#lestappen has lore okay

[sinsthinkingof]

I think I'm finally ready to sit down and make my lestappen powerpoint presentation...

[slythereen]

i know we say it often but there is truly no beating the batshit crazy, could not make this up, absolute insanity of lestappen lore. wdym they’re about to start on the front row together on the anniversary of the inchident like what kind of fucked up coincidental magic is THAT

[theswansblog]

Lestappen has no lore? " I always knew that if I made it into f1 charles would make it" lestappen? 'Max reccomending charles for his seat when moving category' lestappen?

okay.

[leclerc-s]

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pre-qatar dinner and this dude looks way too fucking happy. is there an off switch or something? cars go vroom! little brother won a race or something? it's like a big deal 3x world champion or whatever jokes aside i'm literally crying?? who knew i would be crying over some silly little men in silly little cars??

alex albon ARE WE GONNA TALK ABOUT WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED YESTERDAY??

max verstappen i kissed daniel, so what?? george russell THAT'S NOT WHAT WE SAW BITCH!!

oscar piastri clearly you were all drunk. i saw max kiss daniel and charles. charles said it was glorious.

charles leclerc it was, i went to my hotel room and i questioned everything. pierre gasly FUCKER YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

daniel ricciardo is it suddenly not okay for me to kiss max??

yuki tsunoda HOW COULD YOU KEEP THIS FROM US RICCIARDO!! THIS IS SO FUCKED! THIS IS FUCKING BETRAYAL YOU FUCKING FUCK! YOU DICKHEAD!

esteban ocon is this why max knocked liam out the other day??

max verstappen i didn't knock him out, i simply helped him rest his eyes for a bit. he seemed tired.

alex albon I KNOW WHAT I FUCKING SAW YESTERDAY!!

oscar piastri i think you guys are cra

oscar piastri so these are the famous f1 drivers oscah and sharl cannot shut up about. nice to meet y'all!

logan sargeant oscar? you okay buddy?

max verstappen sabrina, dear god, give oscar his phone back.

oscar piastri KISS MY ASS VERSTAPPEN. I WILL DECK YOU max verstappen when you can reach me, sure. oscar piastri SOMEONE GRAB ME A FUCKING FORK!! max verstappen yup, still can't stand you. oscar piastri OH FUCK YOU SID!

oscar piastri i apologize for her, she isn't house trained.

charles leclercDID YOU JUST CALL ME A BITCH PIASTRI?? YOU'RE FUCKING NEXT!!

charles leclerc added one person

sabrina carpenter now, did you guys seen pierre kiss yuki?

pierre gasly what?

charles leclerc i swear i saw k-mag and and nico kiss

sabrina carpenter oh, you guys are allowed to say nico? i thought that was off limits because of lewis. #ripbrocedes

daniel ricciardo lewis isn't here.

carlos sainz jesus do you people have to talk so fucking much??

sabrina carpenter HEY, I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU MR. SAINZ!

carlos sainz who is that? why are they yelling at me?

sabrina carpenter JUST BECAUSE I WASN'T AROUND FOR SPA DOESN'T MEAN I WILL NOT DEFEND MY LITTLE BROTHER OSCAR!

oscar piastri let it go sabrina

sabrina carpenter I'LL LET IT GO WHEN DANIEL LET'S THE CHARLES THING GO!!

carlos sainz what's the charles thing?

max verstappen nothing daniel ricciardo nothing charles leclerc nothing oscar piastri nothing sabrina carpenter nothing

yuki tsunoda STOP CHANGING THE FUCKING SUBJECT! DANIEL JOSEPH RICCIARDO ARE YOU OR ARE YOU FUCKING NOT DATING DAPHNE FUCKING JONES??

daniel ricciardo i plead the fifth

george russell that's a yes to me

alex albon THEY WERE FUCKING MAKING OUT AT THE BAR!! OF COURSE THEY'RE DATING!!

sabrina carpenter no, that was daniel and max. i don't know what you people saw. clearly the tension from when they were teammates got to be too much and now they're acting on their feelings. i really thought it was going to be a lestappen endgame.

