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[as they all looking at Charles's family home]
Sean Cassidy: This is yours?
Charles Xavier: No. It's ours.
Erik Lehnsherr: [sarcastically] Honestly Charles, I don't know how you survived. Living in such hardship.
Raven: Well, it was a hardship softened by me.
In comic canon, Charles' childhood was a little less idyllic than the others seem to think. So, someone finds out something wasn't right, whether it's a blatant revelation or the uneasy sense that Something Just Wasn't Right in the Xavier household. Dramatic or subtle, one person or everyone, from psychic projection or something material - totally up to authoranon.
(Bonus for not overshadowing Erik's own past; there really isn't much that can compare to the Holocaust. This is more just for recognition that Charles, while certainly privileged in a lot of ways, really wasn't in others.)
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The implications of the first paragraph are striking, come to think of it. So is this one:
Erik might be happy in spite of himself and so, naturally, he assumes that Charles--soft, privileged Charles, with his delicate accent and his sweet naivite--must be happy too.
Breakfast at Tiffany's made me laugh and also wonder if you're making a parallel here somewhere, except I haven't seen the movie for years so I couldn't guess, so I could be wrong, so just ignore me.
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And Charles, when he looks around the table at his students, his friends, his family-- / He smiles so brightly, it almost hurts to look at.
OMG, this section. It almost hurts to read, but it's perfect. <3
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And Raven is. She hasn't spoken to Erik properly in the week, and she keeps looking at him, these darting little glances like she's just waiting for him to explode. Her trips to the foot of his bed come to an abrupt halt and once--only once, fortunately--they run into each other in the hall outside the kitchen and Raven honest-to-God skitters away from him ( ... )
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I love the way Erik gets suspicious and starts wondering about Charles *bites nails*
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(Although to be fair, I'd assume there wouldn't be servants there while he's training mutants, after all. But yeah, still wouldn't seem like the type to know all the details of running the mundane parts of a household.)
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It's cold. It's polished and precise and perfect, as if two young, rambunctious children couldn't possibly have grown up here. Erik would like to believe it's just because Charles is older now, closer to thirty than twenty. He doesn't want to be the man who would keep childish things around, does he, because it's hard enough getting Alex and Sean to listen to him, when he barely comes up to their collarbones.
But Charles is sentimental. He is a fool and an idealist and sometimes Erik wants to strangle him because he will not listen, but...a man who would open his life, his home, to complete strangers, to a stripper and a convict and a cold-blooded killer, well. That takes the sort of compassion Erik will never have ( ... )
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