Fic: Phantom Limbs

[bagheera_san]

Phantom Limbs
Charles makes himself forget. Erik is there to remind him.
PG, Charles/Erik, response to an 1stclass_kink prompt, unbetaed.

Comments

[bagheera_san]

Thank you :)

*just passing through ...*

[jazzypom]

Really well done. I like the weight of this. The feelings are so epic, so heavy, Charles tries to forget, but with the way of these things, you don't. You can't.

Like the nod to mythologies and heavy symbolic turns of phrase - kisses like a pact sealed in blood, and in the end when they come together, well, magic happens. Not the pretty, sparking fairy dust, but something deep, strong, implausible and complete.

Well done!

Re: *just passing through ...*

[bagheera_san]

It's an ideal fandom for weighty feelings, isn't it? I'd have a hard time writing something light and simple for this pairing, actually.

Re: *just passing through ...*

[jazzypom]

It's an ideal fandom for weighty feelings, isn't it? I'd have a hard time writing something light and simple for this pairing, actually.

Yeah, this. The thing with Charles and Erik is that in the comics, you got the fact that they were close, then rent asunder due to opposing ideologies (which is all well and good), but it took the movie to really throw sunlight in on all those tangled, jumbled feelings.

For all my kvetching with other parts of the movie, the story, the chemistry between Charles and Erik - yeah, just yeah. I have so much feelings for this movie, and I've yet to put it in ways that makes sense.

Kudos to Fassbender and McAvoy not shying away from playing up the strong, dark feelings between the two men. Real talk.

Re: *just passing through ...*

[bagheera_san]

For me the movie achieves what, for example, a show like Smallville doesn't - their whole progress from friends to enemies, from fairly isolated men to political leaders and (sort of) heroes and (sort of) villains makes perfect emotional sense. And it's more emotionally intense than X1 and X2, because they're not as reserved and dignified and stuck in their ways as the Stewart and McKellen versions - it's easier to relate to them, in as much as you can relate to characters like these (which is why it is very, very good that Raven had a big role in this movie, because I think she is really where the audience identification happens!)

[bagheera_san]

Thanks! The odd thing about this pairing is that it is, most of all, tragic, but /because/ both of them are in a way hopeful. They really believe in a better future, just not the same future.

[robinsson]

seriously, i dare say you got my heart.
thank you for your fic it was truly .... moving. and i haven't felt like this for a long time.

[bagheera_san]

High praise, thank you very much :)

[omphalos]

I loved this. It felt so true to both of them.

[bagheera_san]

Thank you :D I love having this fandom back to play with - they've got many things that Doctor/Master hasn't, as a friends-become-enemies ship, such as valid viewpoints and actual coherent but conflicting philosophies and all that.