#and then hes obviously kind hearted. i dont mean that hes a cold snake bitch. its just- hes very aloof. very carefree. cactus type of friend

[chiliconsharls]

I was about to get all 'uh, excuse me there are a lot of Charlos fans out there who DO ship Charles with a lot of other people' and then started actually thinking about it only to realise that yeah there might be but I am NOT one of them 😂 Like I'll read the odd lestappen, or charlando, or chaniel, but I don't seek them out unless they're by an author I already like.

For me personally, I think there's a couple of factors at play here: I don't actually find Charles all that interesting and the fact he's fandom's favorite son makes him even less interesting to me (he tends to be characterized in a very bland way on the whole, I think), whereas Carlos is fucking fascinating, and two, I'm a bit older and tend to be more drawn to drivers closer to my own age.

From my observations, I think if you made an aggregate of your average charlos shipper discounting outliers, you'd probably find this is pretty common. Charlos shippers tend to skew a little bit older (at least, compared to your average lestappie or landoscar etc), and just generally like Carlos more.

Two cents from someone who was initially 'excuse me anon wtf are you talking about' and then was like 'oh, oh fuck lol'

No right bc i was exactly like this too!! Lmao when I first got the question I got a little defensive like hold on a second ☝️🤨 and then ☝️😕..... 🫣 Bc yeah, I don't care for other Charles ships to the degree I care about Charlos (i also don't care that much about other Carlos ships either, but I know at least with carcar I'm VERY invested)

I do agree that Charles' general characterization is very basic and very bland. And I sorta see where you come from with ur assessment that he seems kinda boring. Lately, it's been brought to my attention that Ferrari socmed truly killed his whimsy so, the roads most fans seem to go to with Charles as a character are not that enticing to most.

I'm on the "older fan" spectrum in fandom. But bc I'm right in the middle of charlos, age wise, I can't honestly think of Charles as a youngster anymore (I used to, when he was in Sauber and his first years at Ferrari - and I think that's the reason why I can't ship romantic/sexual sebchal at all), so I do tend to gravitate towards him just as I do with Carlos. In fact, I tend to feel like Charles makes me more insane that Carlos does. Bc while I do find both of them fascinating, the way I see and read Carlos' character is very simple, even if he's complex himself. Whereas Charles just holds multitudes inside him, and he can be contradictory, and insane, and a babygirl, and have the eyes of a neglected hamster. I really need to pick his brain sometimes.

But yeah, to me he just doesn't have quite the chemistry with other drivers bc he most of the times seems like he doesn't care that much. But with Carlos he does, with Carlos he stares and he needs to be touched and hes borderline obsessive