Team Cherik

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[teamxcherik]

Cherik Week 2026 is almost here! Are you ready, my fellow mutants?

From Monday (June 1st) to Sunday (June 7th) we will celebrate our favorite ship with a different dynamic! REMEMBER to use the hashtag (#CherikWeek2026) so we can find your post and reblog it. If you don't see your post on our blog, let us know so we can share it. We want all our fellow mutants to feel seen and appreciated!

It's very important that we understand we are celebrating our ship, so the stories, art and more, have to be centered on Erik & Charles.

CONTRIBUTION THAT WILL BE ACCEPTED

Fanart

Fan Comics

Drabbles

Ficlets

Poems

Fanfiction

Edits

Plots

Fanvids

Playlists

Cosplay

Content that will NOT be accepted

Any content made with the help of AI in it’s entirety or during any part of the process is prohibited.

If you want to join and participate in this event, please do so for the love of the ship. If you feel you have no skill, this is the perfect time to start with something. We welcome your creations, no matter the skill level - whether you are new or further along your creation journey. We want to encourage you to share your creativity that both makes us feel something and means something to you.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Every day we will provide a general theme that you'll use for inspiration. Included are small prompts that you may use if a little more guidance on how to approach the themes, is needed. If you wish, you can use any prompt you like the most, depending on the day, or you can even use more than one.

It's not obligatory to participate the whole week, you can simply do one or even skip days. Any new creation you make for the fandom will be appreciated!

If you decide to publish on Ao3, remember to upload it to our collection so fans can find the contributions for this year :)

THEMES

MUTANT AND PROUD

Each creation should be focused on the pride of being a mutant. Here's a list of prompts to inspire you:

Mutant/Human

Local Hero

Power exchange

Legends

Between Mutants

Coming out of the 'closet'

TUESDAY NIGHTS

Each creation should be focused on their sexy time. Here's a list of prompts to inspire you:

Monsterfucking

Dom/Sub

Lust at first sight

Powers in bed

Dub-con

PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION

Each creation should be focused on a questionable and dark relationships. Here's a list of prompts to inspire you:

Unhinged!Erik

Dark Charles

Manipulation

Enemies with benefits

Toxic relationships

Before and After the first divorce

Truth Serum

WE CAME FOR YOU, ERIK AND ME

Each creation should be focused on a family dynamic with our ship (can be omegaverse, mpreg, or adoption). Here's a list of prompts to inspire you, you can add more themes or tropes if you wish:

Single father

Unplanned pregnancy

Hidden son

Mutant adoption

Secondary mutation

OLD FRIENDS

Each creation should be focused on knowing that before having a romantic relationship, Erik and Charles were great friends. Here's a list of prompts to inspire you:

Friends to lovers

They confess after being friends for 30 years

Reincarnation

Reunion of former lovers

They were internet friends for years, and by coincidence they meet in person

YOU'RE NOT ALONE, ERIK

Each creation should be focused on the fact that, no matter what, our ship stays together, against all odds. Here's a list of prompts to inspire you:

Fated / Soulmates

Love confession

First meeting

Erik seriously injured

Fighting together

Zombie Apocalypse

CHERIK IN EVERY UNIVERSE

Each creation should be focused on a romantic relationship between any of the many roles James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender have played in movies, but they meet in the same era:

Brandon Sullivan (Shame) / Brian Jackson (Starter for 10)

Brandon Sullivan (Shame) / Bruce Robertson (Filth)

Mr. Rochester (Jayne Eyre) / Tom Lefroy (Becoming Jane)

Archie Hicox (Inglorious Basterds) / Robbie Turner (Atonement)

Burton "Pat" Christenson (Band of Brothers) / James Milles (Band of Brothers)

Michael Fassbender - Formula 1 / James McAvoy - Soccer player

IMPORTANT NOTE

Even if you're reading this post after the event has passed and found yourself inspired to create something based on any of the themes/prompts, it is permissible and encouraged for you to upload your story or art to our Ao3 collection, or send us a private message to let us know so we can share your post on tumblr.

Got any questions? Check out our FAQ!

[nota1eks]

cherik day 7--and so we come to an end. i'm really glad i did this event: i can convincingly draw the two of them without reference, now. "cherik in every universe" is kinda hard for someone who is disinterested in so much as a modern au. so...i decided to model it after my own xmfc au!

basically the idea is schmidt took erik with him as the third reich was collapsing, and kept him prisoner/servant until 1962 [17 yrs]. in miami, erik escapes to charles' team (pictured). erik is thus about 400x more fucked up (pictured)

plus my awesome thumbnail and the resulting sketch😭 i couldnt picture kevin bacon so i drew...that. with reference i think i got him looking at least recognizable.

