I’m not gonna lie seeing Marc kneel down in the gravel to bow to his fans was amazing and then I got immediate war flashbacks to his 2020 crash and had to try not to cry cause omg he did it he found the way.
HE IS MY FAVORIITE ANIME PROTAGONIST !!! JEREZ 2020 VS JEREZ 2024 !!!! thank you to dear friend maïna @kingofthering for hunting down the pics from today as i am. on the clock.)
One of the GPone journalists said that at a certain point in parc fermé it seemed that Marquez was looking at Valentino probably expecting even the slightest acknowledgement but Valentino completely ignored him. Nice to see how journalists also write their own fanfics
"eh, anyway Pecco thinks of Marquez as one of his adversaries for the championship, and he has shown his attitude towards Marquez this year: when he [Marc] passes him he tries to pass him right back and that's really important, that's really important because otherwise one like Marquez after that tends to 'eat above you head' [this means 'show his superiority', 'be better'], if he sees your a bit less strong or that you're bleeding he bits you harder"
the two hour period after a race ends where it’s angry text posts fading into media pen gifs fading into a preview of a fic that’s like the tyre strategy may have fucked him but his teammate fucked him harder. that’s the ecosystem