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Your kimi bono fotb ask response made me realize that despite having followed you for a while and as a result having seen many posts that you tagged fotb i never actually realized what it stood for lol for the past few months i’ve been alternating between thinking it stands for fresh off the boat or, later, once i realized that it was a fantasy au, fellowship of the (b)ring. Oops.

So anyways i loved your answer to the ask so much that i just read through everything you’ve tagged with it and wow!! This world you’ve imagined up is so so sick!! I’m always impressed with your ideas but this one in particular is crazy to me, probably because it comes with a whole world with its own lore and also SO many characters with rich backgrounds + interlocking stories (and, if i read one of your asks right, some character sheets???) Did you know you are insane and also an inspiration to us all?? ? Anyways. I am quite curious about how you see rosquez fitting in given what little you mentioned about fantasy spain and fantasy italy not getting along but also so interested in enea + pedro (loyal knight pedro im foaming at the mouth…. i imagine him in my mind’s eye and I like what i see!!)

scREAMS sometimes i completely forget that i never actually call it by its full name. have i EVER called it by its full name on main??? oh my god. anyway fotb stands for Flat Of The Blade lmao. fellowship of the 🅱️ring is vastly superior in every way, though

re: the lore and everything like. as i've mentioned in passing a couple times there is a whole map which is how you know a bitch is in too deep and YES there are character sheets!! i think sometime early last year i was relistening to one of my fave d&d podcasts and was like well. i have this fantasy au. might as well build fucking d&d character sheets for the fotb cast. and i did! there are ten of them as it turns out i just looked. i love putting time and energy into things that will never see the light of day

PHEWWWW YOU HAVE UNLEASHED SOME THINGS WITH THIS ASK!!! really this should be a two-parter but we'll see how we go i apologize so much in advance!!

SOOOOOOOOOO rosquez. here's the thing no matter the au they've got to have a whirlwind romance that turns tragic. and that's what happens to them here naturally. i guess to explain their bit we have to talk about the war a little bit? as touched on briefly in the previous post about fotb, the war started out mostly as little border skirmishes between basically all of the sections/provinces/countries. no one really liked each other and no one wanted to work with each other but fantasy spain & italy especially had a TON of beef because there's this disputed territory in between them that they'd been fighting over for yeeears and years even before the war started in earnest. (this area in "present day" is technically neutral land but is largely controlled by the south in collaboration with fantasy spain) (somewhat relevantly all of the countries are all still sovereign, even fantasy italy! lewis is The King people respect him all around but he's only truly the King in the south)

anyway the war happens, it is bloody and messy and unfocused until they (as mentioned) find focus and unite against the blood magic-using italians, which is fair. honestly. at that point you've got the italians largely just defending their own territory vs making any attempts at invasion, and their "proper" army is pretty flimsy by the end of everything especially once the magic runs out lol (there's some stuff to say about the magic but we'll get into that another time). BUT during one of the later stage border skirmishes (this is after the Defeat of italy but the war drags on a bit after that because of the pre-existing spain-italy beef) there's an incident where valentino is separated from his roving gang of horseback orphans and is near-fatally injured, left for dead, pinned under his dead horse. i have referred to the italians as horse cultists a few times; this is partially because, well, ferrari. and partially because they LOVE their horses. like a lot of these guys have grown up with their horses from childhood and when their horses die it's a massive deal, often more of a big deal than a person dying? there's all sorts of rituals and funeral pyres and things and usually a year-long grieving period where they just. don't have a horse. don't ride. it's agony lol. so vale being pinned under the body of his dead horse who he has been riding for well over a decade is traumatic on a lot of levels lmao

enter: marc marquez! marc, who is like, 19 or 20 at this point? and joined in the fighting three or four years prior more out of honour than outright hate for fantasy italy has also been separated from his gang of roving spaniards, but he is not injured, and he finds vale, and it's like. i think valentino is probably pretty well-known, definitely in fantasy italy and to a lesser extent in fantasy spain? infamous over there for sure. so marc has this opportunity to kill valentino, and to be able to say I Killed Valentino Rossi, which would be... glorious, especially for someone his age. like he'd be lauded forfuckinever about it. but i think also marc at this point has a very tender heart. and he knows enough about the culture to know this dead horse situation is a legitimate tragedy, and so the options then narrow down to mercy-killing (which would still end with Glory, technically) or. save valentino's life.

