#he has a distinctly genderless flavor to him if you know what I mean

[enbyeddiediaz]

thinking abt. eddie diaz. (the light of my life).

more specifically. a coming to terms with his sexuality arc. unpacking all of his internalized issues. laying awake at night and connecting dots from his past like how he felt around his middle/high school best friend,,,,realizing he had a crush on a cartoon character (we've all been there) and being like "oh. OH." bc suddenly a lot more things make sense but also there's so many more questions now. he's in therapy with frank dealing with his ptsd from the shooting and one session eddie is particularly quiet and so frank asks if there's smthg else he was rather talk about and eddie opening his mouth and then closing it and then waiting a couple minutes and going "there is but I don't know if I'm ready yet" and Frank goes "well when you are, I'm sure someone will be there to listen". and then. a few weeks later. during a relatively peaceful shift, eddie is chilling upstairs just staring at his blank phone screen after a session of googling sexualities and how other people figured out they were queer. hen walks up and sees him staring and asks him what's up and he just shakes his head and then changes his mind and goes "hen, how did you know you were gay?" and she talks about it, and he's like "aw shit" bc it hits just a LITTLE too close to home and he's quiet for a while afterwards and hen gently asks "why'd do ask?" and he looks at her and laughs a little nervously and goes "I think I'm demisexual???" (or whatever you hc him as, this is just mine) and hen goes "ok. can I ask what brought this on?" and eddie clicks on his phone and looks at his lock screen which is a picture of buck and Chris during one of their family outings and hen just nods and says "I thought it might be that" and eddie just looks at her with big eyes and goes "I don't know what to do" and she wraps an arm around him and tells him it'll be alright, even if it might take a while, and that while buck might be a little slow on the uptake at the moment, he'll catch up sooner rather than later and that she's 95% sure he reciprocates and in the mean time, eddie has time to figure himself out some more and that she's there if he needs to talk again. I'd also like to see him going to Michael about it bc even if they don't know each other that well or have practically no canon interaction, it's a similar situation I feel, and his perspective would help eddie too PLUS it would give us more Michael screen time. anyway, not only would it give us a real eddie plot line, it would be interesting as hell to watch, and would be good for representation. also it's realistic with the way they've written him, especially this season with all the "make sure you're following your heart, and not christopher's" and stuff. plus, ya know. a gateway for buddie which would be great

now completely unrelated, I think it would be dope as shit if he became a paramedic. someone has to replace hen when she graduates med school and becomes a doctor, he has the background from the army. eddie is at heart a caregiver and I think this would be good for him, also another actual plot line they could give him. plus medic!eddie is always great to watch

#long posts from liz #i am once again rambling #im not really sure if this entirely makes sense but. i hope it does #if anyone cares i hc eddie as demisexual and homoromantic with he/they pronouns #he has a distinctly genderless flavor to him if you know what I mean #buck stole is all #ANYWAY. i project on to buck and therefore i love and cherish eddie diaz and want to see him be happy and grow and have real storylines #i think paramedic eddie would be fantastic #also give my boy a proper dealing with trauma arc #he comes out officially to chris first and chris just goes 'ok dad. i love you' and eddie cries a little bit #eddie diaz #hen wilson #demisexual eddie diaz #buddie #michael grant #evan buckley #what i want to see in season five #911 fox #911 #911 on fox