ron, charles, min, moira, erik, and eleven
So, there was a meme on Tumblr where people ask you a character and you answer some questions about them. I feel like it's fun to answer, but I ultimately continue to feel Tumblr fails as an actual social interaction tool because there's no way to converse aside from reblogging. So I'm posting the answers here, both for my own organizational
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I'm a big fan of the comics, and to be a comics fan of
Erik/Magnus/Max/Magneto/whatevertheactualfuckhisnameis, makes slightly more sense, as his redemption arcs and current characterisation are such that you can see that he
(a) genuinely believed he was doing the right thing
(b) genuinely regrets the harm he has caused, especially to his family
(c) is kind of a sad old man
and I have more empathy for that than I do for movieverse Erik, because, yeah, mutant Hitler.
But. XMFC Erik. Shaw is a mutant. And I can see you not knowing that he was a mutant before meeting Emma in Russia, maybe, but after that... what the fuck, dude?
Seriously. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
(also, internet: I'm assuming you're human, yes? Also that you're familiar with the civil rights analogues re: Charles & Erik? Please, continue to tell me how the guy who is essentially arguing MKLJ's point and was in fact created as an analogue of him is completely wrong because of his 'privilege' and Erik is right because he's been persecuted, so that justifies killing everybody.
I will continue to smile, because that's really juvenile, and you have ceased to annoy me.)
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Sorry. Er, apparently I have a lot of Erik feels.
+1 to the rest of your character feels, because, er, this comment is too damn long anyway.
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