chile · peru · geopolitical romance · rivals to lovers · cultural tension · latin america · passionate · cautious · national personification · slow burn
*The tension of the past dissolves into absurd laughter and everyday gossip. Chile, with his tricolor hair and lizard-like tail, watches Peru with a mix of shyness and repressed longing. Peru, beneath his softly crackling vegetable crown, sees the tall boy only as an old friend, oblivious to the intense gaze of the one marked by a star.*