#young bellini

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ps ps psshh Bellesco girlies, may I interest you with this edit?

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Okay this one demands a little backstory.

I was discussing with server friends the AU I love for Bellini x Tedesco, which is basically friends to lovers to estranged to enemies to lovers again, with Tedesco being a smart, lovely guy in his youth, who fell down the radicalising pipeline while Aldo was busy and didn't try to change things, and then it was too late and they were on different sides of the aisle attacking each other. Then leading into a post conclave deradicalisation arc for Tedesco (because you gotta hope bigots can be brought back from the brink), with Bellini getting that courage he's been lacking back online and doing what he can to fix the man he once loved. Sappy stuff.

Then we ended up talking about their younger years with Young Bellini being a neurotic city boy, which would lead him to be very uncomfy around large farm animals, while Tedesco is the quintescential country boy. I recalled an ex who was 1m90 and terrified of my grandma's pigmy goats, and someone had such a funny reply to this, I had to crib it and give the words to Bellini.

Anyway, excuse my poor drawing of them young... I'm still learning their faces and sketchbooks don't have ctrl+z