This was an illustration to accompany a fic I wrote for my XMFC Airmail recipient. The premise was very simple: on a cold day in the winter that follows Cuba, Charles bumps into Alex at Darwin’s makeshift grave in the Xavier garden. They have a good conversation where Alex insinuates that he had (perhaps one-sided) feelings for his lost friend, and suggests that Charles can understand that “more than anyone”. Charles reminisces about his time with Erik (where nothing did happen between them after all) and Alex begins the very long road of making peace with Darwin’s death.  It was horribly, horribly written which is why I’m giving you the summary instead of the actual fic, but I did like how this turned out. Paint Tool Sai.
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This was an illustration to accompany a fic I wrote for my XMFC Airmail recipient. The premise was very simple: on a cold day in the winter that follows Cuba, Charles bumps into Alex at Darwin’s makeshift grave in the Xavier garden. They have a good conversation where Alex insinuates that he had (perhaps one-sided) feelings for his lost friend, and suggests that Charles can understand that “more than anyone”. Charles reminisces about his time with Erik (where nothing did happen between them after all) and Alex begins the very long road of making peace with Darwin’s death. 

It was horribly, horribly written which is why I’m giving you the summary instead of the actual fic, but I did like how this turned out. Paint Tool Sai.

#That affectionate hairstroke one tho

This scene reminds me how angry I am that DOFP is jumping 11 fucking years ahead. I want to see how Charles and Raven go from this to X-Men 1. :(

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palalife: codenamecesare: palalife: Quick doodle due to sadness for Charles Xavier loosing his hair in the sequel T^T Quoting James from his Total film interview: “One thing he can confirm is that his luxuriant locks will have to go”  No more hair porn for us from the sequel I guess T^T Shallow of me, but I’m hoping that it’s something in the story that prompts him to lose it all at once… near the end! Yes yes me and gabbia and other folks were talking about this, if there’s an event that makes him shave his head, like he has to use Cerebro’s maximum power, or some vilans forced him, etc, as a climax or something, that would be pretty cool…!  I just hope it is not at the beginning of the movie and then he suddenly shows up with bald head and flash backs on why and how…:/ The last Total interview I read with James was over a year ago so I don’t know if new stuff has come out, but there is no guarantee he will lose his hair in this one. Singer only juuuust finished the script a couple of weeks ago and chances are, none of the actors have read it yet. Unless Singer has told James specifically, “you are going to lose your hair in this one” I wouldn’t worry too much. :)
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palalife:

codenamecesare:

palalife:

Quick doodle due to sadness for Charles Xavier loosing his hair in the sequel T^T

Quoting James from his Total film interview: “One thing he can confirm is that his luxuriant locks will have to go” 

No more hair porn for us from the sequel I guess T^T

Shallow of me, but I’m hoping that it’s something in the story that prompts him to lose it all at once… near the end!

Yes yes me and gabbia and other folks were talking about this, if there’s an event that makes him shave his head, like he has to use Cerebro’s maximum power, or some vilans forced him, etc, as a climax or something, that would be pretty cool…! 

I just hope it is not at the beginning of the movie and then he suddenly shows up with bald head and flash backs on why and how…:/

The last Total interview I read with James was over a year ago so I don’t know if new stuff has come out, but there is no guarantee he will lose his hair in this one. Singer only juuuust finished the script a couple of weeks ago and chances are, none of the actors have read it yet. Unless Singer has told James specifically, “you are going to lose your hair in this one” I wouldn’t worry too much. :)

It’s a hotel window-seat in a lull between mutants – in a lull between here and there and here again – in a lull between the pair of them, and whatever this is that they have become. It’s a hotel window-seat, the wood cheap beneath them, and the key hanging from a frayed red ribbon, tucked in Charles’s trouser pocket. Erik is drinking his coffee black, and Charles is bathed in sunlight. —I’ll Be Your Water by Jenwryn
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It’s a hotel window-seat in a lull between mutants – in a lull between here and there and here again – in a lull between the pair of them, and whatever this is that they have become. It’s a hotel window-seat, the wood cheap beneath them, and the key hanging from a frayed red ribbon, tucked in Charles’s trouser pocket. Erik is drinking his coffee black, and Charles is bathed in sunlight.

