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max checking on his husband because he’s seriously worried that today is the day he’ll commit suicide 😭😭
y’all have NO IDEA OF HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW
charles holding max’s helmet like this, is probably one for the comfiest photo that i’ve ever seen. my heart is hurting and my brain is already forming hundred of different ideas for a potential fic
(now i need someone to draw charles holding max’s head while he has his helmet on)
Charles feels dead inside as he goes to pick up his husband’s things from the track marshals’ office where they were deposited in a large plastic bag earlier today by the marshals who had first reached Max. His gloves, balaclava, and helmet are inside. Max’s suit had likely been cut off of him in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and perhaps now sat around in a plastic bag too somewhere in the hospital, waiting for its owner to retrieve it. Or perhaps it had just been thrown away. Charles feels his eyes, too tired and swollen for any more tears to fall, brim with water as he looks down and imagines the warm lively body that had worn these things earlier that day; gloves filled out by a solid hand that Charles had brushed his fingers over as they said their quick ‘good lucks’ before heading to their respective garages. These items reminded him of the body that now sat lying in a bed, psychically existing but inanimate. Charles reached inside with tentative fingers to pull out Max’s helmet with the bright fierce lion emblazoned on top. He looks it over to assess any damage but the surface looks smooth and unscuffed as if nothing had even happened. He lets himself reach inside the helmet to feel his fingers around, picturing the sweaty hair once pressed up against it. As he ran his finger over the material he imagined his fingers running through Max’s soft tawny hair as he had just that morning while lying on the man’s freckled chest. As his fingers brush along the breathable cushioned material, they stop abruptly. His fingers had arrived at a small discrepancy in the texture of the fabric. He pressed his finger tips over slighty more smooth, raised bumps. Charles takes his fingers out, turning the helmet to try and catch the light to identify what his fingers had discovered. Now with the sun’s rays shining directly, there on the inside of his helmet, he could now see, “CL16” in tiny red embroidery, and the world froze for a tiny moment. He just stared and stared a the tiny beautiful lettering before being re-awoken by a salty droplet, that he had not even noticed traveling down his face, splashing down by the thread. “Max” Charles gasped wetly like the most desperate prayer he had ever uttered, before cradling the helmet to his chest.
y’all have NO IDEA OF HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW
charles holding max’s helmet like this, is probably one for the comfiest photo that i’ve ever seen. my heart is hurting and my brain is already forming hundred of different ideas for a potential fic
(now i need someone to draw charles holding max’s head while he has his helmet on)
i feel the physical need to read a lestappen fic with this charles and this max (2017, but i can accept even one based in 2018. so sauber charles with redbull max)
i’m going to reblog this post of mine cause i would love to read ANOTHER fic like this. i think it’s probably my favourite era for a lestappen story
Character Sheet of my Lestappen (+Landoscar) Jail AU.
Here we go with the character sheet, hoping AO3 accepts my request soon, because I keep rereading and changing the prologue and Chapter 1, and I probably won’t stop until I publish them xD
I also rewrote the summary for AO3, so I’ll put it there.
There are no love triangles in my story because I might like drama, but I also like the trope of “he is the only one for me” on both sides of a pairing. So yeah… Lestappen, Landoscar, Galex, and Bearnelli supremacy xD
New Summary, do not repost on other websites:
Charles Leclerc has committed many crimes. The murder that sends him to prison is not one of them.
Framed, isolated from his family, and placed in the cell of Max Verstappen, Charles intends to keep his head down, draw no attention, and survive until his brothers come for him.
Unfortunately, Max takes one look at him and sees the monster beneath the mask.
Even more unfortunately, Charles looks back and sees something just as familiar.
They had both spent their whole lives fascinated by the idea of folie à deux: madness shared by two.
Neither of them expected to find it in a prison cell.
