Soon to Become (for billystrip, X-Men First Class, Charles/Erik AU)

[lorax]

Title: Soon to Become
Author: Lorax/SullenSiren (voicessayhello(at)gmail(dot)com)
Summary: " No matter where you go, or what you see, you'll always be looking out at it through these windows." An AU version of events from the end of First Class, seen through Charles' perspective.
billystarpip
Pairing: Charles/Erik, mentions of Erik/Magda and

Comments

[stephantom]

Oooh, I was almost going to write something based on the same premise (when Charles gets hit at the beach, they just drop everything and go home and leave the rift between them to fester over the course of years and years), but now I don't have to because this is brilliant. You've handled it extremely well. I love the happy moments -- drunk Charles pretending to be even drunker to lean all over Erik (in contrast to later when he would never pretend to need Erik's support because his physical independence becomes that much more dear to him -- I don't know if that contrast was on purpose or not, but I liked it) and Erik baking and greeting Jean by joining her in playing with their powers. But of course, all the little, sweet moments are set on this bleak, bleak backdrop that's... actually more 'depressing' than 'heartbreaking,' I think

[stephantom]

ALSO! Great epigram! Those lyrics are so perfect! I hadn't heard that song, but I had to look it up after I saw that and it's really pretty, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. (But damnit, now I have another vid idea and I can't keep making these stupid things! lol)

[lorax]

Hah! Toss me a link if you vid it, when I first heard the song I was LONGING to know how to vid because it was so fitting!

And thank you very much for the comments, I'm glad you liked it, despite the depressing!

[stephantom]

If I wasn't already 2 minutes into a vid for "Many of Horror" by Biffy Clyro with the same overall concept, I'd do it.

But if you feel inspired, I say you should give it a whirl yourself. No one starts out knowing how to vid. If you have any DVDs of the movies, follow this tutorial to get started (and if you don't have the movies, midnight_alters is a very nice community). Then, if you have Windows, once you've got your AVI or WMV copies of the movie(s), just open up Movie Maker, import them, and start playing around. It's fun. I'd be happy to try to help with any questions you have -- plus, the people in the Windows Movie Maker forums are very knowledgeable and helpful. If you go for it, good luck!

[stephantom]

Whoops, it's just midnightalters

[lorax]

Huh, I don't know why it marked that last comment as spam. But thanks for the link! I might give it a shot, some day!