…I realised that probably nobody is gonna read the reblog, so here it is:
I fully expect the System Failure AU/Spin-off/Weirdly similar but also different story to be 5 parts, so somewhat similar in length to the Fernando fic I published in December(?) ❤️
The document that eventually was shaped into this story was kinda my dumping grounds for System Failure stuff I wrote early on and then cut for reasons, so there will be biographical details that are similar, but also plenty of stuff that’s new.
I originally wrote most of it, and then decided that it’s too similar to System Failure to publish on its own, so I was just playing around with it for my own amusement. Hence why it’s self-indulgent and I used some of the same plot devices as in System Failure, etc.
I have now (aka yesterday) added a pretty open ending that I think works for the story. So now it’s pretty much done, I am just editing things and making it look pretty ❤️
And the stuff you guys probably care about way more than me waffling on:
It’s titled Correlation Error.
Charlotte Fischer has spent years making sure no one in Formula One knows who she really is.
At Red Bull, she is simply Charlotte: Cambridge graduate, simulator engineer, owner of a deeply judgmental cat, and the woman responsible for making the team’s broken 2025 car sim model finally tell the truth.
She prefers it that way. No family name. No questions. No one looking at her like she is someone’s daughter, someone’s mistake, or someone’s failure to protect.
Max Verstappen notices her anyway.