Round 4: Claims (CURRENTLY CLOSED!)
CLAIMS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN
They will open Saturday, February 20th at 6PM PST. To check current PST time click here.
INFORMATION ABOUT CLAIMS
- Each story can only be claimed once for art. Once its claimed it will be marked off the list.
- Artists can only claim one story. If after 48 hours we still have stories unclaimed artists will be allowed to claim a second story out of those.
- Once an artist is confirmed by a mod as getting a story the author can contact them and start working together.
- Each new claim has to be in a separate comment, whether you are claiming again, if all your choices are chosen, or if you are claiming for yourself and someone else.
- If claims are done quickly and there are still more artists, stories will be available for a second claim.
To claim a story please read the summaries under the cut and comment with the following to make your claim:
Email:
First Choice #Title:
Second Choice #Title:
Third Choice #Title:
For a proxy claiming:
PROXY CLAIM
Artist's Username:
Email:
First Choice #Title:
Second Choice #Title:
Third Choice #Title:
48 hours after making a claim you should receive an email with your author’s contact information.
1001:
Title: not yet titled
X-Men Verse(s): XMFC, DoFP
Type: There's slash, a bit of het, and lots of plot that doesn't have anything to do with romance. It's supposed to be something like a psychothriller; let's see how well that works when it's finished.
Rating: M
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, Hank/Raven, short mention of Janos/OFC, various friendships. Characters also include Alex Summers and Janos Quested.
Warnings Will not use archive warnings. There's violence, people may or may not die in this one. There is also a consensual sex scene that turns disturbing for one of the participants for reasons outside the other's control.
Summary: Things went well for Charles in the nineteen months that have passed since Washington. Now the school is prospering, his family is united again, and mutants are widely accepted as equal members of society.
Things change on a mild summer night in late August.
Suddenly Charles' life begins to fall apart, and he struggles desperately to prevent a disaster. It takes him some time to realize what - or who - he is truly fighting against.
1002:
Title: Steel Roses
X-Men Verse(s): First Class, Comicverse
Type: Slash
Rating: NC17
Characters/Pairings: Erik, Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Alex Summers, Darwin, Raven Darkholme, Nathaniel Essex
Warnings Sexual content, Victorian zombies
Summary:
The year is 1864. While unrest brews in Europe, Charles Xavier is finally able to start his research after spending years trying to find funding. Riding the tailcoats of Charles Darwin, he sets out into the British countryside to see find out how much truth there is in folklore, how much of it that can be explained by his own kind, gifted humans with special abilities.
Little does he expect to find new friends, new challenges, a budding attraction both emotionally and physically. Not to mention an enemy with far more nefarious and sinister plans than he could have ever imagined.
Erik Lehnsherr is set with a good business, a manor and grounds, staff and acquaintances he can lean on if needed. However, having tracked down and killed the man who killed his parents, he feels at drift, wondering if this is where he's supposed to end his life; a respectable man with a respectable business.
Dragging a drowning Englishman out of the river starts him down an entirely unforeseen but not necessarily unwelcome path.
1003:
Title: Summer Boy
X-Men Verse(s): X-Men First Class
Type: slash
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Warnings a bit of self-hatred, focus on disability, explicit sex, very brief mentions of past abuse
Summary: Erik is working as a helping hand in a beach bar. He hates the tourists, he hates the bar and most of all he hates himself and the past from which he’s trying to escape. The only person there who seems more miserable than Erik is a boy in a wheelchair, sitting all day reading books and sweating in the unforgiving summer heat.
1004:
Title: Thing Created
X-Men Verse(s): XMFC/DOFP
Type: Gen and het
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Main character is Raven Darkholme. Pairings are Raven/Azazel, and mentions of Raven/Erik.
Warnings Mentions of violence and canon character deaths.
