Hello, Cherik Nation. My Dashboard Is Occasionally Devoid Of Cherik, So I Need To Follow Some New People

I need it so bad rn

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

Holy shit, the ideas going through my mind right now 😩

I want you to imagine that Charles and Erik dated during First Class.

I want you to imagine that everyone in the team knew and had no problem with it. That after the satellite dish scene, they kissed.

I want you to imagine that someone in the team (let’s say it’s Sean) had a knack for photography. That he took a picture. That Erik, in a stroke of romanticism took it and wrote on its back.

Now I want you to imagine that, many decades later, Charles has a photograph on the far back of the drawer of his nightstand. That it’s a picture of two young men kissing tenderly with the flora of Westchester on the background. That the words “The point between rage and serenity” are written on its back. That he only takes it out in his worst moments. A reminder that even the worst of sinners have the potential to be God’s favourites.

Why are you imagining this? This never happened. No one had a knack for photography. They never kissed. They never said “I love you”.

Suffer

If you’re a writer, this is a petition. Do something with this before I explode. The clock is ticking.

I like to think that after Dark Phoenix Charles and Erik didn’t get together immediately.

Charles moved in with Erik, they had a three hour long debate over who got the bed and who the couch and they ended up in a day-by-day system that just had double the trouble. And of course someone was always running (or wheeling) to the other in the middle of the night to wake them up/calm them down from a nightmare. Then one day Erik came back hurt/very tired, but it was Charles’ turn to take the bed, they had an (unsurprisingly) short argument and they both ended up sleeping on the bed.

Needless to say that, after that, the only person to ever sleep on that couch was Peter when he was visiting.

queer themes in x-men my beloved. Angel binding his wings. Bobby’s parents asking if he’s tried just not being a mutant. Nightcrawler and catholic guilt. The existence of cherik. Everything with Scott/Jean/Logan. Mystique and Destiny.

Thinking about Erik’s daughter Nina Górska’s life in a world where she left that forest alive, even if her mother did not. To escape the Polish authorities, she and her papa emigrate to Westchester and move into the mansion. She is quick to bond with Charles and her older siblings. She grows up at the school and develops an enjoyment of music, particularly singing, but her greatest passion is a natural result of her mutation, and she is determined to use her connection with animals to make a difference in the world. Her singing is like a beacon to the animals around her, and thus it only takes one viewing of Snow White to make her an ardent Disney Princess fan because she just gets it. With Charles gladly paying every cent, she eventually heads off to college for her degree in biology and music. She changes her legal surname to Lehnsherr to show her pride in being her father’s daughter, and most likely obtains American citizenship while never forgetting her Polish roots. She is fluent in Polish, English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. It is she who helps Charles to realize his power does indeed extend to animals, thus they enjoy having three-way conversations with dogs and horses. Her mutation gives her unprecedented influence over the animal rights movement and she becomes an icon of zoological studies and veterinary practices, traveling the world decreasing poaching, encouraging vegetarian diets, creating new habitats, and saving multiple species from extinction, quite possibly reaching a global level of fame in the process. She becomes close friends with figures like Jane Goodall, to whom she is held in equal public regard, and Koko. Eventually in her travels, she meets a fellow activist who just may be a mutant as well, and they happily marry and have daughters (one of whom is named after Magda) to whom she sings the bedtime lullaby that her papa sang to her. I doubt she’s one of the actual X-Men; her powers aren’t very combat-worthy and she’s not interested in a violent lifestyle. But if ever trouble arises, she is quick to rally an army of the nearest birds and critters to protect her loved ones. Peter, Wanda, and Lorna insist she have a unique and proper mutant name of her own, team member or not, and so she becomes known as Fauna.

X-Men: First Class as Vines

Because it's my favorite X-Men movie

I just saw Deadpoo & Wolverine and felt this was the right time to post this old video I made

Idk why I forgot Darwin's real name, he's literally one of my favorites, I'm so sorry

(This wasn't supposed to be 4 minutes, but I kept adding to it)

Dear Lord, I need someone to write a fic where all of the first class time travel into the future, like in dark phoenix or apocalypse or anything and they just like… see how fucked up their future is ??

Like, what do you mean Charles is in a wheelchair AND doesn’t have any hair !?

What do you mean Alex and Sean are death ??? Like wtf

And most importantly, WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHARLES AND ERIK ARE NOT MARRIED WITH THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ?!!

And so, they see all of this and decide to make compromises to be sure that their future will be better. Because a future where they are all separated is not a future they want 😾

I have like 5 million headcanons for the Hear Me Out au and I can't fit them all into the fic, so here we go, part one of character headcanons:

Charles:

He identifies as queer because he experiences romantic attraction and gender differently than others due to his telepathy (much more fluid). Generally he just uses male terms but he really just doesn't care all that much about pronouns.

he's nearsighted, and wears glasses.

he may not be able to figure out his own life, but he's got great advice for everyone else (and usually it works)

he's kind of been wanting to get his ears pierced for years but he's worried it'll clash with his academia aesthetic

If he's not wearing jumpers and button-ups he owns like five million oversized hoodies in varying colors

he collects converse

He likes classical music and pop and lofi

He just randomly has teabags all the time

Erik (sorry about his face idk what happened):

He generally respects people he'd just rather not talk to them.

Learned to cook and bake from Edie, it's become cathartic for him.

Knows how to paint and draw but will never tell anyone about it. He also makes sculptures from metal when he's bored.

Likes running and working out.

Angel:

Taylor swift girly to Raven's sabrina carpenter obsession (they've got all these records on their walls)

Does yoga and mountain biking

Makeup specialist of the house (since raven can just do it with her powers)

Will sometimes go flying with sean but he makes her nervous a lot because like, what if something happened to his suit?

Haunts the local starbucks

Raven:

Only wears gold jewelry and loves pink

Will kill anyone who hurts her friends (and they'll never find the body)

Has watched the sabrina carpenter christmas special like ten million times

does "natural makeup" tutorials for mutants with all different skin colors. People send her pictures of their mutation and she shifts into them, spends time making the look, and then posts it for them.

Sean:

Started to learn to cook when they all moved in together (just simple foods for now but he's getting better and really enjoys it)

Wayyyyy too much energy at any given moment

Has perfect pitch and is a great singer because of his mutation. He can also play any instrument by ear.

“What’s your favourite horror movie?”

Oh I don’t know, maybe the way Erik looked when he realised that his decades of trial and error did nothing to help him against Shaw, and he and everyone he loved would die a pointless death at the hands of the man he swore to never let hurt anyone else again…