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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
my favorite aspect of vaultghoul is how they started off with such an intense power imbalance, but lucy managed to flip it on its head by single-handedly taking out that facility and helping him. in one swift move she showed him that her ideals aren't just cotton candy. that she can be strong AND good. he may have played a hero once upon a time, but she's the real deal.
you can see that's precisely what's on his mind when he meanders in there and pops in one of his old movies. the exact movie that marked a moral shift for his heroic character.
The audience, they wanna see that even a good man such as yourself can be driven too far.
and he was. he was driven so far into doing what it took to survive that he forgot what it takes to be human. lucy is his reminder.