oscar piastri okay, you need to get off of f1 twitter seriously.

sabrina carpenter well how else am i supposed to learn f1 lore? and it's not just twitter, tiktok has been very helpful.

george russell just how much time is she spending on f1 twitter and tiktok?

sabrina carpenter "i'm here to fight, i'm here to win, i'm not just going to wave him bye because he's max verstappen in a red bull."

sabrina carpenter "what am i now? i'm heavily depressed." sabrina carpenter "suck my balls mate." sabrina carpenter "nothing just an inchident."

oscar piastri yeah, she's gonna be doing that for a while

sabrina carpenter "bwoah!" sabrina carpenter "james, it's valtteri, fuck you." sabrina carpenter "ALL THE TIME YOU HAVE TO LEAVE A SPACE!"

sabrina carpenter okay, i'm done now. i think oscar was right when he said i needed to step away from f1 twitter and tiktok

oscar piastri you think? i have been receiving an f1 quote from you at least 8 times a day.

logan sargeant free my man oscar, he shouldn't be suffering this way

sabrina carpenter logan sargeant you're next on my list

max verstappen CONGRATS YOU IDIOTS, YOU FUCKED UP!

daphne jones you know, i can see that now, but it's so hilarious knowing the other drivers are losing their mind.

daniel ricciardo the only reason we haven't told them is because you have some stupid plan to get daphne to sing about it at a show.

max verstappen MY PLAN IS A GOOD ONE! TAKE THAT BACK BITCHIARRDO!

oscar piastri what actually is the plan??

sabrina carpenter you know that line in karma, where it's like, "karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me?"

oscar piastri yeah?

charles leclerc max wants daphne to change the lyrics to something like "karma is the guy on the track coming straight home to me?"

max verstappen why is that better than what i had?

sabrina carpenter his was "karma is the guy in the alpha tauri coming straight home to me."

oscar piastri DO BOTH!

max verstappen she can't because someone took daniel out of the season

oscar piastri I APOLOGIZED WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME??

daniel ricciardo MAX EMILIAN VERSTAPPEN IT WASN'T HIS FAULT! LEAVE HIM ALONE

charles leclerc wow we really are like a family.

sabrina carpenter max has been promoted to brother-in-law because the entire internet seems convinced that he's fucking charles

daphne jones do you have no filter?

sabrina carpenter i wrote a song called nonsense that's a euphemism for sex. what do you think?

oscar piastri i'm talkin' all around clock. i'm talkin' hope nobody knocks. i'm talkin' opposite of soft. i'm talkin' wild, wild thoughts. you gotta keep up with me. i got some young energy. i caught the L-O-V-E. how do you do this to me?

max verstappen you just know the lyrics to the song?

oscar piastri i googled them.

sabrina carpenter FAKE FAN!!

oscar piastri i never said i was a fan. i just tolerate you.

charles leclerc i can't stand either of you

daniel ricciardo peak older sibling behavior

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¡leclerc-s speaks! yeah, i don't know what this became towards the end. i saw one tiktok and i spiraled towards the end, i'm also a bit sleep deprived. i apologize in advance for this. you can't convince me sabrina carpenter isn't a menace to society, i bet she is.

¡disclaimer! this is in no way making assumptions about the people involved in this story, this is all fake. it is a fanfiction please don't take any of what is said seriously. this is all for entertainment purposes and as a creative outlet. enjoy!

[lestappenforever]

hi again!

did lestappen really unfollow each other after the Austrian gp 2019? why?

ps: im new here

Hi anon, and welcome to the unhinged world of Lestappen lore! We're so happy to have you. ❤️

Now have a seat and get cozy, because it's story time.

Charles made it into F1 in 2018 and after spending his maiden season at Alfa Romeo Sauber, his life-long dream finally came true as he was snatched up by Scuderia Ferrari to replace the man, the myth, the legend that is Kimi Räikkönen. Needless to say, 2019 was a big year for Charles. His first season in the team he had always dreamed of driving for. He was ready. He was hungry.

