i don't know anything about chess but it makes u really happy to talk abt so tell me some of ur favorite chess hcs
honestly ? thank you so much for asking and i kjdlghsghgjkdlove you so much ??? anyway here’s some of my faves !!! thank you again ily they’re long so they’re under a cut !!!
Anatoly makes his coffee WAY too sweet and he also makes itreally weak because he just ??? likes to have it taste like candy and ??? whenhe moved in with Freddie, he was appalled because Freddie made his coffee likeespresso but in huge cups but when anatoly mentioned that it tasted awful,Freddie bought some weaker stuff the next time he went to the store and ittouched anatoly’s heart
Anatoly’s first experience realizing he might be gay when hewas a teenager was when molokov first became his manager and ? he and anatolywere travelling all over the world for chess games and press stuff to build upanatoly’s reputation and sharing hotel rooms and anatoly was pretty sure he wasin love with him for like two years lmfao. He’s uncomfortable around molokovforever after that and sometimes he still has a crush on him but shhh
Walter and the Arbiter are most certainly husbands but theArbiter CAN’T STAND the way Walter’s Place Of Work™ turns the chesschampionships into reality television. They work around it because they’re married
Furthermore, walter is an absolutely stellar cia agent and thearbiter no lie…um thinks it’s really attractive how he’ll never let a singlecia secret slip, even to him
Molokov LOVES air kisses and he also has dimples and he’sreally cute, so
Molokov is bipolar but he never seeks help for his mentalillness or even brings it up to anyone because he doesn’t want to seem weak and…he makes the mental illness mistake™ of thinking he can handle it himself butinstead he just ends up suffering in silence
Everyone ??? on the Russianteam used to make fun of Vigand when Anatoly was their™ player but the secondAnatoly left Russia, they all loved him like nothing else and he isn’t blind tothe fakeness lmfao
Freddie and Anatoly both think each other’s kinks are eitherweird or boring but they both grin and bear it tbh
In my AU where Freddie and Anatoly meet when they’reteenagers at a junior championship, they both are ??? really interested in eachother right away but it’s anatoly who invites Freddie out way late that nightto get a, like, one in the morning dinner at some shitty little glow aestheticdiner and… it’s very sweet because they’re flirting but they’re both toonervous to admit it and they’re both so sleepy because it’s SO LATE but anatolydoesn’t want to leave because he wants to stay in that moment forever. I have an entire AU planned for this and it spans like threeyears lmfao
AND in my AU where anatoly is an actual Villain™, him andmolokov are boyfriends but anatoly flirts with florence in order to throw freddieoff his game (“take her and you win the game”) and… well, it certainly workslmfao. As a note, I have a bunch of plot rewritten for how this AUwould go and I also have a bunch of changes to make to the score and especiallysongs like “Quartet” and “Molokov and Anatoly” where the boyfriends singtogether and anyway you should all ask me about this AU because it’s myultimate favorite AU ever
Freddie believes in cryptids and aliens and literally everyconspiracy theory or urban legend that exists but he draws the line whenanatoly says that he believes he saw a ghost once
Anatoly, as I’ve said a million times, is SO EASILYIMPRESSED BY ROMANTIC GESTURES and he’s so easy to blush and one of the mosteffective romances someone can do to him is ordering a drink for him at the barbefore he can open his mouth to order it himself
Florence used to buy Freddie flowers every time he had a badday and Freddie used to buy her some cupcakes from the supermarket when she’dhad a bad day and they were very good for each other and they let each other broodand rant and be mad and it was cathartic for both of them to be able to bearound someone so similar to them
