in a fit of complete insanity i wrote like. 4k today SO. here's a snippet of the popstar!lando/driver!oscar fake dating au :)
“All right,” Lando says, clicking the seatbelt close as an employee of the hot laps finishes fiddling with the camera and shuts the car door. “Send it, baby.”
Oscar snorts. “Are you sure you want me to send it?”
“Yeah, mate,” Lando says, and he’s grinning, excitement clear in his face. “I can read you, Oscar Piastri. You’re a sweet guy. You’ll treat me right.”
“Sure,” Oscar says, and floors it.
Lando lets out what Oscar can only describe as a delighted scream as the car goes flying off onto the race track, going from 0 to 100 in no time. Oscar jerks the steering wheel, only breaks a little bit as he sends it through the first corner, and Lando laughs, a bright, elated sound, and says, “Oh, you’re going to ride me good, aren’t you?”
Oscar snorts, would pinch the bridge of his nose if his hands weren’t currently occupied on the steering wheel. “I mean, that’s one way to word it,” he says, as they weave their way through the first few corners.
“Seriously, can I hire you?” Lando asks, and Oscar nearly sends them flying into the gravel, only just managing to save it. Lando lets out a surprised little squawk as he’s flung against the door.
“What, to ride you?” Oscar asks, because for sure that’s not what Lando means, but it’s. Well. The implication.
Lando is grinning, Oscar can see the mischievous little sparkle in his eyes in the rearview mirror. “Yeah!” He says. “In a car, of course.”
“Of course,” Oscar says. Lando is a weird little dude. He’s not sure what he’s supposed to think of him yet, but it’s the first time today he’s allowed to have a little bit of fun without constantly receiving pitying looks and well meant back pats, so. He’ll take it.
“I’m working on a music video, for my new single,” Lando finally elaborates. “I’ve been thinking of doing some stuff with fast cars, maybe.”
Oscar hums, sends the car flying down the straight, really flooring it. Lando lets out something that lands somewhere between a delighted cackle and a terrified scream.
“Maybe not this fast,” he yells over the roar of the car, gripping his seat and nearly hitting his head on the dash as Oscar hits the break for the corner and sends Lando flying forward.
“Hey, it’s all or nothing,” Oscar says, grinning as he presses the accelerator again, and Lando laughs.
“I like that about you, Oscar Piastri,” he says, and then promptly bangs his helmet against the car door as Oscar sends the car through another corner.
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Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
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Hopping on the schmooching express!🚂
You better count me in on @ashipiko lipstick challenge have also been loving everyone else's entries AAAA
@dibbledoodle was a bit funky and made this more interesting by using a character wheel and by random get a character to smoocharoo with, evidently i got Epel! He might not be Vil but he still deserves all the kith in the world~
But it seems to not be quite over yet..
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