Or:
A Lestappen jail AU where Max and Charles are two seconds away from making their mutual obsession everyone else’s problem; Lando falls embarrassingly hard for Oscar at first sight; Kimi is a menace with no survival instinct; Alex, George, and Daniel are just along for the ride; and GP and Sebastian Vettel are absolutely not paid enough for this.
Main Characters
Charles Leclerc
Age: 25 First appearance: Prologue Role: Main protagonist Pairing: Max Verstappen
Charles comes from a powerful organized crime family that controls Monaco. The Leclercs have the power to reach much further, but they choose not to, preferring to keep a low profile and remain almost unknown outside France and Monaco.
Charles does not agree with his family’s methods. The Leclerc way is quiet, clean and controlled: fast deaths, no spectacle, no unnecessary attention. Charles, however, sees death differently. To him, the death of an enemy can become a message, a warning, almost a form of art.
He is possessive, manipulative, patient and dangerously charming. Charles studies every situation carefully and uses his charisma to make people lower their guard, turning circumstances in his favour even when anyone else would have no chance.
His and Max view of death is loosely inspired by some conversations between Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter in the TV series Hannibal, specifically the idea of death as a form of art. Charles himself is not based on either Will or Hannibal.
Main relationships besides the pairing: Lando Norris is his best friend, Kimi Antonelli immidiatly attaches himself to Charles when they meet in prison. Charles is also deeply connected to his family, though the prison setting means he does not interact with them as often during the main story.
Max Verstappen
Age: 25 First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Main protagonist Pairing: Charles Leclerc
Max also comes from an organized crime family. The Verstappen name is not spoken with the same reverence as the Leclerc name, but it is made clear in Chapter 1 that his father ran a large operation.
Max shares Charles’ view of death as something that can become art, but their methods are very different. Charles hides behind charm, masks and manipulation. Max is much more direct. Control matters to him, but he is not interested in pretending to be softer than he is.
He hides emotions that make him vulnerable, but he never hides his darkness the way Charles does.
Main relationships: Alex Albon, George Russell and Daniel Ricciardo are already part of his group before prison. Oscar Piastri meets him in prison and becomes his right hand. Kimi is not part of Max’s group and is more important to Charles, but Max protects him from the moment they meet.
Jos is mentioned in Chapter 1, but he does not appear directly in the main story. (heck no!) Victoria and his mom are not really present in Max's life.
Main Secondary Characters with their own POV.
Lando Norris
Age: 23 First appearance: Prologue Role: Main secondary character Pairing: Oscar Piastri
Lando comes from a family allied with the Leclercs. After his family dies in an enemy attack when he is fifteen, Charles’ father takes him in and brings him to Monaco.
He is one of the rare people who sees Charles’ darkness and never truly walks away from it. He does not always understand it completely, but even when Charles shows the monster inside him, Lando stays.
Lando is clingy, emotionally intelligent and deeply attached to Charles, almost as if Charles is his anchor. He uses a lot of physical contact and can be insecure because he knows he can be “too much".
Main relationships besides the pairing: Charles Leclerc, Daniel Ricciardo once they meet.
Oscar Piastri
Age: 21 First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Main secondary character Pairing: Lando Norris
Oscar comes from an Australian organized crime family that is not connected to either the Leclercs or the Verstappens. He ends up in prison at seventeen and meets Max when he is nineteen.
He is the only person in Max’s group who meets him in prison rather than before it.
Oscar is quiet, guarded and difficult to read. His expression rarely gives anything away. He is cautious, controlled and hates physical contact because of past trauma. Control is extremely important to him.
Main relationships besides the pairing: Max Verstappen, Alex Albon.
Main Secondary Characters Without POV
These characters appear in most chapters, but the story is told only through Max, Charles, Lando and Oscar’s POVs.
