#hopefully he'll reach such a status soon that he can be as sneakily mean as he wants and still be adored to heavens and back

[dhufflebee]

plz tell us more about 'viperella 🐍'!! why do italian lecfosi call him that? (also you're so correct re: charles being a slytherin. 100%)

hi! a fellow hogwarts scholar, I see 🤓

okay, so. "viperella" in italian literally means "little viper", and we use it to talk about someone who's a bit of a cheeky bastard, who can say sneaky-mean things and still save face

on twt, italian fans use it (affectionately!) for charles a lot when they talk about his karting & feeder series days, because he was truly feral still – biggest example being when he told the italian sky commentator there'd be no way his teammate fights for a wdc instead of himself, but honestly the inchident interview absolutely 100% quialifies too

sadly the ferrari pr training is a powerful beast, so the first years he was in f1 he was starstruck and/or still trying to prove himself. however, lately his mean tendencies have started to come back in full force! charles is often sarcastic, eyerolling left right and center during interviews, making little comments in team radios, and taking full advantage of his angel face to say funnily backhanded or downright mean things to/about other drivers – especially carlos recently, remember the glorious "i'm better than charles at any sport" "not racing!" convo? or even all the little comments post-monza in which charles keeps saying how he enjoyed racing hard whereas carlos was basically shitting himself 🤭

a lot of charles's tactical likes on twitter are examples as well, and we truly love them. mostly we love that his still-perfect pr training sometimes cracks infinitesimally, especially now that the season(s) and car are what they are – and even though being mean isn't pretty per se, it is one of charles's core personality trait and it's fun when it comes back out

so if you happen to haunt the scary halls of italian ferrari twt and you see tweets about charles with "viperella" or even just the 🐍 emoji in them, that's why

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