Soulmate AU but your soulmate is represented by an animal that follows you around since the soulmates birth. (Kinda like the golden compass shtick). Oh and these animals age as their representatives do which differentiates them from regular ones.
Daniel waits 8 years before a lion cub appears before him and Max’s honey badger appears about 30 seconds after he is born.
Daniel is thrilled when the lion cub pads up to him, sniffs his leg before settling at his feet but when he gets older he realises how much younger his soulmate is.
Max’s honey badger is an adult well before Max is but Max loves him and corrects anyone who assumes it’s a regular badger or a skunk with a whole info-dump on how badass honey badgers are. Even his dad cannot separate Max and the honey badger (and once the honey banger pissed on his dads bed because he was mad he made Max upset. He then bit Jos when he tried to get close to either of them).He names the badger Lief.
Daniel’s lion matures into a large fearsome beast but is actually just a big softie when you get to know him and Daniel loves burying his hands and face into his mane. (The fact that the lion is a boy threw Daniel through a loop for a bit but he got over it.) The lion (creatively named Leo) likes licking Daniel’s palm to show affection and glaring and growling at people who either get too close or make Daniel feel any type of negative emotions. It never bites but they don’t know that.
When Max moves up to Red Bull, they decide to keep their animals apart for a while because of their typical nature in the wild. However when they do introduce them, both Max and Daniel are surprised at how well their soulmate animals get along. And when they themselves start bonding quickly, Max starts to suspect Daniel is his soulmate. It makes sense, considering how relaxed his honey badger is with Daniel’s lion and Daniel literally has the nickname of ‘honey badger’ so….
Daniel is also starting to suspect for the same reasons. But he doesn’t like it. Once again Daniel is reminded of their age difference and wants to just live in denial at least for a little while.
Furthermore, Leo the lion has no problem with Max no matter what happens. He bumps his nose into Max and demands pets when usually he would keep to himself (except for Daniel). And Lief the honey badger takes naps on Daniel’s lap.
It takes a while for Daniel to finally get his head out of his ass and confront it but when Max gets the nickname ‘the Dutch lion’ and it sticks, the two can no longer avoid it. [insert kiss & make up scene lovely beautiful angst over merry christmas]
The next GP weekend the two of them walk into the paddock, pinky fingers linked as a lion carries a sleeping honey badger on his back behind them, growling at anything that tries to disturb it.
And when either of them win a race a resounding roar can be heard across the paddock
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sometimes spite is a powerful motivator and today its motivating me to crochet
long story short I saw a cool bag on pinterest while I was looking for crochet patterns but there was no fucking pattern but one of my friends found a pattern for a similar but not quite bag so I watched an hour long video, transcribed it into text, and am now gonna make a wholeass backpack just because Sunflower Vibe
Wish me luck I guess
Also this is the bag
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