Master Post: Knife and Needle and Rope [a/k/a Serial Killer 'Verse]
And done. This was a series that I started writing at the instigation of my dear papercutperfect, with later suggestions and embellishments from madsmurf: a modern, non-powered AU in which Charles Xavier was a serial killer, and in which Erik Lehnsherr becomes dangerously and inexplicably drawn to him. It comes partly out of my own prompts at secret_mutant, and partly out of my own wish to create a dark version of Charles Xavier: sweet, unassuming, bookworm, nerdy - but he'll cut you as soon as you look at him wrong, and he is deadly, and he is beautiful.
Here are the stories in the 'verse.
Knife and Needle and Rope - sets up the story, introduces Charles and his weapon of choice, and also introduces the tattoo that is almost a character on its own.
Doggerel - a quick look at this world's version of Erik: a glimpse into how his mind works.
The Use of a Knife - Charles walks us through his "process".
Been here before been here forever - Erik's secrets revealed, up to and including what broke him.
Midnight Blue - Charles's transformation told in a roundabout way, and introduces Raven as Charles's ward.
Nociception, One: Charles and Nociception, Two: Erik - from the term for the neural processes involved in processing noxious stimuli such as pain. Charles and Erik's backstories.
Every Angel is Terror - a final series of confrontations on a rainy night.
Come As You Are - crashing together, finally, now that they each know who the other is.
Here are the stories in the 'verse.
Knife and Needle and Rope - sets up the story, introduces Charles and his weapon of choice, and also introduces the tattoo that is almost a character on its own.
Doggerel - a quick look at this world's version of Erik: a glimpse into how his mind works.
The Use of a Knife - Charles walks us through his "process".
Been here before been here forever - Erik's secrets revealed, up to and including what broke him.
Midnight Blue - Charles's transformation told in a roundabout way, and introduces Raven as Charles's ward.
Nociception, One: Charles and Nociception, Two: Erik - from the term for the neural processes involved in processing noxious stimuli such as pain. Charles and Erik's backstories.
Every Angel is Terror - a final series of confrontations on a rainy night.
Come As You Are - crashing together, finally, now that they each know who the other is.