important question who is the dragon and who is the phoenix
I feel like Max is the dragon and Charles is the phoenix.
But, uh, I just looked up the significance of the dragon and the phoenix in Chinese mythology and, well. That was certainly A Choice by the commentator.
max to mercedes rumors heightening… we might get newey… all these major changes that didn’t seem possible. and the timing is HORRIBLE you mean to tell me there’s a world where max is willing to leave rbr AND WE COULD HAVE HAD FERRARI LESTAPPEN?
It's always so funny to me because if you just look at current lestappen you seemingly have sweet angel - faced pr princess Charles and then supposedly aggressive mad Max, who's terrible but has a soft spot for Charles and has "calmed down in recent years" and if anything Charles befriended Max rather than the opposite.
But if you actually look at their history and personalities you realise that Max is a bit of a socially - awkward person who just wanted to befriend Charles and believed in their shared success, while Charles is a terror that was thinking up 500 different ways to be rid of Max before reaching 18
Max is much better than me because if I’d spent my youth being outwardly terrorised by this close to feral opponent who I still maintained great respect and admiration for only for a great PR campaign to be run to make it seem like it was the OPPOSITE growing up I would probably bite something.
Lestappens one sided beef is giving one of those reddit posts titled smth like-
"TIFU by finding out that apparently me and my academic rival have been dating for the past 10 years"
"In my defence I 25M just thought that we were in a really intense fight to get that scholarship and didnt consider the fact that all of those 'intellectually nourishing' outings we had were just... dates'
AU where Max never publicly dates until one day he mentions “my boyfriend Charles” in an interview after his third championship win and everyone, Charles included, has a category 5 meltdown. Silvia locks Charles up in Maranello while Charles protests “I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WE WERE DATING”. A follow up interview with Max has him saying that they’ve been together for years. Chaos ensues.
it's 3pm on a friday and i have so much work left, i cant do this rn 😭
Sometimes, I think I’m being a tad too delusional over them, and then the Lestappen scholars uncover something like this and it’s like, yeah no. They’re far weirder about each other than we could’ve ever imagined.