INFJ, she/her, 33 ( I feel so old), married
This is my 🌐 youtube.com/@asterteilwal
channel, though I'm not so active, it depends on my mood. I'm a big fan of Cherik, Hannigram, Merthur, Sentryagent, Jeraskier, Bagginshield, Hilson, Johnlock and many others. On AO3 you can find me as AsterTeilwal, but I leave kudos for the most part. I'm now also on 🌐 tiktok.com/@ladydernhelm
This is the stupid edit I was working on these past few days ;)
The song is Mambo n° 5 by Lou Bega, obviously this is a totally crack video (the idea came to me listening to the name "Erika" in the lyrics) with terrible ships ( but I needed people interacting with Charles, so I remark here that the only one I ship is Cherik and maybe Xavierine-> none needs to know about this last one, it's a dirty little secret of mine xD) and the end is totally cherik, as it should be.
Hi! I wanted to say I truly love your fics so much. I just got back into the fandom and have been devouring every Charles fic I could find and am so lucky to have stumbled into your account! Thank you for your works❤️❤️
Also, do you have any kidnapped!Charles recs? That Azazel/Charles/Shaw fic in your master rec list has me addicted for more
Hi Anon and welcome back! Thanks for your lovely message :D
Here are a few of my favourite canon and au 'kidnapped!Charles' fics. Hope you enjoy!
CHARLES IS KIDNAPPED
You don't chose the thug life (except when you do) by Anonymous
Charles is kidnapped and discovers that Erik, the Alpha he has been dating for the past few months and is head-over-heels for, is not just a wealthy businessman but actually the head of a syndicate.
He is rather unhappy about this discovery and Erik gets an earful for lying to him. Then Charles is kidnapped again and really, he hopes mating Erik won't result in weekly kidnapping because he has a thesis to finish and papers to grade.
Blood and Steel and Miles Between by dreamlittleyo
(Post-movie AU.) On a beach in Cuba, Charles manages to talk Erik down from the edge. But even after the missiles have been diverted, compromise is impossible. There are two different futures to build, and Erik and Charles will always be separated by their principles. But when Charles is kidnapped and the X-Men can't find him, Erik will get him back no matter the consequences.
Meanwhile, trapped alone in his mind for the first time in his life, Charles comes face to face with the truth about what and who he wants. When convictions stand in direct opposition to the heart, which will prevail?
The Masked Man (Who Has Everything) by Traincat
The one where Erik is Batman, and Charles is kidnapped roughly once a week.
No Yesterdays On the Road by pocky_slash
It's been two months since Cuba and things are settling down for Charles, Erik, and the beginnings of their mutant school. Right up until Charles disappears, that is. Faced with the possibility that a bitter Emma Frost has kidnapped Charles, Erik is forced to team up with Moira to hunt down the remainder of the Hellfire Club. From there, they hope to locate Frost and retrieve Charles, without killing each other along the way.
(Or: Erik and Moira Drive Across the Country and Talk About Their Feelings.)
Survival Instinct by Lindstrom
It’s been months since Charles pulled Erik out of the ocean, and Erik is beginning to wonder how many more times he can choose Charles, and still keep his vow to kill Shaw. Cooperating with the CIA is straining Erik’s patience. When a fact-gathering mission goes wrong and Charles is kidnapped, Erik is left trying to hold their mutant band together while Raven and the rest of them fall apart. No one can foresee how the mutant Charles meets in captivity will challenge all his assumptions about his own power, and twist Charles’ telepathy out of his control. In the race to stop Shaw's nuclear ambitions from coming to fruition, Charles makes a crucial misstep. Erik’s decision between Shaw and Charles takes on unexpected ramifications when [spoiler deleted].
Undercover Integrity by Akasanata
Charles marries Erik to obtain Genoshan nationality. Erik marries Charles to obtain the connections of the Xavier family. Simple, isn't it? Except that that doesn't explain how Charles ended up kidnapped and drugged to use as leverage against Erik...
take me into your loving arms by Anonymous
“Someone’s kidnapped the Professor,” says Jean, reading the page straight out of their minds. Scott stops yelling abruptly, and Kitty shakes her head, looking much older than she is. “Not again.”
(or, how Logan banded with Charles Xavier's sister, students, and boyfriend to save him from mutant terrorists.)
Days Go By by Caradee
Charles felt his stomach drop; he backed into the mirror behind him, feeling the cool glass against the nape of his neck. “You’re going to keep me here?”
“For nine months,” Shaw nodded, “I believe its best, don’t worry my dear you and your child will be taken care of completely.”
Day 28. “You’re safe now” by OneWithoutAName
After leaving his school, Charles is taken captive by people who want to use his powers for their own gain. But Charles won't give in, no matter how badly they break his body, they won't be able to break his mind. But even a telepath's mind has its limits.
What stays and what fades away by niniblack
“It is time for the strongest among us to take our place as the rightful rulers of this world,” Apocalypse says.
“You mean mutants?” Erik asks, finally feeling like he understands where this is going.
