fic: your star has faded (charles xavier)

[mentalistecbm]

notes: this is also for phoenixnoor. unbetad.

Comments

[phoenixnoor]

Oh my gosh, what is this? This is achingly beautiful.

So many feelings in the space of half an hour; torture of the very best kind. Wait, that sounds kinky. It's late, you can't do thisss to mee.

I loved/hated the three hours bit and your Raven thoughts should actually be canon and also Charles's anger physically hurt and you have this thing where your characters are characteristically perfect, but they are so entirely yours and yours alone.

I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS AMOUNT OF PERFECTION, GO AWAY.

[mentalistecbm]

NOOR BABY YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU AND SHALL NEVER GO AWAY.

and i'm always embarrassingly flattered every time that you say you like my things because you always like beautiful things so that makes me think that my things are beautiful.

[blackstarnebula]

wow, I love dark Charles and you write him so wonderfully. Love this

[mentalistecbm]

i wasn't really trying to write charles as dark, more--human? because personally, if i'd lost my sister, my best friend and my legs in the span on the same ten minutes-i don't think there are too many people who would have been able to act like it was just a chip off the shoulder because it's not, it's really not, y'know?

but thank you ever so much for reading and commenting and liking it.

[sugarlungs]

oh god, all my feelings. this was wonderful & heartbreaking & wonderful.

[mentalistecbm]

oh, darling, thank you so very much.

[levitatethis]

We don't often get to read dark Charles but it's such an affecting rendering of him to explore and in this fic you really capture him in a way that's compelling and disturbing. I like that the darker side of him and his capabilities is there prior to Cuba. It's not like that becomes the turning point. Instead you've built in a bit of history, all these touchstone moments jumping further off from the one before.

Great job!

[mentalistecbm]

thaaaaaaaank you, and though i don't really see charles as being dark, i can see that it's a darker part of him. we know that there has to have been casualities and uh, i don't even know.

but thank you, again and can i just say that i adore your icon?

[levitatethis]

I like that it's a darker side of Charles, a side that has seen his share. It serves as a nice balance to the more idealistic side of him. Basically it works really well :-)

I've been dying to use that icon since I got it and never seemed to find the opportunity until I read your fic. Obviously I don't think Charles is the devil but I like the implications of the fight being here and now.

[mentalistecbm]

oh, okay. i have all these feelings for charles and he tends to get--underplayed in fic? don't know if that's the right world but there is only so long that a person can stay naive and idealistic and if i lost my legs i'd pretty much just hate everything. so that he keeps going and clearly continues with the school, it's amazing to me and, i don't know, i probably don't make sense.

i'm glad i gave you the chance to use it, then. :)

[monkeys_on_n2o]

I came over from the erik/charles comm, and this is fantastic. Your depiction of Charles is heartbreaking. Some of the above comments talk about this being dark!Charles, but I actually think it's one of the most... realistic? ones I've seen in fic. And I love that you don't shy away from the nastier aspects of the Brotherhood; the line
she gave up that right the first time she killed a child
was amazing.

[mentalistecbm]

oh, thank you, darling! thank you, thank you, thank you for getting it. :D