Italian. 20s. Comunicazione di servizio: currently taking a break from any Motorsport past the year 2000. Stay for sporadic & random madness, One Piece, Classic F1 and/or come talk football over at @Gufettodue!
I just reread your fic "Into your hands" since i've been thinking of a dark supernatural au and got reminded of your fic. Anyway, I've been hyperfixated on Damon lately and noticing him now in the fic actually got me more curious on the expansion of this au, especially your end notes. Damon winning in Suzuka in the rain after he literally prayed to Ayrton, and then his panic attack at his last race when he thought he was gonna die. curious now on ur thoughts abt this . +religious symbolisms too!
Oh, I didn’t think anyone had read 'Into your Hands' - thank you for that!💙 I am all for hyperfixating on Damon! I am very Hillneuve about him, sorry, be warned.
The short of it is that Damon knows. He knows it all before he starts racing. He understands that his name is on the list, that the moment he wins something he will not just be an appealing sacrifice to the demon but that it’s also very personal because the storm snatched away his father's soul before they could use it. He knows that racing will eventually mean death for him, with his soul becoming a sacrifice. Religiously: a walk through the valley of the shadow of death. It’s just a long wait. But he races anyway: how could he not?
Ayrton is special, obviously, but I think the turning point for Damon is Jacques. When Jacques arrives there's suddenly two of them, two people who know, see and understand in a very similar way. In the context of this AU, Ayrton would not have gotten in the car if Gerhard hadn’t betrayed him. But with his heart shattered by the one easy, sunny, fulfilling love he had and Alain retired for good, what did he have left but to race and save his soul, if not his life? But Jacques is there with Damon and he is stubborn and very much closer in mentality to Didier and he has no intention of dying like that. He’s life where Ayrton is death, he's reality where Ayrton is spirituality. I kind of explore this in Giabbanini but it’s the concept of a Tyrrel driver as opposed to a Gilles-style driver and their existence on a spectrum. For them, history is made by those that survive because they can tell the story, they can still act.
Some drivers are closer to the Storm (the Rain Masters) - I headcanon it would answer Damon just as well as Jackie or Ayrton or Michael but he doesn't believe himself worthy. Just sometimes, like the victory in the rain, he gets close to it. They were ready to sacrifice him that race but, by linking it to Ayrton in his heart, if not directly to himself, the storm came for him. What was meant to be their victory turns into his.
Ultimately, he is surrounded by people like Jacques and Jackie who will love him more if he stops the car and gets out alive. And so he does: when he understands that it’s his name at the top of the list, that he’s next, that he’s already snatched away one too many miracles and the shadow of death is now too heavy to carry, he stops point blank half-way through the race and retires.
And thus the links in the chain of survivors tighten, making it more and more difficult for Marko and Bernie to keep the pact with the demon. And it's (again, fantasy expansion of this AU) the stepping stone for Nico's career long fight to keep them away from Lewis.
Also, many people have powerful/spiritual objects in this world (Jacques has Didier's Tarot deck, Nico has a music box from Elio) and everyone thinks that Damon has Ayrton’s cross. He doesn't, he just lets them believe it so that Ron Dennis, who has it, can actually use it to protect the McLaren drivers in a similar way to how Ferrari protected his. What he does have is Jacques' copy of The Hobbit.
Not sure if it makes sense outside my head but here!
I just read your The Greens, the Blacks and the Blues on AO3 and wooow. I loved it. It's so beautiful and well written. The characters are totally awesome 👌
Love how Luke got Vermithor and love that Aemond and Luke got married. Sapphire stone ring??? Yes, Sir ❤️
So here is my question: are there any plans to write another one? 🤔
Hello!!✨️ I am glad you liked the series! I love writing unhinged characters😅😂
There is one more in the works but it's fighting me - it will also not be Lucerys/Aemond centric only. I have the idea for Tywin/Aerys in this universe but obviously no Dance means Aerys with a dragon and the good kind of mad...taking a page straight out of Lucerys' book. It's just...there's so much to write about it😂💙
Hi I just discovered u and I'm so scared you're deactivated....
Hi lovely anon, not deactivated but I do go MIA a lot!😅 Perks of a very demanding job and passing hyperfixations!
If you have discovered me for F1, I'm always happy to have a chat about the lore (especially Classic F1!) but I'm unlikely to write more rn. If it's another fandom, I color me intrigued and I will likely cycle back to it - you are welcome to come and shout to me about it always✨️
Fëanor still would have died very early in the story, but now all of his people have heavy artillery because he took his gun apart immediately to see how it worked, decided he could make it better, and proceeded to invent the full spectrum of gun and gun adjacent weaponry for his followers to terrorize Morgoth/Middle Earth with. This gave everyone else way more opportunities for bullshit than they had in the original.
Also instead of setting fire to the swan ships he definitely had someone bazooka them from shore to test out their fire power.
But the funniest thing about this is that I think you've actually discovered the one single piece of content that could have simultaneously upset both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis so bad that they are, as we speak, clawing their way out of the grave ready to fight.*
*whether they're going to fight you or just each other is not clear yet, we'll just have to wait and see.
hope this is the right tumblr, but i read your fanfic ‘second star to the right’ when it was first published on AO3 back in 2021 and it was exactly what i needed at that time in my life and moved me in a way very few fics have. I think about it nearly everyday even after a few years and I go back to re read it often. it holds so much meaning to me in way i can’t explain in words but I hope you know your work touched someone and truly saved me in a way I think. I’m sorry for lowkey dumping this and for not sending this in sooner (i was a freshman in high school when I first read it and now i’m a freshman in college) but I hope this is one of those better late than never things.
Hey lovely anon!💙 Thank you for sending me this (the time is right when it is right!✨️). Second Star is such a personal story for me: it never fails to warm my heart that other people have read it and found something for themselves in it.
I'm glad it helped (I know it helped me too) and thank you for letting me know it touched you!
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