Kimi Antonelli
Age: 16 First appearance: Chapter 2 (mentioned already in chapter 1) Role: Main secondary character without POV Pairing: Ollie Bearman (Ollie does not directly appear in the story and is only present through Kimi’s stories)
Kimi is spontaneous, honest and has no intentional cruelty in him. He meets Max first, and even though Max is not openly affectionate with him, he protects Kimi from the more twisted minds inside the prison from the start.
Once Charles enters the prison, Kimi attaches himself to Charles’ side and basically never leaves. Charles protects him just as much as Max does.
Kimi has a good relationship with almost everyone and is, in many ways, the most important character among the secondary ones without POV. This is mostly because, early on, he accidentally triggers two or three events that lead to the first real, unmasked interactions between Max and Charles. He is a freaking menace xD
Main relationships: Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, and eventually almost everyone in the group.
Alex Albon
Age: 26 First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Main secondary character without POV Pairing: George Russell
Alex comes from a family that owed money to Jos. He meets Max when Alex is eighteen and Max is seventeen.
He is the first person close to Max’s age who sees what Max is and does not walk away. Alex chooses to stay, and that choice becomes extremely important to Max.
Alex is the most empathetic member of Max’s group and the easiest one for outsiders to approach. He looks soft, but he is far more observant and strategic than people expect.
Main relationships besides the pairing: Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri. He gets along with almost everyone, but he does not have a good relationship with his own family.
George Russell
Age: 24 First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Main secondary character without POV Pairing: Alex Albon
George joins Max’s group because of Alex. He meets Max when George is 17 and Max is 18, one year after Max and Alex first meet.
At first, George and Max do not get along. Their personalities clash constantly. George likes order, structure and planning, and he does not like violence unless it is necessary.
Despite this, when it truly matters, George proves that he cares about Max and the group and that he might have joined for Alex, but he is staying for all of them.
Main relationships besides the pairing: Max Verstappen. He also grows attached to Charles quickly after Charles arrives. His interactions with Oscar are limited, while most of his scenes with Daniel are banter.
Daniel Ricciardo
Age: 33 First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Main secondary character without POV Pairing: None (unless someone wants a Ricciardo/Vettel pairing..)
Daniel is originally one of Jos’ men. He is the first person in the group to join Max and the first to choose Max over Jos, when Max is sixteen and Daniel is twenty-four.
Daniel is light, loud and constantly joking, but he can absolutely be dangerous when needed. He is very close to Max and becomes attached to Lando quickly once they meet.
For the most part, Daniel talks, jokes, flirts with danger and torments every other character in the room.
Supporting Characters
Sebastian Vettel
Age: 38 First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Supporting character
Sebastian is the only honest and incorruptible guard in the prison. He cannot be bought, bullied or easily ignored. He is serious, stubborn and determined to enforce the rules without making exceptions.
Charles doesn't know him, but Sebastian seems to know who Charles is and is still determined to keep Charles safe from a distance. He is the reason Max and Charles end up sharing a cell.
For now, Max and Charles are the only two characters he directly interacts with in the story. That could change in later chapters.
GP
First appearance: Chapter 1 Role: Supporting character Pairing: None
GP is also a guard. He is practical and sharp-eyed. He values order, information and survival more than empty morality.
He becomes one of the few people who can tell Max he is being stupid and survive the experience. His relationship with Max slowly becomes a father-son dynamic.
There are other drivers in the background, like Hulkemberg and Lawson, but they’re not as present and they play neutral roles.
Since the story touches on really delicate themes, I prefer the villains to be completely fictional characters rather than being inspired by real drivers. So yes, the other drivers who appear in the story are neutral, not villains.
max??? where are you????
do something they’re trying to steal your man💀
a Lestappen omegaverse AU where, although omegas aren’t banned from the sport, they’re extremely rare, throughout history there have only been eight omega drivers, and only two champions (Nico and Senna). and even for those who became champions, highly respected and considered legends of the sport, it was still difficult due to all the prejudice against omegas in racing, people who believe the sport is only for alphas and betas, and the frequent lack of sponsorship for those who don’t stand out as much, causing them to lose their seats quickly.
