THE PRINCE OF THAILAND: galex Crazy Rich Asians AU.
When Alex asks George if he wants to go with him to Thailand for his cousin's wedding, he immediately agrees. But there are reasons why a humble vet with bleach-fried hair keeps the distance from his huge, noisy and nosy family. And George is about to experience it first-hand.
@hypersoft-fest week 5: romantic comedy.
[read a little bit of lore below the cut]
George, an aspiring event-planner/art enthusiast, meets Alex, a vet, when he takes his parents' dog to the clinic. Alex gives George his phone number, and George assumes that he wants to ask him out, but turns out Alex has a bad habit of caring too much and he gives away his personal phone number almost to every client. However the misunderstanding leads to the first date, which leads to many more.
Eventually George meets Alex's friends: Yuki, a business-school dropout turned chef; Zhou, a young and talented fashion designer and influencer; and Lando, a travelling sports photographer specializing on Formula One. Alex, Yuki and Zhou went to a posh International School together and know each other for a very long time. Alex and Lando met when they were both in the university looking for a roommate.
After dropping out of business school Yuki opens a restaurant "Toro Rosso" with Pierre Gasly, who oversees administrative side and staff, while Yuki is in charge of the kitchen. The restaurant becomes very popular, booked and busy. Alex takes George there for one of their first dates to impress him, and it works.
Lando has a bit going on with Oscar Piastri, a Formula One driver and WDC contender, where he posts only extremely bad and blurry pictures of Oscar on his F1 photography instagram to which Oscar always replies with dead-pan "Thank you very much. The best photos ever👍🏼". Other drivers' pictures are normal, good even.
On the days, when the restaurant is closed Yuki invites Alex and Zhou in, he sets up a small table in the kitchen for his friends to try out his new recipes.
Zhou is on his way to a big breakthrough in the fashion industry, Alex and Yuki regularly wear his street-wear designs. Through Alex Zhou meets Lando and George and they plan Zhou's first solo fashion show together.
f1blr edit challenge: 2/4 current/recent drivers → Alex Albon
This interaction between the three British drivers took place when a Sky Sports interviewer asked them about their karting days. In reply, Russell said, “I actually not sure we did kart against each other. Lando and I karted when we were… [Norris interrupts and says when he was a baby] when you were a baby”.After stating the same, Russell added, “Lando and I looked up to Alex [Albon]. Alex was our hero“. Immediately after, Norris also agreed that Albon was indeed his hero.[x]
f1blr edit challenge: 1/4 current/recent drivers → Oscar Piastri
“I only knew I wasn’t good enough to win championships when I met Oscar,” he said. “Despite all his talent, when it comes to his way of always wanting to get better and never resting on his laurels, he reminds me extremely of Michael Schumacher.” — Mark Webber [x]
