Ekin

18+ | UK Based | Cherik | DC Comics | Manhwa | Marvel Comics | No.1 Fan of Charles Xavier (Movie) and self proclaimed wife of Alex Summers Please come and yap at me at anytime! Join the Cherik Nation https://discord.gg/fQPDXKabVh

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Hi and hello! I noticed a lot of people having introduction posts pinned to their Tumblr and thought it was so clever - so here's my own!

𓂃⋆.˚ Just some little funky stuff about me:

You can call me: Ekin - but if you knew me by any other names (Agent/Strider...etc.) you are more than welcome to still use those names!

I'm not fussy with pronouns, everything goes, anything works, but if you'd like a set to use, then she/her works just dandy!

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What am I obsessed with? (A lot-)

✩ Cherik!

It's always had my heart and soul and after I found out the Tumblr community for it is alive and raging??? Even better. Particularly obsessed with XMFC and DoFP portrayal of it too.

✩ DC Comics!!

Especially Batfam, but I'm an avid Dick Grayson enthusiast, an unhealthy love of Birdflash but also the original Titans are super precious to me - but talk to me about anything DC related and I'll love you (I do not claim the live action and you cannot change my mind)

✩ Manhwas and Recination Webcomics!!!

Somehow, it never gets old to me, the same plot but rehashed in different beautiful art every single time (think "Fortune Telling Princess" or "Sigrid"). I'm particularly partial to the Korean Manhwas, but I do dabble in Manhuas occasionally, and I think it's great.

✩ Marvel Comics!!!!

Less familiar with Marvel comics but still have a healthy appreciation of it all. Bit of an Elektra superfan, and Aldrif/Angela but I'll take everything I can get. I suppose the MCU is alright at times as well.

⋆ Honourable Mentions: Marauders from Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Young Justice, OHSHC, and probably some more stuff when I remember

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Alright, if you've gotten here, you're just impressive! ✩

A little bit more about me?

✮ I am a full-time student, shamelessly at Oxford and shamelessly inspired by Charles Xavier from First Class because he is hopelessly charming when he studies there!

✮ I love to draw and write, and absolutely love to chat anyone's ear off if you'd let me! Currently working on my own book, and am always happy to have any of you in my dms for a natter.

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Okay I think that is all for now, will update accordingly when I get the time!

(If you can't tell I love fish, hence the little starry fish separators - did I mention I love dogs? Especially big ones)

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Ao3 Link: Here (but most of it is really embarrassing, only check out my latest stuff please, I beg of you)

[maplefiasco]

ffs, erik.

[raspberryfries]

foreshadowing for what i have planned (i hope you like my divalicious edit i did it in 2 minutes)

[wishchip106]

Charles looked at Erik with the biggest saddest bluest eyes ever AND THIS BITCH STILL LEFT

“You’re sure i can’t convince you to stay?”

“You’re psychic, Charles. You can convince me to do anything.”

still one of the gayest lines in movie history i’ll never get over Erik always gotta remind us about his telepathy kink

but anyway why Erik have to leave all the time ☹️ why can’t cherik just stay together forever 💔 crying

[magnetostits-deactivated2026031]

this came to me in a vision

[xxplastic-cubexx]

more scribbling while i fight my organs

[art-and-anarchism-deactivated20]

[comvi]

day 1 discord dms with a mutual: hahha yeah i hope im not bothering you! look at this silly picture haha reminds me of that one guy

day 563 discord dms with a mutual: I accidentally lit .my entire fucking marshmallow on fire when i was roasting it on the stove

[jennipond]

fateful night

[mister-peregrine]

for raven, wearing other people’s skin is as intimate to her as it is for charles to go inside other people’s minds. and sometimes after cuba she walks around in his skin and looks in the mirror and pretends that he’s there in the room with her instead of back at the mansion. sometimes she even sleeps in his skin, and it’s the closest she can get to being back in her brother’s embrace.

[erik-w-right]

Apocalypse Erik X Firstclass Charles

[gracefulbirb]

X Men: First Class (but flip the roles)

Just another idea I'm throwing around, but what if we took the plot of X Men: First Class but flipped the roles of Erik and Charles? (I know this is straying further and further from canon but do you see me following canon...ever?)

I think I've said this before but I see X Men movies separate from the comics so comic logic is casually going to leave the chat.

We have an Erik whose family did escape Germany, perhaps they relocated to Ireland (hence the Irish accent from Fassy). We've seen in XMA that Erik's true nature is that he is really quite a gentle soul, passionate, but a peace lover - he's driven by anger and loyalty, but without his time at the camp, his parents dying and Shaw's abuse, I think he would have been much calmer and generally peace-loving.

On the flip side, we have Charles whose powers started to develop young, shortly after his father died and his mother remarries to his stepfather. They both think Charles is going crazy when Charles's mutation develops (Charles is convinced he's going insane as well). They reach out secretly to find someone to sort it out - Charles being "insane" hurts their reputation as a upper class aristocratic family.

Shaw, perhaps during his time in the US, hears of this - and recognises that this might be about a telepath - and with relatively little persuasion, Charles' step father hands over Charles to Shaw, seeing this as an opportunity to take over the Xavier fortune. Charles suffers at the hands of Shaw instead for his childhood - perhaps Shaw wants to force out a secondary mutation in Charles just like Emma has a secondary mutation.

(In this world, perhaps Raven also is 'taken in' by Shaw - Charles and her still form their sibling like relationship. They both suffer at the hands of Shaw)

By the time the time period of First Class rolls around, perhaps Erik appears on the radar of the CIA for going around and raising awareness of mutant rights (I believe that Erik would still be passionate about the cause). Moira recruits Erik, as they are still hunting for Shaw in this timeline.

