au where lightning’s mom was a spy, but was killed by the lemons when her home was invaded when she least expected it. Before the invaders could flee however, grem heard a baby monty mcqueen waking up in his crib, starting to cry when he fully gained consciousness and saw grem’s face. With a little persuasion from him to acer, grem was able to kidnap take in the kid and raise him in the oil factories without miles axelrod (or anyone outside of the “lemons mafia” really) finding out about his existence. Monty was renamed Lightning so that it would be harder for people in the outside world to identify him, and rarely had anything like television or connections to social media. Most of the lemons were like uncles to Lightning, with Grem and Acer being the “fun” uncles and Professor Zundapp being the scary but actually really caring one.
Zundapp obviously hated the idea of having some “snotty nosed whiny brat” as he put it running amok around the factories, but he actually grew fond of the kid over time and showed him his lab and latest inventions despite Lightning not understanding any of it at a young age. Would also call him “mein sohn” once in a while if he especially feeling fond of Lightning. In fact he actually becomes the lemon who genuinely loves and cares about lightning the most, and when he goes out into the real world for the first time (spoiler alert) along with finn, mater and holly, zundapp assumes that they kidnapped him and nearly mauls and murders them on sight before lightning quickly defuses the situation.
also btw lightning has never seen the sun before 😭😭 like he wont be allowed outside the buildings and onto the platforms during the day so hes usually just seen everything from night time so when he actually does leave the factories and sees the world at day time for the first time he just looks right into the sun and immediately gets flashed by it followed by mater being like “well dont look straight at it!”
so uhh if u guys have any other thoughts on this au lemme knowww lol
Rewatching the Cars 2 movie and I’m screaming about how when Mater and Finn and Holly are going through France and they tell Mater to be quick because they aren’t here to buy anything and Mater loligags a bit you can hear (im assuming Finn but it could just as easily be Holly) lightly honk a few times to signal Mater to hurry up a bit and jajakadkKkJdksKFMDKAJDAAKD😩🥹🥹
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Three Ships: Zelink, Malink, and Sylki
First ship: umm idk Finn McMissile/Holly Shiftwell I guess? But I like barely shipped them. It was more of a ‘oh well this fic is pretty good so I’ll put up with the pairing’ kinda thing XD If we’re talking first serious ship then Sylki
Fave colour: blue
Last song: Heartbreak Feels So Good by Fall Out Boy
Last movie in theaters: Thor Love and Thunder I think? I don’t go to theaters much lol
Last show: Hero’s Purpose
Currently watching: …nothing (I’ve been too busy playing Majora’s Mask lol)
Currently reading: whatever fluffy or whumpy fic I can get my hands on
Currently working on: too many wips
Current obsession: Legend of Zelda and Linked Universe (it’s not obvious at all 🙃)
No pressure tags: @telemna-hyelle @skyward-floored @tired-twili @zeldaelmo @blossomingwaters @uncleskyrule @srah-the-violist aaand I can’t think of anyone else cause my brain has stopped cooperating