The Pacific (2010)

Into the Dark - an andyeddie fanmix; a mix for two friends made for each other in the wrong place and the wrong time that eventually followed each other into the dark. [listen] 

i know i always talk about this but. “don’t go where i can’t follow” is such a wild line. it’s literally 6 words and yet

can we just talk about the smiles that andy and eddie share during the “if I don’t come back the company’s yours” bit. bECAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyone wanna buy a semi rundown house with me that we spend the summer fixing up, long nights with the radio playing gently into the night as we put down new floor boards, sitting in freshly painted rooms watching the sun set out the window…… sorry, i cant finish this post, the fantasy got to me…..

sobs

k but speaking of, the thing i love most about that climb the tank scene was the silent understanding of it, like haldane strolls in front of the tank and just looks at jones and jones nods and climbs the tank, like do you guys spend patrols working out a bunch of plans? 'ok, scenario #257, we have wounded men but they arent getting help- we point our guns at someone until they do as we ask’ ‘scenario #448, one of the boys gets a splinter- we pOINT OUR GUNS AT SOMEONE UNTIL THEY FIND TWEEZERS’

y'all should hit me with your favourite ship headcanons bc I’m bored

i already replied to this but i had more if you’ll take em

Eddie has tattoos, which everyone expects, but he’s also let casually slip that Andy has one (1) somewhere on his body. It drives the K Company boys fucking nuts because it’s clearly hidden and Hillbilly is the only one who’s seen it, but refuses to divulge it’s location or content. Common fables from Eddie include; “It’s my face, on one ass cheek”, “The USMC globe ‘n anchor, on his hip, only the eagle’s replaced with a big ol’ winged dick”, and his personal favourite, “he’s got a chapter from ‘Gene’s book under his nipple… won’t say which though. He said it was ‘The Really Gay Bit’.” 

If the boys were smart, they’d realize that Gunny, who always says he doesn’t give a shit about “Skipper’s secret tramp stamp” also knows what it is and where. Because he put it there. He did all of Eddie’s, too.

Eddie commonly threatens to bring up what he calls Andy’s “dad hobbies” at inopportune moments. Really, he finds them very cute and so incredibly harmless that he will actually bring them up whenever he’s talking about his love for the man. “He collects them football cards.” He’ll say, possibly when drunk, “Can y’ believe that? He plays football like a fuckin’ champ, why’s he want lil’ paper people?” Eddie buys him packs of cards whenever he sees them at a store, nowadays. They never miss a game on TV or the radio.

The other one is model planes. It’s what Andy would call “cheap therapy” because he finds putting them together lightly challenging, good for fine motor skills, and painting them is very calming. Eddie calls it “more expensive than therapy” when he hands Andy a wrapped gift containing a particularly rare model. 

It takes Eddie a longer time than it should to admit he needs glasses. He’s needed them for reading most of his life but he genuinely believed that he was just too stupid and uneducated to read the long, finely printed words in books.

After a strained battle to get the man to understand that he’s just long-sighted, Andy turns up one day wearing his own pair of glasses. (He doesn’t actually need them but that’s not the point.) He says he’s just found out he needs them himself and asks Eddie if he thinks any less of him because of it. Eddie says “No, ‘course not, why would I-” He catches on pretty quick. Andy holds his hand when he puts his new, real pair on for the first time. He asks Eddie to read to him, now that he can see. Eddie gets through about half a chapter before he starts crying.

They have a complicated relationship with betting card games. They both have exceptionally good poker faces; Eddie’s is a cold brick wall and Andy’s is a good natured smile that makes you think he’s just playing for fun. It makes them aggressively competitive and fights (plural) have broken out because of it, not all of which had them fighting on the same team in the early days. They exclusively play strip-poker now. Still fun, different stakes. Entertaining with company or alone, though they rarely finish the game when it’s the latter. They argue about who won by forfeit in the morning after.

you are an amazing human being I’m literally in love with every one of these!? they’re so in character?? definitely not tearing up at the idea of eddie crying when he finally reads to andy..nope….not at all.

honestly though, I can picture every one of these happening and I absolutely adore it! tysm, these just made my day!!

lads its too early in the day to be sending me this god damn wild

Andy & Eddie, before during after the war.

I CANNOT OMFG I- THIS?? IS SO CANON?!? IM SCREAMING

I-SOMEONE KEEP ME FROM SCREAMING OMFG

dONT im gonna cry