Duh. I Never Had Any Doubts

Ooooo! Sounds like perfect for a reverse harem type story!

Oh and Natalie Certain can be like this Academic Alpha girl who has this ego of intelligence and feeling like she’s never wrong until someone (like Cruz) proves her wrong.

Here’s what the theme song would be:

A bi-harem with Cruz as the main lead, the boys and Natalie being her love interests, Lightning and Sally, while not her parents are more of her care takers/unofficial adopted parents. While Lightning’s cool with other boys, it’s Jackson and Natalie’s attitude that he has a problem with their sort of Holier Than Thou mentality.

Sorry… I’ve had my mind on a Cars harem story idea ever since I did a meme.

Hello! Just wanna say I lovee your writing and fics <333 and also quick question, what were the next-gen racers like in high school?

Awww, I’m flattered! ^-^ <3 

Jackson - kinda quiet, gym class showoff, former middle school emo kid

Tim - friend to all, honor roll cinnamon roll, theater kid

Chase - jock, dated a cheerleader, somehow avoided most high school drama because he’s actually a decent person

Danny - hopeless romantic, always chasing someone he can’t have, but is surprisingly never bitter about it

Cruz - hella determined, liked by all, always super bubbly (except for when she wasn’t, and then everyone noticed and would try to help)

And it's called Freeway of Love... is Fritter trying to serenade Cruz?

Crackship GO! If Cruzon doesn't work than.... Dammit I can't think of the ship name for Cruz and Fritter!

Lemonade and the Magic School Bus from Hell

Can anyone think of anything better? I want my lesbian cars!

Guys…. lea delaria did a song for Cars 3……. miss fritter jazz music…….. guys…

And then Holley saves their asses while Finn is in la la land waiting to die.

Holley: Oh Ford, you kidnap a tow truck without doing background check, you yell at me for shocking your informant when you had TWELVES HOURS to say something, and you got caught because you didn’t think to look up. And you call Mater the idiot? He at least no idea what he doing most of the time and I was mostly following your orders! 

Finn: Shut up woman! We have to stop this violence with the only way I know how: with MORE violence!

Holley: Should’ve seen that one coming. Just promise me your death count will be less than three today.

Finn: Yes.

Omg I just realized Finn is 100% willing to die for McQueen no question.

This is AJ Mayes. He was the last character I worked on for my class in the spring semester and I’m honestly not that proud of it. I don’t hate it, but I feel like I could’ve done better with his design and pose. Anyways, the character himself is a muscular Japanese-American boy who is kind of a dork and likes to draw. He’s the muscle of the group and has a relationship with Dawna Days while they’re alone in Gabe’s house. #strangerthings #sevenchronicles #stranger #things #himbo #ajmayes #aj #mayes #dawna #days #seven #chronicles https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLHxYGOUti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I had a dream like that once... My god... this movie will give me feels...

It’s my Toy Story 3, and I’m not even graduating!

Doc and McQueen were probably racing around Willy’s Butte and then Doc started like, shaking, breathing heavily all of a sudden and had to stop in the middle, Lightning being really worried and like oh god no no you’ll be okay you’ll be okay and Doc was just fading away slowly and he looked right into Lightning’s eyes and explained to him that his engine’s seizing, there’s nothing anyone can do. Lighting’s crying and calling for help but Doc told him no, this is how he wanted to die, he wanted to die while racing, while in the moment, and not tucked away in a garage or something. Lightning just kept crying and telling Doc he loves him as his mentor is dying in front of him, and Doc’s last words were just, “Lightning…thank you.”

For some reason my brain is thinking Chick Hicks singing this:

And he’s telling Cruz to go screw herself.

…

Hmm…

Might be a good time to AMV something… or not. Not promises.

💙

Shipping Cruz with Lightning feels very weird and gross to me.

1. There is a big enough age gap between them that she remembers watching his races when she was kid. She is at most in her early-twenties and Lightning had been racing for ten years by Cars 3 and is considered “old” by a bunch of twenty-something racers in 2017. While an age gap like that isn’t wrong per se, there is that power imbalance in terms of life experience that a romance wouldn’t work. While I image Sally is the older one between her and Lightning, they don’t seem that far apart in age where one of them is +10 years older.