Summary: Mystique had slowly grown like a callus over the places Raven inhabited until she was all roughness and death. It was impossible to reduce that to one moment, when it had been the amalgamation of all of them. But if she were forced to point out the day Raven died, she'd say it was the cool Bavarian morning when Raven had swaddled her newborn son in his dead father’s coat and left him behind in the depths of the Black Forest.
An instrospective character piece that explores the emotional journey of Raven's transformation into Mystique, and the particulars of each persona. The action of the story follows Raven in the years between First Class and Days of Future Past, as she first becomes Magneto's right hand woman (and sometimes lover); falls in love with Azazel; gives birth to her son; loses everyone; and becomes a ruthless hunting machine, fighting a war for mutant survival alone. Gap filler fic, mostly canon compliant.
1005:
Title: Missing Pieces
X-Men Verse(s): X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future past
Type: Slash with minor Het
Rating: General/Teen
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, Charles/Emma
Warnings Minor Violence (School Fights)
Summary: After his family moves back to America, Charles decides to play down his intelligence to get people to like him. He's happy with his life, dating the popular girl at school, Emma, and he doesn't even care that her friends think he's stupid because at least he has friends in high school instead of being one of those poor kids getting bullied.
One day when he overhears Emma and her best friend Erik talking about him that all changes. It didn't bother him when the jocks and cheerleaders thought he wasn't smart, but it hits him hard when the usually silent and stoic Erik is telling Emma that he isn't worth her time. He knows his and Emma's relationship is mostly for show, but he can't be happy with the realization of how everyone sees him. Charles drops everything popular and puts his nose to his books to prove Erik wrong. Along the way he works out his friendship with Emma, and is confused by Erik always being around to stop the bullies that have decided that Charles is being a show off with his intelligence.
When graduation comes Emma takes her two best friends out to dinner to celebrate. Left alone while Emma is in the restroom, Charles decides to tell Erik what he overheard that day months before. He thanks Erik for snapping him out of the life he wouldn't have wanted, leaving after saying that he's sorry he was such a bother to Erik throughout the year, and he's sure Erik is happy he won't be around anymore.
A few months later as Charles is walking across campus during his first week of college he runs into Erik who has a few words to say about the way Charles left the restaurant that night after graduation.
1006:
Title: this hope as an anchor for the soul
X-Men Verse(s): X-Men: First Class
Type: Slash
Rating: (eventually) Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Warnings: None
Summary: Erik has been on his own since his parents died while being experimented on -- they were a bonded Sentinel-Guide pair. It's been Erik's life mission to find and destroy facilities that experiment on Sentinels and Guides. Meanwhile, he's hoping he won't ever come online as a Sentinel himself....
Charles, a professor whose studies include the Sentinel-Guide gene, has been waiting a long time for his Sentinel to come online. But when he finally does, it seems he's one of the few who isn't interested in bonding....
1007:
Title: Sour Cherry
X-Men Verse: Movies
Type: Slash
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Warnings: Underage Sex, Drug Use
Summary: Erik is a scholarship kid, deals weed to make money and uses a fake ID to go clubbing on the weekends. Charles is from a rich family, popular, dating Moira, trying to live up to the expectations of his step-father but deeply unhappy.Both attend Dalton, an expensive prep school in Manhattans Upper East side.
Erik is on the fringes of Charles' world. He goes to the parties because he deals to the kids. He fucks men in the clubs. He feels like he belongs nowhere. Charles belongs but feels something different. He hates the expectations of him, feels he is living his life for Sharon, not himself.
They connect one night, seeing something in each other, and end up having a wild weekend together. But one weekend can't erase the differences between them.
1008:
Title: Siren's Call (Unless a different title is thought of)
X-Men Verse(s): xmfc, The Little Mermaid (disney), The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)
Type: gen
Rating: Teen and Up
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, background Edie/Jakob
Warnings violence, torture, canonical character death, shipwrecks
Summary: Charles is a siren who rules the sea around a small island. One night, he encounters a burning ship and a drowning human. Rather than eating this human, he saves him, and later finds that he has saved the prince of the island, a young man by the name of Erik. He visits Erik's castle and finds himself falling in love with the prince.
