walk into Chimney's steps. But the Lees didn't blame Chimney, didn't hate him, didn't push him aside.

They lost one son, not both. Because in their eyes there was no difference between the blood child and the adopted one. They are the same, and they are loved the same. The message wasn't for Chimney, the message was for us. A family is not built on blood only. Children are not only those born from the same father and the same mother. And from a queer point of view, this is mind-blowing.

BOBBY'S FAMILY. Same as Chimney. Sure, this gruesome, multiple death, was something impacting so horribly on Bobby's psyche (especially if you consider he is a devoted Catholic and guilt is so deeply rooted and ingrained in our psyche, that even if you stopped being one, like me, very early in life, you will never shake it off completely: Catholicism thrives on guilt). And just like Chimney's guilt, it had its own conclusion in 5x16. But those deaths, introduced so early in the series, were also a shout, again, to us as an audience. Again, if Bobby had lost his blood family, this didn't mean he couldn't build another one…hell, other two whole families! One at the 118, and one with Athena. Because, again, a family is not built on blood only. Children are not only those born from the same father and the same mother. And from the beginning of s1 we KNOW that Buck steps into Bobby's kid role, just like Bobby becomes Buck's true father. It's something we, not them, have to understand. It's for us.

EMMETT. Ok, I admit at first I was a bit confused by this whole storyline, because we had been already told in Haunted that Athena had chosen to become a cop after that girl's disappearance, then we had the whole Emmett convincing her and suchlike…but again, as she herself explained in 5x15, being a cop was something she had always wanted…just, pushed aside for a while, probably because of her overbearing mother. Until Emmett came into place to push her back to her true self. The problem here is not what would've happened if Emmett hadn't died. The point, I think, it's Harry's question. Harry Three-Dads Grant. It doesn't matter what Harry and May would've been if Athena had married Emmett, because they would have not been THEM: they are what Athena and Michael made them, not only physically but also emotionally and mentally. Blood doesn't define, doesn't build, doesn't make a person: it's their family's love that shapes them into their true self. And in a three-dads-family, an extended family, a queer family, this is even more poignant, because all of the family members are now involved in their kids parenting, blood bonds set aside. Michael had always been gay, but this fact hadn't made him less of a father for his own kids. Just like cishet Bobby stepping beside him at Athena's side.

DANIEL. The Real Looming Ghost(TM). Buck didn't even know about him. He lived his whole life without having the slightest idea of a Daniel. Sure, he felt something was off, he felt his parents' coldness and disappointment, he lived his entire existence believing himself expendable. But he didn't know him. He wasn't affected by his death. Only by the outcome. Again, plot reasons set aside, I see this as a loud shout to us as an audience again: Look! Look what happens when you put the blood but not the love! Buck was a blood child of the Buckleys, yet he didn't matter, he never mattered. He was their son and all they cared about was a ghost. They were apparently The Perfect Family(TM) and yet they maimed his soul. They materially provided for him, but didn't give a damn about Buck as a living, breathing thing. They only made him for spare, defective parts. So, blood isn't really what makes a family, right….?

ABBY'S MOTHER. Ok so now we're diving into the present. I'm starting with her because it'll be very short, since she doesn't really have a huge weight in terms of agency: she stands literally on borrowed time, through Abby's own words, because she's late stage Alzheimer. She's not even her true self anymore. But she is a huge plot foundation because she's more or less the driving force that brought Buck and Abby to close the physical gap and become lovers, and, in the end, the driving force that split them apart, by means of Abby leaving to look for her true self, to discover the person she was before she had been forced to become her mother's guardian, always thinking and caring for the others before herself (....sounds familiar…). Abby's mom HAD TO die in order to set Buck free in the world with his new baggage of experience and growth. Buck 2.0. If she hadn't died, or if she had died later, maybe when Eddie was already part of the team, what would've become of that immediate bond, that bone-deep understanding, that soul-crashing proximity which set Eddie and Buck into mutual orbits? Nothing, probably. If she had stayed just a little longer, she would've hindered Buddie for being….Buddie. She needed to die to set not only Abby, but Buck as well, free. Free to question themselves: who am I? what am I looking for? what would make me myself truly?