Now, enter Max Emilian Verstappen, who at this point had already been in F1 since 2015, when he was signed at the ripe age of 17. Already a seasoned F1 driver, which is impressive as fuck at that age. At this point, Max and Charles were following each other on social media. After all, they'd known each other for most of their lives, had grown up together in karting, and were now competing at the top level.

Today, we know Austria as the Lestappen holy ground following that podium in 2022. (Borderline pornographic podium celebration? Don't mind if I do.) But, it had potential to become the Lestappen holy ground even back in 2019, because Max and Charles were on fire. Talking, laughing, joking, mirroring each other in the pre-race press conference, and generally acting like teenagers with a crush. (As you do with your emotional support rival.) Things were good. Great, even.

And then Sunday rolled around, and the race happened. Charles and Max were doing what they do best and what they love the most, namely fighting each other on track, likely having the time of their fucking lives. But then this overtake happened, there's a little bit of contact and Charles briefly ends up off the track, and Max goes on to win the race, with Charles finishing P2. (Anyone else hearing "He's just unfair. I'm leading, he wants to pass, he push me, I push him back" and "Nothing, just an inchident"? in their heads watching that overtake? Just me? Okay.)

Charles was pissed, absolutely convinced that Max had done something wrong, that it wasn't a clean move, and the move was investigated, as all similar moves are. FIA, however, ends up deeming it a clean move and Max doesn't get a penalty, meaning his win stands. And, well, this is where Charles Leclerc shows the world what it means to truly be ✨dramatic.✨ (We love a dramatic king in this house, ngl. Nothing is more entertaining to me than grown-ass men acting like children.)

A look that could kill? Check. Dramatically fixing your cap? Check. Looking away dramatically while plotting someone else's demise? Check. Looking like finishing P2 is not a huge accomplishment in your first season in Scuderia Ferrari? Check. Squeezing past as the winner getting drenched in champagne because you're not about to stand there and watch him celebrate? Check. Whatever the fuck this face is? Check.

Now, here's where it gets really fucking hilarious: Charles and Max fly home from Austria on the same flight. On this flight, where Max is probably sitting in Charles' direct line of sight, Charles goes to Max's Instagram and unfollows him. Probably glaring at Max the entire fucking time. Because he's a fully grown adult man capable of making reasonable, mature decisions when things don't go his way. Clearly. And Max, upon noticing this (or his team noticing it), remembers that he is also a fully grown adult man capable of making reasonable, mature decisions, and responds by unfollowing Charles back. Obviously.

It has been four years and our boys have clearly moved past the events of Austria 2019, but the Great Unfollowing has remained. Has it become an inside joke between them, which is why they're still not following each other after all these years? Probably, if Charles threatening to unfollow Matt from P1 with Matt & Tommy during a Ferrari challenge (and fucking following through on the threat, too) is anything to go by. Does it still make me cackle every time I think about it? Abso-fucking-lutely.

[nyoomfruits]

fics that are essential landoscar lore to you 3 2 1 go

[shoves the enitre contents of the ao3 landoscar tag at you] there you go :)

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS. this is so hard why would you ask this of me aaahhhh but OKAY.

(below a read more because uuuuh. this accidentally got really long)

how much can you fit (under your skin) by cloudcollector | E | 4,5k

Oscar has biteable thighs. Lando has teeth.

this one is self explanatory and what prompted you to send me this ask i think. anyway i've said this before but even if you dont like thighs you will come out of this a thigh lover. also 10/10 dynamic like everything is so!!! about this fic. introduced reading oscar to the world which i think should be a staple in all landoscar fics actually

Negative splits by leafmealone | T | 10k

So officially, Oscar Piastri, pretty good steepler and pretty bad pacer, was now a professional runner. They wanted him to steeple, mostly, though he’d be doing cross country in the fall, and Lando had pinky promised him, mid-distance guy to mid-distance guy, that if he wanted to get into the 3k flat indoor then he would get him in. Oscar didn’t really want to ask how he planned on doing that. Felt safer not to ask.

very important landoscar lore to me personally which if you've been following me a while you probably know why. anyway 10/10 and a must read makes me feel very insane every time. also leaf did put the sports boys in another sport as well which is also mandatory reading in my personal opinion.

