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Absolutely fucking not
another question that gets me is… would u be friends with your parents if they were your not your parents/ were the age you are now?? hard to tell bc who knows what they were really like at 20 something but….. we wonder. and we wonder and wonder.
You need to check this fic out !!
So… this is going to be a different kind of fic rec. Mainly because I wrote this one. Check it out if you get the chance.
I have like 5 million headcanons for the Hear Me Out au and I can't fit them all into the fic, so here we go, part one of character headcanons:
Charles:
He identifies as queer because he experiences romantic attraction and gender differently than others due to his telepathy (much more fluid). Generally he just uses male terms but he really just doesn't care all that much about pronouns.
he's nearsighted, and wears glasses.
he may not be able to figure out his own life, but he's got great advice for everyone else (and usually it works)
he's kind of been wanting to get his ears pierced for years but he's worried it'll clash with his academia aesthetic
If he's not wearing jumpers and button-ups he owns like five million oversized hoodies in varying colors
he collects converse
He likes classical music and pop and lofi
He just randomly has teabags all the time
Erik (sorry about his face idk what happened):
He generally respects people he'd just rather not talk to them.
Learned to cook and bake from Edie, it's become cathartic for him.
Knows how to paint and draw but will never tell anyone about it. He also makes sculptures from metal when he's bored.
Likes running and working out.
Angel:
Taylor swift girly to Raven's sabrina carpenter obsession (they've got all these records on their walls)
Does yoga and mountain biking
Makeup specialist of the house (since raven can just do it with her powers)
Will sometimes go flying with sean but he makes her nervous a lot because like, what if something happened to his suit?
Haunts the local starbucks
Raven:
Only wears gold jewelry and loves pink
Will kill anyone who hurts her friends (and they'll never find the body)
Has watched the sabrina carpenter christmas special like ten million times
does "natural makeup" tutorials for mutants with all different skin colors. People send her pictures of their mutation and she shifts into them, spends time making the look, and then posts it for them.
Sean:
Started to learn to cook when they all moved in together (just simple foods for now but he's getting better and really enjoys it)
Wayyyyy too much energy at any given moment
Has perfect pitch and is a great singer because of his mutation. He can also play any instrument by ear.
I don’t want your future.
I’m cooking, kids 🤭🤭
Okay hear me out !
A modern AU (still with powers) where Charles and Erik are childhood friends and Charles falls in love with Erik but Erik doesn’t reciprocate because he thinks he’s straight.
BUT every time Charles has a date with another man, or when they are in a pub Erik gets jealous af and they fight about it. (A bit like Raven at the beginning of FC)
Charles doesn’t understand why his friend is behaving like that because he promised to never read his mind.
Then after days of fighting and maybe even silent treatment, Erik just pull Charles into a kiss and realize he is, in fact, not straight and ask him out 🫢🫢
Would people be interested in a fic like that ??
“What’s your favourite horror movie?”
Oh I don’t know, maybe Erik’s eyes when he realised that his decades of trial and error did nothing to help him against Shaw, and he and everyone he loved would die a pointless death at the hands of the man he swore to never let hurt anyone else again…
I've been thinking about those soulmate AUs where whatever happens to your skin translate's to your soulmates, so when you get hurt, they get hurt as well. Those can be really cute with other ships when one doddles on their skin, or if one works as vet and has weird scratches.
But Cherik. Fuck, Cherik.
Kurt beating Charles up and Erik thinking that the bruises he doesn't remember is just Shaw experimenting on him while unconscious. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
One random morning when Charles is a kid, he feels this excruciating pain and numbers appear on forearm. From that point beyond it's just downhill, everyday he screams like it's torture, because, well, it is.
It gets to a point where even his negligent mother can't ignore and takes him to a hospital, he gets tested for every single type of chronic pain possible, but it all turns negative, so they think he's faking it/ it's psychological. But his shitty family still doesn't want to deal with that, so they lock him up in the hospital, so the doctors can "treat him" and "ease the pain", however nothing works — because the it's not Charles', it's Erik's.
At this point some might suspect it's soulmate induced, but what kind of person would be torture this much for so long?
Raven is the only one who keeps visiting, disguised as a nurse or a doctor, she's the only one who believes him. Until the late 1940s, when the pain stops. Erik is free from the camps. Charles is discharged from the hospital.
It's not until some years later, the world learns the the horrors the Nazis were doing, and my god the tattoo — that's when Charles understands what kind of person his soulmate is. He never cried so hard as that night. Raven hugs him, saying that his soulmate has to have survived, or else he'd be dead too, right? Right?
They want to search for his soulmate, but all they have is the numbers (and they'd assume it's a girl because of period typical homophobia). Besides, if they're soulmates, the universe is going to put them together, right?
And then Charles saves a random man who was going to drown trying to throw a submarine at a Nazi yacht. Their minds touch, and it's like they've known each other their wholes lives, it's beautiful.
Charles shows him his numbers and Erik shows his, and they match — because of they do — and my god, IT'S YOU!!
Erik didn't even thought he had a soulmate, thought he was doomed to be alone, but Charles is cheering and hugging him because IT'S YOU WHO I'VE BEEN IN HELL FOR! oh my god you've been through hell OH MY GOD WE'VE BEEN THROUGH HELL!
Raven is crying in the background because she has a new brother-in-law. Erik is a bit confused in the beginning, but as soon as he realizes Charles has suffered in Shaw's hands as much as he did, he hugs him to never let go. He cries variations of ‘I'm sorry’, but Charles reassures him it was never his fault.
And they go hunt Shaw together, holding hands. And Charles doesn't protest when Erik wants to kill him with the coin. He endures holding Shaw still while Erik gets his closure, he endured so much for Erik, it's just one more thing, once and for all. It's revenge for us both.
There's no beach divorce.
They live happily ever after.
Cherik defender till death. @LarmeDeSang on Ao3 _LarmeDeSang_ on twitter They/Them
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