In order to be with him, Charles seeks out the Serpent, an ancient being who uses magic to keep itself young. Charles exchanges his voice (and his tongue) for a pair of legs, but steals a small charm that lets him read minds from the Serpent. Charles and Erik are together and happy until the Serpent attacks.
They devise a plan to defeat the Serpent and live happily ever after, which they execute with mostly success and some angst. They get the happy ending.
1009:
Title: Of Princes and Dragons
X-Men Verse(s): x-men movieverse, x-men comicverse
Type: m/m and f/m
Rating: teen
Characters/Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr/ Charles Xavier, Emma Frost/ Scott Summers, Alex Summers/ Armando Munoz
Warnings ableism, underage sex references, creature fic, parental neglect
Summary:
On a peninsula called Genosha, there were four countries existing co-operatively. The youngest of the four rulers, King Erik of Clan Lehnsherr, suffered the shame of not manifesting his expected hereditary power of magnetism and metallokinesis. He had, regardless, led Ierocis Zeme into prosperity by inventing machines and introducing factory production and industry into a country that previously kept their advantage by way of skilled and vicious warriorship. The curse that bound his powers could be broken with love, but Erik could not remember a time when he didn’t love the Crown Prince of Corazon, Charles Xavier, whose country lay on the other side of the peninsula, and who lived with his own curse. But he and Charles were both sole heirs. Their duty to reproduce should outweigh personal desire, both for each other and for relief from the curses that pained them.
Charles’ curse is bitter sweet. He had been cursed with legs that were useless on land, but transformed into a magnificent tail in the water. He was also a telepath. Charles loved his tail and found the telepathy useful and comforting. His country however, shunned magic, put all their faith in religion and science, and Charles needed his people to love him, lest the Markos gain ground for a rebellion. So he hid gifts and he resigned himself to the loneliness of secrets kept and a loveless marriage.
The King and the Prince have choices to make and, with each of their options bound to hurt someone, it seems their own wishes must give way to the greater good.
1010:
Title: The Unrelenting Constancy of Love and Hope
X-Men Verse(s): X-men First Class, X-men Movies, Razia's Shadow AU
Type: slash
Rating: E
Characters/Pairings: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr
Warnings Sexual content, violence, major character death
Summary: For years, the world of Genosha has been divided into two halves, the Light and the Dark. Prince Charles Xavier is raised in the Dark, stories of a brighter world and the fulfillment of a prophecy bringing him a hope no one else seems to feel. He dreams of fulfilling the prophecy, of reuniting the Dark and the Light. But his elder sister Emma, heir to throne, will not stand by and let Charles distract himself with such foolishly romantic notions. Left with no other choice, Charles flees the Dark and ventures into The City of Light, where he meets its own Prince, Erik Lehnsherr. And, quite predictably, he falls in love. But you can't run from your history-your past will seek you endlessly. And Charles' dark past is certainly no exception. (A Razia's Shadow AU)
This one is from Track Two, but the author has agreed to allow the story to have more art for their stories.
2001:
Title: never stays in one place
X-Men Verse(s): XMFC and Comics
Type: slash
Rating: mature to explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles; Charles/Erik
Warnings canon type violence
Summary: The Mutant Islands sit in an isolated spot in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited by mutants after humans ejected them from their countries of origin or residence. Nothing was simple for the three islands as they struggled against each other, and the threat of war hung over them constantly.
One threat of war avoided, life in Genosha is anything but normal for Charles, recently married to the island’s new advisor to the Queen. Charles feels as if his life isn't as meaningful as that of his husband, Erik, until another political meeting leads to unintended reminders of Charles' life from Westchester and a serious plot to threaten the new tenuous peace for all three islands.
AUTHORS - If you notice an error or would like something changed about your summary please PM me with your number and the desired changes.
(If anyone has questions between now and this post going live - please feel free to email the mod account or send me (afrocurl) a PM.)
