#I feel like my destiny moots are exhausted by the explanations but I have so many non-destiny moots

[n7viper]

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I’m a bit late on this one and I’m afraid I don’t have much in the way of actual writing to share at the moment 😅 It’s purely vibes. It is based on this lovely (and very NSFW!) art by me1onmi1k if you’d like to take a look on Twitter :3

I’ve mentioned this a few times possibly, so apologies for those that have seen it. This is my interpretation of what happens between the part of Season of the Lost where Crow regains the memories of his past life and then when we work with him again in Season of the Risen. And when I say memories, I am specifically focusing on the memory of being killed in a previous life by my OC, with whom he is now in a relationship. He’s overwhelmed by these memories and canonically asks to be put on another assignment and asks the PC to give him some space.

I wanted this mini fic to just be gross sappy romantic make up sex, the fucking works. A sudden and previously unspoken “I love you”. Because nothing says that like crying while being balls deep in your lover. Well, imo :)

Tears prickled at the corners of her eyes as she paused over the largest scar in the center—the mark of a hand cannon. Why had he come back even after knowing this?

[alianoralacanta]

I have a theory about this, compatible with and partially complementary to @gayferrari 's:

- In qualifying, it looked like the lost lap was going to make a huge difference to Charles Leclerc's race position. Charles was seriously disappointed, and knew he'd felt something weird with the tyre temperatures on the out-lap. It felt like because of this, qualifying and the race would have been a disaster no matter what choices he made after the steering wheel was in his hands. And if there's one thing still Charles reacts badly to after all these years, it's someone taking his hope from him. He has, on a couple of previous occasions, flown into an explanation without waiting for the opportunity to check if the computer agrees with him (Spain 2023 qualifying is the most memorable example). It could have happened again. It may be moot, for the following possibility: - In the race, Charles charged through to finish 5th, finding that tyres were the limiting factor. Yes, he could have done better had he qualified higher. However, he almost certainly couldn't have kept pace with the McLarens over the entire race. Given that Verstappen was between the McLarens, he was also out of reach (even if Charles momentarily surprised him into thinking he had managed to undercut him and deny him his eventual 2nd place). So the best he could have done with a higher start position was probably 4th. I think this would lead to the following ideas: - Charles had control over his destiny today, which meant he presumably also had it yesterday and just didn't realise it - The gap between 5th and 4th is rather smaller than the gap between 1st-3rd and whatever position Charles' brain was telling him he was going to get from a fifth-row start yesterday - The difference between whatever Charles' brain had been telling him was possible, and the 5th he actually got, was big enough that this was basically a win - Yes, Charles is now comfortable with telling people they got it wrong when it is 100% their fault. But he's still more comfortable in situations where he can take some of the blame - not because he likes blame in itself (few people do), but because it means he can help make the situation better in future - Winning together feels better than winning alone.

From that the revelation, which I'm hypothesising went thus: "If all I needed was 8th instead of 9th to get the best position I could have got, maybe I could have done something on warm-up, or braked earlier, or something, to save the lap and get 8th. If the blanket worked, all the more reason to admit fault. If it didn't, it still didn't matter. And if I say something along those lines, I can help my friends and remind us all that we win together." Which he did - with all the excitement of a revelation he had literally 10 minutes earlier, as well as the feel of might-as-well-be-victory, soaked through with what looked suspiciously like heat exhaustion. In this theory, not only didn't Ferrari tell Charles to say that, it more or less couldn't, because it didn't know the thought process to say "yes" or "no" to it. (Bear in mind that nothing about my hypothesis requires the tyre blanket to have been in any particular state. Of course, if @gayferrari's theory is also correct, all the more reason for Charles to act as he did!)

Charles going back on what he said after qualifying in every single interview after the race and even in the post race video, making sure to say it was HIS fault and not anyone else’s is very strange to me. Is this why they didn’t let him make a video after qualifying? What did Sylvia do to him? All he said was that the tyre blankets were not working. Why did they make sure he said it was his fault in all the post race interviews?