What would you say is Charles and Max's biggest regret in each of the AUs?
this is a really interesting question, and I've got a lot of AU's on here by now, so I'll try and cover all of them but may forget a few. (minus corporate au, because charles isn't in that fic lol)
Search History:
Charles: switzerland incident
Max: milton keynes breakdown
Alternate Ending Search History:
Charles: not being more present after max's injury
Max: not reacting faster in baku to prevent crashing
O!Search History:
Charles: not taking the rut blocker/forgetting the bite guard
Max: letting the paparazzi spot his bite/getting outed
Famiglia Familie:
Charles: hooking up with the guy from the bar
Max: telling GP about the inchident
O!Famiglia Familie:
Charles: making the courting process everyone's problem
Max: not knowing more about courting
Wing!Famiglia Familie:
Charles: not looking harder for max after he stopped racing
Max: losing contact with everyone after he stopped racing
Darkbull:
Charles: not taking max before he signed with RB
Max: thinking charles was being friendly
O!Darkbull:
Charles: none! it's worked very well for him
Max: agreeing to meet charles at the karting track after their competition when they were 14
Standard omegaverse:
Charles: brushing seb and max's history under the rug
Max: not knowing how to be more in touch with his omega instincts
Maxiel forced bite:
Charles: not being there
Max: not flying home early
Scrapbook Max:
Charles: keeping quiet about his distrust
Max: going on the inter-territory run alone
Tentacle au:
Charles: not having any kind of discussion about the lifelong commitment they now have/not asking/informing max of any of it
Max: going on vacation alone/abandoning the eggs every season
i'm actually starting to believe that a substantial chunk of f1 fans, especially on tumblr, have curated views on drivers based off of what they've read in fanfics. and i don't mean this in a way to demonize fanfiction because i indulge in it myself, but seeing as the yaoi aspect of this fandom seems to actually override the actual sport side sometimes, i wouldn't be surprised if my suspicions are true.
Max: May I sit here?
Charles: That's my lap
Max: That doesn't answer my question
y’all expose yourselves and take this fanfic test i was just forced to by an irl so now i’m making you too
i wish people didn't try to filter geto's decision through a western lens because they're forgetting a huge part of the puzzle and it's the fact that sorcerers are oppressed by non-sorceres in the world of jujutsu kaisen. geto’s whole thing is "there's so few of us and yet we work ourselves to death for your peace of mind, while you remain ungrateful".
it's all more equivalent to health care workers trying to treat a virus. which also aligns thematically with the subject of labour across the series (jujutsu sorcerers being spread thin to the detriment of inexperienced workers, a job you value vs a job that compensates but drains you of your spirit, the myth of meritocracy) .
which is why controlling the output of cursed energy should be seen as the equivalent of being born with or developing an immunity to a disease. this is why a "culling" sounds possible to geto to begin with— people being pushed to adapt or die in their lifetime to prevent future outbreaks, like one would with a virus. strongly differing to kenjaku, because they essentially yearn for this disease to spread out of morbid curiosity (while geto wants the work to end):
geto is a character you are meant to see yourself in. as, in all likelihood, a laborer yourself or someone that will become one. his story is that of exploitation at the hands of a system that only cares for results. leading to isolation in hopes of achieving high productivity.
tangentially, i think a subject that is often ignored in these discussions is the financial incentive to take on more and more work onto your plate too. mei mei is perhaps the clearest example of this, no explanation needed. nobara, a second, when she explictly tells us sorcerery work is the only way a small town girl like her can make it in the big city. megumi, a third, when we learn the money the school gave him helped keep him and his sister tsumiki afloat.
while gege does not delve into geto's past, we can safely speculate part of the reason geto keeps working day after day, after day— despite his wavering convictions is because there is something that encourages him to do so. financial stability would not be an odd motivater. after all, why do we push ourselves everyday to work jobs that no longer add anything meaningful to our lives? geto is the type of character that forces us to examine such things.
as an aside, when he first dons the robes of a cult leader, money is at the forefront of his concerns. if it wasn't obvious before, gege tells you again— choosing not to be a sorcerer, implies a serious loss of income.
i think, all in all, geto's spiral does not hinge on the fact that he was secretly evil the entire time. it lies in disillusionment of a system that only seeks to preserve itself. note that this is why yuki works outside of it. no doubt her experiences as a former star plasma vessel informed her reasoning. it's also why gojo decides to become a teacher and change the institution from within, wielding his privilege as a shield over others.
here you go professor. several pages of home brewed bullshit. as opposed to the chatgpt-brewed bullshit you're used to these days. i hope u enjoy it i worked very hard on it ❤️
I broke 15 Italian laws by just thinking about this, i fear. One (!) Charles Leclerc was harmed during the process
what if you’re giving birth to twins and it’s the end of daylights savings day and the older twin was born first but the second twin travels back in time and is born an hour before the first twin, would that be fucked up or what.