shocking no one he chooses the latter lmao. so you've got this short stocky dude heaving a full-grown horse off of this guy who has killed So Many of marc's countrymen, and then checking out vale's wounds, and then TREATING his wounds. i don't think marc is big on like healing-craft by any means but he knows enough that vale is stabilized, and he's able to get vale to a relatively safe place (significantly less safe for marc, because they head west and into fantasy italy!). they also camp out that night and marc goes back to the body of vale's horse and clips some of her hair for vale to keep because, as mentioned, he knows enough about the culture to know how significant the horse is. vale wants to hate him sooooooooo bad. but is. so touched by this

it takes them like two weeks, then, but they manage to stumble back to valentino's hometown (where all the orphans are yay! and where luca's dad is the "lord" (there's a bit of a different system in fantasy italy which again we'll get into another time). and marc just. stays there. for like a year and a half. and the rosquez romance grows and grows and it gets very Very serious until there's a fucking raid by a rogue fantasy spain group lmao

essentially what happens then is this town is fucking decimated. any kids that weren't orphans before sure are now, including luca. the town is burnt to the ground, so so so many people die, and this town was sort of one of the last Proper towns left? so it's this extremely horrific final blow and it happens AFTER the war which is like. not good. (nothing ever comes of it because fantasy italy is still on thin ice and since all the countries are sovereign lewis can't intervene and insist on any punishments etc, and fantasy france just doesn't give a fuck). so this is happening, and vale is standing in the fucking inferno that was his home, and he immediately blames marc. how could this group have gotten so close undetected without help? has marc been a plant this whole time? basically vale goes temporarily truly insane and marc is pleading with him and trying to reason with him but obviously this doesn't go well; valentino goes after him with a knife or sword and fucks up marc's arm (!) and at that point marc runs. valentino chases him for ages through the forest in the night, it's all very dramatic. there's some ironing out that needs to be done with the details here but marc encounters An Italian who does believe that he's not been undercover this whole time and helps him escape, and coincidentally (like a day or two later) marc runs into alex close to the border of fantasy spain, at which point he just collapses and is real fucked up for a long time, but they get him home, relatively safe if not entirely whole

and vale spends the next ten years literally roving the land killing any spaniards he sees even close to italian land because he hates marc So Much lmao. marc sort of grows out of it but he carries that sadness with him for a very very long time

(they do see each other again during the second war. but that's another story)

okay this is so much. this is too much. i'm going to rb with the pedrea bit even though i THINK it should be shorter than this LOL but!!! thank you THANK you for coming into my inbox and indeed my HEART by asking abt fotb 😭😭😭😭

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Hello deer Kee!! May I ask about things that creep? 😇

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HELLO MOSSY! YOU MAY YOU MAY!!

sooo things that creep is the other f1 wip on this list! it's oscarmark! au where oscar's a student visiting home for the break and his mom has just gotten married to mark webber. mark is weird and friendly and also likes wandering around the house completely. naked. oscar is not into this but mark is apparently into the fact that he's not into it. YIPPEE!

i started it in like september of last year? based on a kinkmeme prompt that i just started like writing directly into the ao3 box, got nervous about it, pulled out and then figured i could use it for kinktober. got nervous again. and it has been rotting in the docs ever since. it IS a complete fic, technically, like, at second draft level? but needs a ton of editing and i don't feel all that confident about it which is why i keep going in and trying to mess with it and then abandoning it again lol so this is probably about as much of it as will ever see the light of day!! bits below~

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When Oscar thinks about it for even a second, it’s one of those things that should be extremely easily solvable. Like—Mark could just not wander the house with his dick out for the world to see. Oscar’s mum isn’t unaware of it. She could say something, but she thinks it’s hilarious. Still in the honeymoon phase of her new marriage, still delighted with all of the beige flags that are slowly going to go red.

And even if Mark does nothing about it, it’s not like Oscar couldn’t go stay with a friend. Most of his actual friends are back in the UK, sure, but he’s got one or two buddies he grew up with that he could call in a pinch. His oldest sister might even let him sleep on her couch.  

