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first try at fem!cherik

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chance meeting

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old man being cute

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it’s heat season (continuation of this)

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i’m deep in crunch time hell rn but after i survive my deadlines i rly wanna draw a TLOU cherik au that’s been haunting me for a few weeks now. hear me out:

a very young and recently married erik losing magda and his newborn daughter as soon as hell breaks loose. probably in the same way that joel lost sarah, the thing is he has pure contempt and hatred for the army/goverment and when he is recluted by shaw he doesn’t hesitate a second to join the fireflies (aka the brotherhood).

at the same time charles was 12 when the pandemic broke and he became an orphan after his parents got killed in the outbreak (ALSO brian xavier was a scientist who at some point experimented on his son so maybe in this au he had something to do with the accidental spreading of cordyceps and later on charles immunity).

so anyway, charles grows up in a fedra facility being brainwashed by propaganda along with his adopted sister raven, he works for fedra and truly believes the government is trying to do good (he’s too brainwashed and naive to see how corrupted they all are). he thinks his sister is on the same page as him but eventually finds out raven secretly joined the fireflies and ofc charles loses his shit, begs her to see reason but deeply he knows how stubborn his sister is and nothing he says will get through that thick skull of hers. in the end after a rly long screaming match he reiterates his resolute disapproval of her decisions but promises to not snitch her out or get in the way as long as raven takes care of herself and doesn’t kill innocent people while she’s engaging in any of the terrorist shit the fireflies do. then the mall fiasco happens, the siblings get bitten and decide to wait for their end as they hold hands. but while raven succumbs to the infection, to charles pure shock and agony he realizes he still has a consciousness (and yes, charles is forced to kill his infected baby sister). he’s eventually found by the fireflies and taken by them

at first here i wanted the story to follow the TLOU canon where after discovering charles’ immunity the fireflies decide to take him, but i really love the kansas city arc in the show and it got me thinking of something like this happening here. what if there is a coup at the new york settlement and fedra fell to the fireflies? but the thing is this fraction of the fireflies is leaded by shaw who is a ruthless psychopath and turns the settlement into a living hell for fedra prisoners and citizens. like complete anarchy and law of the jungle kind of shit, and the fedra prisoners get the worst of it: public parades that end up with prisoners getting linched, raped, dismembered, etc. shaw even goes as far as to making an arena sort of coliseum filled with infected creatures just to throw the prisoners in there and watch how they all succumb to the virus in the cruelest way.

as much as erik hates fedra he doesn’t fuck with the kind of torture porn shaw is inflicting on these people but he and some other members of the fireflies who don’t agree with these barbaric methods can’t do anything about it bc they all have to bend to what shaw says. that is until charles is one of the fedra prisoners who is taken and thrown into the cells awaiting to be subjected to shaw’s torture. erik doesn’t know charles but he recognizes his name: raven was erik’s partner when she joined the fireflies and he knows that her brother is the only family in the world she got. erik has little to no love for a fedra agent but he feels he owes this to raven so when a group of shaw’s men enter charles’ cell to ‘have fun with him’ erik decides to step in and confronts shaw. he informs him about charles being related to one of their fireflies sisters and tries to argue for a lesser punishment for him, or for at least to keep him in a cell without being subjected to rape, torture or death. shaw, always the son of a bitch he is, delightfully agrees to this and decides to throw charles into the arena full of infected just to fuck with erik. he says he’s being fair and that if charles survives the arena he gets to walk away.

charles is thrown into the arena with no weapons but his wits and against all odds he survives the assault. shaw is irritated by this but decides to keep his promise and free charles, that is until they see the bite marks on his arms. and then they find even older bite marks that he got weeks ago at the mall, when raven died in his arms. there is no question about what these mean and shaw decides to lock charles again and test if what he thinks that is happening here is true. erik is also bewildered, he thinks this is all some kind of sick joke and charles will turn into a grotesque monster in a matter of hours, but a week goes by and charles is very much the same (though very much annoyed that they have kept him monitored in a cell, but at least no one dares to get close to him to either torture him or rape him fearing he will infect them as well).