only found by eisenberg | T | 7k

“Hey, well. No strings attached, right?” Oscar says, strategically. Lando smiles and says, “hell yeah. And now that that’s established, what’s your stance on aliens? Also, do you still want your cake?” -- cinderella soulmates au where whatever you lose, your soulmate finds. except: oscar has a soulmate and lando is a No-Match, a person who doesn't have a soulmate.

what is a mandatory reading list without a soulmate au truly. AND LET ME TELL YOU. 10/10. dynamic is of the charts fantastic, beautifully captures the differences between lando and oscar but why they work anyway and gaaahhh. sometimes i just stare at the ceiling for three hours and think about this fic no biggie

what would you do (if I went to touch you now)? by laceyamethyst | E | 30k

“Okay, so they both like each other. We need to get them together.” “How? Lando’s too freaked out to think straight and Oscar is the human embodiment of the standing man emoji.” Charles purses his lips for a moment before he snatches his boyfriend’s phone up from the other side of the table. “What are you doing?” “Initiating Mission Landoscar.” “Did you just make that up?” Charles waves at him dismissively as he begins texting, and Max lays his head down on the coffee table and prays for strength. *** In which Max tries to prove to an oblivious Charles how glaringly obvious it is that Lando is head over heels in love with Oscar. When Charles finally gets with the program, Lestappen go on A Mission™ to get the two idiots to admit their feelings for each-other, but it’s easier said than done.

first of all this fic is perfect, show stopping, laugh out loud funny. SECOND OF ALL this fic is the best way to bully your lestappen friends into shipping landoscar because it actually has a super sweet established relationship lestappen side plot. also this whole fic is from max's pov which means you get a beautiful outsider pov look at the complete chaos that is lando and oscar pining for each other. delightfull really.

Your Plans (And Those Slow Hands) by xxcelientje | E | 4k

He could probably fit both of Oscar’s hands in one of his own, he could for sure use one hand to hold both of Oscar’s wrist and an idea entered his mind. He smiled at Oscar. ‘You like my hands?’ Oscar’s cheeks reddened even more as he nodded, his eyes still on their joined fingers. ‘They fascinate me,’ he admitted, biting his lip. OR: Lando and Oscar have some fun (and share some feelings) after the Belgium GP

just like the thigh fic will give you a thing for oscar's thighs this will give you a thing for lando's hands. gaahhh their dynamic in this is just so!!!!!!!!! the way theyre so HORNY for each other 10/10

carried away by venerat | E | 22k

“Oscar,” Lando said. “Don’t hate me, alright, but I've—”

did you really think i was going to do a mandatory reading list without a venerat fic???? lmao. anyway all of venerat's stuff is mandatory but this one is my personal fave i think. TOP TIER dynamic truly, and its FAKE DATING. what more can a person want really

change the weather by sharls | E | 5k

Lando knows what a thong is, of course he does—but the team needs content, the team needs clicks, and he just so happens to be well-versed in the art of going viral.

is a mandatory landoscar reading list really complete without a thong fic??? i think not. and this is so!!!!!!!!! everything about this just Makes Sense. if you told me this had actually happened i would be like. yeah. that checks out. very incredibly in character and just !!!!!!! very hot and funny and perfect.

all right theres a lot more but??? i promised myself i would rec only 5 fics and this is already 7, so... i'll stop here. for now

[leclerced]

Lando then interrogating Oscar about his days at Prema and Oscar is just sitting there grumbling he needs to teach Logan how to shut up. I mean Lando loves gossip I think so he’s want to know everything. I mean everything. And then Oscar decides he’s done with it and starts teasing Lando that maybe now he’s jealous because he didn’t have some miracle romantic first kiss and first time and if he wants it so much he can step up hahahaha