He’s thankful and wary in turns that none of his sisters are around. It’s the nightmare scenario; would Mark still do this if there were girls in the house? Would he go full indecent exposure in front of his new wife’s daughters? Or is it just Oscar that he really wants to flop his cock at for no apparent reason?

He tries not to think about it all that hard. He’s still trying to give Mark a chance, after all, if for nothing else but his mother’s sake.

/

Mark laughs. “Grab a beer, come on now, don’t be shy.”

He’s drunk (read: stupid) enough that it makes sense to strip out of his clothes and climb into the hot tub in his underwear. They’re proper boxers, not his go-to briefs, which would be extremely embarrassing. More embarrassing, anyway. The beer is cold. The water’s hot. Oscar’s more dizzy than anything else.

”Good night?” Mark asks. Jovial. Always jovial.

“Sure,” Oscar says around the lip of his beer. “Lots of… people.”

Mark laughs again. It might be charming on anyone else. “Ah, you’re all red. Meet some girls, did you?”

It’s an insane leap to make. Like Mark’s trying to speedrun the dad-talk even though Oscar’s twenty-one years old and has had an actual dad for as long. He doesn’t need a second one. If his mum’s happy, sure, but—

Mark scoots closer. Puts a fatherly hand on his shoulder. Oscar’s not sure what makes him look down, nor is he sure why the bubbles choose that exact moment to clear, but it becomes extremely obvious that Mark is, again, extremely naked.

The beer bottle slips out of Oscar’s hand. It hits the surface of the water with a solid slap.

”Steady on, son,” Mark says stoutly, scooping the bottle up before the pressure can equalize and they’re left with a beer-tainted hot tub. “Bit of a lightweight, are we?”

He’s laughing as he sets the bottle safely on the table next to the tub. His other hand is still on Oscar’s shoulder. Oscar looks up at Mark’s face, because otherwise he’s going to be looking down at his absolute schlong being knocked about by the jets. 

“Now, listen,” Mark says. He’s schooled his face into some approximation of stern that would be easier to take seriously if he weren’t so red in the face. Drunk, too? Or just been in the tub too long? “I know this is a hard thing to adjust to, me and your mother—” 

Oscar groans without thinking about it. Cups his face with both hands and then lets his arms fall to drift in the water. “You really don’t have to do this,” he says weakly. “I’m, like, I have a dad, and—” 

“Of course you do,” Mark says. He’s all soft now, in the voice and the face, all sympathy that he can’t possibly feel. “I just want you to know that if you need anything, anything at all…” He trails off, takes Oscar’s hand. He’s holding his damn hand. Which really isn’t all that fatherly.

“Yeah, mate,” Oscar says. “Yeah, thanks, ‘preciate it—” 

He’s not expecting Mark to drag him back as he tries to go. Expecting it even less when Mark pulls his arm under the water, rests Oscar’s open palm on—

Fuck. Jesus Christ.

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pls fill me in on “alone but in another way” bc it feels like a threat thankuuuuuu

THREE OF YOU!! thank you @lattesqueeze @celineile @existentialcrisistime 😭

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you found it! you found the outing au!!! so i realize that i've talked about this a fair amount already in a couple other asks but we'll summarize it super quick here!!

basically, pedro ends up in a relationship with a man that he keeps secret (for obvious reasons) and that this man (who we are calling ale) also wants to keep secret because his whole thing is being a hot bisexual personal trainer and people assuming that he's single is a huge part of his client draw. it starts out reasonably chill, ale is super charming and the fight a lot but in a fun sexy way and the sex is fucking fantastic and after a few months pedro moves out of murcia and up to barcelona into a little apartment so he can be closer to ale. things uhhh Intensify, shall we say. shit gets REALLY toxic (there's a lot of things that i will resist just dumping here), which eventually leads to ale breaking pedro's wrist (legitimately an accident but also not entirely an unwelcome one, from ale's side) and finally pedro has to tell someone (paul) because he's got a fucking broken wrist that he's insisting is from falling but like. you know. paul's his engineer he knows him too well. anyway pedro goes radio silent with ale for a full race weekend, and then he stays in a hotel in ???country??? wherever they are for that race/the next race and manages to text ale to be like yo i am not coming back i think. haha. hoohoo. and then a photo of ale and pedro kissing goodbye in ale's car is coincidentally leaked (who could have done this.) basically mid press conference and shit blows up So Fast, predictably

