Nico always wears a top and a skirt. Lewis always wears a dress. Nico’s long blonde hair is always up on a tight ponytail. Lewis’ hair changes with her mood. Nico is athlete for Nike. Lewis is athlete for Puma. Even their trainers (simi) are old rivals. They are the perfect parreals of each other. The only thing connecting them is that they are both the greatest talent women’s tennis has ever seen
a gift for @scharletred because it all started with her post
I remember you mentioned that Max once gives Nora a Red Bull cap and Charles loses it so now I was thinking... RB making their own set of those temporary tattoos for kids that just wash out after a while.
Seb is with Nora in the Red Bull hospitality and someone tells her about the magic tattoos that you make with water and she's like ohhhhh 👀 I want one too 🥺 and Seb eventually caves, "But just a small one!"
Fast forward to a couple of hours later, Nora runs up to Charles and she wastes no time in telling him that she got a tattoo!!! and of course Charles panics because what? a tattoo? she's a kid? and Seb immediately reassures him that it's just one of those temporary ones but then Nora actually shows her arm to Charles and WHAT THE HELL SEB A RED BULL LOGO???
Nora doesn't really get his reaction and just asks, "Don't you like it, papa? It's not pretty?" and Charles's heart can't take his little girl looking even the tiniest bit sad so he tells her that it's very pretty, papa was just being silly (and then he glares at Seb who's finding this whole situation way too amusing)
Oh my god, what a fantastic ask :screms:
Tbf Seb has been spotted hanging around with his ex-employer so it’s not that much of a reach. I don’t think I’ve thought much about who the other Red Bull driver is in this AU (I’m open to suggestions) but whatever, let’s say Seb stops by. And of course he’s got Nora in tow.
Gosh, I miss those tacky temporary tattoo things! Makes me almost want to pick up some bubblegum next time I go out shopping - the kind where the wrapper has a small tattoo on the inside. I used to love those things so 10/10 I understand her, lmao.
God, they 🥺💕 Of course she immediately runs up to him and wants to show him and just like sticks out her arm or hand or wherever it is and asks what he thinks of it. And gah, him freaking out hearing she got a “tattoo” - like this is the guy who jumped out of a plane without telling his employer. ansdjfg But he hears that and he’s just like :panik: Also I got hit with such a vivid mental image of Charles shooting Seb a look over the top of Nora’s head. Something like this:
Ah, him not wanting her to be sad so he assures her that of course it’s very pretty and - “papa was just being silly.” SCREAM. 😭🥰🙈 Gosh I love them so much. 🥺 I love how he puts up with so much shit just for her - Red Bull merch, getting stuck ‘adopting’ a formerly feral one-eared Italian farm cat called Enzo (as in, named for Enzo Ferrari), taking in a tiny mixed breed stray dog that Nora insists they call - wait for it - Dog. It’s a lot. But he does it all for her. 🥺 And of course Seb’s endlessly amused but also goes all soft seeing Charles interacting with Nora and like pushing his own dislike for his main title rival aside and putting her first. 🥺 Maybe if he justifies it as like, this is the team that allowed Seb to win his four titles then he’ll feel better about it.
Also this AU is making me wonder how !papa Charles would inadvertently end up shaping Ferrari going forward. Like he goes off on a rant about how parents shouldn’t have to choose between wanting to drive a Ferrari and dropping their four kids off to their after-school activities and this gets out and like. Lo and behold, Ferrari’s suddenly making SUVs? Making advertisements aimed at families? Maybe once Nora starts making semi-regular paddock appearances they decide to focus more of their attention on kid fans and like, kid merch. Hell maybe they make their own little temporary tattoo collection to rival Red Bull’s. Maybe they make a Ferrari version of McLaren’s Tooned so kids can learn about Ferrari’s history via cartoons. Who the hell knows 🙈
'auguri' is basically 'best wishes' so yeah it's the standard wish for pretty much anything if you want to ahah
ahhh that makes more sense ksdjghs i thought tanti auguri meant happy birthday as literal translation so to me auguri looked like just. birthday. maybe i should get back on that duolingo italian course i did for a few weeks skdjgjs
Ahhh thank you so much! I don’t think I’ve ever really talked about this fic before outside of the one mood board (x) I made for it, I’m a bit nervous haha
I have to be real honest, I haven’t worked on this fic in 10 months, so I had to read into the first chapter again to remember the details! I also have to say that the title of that folder is kind of confusing, since the fic isn’t even set in Italy for the most part. It’s somewhat inspired by an Italian series (not plot-wise, it just somehow made me come up with this), and the actual main character of this story has a connection to Italy, so maybe that’s why I chose it.
While Maxiel is the main pairing of this fic, they’re not exactly the main characters. I’ve been a bit anxious about this project because this story builds around an OC, and that feels kind of weird and like something people might not be into? That’s why I mostly kept quiet about this fic, that and because I have so much editing to do, it’s painful - it’s a pretty complex story, why do I keep torturing myself like that?
The original plan for this fic was to split it into three parts, with each part written from the perspective of one character (so Max, Daniel, and the OC) through the various stages of life of that OC but I have to admit that I haven’t gotten that far yet with that fic; I’m really trying to take my time and work through it slowly, to get all the details and my ideas well thought out.
Anyway, have Max interacting with a child because the conversations in this fic are very dear to me for some reason, and because I’ll keep rambling for another hour if I don’t put the snippet here now :”)
“She left Papà. She's not coming back but that's okay. I still have Papà and Papà has me, so it's okay, right?”
Max nods gently, not sure whether there is actually a right reply to the girl's question. He doesn't want to discourage her or scare her with his thoughts, so he keeps quiet for a while and thinks about how a child can be so chill about it all. He doubts that Ludovica is showing him all her feelings, she surely must be at least slightly upset about her parents- breaking up? divorcing? Max doesn't even know that. He's not her guidance counselor, he's her English teacher, he shouldn't want to know that anyway. Still, it concerns him, and he shuffles his feet on the step underneath them, tiny stones cracking under the soles of his black shoes while Ludovica looks at her hands and smiles.
“I love Papà, he tries his best. He wanted to help me with my uniform today, it was a disaster. He paid my hairdresser to show him how to do my hair,” she tells Max and giggles at the last sentence. Max chuckles softly and compliments her hair, he's glad that she is opening up to him about it, hoping that it might somehow help her to talk about this with someone who isn't a family member, someone who should have an emotional distance, someone who has a different view on her situation.
“Papà keeps saying that I remind him of my mom. I feel bad sometimes, I don't want to make him sad when I remind him of her. I think he misses mom more than I do,” Ludovica continues, and Max continues thinking about it all, and he almost loses his balance on the stairs when the roaring of an engine breaks the comfortable silence of the almost empty parking lot.
(Send me an ask with the title from this list that most intrigues you, and I’ll post a little snippet of it and tell you something about it!)
