#but brocedes itself is SO complicated and intense

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Not to also be a Les*appen hater but the way they also try to make the them into the new bro*cedes except they are just collegues😭 but funny that charles and Max just don't have enough actual interactions to base fics on that so stealing is the only way lol

be a lestappen hater, anon!! embrace it; live your truth!! because bestie, you are SO right with this. people trying to make out that l*stappen are "the new brocedes" are actually insulting brocedes.

because come on. brocedes has so much depth and history and intensity, while lestappen is really just... bland?

let's put it like this: nico and lewis were best friends growing up. they were closer than close - "everything bar lovers," to quote crofty. they once wanted each other to succeed just as much as they wanted themselves to. (if i'm remembering my lore correctly, nico's dad once bought an entire KARTING TEAM so they could both keep driving. like.) they once celebrated each other's wins like their own!! and then they became teammates and everything fell apart in spectacular fashion - but it fell apart BECAUSE they used to be so close. without that long history, i don't think it would have gotten nearly as intense and explosive between them.

max and charles, on the other hand... well. they had a squabble or two on track when they were karting, sure, but i'd compare that more to first-graders having a fight at lunch. they forget about it less than a week later. HONESTLY, i don't think either max or charles would ever have remembered the infamous "nothing just an inchident" thing if it hadn't become the meme it is today.

because here's the thing: max and charles were never friends. they were never CLOSE. they certainly never rooted for each other to succeed, and that meant there was nothing really to fall apart either. i don't imagine they had much of a relationship at all, both growing up and right now.

so yeah, they can never be brocedes. they can't even come close, because in order to fall apart that spectacularly, you first have to care about each other. you have to care about each other for years. and i don't think max and charles have EVER truly cared about each other.

i always think that lestappies like the IDEA of lestappen much more than the reality of it. or maybe they just like the idea of enemies to lovers so much that they're completely blind to the reality???

the reality that there's just... nothing really between max and charles, and their relationship is in all honesty the most bland coworker one ever. "the new brocedes?" please.