light up a new smoke, put on an old shirt

[zombieboyband]

Eight minutes to spare! Amazingly, this shit isn't done yet, but I'm trying to keep it in evenly divided up pieces (approx 2k-ish). About to edit for warnings, etc, but, you know, must meet self inflicted deadline

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[muffinbitch]

AND THEN HE EXPLAINS AND THERE IS HOT KINKY KNIFE SEX, YES? YES?
...I am loving this series so much. (sorry, haven't quite got my brian in order to comment on the last instalments, I can sum it up with: GUH. More more more more more please?) And I love how things can be misinterpreted even with telepathy, and Erik trying to make himself less intimidating is just... MY HEART. Oh, this is amazing! Can't wait for more! I am loving it SO MUCH!

[zombieboyband]

Erik simultaneously wanting to be less scary and being really ANNOYED by it is my favorite thing ever, basically. This installment went through several rewrites (and by that I mean, I tossed out 2k of words entirely each time) because I felt he was either too menacing or too needy, and, you know. HE IS BOTH. It's all, "I AM NOT A WEAPON, I AM A PERSON. i think." /manly tears

and hahah, you have given me so many amazing comments on everything, Batfic and especially Kane and Luca stuff, that you could never comment on anything of mine ever again and I would still be FILLED WITH GRATITUDE.

[muffinbitch]

LATE REPLY. OMG, I laughed so hard at: "I AM NOT A WEAPON, I AM A PERSON. i think." /manly tears
Oh, that is Erik all over, isn't it? (I admit I have a major kink for needy!Erik though. Shh, don't judge me.) I do love all the conflict he carries around with him. And I do love so much the reveal of what Erik has been thinking - why he's been acting the way he has - that he thinks Charles is afraid of him, dreaming of a knife at his throat. OH, OH! ALL OF MY LOVE FOR THIS FIC. *glomps you*

[zombieboyband]

Needy Erik is my favorite, homg. Like, the deeper I got into fandom, the more I realized my alignment on the kink axis is defiently dom!Charles and, uh, emotionallystunted!sexuallyinexperienced!Erik. So yeah. This is why he is so ~confused~ by knifekink. But it's not just knife!kink, of course. Charles has an Erik!kink

Which--you are the only person I can confess this to and have it make sense--sort of makes me feel weird, because, like, in my head, Charles is clearly Luca or Luca is Charles + a bunch of testosterone, and Kane is, well, Kane is Erik minus superpowers who doesn't even need Shaw for his parents to be tragically dead. Like in the nonpowered AU I'm writing with uniformly, I feel guilty because the dynamic is SO SIMILAR.

whatever, I HAVE PREFERENCES, ALL RIGHT.

[anonymous]

I just

VICTORY WANK

that phrasing, asdlgha;wle, never forgetting this

It does rather make him feel--well, like he's wrapped in plastic, sweating, unable to breathe.

Oh gawd, this, making geeky mournful sounds right now. CHARLES.

He is trying, Charles realizes suddenly, to seem less intimidating. The thought floods him with wonder.

I have a, a huge crush on this misunderstanding.

Erik's doing a terrible job of it, though. It's his height, it's the barely hidden viciousness in his strictly controlled movements, it's the the venomous hiss of his voice, it's the fierce look in his eyes.

Do him, Charles, do him

And then he says "better" murderously, if I get any happier about this my feet will cramp, grumpy and dissatisfied Erik with that undercurrent of insecurity-

(pause) I have weird turn-ons. Erik fidgeting with the bedsprings, that too. Adorable.

But she had been, she had been, and she never stopped.

Ngyuh. We've talked about this so much but yes, sanctity of the mind, sobbyfaces, everyone loses.

[zombieboyband]

IT'S YOU IT'S YOU OHMYGOD, SO THRILLED, WILL BE COHERENT LATER.

bed springs, yesss, someone besides me finds that charming AND IT IS YOU. <3 <3

[pearl_o]

feeelings feelings FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS

oh, Charles. Oh, Erik.

I really like the theme of telepathy here, seeing but not understanding.

[zombieboyband]

FEEEELINGS FOREVER

I think my essential sort of boner for misunderstandings leads my forays into fic to boil down to "[BLANK] IS NOT ENOUGH." Even telepathy, my friends, is not enough to prevent ~hurt feelings~ sometimes.

but i do explain more about the howwhy of that later, so.

[jellybgood]

-keyboard smash- !!!

(that is all. <3 )

[bemblebee]

Oh, thank goodness this isn't the end. I LOVE this. Moar soon PLEASE.