For Darcy, @souvenir116 🩵
Max Verstappen & Charles Leclerc ; growing up together and growing up alike
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood / Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic / Charles via The Sports Rush / A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh / Max via Sportskeeda / PlanetF1 / m.h. / Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It / Walk The Moon, Come Under The Covers / Charles via Sportskeeda / unknown
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🎶 I can’t believe that it’s finally me and you, and you and me, just us, and your friend Steve. (And my desperate need to hold your waist.)
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du Steve. 🎶
max I dont care about hamilton but I wonder about Charles
Oscar finally got his dad next to him and immediately started yapping. That's some Max Verstappen genes right there.
Charles can match anyone’s freak.
It just so happens that Max is the freakiest of them all.
So, we—along with the rest of the grid—get to witness Charles easily matching his freak the way no one could. And it always leaves them so happy because (a) Max can fully go all out on his freak, and (b) Charles can now see just how freaky he can be.
In the voice of Gloria Pritchett, "It's a freakshow. But it's their freakshow."
Every so often I recall the funniest blink-and-you-miss-it moment on Dressrosa, when Luffy picks up Zoro and Law and is about to jump off a plateau. Law is panicking but Zoro is calm and steady, his captain’s arm around his neck in a chokehold, ready to go wherever his captain chooses to take him. (CHAPTER 746) (Ep 682)
Remember how much Zoro hated being hauled around by Luffy pre-timeskip? Pepperidge farm This ZoLu shipper remembers! Zoro used to hit Luffy, yell at him, threaten to cut him for physically manhandling him (usually with a Gomu Gomu no Rocket). Look at this fool now! His damn face is horizontal and he’s just, like, “Cool.” This 180 was so out of character that I remember pausing in my reading out of surprise. Over time, I realized this is just part of a growing pattern of behavior:
Post-timeskip, Zoro got soft.
Okay, yeah, post-timeskip Zoro is more muscular, has a prominent facial scar, doesn’t smile or laugh as much anymore, and spouts these tough-guy one-liners. But when it comes to Luffy, Zoro got sooooo soft.
Pre-timeskip, Zoro scolded Luffy often for being impulsive, for rocketing people around, for blowing their cover, etc. He was mostly on the same wavelength as Luffy, but there were frequent moments of exasperation where he would threaten to cut Luffy (jokingly?) or yell at Luffy for being an idiot.
But post-timeskip? Those two years clearly did a number on our swordsman because compared to before, he is a complete pushover when it comes to his captain.
Luffy is quiet because he senses something is amiss? Zoro immediately notices and asks “What’s wrong” like a worried mother hen.
Luffy needs to get across a frozen lake? Zoro is already stretching.
Luffy is fighting in the coliseum despite being on an undercover mission? Zoro laments not being there fighting alongside him.
Luffy wants to cause a ruckus over Otama/red bean soup? Zoro draws his sword and is ready to tag-team this mess.
Luffy jumps Zoro and nearly suffocates him face-hugger style? Not only does Zoro not reprimand Luffy, he is over the moon smiling like a moron and offering up food.
A lot can be said about WHY Zoro is now so tolerant of Luffy’s antics, way more than before. But setting aside “why,” it’s clear that Zoro is officially Luffy’s number one enabler. He will indulge Luffy’s every whim. He will lay all their enemies at his captain’s feet. He will follow Luffy into disasters and celebrations alike. He will forgive AND defend all of Luffy’s wrongs.
This man is so whipped. This man is so soft for his captain. This man is a fucking marshmallow.
I thinks it’s vitally important to talk about how Charles tried to involve Max in the conversation in the cool down room…
Or how the first thing Max did out of the car was walk over to Charles and start chatting with him. ESPECIALLY since it was evident he didn’t want to talk to the media about anything.
Or how max almost went out of his way to giver Charles his mic after he was done with his interview.
personally I don't think we as a society talk enough about charles calling pierre mon petit
Beware👁️👁️
I've been thinking on this all day so I decided to chat a bit:
I love watching Charles perform miracles in his cars. Expecting a p6 or p7 and getting a p4 is lovely. In Monza hoping maybe for a podium after starting p4 and then winning it was glorious. There is nothing that gives you that same level of excitement like Charles performing a miracle.
But I don't want miracles.
I want Charles to have a serious and competitive car. Not for half a season, not for 4-6 races, not with the occasional engine dying. But a real serious car. One where he has confidence in it and when he does a "miracle" it isn't for p4 but for the win. It's so frustrating watching how much effort he puts into this team only to get nothing in return.
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