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Eugene Roe - Blog Posts
you go into the woods and you run into him wyd
Wounded men were Roe’s stock-in-trade. And he’d seen more death than anyone else in the unit. To the rest of us, death was some rogue wave that would crash down on us from time to time. Hell, Roe was standing out in the surf every day, taking one shot after another. Since we’d got to Bastogne—bloodier than any other place we’d been—Roe was getting a bit of that thousand-yard stare himself. Quieter. You could tell it was getting to him. And who could blame him?
Don Malarkey - Easy Company Soldier
The way I’ve gotten writers block while trying to write Bastogne. Aka the most important part of the fic. IN DECEMBER.
Ya’ll ever think about how Ross said Shane was perfect for playing Eugene because of how kind he was??? DO YOU??? Because I do every single day
Gene waiting until everyone else has had a turn in the showers because it takes him significantly longer to get the blood off and he doesn’t want to make anyone have to wait for him to be done before they can get a turn. And then when he walks away he feels no cleaner than he had been before because there are some stains that just can’t be washed away.
This is the dynamic of my oc and Eugene. In case you were wondering. If you even care.
Eugene Roe (Doc Roe) of E Company, 101st in Austria
I was dead. My right leg was blown off, and the snow was red from all the blood. I went from burning hot to freezing. Me and Joe lay there freezing in the snow, shivering, bleeding, both of us were full of shrapnel. He said, "Jesus Christ, what the hell do I have to do to die?!" It was Joe's fifth time hit. Lipton, Malarkey, and Babe came running over to help, I was half out of it. Doc Roe was right there, trying to patch us up. Without him, we wouldn't be alive. Roe was the best medic we ever had. He was born to be a medic. You could always depend on him. You hollered, "Medic!" he was right there come hell or high water, he knew what he was doing. He was compassionate, took care of you mentally, physically, every way.
— William “Wild Bill” Guarnere describing Eugene “Doc” Roe in the book he cowrote with Babe Heffron, Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends
Eugene Roe in Germany, Eugene and Spina hanging out. I’m not sure when these were taken, so if someone knows that would be cool to know!
Ya’ll this is such 18-19 year old behavior as someone currently that age. The slightly messy handwriting, including the giant ass G’s. “SAME” and “home” instead of just writing it again lmao. I love it, it humanizes him so much.
Easy Company Registration Cards:
5/14
Crazy to think that Doc was only 19!
Band of Brothers and text posts ya’ll
“On a bus filled with veterans, their families and actors heading to the series’s Normandy premiere last summer, someone shouted, “Hey, Doc.” Shane Taylor glanced up, and that was all Maxine Tircuit needed to figure out that Taylor was the actor playing her father, medic Eugene Roe. “He grabbed me and held me and we both cried,” she says”
I need Robert “I believe in ammunition” Leckie and Eugene “gift from God” Roe to meet. For science.
One of my favorite facts is that Easy Company’s wedding gift to Eugene and Vera was some cutlery from Berchtesgaden. I like to think Ron stole them.
I think the reason why Eugene Roe is my favorite character is because I relate to his faith in God, to his prayers that go unanswered. That he has a particular saint he recites things from (Francis, like I personally have with Matthew), and he holds onto it. That his faith is shaking as bad things continue to happen but he clings to it with his fingers because it’s what his family has taught him. That eventually when everything has fallen around him, when Bastogne gets blown up, Renee dies, and he realizes he cannot save everyone, he makes his own faith. He sits next to Babe and fixes his hand and looks out onto the line where the Germans are waiting to kill them, and he decides to laugh. To smile. Because one day God will answer and show him His plan, but right now he needs to survive. And then in Austria, in Zell am See, and bad things still happen but Eugene saves Chuck. Or he sees someone else save him. The mountains are beautiful, he’s playing baseball, and the war is over. I like to think that at the end of it all, Eugene saw His plan, and he found peace in that.
