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Sebastian/Charles
700 words
Note: one night stand with consequences romcom type beat but make it Sebchal
Summary: He feels unsteady, suddenly, like his world has been tilted off its axis. Heād tried to picture this moment, very vaguely, at several points in his life, but he never couldāve imagined it would go like this.
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āI am pregnant,ā Charles says. His tone is conversational, like heās making a comment about the weather, and not imparting potentially life-changing information.Ā
Sebastianās throat goes dry. āWhat?ā
āPregnant. This is the right word, no?ā Charles ducks his head slightly, tearing his eyes away from Sebastianās face to stare down at the berries adorning his dessert.Ā
āYes, butā¦ā He wonāt ask how it happenedāthat would just be insulting to them both. āHave you decided what youāre going to do?āĀ
Charles hums around a spoonful of panna cotta. āI will keep it, I think.āĀ
Sebastian nods in acknowledgement, even as his breath leaves him in a rush. āIām going to be a father?ā he asks cautiously.
He feels unsteady, suddenly, like his world has been tilted off its axis. Heād tried to picture this moment, very vaguely, at several points in his life, but he never couldāve imagined it would go like this.
āAre youā¦ā Charlesās voice is quiet, but steady. āDisappointed?āĀ
The question isnāt as unexpected as the tone. When Sebastian looks up, he finds Charles studying him, curious but not accusatory.Ā
āNo,ā he says, and itās true. āIām justāā
āSurprised?āĀ
āWell, yes.āĀ
āI donāt want anything from you, Seb. I mean, you donāt have to do anything,ā Charles tells him. āBut if there is going to be a part of you out there somewhere, walking aroundā¦I just thought it would be fair like this.ā He shrugs. āI would like to know, I think, if it was me.ā
Sebastian hesitates. Heās being given an out heās not entirely sure he wants to take.Ā
Charlesās words ring through his head, taking shape with alarming clarityāa child, his child; a son or daughter that will look up to him, hold on to him, trust him. Now that heās aware of its existence, he canāt not wonder about the shape of his or her nose, the sound of his or her laughter, the interests he or she will grow to develop.Ā
Some part of him always wanted this, but it was a distant prospect, slipping away with every passing year. Heās not jaded enough to consider himself old just yet, but heās admittedly not where he thought he would be at this point in his life. His job is fulfillingānot to mention time-consumingābut recently heās found a desire to settle down beginning to stir. For one brief moment, he allows himself to indulge in the fantasy of having someone to come home to.Ā
āCharles,ā Sebastian starts, āif I told you I wanted to be involved, would you allow it?ā
āOh.ā Charlesās mouth curves prettily around the spoon. He licks it clean, then carefully sets it down. āIām sorry, I did not thinkāā
āI donāt want to dictate the terms,ā Sebastian clarifies. āBut if you have this child, I would like to be in its life. I could help out, however I can,ā he offers. āIf you want.ā
āOf course. I would like that.āĀ
Thereās a lot less bargaining and persuading than Sebastian had anticipated. Heās fully aware this isnāt a formal custody agreement, but still, he finds Charles is happy to accommodate him. He doesnāt want to say he misjudged him, because thatās not right, but he does have to admit that Charles has the capacity to surprise him in a way he wasnāt expecting.Ā
āOkay, so, you would like updates about the baby and things like this?ā
Sebastian smiles and hopes it looks encouraging. āYes, things like that.ā
āWell, the baby is the size of an appleseed,ā he announces, matter-of-factly. āThis is very small, no?āĀ
Charles pulls out his phone before he can respond, tapping on something and then turning it so Sebastianās looking at the screen.Ā
āI have an app for this. See? It tells you facts and lists symptoms and things. It is very interesting, actually. Honestly, I started reading it last night and couldnāt stop for an hour.ā
Sebastian nods along, already skimming the article in front of his eyes. Charlesās dimples emerge as he smiles.Ā
charles can astral project. he's had this ability since childhood but doesn't do it often. and so, it's 2021. seb has left ferrari and is at aston martin now. and one day, seb is changing in his driver's room, and suddenly a hazy form of charles is there, looking around, like, "huh. this room is bigger than i thought." and seb is understandably freaked out (and half undressed, if you so wish) because what is charles doing here and how did he get in here and what in the world is happening! and charles just shrugs, like, "sometimes i leave my body," like it makes complete sense.
