Please talk more about your F1/AKOTSK AU ideas 👀 especially with Baelor and Maekar. Does Maekar still somehow cause Baelor's death or hopefully non fatal injury in this?
No no nobody dies in this AU. But Baelor had to retire because he was subjected to the Hand Nerve Destroyer 3000, probably.
This will be super disjointed so.
Baelor and Maekar have won multiple WDCs in their time. They are THE hottest shit in the Targ family's recent racing history. They did the Westerosi equivalent of Le Mans together. Joined at the hip.
Eventually Baelor has to retire, Maekar is a menace who has burned bridges because he's prickly and has a horrible temper, so Baelor is just like "I'll make a new team! For my most beloved amazing sweet little brother who has never done anything wrong in his life!!!". He's a very biased team principal/CEO: Maekar's enabler, forever finding loopholes in the regulations to let him get away with murder and terrorise the FIA. Maekar is his poor little meow meow (he is terrorising the entire grid, actually). Eventually Maekar settles but, yk, he is still considered too rough around the edges. Baelor loves him for it.
Uncle Bloodraven is involved in the spygates and the crashgates.
Aerion is a flop who is convinced he's the next coming of Maekar, loves playing mind games with his teammate (Valarr), like locking himself in the bathroom for hours before a race so the other cannot piss. "I won't embarass you this time" and then regularly puts it in the wall.
Maekar displaced Egg in the westerosi equivalent of an italian autogrill while taking him to karting competitions in westerosi Italy and Egg found this super amazing good nice rookie who doesn't have money to race (Dunk) and brings him home like a stray puppy.
Also not Targ related: Stannis Baratheon is Ron Dennis. Literally.