at this point the fic starts! it’s set loosely in like, an alternate version of the 2026 seaso? and is largely going to be from fermin’s pov (feelings realization bisexuality discovery etc etc) with interludes of tabloid articles/reddit & threads/etc but also is meant to include some other rider povs!! so far there is a loosely confirmed aleix, enea, and jorge chapter. lmao. i’d love to do a remy chapter as well for Reasons but i will have to like. listen to him talk for a while first. so yeah!! apart from this whole thing being an exercise in whumping the hell out of pedro (quite literally half of the now just-over-10k doc is pedro pov with the evil ex, which i can not imagine will ever be posted UNLESS.) i also thought it would be a super interesting character study of everyone else? like what is everyone’s reaction, do all the pilots band together to offer support, does jmart overcome his desire to say the f slur for his friend. all this. idk im have a lot of fun writing it and of course extra fun weaving all of the ouchie bits with b per usual !!!

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this is just the first scene lol

Fermín watches the video hours later, tucked into the couch of his motorhome. 

They’ve managed to suppress it, mostly; the Thursday press conference video is conspicuously missing from the MotoGP app, but they couldn’t stop anyone watching it live from screen capturing. It’s all over the internet now. All over Instagram and X, blowing up on the tabloids. 

It opens normally enough. Obviously. Bezzecchi is there, and Marc, and then Pedro with his arm in a sling. They ask Bezzecchi about the championship. They ask Marc about Alex. They ask Pedro how his arm is healing, and he tells them it’s fine, and he doesn’t speak much otherwise. He’s been more subdued all season. Fermín hadn’t been paying close enough attention to recognize it.

Marc is in the middle of talking about his hopes for the weekend when he stops abruptly, halfway through a sentence. He’s squinting at something, and the cameras cut to the wide shot again. Bezzecchi, to his left, is also squinting. Pedro, to his right, is so wide-eyed and tight-jawed it looks like skull is about to pop.

Someone’s voice comes over the microphone, partway through speaking. It’s difficult to hear even with the volume turned all the way up, but someone’s broken english gets the point of, is this you, kissing a man? across. 

Both Bezzecchi and Marc look at Pedro. Hard to see on Fermín’s phone screen but it’s varying shades of concern; Marc looks startled. Bezzecchi looks weirdly angry, and Bezzecchi is the one who stands up and starts waving his hands and saying, “We are here for racing,” over and over as the crowd of journalists all start talking over each other. 

The feed cuts pretty quickly after that. The camera jerks to the right. The last thing in the video before it goes to black is Pedro, pale, haunted. 

The video stops.

much later, after aleix kidnaps pedro and takes him to andorra

Pedro’s face twists. What he is now is honest. This version of him that is knelt in the sand, poised like a prey animal; that’s all honesty. 

“I’m not scared,” Pedro says. But his voice cracks it into pieces. 

Fermín lays his hand out between them. Offers it up like Pedro might take it, bend and sniff at him to see if he’s trustworthy, like a kicked dog or a feral cat.

“Can we go back inside?" Fermín asks, because he feels—obscurely miserable, now, prickly in the eyes. With a sudden surge of sympathy he wants to cry. He wants to help. He wants to give Pedro his hoodie so he’ll stop shaking. He wants to give Pedro his hand, to unbreak his heart. 

He wants his fucking friend back.

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Search the sky, please! (The urge to ask iaw was immense BUT)

@down-to-the-thousandth tagging because two of you asked 🥹

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amnesia au!!!!! is any fandom experience complete without writing some manner of sad ass amnesia au. (reserving the right to link back to the galex one that i never finished but might one day) the title for this one is from is it really you? by loathe, because for some reason i have a super involved (to me) playlist for this fic

soooo. standard amnesia au. pedro crashes and it goes badly, fermin is involved in the crash and feels obligated to go linger at the hospital while everyone's waiting for pedro to wake up. everyone here means literally just pedro's family, which makes it a bit weirder for Just fermin to be there? anyway when pedro DOES wake up he's got full ass amnesia, like, doesn't remember his name or his family or quite literally anything about his life, but fermin is the first person he sees, and fermin is the one he like. imprints on. we are playing it so fast and loose with the medicalness of the whole thing im not a doctor im a crafter of unlikely miserable scenarios ok