charles continues to astral project at random intervals over the course of the season, significantly more frequently than he ever has and always to seb's location--in the aston martin garage, at the aston martin factory, in seb's hotel room, in his home kitchen. seb gets used to it and is actually very curious about how charles can do this and ~why. charles never questioned it, never cared to know.
what charles does think about is if seb only sees him as an ex-teammate, if they're even friends, if he hates him and blames him for losing his ferrari seat, if he's intruding on seb's life by showing up like this completely uninvited. maybe a plot point is when charles stops believing he means something to seb, he stops being able to astral project to seb's location.
but the defining moment of this whole thing is when seb is on one of his curious streaks and asks where else charles has astral projected to before, charles shrugs, and says, "only home."
oh, you guys actually want my half-baked sebchal plots? š
wip amnesty #1: sebchal office au
in my original, original corporate office au idea, seb and charles work for an athletic apparel company. they can be in any department, but i was thinking more sales or marketing. (lewis is in this ficverse, and he's definitely in design.) basically, charles' internship becomes a full time position, and he's assigned to work under seb in the italy office. at this point, seb has a set way of doing things that works for him, but his sales have been down from previous years. charles and seb work very closely together, and charles learns a ton from seb. but it should not go unstated that charles also brings a lot to the table, especially by maximizing the use of social media. and yeah, they argue sometimes and are competitive, but charles has so much respect for seb, and if he blushes at seb's stupid jokes, can listen to him go on and on during otherwise boring meetings, and if something inside of charles twists when seb praises his work, well, so long as he doesn't make a fool of himself at the company's holiday party, everything will be just fine. but then the bombshell drops: seb is being forced to transfer to the uk office, and charles will take his position as team lead next year. cue the fun angst, misunderstandings, and guilt.
Sebchal are accidental gay activists. Shenanigans ensue. One day, when I was thinking about Sebās 2020 Gaymet and Charlesās Sebmet, this just dropped in my head. What if people interpreted them both as activism, and with Charlesās very specific helmet, what if this leads to some sort of fake dating idea. Including embedded images from social media that show how the audience is interpreting their actions. Full excerpt can be found on DreamWidth, the fake Tweets I made for this can be found below.
Pre-war Hollywood, theyāre playing in a spy\noir, cat and mouse. Sebastianās established, Charles is on his way up. They donāt talk much outside of acting.
My thoughts on this: I thought this was really nice actually but I don't have the energy to do all the research necessary and while it is true that some Germans experienced discrimination I'm not sure about the level of discrimination. Dietrich became wildly popular at this time, Lake while not German found her choice of roles dwindling.
If I were to write it I'd just explain his lack of roles as coming down to a change in fashion; people want different types of actors.
Sebastianās made his career off playing Europeans and slightly antagonistic characters.
Sebastian is already well-known. Heās cordial but not very friendly, professional. Heās not eager to make accommodations to Charles and when they rehearse scenes they sometimes have a different idea about what direction to take things in. Usually they go Sebastianās way. Heās number 1. He only likes to be filmed from certain angles, sometimes they fight over the light.
A bull is accidentally released onto their set. Charles pushes Sebastian and they both go into the pool, away from the bull. After that he warms up to him and is willing to help him practise his lines and invites him to his home.
He lives in the most beautiful one, high up in the Hollywood Hills, where some smaller silent films had been filmed in the past. You can still see a few strange things in it, like a small theatre. With a backstage. They wander through it, Sebastian showing him how there is a trapdoor, and some ropes where you can lift the curtains and bring them back down. Standing on stage. Standing backstage which is small and cramped. āI liked to read my scripts here sometimes. Itās a bit stuffy, but I worked as a stagehand when I was getting my start. Brings back a lot of memories.ā
It was owned by an eccentric. Itās status and history is something Sebastian is very proud of. The first time Charles goes to the house heās enchanted. You can see all of Sebās stuff, German books and beautiful clothes.
