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Inhibitor collar.  Design reference (x)

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fiore mio, fiore della mia anima🕊️🤍

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i also read somewhere (don’t know if it’s true) that charles is also an empath. now this would explain why he uses his powers so differently than Jean, Emma or Psylocke and why he’s the way he is

Charles' line "There's so much more to you than you know" has always struck me because it's SO easy for Charles to come off unlikeable-

"There's so much more to you than you know" (But I do)

"What do you know about me? - Everything." (Whether you like it or not)

"I know what this means to you but you have to let go!" (Stop this nonsense)

"There's a mutant here already! [Exposing Hank]"

"I don't want your pain. They sent back the wrong man [To Logan]"

"I've seen what Shaw did to you"

"I feel your agony [After Nina died]"

"[Jean expresses no one knows how it feels to be tormented telepathically] Oh but I do."

Like on a base level what he communicates is such an invasion of privacy and instantly gets the hackles up because it's not natural. He can sound, at first glance, self-important and even dismissive (even Erik at one point calls him 'arrogant'). Charles' telepathy gift is so alienating. He knows people's most personal, thoughts, feelings, dreams, and nightmares. Seeing into someone's soul is as simple as breathing and second nature to him -- and he knows how repulsive this must be (see: how profusely he apologized for outting Hank. This speaks to a past/youth where he clearly unintentionally shared the secrets of others or caused trouble with his abilities and disturbed the people around him or endangered himself/others).

But Charles can't help his powers in the same way that Rogue can't - actually, Charles' abilities could easily been seen in some regards as the psychic equivalent to Rogue's physical gift. She can't touch ANYONE without hurting them in some manner, she is dangerous in some regard. And it's the same thing with Charles -- wherever his mind goes he exposes and hurts people. It's a side effect of his powers.

But unlike Rogue, Charles can't wear gloves. He can try to keep up psychic shields (which hurt HIM), or he can promise Raven he'll never read her mind, but he can't ever lessen his gift. He can't be perfect but he has to try. He can't or he'll be hated, despised, and feared. Rogue and he share a similar distress. Rogue suffers from touch-starvation but has to deal or she'll be seen as a monster. Charles suffers from the same kind of thing is a psychic way - he has to block his abilities or been seen as arrogant, invasive, and holier-than-thou. He has to starve his mind and powers.

So that's why it's sooooo touching that he tries SO hard to do good with it despite all that. Especially as he grows as a person and sees how powerful he can be with appendages like Cerebro. He ALWAYS makes an effort to clarify his knowledge of someone's mind with encouragement, love, understanding, and hope.

He can't help reading someone's mind but he CAN help how they react to it or how they feel about what's been exposed and the constant effort he exerts to express empathy, kindness, and aid is a testament to how hard he works to do good with his mutation. He frankly just doesn't have to do that. He could be like Emma Frost or Jean Grey or Psylocke. They know your thoughts, they use telepathy, and it's as simple as that.

Charles feels people's pain so ardently, sees their struggles so clearly, that it literally torments him not to help. How can he see that and just walk away? Innermost pain and secrets are revealed to him by nature -- he could ignore it, exploit it, or use it maliciously. Instead he takes the information and tries to help (surely in part to make up for how sensitive the invasion is).

"There's so much more to you than you know" (But one day you'll be more powerful than me. Don't get lost, keep going, you have so much more to remember and you aren't just made up of this pain that is so so heavy for you. This is not all that you are, I've seen what you forgot, I promise it's still there. You're still a person. Hold on).

"What do you know about me? - Everything" (I have seen your whole mind - the good and the bad - and still I came out here to ask you to stay. Because nothing in there scares me and in fact it gives me hope. I need you. We could do something great together.)

"I know what this means to you but you have to let go!" (They'll succeed in killing you if you let them. You deserve better)

"There's a mutant already here!" (Thank god! And you're incredible!)

"I don't want your pain. They sent back the wrong man." (Proceeds to cry at Logan's life and is amazed at his strength, you poor poor man. Is inspired to keep going from Logan's strength).

"I've seen what Shaw did to you." (Shaw did it to you. It's not a shameful secret and you aren't Frankenstein's Monster. It won't stop me from seeing who you really are. You're free).

"I feel your agony." (Come back to us. I can help you. You're not alone. You never had to leave. You still have a family. Grieve with us.)

"Oh but I do" (I survived. So will you. I didn't have help and I also had parents who didn't love me. I won't let that happen to you or leave you alone. I promise. You can sleep. You're safe. I'll protect you.)

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X-Men and their favorite musicals (i don’t make the rules)

Wolverine: Hamilton. the only musical he’s seen, and only because his (many, many) adopted kids convinced him to. every 5 minutes one of them turns to him and asks “were you there when that happened?”

Cyclops: Little Shop of Horrors. i’m not explaining, i’m just right

Jean Grey: Waitress. i’m not explaining, i’m just right

Storm: Wicked. has probably seen her fair share of musicals but that one is the nostalgic one

Nightcrawler: Cats. fucking freak. (i’m a cats enjoyer).

Rogue: Hadestown because….. you fucking know why

Gambit: Moulin Rouge! because….. you fucking know why

Xavier: he hates musicals because everyone in the mansion had a musical theater phase at the same time and whenever he accidentally peeks into anyone’s brain, all he is met with is Cynthia Erivo’s Defying Gravity riff.

Magneto: Les Miserables.

