scoupsahoy -> hopecorps

my lord i think it is possible and significantly more likely actually that chris came to the conclusion on his own that eddie didn't want to be his dad than his grandparents like. whispering in his ear at night that his dad secretly hated him.

eddies arc in this episode was about how he has been waiting for chris to come to him and never pushing him because he didn't want to scare him away, but what chris wanted AND NEEDED the whole time was for eddie to be his dad and just tell him to come home

eddie felt inadequate and invisible partly because of the fact that he has never actually felt like he SHOULD have been chris' dad. for the entire show he never felt good enough. he always felt like he was a bad father because he felt inequipped at the beginning and because horrible things kept happening around him fulfilling that inadequacy. the point of this episode was for him to say: actually I AM what is best for christopher

And Also, because he didnt express that, it's sort of like. of course chris kind of thought eddie didn't want to be his dad. because he has like abandonment issues and anxieties of his own. i feel like it's fully undermining the story to say that every single thing wrong with eddie and chris' relationship is because of an evil thing that eddie's parents have done

buck literally tells eddie in this exact episode to BE his dad. to DAD UP. eddie was acting like a passive participant in chris' life out of fear ergo chris came to the conclusion that eddie liked it that way

honestly a more likely situation than the "helena and ramon have been deliberately and evilly telling chris that he's a burden on his father for some reason" is that, in chris' eyes, walking away from his father out of anger felt like an excommunication almost. like in his anger he was like "i dont want you to be my dad right now" which is. very teenagery. and by saying "you'll be my dad again?" is just as much CHRIS asking for that relationship back and asking for what he wanted too. because i think he was feeling just as invisible as eddie was.

bc like. helena and ramon do that. they are dense and self-absorbed and they think that they're being helpful and they're bad at listening and communicating. they make our boys feel invisible all while coddling them and not taking them seriously. i don't think they would say something outright that would make chris explicitly think that his father did not want to be in his life. they are both (but helena especially is) too passive for that. it's like an indefensible thing

eddie and chris' relationship is so special and i think that it could be afforded way more credit and nuance than it's being given rn