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btw pope!Lawrence absolutely accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills at some point but got lucky (spend the next several hours throwing up).

the day Aldo was elected, Vincent went for a smoke break w/ Sabbadin and told him "So this is the result you wanted 2 years ago, right?" "Right, and you don't seem to be so opposed to Aldo being Pope now" and Vincent cant find the answer bc yes, it's the best result they can get yet it doesn't feels right and Vincent has a premonition that something is about to break again; later that day, after a lot of long discussions with their allies, Vincent is the last to leave Aldo's room. "So what now?" he asked.

"Now I'm going to take a sleeping pill and have some rest", said Aldo, and Vincent just froze, not blinking, staring into Aldo's eyes, until Aldo sighed and said much softer than before, "I'm not going to do anything funny. You know I don't sleep well now. Stay with me if you want"

(they're frenemies with benefits and sometimes the benefits are having a shoulder to cry on and sleeping in each other's arms because tomorrow is going to be a long day. sometimes it's just the regular benefits.)

au there Lawrence became the Pope and Vincent can't go back to Kabul bc it's too dangerous so Lawrence appoints him as the Dean so now the situation goes like this

- the Pope is depressed af

- Aldo is Secretary of the State again

- the new Dean loves the Pope but hates Curia

- the new Dean is kinda sorta technically part of the progressive lobbi but everyone know he's there only because of the Pope

- the Pope is seriously not okay.

- Aldo and Vincent are generally friendly with each other but again mostly bc they both care about Lawrence

- Lawrence had a heart attack after maybe 2 years of this bullshit

- Tedesco was in Vatican when it happened

- When Vincent got a call from Ray telling him Lawrence is in hospital, first thing Vincent did was finding Tedesco, punching him in the face and trying to strangle him

if Lawrence resign after that Aldo and Vincent are amongst major candidats but

- Aldo got noticibly radicalized (by wanting to protect\avenge Thomas and working with Vincent)

- Vincent literally tried to kill Tedesco right in front of everyone's salad?? like there's video of their fight???

- Vincent and Aldo both dont want to be the Pope but they realize there's non-zero chance one of them will be elected AND both actually already have a plans for church reforms just in case

- they make an agreement if one of them became the Pope the other will keep his post

- so when Aldo is elected, dean Benitez holds him when he's crashing out in the Room of Tears

- Aldo, despite their agreement, tells Vincent he can actually leave the Vatican if he wants, they can come up with some solution to let him leave and continue his service somewhere else

- Vincent says "I think I haven't finished my job here, your Holiness"

- and Aldo replies, "Call me that again when we're alone and I'll need to confess the sin of punching your smug face"

(they're like... extremely critical of each other. They're the secret 4th thing. They're allies and enemies and friends and rivals and they would kill for each other if they manage to not kill each other in the first place. Lawrence is taking antidepressants and thanking god every day he doesn't have to deal with this bullshit anymore)

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Lawrence being Bellini’s emotional support cardinal is so funny to me. Like “I’m having crippling anxiety about this, lemme run it by my emotionally stable friend, the one who’s crashing out so bad he couldn’t open a ziploc bag”. Unfortunately it turns out thomas IS the emotionally stable friend, because the whole curia has the collective sanity of a chihuahua on cocaine.

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Tremblay: This report is mendacious! 😡 How do you sleep at night?

Lomeli:

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*casually dropping new psyop: 195 cm tall book!Aldo*

Book Lawrellinitez heights headcanons + movie heights comparison

(based on Lomeli's comments in the book and general vibes)

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I can tell both of them were Having Thoughts (c)

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I need Benitez's POV so bad

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there's like. at least 3 variation of this scenario depending on how bad lhf's manipulations really were and if he really loved Aldo

- Thomas Lawrence, 3 months after the Conclave, suddenly finds a letter from the Late Pope, and feels his heart sinking terribly because OF COURSE it means there's another Late Pope's plan to uncover some more Church secrets and shuffle high ranked clergy; but when Lawrence finally overcomes panic and opens the letter, it's just the Late Pope asking for forgiveness for the whole mess, please tell Vincent and Aldo I'm very sorry, I love you all but I had no choice, hug Vincent for me, I'm so sorry

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funnier iteration of this scenario: Vincent attacked Goffredo in the hospital, where half of curia was waiting for the news about Pope John in the ICU; Aldo dragged Vincent off Gofferedo and pushed him into the nearest bathroom to wash blood from his face; Vincent finally snapped, crying from the ✨realisation✨(Thomas might die and he can't do anything), and when Aldo clumsily tried to comfort him, he kissed Aldo because hey he wasn't thinking at all.