They will open Saturday, February 20th at 6PM PST. To check current PST time click here.
INFORMATION ABOUT CLAIMS
- Each story can only be claimed once for art. Once its claimed it will be marked off the list.
- Artists can only claim one story. If after 48 hours we still have stories unclaimed artists will be allowed to claim a second story out of those.
- Once an artist is confirmed by a mod as getting a story the author can contact them and start working together.
- Each new claim has to be in a separate comment, whether you are claiming again, if all your choices are chosen, or if you are claiming for yourself and someone else.
- If claims are done quickly and there are still more artists, stories will be available for a second claim.
To claim a story please read the summaries under the cut and comment with the following to make your claim:
Email:
First Choice #Title:
Second Choice #Title:
Third Choice #Title:
For a proxy claiming:
PROXY CLAIM
Artist's Username:
Email:
First Choice #Title:
Second Choice #Title:
Third Choice #Title:
48 hours after making a claim you should receive an email with your author’s contact information.
1001:
Title: not yet titled
X-Men Verse(s): XMFC, DoFP
Type: There's slash, a bit of het, and lots of plot that doesn't have anything to do with romance. It's supposed to be something like a psychothriller; let's see how well that works when it's finished.
Rating: M
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, Hank/Raven, short mention of Janos/OFC, various friendships. Characters also include Alex Summers and Janos Quested.
Warnings Will not use archive warnings. There's violence, people may or may not die in this one. There is also a consensual sex scene that turns disturbing for one of the participants for reasons outside the other's control.
Summary: Things went well for Charles in the nineteen months that have passed since Washington. Now the school is prospering, his family is united again, and mutants are widely accepted as equal members of society.
Things change on a mild summer night in late August.
Suddenly Charles' life begins to fall apart, and he struggles desperately to prevent a disaster. It takes him some time to realize what - or who - he is truly fighting against.
1002:
Title: Steel Roses
X-Men Verse(s): First Class, Comicverse
Type: Slash
Rating: NC17
Characters/Pairings: Erik, Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Alex Summers, Darwin, Raven Darkholme, Nathaniel Essex
Warnings Sexual content, Victorian zombies
Summary:
The year is 1864. While unrest brews in Europe, Charles Xavier is finally able to start his research after spending years trying to find funding. Riding the tailcoats of Charles Darwin, he sets out into the British countryside to see find out how much truth there is in folklore, how much of it that can be explained by his own kind, gifted humans with special abilities.
Little does he expect to find new friends, new challenges, a budding attraction both emotionally and physically. Not to mention an enemy with far more nefarious and sinister plans than he could have ever imagined.
Erik Lehnsherr is set with a good business, a manor and grounds, staff and acquaintances he can lean on if needed. However, having tracked down and killed the man who killed his parents, he feels at drift, wondering if this is where he's supposed to end his life; a respectable man with a respectable business.
Dragging a drowning Englishman out of the river starts him down an entirely unforeseen but not necessarily unwelcome path.
1003:
Title: Summer Boy
X-Men Verse(s): X-Men First Class
Type: slash
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Warnings a bit of self-hatred, focus on disability, explicit sex, very brief mentions of past abuse
Summary: Erik is working as a helping hand in a beach bar. He hates the tourists, he hates the bar and most of all he hates himself and the past from which he’s trying to escape. The only person there who seems more miserable than Erik is a boy in a wheelchair, sitting all day reading books and sweating in the unforgiving summer heat.
1004:
Title: Thing Created
X-Men Verse(s): XMFC/DOFP
Type: Gen and het
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Main character is Raven Darkholme. Pairings are Raven/Azazel, and mentions of Raven/Erik.
Warnings Mentions of violence and canon character deaths.
Summary: Mystique had slowly grown like a callus over the places Raven inhabited until she was all roughness and death. It was impossible to reduce that to one moment, when it had been the amalgamation of all of them. But if she were forced to point out the day Raven died, she'd say it was the cool Bavarian morning when Raven had swaddled her newborn son in his dead father’s coat and left him behind in the depths of the Black Forest.