while shaw is debating what to do with charles, erik is approached by emma frost who heads a small fraction of the fireflies in new york that disagree with shaw’s methods. emma informs erik that there is a secret lab in a firefly base back in utah where they can make something out of charles’ immunity and create a cure. she then tells him she will free charles and deal with shaw for the time it takes them to get the fuck out of new york only if erik promises he will take charles with him and drive him to this lab in utah.

erik doesn’t know how the fuck this happens, he always minded his own business while being a firefly, never questioned anything that was asked of him bc he truly believed in the cause, that all the people he killed in the name of the fireflies was purposeful. yet the only fucking time he decided to speak up for raven’s fedra agent brother of all people he gets dragged into some shitfest and is suddenly in charge of driving some guy across the country while shaw’s lackeys go after him.

and the thing is that even if their love for raven and hatred for shaw should unite them, erik and charles really dislike each other. actually no, they DESPISE each other and the road trip is nothing but pure antagonism emanating from both parties: erik calls charles fedra scum and can’t believe someone as brave and strong as raven had a brother who is such a deluded coward. and charles calls erik a terrorist pig who is probably as sick and depraved as shaw. but eventually as the months in the road go by, the animosity between the two deflates and they begin to really know the other one. erik realizes charles is more than a pair of pretty blue eyes and a cure to humankind, but a deeply empathetic person who truly believes there exists light during these dark times. and charles discovers that under his cold and ruthless front there is so much good in erik. he saw a glimpse of that when erik saved him from being violated by shaw’s men but now he really sees how serious erik is about protecting those he calls family. eventually and by surprise of no one they fall in love. they confide in each other: charles talks about raven and erik speaks magda and anya’s name for the first time in decades. they continue their journey across the country with this precious thing between them.

that is until they reach utah and erik finds out what emma was planning to do with charles from the moment she sent them both away

the thing is erik is 100% aligned with the fireflies’ ideals despite hating shaw with every fiber of his. he believes in the cause and would actually do anything that is asked of him. and if this had happened 6 months ago right after leaving new york he would have gone with it without question. but after spending every night in the last half of the year being held in charles’ arms? if finding a cure for humankind would mean charles dying then fuck humankind. he would betray his brothers and sisters in a heartbeat if it means saving his lover, even if charles ends up hating him afterwards

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i have no words, it’s beyond perfection

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65593180

New cherik mpreg fic! Charles is due to give birth any day now, and when Erik sneaks into the mansion for one of their regular nighttime trysts, he hopes their baby's impending arrival will be enough to make him stay.

Based on @bixthenix's fantastic artwork for the "hurt" and "baby trapping" prompts for @preggycharlesevents Pregnant Charles Week

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Hiiiiiii , as stated before I LOVE YOUR ART!!!

I turn 20 this Sunday and my goal is to have have pregnant Charles AND pregnant Erik (still searching for perfect pic) on my cake muahahahahahahahahahah

But um all that said is it okay if a print one of your pregnant Charles and tape it to a stick and stab my birthday cake with it 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Haha sure feel free to print it!!

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i love drawing them together <3

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Just want to say I adore your art ❤️ and also I love your au of Charles trying to baby trap Erik lmaoo

thank you! i love that au too 🥰 charles is so pathetic when he’s in love lol

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nine eleven ten

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and if i told you that pregnant charles fullfills every level of maslow’s heriarchy of needs then what

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I love ur drawings do u do commisions ☹️☹️☹️☹️ if yes how do I pay 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔 i need to frame one of your AMAZING cherik drawings on my room theyre so pretty i love them so much AAAAAAAAAAAAA

hahaha i don’t mind opening commission slots for cherik requests! shoot me a dm and i can send you some samples :^)

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🫶

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several cheriks before bed (for real now)

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you’re my favorite “what if”

you’re my best “i’ll never know”

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slow dancing