to avoid all of that, Charles decided that no one besides his family would know the truth: that he’s an omega, not an alpha. and to keep it that way, in addition to suppressants, he used scent patches: one to block his real scent and another to give him an artificial alpha scent. and for years, it worked.
but over time, with continuous use, the one blocking his scent started to lose its effectiveness, and his real scent would sometimes leak through and mix with the artificial alpha one. it wasn’t a major issue at first, because people just assumed he was dating an omega, and that the scent belonged to them.
the problem is, as much as Max tried to ignore it, that scent, the one from Charles’s supposed partner, was driving him insane. he didn’t want to become obsessed with some unknown omega, someone he had never even seen, and definitely not with a taken omega, especially one connected to a fellow driver. not that he and Charles were close, but Max liked to think they got along and understood each other like no one else on track, and there was a mutual respect between them as alphas. Max would never go after someone else’s omega…
except he couldn’t stop himself from imagining them, from wanting to know more. so eventually, he gives in and starts asking Charles about them, at first in vague, general ways. but the questions become more and more frequent, because every small detail only makes him want to know more. and Max can’t help but think how cruel fate is, to give someone else the omega that was meant for him.
meanwhile, Charles completely misreads the situation and starts to believe that Max is just like him: an omega pretending to be an alpha, and that’s why he keeps asking so many questions about it. which ends up creating a huge misunderstanding between them.
ok, now give me 5 books and a tv series adaptation RIGHT NOW
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okay i need a lestappen oneshot with this in it, of course with alpha max and omega charles. max would go absolutely crazy and feral if someone tried to hit on a pregnant charles
Help me choose Charles backstory for my Lestappen (+ Landoscar) Jail AU?
Hi! First of all, thank you to the 2 people who replied to my previous post 🥹
I think I was already leaning more toward the first idea too (the Jail AU) so now I need help with another thing: Charles’ backstory.
Just to give a quick recap of the AU in case someone new sees this:
Charles ends up in prison for something he didn’t actually do (at least, not yet) and becomes Max’s cellmate. Max is basically the most dangerous person in the prison, the kind of criminal no one dares to cross, with half of the drivers in his gang. Something about Charles catches his attention, and Max becomes immediately obsessed with him.
Charles is not innocent either.
In both versions I was thinking, Charles’ family is involved in organized crime and basically controls Monaco. Charles has a good relationship with his family, and he doesn’t hate their lifestyle, but he has always stayed a little bit on the outside of it. He lets Lorenzo and Arthur handle the dirty work.
Charles has always had a darker side. A side most people don’t see.
To strangers, he seems like the softest one and with the least twisted mind.
But Lando, his best friend, knows him too well.
Lando has seen the way Charles looks when he is in a position of power or control. He has seen the quiet fascination in his eyes when violence happens in front of him. For Lorenzo and Arthur, killing or torturing when necessary is just part of the job. Something that has to be done.
But for Charles, there is something more morbid there.
He doesn’t act on it. He never really gives in to that side of himself. He lets his brothers do the dirty work and pretends he is different from them.
But Lando notices the small things. The reactions. The gestures. The way Charles watches. And Lando is convinced that, if Charles ever fully stepped into that world, he would become a thousand times more terrifying than his brothers.
So this is where I’m unsure.
Option 1: Charles tried to leave that life behind before ending up in jail.
In this version, after another person close to him dies because of rival families, Charles decides he wants out.
He still loves his brothers and his mom, but he wants to try having a normal life. He wants to leave Monaco and start over somewhere else.
Lorenzo and Arthur are not happy about it, mostly because they are protective. Lorenzo has been running the family business since their father died, and if Charles leaves Monaco, he would be outside their territory. Somewhere Lorenzo can’t protect him as easily.
Lando, on the other hand, is reluctant for a completely different reason.