anyway. pedro gets to leave the hospital fairly soon after that, but he insists on going home with fermin. like refuses to go home with his family because he trusts fermin more than them which is a bad feeling for the family acosta but fermin is having a moment about it, obviously. the usual permin bits apply, the ex-friends with way more weight behind it, so fermin is like. as much as he knows it’s dishonest and a little bit (a lot a bit) manipulative he’s seeing it as an opportunity to rebuild what they’ve lost? it is not good. but it is.... for sure an opportunity. again we are doing so much handwaving and suspension of disbelief here so i will pad out the questionable response with some of my fave bits from the doc

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the waking up moment after the first night they sleep in the same bed (which happens pretty early. honestly)

Pedro is awake, now, peering at Fermin through sleep-clumped lashes. Fermin’s hand is still on his waist. 

“You snore,” Pedro tells him, thick and groggy.

Fermin says, “I do not,” and Pedro smiles, guileless, nothing barbed in the curve of his mouth.

“You do,” Pedro says. He squirms a little closer. If Fermin weren’t watching so closely he would miss the wince, the tic in his jaw when he moves the wrong way, jostles the wrong thing. Fermin moves closer to meet him and save him the trouble. 

“I don’t,” Fermin says again. He’s aware of the stale dryness of his own mouth, vaguely self-conscious about it now that they’re nearly on the same pillow. 

Pedro looks at him very, very intently. The arch of his eyebrows is so much less severe, less heavy. Pedro says, “Okay.” Like that’s the end of it.

And then Pedro rolls forward and kisses him. 

Pedro only lingers there a couple of seconds. It’s—it’s barely there, when you get down to it, just the press of Pedro’s soft mouth against Fermin’s, just the stickiness of morning breath and the heat of sleepy skin. Barely anything.

Fermin feels his own lips move, just enough that it’s reciprocal, just before Pedro settles back on his pillow. His eyes are only half open. His cheeks are so pink and Fermin wants to kiss him there, to see if it tastes as sweet as it looks.

Pedro asks, very quietly, “Did I get it right?”

and then the bit where pedro asks to see pictures of them together because he is inferring from the way that fermin treats him that they are. a Lot to each other. and yeah

“Why was I so red?” Pedro mutters. He’s squirming, trying to get a better look at the photo of them as children, Fermín with all his big baby teeth and Pedro with his splotchy pink cheeks. Fermín opens up his arm, unthinking. Pedro, unselfconscious, wriggles in to rest his head on Fermín’s shoulder. 

“Training,” Fermín says. His mouth is abruptly extremely dry. “On the bikes, you know.”

Pedro hums. Probably he doesn’t know, Fermín thinks, so he swipes to a photo of them on the bikes. 

“Christ,” Pedro says. “We were so tiny.”

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Pedro hums. He’s settling in, melting into Fermin’s chest. “We were together a lot, huh,” he mumbles. Fermin’s stomach aches. 

“Yeah,” he says. “All the time.”

Another hum. His breathing has levelled out, less laboured. Less pained. Fermín keeps touching his hair, gentle, pushing it back and away from the bruised bits around his temple. He wants to kiss him, so he presses his lips to Pedro’s forehead, and when Pedro hums this time it’s soft and pleased and content. 

This version of Pedro, who tolerates being fed and held, who curls into Fermin’s body like an old, safe cat. Fermín wants to protect this. To keep this.

“Fermín,” Pedro says slowly, into the silence. He sounds so close to sleep he might already be dreaming. 

“Mm?”

A pause, where Fermín thinks he has actually fallen asleep. And then Pedro says, even more slowly, “I feel like I missed you.”

