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Charles/Erik, AU, dependance

[anonymous]

An AU where Charles never met Raven as a child, so Erik is the first other mutant he comes across, and Charles is so blown away by not being alone that he is willing to help Erik build a mutant army despite his moral misgivings, just because he couldn't stand to be alone again.

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[thedustwhispers]

My heart can't take this much self deprecation. Charles, why can't you see how gifted you are. ;A; Lovely update, can't wait for more!

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[blaesc]

Oh, please finish this. This story is so painfully lovely I just can't wait to see where it goes!

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[ss_ophelia]

This is so painfully beautiful.
I love the way you've drawn Charles' relationship to his telepathy, the way he treats it like an animal he doesn't want to hurt but doesn't trust. It's so deftly done, and so, so sharp.

Please say this hasn't been abandoned! It's one of my favorite stories on here, and I'm desperate to see where it goes.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

Ugh. Me too! This story is so painfully lovely and I check this regularly and feel forlorn every time I see it hasn't been updated.

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[aaido]

Just found this, and I know you haven't updated in more than a month, but nevertheless, I beseech you - Please continue!!

OP here

[anonymous]

Just like to say that while this hasn't been updated for a while, I still check often in the hopes of more. I love where this is going an I desperately hope it hasn't been abandoned. Fingers crossed <3

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (8/?)

[anonymous]

Still hoping against hope that this will be continued! Please author!anon!

boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (9a/?)

[anonymous]

When Raven shows up to class next, it's in the body of a tall, blondish man that could, at first glance, easily be Erik's younger brother. The nose is the same, anyways, but the cheekbones aren't as sharp, the mouth not as grim. She's a little bulkier, broad-chested and athletic, but the eyes, the sweep of her hair, the way she hooks her thumbs into the pockets of her trousers, they all scream Erik. Charles probably wouldn't have recognized her otherwise, honestly, except for the sharp, sweet angles of her smile and the way she kind of slinks towards him and Christ, she should know better than to do that, looking like a man

boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (9b/?)

[anonymous]

And that...that is the part they can't understand. Because yes, they're amazing, and yes they're too good to believe and yes, Charles is astounded that these two can even exist, much less exist in his pathetic scrap of a life, but they don't understand that there's a line that can't be crossed. There are social structures and norms that people have to follow and Raven and Erik are brilliant, but they're still aberrations. Humanity isn't kind to aberrations. Charles can't bear to see them crushed.

'Don't,' he snaps at Raven as she slides down in her seat and stretches out those mile-long legs. How can she not realize? If he ever had any doubt as to her actual gender, as to the question of whether or not a shapeshifter can even have an actual gender, here's proof. Because he hasn't seen her in the skin of a man for more than a minute or two at a time, so there's no way he could have realized it before. She looks like a man, but she moves like a woman, languid, fluid rolls of the hips and arches of the spine. Her lips still purse

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[nausicaa83]

So glad to see this updated!!

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[anonymous]

You updated!!

I love the misunderstandings and just how wonderfully broken Charles is. Of course in trying to protect the people who are being impossibly nice to him, he ends up offending them. That's going to do wonders for his already abominable self-esteem.

Also, I love the note about Raven's real gender showing through. I read a book about a rather butch woman who passed for male for a while. All of her male friends thought she was flaming gay.

Anyway, please continue this work of brilliance. I really want to see where you take this from here!

OP

[anonymous]

Yay! You're back!

Charles is astounded that these two can even exist, much less exist in his pathetic scrap of a life
I love how Charles is already so attached to Raven and Erik,even though it's been such a short time.

A pink tongue swipes at her lower lip, catlike and that's wrong, too.
It's great how Charles notices the little things so quickly; so perceptive, but at the same time utterly oblivious.

Can't wait to see more of this <3

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (9b/?)

[takmarierah]

Eeeeeeee! Oh I am so glad that I've been checking this religiously because HERE YOU ARE! :D Would you like my heart? Here, have my heart. <3

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[ss_ophelia]

I actually did a little dance when I saw this had updated. Brilliant!
They way you've written Charles, I'm not sure whether I want to slap him or hug him. Everyone feels so right; of course this is the way they would be in these circumstances.

Thank you so much for updating! I'm so incredibly glad to see this hasn't been abandoned.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (9b/?)

[anonymous]

Ridiculously overjoyed to see this updated!