#charles and erik

[bookholichany]

Cherik nation! You alright? Are we alive?

[rahshande22]

From now on I will have that in mind

[myoonmii]

My wife and her wife, my other wife!

[tthedandelionbard]

[cheyenneisarose]

Dare I say - Cherik.

[jxmimac]

It’s true, lots of good stories have enemies to lovers, but name another that has friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers…………..

And a beach divorce

[bumblebee-be]

i just watched x-men first class (for the first time) and… i expected a little gay. but holy FUCK that was so much more gay than i thought.

[plaidpajamallama]

Ok I know it’s late and this has nothing to do with wrestling but I was just watching a bunch of edits of Charles and Erik (the old gay man from the X-man)

And if/when the X-man get brought into the MCU they should let them actually be gay

[luaalz]

Vocês sabiam que a Jean Grey é a drag do Professor Xavier? Por isso ele é careca, mais fácil por a lace

Did you know that Jean Grey is Professor Xavier's drag queen? That's why he's bald, it's easier to put on the lace

[lanae111]

GUYS IM WATCHING AN INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE AND WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME JAMES MCAVOY AND MICHEAL KNEW ABOUT THE CHERIK SHIPPP OMGGGGGG?

[darkacademicfrom2021]

Wrote a little something

Cherik, of course. I'll leave the summary:

For Erik, there’s nothing ordinary in this. There’s nothing, even if this happened often, even if he went to the library of the mansion every night to look for him, even if it was a common occurrence for them to spend the late hours playing chess and reading and curling up on the couch together — there’s nothing Erik takes for granted, not a single moment of their routine he expected. He’s learnt that everything good leaves, everything sweet dissolves. He’s not felt Charles on his tongue, but he’s sure of the sugar, oh, he’s so sure of it. And if ever he’d let him have a taste, there wouldn’t be anything of him left.

Or

The one where they know. They just need a bit more.

[bookholichany]

" Idealism is also a sign of insanity."

"You know I have a very old and very dear friend on Earth who would agree with you."

"Wise, for a terran."

"Yes, his name is Magnus. And I wish to remember him."

X-Men '97, LifeDeath 2

[rahshande22]

So here I am, first time in my life on tumblr, just because I feel a very strong need to write sth about X-men movies.

I’ve never been much of a X-men girl, I watched the movies few years ago (turns out I’ve never seen The Dark Phoenix before lol). I remember being a little bored with the older movies (I’ve always been more into MCU's type of superhero stories), but actually liked the newer ones. Lately something reminded me about these movie and about the fact that I particularly liked Charles. So I watched all four newer X-men movie and here are some of my thoughts:

I was right. Charles is, for me, THE character in these movies.

Not gonna lie, what made them this enjoyable for me was the relationship between Charles and Erik. And I’m not even that much of a shiper, I just think the chemistry between these two was great, their interactions were interesting and pretty much carried all movies. I mostly give credit James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender who truly done a great job with bringing Charles and Erik back to life.

I really like how during the first three movies (FC, DoFP, Ap) we get the two opposite sites of the same coin. Both Charles and Erik want to preserve mutants, help them, give them safety, give them purpose ect… but they have very different ideas on how to do that, how to make that possible. I like how they are both wrong and right at the same time.

Erik is right, because we clearly see that “normal” people can’t really comprehend and accept “the other” (what a surprise). Mutants would never be entirely safe because they are different, they are in minority, they can be dangerous and they are beyond understanding of “normal” people (I guess I don’t need to elaborate more, we know how it works). But he is clearly wrong, because you can’t exterminate other just because they MAY be problematic in the future (or, ironically, because they are not like you). And then, there’s Charles, who's right, because aggression causes aggression. If you strive for war, that will be all you will ever have and sometimes you have to learn how to survive on different terms. But he is also wrong, because you cannot always have your peace, even though you want nothing more.

They were trying to live up to their dreams and beliefs and dynamics between then actually shaped the movies (ok, at last the first two). X-men Apocalypse was worst then two previous (I’d say that less Erik and Charles together made it that way), but wasn’t THAT bad. I like to think that Erik did in fact understand that Apocalypse was not a better option. Or he just didn’t want him to kill Charles, that reason is also fine.

But then we come to The Dark Phoenix, which was not good, at all.

I can skip the fact that in the previous movie Jean manifested Phoenix power (I mean, we can quarrel that it was only her, but why give it a shape of fiery wings then?), but generally her story arc was very similar to what we’ve already seen: Jean Grey doesn’t really know who she is and is scared of her power. As much as I respect Sophie Turner, I don’t consider her… well, a great actress, and her portrayal of Jean was sort of flat and boring.

Erik’s story arc is kinda non existent: he’s there just for the sake of being there. He’s only motive is “to kill Jean for killing Raven” (I’m not sure if it’s that good of a motivation for him; Raven spent much more time on her own or with Charles than with Erik, so him carrying for her so much felt more like a forced plot point than genuine feelings).

I have a feeling they made Charles dirty in this movie, and I'm not referring to his controversial decisions about Jean. Charles always wants to help others, sometimes to the extent it’s not a real help. He wants it so badly that he might lose the person he's helping along the way. Thant’s an interesting take, and some new layer to Charles Xavier. His methods are not always good, even when he does something in good faith, we’ve seen that clearly with Jean (though without Dark Phoenix power it could work). But one of his most important traits is that he CARES about others. Here? Not so much. He's definitely more... detached that usual, less involved in his students well being. And what about Raven? She was his sister, and he loved her dearly, this was shown very, very clearly in the previous three movies. And here what? One tear or two after her death? We got Hank and Erik (!) going crazy after Raven’s death and not even a proper cry from Charles? Am I supposed to believe that? And there, there's more: he made some mistakes and then lives the school? "By, you’re on your own now, have a nice time?" Like, what? These two things alone make him feel not like himself. And I pity that, cause we got three decent (good even) stories and there’s this one. It’s not even the fact that McAvoy cannot act, we perfectly know he can (we got three other movies in the franchise to confirm that), so what actually happened here?

Probably the only good thing in this movie is the ending and the scene in Paris.

[tthedandelionbard]

I can't wait for Charles Xavier to be added to Marvel Rivals so I can hump Magneto mains in spawn

[innkeepercore]

knew the good omens s2 finale was familiar

[cheyenneisarose]

Jumping onto a ship that has been a thing for a very long time is intensely fun. I love being apart of a ship for years, knowing all the fics and art and stuff - but getting to join a ship and see so much that I haven't is so good.