Jamie has always been smart but he was just a dumbass about it; canonically called Colin a jaundiced worm in S1, he’s been pulling triple letter score words forever
I know people have already joked about Live Sister Reaction but the look on Roy’s sister’s face when Jamie explains his gift is so funny
that’s not a “oh wow how thoughtful” or a “oh they really are best friends” look, or even a “wow that’s going to mean a lot to Roy” look, that’s a “holy shit, Roy, this man is in love with you” look
Eddie knew Buck was going to cry the first time Chris called him any variation of dad.
It’d been weeks since Chris asked Eddie about this and he’d been thinking about what to call Buck because I can’t call you both dad, it’ll get confusing. He had concluded that he was too big for daddy, father was way too serious for Buck,and they didn’t talk enough in Spanish for papi to sound natural for Chris.
Despite that, Eddie wasn’t surprised when finally, while Eddie and Bobby were lying the table at Athena’s place and Buck was entertaining the kids with Maddie, he heard Chris grumble at Buck’s lame joke, “Pops, that’s so embarrassing.”
He had expected Buck to cry and he did cry and he was holding Jee at that moment so she started crying, too, when she noticed her uncle crying and it looked comical.
Eddie couldn’t not smile at the scene, fond.
He had expected Buck to cry but what he hadn’t expected was for Bobby to cry.
And yet here he was, still holding a plate in his hands, practically sobbing silently next to Eddie.
“You know, Buck used to call me Pops too.”
“He did?” Eddie asked because he didn’t know what to do - he wasn’t best at comforting people in general but that had just taken him aback on whole another level. “Why did he stop? I’m pretty sure you’re more of a dad to him than his own father.”
“I told him the station isn’t a family,” Bobby said. “Then I fired him.”
Eddie had heard that Buck’s been fired straight out of probation, but he had never heard the details. Definitely nothing about this.
“He got the job back on the same day but he has never called me Pops again since.”
“Maybe you should tell him to call you that again, then,” Eddie said, pointedly. “You know he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed about this stuff.”
The fact that Roy canonically goes to gay bars and hangs out with drag queens is criminally under-utilised in fanon.
Where are my stories about the boys trying to support Colin by going to a gay bar and then being gobsmacked when Roy knows everybody there? Where are the stories where Roy gets caught at G-A-Y by the paparazzi and outed, only for him to insist that he’s straight to the team, who think he’s trying to save face and keep making grandiose gestures to prove their support to an increasingly infuriated Roy. Where are the stories about Roy and Keeley going to a gay bar together (with the yoga milfs) and running into one of Keeley’s ex-girlfriends?
What about Jamie thinking he’s doing super subtle bisexual signalling (cuffed jeans, layers, iced coffee, etc) only for Roy to clock him immediately and start trying to signal his support to Jamie à la Trent’s gay mug, only for it to backfire as Jamie assumes Roy is trying to come out.
Where’s my Roy who’s known he’s queer all his life getting invited to a gay club by his yoga friends for the first time and panicking, (because he’s never acknowledged this part of himself and how can they see it?), only to go to the bar and have it feel like he’s coming home. Where’s my Roy who’s absolutely certain he’s straight (after all, he’s being going to gay bars for years and he would know by now if he wasn’t) having a fucking heart attack as he falls for Jamie and has to reconceptualize his identity at 40. Where are the comedies about Keeley and Roy knowing the same person, but Roy only knows the drag queen and Keeley only knows the man out of drag and so they don’t realise they have the same friend?
What about a post-finale story where Roy, Keeley, and Jamie all show up at the same gay bar without planning it and have a series of bewildering conversations as they try to figure out if they’ve followed each other there (Keeley is like “how many times can I tell these boys I won’t pick between them?”) or if the other person is gay (you obviously can’t just ask).
These are all off the top of my head, so I am sure there are more. But please, please, somebody write this. We can’t let Roy get away with mentioning this once and then never talking about it again.