This thing has so much potential for the funniest F1 universe with Lestappen in centre and then a plague of new ships forming and old ones resurfacing

no it would be sooo funny i would need to look into who oscar raced at prema with but imagine like lando wanting to know who else he fooled around w back in the day after logan lets it slip. oscar acts annoyed by the questions at first but secretly he loves talking ab what a whore he is bc hes like yea i can have whoever i want 🤭

he’d start telling lando ab all the drivers he messed around w and landos just gaping at him in shock. oscar starts teasing him and is like, “what like you and danny never did that?” “you’re telling me you and carlos never…. really?” lando’s so shocked by the fact that oscar thinks he fucked his last two teammates bc hes never even kissed another guy. him saying that and oscar being like, “okay well if you’re ever interested let me know, can help you out.” and it’s so casual it makes it sound like he’s talking about grilling or something completely mundane.

i need to research lestappen timeline n figure out the best time for the first kiss n alll that, if anyone knows a lot ab their pasts/lestappen lore in detail, i would love ur help on figuring out a timeline i can work off of <3

[fabbyf1]

Okay, Kate here me out. I have seen some takes about Max has a crush on Charles but Charles doesn’t feel the same way and I had to share my two cents. I know no one asked this but I need to speak my peace. Yeah, sure Max will blatantly say how much he likes battling Charles and how he misses last season yada yada yada. It’s obvious he has a crush. But we’d be lying if we said Charles wasn’t crushing back.

I mean, in not so many words Charles talks about how Max motivates him; the whole talk about how seeing Max make it in F1 inspired him too. How he is always rooting for Max. How he makes sure to congratulate him when he wins. How he says his favorite moments on track are with Max. The way he will never forget the inchindent. How he looks at Max. How he wants everyone to know Max is a nice person even if the world may view him as a not so nice person. How he’s happiest when he’s racing Max and standing next to him on the podium. How he could sit or stand listening to the maxplaining for hours. How he literally felt so deeply about Austria 2019 and had to unfollow him on IG (okay maybe this is a stretch but it’s part of my favorite lestappen lore out there). How apart from Pierre who is a childhood friend, Max is the only other person on the grid he talks a lot about.

My point is, yes maybe Max is loud about how he feels about Charles but Charles the ever poised media trained prince may not be as loud but when you look at everything he says and does around Max it’s clear as day he has a crush back. Be it an “admiration for his achievements” or “maybe in another lifetime another timeline I get to call you mine” kind of way. But Charles likes Max and Max likes him back and that’s the way it is and that’s the way it has always been and forever shall be.

*sorry for any typos and incoherent ramblings. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion and here is mine which no one asked about. TY”

Also one last thing, isn’t it lovely how everyone wants to see them together from F1 to their own teams?

...

GOD, ANON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?

This was so beautiful and so well said. I'll keep saying it louder for the people in the back: CHARLES IS MAX'S BABY, BUT MAX IS CHARLES' BABY TOO.

They love each other, your honor.

[racingcore]

Hello 👋 if you don't mind me asking, what would be the general plot of the dystopian Lestappen based on Lethal Company ? I'm so curious about it, if you don’t mind sharing 🙏

hello 😊 im going to answer this assuming you know the lore so far in the game. I hope you know all of Sigurd's logs (this is going to be a long answer okay? buckle up if you are interested)

well this fic is going to be my very first and best attempt to mix Romance, Sci-fi and Horror genre. I know sounds like a mess but i think i can do it. There is going to be lot of changes in lore as game gives us very limited things to go off of.

Basically: Charles is an unhinged guiding hand and it intrigues Max so fucking much. Max sees a lot of Charles covered in blood okay? blood of the enemies ofc. Max is rookie in this field, Charles is not. Max came for this job willingly, Charles did not. Charles hates Max glorifies this job (he got it from his dad) and thus dislikes that cocky attitude cuz Max is good in the field for a "part timer". But those blue eyes remind him of some sort of home and Charles wants to smack some sense into Max cuz Charles has seen very very good people who were good at the job die.

So when things go wrong and MAx really gets what the fuck all of this is, Charles is still helpless because he doesnt know how to get out of there (he had tried trust me). But with Max there is hope.

some backstory under the cut

Charles is going to be the more experienced scrap collector and space traveller. He has been here for so long that he doesnt even remember when he joined or how. But he remembers every single person he has lost to the planets or people who he had never seen after a string of successful missions (Seb, Yuki, Estaban, etc)

What he remembers of his past is written down. Blue eyes haunt him, taunt him because he cant remember them. Charles is somewhat of a legend among the people who come to work for the Company. He is the longest employee, the one who had died the least. All he remembers is cuz he doesn't die. He is hard to kill and knows the changing planets like the back of his hand.

