#it just feels very random to write f1 rpf and all f1 drivers are side characters? though i guess by writing from dan's/max's perspective -

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Maxiel Italy, please? 👀

Ahhh thank you so much! I don’t think I’ve ever really talked about this fic before outside of the one mood board (x) I made for it, I’m a bit nervous haha

I have to be real honest, I haven’t worked on this fic in 10 months, so I had to read into the first chapter again to remember the details! I also have to say that the title of that folder is kind of confusing, since the fic isn’t even set in Italy for the most part. It’s somewhat inspired by an Italian series (not plot-wise, it just somehow made me come up with this), and the actual main character of this story has a connection to Italy, so maybe that’s why I chose it.

While Maxiel is the main pairing of this fic, they’re not exactly the main characters. I’ve been a bit anxious about this project because this story builds around an OC, and that feels kind of weird and like something people might not be into? That’s why I mostly kept quiet about this fic, that and because I have so much editing to do, it’s painful - it’s a pretty complex story, why do I keep torturing myself like that?

The original plan for this fic was to split it into three parts, with each part written from the perspective of one character (so Max, Daniel, and the OC) through the various stages of life of that OC but I have to admit that I haven’t gotten that far yet with that fic; I’m really trying to take my time and work through it slowly, to get all the details and my ideas well thought out.

Anyway, have Max interacting with a child because the conversations in this fic are very dear to me for some reason, and because I’ll keep rambling for another hour if I don’t put the snippet here now :”)

“She left Papà. She's not coming back but that's okay. I still have Papà and Papà has me, so it's okay, right?”

Max nods gently, not sure whether there is actually a right reply to the girl's question. He doesn't want to discourage her or scare her with his thoughts, so he keeps quiet for a while and thinks about how a child can be so chill about it all. He doubts that Ludovica is showing him all her feelings, she surely must be at least slightly upset about her parents- breaking up? divorcing? Max doesn't even know that. He's not her guidance counselor, he's her English teacher, he shouldn't want to know that anyway. Still, it concerns him, and he shuffles his feet on the step underneath them, tiny stones cracking under the soles of his black shoes while Ludovica looks at her hands and smiles.

“I love Papà, he tries his best. He wanted to help me with my uniform today, it was a disaster. He paid my hairdresser to show him how to do my hair,” she tells Max and giggles at the last sentence. Max chuckles softly and compliments her hair, he's glad that she is opening up to him about it, hoping that it might somehow help her to talk about this with someone who isn't a family member, someone who should have an emotional distance, someone who has a different view on her situation.

“Papà keeps saying that I remind him of my mom. I feel bad sometimes, I don't want to make him sad when I remind him of her. I think he misses mom more than I do,” Ludovica continues, and Max continues thinking about it all, and he almost loses his balance on the stairs when the roaring of an engine breaks the comfortable silence of the almost empty parking lot.

(Send me an ask with the title from this list that most intrigues you, and I’ll post a little snippet of it and tell you something about it!)