Brief Lives (15/?)

[monstrousreg]

Title: Brief Lives (15/?)
Author: monstrousreg
Word count:  3189
Warnings:  Mentions of torture, lots of blood, gore, Shaw (he's a warning all on his own). 
Pairing: Erik/Charles.
Summary: Erik thinks he's going to seduce, interrogate and murder some nondescript CIA intelligence agent, and winds up biting more than he can chew. Charles is not keen on

Comments

[efcia]

I so used to reading this story that it's hard to imagine it;s actually slowly coming to an end.
But let's talk about this chapter, which is, I have to say, stunning! I love when fics go far beyond what we could see in the movie, giving things that are unexpected and brilliant. The whole "place between", this shared "mind space" is simply great. Especially the visualization of repressed memories of Francis. It's very, I don't know how to say it, picturesque. And Francis alone! That's really slightly unsettling, but also useful.
Charles's first plan completely broke my heart. I think that's a testimony how damaged he is: he's able to see himself as someone who actually deserve to die and so no hope for a normal life. Despite everything. It should be rather devastating for Erik- he put so much effort and yet Charles is still willing to die.
And then Erik using telepathy- I really liked the idea of using each other mutations and reading how it works was really interesting.
Great chapter- I think it may become my favourite one, because of the first part especially. As always I'm waiting for the update, even though it'll bring us closer to the end.
I actually haven't read Boden's Mate yet. I have the link to this story in my favourites, it's waiting in the queue for its turn. And I'm actually studying psychology and partially because of that my love to Inception was born. Human mind is something indescribable in its complexity and extraordinariness. Well, the whole person is amazing. But that's not the point and it seems I lost my point long ago. Anyway- I agree with your opinion about Michael Fassbender completely and hope that interviews really don't prove us wrong about him.

[monstrousreg]

Thank you so much <3

You know, I'm going to miss this story and these characters, but I like a well-wrapped, concise story more than dragging on endlessly. Maybe eventually I could re-visit the characters, but this arc of their story is coming to an end, as it should.

I'm glad you like the mind-space. I was a little scared someone might find it rather corny, but telepathy seems such a fascinating thing to me, I decided to just go with it anyway. I'm sure there are plenty of corny things in this story that I haven;t actually considered, anyway, lol.

If you think about it, heart-breaking as it is, it makes a little bit of sense that Charles felt cornered into that decision. I mean, given the circumstances, you know? And yes--Erik was devastated and very, very angry. And they *will* revisit that subject.

I hope I don't disappoint you with the next chapter :/

Boden's Mate is amazing, so well-crafted and carefully thought-through. I wish I could come up with a story like that and could write that well! I only studied psychology cursorily and very superficially because I studied Advertising, but it's always been very interesting to me to try and figure out why people do what they do. There are so many things to a person, you know?

Point? What point?

I don't know--I haven't yet seen an interview of him that didn't make me grin like an idiot. The same with James McAvoy, though I've known about him and loved him longer than Fassbender, whom I first remember from Inglorious Basterds.