DOUG. There we are. My intention is not to question his morality or ethics. He is horrible and totally not excusable. But….but, they could've made a different choice. His death wasn't really a necessary plot drive, right? He could've almost die, like Maddie. They could've imprisoned him and let him rot. He could've survived. They made the choice to kill him, so I suppose his death was necessary. And truth is, it was. Because otherwise Maddie would have never found the strength to be free, to be herself, to be someone else from Doug's victim. To look for her future and happiness, at Chimney's side.

For as much as Doug kidnapping was traumatic, and pushed them far from each other, in the end they managed to collect their broken pieces and build something new, different for sure, brittle, but with a solid foundation: freedom. Had Doug survived, his ghost would've loomed forever on them, threatening to come back one day and destroy whatever they could've managed to create. They could've got together, but again on borrowed time, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Doug had to die not to shock us, or to push Maddie and Chimney together, which they would've probably done anyway, but because he had to set them free in their love.

Two deaths which, in the end, brings us back to Shannon's death. And to Buddie.

I admit I was at first irritated by her death, she was questionable but also relatable, and I wished for her a growth arc too. But they killed her. And they didn't kill Michael. Why? She had already asked for a divorce, like Michael, so Eddie would've been free anyway. She had even said that she wanted to distance herself from both Eddie and Chris, in a way, so she wouldn't have been around. Why killing her, then, when she simply could've been written out like Michael in 5A?

Because she had the same role as Abby's mom and Doug. Her death wasn't for us, it was for the characters, both Buck and Eddie. Had she been alive and distant, she would've been still a looming presence, a ghost, an hindrance, a road block. Michael wasn't anything like this: his existence didn't pose a threat to Bathena, nor to Bobby's role as a stepfather. He was just another dad. Three dads and a mom. Nobody loses, nobody wins, because there's no competition.

But Shannon? She was Christopher’s mother. Even if she hadn't been Eddie’s wife and partner anymore, she would've still been a solid rock in Christopher’s foundation. And a road block against Buddie. Because let's be honest: we know Eddie. Not Stage Four Eddie Diaz. Not I'm Leaving The 118 Eddie Diaz. Not Breakdown Era Eddie Diaz. The previous one. The one who always put all the others before himself. The one who was dating Ana to give his son a maternal figure and satisfy the world and his parents. The one who was ready to accept Shannon back only to rebuild the family, not because he was truly happy with her.

Had Shannon survived, she would've been the bane of Buck's existence and happiness. She would have prevented Eddie from taking a step, any kind of step, towards anyone, least of all Buck. He would've never been freed of her ghost, just like Maddie from an incarcerated Doug. Had Shannon come back asking to stay again in their life, Eddie would've probably accepted, once again, out of duty and guilt and love for Christopher. He could've had Buck in his life, but Buck could've never parented Chris.

Because, if Buck is Lil Nas X and Shannon is Jolene, there will always be the threat of heteronormativity and social acceptance, and to Eddie would be more cruel for himself, but more acceptable for Chris's sake, to have Shannon rather than Buck. Buck couldn't stand a chance against a legitimate mother, even a bad one.

Doug had to die to free Maddie and let Madney happen for real. Michael didn't have to die to free Athena and let Bathena happen. But Abby's mother had to die before Eddie's introduction to set both Abby and Buck free. And just as well, Shannon had to die in order to set both Eddie and Buck free. And let Buck first become Chris's other parent, and once held the key to Eddie's heart, also his partner. Not on borrowed time, but for real.

Otherwise, we could've had the usual growth arc, Shannon coming back to her rightful place after learning from her mistakes, Buck would've stepped into some wrong relationships learning what he didn't want, and we would've had just two best friends being bros, whimpering over bad romances, until the glorious ending with the oceans of hot tears and redemption, good wives, white picket fence, two families hanging together with the kids. Et cetera.

But Shannon died, and Doug died, and Abby's mom died. And Michael didn't.

So yes, I'm hopeful for Buddie.

#long post #911 meta #buddie meta #death of the character #evan buckley #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #shannon diaz #bobby nash #athena grant #michael grant #chimney han #maddie buckley

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