#abt.fic

So anyways i loved your answer to the ask so much that i just read through everything you’ve tagged with it and wow!! This world you’ve imagined up is so so sick!! I’m always impressed with your ideas but this one in particular is crazy to me, probably because it comes with a whole world with its own lore and also SO many characters with rich backgrounds + interlocking stories (and, if i read one of your asks right, some character sheets???) Did you know you are insane and also an inspiration to us all?? ? Anyways. I am quite curious about how you see rosquez fitting in given what little you mentioned about fantasy spain and fantasy italy not getting along but also so interested in enea + pedro (loyal knight pedro im foaming at the mouth…. i imagine him in my mind’s eye and I like what i see!!)

scREAMS sometimes i completely forget that i never actually call it by its full name. have i EVER called it by its full name on main??? oh my god. anyway fotb stands for Flat Of The Blade lmao. fellowship of the 🅱️ring is vastly superior in every way, though

re: the lore and everything like. as i've mentioned in passing a couple times there is a whole map which is how you know a bitch is in too deep and YES there are character sheets!! i think sometime early last year i was relistening to one of my fave d&d podcasts and was like well. i have this fantasy au. might as well build fucking d&d character sheets for the fotb cast. and i did! there are ten of them as it turns out i just looked. i love putting time and energy into things that will never see the light of day

PHEWWWW YOU HAVE UNLEASHED SOME THINGS WITH THIS ASK!!! really this should be a two-parter but we'll see how we go i apologize so much in advance!!

SOOOOOOOOOO rosquez. here's the thing no matter the au they've got to have a whirlwind romance that turns tragic. and that's what happens to them here naturally. i guess to explain their bit we have to talk about the war a little bit? as touched on briefly in the previous post about fotb, the war started out mostly as little border skirmishes between basically all of the sections/provinces/countries. no one really liked each other and no one wanted to work with each other but fantasy spain & italy especially had a TON of beef because there's this disputed territory in between them that they'd been fighting over for yeeears and years even before the war started in earnest. (this area in "present day" is technically neutral land but is largely controlled by the south in collaboration with fantasy spain) (somewhat relevantly all of the countries are all still sovereign, even fantasy italy! lewis is The King people respect him all around but he's only truly the King in the south)

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HELLO MOSSY! YOU MAY YOU MAY!!

sooo things that creep is the other f1 wip on this list! it's oscarmark! au where oscar's a student visiting home for the break and his mom has just gotten married to mark webber. mark is weird and friendly and also likes wandering around the house completely. naked. oscar is not into this but mark is apparently into the fact that he's not into it. YIPPEE!

i started it in like september of last year? based on a kinkmeme prompt that i just started like writing directly into the ao3 box, got nervous about it, pulled out and then figured i could use it for kinktober. got nervous again. and it has been rotting in the docs ever since. it IS a complete fic, technically, like, at second draft level? but needs a ton of editing and i don't feel all that confident about it which is why i keep going in and trying to mess with it and then abandoning it again lol so this is probably about as much of it as will ever see the light of day!! bits below~

THREE OF YOU!! thank you @lattesqueeze @celineile @existentialcrisistime 😭

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you found it! you found the outing au!!! so i realize that i've talked about this a fair amount already in a couple other asks but we'll summarize it super quick here!!

basically, pedro ends up in a relationship with a man that he keeps secret (for obvious reasons) and that this man (who we are calling ale) also wants to keep secret because his whole thing is being a hot bisexual personal trainer and people assuming that he's single is a huge part of his client draw. it starts out reasonably chill, ale is super charming and the fight a lot but in a fun sexy way and the sex is fucking fantastic and after a few months pedro moves out of murcia and up to barcelona into a little apartment so he can be closer to ale. things uhhh Intensify, shall we say. shit gets REALLY toxic (there's a lot of things that i will resist just dumping here), which eventually leads to ale breaking pedro's wrist (legitimately an accident but also not entirely an unwelcome one, from ale's side) and finally pedro has to tell someone (paul) because he's got a fucking broken wrist that he's insisting is from falling but like. you know. paul's his engineer he knows him too well. anyway pedro goes radio silent with ale for a full race weekend, and then he stays in a hotel in ???country??? wherever they are for that race/the next race and manages to text ale to be like yo i am not coming back i think. haha. hoohoo. and then a photo of ale and pedro kissing goodbye in ale's car is coincidentally leaked (who could have done this.) basically mid press conference and shit blows up So Fast, predictably

at this point the fic starts! it’s set loosely in like, an alternate version of the 2026 seaso? and is largely going to be from fermin’s pov (feelings realization bisexuality discovery etc etc) with interludes of tabloid articles/reddit & threads/etc but also is meant to include some other rider povs!! so far there is a loosely confirmed aleix, enea, and jorge chapter. lmao. i’d love to do a remy chapter as well for Reasons but i will have to like. listen to him talk for a while first. so yeah!! apart from this whole thing being an exercise in whumping the hell out of pedro (quite literally half of the now just-over-10k doc is pedro pov with the evil ex, which i can not imagine will ever be posted UNLESS.) i also thought it would be a super interesting character study of everyone else? like what is everyone’s reaction, do all the pilots band together to offer support, does jmart overcome his desire to say the f slur for his friend. all this. idk im have a lot of fun writing it and of course extra fun weaving all of the ouchie bits with b per usual !!!