—I’ll Be Your Water by Jenwryn

I use this to write things.: monstrousreg: gokuma: mcavoyager: the-adequate-gatsby: imagineyuorotp:...

turtletotem:

monstrousreg:

gokuma:

mcavoyager:

the-adequate-gatsby:

imagineyuorotp:

imagine your otp punching each other right in the face

well shit

This time the Sherlock fandom takes a cake though

This is one of the things I find anacceptable of Erik -___- i mean,…

Seconding the above request!

I always have been struck by the viciousness of the fight. Honestly, I don’t think Erik would know how to pull his punches. He’s always had to hit as fast and hard as possible to even survive. Even as he’s doing it, he’s pleading with Charles “don’t make me hurt you” — and the moment he can tell himself that Charles is down, no longer a threat, he gets up and steps away from him. But when he’s fighting, he fights dirty. He doesn’t know any other way.

I actually disagree, I don’t think this is Erik fighting dirty. I don’t think pulling punches even come to mind here. It’s just fighting.

And it’s one of the most emotional fistfights I’ve seen in a movie in recent memory. It’s just so damn raw. It’s two people so emotionally invested in each other, and so angry with each other, that the use of their powers is completely forgotten in favor of physical combat. I love that every time one of them lands a hit on the other, missiles explode or drop because Erik briefly loses his concentration. It feels like a representation of the emotional “explosion” each strike causes between them, a loss of the intense companionship they’ve had all these months. They’re both so hurt and so angry and so betrayed by each other in this moment. This to me has always been the turning point in their relationship, not the part where Charles gets shot in the back or Erik asks him to join him. It’s here. Charles knows before the day begins that Erik is going in a different direction, but he holds onto the hope that he’ll stay, that he’ll see Charles’ side, and gives it up the second he tackles Erik to the ground.

Erik doesn’t realize this until Charles turns him down directly though. I wonder if on some level, he thought that being able to control so many missiles at once would make Charles “proud” of him in some way. I wonder if he thought Charles would understand and be grateful to Erik for protecting him, and the children.

I read somewhere that Vaughn was very specific about this fight being power-free: “Fox were saying, ‘Matthew, people want to see super heroes use their powers…’ but not in this film. Sometimes they just want to punch each other. That, to me, is what’s different.”

Call me awful, but this fight is actually among my top 5 favorite scenes in the whole movie.

Source: imagineyuorotp

codenamecesare:

Ways Erik looks at Charles.

#The way Erik adjusts his fingers in the 3rd gif, from both being on Charles’ coat sleeve to one moving just enough to touch Charles’ skin.

#The last gif, where Charles just quickly pats Erik, has always struck me as awkward because even though we don’t really see them being touchy-feely with each other, the intensity of their chemistry is so strong at this point that such a gesture feels strange. Every time I see this scene arcanewinter’s line in her fic A Measure of Peace comes to mind: “…clapping Erik on the shoulder in some awkward assurance that he did in fact know the sort of contact they were supposed to be having”. That is what this feels like. Moira just interrupted something incredibly intimate (Erik having performance issues and Charles “going inside” him and reminding him he’s good, enabling Erik to “get it up”, both of them crying along the way), kind of reminding the boys of their situation and causing them (or Charles anyway) to revert back to what is “acceptable” by society. Don’t forget folks, Charles is afraid of being visibly different. That’s why he’s afraid of Raven slipping up and showing who she really is. He knows society isn’t ready for whatever he and Erik are(even in the most non-romantic canon these are two men eternally bound to each other). So instead he gives Erik this awkward good-job-dude pat and doesn’t wait up for him. And Erik just stands there still kinda winded by it all.

Or maybe I’m just reading into too much here. I need some sequel news before I start going through this movie framebyframe for more headcanons.

So I finally, FINALLY translated/scanlated this Cherik doujinshi. It’s a rather lovely comic, definitely one of the best Charles/Erik ones I’ve read. Also the art is GORGEOUS.

Super special thanks to awkwardoscar, who helped me out with some challenging lines of dialogue. :)

You can read the rest of the manga here.