Max is the rookie, the "intern". He knows a lot because of his father. When he meets Charles, Max is a "part-timer" means there is no going back for him. No backing up from this fucked up death-loop memory wash contract. As Max is part timer, he thinks he has seen Charles somewhere and doesn't remember him as well (he has already started forgetting. Charles disappeared a long long time ago.) So when Max comes in Charles's ship with Daniel at the start there is some tension but it quickly goes away as death looms.

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I have more planned but im not telling you all everything XD

[logansargey]

https://www.tumblr.com/logansargey/753004552763195392/im-not-trying-to-be-rude-but-can-you-tag-your

You are so kind to anons, @logansargey! People like this really need to take a chill pill ❄️💊 like, that type of analysis and discourse is exactly what these tags are for? 🤔🤦🏻‍♀️

And it’s way better than the far too common driver hate that floods these tags because people love to hate post about drivers they don’t like (although why they give them that much of their time if they hate them so much, I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️ ).

And I love your analyses of Maxiel, Piarles, and L*stappen! Super accurate!

I started in L*stappen because of some great fanfic, but I had to cast it aside for Maxiel and Piarles as soon as I actually started paying attention to the lore and how they all interact with each other.

Because of course none of this is actually real, but the hard core L*stappies really don’t like to admit that Charles has more chemistry, and a deeper friendship, with Daniel than with Max 🤭

And no hate on L*stappen, because most L*stappies are great and just want to enjoy their ship. But the problematic people in fandom who think death threats are okay seem to be mostly into L*stappen at the moment, for whatever reason. (Maybe because the ship is built on more delusions than most others, as a friend who is also an ex-L*stappie used to say? 🤭)

Most importantly, I’m so sorry that they sent you threats! What the hell is wrong with some people?! I do hope you’re okay? Much love to you ❤️❤️ and you’re so right: let us stay strong in Maxiel and Piarles, just for these idiots! 🤭🤣)

Yes I fully agree, people hating on drivers is insane. To give someone that amount of time in your life, it's just damp behavior.

And thank you! I spend a lot of time analyzing Piarles and Maxiel and other ships (mostly because I don't have a life.)

I also started in the Lestappen fandom but quickly realized, there's literally nothing there. I tried to stay but I would rather lick a sidewalk. I also loved the chemistry Piarles and Maxiel had tg.

Charles does have a good amount of Chemistry with Daniel, more than he does with Max obviously. Mostly because Daniel and Jules were quite good friends so he kind of took Charles under his wing.

And I feel like I get a pass saying I don't see anything in that ship, because I actually did used to ship them, but now I literally can't. There's nothing there for me.

And love you too!! I will be staying strong for the Piarles and Maxiel girls✊🏼

[cupidskissx]

team principal au? TEAM PRINCIPAL AU? shaki ng crying throwing up on my knees please tell me EVERYTHING ABOUT IT!!!

Ahhh 😍 you caught me before I was able to update my post after you tagged me (stay tuned for that 😘)!

I’m currently grinning from ear to ear, bless you!! 🫠😁 I hope you enjoy my rambling 💕

The Team Principal AU is in its infancy, mostly in my brain… 🙈

I self-diagnosed myself with monster-sized brainworms after listening to Mastermind for that prompt.

It made me obsess over Max trying to be sneaky and wriggling his way into Charles’ life because he finds him endearing, interesting and obviously gorgeous — he has eyes, and it’s been a while, okay... But it’s not just lust, Max knows that from the start, he tries not to be afraid of that.

Max is a patient man, he knows he can’t be too forward with someone like Charles — someone who could have anyone they wanted. So he tries to employ stealth and his god-given charm to make Charles fall in love with him without him realising.

