different anon, but there are so many (okay, not that many) fics where charles used to be with pierre and ends up with max, or pierre is pining while charles gets with max that i just really like when it's max->charles <--> pierre. something about how lestappen only has racing (if that) but pierre and charles have a relationship that developped beyond racing and they maintain the effort to keep it going despite increasing engagements. it's about pierre being chosen and not having to fight for validation or love.

oh my god, anon, YES. i was reading your ask nodding all the way through it like 🙏‼️ you are SO correct, friend!! in fact, this is something @boxboxbrioche and i have discussed at length - how we'd LOVE to see a fic where the "standard" (and in our opinion sickening, sorry, lol) trope of pierre-pining-for-charles-who-loves-max is INVERTED. let's have max pine for charles who is perfectly, beautifully happy with pierre!!!! because exactly like you said, anon: lestappen don't have any sort of relationship outside of racing, and even in racing, it's... they're friendly coworkers, at best. not friends. (charles has repeatedly said that pierre is his only real friend on the grid!!)

pierre and charles, though - they're genuinely friends and they genuinely love each other's company. like you said: they make an effort to stay close despite increasing engagements and hectic lives. they make an effort for each other - and if that isn't love, then what is? (not whatever charles and max have, that's for sure.)

perhaps i'm a bit petty, and too much of a pierre girl at heart - but oh my god, i HATE the way pierre tends to be portrayed in charles/max fics. either he's an asshole, or he's not even there (lol) or there's this whole idea that he might love charles but he can never have/deserve charles. i'm sorry, but to me that's BULLSHIT. charles has chosen pierre over and over - what more do you need? in short, anon, i couldn't agree more with you when you said "it's about pierre being chosen and not having to fight for validation or love." you are so so so SO right for that take 🙏 i am right there with you, and i crave a fic where it's never even questioned that pierre is the one who charles chooses. and it's max who has to fight for scraps of validation/love (because let's be honest, this is the most accurate portrayal, anyway!)

maybe briony and i will write this fic one day 👀❤️ but until then: thank you SO much for sharing your thoughts, anon, and i think i can safely speak for briony too when i say that we both agree COMPLETELY and you are 100% correct 🙏❤️

not to add more piarles break up to your inbox buuuuut cedar by gracie abrams is soooooo good. "I forget you aren't mine" the whole chorus, "every empty sunday night", "it's been weird to miss you hits me at the strangest times"

WAHHHHHH... oh my god, anon, break my heart, why don't you?? 😭 but yeah, i just had a listen to this one, and god. GOD. you are absolutely correct - this is a perfect piarles breakup song 💔

these lyrics are how i would write a piarles breakup if i ever did it, i think - the heartbreaking struggle to get used to not being his anymore ("it's impossible to acclimate") and the staying in contact (because they are friends first!!! always!) but not being able to tell the truth fully anymore ("every time we talk, we understate") and how the breakup was mutual (because one of their fundamental things is that they agree on most things/rarely argue, as pierre has said in interviews) BUT perhaps both left things unsaid here ("you told me that you felt the same // when i told you that i needed space // but i think it was a lie") AND THEN OF COURSE the extra heartbreak of losing closeness with someone who was your best friend too ("it's wild how it dissipates // how you're further from me every day // this could be the worst goodbye") and the yearning at the end that's like "remind me why?" why did we call it quits? can't we... can't we fix it somehow?

to me, that's how a piarles breakup would go. and this really is the perfect song for it 😭💙 thank you so much for sharing, anon!!

Just discovered the song Your Stupid Face by Karen Mackay and it is soooooo incredibly Piarles coded oh my days (especially the song from Charles’ point of view) and now I’m obsessed. Basically my thinking atm is a meet ugly where non racer Charles is just pissed off at F1 racer Pierre for some reason (I’m not creative enough to think of the reason 😅 Pierre’s rude or overly cocky when Charles has had a bad day and it tips him over the edge?) but he’s in also in denial about the fact that he finds Pierre really quite attractive (‘I hate your stupid face’) but EVENTUALLY he gives in and excepts he ‘loves (his) stupid face’. Of course Pierre’s liked this cute guy that got mad at him and looked even cuter the whole time and just liked to antagonise and tease him. And I know you said you didn’t want angst but I promise it’s only a little! Maybe Pierre has to go back to racing and Charles feels he messed up and they got in an argument and didn’t talk before Pierre left and Charles thinks P will just forget about him (‘the world denied me one last kiss’). Obvs Pierre doesn’t because he’s just as smitten as Charles and he comes back and that whole conversation type verse of the song happens (dialogue just based on what is said :)) and yayy Charles realises that his feelings are reciprocated and not he’s not stupid for falling for a famous guy :) This got very long but the thought wormed it’s way into my brain and I had to share it, I hope you have a nice weekend!

