x-men rare pair + character recs

Hopefully this will turn into an archive for art and fanfiction dedicated to rare pairings and under-appreciated characters that usually don't get a lot of love and focus. (So basically everything that isn't Charles/Erik. Just kidding. Not really though.)

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title: a seven nation army couldn’t hold me back creator: bilesbilinski character: pierto/peter maximoff summary: 8 tracks (a flock of seagulls, queen, the rolling stones, ram jam, kenny loggins, the white stripes, the black keys, AM, etc.)

“he's fascinating.”  “he's a pain in the ass."

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title: who is in control? creator: bilesbilinski character: scott summers summary: 8 tracks (twenty one pilots, tears for fears, halsey, fob, the killers, muse, p!atd, etc.)

not all of us can control our powers.

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fic: bright and cold (is no match for blue and warm)

title: bright and cold (is no match for blue and warm) author: echo character(s): charles xavier, hank mccoy pairing(s): charles/hank rating: pg complete or work in progress: complete comment: the author is also accepting prompt right now. 

summary: Flying back from Egypt, the exhaustion finally catches up with Charles. Hank takes care of him. Angst and cuddles.

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title: put on your war paint. creator: bilesbilinski character: jean grey summary: 8 tracks (peaches, fob, sunday girl, twenty one pilots, the jungle giants, halsey, thom yorke, etc.)

these voices won't leave me alone.

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title: that’s his name now creator: princessloki character: alex summers summary: 24 tracks (wheatus, muse, joan jett, styx, the ready set, imagine dragons, cage the elephant, etc.)

' we нave тo call нιм нavoĸ. тнaт'ѕ нιѕ naмe now. ''

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title: lay all your troubles down creator: trustmeimthe character: alex summers summary: 12 tracks (everclear, green day, breaking benjamin, the offspring, matchbox twenty, gavin mikail, imagine dragons, keane, etc.)

( oh brother, i gotta tell you that something here is wrong ) ( oh brother, i gotta tell you: this place ain't what i thought )

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FIC REC: field trip

title: field trip author or creator: thistlerose character(s): alex, erik rating: pg-13 warnings: contains allusions to abuse and fear of abandonment. complete or work in progress: complete summary: Set shortly before the training montage. After Quantico, Alex is having trouble dealing with his mutation. Erik tries to help him out. Erik is not very good at helping people.

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FIC REC: your fingertips across my skin

title: your fingertips across my skin author: hoosierbitch character(s): alex, hank, sean pairing(s): alex/hank/sean rating: nc-17 complete or work in progress: complete

summary: He’s on the bed by himself. And it’s a really great bed. The biggest, softest mattress he’s ever slept on. It had reeked of mothballs at first, but now it smells like sweat and sex and boy.He kind of hates Hank and Alex for showing him how much smaller it can feel. How much better.

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title: i know what you know creator: dizzymisslizzie character: raven darkhome, charles xavier relationship: charles & raven summary: 9 tracks (passenger, joan baez, lady lamb the beekeeper, kate nash, the antlers, the avett brothers, etc.)

go with him. it's what you want.

(for the brother and sister who know that the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb; who had nothing more than each other and threw it all away.)

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FIC REC: see what remains

title: see what remains author: echo character(s): charles, hank pairing(s): charles & hank, charles/hank, (implied past charles/erik) rating: pg-13 warnings: suicidal thoughts, drug use,  complete or work in progress: complete (12 chapters) summary: We are neither of us who we remember ourselves to be, Hank. comment: “After Cuba, Charles and Hank each find themselves dealing with the results of their life-altering physical changes. Over the years, these two people who lost almost everything make a life for themselves out of what remains. It may not be perfect, but it's better than the alternative.”

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FIC REC: restless

title: restless author: echo character(s): charles, hank pairing(s): gen, charles/hank rating: pg-13 complete or work in progress: complete summary: charles struggles to cope with his injury. he feels embarrassed and frustrated about pretty much everything. but when even the mundane act of sleeping through the night ends badly, hank is an unexpectedly good friend.

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FIC REC: aftershock

title: aftershock author: shutka character(s): charles, raven rating: pg complete or work in progress: complete summary: Operation Stop Raven From Killing Trask goes differently and Charles gets to take Raven home.

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title: hiding in appearances creator: bobbimorses character: raven darkhome summary: 8 tracks (ellie goulding, john ottman, IAMX, sia, digital daggers, muse, etc.)

I just want to turn the lights on in these volatile times

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title: black sheep creator: dizzymisslizzie character: raven darkhome summary: 8 tracks (daughter, florence & the machine, avicii, fiona apple, regina spektor, etc.)

i want to be called mystique.

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title: push/pull creator: hbics character: alex summers, armando muñoz pairing: alex/armando summary: 10 tracks (mumford & sons, milo green, lifehouse, carly rae jepsen, editors, pink, etc.)

then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down you ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl as all we see will slip into the cloud so come down from your mountain and stand where we've been you know our breath is weak and our body thin

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title: don't stop me now! creator: dizzymisslizzie character: pietro massimo summary: 11 tracks (the who, jefferson airplane, the beatles, jim croce, etc.)

a mix for pietro maximoff complete with the music of his generation; an ode to the punk ass hippie mutants of the seventies.

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FIC REC: 5 times sean cassidy knew something was wrong, and one time it was right.

title: 5 times sean cassidy knew something was wrong, and one time it was right. author: samalander characters: alex, darwin, sean pairing: alex/sean, alex/armando/sean rating: pg13 warning: period-typical (internalised) homophobia & racism complete or work in progress: complete

summary: sean knows something is wrong in the seconds after armando disappears. he feels it, like something settling into his skin, but he doesn't say anything because angel is leaving and raven is crying and he doesn't know how to take this.