It sucks to get to the part of the fic that you’re really excited to write and then get the most intense writers block ever. Like literally it’s my oc and Eugene starting to get close and yet I’m just starring at the page like
Currently trying to structure out the end of my fic so it’s easier to write when the time comes and I’m SORRY? The Germans surrended in May but the war ends in September, am I just supposed to have this bitch hanging out in Austria for five months 💀👋
I’m so sorry for making my oc’s kiss a fictionalized version of you Mr Ghost of Eugene Roe sir.
I think about “you think it was a German leg hoob” DAILY
All of my lesbian friends love Eugene Roe. Idk why but it’s specifically him. And all I can think about is that video from Billy on the street of him yelling “here we go lesbians, here we go lesbians.”
Snafu, Jay, and Eugene:
You ever think about how they just put a bat into Shane Taylor’s very British hands and said “swing.” Like this man had no idea what he was doing and yet he SERVED. Like it was an awful swing but it was believable.
Band of Brothers reaction to you playing a sport
This is literally entirely self indulgent need for validation as a self proclaimed sports girlie, so here we go…
Lewis Nixon
- Is so excited actually
- Will scream cheer so loud it scares the people around him
- Lots of swearing
- Sits super close to see the action, munching on popcorn the whole time
- Heckles the other team 💀
- Definitely brags about you to people
Carwood Lipton
- An expert at pep talks
- Like he’s with you before hand just pumping you up
- Not loud celebrations, but lots of grinning and clapping
- Tries to act stoic but is really nervous every game
- Stoicism goes away when you win and he cheers for you
- You make eye contact and grin after you win
- Lots of locker room hugs 🥰
Joe Toye
- So fucking loud
- Takes every game super seriously, even if it’s just pre-season or an exhibition
- Probably has superstitions 😭😭
- Loud and obnoxious clapping
- Big on trash talk
- Probably looks up stuff about the other team to be better at trash talk lmao
- Has all the merch
Joe Liebgott
- Doesn’t really get it at first
- Until you finally convince him to go and it’s electric
- Like he likes the intense atmosphere
- And seeing you at there in your UNIFORM???
- He literally falls in love all over again
- Thinks it’s so hot 🥵
- Cusses out people who even criticize your game a little bit
Dick Winters
- bro is so supportive
- Has no idea what is going on, but cheers when everyone else is
- Tries to learn as much as possible
- Checks out all the library books and asks so many questions
- By the third game he’s literally an expert
- Just wants to see you happy, and if doing this does that, he’s fully for it
- Only time he ever gets super excited about it is when you win a close game
Bill Guarnere
- Takes it even more seriously than Joe Toye
- He’s from Philly, what do you expect?
- Almost got kicked out once for fighting with a fan of the opposite team
- Does that thing where he stands up really fast and spills food all over himself 😭
- Cusses out the refs
- Almost storms the field/*insert anything here* after you win a big game
George Luz
- Has exactly one piece of merch he wears to every game
- Pretends he’s the announcer
- He’s actually really good at it, like someone get him up into the commentators box lmao
- Every time something big happens he figures out a way to make it about you
- Probably storms the locker room after the game to party with the team 💀
Babe Heffron
- Dude is also from Philly like bfr
- Wears every piece of merchandise he can get his hands on all at once
- “THATS MY BABY!!!” 🫶✨
- Permanently standing
- He’s too excited to sit down
- Tries to be a coach, calling out plays from the stands
- One time it actually works
- He never stops bragging about it
Eugene Roe
- Gets surprisingly animated
- Tries to sit in the back but your friends force him to sit closer
- Frustrated and/or nervous French swearing
- When it’s a close game he literally cannot look, it’s so bad 😭
- Literally at every game no matter where it is, he’s insane
- Always on the look out for any kind of injury
- Loves seeing you so happy and excited after a win
I added another chapter to my fic, if ya’ll are interested. I appreciate feedback and I hope if you choose to read it you like it 🫶
DO NOT listen to this song and think about Eugene Roe and y/n or an OC making promises to each other about what they’re going to do after the war
Found this picture of Shane Taylor on Pinterest and it’s so cunt in a way that I can’t explain properly