oh my gosh!! 😍 well first of all, thank you SO much for sharing the brainworms, anon - this made me grin so much! and secondly: what a cute song, omg?? this is not my usual style of music at all, but i gave it a go and it's so quirky and cute and fun. i surprised myself by loving it 😂😍

and yes! i could definitely see it as piarles coded - the situation you described, DEFINITELY, or maybe even some sort of a high school au? jock pierre and music kid charles, or something of the like... genuinely, it would just be the most adorable little rom-com.

these lines especially struck me as VERY pierre-and-charles, lmao:

cute cute cute!! 🤣😍 thanks so much for sharing, dear anon, this made me smile SO much this fine tuesday morning <3333

(strawberry pasta anon here)

i can promise you that it isn't a bad concept especially when pasta isn't exactly savoury,,, it's more uh plain? or just don't salt the water to cook pasta too much, so it is quite good

and love you too hah it's really nice to discuss cultural differences and experience an utter shock from it

HI AGAIN!! 😍💕 awww, you just make me smile so much, dear anon 🤗 and you're so right! i love hearing about different cultures and seeing people's reactions, hehe 🤭🥰 and about that pasta! so... 🙈 i always cook my pasta quite salty and very al dente, so i can't quite imagine NOT having it like that, to be honest with you. but there's a first time for everything, no? unless my girlfriend kills me for cooking crimes ofc 😆 then it's the first and last time, hehe xD

sorry if it's too much but I NEED to know your opinions on these 4, 7, 8, 13, 21, 41, 54 🫣

thank youu, love you, 💋💋💋

hiiii anon! 😍😍💕 you know, my first reaction when i saw this mega ask was "what a LEGEND." and yes, i am quite aware of how much that sentence sounds like something george russell might say. but to quote him again: FACTS. you are an absolute legend for this!! in my opinion, there's no such thing as too much when it comes to piarles, so, mwah 🫶🥰 let's go!

4. Which one is more protective? Who needs to be ‘protected’?

ohhh, great one 👀 and i think my answer here might surprise some people, but i'm actually going to go for: charles is more protective, and pierre needs to be protected. hear me out - charles has been in a much more stable career position for much longer than pierre. i mean, he has a five year contract with freaking ferrari. above all that, he's italy's literal darling, and the tifosi would do pretty much anything for him, probably. he has a massive base of support, is my point. pierre? not so much. he's been stuck in the red bull machinery for years, and i don't need to re-hash 2019 here.

actually, no, i am going to re-hash 2019, at least a little bit. because 2019 was a prime instance of charles being protective of pierre: no matter what any journalist or anyone tried to get from him, he never said one bad word about pierre. he insisted that pierre is a great driver, and if you go watch that infamous and horrible 2019 post-demotion press conference, you will see charles pressed tight to pierre's side all throughout it. pierre needed him then, and charles was there.

in my headcanons, 2019 actually had a massive influence on their protector/protected one dynamic. pre-2019: yes, it probably would have been pierre being more protective of charles, since he is the older one, etc etc. however, after 2019, i feel like charles would have become a hundred times more protective of pierre. we see it in interviews - he's always praising pierre as a driver, saying how much he deserves a second chance. i get the distinct feeling that if anyone said anything bad about pierre where charles could hear it... well. i always like to picture it like this: charles is the kind of person who would give you a babygirl smile and make you think he's an absolutely harmless little angel, but then turn around and quite calmly get you fired from your job. still smiling.

so yeah, i think charles is more protective of pierre - quietly, and in his own way, but very efficiently. ❤️💪

7. Would they build a pillow fort together just because?

yessss 🥺🥺 in my mind, they absolutely would. since they're childhood best friends -- they probably used to build pillow forts together when they were little and going on holiday together, right? so doing it again now would be very nostalgic, and i could totally see them squished together under a too-small, structurally shaky pillow-and-blanket construction, reminiscing about all their favourite memories. and how it's always been the two of them, and it was never going to be anyone else, and and and -- yeah. i'm a little obsessed, but, well. it's about the childhood friends to lovers of it all for me 🥺❤️

8. What happens if one of them gets sick?

i feel like this very much depends on who's the one to get sick? if it's pierre... i feel like he's an absolutely terrible patient, and charles completely despairs over him. like. he HATES lying still in bed. complains every minute of every hour that he would rather be doing literally anything active. in fact, he probably tries to get up and go to the bloody gym while running a ridiculous fever. and charles would be like "YOU CAN'T FUCKING DO THAT" absolutely losing it with worry, whereas pierre would be all "it's fine, chéri." (this man definitely doesn't care about his own health enough.) in short, pierre is the most annoying and exasperating patient ever, and charles is over there tearing out his hair - and also probably calling both pascales and the ferrari team doctor for advice and all the help they might possibly need, because, well. he will do anything for pierre, after all.