As filming progresses, Sebās lines are drastically reduced, Charles becomes the lead.
He visits the house again, and itās almost empty, Sebastian is preparing to move back to Germany, to kickstart a career there. āI really donāt want to be reduced to playing Nazis.ā (This happened to Veronica Lake and it killed her career)
While Charles tries to persuade him to stay he ends up going to Berlin. Years later Charles is filming in France and makes a trip to Berlin and runs into him at a theatre.
They act together in a few things. But theyāre at different stages in their careers now.
By now the noir spy thriller was released and itās really quite single-dimensional.
In the 1970s a film maker discovers all the cut footage and wants to restore the original version of their work and meets them both. The first film is a story about one spy hunting another. But itās obvious that the hunter has met the hunted at some point and thereās something between them. The revised work is that story.
Partly, I donāt have the energy to do research and generally I have no time to actually write the thing.
ETA. The theme is, making money off being foreign/european in Hollywood, until it appears that your identity is not so profitable or becomes unfashionable. By the time they meet again in Berlin, theyāre in way different stages in their career, where Leclerc is like Alain Delon type figure, in the lucrative French film scene. And Sebastianās habituated to living in East Germany, and despite his lost stardom has ended up enjoying a different kind of artistic freedom.
Below are the notes I had for it
Sebastian has snuck into a location where heās not supposed to be, and is picking a lock.Ā
Charles surprises him.Ā
They are rival spies.Ā Ā Ā
I think I want to write another one first, about people working on movie sets. From Charlesā POV. Theyāre playing in a spy\noir, cat and mouse. Sebastianās established, Charles is on his way up. They donāt talk much outside of acting.Ā
Charles is most fascinated by Sebastianās house. He lives in the most beautiful one, high up in the Hollywood Hills, where some smaller silent films had been filmed in the past. You can still see a few strange things in it, like a small theatre. With a backstage. They wander through it, Sebastian showing him how there is a trapdoor, and some ropes where you can lift the curtains and bring them back down. Standin on stage. Standing backstage which is small and cramped. āI liked to read my scripts here sometimes. Itās a bit stuffy, but I worked as a stagehand when I was getting my start. Brings back a lot of memories.ā
It was owned by an eccentric. Itās status and history is something Sebastian is very proud of. The first time Charles goes to the house heās enchanted. You can see all of Sebās stuff, German books and beautiful clothes.Ā
Eventually, he goes there and itās bare, Sebās been packing to move out. He wants to sell it.
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āSo are we rehearsing for something now? I donāt know anything about this. I was--ā
āI know. A model.ā
āBut i am a serious actor now!ā
āI know you are.ā A lot of producers think a beautiful person should be on screen because theyāre all just pictures. But thatās not true. And youāre more than that. Donāt waste it.Ā
During WW1, German Americans were often seen as having dual loyalties.Ā
Sebastian was born in 1917. His parents had changed their name to Miller. He speaks German, but not in public. His brother does not. Charles finds this out only when they get closer. (or should I just say, he has a german name and performed under it, as things get more heated, closer to america joining WW2, his lines are drastically reduced, Charles becomes the lead. His part is cut). When Charles is invited to his home, after saving him from the bull, he finds that Sebastianās beautiful home is almost empty. There are mannequins wearing his old costumes, like ghosts. And there are suitcases and boxes. āAre you leaving?ā
He is selling the valuable items, and getting ready to move to a smaller place. The costumes are the last remaining parts of the decoration. Heās thinking of giving them away to his friends.
Itās getting harder for me to get work. Soon it will be (acting) Nazis or nothing. I donāt want it to end this way and I donāt want to be remembered like this.Ā
Are you going back to Germany? Thereās no way you can go. Itās held by the third reich.Ā
Why not? Let me tell you, from one immigrant to another, you will never belong here.Ā
Heās very embittered. He ends up going back to East Germany. Leclerc 5 years later, filming in France makes a trip to Berlin and runs into him at a theatre.Ā
They act together in a few things. But theyāre at different stages in their careers now.Ā
Years later in the 1970s a film maker wants to restore the original version of their work and meets them both. The first film is a story about one spy hunting another. But itās obvious that the hunter has met the hunted at some point and thereās something between them. The revised work is that story.Ā
Charles Leclerc rising actor in Hollywood who moved to Paris to continue acting. Occasionally acted in American films.Ā Think Alain Delon.