[nota1eks]

originally this drawing was supposed to be for cherik day 6, but my day 5 idea sucked so let's say this is for 5 and 6

and you know what. have the speedpaint

[ladydernhelm]

So here is June 7th now, so

DAY SEVEN : CHERIK IN EVERY UNIVERSE - Brandon x Brian

Song: Iris from Goo Goo Dolls

So this is my little contribution to Cherik Week, I would have liked to do more and better, but well at least I've done something :).

The edit is about the couple Brandon and Brian from Starter for 10 and Shame, it's just the first part of "Iris" song with some horrible manips and such, so there is not a specific concept for the story.

Anyway, my idea was about the two of them falling in love, but unfortunately the age difference (Brian is 21 and Brandon is 31) and above all the judgement of the people and family around them don't help, so they break up every now and then. The thing is that in the end they love each other too much, so they get back together everytime.

[mapofyourstars]

my soul has changed, and I'd die for you.

Charles takes someone's life in a drunken accident, and six months later, the only person who accepts him, broken and all, is Erik. But years later, Charles slips; then, he slips again and again and again. And each time, he counts on Erik taking him back — until the final time when he thinks Erik won’t.

for: cherik week 2026 prompt: first meeting

[qiumi]

Cherik Week 2026

Redamancy Summary: In this world, when people turn eighteen, they receive the mark of their soulmate.

Charles Xavier was eighteen when he received his mark, and he set out to find his soulmate. Erik Lehnsherr had given up on ever having a soulmate, until on his twentieth birthday, he received his own, and decided to keep it hidden for a long time.

Neither of them expected to find their soul mate in Miami, let alone in the water. fic here! Day 6: You're not alone, Erik Prompt: Soulmates/First Meetings

Gif credits for the separator: this post

[qiumi]

Cherik Week 2026

Sehnsucht Summary: 1963. Charles Xavier was no longer the man he once was. Everything good about him had been lost to alcohol and self-imposed isolation. He had lost everything (or so he believed). One night, Erik Lehnsherr arrives at the mansion with a clear message for Charles, even though he wants nothing to do with Erik, or does he? fic here!

Day 5: Old Friends Prompt: Reunion of Former Lovers Gif credits for the separator: @mapofyourstars (ty for uploading those gifs; I couldn't find any of that specific scene!)

[mapofyourstars]

nothing comes close to the way that I need you.

Erik comes home to Charles, and as always, Charles takes care of him.

for: cherik week 2026 prompt: reunion of former lovers

[charlesxavierseyebags]

Cherik Week Day 5: Old Friends

Close up under the cut

[nota1eks]

huzzah! cherik week day 4!! i think this is the fastest fic turnaround i’ve ever achieved

do read the tags. i kind of took the prompt and ran with it.

summary: over the course of his life, erik has had his bodily rights forcibly stripped many times—too many times to count. so when he is forced to give up his body once more in exchange for three kidnapped members of the brotherhood, he resigns himself to the task. as is the indefinite curse on erik’s life, bad things come of this. or, the tokophobe writes “m-preg”.

[bpd-erik]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Cherik Week Day 2 - Tuesday Nights

Charles gives Erik a blowjob circa the gay mutant roadtrip

[nota1eks]

cherik week day 3: they are not normal

[mapofyourstars]

ain't holdin' any faith at all.

Charles can't take anymore of Erik's empty promises.

for: cherik week 2026 prompt: toxic relationships

[nota1eks]

cherik week day 2 "powers in bed"😳tosses this and runs away😳

[charlesxavierseyebags]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: Explicit  Word Count: 933 Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier  Additional Tags: Cock Warming, Erik Lehnsherr can feel the iron in your blood, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Summary: “Once he made the effort to block out the much stronger, concentrated metals in the room; the watch Charles had shed and left on the side table, the nails in the floorboards, the screws holding the sofa together; he felt the steady thrumming of iron through Charles’s veins.”

For Cherik Week Day 2: Tuesday Nights

[qiumi]

Cherik Week 2026

Soulstice Summary: Erik Lehnsherr is a newly promoted MI6 agent whose mission is to apprehend the terrorist Sebastian Shaw. The new quartermaster —a short man with deep blue eyes and red lips— will become his only and most trusted ally (and something more) in a world where trusting someone means taking a leap of faith. fic here!

Day 1: Mutant and Proud Prompt: Mutant/Human

[nota1eks]

ok cherik week day 1!! my original idea for "mutant and proud" was them dancing and somehow using their mutations like erik making cutlery dance with them...but i couldnt think of a good way to show charles'. besides, i'm doing to days today so i decided to do something simpler: them going to a government debate. wow, so original.