(oh my god. this just reminded me... i actually have a half-written ficlet/drabble somewhere about charles taking care of a sick pierre. hmmm. maybe i should dig that up again 👀👀)

anyway! if charles is the one who gets sick, then i feel like it's almost the complete opposite, lmao. as long as it's not a really serious illness, then i feel like charles would be an absolute baby about it. taking every chance to be curled up under the covers, waited on hand and foot... "can you get me some more tea, mon amour? i am just feeling so unwell and couldn't possibly get up and do it myself 🥺" pierre sees right through him, obviously, but he indulges charles. (when doesn't he?) on the flip side, i also feel that if charles were ever quite seriously sick, then he'd downplay it a lot. pretend it's not half as bad as it actually is, etc. etc. of course, pierre would see right through him yet again, and it's at this point that pierre would become that very overbearing partner in the doctor's office. taking charles to not one, not two, but three doctors. constantly butting in with questions and "yes but is this going to help him now?" and being a fucking pain in the ass, really. those poor doctors. and charles gets irritated about it, but he's also a little bit soft on the inside, because, well... pierre cares. he cares so much. and this is how he shows it.

just... ugh. everything, for me, is about how much they love each other, and care about each other. ❤️❤️

13. Who’s the bigger tease?

answered here 😉

21. Who would get into a fight to defend the other's honor? Who tends to the other's wounds?

to be quite honest, i don't think either of them are the kind to actually get into physical fights?? charles would definitely not - he would do the "smile prettily at you while planning your imminent demise" thing, lmao. i feel like pierre is also more likely to be petty and sarcastic than actually get in a fight.

but if it really came down to it... yeah, pierre would probably be more likely to get into a fight than charles. and of course charles would tend to his wounds 🥺 i'm just now imagining a scene of pierre leaning against the sink in the bathroom, or something, and charles ever-so-achingly-gently wetting a cloth and wiping the blood off his face... aaaaahhhh. my HEART. i am weak for that, i can't even lie. something about the intimacy of taking care of your loved one after they've been hurt... and charles would be so careful, too, so earnestly making sure that he's cleaning the cuts just right. although he'd probably also half-worriedly scold pierre for being such an idiot, and pierre would just laugh, and kiss him to make him shut up. then wince, because that's maybe not the best idea after you've gotten hurt. and of course then charles would fuss over him some more, and make sure he doesn't do anything dumb for the rest of the night, and take care of him as best he can... just. yeah. 💙💙

41. Which one would take their jacket it off and drape over the other one because they were visibly shivering?

pierre. this is another one from my little personal stockpile of piarles headcanons i hold close to my heart: charles is someone who gets cold very very easily. and pierre, as we know, is a bit of a possessive bastard, so any excuse to make charles wear his things is a good one 😏 lol, i joke, but i also do think that these two love about each other fiercely and completely, and they always want to take care of each other. so, yeah. if pierre ever sees charles getting cold, his first thought will be to take care of him, then to be a little smug and possessive about "he's wearing my clothes, he's all mine, ha 😌❤️"

56. What do they do turn the other on/put them in the mood?

answered here 😘

(obligatory otp asks)

hello! as queen of piarles, i thought i'd come to you with a piarles question 🙏 i read this fic months ago and it's been living in my head rent free ever since, so i was wondering if you knew of any other WAG fics?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40076010/chapters/100368951#workskin

hiii anon 🥰 and firstly, i am BLUSHING 🙈🙈 queen of piarles, gosh, hardly - if anything, that's a shared title between me and the besties. and just... all piarlies, really. this fandom is lucky enough to be blessed with some of the most talented AND sweetest people ever ❤️❤️ crowns to all! 👸

OOOOH, and now to answer your fic question: OMG i know exactly what you mean, this fic is absolutely incredible and has lived in my mind rent-free for a long time, as well. phoebe @hourcat is a goddess for coming up with it 🙏❤️ i didn't know how badly i needed wag!pierre content until i read this (and just re-read it again today 😅😍😍) life-changing, really. we need pierre in LV, like, yesterday.

as for the second part of your question: arghhh, i've been racking my brain, and browsing through my AO3 bookmarks (fun side note! i currently have 69 piarles fics bookmarked, teehee 🤭) but unfortunately i can't think of any other wag!pierre or wag!charles piarles fics. 💔 an absolute travesty and a tremendous oversight on the part of the piarles fandom, i agree 😭 i think we should all dedicate our efforts to rectifying this mistake ASAP.

the best i can do for you in the meantime, my darling anon, is the wag!pierre tag on phoebe's blog (and that is a TREASURE TROVE, actually. phoebe said she ruined her own life by creating wag!pierre and immediately falling in love with him, but... us too, phoebs. YOU'VE TAKEN US ALL DOWN WITH YOU and i fucking adore you for it 😍😍😍)

anyways! that's it i'm afraid, anon - sorry i couldn't be more helpful with any more fic recs 🙈 but i will shout phoebe's praises from the rooftop every day of the WEEK, so. go check that wag!pierre tag on her blog immediately!! you will be #blessed, i promise 😍❤️