He knows Charles can defend himself. And he knows Charles would call his brothers if he needed help.
Lando simply doesn’t believe Charles is made for a normal life.
That darker side of him is too present, even if Charles tries to bury it.
Still, Charles and Lando leave Monaco together and move somewhere else — I haven’t decided where yet.
For a couple of years, they try to live normally. Then a girl they both care about is assaulted and murdered.
Charles, tries to get revenge. Since he is not thinking clearly or planning, he ends up going against a very powerful man, who frames him for the girl’s death.
Charles doesn’t get the chance to warn his brothers before he is immediately sent to prison (Lando of course, commits a minor crime to join him becouse of course he is a good friend).
So in this version, Charles ending up in prison is almost a case of wrong place, wrong time.
Which would irritate him so much because, seriously? He always thought that if he ever ended up in prison, it would be because he had chosen to go back to that old life. Not because fate decided to laugh in his face.
Option 2: Charles never leaves Monaco, but gets framed by rival families.
In this version, Charles is still in Monaco.
He still doesn’t do the dirty work himself, but he stays by his brothers’ side.
Then he gets framed in a similar way to the first option, but this time it is not random at all.
It is a targeted move. Rivals who are trying to take control of Monaco from the Leclerc family decide to hit the one everyone seems desperate to protect, the most fragil and the less dangerous one.. of course, they miscalculated badly.
Because Charles was never harmless. He was just waiting for a reason.
And by sending him to prison, they might have just given him the push he needed to finally let that darker side of himself out.
Again, Lando is along for the ride, because of course he is.
In both cases, the dynamic with Max doesn’t really change. They are both dark, and I know it’s a bit unusual, but I love the idea of both of them being dominant while also not wanting a submissive partner.
There’s a reason why the fic will be called "Folie à Deux", after all hehe :)
So… which backstory sounds more interesting or more faitfull with the plot? Charles tries to escape the criminal world, but gets dragged back in by tragedy and bad luck, or Charles stays in the family world and gets targeted directly because everyone underestimates him?
charles being like “my man, my man, my man” 😍😘 and max just yapping away as charles looks at him like he is the most specialest boy (he is) and they are just so…
max’s pov
HIS RED CHEEKS?? HELLOO????????
i just saw a tiktok of that guy from the 75years of F1 event that said “the most handsome man on the grid, there he is the man my fiance imagine when we make love. hell, it’s the guy I imagine when me and my fiance make love, it’s charles leclerc” and i can’t stop wondering what THE FUCK max could have thought for that entire moment 😭😭 actually i wonder what was the reaction of every driver, but his in particular
seriously i would kill to see his face in that moment
guys, i’ve got an idea for another alpha max and omega charles. just trust me, its gonna be a bit longer than the other
a world where max and charles have been together for years. its not public, not because they want to hide it, just because they love their privacy and hate the idea of gossip entering their love life. but in the paddock everyone knows even though no one talks about it,
lately, though, something has changed. charles starts acting off. he insists nothing’s wrong every time max asks, brushing it off with a soft smile that never reach his eyes. but max knows him too well. he notices everything: how charles is on his phone more often, how there’s a constant edge of worry in him, how his behavior changes in small, almost imperceptible ways but ESPECIALLY every time he’s around max. like he’s walking on eggshells every time max gets close
and then there’s his scent. different, not wrong but still unfamiliar with something that max can’t recognise. something new woven into it, something he has never smelled on him before, layered with a constant thread of anxiety
max doesn’t understand it, but his instinct don’t need to understand what’s happening to react. whether it’s his alpha instincts or the jealousy he’s never fully managed to get rid of, something in him starts to turn sharp, suspicious and possessive. he starts watching charles more closely, staying always close to him, not letting him out of his sight if he can help it
in the paddock, it becomes impossible to ignore and it is that visible that even fans, who didn’t know anything before, start picking up on it. cause god, max is always there, always hovering, looming, inserting himself into every space around charles
