No but in all actuality this kinda just is what Charles's character was about, and because I'm obsessed with him this joke post is now making me scream because like...
The dude wasn't even all that much older than the other "kids"... at least in the movies. Wait no, scratch that, in the comics originally Charles my dude was like 22??? 😭😭 give or take??? coaching a bunch of 15-17 yr olds out of sheer necessity when he himself had no idea what the fuck he's doing. (This was later retconned because of time discrepancies and Charles' age was made to match Magneto's) but still.
Now in the movies get this, most of them were only I'd say 3-4 years younger than Charles??? We never got full confirmation of the kids' ages, only rough estimations that they were in their 20s maybe mid-20s. And mind you Charles wasn't even in full mastery of his abilities?? But still he thought it'd be a great idea to be their sole guide and teacher?? 😭
Like yeah no shit everything fell apart, Charles' nature of responsibility-bearing that was not matched with the correct age competence was ingrained into him since he was a kid, why was he RAISING a kid when HE WAS A KID. Raven was ten and he was only TWELVE. DUDE HIS VOICE HASN'T EVEN CRACKED YET.
His backstory in the comics was worse if you ask me because on top of being experimented by his father and Essex he became a pseudo-therapist for his abused mother (which Magneto was so shocked to hear btw when Charles was venting to him! *Uncanny X-men but I forgot the issue, pls help me out on this one).
But even in the movie, he was the sole guardian responsible for Raven when nobody guided him in the first place hello??? It makes so much sense that later in life he makes such fucked up delirious decisions, ALL HIS LIFE he was the only one MAKING decisions.
Ffs this man .... and OF COURSE the MINUTE he met Erik in a freezing ocean, a STRANGER, he immediately latched on and CLUNG to him because he was the first person Charles didn't feel the need to take care of, if that made sense. To the point that Erik's absence, along with the loss of his students became the core reason he derailed in DOFP.
Makes it sadder too because for years, YEARS, Charles begged Erik to come home, to stay, don't leave. But the minute it was the other way around, and Erik asked Charles to come to Genosha with him, Charles IMMEDIATELY agreed. Like he was WAITING for someone to take care of HIM.
Btw Ik this is the movies but Charles' plot in Krakoa followed this same dependency and latch on Erik (at least from my own analysis). When Erik left him for Planet Arrako, Charles went off the rails. When Charles got stuck in Essex' unending samsara of lifetimes it was Erik's death that snapped him out of the timeloop.
Basically cherik is literally based off of trauma-bonding and codependency but in a world like the X-men it's kinda beautiful in a strange frightening way.
Tl;dr Charles is an unhealthy highly unstable secretly emotionally dependent man who desperately seeks someone he can lean on except since he was a kid nobody was there for him and he never managed to break that cycle of trauma, thus inflicting it on his kids.
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