Kitty: Mamma Mia! she’s very ABBA coded to me idc

Jubilee: getting Mean Girls or Beetlejuice vibes from her, in the TheaterTok sense

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Art Credit to Xoce Pivacik

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Art Credit to Xoce Pivacik

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Art Credit to Xoce Pivacik

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Charles

Erik

Charles

Erik

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Not my usual Cherik/X-Men content, but...

My four favourite movies: movies that make me cry even the water of my baptism (as you can imagine I like to suffer)

Atonement: there's so much to say about this movie, it destroyed me, reducing me to staring at the wall for twenty minutes crying silently after I finished it. Joe Wright is my favourite film director, he has a talent for making the most heartbreaking, beautiful scenes in the movie history for as far as I'm concerned. There is James McAvoy that is so perfect in here and the wonderful Keira Knightly. The story is achingly sad and yet so so beautiful. I suffered, I cried, I loved and died with them

The Imitation Game: Benedict Cumberbatch is superb in this. I love his acting. Keira knightly is perfect, too. What I like about this movie is that it tells a different WWII story, one that is somehow unexpected, especially in terms of love and friendship. And I just... I think I got affectionate to it

Dead Poets Society: as a person that loves literature, this movie has always got under my skin in the best way possible. Robin Williams is an incredible actor and his character represent the way I've always seen education, as something that needs to be fun and real and tangible. In a certain sense, education is also an end in itself, without thinking about grades or its "monetization". Of this movie I could rant on for hours, especially about Neil's stoic (in the philosophical meaning of this word) gesture

Les Miserables: I'm awfully affectionate to this movie, especially the second part when it explores the topic of revolution. I love how the musics perfectly capture its spirit. There would be a lot to say about this movie too, because it's based on a musical in turn based on one of the greatest novel of French literature. I'll just say that it's exceptionally well done, especially considering that it was filmed in a theater-like manner, with every song recorded in full and, as far as I know, live on the set

About everyone of this movie I could talk for hours on end. And, if anyone's interested I have many more films to talk about :)

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OH MY GOD, you opened my eyes on SO MANY THINGS rn!!!

I've always loved movie Charles as a character, especially the one portrayed by James McAvoy. He's so real and achingly human. And I admire his strength maybe more than I admire Erik's drive.

I think that Charles in the movies has come to know himself awfully well, the dark and the bright spots. That doesn't mean he always does the right thing, he's a human being as much as everyone else is. But it means that he knows his limits, and he knows his powers.

He's aware of the damage he could cause if he lost control, and he's someone who has sought exactly this throughout his whole life: to always be in maximum control of himself. And it take a great deal of courage to know oneself so well to be in constant control.

It's exactly his purposeful state of being, his calm, his determination ad his will power that I admire the most. And I love that this doesn't prevent him from experiencing the FULL range of possible emotions. He's someone who feels deeply.

That's his strength, the ability to feel and not shy away from his and others' emotions and then find the right balance.

On the other end (because I think that Erik his the other half of the medal), Erik is someone who tends to shy away from his emotions when they're too strong and overwhelming, because he's scared of them. He's scared of feeling too much. He tends to transform everything in the only emotions he's capable to process: rage.

Not being able to process one's emotions is a symptom of a lack of knowledge of oneself. And this makes people like Erik vulnerable, unstable, volatile.

I've always thought a lot about the characteristics that most people seem to attribute to Charles: arrogance and naivety. And… well, I disagree. I think people end up mistaking self-knowledge for arrogance. And the fact that he knows where his limits lays and that he's unwilling to exceed them for naivety.

In the end, Charles seems to me to be an extremely mature person and I dare say wise. At least as far as he is concerned. And this seems to me to be a very positive trait of the character

Having discovered that the “point between rage and serenity” implies that Charles has indeed felt the gamut of the emotional states.

He’s tried every combination to get control of his gifts, to keep them tucked out of the way so nobody noticed.

The point between rage and serenity.

It is the place of steely determination.

It is the stability upon which great deeds are carried out.

Not utter peace and tranquility. Not incandescent rage. Not giddy joyousness. The calm, purposeful state of being where one has something to do and the will to do it.

A rational state of mind with drive and purpose, like the steering wheel on a battleship. It’s got to be a calm, steady hand to guide that kind of power for a purpose.

We see Charles at many extremes of emotion, and yet he always goes back to the middle. He doesn’t stay at the extremes. He goes back to the middle ground where his first wisdoms have been rooted. It’s consistent.

Honestly, that’s really good advice anyway.

I’m just having so many thoughts about this right now.

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we love our short king

charles xavier is three apples tall.

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oh my god thank you!!!💕💕

The Alpha's Choice by LadyFayte

Summary:

Erik has been the Alpha of his pack for roughly a year now. Previously, he'd been a bit of a playboy and an asshole and now he was, according to Emma, an asshole out of sexual frustration. Her solution? Either find a mate and bond with them, or relinquish his title of Alpha.

Tags:

Werewolves, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Bonding, One instance of violence, Bamf!Erik, Anti-Omega slurs, Protective!Erik, Omega!Charles, Mpreg, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Alternate Universe - No Powers, First Time, Anal Sex

@always1958 was looking for this, so I found it on the Wayback Machine for anyone who wants to read it! :')

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i should probably post my cherik fic recs

… and something about my favorite movies on letterboxd…

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i like this option very much

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please i’m in love

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now i’m crying

<X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST> D-17

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hand placement!!

Art Credit to Xoce Pivacik