I have a couple of very rough thoughts, some of them include Max teaching rookie TP Charles about paddock lore and how to navigate the travelling circus while it feels like you’re balancing plates, juggling knives and walking a tight rope all at once.

Max finds creative and subtle ways to make sure he’s in the right place at the right time to sidle up to Charles at any given moment.

But this is Lestappen we’re talking about, they’re born competitors. Therefore, there’ll be team rivalry! Maybe tensions rise after a bad race… maybe harsh words are thrown in the media pen… maybe they’ll have to figure out if they can separate what happens on track from what happens off track if they’re going to have any hope at all…

🥰 Thank you for reading xx

[blorbocedes]

okay, so. you love brocedes, you love lestappen. the arcs seem so polar-opposite so here go essay wild should you wish (mainly bc i would love to read it. and feel free to talk about carlando as well bc that too is a wildly different dynamic to brocedes and lestappen.)

what makes you love each?

do you have a favorite between the two (or three). does one pull on your heartstrings more than the other?

are there similarities?

<3

hi Xiao ☺️ here's my carlando essay so I'll focus mainly on the brothercedes and lest we stappens here. strap yourself, im about to maxplain

first thing about me: my favourite trope in the whole world is friends to lovers (crowd booing) it's having a shared history, the familiarity, how you can only truly hurt someone you love [and the possibility of reconciliation, to come back home insert seb clip about rbr]

brocedes is actually why I got into f1 fandom! i saw ONE (1) Richard Siken edit and it was over for me

literally. i have not used tumblr in 7 YEARS i used it just for lurking and that goddamn edit compelled me to write my first fic (during the writing of which I found out they still lived in the same building??? i lost my mind and have not found it since)

lestappen was a see it to believe it moment, I watched miami gp and saw these two championship rivals being Cute and Max's earnestness to talk to charl got to me. i was like oh yeah okay I see it. i don't choose anything I like, I either see The Vision or I don't -- and while brocedes is like I'm an archeologist excavating a fallen city trying to figure out what happened piece the lore, lestappen is happening In Front Of Our Eyes we're witnessing the stars getting crossed, the history in the making <3

I might have the most confusing layout cause I'm a max girlie whose pfp is charles, and header is brocedes named blorbocedes while I pray on merc's flop era 😭 (ending but never forgotten), while rooting for redbulls [sorry but I've seen my Ferrari girlies SUFFERING, I'll stick to my world champion 🥰]

in many ways, lestappen and brocedes are like a foil to each other (crowd booing, we get it u did literary analysis in highschool once) where brocedes were a childhood friendship gone wrong, lestappen are childhood rivals turned tentative friends. there's just something very compelling about a world champion and his main rival trying to keep a friendship alive while directly competing, and having years of shared history to get there. brocedes DREAMING of becoming teammates, world champions together; both max and charl saying how they have a mutual respect now that they'd both made it to f1. And that's before even touching the cut throat life and politics of getting into f1, the concept of being golden boys.

my favourite lestappen and brocedes parallel is that lewis and nico's first karting race nico led the whole race then on the final lap, lewis crossed him and won the race; and compare with the Inchident™️ but Nico & Lewis became best friends, whereas Charl held an admittedly one sided grudge against Max during their karting days.

brocedes is everything that went wrong, lestappen is how it can go right (we can learn from lovers past who didnt make it)

do I have a favourite? yes. brocedes. i, yeah. they light my brain on fire.

HOWEVER, I enjoy brocedes as a reader and consumer, whereas as lestappen I am compelled to write for them (also I'm the only one who gets them and everyone else is wrong 😤) I suppose it is a bit passé to say anything outside of "ahh I write for myself and inherent love for writing" fuck that lol I write for attention I like it when people read my shit and we can talk about it 🥰🥰🥰 I also disagree with popular fandom interpretation with lestappen (which is fine, it has a huge audience so it clearly works for a lot of people) but that's why I have to write my own food for them. I have so many lestappen wips 😭

(like I don't think charl is a soft fragile thing who needs taken care of, even tho I also mine charl pain for content so like I Get it but also no one else gets it, and don't fucking get me started on the 'jos verstappen's A+ parenting' tag that's another essay in itself)