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this is just the first scene lol

Fermín watches the video hours later, tucked into the couch of his motorhome. 

They’ve managed to suppress it, mostly; the Thursday press conference video is conspicuously missing from the MotoGP app, but they couldn’t stop anyone watching it live from screen capturing. It’s all over the internet now. All over Instagram and X, blowing up on the tabloids. 

It opens normally enough. Obviously. Bezzecchi is there, and Marc, and then Pedro with his arm in a sling. They ask Bezzecchi about the championship. They ask Marc about Alex. They ask Pedro how his arm is healing, and he tells them it’s fine, and he doesn’t speak much otherwise. He’s been more subdued all season. Fermín hadn’t been paying close enough attention to recognize it.

Marc is in the middle of talking about his hopes for the weekend when he stops abruptly, halfway through a sentence. He’s squinting at something, and the cameras cut to the wide shot again. Bezzecchi, to his left, is also squinting. Pedro, to his right, is so wide-eyed and tight-jawed it looks like skull is about to pop.

Someone’s voice comes over the microphone, partway through speaking. It’s difficult to hear even with the volume turned all the way up, but someone’s broken english gets the point of, is this you, kissing a man? across. 

Both Bezzecchi and Marc look at Pedro. Hard to see on Fermín’s phone screen but it’s varying shades of concern; Marc looks startled. Bezzecchi looks weirdly angry, and Bezzecchi is the one who stands up and starts waving his hands and saying, “We are here for racing,” over and over as the crowd of journalists all start talking over each other. 

The feed cuts pretty quickly after that. The camera jerks to the right. The last thing in the video before it goes to black is Pedro, pale, haunted. 

The video stops.

much later, after aleix kidnaps pedro and takes him to andorra

Pedro’s face twists. What he is now is honest. This version of him that is knelt in the sand, poised like a prey animal; that’s all honesty. 

“I’m not scared,” Pedro says. But his voice cracks it into pieces. 

Fermín lays his hand out between them. Offers it up like Pedro might take it, bend and sniff at him to see if he’s trustworthy, like a kicked dog or a feral cat.

“Can we go back inside?" Fermín asks, because he feels—obscurely miserable, now, prickly in the eyes. With a sudden surge of sympathy he wants to cry. He wants to help. He wants to give Pedro his hoodie so he’ll stop shaking. He wants to give Pedro his hand, to unbreak his heart. 

@down-to-the-thousandth tagging because two of you asked 🥹

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amnesia au!!!!! is any fandom experience complete without writing some manner of sad ass amnesia au. (reserving the right to link back to the galex one that i never finished but might one day) the title for this one is from is it really you? by loathe, because for some reason i have a super involved (to me) playlist for this fic

soooo. standard amnesia au. pedro crashes and it goes badly, fermin is involved in the crash and feels obligated to go linger at the hospital while everyone's waiting for pedro to wake up. everyone here means literally just pedro's family, which makes it a bit weirder for Just fermin to be there? anyway when pedro DOES wake up he's got full ass amnesia, like, doesn't remember his name or his family or quite literally anything about his life, but fermin is the first person he sees, and fermin is the one he like. imprints on. we are playing it so fast and loose with the medicalness of the whole thing im not a doctor im a crafter of unlikely miserable scenarios ok

anyway. pedro gets to leave the hospital fairly soon after that, but he insists on going home with fermin. like refuses to go home with his family because he trusts fermin more than them which is a bad feeling for the family acosta but fermin is having a moment about it, obviously. the usual permin bits apply, the ex-friends with way more weight behind it, so fermin is like. as much as he knows it’s dishonest and a little bit (a lot a bit) manipulative he’s seeing it as an opportunity to rebuild what they’ve lost? it is not good. but it is.... for sure an opportunity. again we are doing so much handwaving and suspension of disbelief here so i will pad out the questionable response with some of my fave bits from the doc

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the waking up moment after the first night they sleep in the same bed (which happens pretty early. honestly)

Pedro is awake, now, peering at Fermin through sleep-clumped lashes. Fermin’s hand is still on his waist. 

