THE X-MEN FIRST CLASS KINK MEME: PROMPT POST

Jun 03, 2011 03:15

You know why you're here. You've seen the movie. You're asking yourself, "So where was the gratuitous Emma Frost as White Queen in a corset? When did Mystique totally make it with Beast? WHY IN HEAVENS DID XAVIER AND MAGNETO NEVER MAKE OUT ( Read more... )

prompt post, round 1

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Charles - Asylum AU (mental illness/child imprisonment) anonymous June 13 2011, 16:55:17 UTC
Soon after Charles meets Raven, his parents/guardians/whatever find out he is hearing voices and have him taken to a mental institution. Charles is fine when he goes in, but being surrounded by people with mental illness is rough for a telepath. By the time Raven manages to breaks him out, Charles is far from fine. I want telepathic Charles in complete denial of his powers because he is so certain it's all in his head, and Raven trying to help him with varying degrees of success.
bonuses for:
Raven shifting to visit Charles in the hospital (especially if it confuses Charles even more and makes things worse)
Erik somehow helping break Charles out
RAVEN BEING AWESOME

YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT

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FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (1a/?) anonymous June 13 2011, 18:57:43 UTC
hi, guys! I don't even know what this is, but I think it might be lengthy. what is my life. I hope you like it? FIRST TIME WRITING ANY OF THESE DUDES. ♥Charles meets Raven two weeks shy of his twelfth birthday. She looks like his mother, but she’s not. He knows that she’s not ( ... )

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DAMMIT anonymous June 13 2011, 19:00:52 UTC
I TOTALLY JUST SAID TO MYSELF, "HEY I HOPE I CLOSED ALL OF MY HTML TAGS."

NOPE. I DID NOT.

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Re: DAMMIT iambickilometer June 13 2011, 20:14:30 UTC
Do you want me to delete the comment so that you can re-post it?

also: this is fantastic, I am really enjoying it.

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Re: DAMMIT anonymous June 14 2011, 02:26:39 UTC
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. YOU ARE FANTASTIC.

(was at work, sorry! hopefully will also be updating this tonight at some point!)

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Re: DAMMIT iambickilometer June 14 2011, 09:35:27 UTC
AUGH sorry it took me so long to respond. anyway, deleting it now.

(and no worries; I don't even have that excuse. Also, hooray!)

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Re: FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (1b/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 03:19:09 UTC
This is a wonderful beginning!

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FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (1b/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 12:28:53 UTC
okay, here's the repost of this! hopefully I'll have closed all my html tags this time. HA HA HA.

Charles spends most of the next two months with headaches. He doesn’t want to know what anyone is thinking, especially not about him, and when he tells Raven she just shrugs.

“I’d rather that than look like this,” she says, and holds up one blue hand for him to see.

“I’d trade,” Charles says, unhappily, and pushes his face into his pillow. James hasn’t stopped wanting to kill him since Charles said that thing about his parents. The other boys all think he’s some kind of freak and give him wide berth, but he can still hear all the things they’re thinking about him. Queer, and I bet he’s some kind of pervert, and no way am I ever - don’t leave me alone with him, and demon-worshiper, I bet -

“At least you like me,” Charles says, words still muffled in his pillow.

I’ll always like you, Raven thinks at him, matter-of-factly. You’re my best friend“You, too,” Charles says ( ... )

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FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (2a/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 04:13:18 UTC
just wanted to get a little more of this down tonight! hopefully the next section will be a little longer.

The boy they room Charles with spends all night talking to himself. He paces back and forth by the ends of their beds, and tugs at his hair with one fisted hand. Charles lies on his back and stares at the ceiling, trying to reconcile the words actually coming out the boy’s mouth with the ones he can hear in his head. Charles wonders who he’s talking to.

Eventually the slide-drag of the boy’s footsteps lulls Charles to sleep, if only for a few hours.

He’s shown into the doctor’s office early the next morning. The orderlies don’t tell him anything, but he can feel how detached they are. He’s just another faceless kid, troubled and crazy and not worth caring about. He tries to push off the wonder how long this one is going to last and the two hours until my shift if over, but it gets underneath his skin like sandpaper. No one here really cares if he gets better ( ... )

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Re: FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (2b/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 04:16:30 UTC
He takes a pill with every meal, and they let him socialize with the other children for several hours each day. He can hear their thoughts tremble through them, chaotic and uncertain - I won’t I won’t I won’t - once father takes me away from here they’ll see they’ll - half the day away and you can’t make me - crazy I’m not I’ll prove it - they’re more fragile than he’s used to, like a butterfly’s wings. Easily tattered ( ... )

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Re: FILL: your head caught in a waking dream OP anonymous June 14 2011, 04:40:01 UTC
FLAILING LIKE A CAPSIZED TURTLE RN
JUST- Charles and Raven being BFFs and Charles FAILING AT TACT and poor poor Charles oh my heart~ I'm terrible but I can't wait for Charles to despair.
Favoritest FOREVER
/rickrolls you ♥ ♥ ♥

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Re: FILL: your head caught in a waking dream OP anonymous June 14 2011, 16:24:24 UTC
I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM YOU HOW DELIGHTFUL I FIND THIS COMMENT

AND HOW HAPPY I AM THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING THIS FILL.

CHARLES IS GOING TO BE VERY SAD, I'M AFRAID. :( :( :(

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Re: FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (2b/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 06:40:05 UTC
*writhes around in gleeful agony*
I love this. The angst, the despair... ughuu~! Poor Charles!!
Can't wait for the next update :D

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FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (3a/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 15:05:23 UTC
Charles empties the saltshaker out onto the table in the cafeteria and spreads the salt underneath his fingers. He tries to remember the quadratic equation, but he can’t. He tries to remember the exact specifications of Raven’s face, but he can’t - just the texture of her skin, and the intensity of her eyes. The way her thoughts would run over him like cool water, not like the ragged edges here, the razor sharp anxiety and fear, dull pain, confusion like a bitter pill.

The grains of salt get caught underneath Charles’ fingernails, and he wonders if he’s past his thirteenth birthday yet.

The doctor says that the treatments aren’t working. He starts electroshock therapy in the morning.

They strap him down, ankles and wrists and torso, and push a piece of flat plastic into his mouth. So he doesn’t bite his tongue.

“You’ll feel better in a jiffy,” the doctor says, falsely cheerful, and Charles tries to shake his head, shake out the way the doctors words contradict his thoughts - this one might be hopeless - hopeless - non-violent at ( ... )

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FILL: your head caught in a waking dream (3b/?) anonymous June 14 2011, 15:08:05 UTC
He dreams that he’s sitting in a classroom, an empty classroom, and there’s a woman standing at the chalkboard. She has blue skin, scaled in a perfect pattern, but her voice sounds like his mother’s. He’s trying to copy down everything she’s saying, but she’s talking too fast, and he can’t understand all of the words.

You’re too slow, comes from nowhere in particular, and he realizes that she’s staring at him, eyes wide and angry and he tries to speak but no words come out.

Wake up, she says, without moving her mouth. Wake up wake up wake up“Charles ( ... )

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