Comments | mind_over_metal: All of the groovy kids are doing it.

mind_over_metal

All of the groovy kids are doing it.

Aug 16, 2011 17:08

1K comments, first impressions/relationship meme, where the hell did all of those comments come from so quickly, etc.. Be warned that I will be asking for reverses. Also, that this might take me a while, since yesterday's internet blackout left me quite behind.

Erik, you don't count, you're getting your own essay or something.

relationships, meme, ooc

Comments 48

needsahandjob August 16 2011, 21:45:00 UTC

JULIAN :D

mind_over_metal August 29 2011, 05:26:43 UTC

Julian is a big, big challenge for Charles. Not in a necessarily negative way and not one that he doesn't feel that he's up to! But still, a challenge. The whole "I am from the future and the future sucks" is a huge downer and mostly makes Charles feel frustrated by not really knowing what he can do to help Julian. Everything just feels so ineffective and he knows that Julian is well beyond the realm of some comforting words and inspiring phrases doing the trick. He's... pretty damn sure that Julian belongs to Erik, for all intents and purposes ( ... )

needsahandjob September 4 2011, 11:54:04 UTC

SO. Julian is taken from after his runs in X-23 and X-Men: Legacy, where he is basically a very unhappy and chewed on teenager. The culmination of the arc is that Julian is at his lowest point. He's almost violated his one ethical rule (X-Men do not kill), he's ignored his friends' overtures to the point that when he reaches out to them they don't even notice and he ultimately decides he doesn't need anyone or anything. Considering how dependent the babymutants were on each other beforehand, this is not portrayed as a healthy decision at all, and it has had dire consequences on Julian and his mental state. His year in camp has taught him that he can reach out to people sometimes and they won't just ignore him, and that he can withdraw and try and deal with everything that's happened and, more importantly, the people he's reached out to won't abandon him ( ... )

chicksdigfuzz August 16 2011, 21:46:35 UTC

UNCLE CHARLES DO YOU LOVE ME

mind_over_metal September 9 2011, 19:58:04 UTC

UNCLE CHARLES LOVES YOU VERY MUCH KURT no seriously, Charles finds Kurt to be a joy to be around, most of the time. He really appreciates Kurt's happy-derpy-puppy-ness because it lets Charles indulge in that side of himself as well. The "most of the time" caveat is that sometimes Charles is really just Not In The Mood but doesn't want that to show through, particularly to someone as nice as Kurt, which turns being around Kurt into a rather draining exercise. (Though that's not something particularly specific to Kurt -- it can be a strain to be around just about anyone at some point or another -- Charles does feel a little more walking on eggshells with the Evo kids, since their future seems less horrible than everyone else's and Charles doesn't want to, like, break that or whatever ( ... )

chicksdigfuzz September 10 2011, 02:04:16 UTC

OOC Permission granted! Kurt was thinking about his relationship with Mystique during their entire conversation, so Uncle Charles would have picked up on that anyways. And he can dig a little more without Kurt noticing, too ( ... )

needs_a_hg August 16 2011, 22:08:46 UTC

Super first impressions for Cess? We need to do more threading :(

mind_over_metal September 24 2011, 23:50:16 UTC

MORE THAN ONE MONTH LATER ( ... )

spookmagnet August 16 2011, 22:10:31 UTC

I wanna know Charles' first impression of Fenris! (Especially given the uh . . . cast explosion in his intro post. >D)

mind_over_metal September 25 2011, 00:50:32 UTC

WE NEED TO THREAD AGAIN because Charles thought that Fenris was so super groovy. Charles has a huge capacity for wonder and meeting someone who is, like, out of a fantasy book is just fantastic.

Of course, Charles was well aware of the nearby drama that happened when he first arrived. (Y'all were giving him a headache...) And Fenris was being very stiff-minded. But the background of pain and trauma in Fenris's mind -- it's amazing that he's still functioning at all. So of course Charles is interested, even if Fenris weren't an elf, he would still be fascinating.

spookmagnet September 25 2011, 02:21:30 UTC

We dooo and I need to reply to Tatsumi with Tony I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN I just got so overwhelmed by somanythreads. I still have the tab open and everything!!! And then I got sick.

But once I am better and can think again, I WILL PICK UP I swear.

But yeah, Fenris' mind would be absolutely fascinating. It's all twisted up in knots that he's really just starting to unravel, years after escaping his master. XD His character quest in Act III brings him finally to a point where he can move past his slave mindset, so he's really just beginning to blossom as his own person.

And then there's the amnesia and starting to remember tiny bits thing and that would have to be interesting as well, I'm sure. XD (Fun tidbit; his 'real name', which he remembers only once, is the same as Charles' cabinmate, Leto!)

spookmagnet September 26 2011, 02:15:09 UTC

. . . also, I know you didn't ask for a reverse, but I'll give it anyways. o/ Because I am sick and bored and thus feel like rambling.

Fenris still finds every human who doesn't automatically relegate him to the status of a lesser being slightly bewildering; while most of his friends from home aren't prejudiced, the fact is that they're highly unusual and 99% of the humans in Thedas consider the "knife-ears" to be distinctly subhuman, many going as far as viewing them as non-persons. Months in camp hasn't completely erased Fenris' expectation that humans will react to him with fear (because he's a knife-ear with a sword/axe/giant-fucking-hammer) and disdain, since that's an expectation built over the course of years, and not easily put aside.

Add to that the fact that Charles seemed so enthusiastic to learn about people, and sounded so accepting, and Fenris was just like ". . . seriously, is he for real?" It's a positive sort of bewilderment, of course, because not being considered sub . . . human . . . (THESE WORDS ARE ( ... )

comesquickly August 16 2011, 22:30:47 UTC

SUP :D

mind_over_metal September 25 2011, 01:58:07 UTC

PROFESSOR LIEK KID FLASH 8DDD Wally is bright and fun and good-natured and ambitious. And on a mixed team, non-powered human and powered human and non-human. And delightfully young. It's so... refreshing. And he's a scientist, which is wonderful. Wally is the intellectual type that Charles tends to relate to him on a more equal level than he does with others who are closer to his age. Because when it comes down to it, Charles is a nerd-bro. And while it can feel a little... indulgent, when there are so many of "his own" kids who are so troubled and traumatized, it's also a great reminder of some of the things Charles wants to win and win back. LET'S BE PALS, WALLY.

Reverse me!!