You know what the world needs?

[psuedo_catalyst]

An Empires Princess Bride AU.

Where farmer's son RyanJ does all kinds of stupid shit to get farm boy Max to notice him, like, um, jumping off the roof of the barn or riding a horse backwards. Then this happens: (you have to hear this in your head like it's read by the Princess Bride narrator, okay?)

The day Ryan realized that when Max said, "Don'

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[surexit]

DO IT.

[psuedo_catalyst]

I AM SO TEMPTED. Do you know that, on the Empires tag on AO3, in all the fics listed, there is not one single pairing with Max involved? IT IS A TRAVESTY.

[surexit]

I don't know who Max is, but I am certain it is an UNCONSCIONABLE CRIME.

[psuedo_catalyst]

MAX IS WONDERFUL. Maybe my next one-bandom-person-specifically picspam should be him. He is Empires' tiny guitarist--one of the other dudes' long-term-gf's baby brother, and he, like, produced their entire first album, because he is awesome and talented, and he's got these long curls, like, down to his chin, and when he handbangs while he's playing he always loses his glasses and I love him a lot. He has a very nice complexion.

[surexit]

Awwwwww, he sounds adorable.

[rsadelle]

Also, Max tends to hide behind his hair, but when Sean (the lead singer) sings at him, he shakes his hair out of his face and smiles so incredibly wide and happy.

[surexit]

*____*

[rsadelle]

It's pretty great.

[psuedo_catalyst]

ngl, I think most things Max does ever are pretty great.