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hiii long time listener first time caller i just did like a huge trawl through the fotb tag and a) god im in love it sounds soooo good and b) kind of. left field maybe but i was wondering if you had any Thoughts about what kimi and bonos like... dynamic/deal is in the au? the posts about them in the tag are intriguing to me

WELCOME TO THE SHOW THANKS FOR CALLING!! oh man this makes me so happy but it also made me have to go back through the fotb tag which is. my god what a mess it is in there you are brave to have delved into it 😭 but YEAH i was actually thinking almost exclusively about this au today so fabulous timing!!

so as a super brief rundown of the universe, it's a low fantasy world that i've sort of separated by language spoken, so you've got the english (uk/aus/nz/americas) to the south (headed up by the king, lewis, in the capital city), the french to the west (headed up by prince charles. naturally. on the island of solsaire), the spanish to the east (the sainz royal family), and the italians to the north-west (no royal family, just the horse cultists. natch). this world went through a pretty gruesome war that started out as a much smaller everyone vs everyone thing and shifted into everyone vs Fantasy Italy (i've been calling it Paglia as a placeholder but whatever) because they were getting up to some blood magic fuckshit and were posing a real threat to like. the whole world

this was all about ten years prior to the bits that have been shared (which are all oscarmark and were posted in 2024. which is wild). so in the 'modern' era you have your young guns or whatever (basically anyone born after or around like, '97-ish) and then the older guys (lewis, mark, seb, bono, jenson, etc) who are living with your standard post-war trauma that they'll never actually address lmao so that's to set the stage i GUESS

this got so fucking long. i'm so sorry

so bono is actually such a fun and interesting character in this to me?? he was a blacksmith before the war and he was about 30? years old? when it actually started in earnest. so already kind of up there in age in the context of something medieval adjacent but he of course ~took up arms~ to help fight, which he ended up being extremely good at. you can imagine bono as the sort of like... pacifist berserker? hates killing. actually hates it. but goes into like the wildest battlerage when he's in the thick of it. a few times during the war i think he probably really considered deserting, maybe running off to rispurne (fantasy australia!) to hide out for a while, go full hermit. but, well. enter lewis, of course, who ends up being this unifying figure during the war? all of these countries up until now have been cold at best but largely hostile with each other. but it's lewis who comes along with this runaway northerner (the FAR north is where pretty much everyone else is but we'll get into that another time) (the northerner is nico. of course) and opens the eyes of the masses to the Italian Threat. or whatever you want to call it. and at that point they all unite under a hastily assembled treaty long enough to defeat their shared enemy, and the treaty holds long enough for there to be a lot of very reasonable trade negotiations and peace talks and after the war PRETTY much everyone is chill with each other at least on a professional level. this does not include fantasy spain and fantasy italy. but this again is another story.

so all this to say that bono was an excellent fighter, hated every second of it but was so devoted to lewis and lewis' cause that he just kept at it, and after the war when he was just going like fuck off back to his tiny town lewis insists that he comes to the capital and be his advisor in some capacity (mostly lewis wants people he can trust around him, because he's still got nico with him at this point and the southerners do not love the northerners). fast forward ten years after the war and you've got bono who quietly works in the forge in the castle making beautiful armour, jewelry, and exclusively decorative weapons

fuck me this is getting long

so KIMI, who was born like. the YEAR the war started (the war was ten years long did i mention this. it wasn't a good time) was orphaned at a pretty young age as like many many kids were in this war but ESPECIALLY in paglia. as a country it's comparatively super spread out? like they have one major city that surrounds their extremely ostentatious temple but the rest of the country is like many many very small settlements that aren't particularly well defended. so kimi is this little street urchin even before the war has ended, but a lot of these street kids ended up recruited by the. i don't know whether to call it the Church or the Cult. it's both. we'll call it the church for now it's more gracious ANYWAYYYY. now you have all of these children from ages like, 5 to 15 that are running around the streets loosely in the style of varys' ~little birds~ if you'll allow a game of thrones reference. some of these kids stay spies, and some of them follow the proper pre-war path of recruitment to become something adjacent to monks?? kimi does this and when he's like 17-18 he goes travelling south with a big ol group of priests/monks/etc who are SUPPOSEDLY meant to be a peace party, going to king lewis as emissaries trying to repair relations and all this. mainly they are there spying and causing a distraction while they get up to more blood magic fuckshit