Max, the bull, was supposed to burst in on another film set, but was released onto theirs accidentally.Ā
Charles goes back home every night and thinks about what they said to each other, on set, with someone elseās words. (I wrote this thinking the film was as romance between the two leads. But now Iām not sure, itās going to be really historical). Do they practice their lines? Charles has a romantic interest, seb reads her lines?
Sebastian is already well-known. Heās cordial but not very friendly, professional. Heās not eager to make accommodations to Charles and when they rehearse scenes they sometimes have a different idea about what direction to take things in. Usually they go Sebastianās way. Heās number 1. He only likes to be filmed from certain angles,Ā sometimes they fight over the light.Ā
The bull. Charles is quick thinking and pushes them both into the pool.Ā
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All alone most of the time in his big house. Walking down the sweeping staircases to make scrambled eggs in the middle of the night. Baking bread on Sundays.Ā
Heās imperious, insecure, mercurial and redeemable.Ā
Narrow shoulders. All my costumes are tailored to extend the shoulder.Ā
for @crumbsfortheratsās WIP amnesty, Iām putting out five of my beloved stories that I couldnāt finish for a myriad of reasons š
Since it turned out to be a lot, Iām putting all of the prompts under the read-more. You can see the full prompt and excerpt on the masterlist post on Dreamwidth, along with othersā!
Vans Warped Tour AU, Sebchal endgame. Theyāre in two different bands and as the tour progresses they failboat their way together.Ā
The main idea behind this was to put Sebchal in a bandom setting and see how they get on in that kind of world. The bands Iād envisioned were as follows:
Seb (drums), Daniel (guitar), Jenson (vocals), Valtteri (bass), Checo (keyboard)
Charles (vocals), Alex (guitar), George (drums)
As for the plot, honestly I mainly have the setting bouncing around in my head but I had a murder mystery surrounding this that might spark your interest.
To hopefully ensure that Amnesty Day goes smoothly and all the plot bunnies you want to release have the most chance to find their next owner, here are some guidelines as to how this works! We hope to see your wonderful ideas on April 30th š„°
ā How many can I send in?
However many you want! Thereās no limit.
ā Does this mean I can never work on this idea again?
Honestly, this is entirely up to you. If youāre not a fan of copying ideas or seeing multiple fics with the same premise, you probably should just leave it after putting it up for adoption. If this isnāt the case, feel free to tinker with it again later. More fic is always better, if you ask me!
ā How do I post a fill?
You can leave a link on the corresponding comment on the DreamWidth post, send it to OP or us via DM or the Ask box, reblog the post and add the fic underneathā¦ Whichever works for you!
ā So how do I actually format my WIPs to put them up for adoption?
The preferred way is in prompt-form, so you briefly summarize the idea and add any details you donāt want to get lost. Preferred rating, side-characters, if youāre attached to the name of Charlesās old goldfish also be sure to mention that. Any bits and pieces youāve already written should go under a read-more tag on Tumblr to avoid clogging up the dash, on DreamWidth you can comment on your prompt to add the additional text. Ideally, it looks something like this:
Tumblr
DreamWidth
ā Why do you insist on also using DreamWidth, I donāt understand
DreamWidth is, in my experience, a good place to add prompts, look for them and fill them. I know it might be an adjustment, but to keep track of everything and have an easy way to look for prompts, I will put every WIP posted on Tumblr under the hashtag #f1wipamnesty in the DreamWidth post as well.
We all have some WIPs hiding in the back of our folders, the plot bunnies that were too enthusiastic but disappeared just as quickly as they came. They are dear, they are beloved, but it is time to set them free.
That time, dear creators, is on April 30th, when the first Sebchal WIP Amnesty Day will arrive! So dig out those long forgotten paragraphs, give them a sweet kiss goodbye and share them with the world.
