Okay, this one called out to the sentimentalist in me:
🧸"Who still has the very first gift the other ever gave them?"
for CARCAR
Also, I feel as though we may know the answer to this already the two longform carcar fics you've got, so feel free to invent anew!
(TESTING: Carlos [from Oscar]--cheap pregnancy test--but is it a gift if Carlos asked Oscar for it? So maybe the Piñon puzzle (and so would Carlos's gift to Oscar be the nipple piece he got to keep, and which Oscar lovingly had to save from half-wash annihilation?)
(HDR: Oscar [from Carlos]: so many first gifts in the various time loop dead ends--"HAPPY RACE" banana, snow globe, shark plush with red with hand-sewn fire fart ribbon attached, pyramid of coconut water cartons, matching caps, heart-shaped sunnies, and t-shirts that say I GOT MY KICKS, etc., etc. And from Oscar *to* Carlos: Pain-in-the-Ass Yardie, vibrating cock ring... And in the loop where it ends good: Celestial Cheek Tattoos for Starlos and golf balls of things Oscar hates for Ostar)
oh my god?!!?? the best possible ask i could ever receive from the kindest anonstie?!? tears in my eyes that you took the time to look these up i love you so much and it's making me gaze lovingly upon my own writing in a way i would never do left to my own devices. i adore you and i am so lucky to have written anything remotely worth your care and kindness!!! STARLOS AND OSTAR!!!
HAHAH this may change in testing as i revise but currently the first thing carlos gives oscar is laundry detergent implying that oscar's clothes smell of mildew
oh gosh HDR carlos was such a guy wasn't he? seeing that long list of gifts given followed by gifts received PAIN IN THE ASS YARDIE AND VIBRATING COCK RING i am CRYYYYING. help. i'm so glad testing oscar gave that man a custom puzzle. i need this fictional man to be on the receiving end of gifts in some universe
but in HDR universe, oscar keeps the CS55 ball (found in the balls of things oscar HATES :((( ) and he brings it out when he and carlos are FIGHTING. whenever he's irritated and pushed to his limits and scraped against all the edges of them that don't match up he picks the ball up and remembers carlos writing all those balls while thinking oscar hates HIM :(((( and he rubs it in his palms so much the permanent marker begins to wear off and he retraces the letters again himself, following the lines of carlos's penmanship :((( and after a Big Fight over careers and family and coming out that ends up being a dumping ground for every way they've ever wronged each other, carlos comes back from a run and sees oscar asleep on his folded arms at the kitchen bar, ball trapped inside his elbows on the countertop :(((( and carlos starts to cry and calls his mother and then they make up :)))