so to get to your actual question. lmao. when this party rocks up to the capital lewis is extremely gracious with his hospitality, puts them up in the castle, feeds them and shelters them and all this. kimi, who is still a sneaky little urchin at heart, does a LOT of sneaking around. this leads to him stumbling into the forge (which like. literally only bono uses) and spending a lot of time just. watching. he forgets to spy because he's never seen so much richness in one place. there're all sorts of standard metals for weapon making but there's gold and jewels and it's absolutely crazy to kimi that this big bulky man is turning all of these precious things into more beautiful, more precious things? he's never seen a blacksmith work like this in his life and he's just INTERESTED is all

eventually he makes himself known, which is extremely alarming to bono because usually he's pretty on-guard and observant and kimi's been in and out of the shop for like days by now and bono just hasn't noticed him?? it's a weird feeling that turns into a refreshing feeling because kimi just like. sticks around. chats with him. asks with zero selfconsciousness if bono will make something for him to take back north ("like what?" "a crown, maybe," he says, unhesitating, like he's thought about it) and most surprisingly makes bono laugh? a lot? and at this point lewis has sort of. sunk into this dismal version of himself, nico left years ago and lewis has no interest in ruling and mainly spends his time looming and brooding and staring out to sea while jenson (his advisor, sort of hand-of-the-king type) runs most things on his behalf. so bono just hasn't really had much by way of joy in a long long time. he keeps making things for lewis but they don't ever seem to help. so it's just... suddenly he's feeling appreciated? kimi is so interested and so unjaded y'know??

it's pretty ambiguous at this point what Actually happens between them; as much as kimi isn't jaded he grew up hard so he's not naive by any means? so it's entirely viable that things get a bit sexual, and bono 100% hates himself for it which kimi just does not understand. if it feels good why NOT do it. and he keeps telling bono that he's kind, and he's good, and all bono sees when he closes his eyes is every man he mowed down in battle so it's very. difficult for him to believe this. kimi tries his best to convince him, though :')

so yeah. like. eventually the delegation leaves, and kimi leaves with them, and it's both pretty uncertain and pretty unlikely that they ever see each other again?? and it's especially sad for bono who has just experienced something other than this ambient desperation to do good for many many years. currently i don't have like, a satisfying answer to how their story/stories end?? but they're a very interesting dynamic to ME and i'm always stoked to go back to thinking about them!!

i am so sorry for how long and meandering this got. oh my god. it's been a long day and i'm running on like a crumb of sleep so i hope this is anything NEARING coherent. i'll give it a read-over when i'm more awake to make sure i've not just been typing in tongues this whole time but thank you THANK you for asking about it, it really is one of my favourite aus, i've drawn MAPS for this stupid thing. it's my baby and it's expanding every day with every man-on-wheels i collect

THANK YOU!!!!

[vroombeams]

I would love to hear something more about your sharks n roses outing fic? Is it a permin pic that gets leaked? Do you have some Aleix fairy godmother excerpts? Is it something you actively are writing or what excited you about this project?

oh man hello!!! i wasn't expecting people to be interested like this 🥹

it IS something i'm writing, though i'm doing it in a pretty roundabout way? like i feel weird about writing pedro/omc and posting it, not because there's anything wrong with that but i just personally feel self-conscious about it?? but there's just under 5k words in a doc right now and the majority of it is.... that part 😩 so we'll see how she goes!! it's a project that riles me up largely because i think pedro specifically is such an interesting guy to put through the secret relationship + outing debacle? the way he communicates and the way he would have to speak to the press (non-spanish press especially!!) could make things way more difficult for him, you know?? i think he'd be very blunt about it in the end but the reality of it is that he's like. extremely hurt by everything that goes down (and for good reason) (additionally i just love a little bit of whump okay it's FUN)

re: the actual pic SO that's a bit where the details are still being worked out a little bit BUT after the wrist-breaking incident the bf drives him to the airport and like very pointedly kisses him goodbye, which they don't do in public (neither of them have been interested at all in going public with any of this, pedro for obvious reasons, ale because he's a bit of a scummy dude and if people know he's in a relationship that removes a lot of his thirsty client-base (he's a personal trainer)) and someone gets a pic, like, not even really thinking anything of it initially apart from oh hey it's pedro acosta! and then they're like ....oh hey it's pedro acosta kissing a dude! literally the one time it happens they get caught, essentially. and then there's this week or two where pedro is at race tracks unable to race because of his wrist but he's bouncing between tracks and hotels because he doesn't want to go back and have to see ale? and in this span of time he does break up w ale (over text. natch) and also ale is sent this photo of them kissing by a local person who is wanting to use it as leverage. by then, ale is already pissed off w pedro for the attempted ghosting followed by the breakup, so he just leaks the photo himself! and makes himself available to say all manner of shitty things to the tabloids! he's a really cool person 🙂