Apocalypse nods slightly.
“Sorry,” Erik tells him. “I don’t do that anymore.” Apocalypse tilts his head, mouth pressing into a thin line, and Erik adds, “You know how it is. You have kids and then all your career goals just go to shit.”
Or: the one where Apocalypse tries to use Erik’s family to take over the world.
(Sequel to This far but no further.)
wrap up my bones by waitfornight
Damaged detective Erik Lehnsherr is grimly searching for a serial killer whose victims all have extraordinary gifts. But without any clues or leads he and his partner Logan are in the dark. Until Charles Xavier, abducted by the killer, escapes. Together Erik and Charles must confront something far darker than either of them had ever imagined.
Alternate Universe loosely based off the crime movie Kiss the Girls.
Incy Wincy Spider by Tawabids
Erik Lehnsherr is a renowned homicide detective, with his husband Charles at home and his partner on the job, Moira MacTaggert. When a twisted serial killer starts targeting mutants, Erik and Moira are the perfect team for the job, especially since Erik himself is the mutant poster-boy of an NYPD trying to improve their image.
But what they don't yet know is that the serial killer is an old soul out of Erik's past, and his next move is to pull Charles into his web.
Breaking Serenity by EmbryonicHarmonic
here is always a moment before he opens his eyes where he thinks that perhaps he is back home.
Safe.
Warm.
And then he hears the click of a lock on the door, and the cold pulls him back into waking.
That Joy Would Soon Return by elistaire
A fiendish government agency kidnaps Charles, trying to thwart final destruction of the world (!), and Erik is determined to get him back. All does not go quite as expected.
When the war was over, and the humans were crushed, the world wouldn’t need its warriors like Erik anymore. No, it would need its philosophers, and its dreamers, and Charles was one of those. Erik must only make sure Charles survived to live in the world that Erik was attempting to create.
the virtue to which we aspire by yesteryears (varlovian)
Nine months after Cuba, Charles is found by Erik's Brotherhood in the smoldering ruins of an abandoned CIA base, exhausted but alive. As the only known survivor of the CIA's vendetta against mutants, recovering Charles' memory of the incident—which he admits to having forgotten—just became paramount.
But the harder they push, the closer Charles gets to breaking point. When he finally cracks, the X-Men and the Brotherhood will learn the truth, but it comes with a price...
Some doors, once opened, cannot be closed.
Some minds, once broken, will never be the same again.
do you perhaps have a fic rest list for the aftermath of the coin scene in FC?
XMFC COIN SCENE AFTERMATH
Hello friend,
Here are some great fics dealing with the aftermath of the coin scene - I hope you enjoy!
You want blood, and I promised by hllfire
When Erik kills Shaw with that coin, Charles doesn't come out of it unharmed.
Two Sided Coin Of Misery by BrightTerror
This is what would have happened if Charles had not come out seemingly unscathed after he felt the coin kill Shaw, what if after it he couldn't shrug it off that easily? How would Erik have reacted to it?
If I could walk back to yesterday, I would by sareyen
Charles had braced himself for the pain. He knew that when Erik would push the coin through Shaw's head that he would inadvertently push it into his. He knew that he would feel the slow, torturous drag of metal through his skin, his brain tissue, his mind. He had even prepared for the heartbreak and the betrayal, because once Erik had put on Shaw's helmet, Charles's heart had already shattered to pieces.
But when Charles's mind was fractured by the coin, he hadn't been prepared to lose a part of himself he could not bear to live without.
Because without a mind he had no telepathy, and without telepathy, Charles was...
Human.
Or: Charles loses his telepathy after Cuba, and all the pain that follows.
zenith by itisicloacina
Maybe it’s that feeling, the sudden void where peace had been, fleetingly, or maybe it’s the way Shaw still hangs in the air, dying but not quite dead - but instead of lifting Shaw by his cuff links and dragging him into the the sunlight for all to see, Erik finds himself turning away; out of that odd mirrored room and back to the jet he had left Charles in.
For but a Measure by tirsynni
In which taking a psychic coin to the brain affects Charles more than planned, and not so much a fix-it as a possible new path opening.
The Better Men by VampirePam
Alternate ending: explores what would have happened after the beach if Charles had collapsed from the damage the coin did, Erik had relinquished his desire for vengeance to help him, and Erik had to reassure Charles that his vision of the original ending was only a nightmare.
Broken Down in Agony by mintedwitcher
Charles doesn't escape the coin scene unharmed. His mind is ravaged by pain; his telepathy is uncontrolled and unstoppable. The question remains: why does "mutant and proud" not apply to him?
you realize that, when Apocalypse seems about to step on Charles, he never showed fear. for me, he just wanted to go with Mags, even if it meant death as well.
Never underestimate the power of a comment fanfic readers.
I received one yesterday on a fic I wrote in 2020. I re-read that fic this morning. I fell back in love with that au version of Cherik. My mind would not let them go. I am writing a sequel to that fic and I’m 1,123 words in.
I don’t know if the fic will ever see the light of day, but if it does?