When they returned to the waiting room, Aldo had a bit of blood on his face. People thought he got punched in the face too.

au there Lawrence became the Pope and Vincent can't go back to Kabul bc it's too dangerous so Lawrence appoints him as the Dean so now the situation goes like this

- the Pope is depressed af

- Aldo is Secretary of the State again

- the new Dean loves the Pope but hates Curia

- the new Dean is kinda sorta technically part of the progressive lobbi but everyone know he's there only because of the Pope

- the Pope is seriously not okay.

- Aldo and Vincent are generally friendly with each other but again mostly bc they both care about Lawrence

- Lawrence had a heart attack after maybe 2 years of this bullshit

- Tedesco was in Vatican when it happened

- When Vincent got a call from Ray telling him Lawrence is in hospital, first thing Vincent did was finding Tedesco, punching him in the face and trying to strangle him

if Lawrence resign after that Aldo and Vincent are amongst major candidats but

- Aldo got noticibly radicalized (by wanting to protect\avenge Thomas and working with Vincent)

- Vincent literally tried to kill Tedesco right in front of everyone's salad?? like there's video of their fight???

- Vincent and Aldo both dont want to be the Pope but they realize there's non-zero chance one of them will be elected AND both actually already have a plans for church reforms just in case

- they make an agreement if one of them became the Pope the other will keep his post

- so when Aldo is elected, dean Benitez holds him when he's crashing out in the Room of Tears

- Aldo, despite their agreement, tells Vincent he can actually leave the Vatican if he wants, they can come up with some solution to let him leave and continue his service somewhere else

- Vincent says "I think I haven't finished my job here, your Holiness"

- and Aldo replies, "Call me that again when we're alone and I'll need to confess the sin of punching your smug face"

(they're like... extremely critical of each other. They're the secret 4th thing. They're allies and enemies and friends and rivals and they would kill for each other if they manage to not kill each other in the first place. Lawrence is taking antidepressants and thanking god every day he doesn't have to deal with this bullshit anymore)

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every fujoshi needs to study the ancient texts and by that i mean lawrence of arabia

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Newly turned cardinal/ archbishop of Milan, who is very new to Vatican environment due to being rector in Gregorian uni meeting the infamous Löwenstein at the bar of Casa Santa Marta, what could go wrong

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Please consider: reverse manticores

ok but, this isnt a mermaid kinda deal, where you can just flip two bits and be done with it. a manticore has PARTS

theres a lot of other interpretations of em out there, but for simplicity lets say theres four defining Big Features to work with that i can swap around

first up, the back bit (scorpion tail) and front bit (human face) are switched, giving us a scorpion face. if we were being really accurate the scorpions entire head actually consists of a lot more legs, but were not, so it doesnt

then instead of a lion body, its a bat body, swapping with the wings and giving us, incredibly, another fucking pair of bat wings

this would be the bit where the human tail goes in but guess what

and then I GUESS instead of bat wings, the reverse scorpion would have LION WINGS !! but theres no such thing so we gotta go with the closest equivalent, which is just a big ol goddamn pair of lion arms

oh yeah. oh FUCK yeah. the a n t i c o r e

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wrote 3.9k words of bellinitez hurt/comfort. lowkey embarrassed my first fic in the fandom isn't lawrellini but what can you do

On his phone were the old articles Sabbadin had sent him, naming him a “favorite candidate” and “frontrunning papabile.” Aldo could not deny the mingled pleasure and anxiety the articles had brought him in the days before the conclave. Now he saw how ridiculous he had been, to enjoy the tawdry feeling of popularity, simply because he had never felt popular before in his life. There had been such confidence in him. He knew he was unworthy of it at the time. He had not known how much.

this one is for all bellini lovers and bellinitez fans.... i see u and i love u

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this video is going to make me cry

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*multiplies you by 1*

Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred

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thinking about enby4enby lawrenitez...

Couldn't find fitting quotes for Lomeli but basically: Benitez's gender identity vs Lomeli's "I don't know what gender is and I feel like I don't belong in my body and social role"