“You snore,” Pedro tells him, thick and groggy.

Fermin says, “I do not,” and Pedro smiles, guileless, nothing barbed in the curve of his mouth.

“You do,” Pedro says. He squirms a little closer. If Fermin weren’t watching so closely he would miss the wince, the tic in his jaw when he moves the wrong way, jostles the wrong thing. Fermin moves closer to meet him and save him the trouble. 

“I don’t,” Fermin says again. He’s aware of the stale dryness of his own mouth, vaguely self-conscious about it now that they’re nearly on the same pillow. 

Pedro looks at him very, very intently. The arch of his eyebrows is so much less severe, less heavy. Pedro says, “Okay.” Like that’s the end of it.

And then Pedro rolls forward and kisses him. 

Pedro only lingers there a couple of seconds. It’s—it’s barely there, when you get down to it, just the press of Pedro’s soft mouth against Fermin’s, just the stickiness of morning breath and the heat of sleepy skin. Barely anything.

Fermin feels his own lips move, just enough that it’s reciprocal, just before Pedro settles back on his pillow. His eyes are only half open. His cheeks are so pink and Fermin wants to kiss him there, to see if it tastes as sweet as it looks.

Pedro asks, very quietly, “Did I get it right?”

and then the bit where pedro asks to see pictures of them together because he is inferring from the way that fermin treats him that they are. a Lot to each other. and yeah

“Why was I so red?” Pedro mutters. He’s squirming, trying to get a better look at the photo of them as children, Fermín with all his big baby teeth and Pedro with his splotchy pink cheeks. Fermín opens up his arm, unthinking. Pedro, unselfconscious, wriggles in to rest his head on Fermín’s shoulder. 

“Training,” Fermín says. His mouth is abruptly extremely dry. “On the bikes, you know.”

Pedro hums. Probably he doesn’t know, Fermín thinks, so he swipes to a photo of them on the bikes. 

“Christ,” Pedro says. “We were so tiny.”

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Pedro hums. He’s settling in, melting into Fermin’s chest. “We were together a lot, huh,” he mumbles. Fermin’s stomach aches. 

“Yeah,” he says. “All the time.”

Another hum. His breathing has levelled out, less laboured. Less pained. Fermín keeps touching his hair, gentle, pushing it back and away from the bruised bits around his temple. He wants to kiss him, so he presses his lips to Pedro’s forehead, and when Pedro hums this time it’s soft and pleased and content. 

This version of Pedro, who tolerates being fed and held, who curls into Fermin’s body like an old, safe cat. Fermín wants to protect this. To keep this.

“Fermín,” Pedro says slowly, into the silence. He sounds so close to sleep he might already be dreaming. 

“Mm?”

WELCOME TO THE SHOW THANKS FOR CALLING!! oh man this makes me so happy but it also made me have to go back through the fotb tag which is. my god what a mess it is in there you are brave to have delved into it 😭 but YEAH i was actually thinking almost exclusively about this au today so fabulous timing!!

so as a super brief rundown of the universe, it's a low fantasy world that i've sort of separated by language spoken, so you've got the english (uk/aus/nz/americas) to the south (headed up by the king, lewis, in the capital city), the french to the west (headed up by prince charles. naturally. on the island of solsaire), the spanish to the east (the sainz royal family), and the italians to the north-west (no royal family, just the horse cultists. natch). this world went through a pretty gruesome war that started out as a much smaller everyone vs everyone thing and shifted into everyone vs Fantasy Italy (i've been calling it Paglia as a placeholder but whatever) because they were getting up to some blood magic fuckshit and were posing a real threat to like. the whole world

this was all about ten years prior to the bits that have been shared (which are all oscarmark and were posted in 2024. which is wild). so in the 'modern' era you have your young guns or whatever (basically anyone born after or around like, '97-ish) and then the older guys (lewis, mark, seb, bono, jenson, etc) who are living with your standard post-war trauma that they'll never actually address lmao so that's to set the stage i GUESS

this got so fucking long. i'm so sorry

oh man hello!!! i wasn't expecting people to be interested like this 🥹

it IS something i'm writing, though i'm doing it in a pretty roundabout way? like i feel weird about writing pedro/omc and posting it, not because there's anything wrong with that but i just personally feel self-conscious about it?? but there's just under 5k words in a doc right now and the majority of it is.... that part 😩 so we'll see how she goes!! it's a project that riles me up largely because i think pedro specifically is such an interesting guy to put through the secret relationship + outing debacle? the way he communicates and the way he would have to speak to the press (non-spanish press especially!!) could make things way more difficult for him, you know?? i think he'd be very blunt about it in the end but the reality of it is that he's like. extremely hurt by everything that goes down (and for good reason) (additionally i just love a little bit of whump okay it's FUN)

