I have been EXTREMELY delinquent reading and replying to these due to holiday/post-holiday stuff, but now that I have, I should share the two Secret Mutant gifts I was lucky enough to receive this year!! Both of these fics are, of course, Cherik. 🥰
1) A vampire AU by @esnargot for my prompt about Charles coming over to Erik's side.
Summary: When his sister Raven goes missing, monster hunter Charles Xavier follows her trail to a long-abandoned castle. He does not yet know that this is not a threshold he can trespass unchanged.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
2) A fic about Erik's telepathy kink a la "you're psychic, Charles. You can convince me to do anything" by JayMoriarty.
Summary: Erik has a problem; he simply cannot let go of his need for control. He seeks Charles' help.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Go read them!! Also while I'm here, I'll shamelessly re-plug my own fic from Secret Mutant this year haha. Charles and Erik being deeply passive aggressive on a winter vacation—I've been tagging this one "Extreme Divorced Energy."
Summary: “Hank peered at the newspaper over his shoulder and said haltingly, ‘Do you think…Erik might be trying to send a message…to you specifically?’”
When Charles stands Erik up for their annual winter holiday getaway, Erik spends the following twelve months expressing his displeasure in increasingly creative ways. With this year’s winter break approaching, Charles makes plans to head to the cabin alone—or without contacting Erik in advance, anyway...
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
okay i have to know bc no one in the notes of your post seems to know and tumblr search didnt turn up anything: what's the deal with 'homestuck shoes'
OK so look up koi footwear on insta but it’s an indie vegan shoemaker in manchester (free the manchester students btw) but they made homestuck shoes and my friend told me about it whilst eating pancakes and wearing egl it was a time. also this brand is intimately connectly to kpop brands so that is a scenario that could happen . H.
metas that have a single player popping off as the win condition are boring when they’re played for any length of time, partially bc of the way the broadcast ignores the rest of the players on the team in those metas
Director’s commentary for Pietro and Erik’s relationship in superposition! (I love love love everything we got to see of them onscreen; the “remember what I always tell you” “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism?” exchange in particular was so delightful, probably my favorite little moment of the fic so far)
ohhhh i love this one.
basically the idea came in the beginning to have pietro be part of the pit crew bc of his powers. then i was debating doing that bc i wanted him to be erik's kid, and we (me and percy who helps me with all my fics) were messing around with the idea of him being a little kid running around the garage or something, then it kind of all came together when i think he suggested we make him old enough to be on the crew *and* erik's son. so that's where erik being a teen dad came from! and once we landed on that idea, even though i knew it was going to be hard to slot into the story, i really super loved it. and we figured out a way around some of the logistical issues with erik not knowing he had a kid till he was 20, when he was probably already in f1, and us making erik a little older so it wasn't super outrageous.
they have an incredible relationship, there's actually a lot of lore that's not in the fic (yet, at least?). he found out about P when he was 20 and magda moved to england and got his number. he went over with his mom & she waited outside when he went in -- P was soo shy & didn't want to come out to meet him at first. he was so tiny and had erik's eyes and it was just surreal for him. he eventually got to say a little hello and go see some of pietro's trains and things and get to see his kid being a real four year old human and when he went back out to the car he just sobbed. he'll always be heartbroken that he never held him as a baby, tbh. he doesn't blame magda but he just wishes he could've gotten every minute with him possible. he takes being a dad more seriously than anything else and just loves his kid so much.
i guess it also hasn't come up that he stopped racing for a few years from when he was 20-22 because he wanted to parent full time, which is what led to him not winning his first championship until he was 25.
also, this bit you mentioned is a favorite of mine too, erik as a socialist who is also knowingly being a hypocrite because he's a multi-millionaire is funny to me lol. but yeah, these two are a great duo, erik does a good job!! there will be some bumps in the road bc he's parenting a 16 year old, but y'know. <3 thank you for loving them!
i'll add a deleted scene under the cut where erik opens up abt P a little more! (not very well written i'm sorry)
“I loved him from the moment I met him,” he says, quiet and honest. “He was small for his age, for a long time. And shy, if you can believe it. Magda had to coax him out just to say hello. I would’ve killed for four more years with him, back then.”
“And now?”
Erik shrugs. “It was hard at first. Toddlers don’t adjust well to change. And I think he… I know he wonders about it, sometimes. If I didn’t try hard enough to be there.” He swallows. He tries to keep that guilt tucked away somewhere safe. It hurts, and it’s hurt for the last twelve years. “But I just try to do everything I can to be a good dad, I guess. I don’t know if I’m getting anywhere with that one.”
He’s read so many fucking parenting books he could recite them. Raising mutant children, raising children with ADHD, explaining sexuality to your children, gentle parenting; everything he could get his hands on. But he still loses his temper sometimes.
He thinks of the first time he had to discipline Pietro, when he was little. He’d taken to Erik immediately, once he’d come out of his shell a bit, but Erik was a visitor, a friend who his mother had gently told him was his dad. They could play dragons together, visit the park, have a snack, and then he went back to his mom, who did heavy lifting.
The first time he’d taken Pietro overnight and needed to put his foot down, be just a bit firm (the first of thousands “no ice cream for dinner” arguments), Pietro had been completely distraught. He sobbed for what felt like hours, like Erik had broken his four-year-old heart.
He’d ended up burrowed into Erik’s neck, whimpering softly, while Erik whispered nonsense to him. It was the first time it dawned on him that if he just really fucking loved the kid, that could be enough.
i just want to let you know that i have EXTREMELY vague memories of a dream from last night in which libero was playing for the guangzhou charge. make of this what you will
hopefully that dream is prophetic bc i would absolutely love libero on charge
outlaws: if this were post season one i’d say silkthread but ted is happy to not be in owl anymore lol. otherwise it’s bumper. bumper needs to come back. where is he. we need him.
fuel: rascal !!!!!!! he genuinely brings me so much joy i love watching his streams.