as far as excerpts go i don't have much in the aleix department!! but i can tell you he's the one who like. gently bullies pedro into coming to andorra for a while because pedro after his wrist is healed is just like. he goes to a race. he goes home to stay with his parents. and it's not all that different to what he was doing before but it feels different to literally everyone? so yes, aleix drags pedro out to his house and there is a lot of drinking and POSSIBLY they do some substances and there's a little bit of healing beach time. because we all need some of that

the permin of course builds through this part!! like fermin after the outing is having all manner of weird thoughts, like. somewhat selfishly sitting there being like is THIS why we haven't talked in like ten years? did he have a CRUSH on me??? which is not exactly a kind or cool immediate assumption (but it is true). and then there's a larger part of him that is genuinely just... so worried, because pedro isn't acting like pedro on and off track, and it's entirely fair that he's not the same or well at all but fermin for the first time in a long time really wants to be there? the yearning, you know. a smaller but pointier bit of fermin's brain is also having a bit of a sexuality crisis now. like he waved away any potential bisexualism for a long time but now that he's actually being made to think about it. well

i have a lot of thoughts/feelings/notions about this whole dang au that grows Every single day (the most big ups to @celineile who might as well have written half of this thang!!!), like thinking about the socmed reaction and how much pedro would hate having insta comments that are like "welcome to the family pedro!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈" lmao he'd rather just be called a slur i think. at least for a while. anyway there's a lot to be considered but this is once again getting long so i'll wrap it up there :')

thank you so much for asking!!!!

[vroombeams]

may i humbly request more of your AMAZING opinions on bezpeccoluca?

:3

oh my GOODNESS well thank you for asking first of all 😭😭😭!!! where do i even start. i guess we can go with the au i posted a bit from yesterday??

i think i (or we, bc @dumbsketches is complicit in basically all of the concepts always) have been coming at it from the angle of like, luca and pecco are established in like. a relationship way but they're into the #freakshit, because of course they are (everything i have ever thought about re: pecco/luca is shaped almost entirely by astronicht's kinky fridays verse which should be essential mgp fandom reading imo). bez is something adjacent to a free agent but he's like an excited dog at a party like he HAS to check everyone's situation out. like what's this group over here doing give me pets okay now i go over HERE what's THIS etc etc. so i think he ends up in a lot of people's beds? at least the people who he's reasonably close to, which as it turns out is a lot of people! so it's only natural that he pops over to guest in the peccoluca marriage bed or whatever. why not

it's important to note that i do not think their tastes align at least not initially. pecco's got some #repression going on that he's pried open with luca but having your bff (bezfriendforever) crawl into bed with you and your bf (bucafarini) and see you at your most fragile/vulnerable/honest is a very scary thing? and luca is or can be very very intense and bez is sort of like :')???? trying to figure out the dynamic on the fly. like yes let's have a fun threesome! and then the threesome wraps up with you crying bc your ass hurts and your bestie won't look you in the eye and luca is awkwardly-at-best patting you on the back and you have to go home feeling like you have Failed

(there's a side (main, to me) story to this, where extremely-monogamous celestino is like. the closest thing to a main partner bez has? and that's who bez goes to after this sesh and pretty much any subsequent sesh and cele hates it in certain... ways. but he loves marco so. yes. this is not the question you have asked but it's important To Me)

anyway. the first time is a bad time but then they try again, now with a bit clearer of a picture of what it is they all want out of this? and it goes way better. this leads to transcendent belting. mama mia!

this is like, one very specific au for sure? but i've done a lot of direct-to-dm writing for it and bee at least seems to like it so i will include a couple of screenshots under the cut!

this ^ being the after the first very-bad-no-good-scene

this ^ being the transcendent belting

i hope this is ANYTHING at all!!! i am full of thoughts feelings notions and also an abundant lack of self-control when it comes to writing just whatever is being spoken about so there is just. so much of this both in the dms and the docs