re: the actual pic SO that's a bit where the details are still being worked out a little bit BUT after the wrist-breaking incident the bf drives him to the airport and like very pointedly kisses him goodbye, which they don't do in public (neither of them have been interested at all in going public with any of this, pedro for obvious reasons, ale because he's a bit of a scummy dude and if people know he's in a relationship that removes a lot of his thirsty client-base (he's a personal trainer)) and someone gets a pic, like, not even really thinking anything of it initially apart from oh hey it's pedro acosta! and then they're like ....oh hey it's pedro acosta kissing a dude! literally the one time it happens they get caught, essentially. and then there's this week or two where pedro is at race tracks unable to race because of his wrist but he's bouncing between tracks and hotels because he doesn't want to go back and have to see ale? and in this span of time he does break up w ale (over text. natch) and also ale is sent this photo of them kissing by a local person who is wanting to use it as leverage. by then, ale is already pissed off w pedro for the attempted ghosting followed by the breakup, so he just leaks the photo himself! and makes himself available to say all manner of shitty things to the tabloids! he's a really cool person 🙂

as far as excerpts go i don't have much in the aleix department!! but i can tell you he's the one who like. gently bullies pedro into coming to andorra for a while because pedro after his wrist is healed is just like. he goes to a race. he goes home to stay with his parents. and it's not all that different to what he was doing before but it feels different to literally everyone? so yes, aleix drags pedro out to his house and there is a lot of drinking and POSSIBLY they do some substances and there's a little bit of healing beach time. because we all need some of that

the permin of course builds through this part!! like fermin after the outing is having all manner of weird thoughts, like. somewhat selfishly sitting there being like is THIS why we haven't talked in like ten years? did he have a CRUSH on me??? which is not exactly a kind or cool immediate assumption (but it is true). and then there's a larger part of him that is genuinely just... so worried, because pedro isn't acting like pedro on and off track, and it's entirely fair that he's not the same or well at all but fermin for the first time in a long time really wants to be there? the yearning, you know. a smaller but pointier bit of fermin's brain is also having a bit of a sexuality crisis now. like he waved away any potential bisexualism for a long time but now that he's actually being made to think about it. well

i have a lot of thoughts/feelings/notions about this whole dang au that grows Every single day (the most big ups to @celineile who might as well have written half of this thang!!!), like thinking about the socmed reaction and how much pedro would hate having insta comments that are like "welcome to the family pedro!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈" lmao he'd rather just be called a slur i think. at least for a while. anyway there's a lot to be considered but this is once again getting long so i'll wrap it up there :')

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oh my GOODNESS well thank you for asking first of all 😭😭😭!!! where do i even start. i guess we can go with the au i posted a bit from yesterday??

i think i (or we, bc @dumbsketches is complicit in basically all of the concepts always) have been coming at it from the angle of like, luca and pecco are established in like. a relationship way but they're into the #freakshit, because of course they are (everything i have ever thought about re: pecco/luca is shaped almost entirely by astronicht's kinky fridays verse which should be essential mgp fandom reading imo). bez is something adjacent to a free agent but he's like an excited dog at a party like he HAS to check everyone's situation out. like what's this group over here doing give me pets okay now i go over HERE what's THIS etc etc. so i think he ends up in a lot of people's beds? at least the people who he's reasonably close to, which as it turns out is a lot of people! so it's only natural that he pops over to guest in the peccoluca marriage bed or whatever. why not

it's important to note that i do not think their tastes align at least not initially. pecco's got some #repression going on that he's pried open with luca but having your bff (bezfriendforever) crawl into bed with you and your bf (bucafarini) and see you at your most fragile/vulnerable/honest is a very scary thing? and luca is or can be very very intense and bez is sort of like :')???? trying to figure out the dynamic on the fly. like yes let's have a fun threesome! and then the threesome wraps up with you crying bc your ass hurts and your bestie won't look you in the eye and luca is awkwardly-at-best patting you on the back and you have to go home feeling like you have Failed

(there's a side (main, to me) story to this, where extremely-monogamous celestino is like. the closest thing to a main partner bez has? and that's who bez goes to after this sesh and pretty much any subsequent sesh and cele hates it in certain... ways. but he loves marco so. yes. this is not the question you have asked but it's important To Me)

anyway. the first time is a bad time but then they try again, now with a bit clearer of a picture of what it is they all want out of this? and it goes way better. this leads to transcendent belting. mama mia!

this is like, one very specific au for sure? but i've done a lot of direct-to-dm writing for it and bee at least seems to like it so i will include a couple of screenshots under the cut!