2. Speaking of power imbalances, Lightning was also technically her employer. Technically it’s more of Sterling, but Lightning has some authority and influence over her job so long as he’s working for Rusteze. Yeah Cruz quits at the end, but they were still working together. In that way, him helping out Cruz getting a shot at racing feels like a sort of like a “casting couch” situation.

3. I never saw where people think Lightning or Cruz had or could have romantic feelings. I got always got the impression Lightning was acting more like a father to her. Luckily that seems to be the majority of Cars fans, but somehow tvtropes begs to differ.

So yeah, I’m not a fan of daddy issues in that regard. Yet somehow my mother thought that Lightning and Cruz were a couple and wondered if Sally would get jealous. Honestly, I rather Cruz just be Lightning’s sort of daughter figure and Sally his girlfriend.

Marriage is overrated and ten years on Sally and Lightning are a healthy, functional couple. Sally has little interaction with Cruz but she seems to like her fine. She was mad at Jackson talking to Cruz and making her uncomfortable (I would too, especially if Armie Hammer was talking to me) and was very complimentary of her Dinoco paint job at the end. Sally has no issue with Lightning spending time with a younger woman because she trusts him and their relationship. Healthy relationships.

However, that doesn’t stop me from shipping Cruz/Natalie Certain and Sally/Holley. I’m more of a yuri fan than yaoi, but it’s understandable why yaoi is more prominent in this fandom.

BEWARE MY SPRAY CAN!

Red looks impress

Ramone looks so pissed holy shit

Anyways,

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

TORTURE AND SALLY AND CRUZ! WHY ARE YOU MAKING HIM WATCH!

I know I should’ve seen it coming but it still made me scared!

IT’S HELL IT’S HELL IT’S HELL IT’S HELL IT’S HELL IT’S HELL IT’S HELL!!!!!

OH THANKS FOR THE ENDING! I GUESS I’LL JUST ASSUME THE WORST OF HAPPENED TO THE THREE!

Okay...

Mater, call the spies and get a Maui hook and go save your friends,

Holley, get out the taser and shock the minions and help Mater get them out.

Finn, put eighteen holes inside of Axlerod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRn2jDfsOsQ

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO FLY THIS THING!

Jackson: WHERE ARE THEY?

Holley: Since I can only assume one of our shared associates I’ll just tell you Sally, Francesco, and Sterling are upstairs.

Jackson: Has it look like I give a F*** about where Sterling is!

Holley: In that case,

they are downstairs.

Jackson: Thank you very much!

Holley: Oh and Storm.

Jackson: Hmm?

Holley: Aim for his hood.

(Meanwhile)

Sterling: I just don’t understand women!

Francesco: Neither do I!

Sally: Look it’s simple, just go to her and tell her how you feel.

Sterling: You know what? You’re absolutely right! You guys are so wonderful, thank you so much.

Francesco: He’s gonna get rejected isn’t he?

Sally: Yep.

(Somewhere else)

Jackson: Finally. Finn!

Finn: What the?

Jackson: Where is McQueen?

Finn: I think he’s outside.

Jackson: Where outside?

Finn: I don’t know

Jackson: Finn.

Finn: Yeah?

Jackson: Why is there a helicopter outside?

(Outside in a Helicopter)

Lightning: What do you mean you don’t know how to fly this thing?

Cruz: I mean I don’t really know how to fly this thing. I can’t make it any simpler.

Lightning: Than how did we get up here!

Cruz: I don’t know! I just started pushing buttons!

Lightning: You know at this point, there really isn’t any reason for why I haven’t MURDERED YOU YET!

(Red beeping warning buttons start)

Lightning: WHAT DID YOU DO!?!

Cruz: RELAX! I GOT THIS UNDER CONTROL!

(They crash the helicopter into Thunder Hollow Speedway. But at the speedway...)

Sterling: But I still don’t understand. Why don’t you like me?

Miss. Fritter: You mean other than I’m not into guys fancy-pants? YOUR FRIENDS CRASHED THE HELICOPTER ONTO MY TRACK!

Sterling: It was just the one helicopter...

(Finn is now in a helicopter with Mater hanging on for dear life)

Mater: AAAAHHHHHH!

Finn: QUIT SCREAMING!

(Finn also crashes the helicopter on the track... All of them survived that day)