the instant moment free practice ends? he’s back in ferrari’s garage, eyes locked on lewis with something too close to hostility. during interviews? he sits between charles and oscar, like that was the right order and not the one he changed on his own decision. on the podium? his hand grips charles’ waist so tightly it visibly presses into the fabric of his race suit. even carlos standing on max’ other side feels the tension. and its never good when an alpha is visibly annoyed, angry and fucking jealous
and the problem is that everyone ca smell it, the tension, the anger, the thick, suffocating scent of an alpha on edge that’s been lingering for weeks now, every single time max steps into the paddock
and it only gets worse bcause max doesn’t know how to ask. if charles really cheated on him, if that’s what all of this means… max is painfully aware that there would be no coming back from it, he would never recover from this and he would make it everyone’s problem. by the next race weekend, there would definitely be one less alpha on the grid, no matter who the bastard turns out to be
charles on the other hand is spiraling for an entirely different reason
at the beginning it was just anxiety, he didn’t know how to tell max, didn’t know how to even put it into words. he kept postponing it, telling himself he’d find the right moment, the right way. anything but blurting it out in the middle of a race weekend. andpierre thought it was the right decision too. they kept messaging about it, he was the very first person charles said it too
but then max started changing. honestly at first charles thought it was just stress. after all he had a bad weekend that week. but it didn’t stop. actually it got just worse. every week he was more irritated, there was more tension, that constant edge in him that never seemed to go away. even on track, even when he won, even when everything should have been fine, there was still something off about him
and charles notices everything too, obviously
he notices how max is always there now, never more than a few steps away. how he keeps finding reasons to come back to him, to stay close, to touch him, to scent him again and again like he’s trying to fix something that won’t settle
it should have been reassuring probably but instead it makes charles’ chest tighten. there’s something restless in it, something almost frustrated. and charles, poor baby, can’t stop connecting it to the one thing he hasn’t told him
he’s pregnant
the thought alone is enough to make his stomach twist. because what if max has already noticed?what if the change in his scent isn’t something he can hide anymore? what if this, the tension, the way mad seems constantly suspicious around him, the way he keeps scenting him like he’s trying to get rid of something unfamiliar… is max’s instinct reacting before he even understands what’s happening?
because charles doesn’t think max knows, but that doesn’t make it better, if anything, it makes it worse because in his head, it means that even without knowing, max’s alpha can already feel that something is different… and doesn’t like it
and the closer max stays and the more insistent he becomes, the more charles starts to associate it with that idea. so every time max reaches for him, every time he pulls him closer, every time he presses his scent into his skin like he’s trying to overwrite something-
charles freezes for just a second and says nothing. because if this is how max reacts without knowing… god he has no idea how he’ll react when he finally does
AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE MAX FIND OUT ABOUT THE PREGNANCY. i thought idk, that one day he finally snapped and started a fight (during the fight you have to picture charles touching his belly between some exchanges) with charles, a fight that just kept making things worse cause they were constantly misunderstanding each other and just making the other worry even more. till charles completely on the verge of a crisis, with tears in his eyes that already started dropping down, scream it into his face taking both hands on his lower belly
so, WHAT DO U THINK
In every answer Charles gives when asked about Max, it's like: 🥰🥰 because we both grew up TOGETHER 🥰🥰 and we've known each other FOREVER 🥰🥰 and we respect each other MUTUALLY 🥰🥰 and we fought on the track for many YEARS 🥰🥰 and I hope one day Ferrari gives me a car that competes and I can fight against him properly for the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP🤬🔪
In a room full of people I look at… 🫶🏻
I beg every single Lestappen fanartists to make Checo the miserable dude, and lestappen at the back kissing. In honor of their favourite third wheel coming back to the paddock
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Sure you two tried it on the first day but surprisingly no one managed to capture it on camera.
charles laughing at max shit talking the new reg cars we've never been more back