An instrospective character piece that explores the emotional journey of Raven's transformation into Mystique, and the particulars of each persona. The action of the story follows Raven in the years between First Class and Days of Future Past, as she first becomes Magneto's right hand woman (and sometimes lover); falls in love with Azazel; gives birth to her son; loses everyone; and becomes a ruthless hunting machine, fighting a war for mutant survival alone. Gap filler fic, mostly canon compliant.
1005:
Title: Missing Pieces
X-Men Verse(s): X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future past
Type: Slash with minor Het
Rating: General/Teen
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, Charles/Emma
Warnings Minor Violence (School Fights)
Summary: After his family moves back to America, Charles decides to play down his intelligence to get people to like him. He's happy with his life, dating the popular girl at school, Emma, and he doesn't even care that her friends think he's stupid because at least he has friends in high school instead of being one of those poor kids getting bullied.
One day when he overhears Emma and her best friend Erik talking about him that all changes. It didn't bother him when the jocks and cheerleaders thought he wasn't smart, but it hits him hard when the usually silent and stoic Erik is telling Emma that he isn't worth her time. He knows his and Emma's relationship is mostly for show, but he can't be happy with the realization of how everyone sees him. Charles drops everything popular and puts his nose to his books to prove Erik wrong. Along the way he works out his friendship with Emma, and is confused by Erik always being around to stop the bullies that have decided that Charles is being a show off with his intelligence.
When graduation comes Emma takes her two best friends out to dinner to celebrate. Left alone while Emma is in the restroom, Charles decides to tell Erik what he overheard that day months before. He thanks Erik for snapping him out of the life he wouldn't have wanted, leaving after saying that he's sorry he was such a bother to Erik throughout the year, and he's sure Erik is happy he won't be around anymore.
A few months later as Charles is walking across campus during his first week of college he runs into Erik who has a few words to say about the way Charles left the restaurant that night after graduation.
1006:
Title: this hope as an anchor for the soul
X-Men Verse(s): X-Men: First Class
Type: Slash
Rating: (eventually) Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Warnings: None
Summary: Erik has been on his own since his parents died while being experimented on -- they were a bonded Sentinel-Guide pair. It's been Erik's life mission to find and destroy facilities that experiment on Sentinels and Guides. Meanwhile, he's hoping he won't ever come online as a Sentinel himself....
Charles, a professor whose studies include the Sentinel-Guide gene, has been waiting a long time for his Sentinel to come online. But when he finally does, it seems he's one of the few who isn't interested in bonding....
1007:
Title: Sour Cherry
X-Men Verse: Movies
Type: Slash
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik
Warnings: Underage Sex, Drug Use
Summary: Erik is a scholarship kid, deals weed to make money and uses a fake ID to go clubbing on the weekends. Charles is from a rich family, popular, dating Moira, trying to live up to the expectations of his step-father but deeply unhappy.Both attend Dalton, an expensive prep school in Manhattans Upper East side.
Erik is on the fringes of Charles' world. He goes to the parties because he deals to the kids. He fucks men in the clubs. He feels like he belongs nowhere. Charles belongs but feels something different. He hates the expectations of him, feels he is living his life for Sharon, not himself.
They connect one night, seeing something in each other, and end up having a wild weekend together. But one weekend can't erase the differences between them.
1008:
Title: Siren's Call (Unless a different title is thought of)
X-Men Verse(s): xmfc, The Little Mermaid (disney), The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)
Type: gen
Rating: Teen and Up
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik, background Edie/Jakob
Warnings violence, torture, canonical character death, shipwrecks
Summary: Charles is a siren who rules the sea around a small island. One night, he encounters a burning ship and a drowning human. Rather than eating this human, he saves him, and later finds that he has saved the prince of the island, a young man by the name of Erik. He visits Erik's castle and finds himself falling in love with the prince.