During this, they come across Charles, a broken telepath, consumed by hatred for Shaw - bonus points if perhaps Charles escaped from Shaw not too long ago but perhaps Shaw still has his hands on Raven.

The roles are totally reversed, with Erik trying to get Charles to be more rational but we all know that Charles is unbelievably loyal and loving to Raven and would not ever sit still knowing that she is in danger/still suffering.

An interesting parallel could be perhaps unlike Erik who was fascinated by the existence of other mutants in First Class and thus interested in working with Charles as a fellow mutant, Charles could be so traumatised by the fact that Shaw was a mutant and had he and Raven not been mutants themselves, would have been spared the abuse - it wouldn't be out of the question to have Charles very hateful towards other mutants. So initially, he'd be wary and paranoid towards Erik.

A highly intelligent, but paranoid, relatively undeveloped Charles would be terrifying but also incredibly fascinating.

I personally think this could be an interesting take on First Class!! Maybe I'll write it, maybe I won't. What are people's thoughts, go ahead and yap at me please my brain is too small for all these ideas spinning around.

[gracefulbirb]

Cherik Fic Exchange?

Hallo - some of you may know me as advertising for a movie marathon for X Men not too long ago - the good news is, it did go ahead! I made a discord server and it's been so fun, and everyone is welcome (click here)

We are also running a Cherik fic exchange within the server and you are more than welcome to join! It's fun, and anonymous, and all instructions are inside.

We'd love to have more participants, it's lowkey and only 1k minimum words required - the deadline is 18/07/2025 and gift day is 31/07/2025!

There is no pressure to join this time, but hopefully we will be running this each month with different themes etc.

Join the 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐤 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ¹⁶⁺ Discord Server!

A fun and lively sever where we discuss the live action X Men movies and other X Men media! With a focus on the Cherik ship - if you're look

Yada yada, I'll probably stop advertising soon, just would love to see some people join the fic exchange!

[slouph]

The plot of the X-men prequels

[gracefulbirb]

Just an idea atm but may flesh it out

Erik doesn't quite lose everything in the camps. His younger sister who was an infant when the Holocaust began and was successfully sent away, reunites with Erik after the war. She has little to no memories of their parents, and latches onto Erik with all her might.

Erik takes her with him everywhere, even hunting after Shaw - telling her it's to avenge their parents, and she hangs onto his every word because he's all she's ever really known in terms of love and trusts him wholeheartedly. Learns to hate Shaw through Erik. Follows him blindly for a while, having his own views.

But here's the thing, she's never showed a sign of ever having a mutation - this doesn't matter to Erik. She *must* be a mutant, perhaps something not obvious, or simply hasn't developed. It doesn't matter to him - but this slowly gets projected onto her - that there is this expectation that she just *is* and if she's not then she's "lesser".

I doubt Erik even realises what he's doing - because of course she's going be a mutant, because how could she be a human - like the people that hurt their family?

And then she's going to be roughly Alex and co's age during First Class (roughly mid teens 16-17) and there's definitely going to be some sort of horror at the fact that Erik seems to be so glad he's "not alone" anymore - and then it dawns on her that maybe he never saw them as equal.

Have Charles suggest that she might be a human - not a mutant - and then suddenly, there's this distance between her and Erik that can't be crossed. On god, especially during that naming scene in First Class when the kids are giving themselves nicknames, she definitely sits there - an outsider who cannot even contribute. How Erik takes the name Magneto in stride - and she realises that she doesn't know Magneto, he is a stranger to her. Not the steadfast figure throughout her childhood anymore.

Erik wrestling with the idea of her ever being a human - not a mutant. And suddenly there's a them and us. It's her or the world.

And then there's another realisation - it's always been this way. It's always been the world first, his vengeance first, Shaw first, the dead before the living. What about her?

Oh god for extra angst, have it be the foil to Charles and Raven where Erik's younger sister almost definitely holds envy towards Raven for being a mutant - being what Erik "desires" her to be - a perfect mutant. Jealous of Raven having a brother who loves her regardless.

And on the flip side, Raven is almost definitely bitter to see Erik to have a sister who can just be "normal" doesn't need to worry about being blue all the time and a freak. Bonus points (if we age the sister up ofc) if during that scene where Hank tells Raven that they're ugly and always will be etc. for being mutants unlike Erik's younger sister who is a human.

I wonder if Erik would change how he went about Cuba. Both yes and no work in this case, because he is just so flawed and so perfect and we'll never know.

Also credit to @terranometry to feeding my absolute spiral and she is so fucking correct 💯

Anyway I think it has loads of potential

[gracefulbirb]

I was thinking about the quotes

- A hero would sacrifice you for the world

- A villain would sacrifice the world for you

And I was thinking that Charles and Erik could fit so well in this in another AU.

An AU where Charles and Erik are essentially "heroes" but then for whatever reason, Charles has to die for the greater good (technicality I'll fix up at some point - maybe a prophecy of some sort?) and Charles is more than ready to give himself up for the cause.

However, his partner, Erik is not so on board and becomes a villain that only Charles can keep at bay - therefore, delaying when Charles will inevitably die.

Erik would rather let the world burn than let Charles die for it, but Charles is ready to sacrafice himself for the world.

(I totally didn't just rip this from my own little mind dump on discord but here you go, I needed to share this other people)

It's so Cherik coded imo and if you're inspired let me know because I want to write this concept so bad but I need to work on one fic at a time

[snazzynacho]

[gracefulbirb]

It's okay to say they're gay.

No one stares at their homies like that in a stripper club quite like they do.