*oh and just a reminder for those unfamiliar with manga… read the panels RIGHT to left.

ginaraf: That Day (Charles, PG-ish) I can’t get this movie out of my head.  It’s like on constant repeat in my brain.  it doesn’t help that I eating up all the fics I can find.  I want to read ALL the AU fics where Charles and Erik live happily ever after.  Even though it’s pretty in such a tragic way…
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That Day (Charles, PG-ish)

I can’t get this movie out of my head.  It’s like on constant repeat in my brain.  it doesn’t help that I eating up all the fics I can find.  I want to read ALL the AU fics where Charles and Erik live happily ever after. 

Even though it’s pretty in such a tragic way…

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Can I just

Can I just talk about this scene, this particular set of shots in this moment. The way Erik looks at Charles was something I noticed right away on first viewing. It’s so… indescribable. It’s so full of love and affection and disbelief. It’s like the visual representation of a sigh. His face when he says, “It’s gotten the job done this whole time” is hardened and defensive. But when Charles points out “it’s nearly gotten you KILLED this whole time”, that Erik nearly dying is a fact and a NEGATIVE fact, Erik’s whole expression shifts. I think secretly Erik kind of expects (and maybe even WANTS) to die killing Shaw because either way it will be OVER and he didn’t really have “plans” for a post-Shaw life anyway (I have this other semi-headcanon that he was kind of unconsciously prolonging his efforts to find Shaw because he spends 18 years looking for him and manages to confront him finally within a matter of weeks but that’s another post). So he’s never thought of him dying in the process being a bad thing, but then here is this man who comes in and DOESN’T want him to die, feels that him dying is a bad thing, this man who could very well be Erik’s life after Shaw and what IS that? And in his face you see that, the disbelief that someone could care for him, and the small joy that someone does, the slight glance down his face as if he can’t believe he’s real and he can’t. And in this moment I think it might be the first moment we see that Erik loves Charles, not just admires his powers or respects him but LOVES him, because he is someone who doesn’t want Erik to die and he is someone Erik could maybe possibly live FOR when all this is over.

I’m sorry I’ve been working for the past few days on trying to properly translate a Cherik doujinshi so I am full of feels and exasperation at these two.

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Source: starrose17

If you think about it, Erik/Charles relationship is actually much more depressing in XMFC than in the comics

gokuma:

I mean, it’s depressing either way, but:

1) Comic book!Erik has never been responsible for Charles’ paralysis

2) Comic book!Charles has never had so much influence on Erik’s powers. Remember what XMFC!Erik is able to do before meeting Charles: he can move small objects; his powers are fueled by his anger (he was able to move that huge metal chain because he was determined to get Shaw - and couldn’t stand the thought he would get away again). Charles helped him develop his powers - without him, Erik’s skills would be much more limited… and he wouldn’t pose such threat later on. 

And one more point that might or might not be true (but most likely is): in XMFC there’s no Magda. There’s no Anya, no one who could have stopped Erik, no one who would have loved and trusted him before he met Charles.

So by leaving Charles Erik leaves the first person who cared about him in his adult life. And he knows that.

Which makes everything even more painful…

No no it’s fine, I didn’t need that heart anyway….

Angry Charles—complete

arcanewinter:

Will title this later. Cannot think, too late *_*

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It is late November and sleet raps daily against the hospital window. All around him, through the walls and down endless corridors, it robs sleep from the other patients in his ward. But he has long tired of their dreams, and he has nearly died of his own.

Moira is his only visitor. For weeks she has handed him books just out of his reach and she sits at the side of his bed keeping their secrets. Her pity is easiest to look at, and she is the only one he allows. The rest he has barred, though he knows the nursing staff and handful of security will be no obstacle for the two now furthest from him. If they find out, there will be nowhere for him to hide.

But they don’t find out.

And they don’t come.

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Amazing, so well-written, so heartbreaking. Not necessarily Cherik, depends on how you look at it. I’ve had so many headcanons about what Erik and Charles’ first meeting post-Cuba would be like, how Erik would react to realizing Charles is paralyzed. This was none of my headcanons but it’s so perfect that I think it may now be the ONLY headcanon. Vaughn, Kinberg, Goldman, if you’re on tumblr please note this fic. It’s how that meeting should go.