In order to be with him, Charles seeks out the Serpent, an ancient being who uses magic to keep itself young. Charles exchanges his voice (and his tongue) for a pair of legs, but steals a small charm that lets him read minds from the Serpent. Charles and Erik are together and happy until the Serpent attacks.
They devise a plan to defeat the Serpent and live happily ever after, which they execute with mostly success and some angst. They get the happy ending.
1009:
Title: Of Princes and Dragons
X-Men Verse(s): x-men movieverse, x-men comicverse
Type: m/m and f/m
Rating: teen
Characters/Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr/ Charles Xavier, Emma Frost/ Scott Summers, Alex Summers/ Armando Munoz
Warnings ableism, underage sex references, creature fic, parental neglect
Summary:
On a peninsula called Genosha, there were four countries existing co-operatively. The youngest of the four rulers, King Erik of Clan Lehnsherr, suffered the shame of not manifesting his expected hereditary power of magnetism and metallokinesis. He had, regardless, led Ierocis Zeme into prosperity by inventing machines and introducing factory production and industry into a country that previously kept their advantage by way of skilled and vicious warriorship. The curse that bound his powers could be broken with love, but Erik could not remember a time when he didn’t love the Crown Prince of Corazon, Charles Xavier, whose country lay on the other side of the peninsula, and who lived with his own curse. But he and Charles were both sole heirs. Their duty to reproduce should outweigh personal desire, both for each other and for relief from the curses that pained them.
Charles’ curse is bitter sweet. He had been cursed with legs that were useless on land, but transformed into a magnificent tail in the water. He was also a telepath. Charles loved his tail and found the telepathy useful and comforting. His country however, shunned magic, put all their faith in religion and science, and Charles needed his people to love him, lest the Markos gain ground for a rebellion. So he hid gifts and he resigned himself to the loneliness of secrets kept and a loveless marriage.
The King and the Prince have choices to make and, with each of their options bound to hurt someone, it seems their own wishes must give way to the greater good.
1010:
Title: The Unrelenting Constancy of Love and Hope
X-Men Verse(s): X-men First Class, X-men Movies, Razia's Shadow AU
Type: slash
Rating: E
Characters/Pairings: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr
Warnings Sexual content, violence, major character death
Summary: For years, the world of Genosha has been divided into two halves, the Light and the Dark. Prince Charles Xavier is raised in the Dark, stories of a brighter world and the fulfillment of a prophecy bringing him a hope no one else seems to feel. He dreams of fulfilling the prophecy, of reuniting the Dark and the Light. But his elder sister Emma, heir to throne, will not stand by and let Charles distract himself with such foolishly romantic notions. Left with no other choice, Charles flees the Dark and ventures into The City of Light, where he meets its own Prince, Erik Lehnsherr. And, quite predictably, he falls in love. But you can't run from your history-your past will seek you endlessly. And Charles' dark past is certainly no exception. (A Razia's Shadow AU)
This one is from Track Two, but the author has agreed to allow the story to have more art for their stories.
2001:
Title: never stays in one place
X-Men Verse(s): XMFC and Comics
Type: slash
Rating: mature to explicit
Characters/Pairings: Charles; Charles/Erik
Warnings canon type violence
Summary: The Mutant Islands sit in an isolated spot in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited by mutants after humans ejected them from their countries of origin or residence. Nothing was simple for the three islands as they struggled against each other, and the threat of war hung over them constantly.
One threat of war avoided, life in Genosha is anything but normal for Charles, recently married to the island’s new advisor to the Queen. Charles feels as if his life isn't as meaningful as that of his husband, Erik, until another political meeting leads to unintended reminders of Charles' life from Westchester and a serious plot to threaten the new tenuous peace for all three islands.
AUTHORS - If you notice an error or would like something changed about your summary please PM me with your number and the desired changes.
(If anyone has questions between now and this post going live - please feel free to email the mod account or send me (afrocurl) a PM.)