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[as they all looking at Charles's family home]
Sean Cassidy: This is yours?
Charles Xavier: No. It's ours.
Erik Lehnsherr: [sarcastically] Honestly Charles, I don't know how you survived. Living in such hardship.
Raven: Well, it was a hardship softened by me.
In comic canon, Charles' childhood was a little less idyllic than the others seem to think. So, someone finds out something wasn't right, whether it's a blatant revelation or the uneasy sense that Something Just Wasn't Right in the Xavier household. Dramatic or subtle, one person or everyone, from psychic projection or something material - totally up to authoranon.
(Bonus for not overshadowing Erik's own past; there really isn't much that can compare to the Holocaust. This is more just for recognition that Charles, while certainly privileged in a lot of ways, really wasn't in others.)
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Thanks, btw, for including that last line. Suffering shouldn't be a game of 'check whose is longer'. Some people may suffer an ocean, and some a drop, and neither should be invalidated because of the other.
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I also commend you on the last line. I think that a lot of the time Charles knows how much more other people have suffered than him and assumes that for some reason that invalidates his own pain.
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....But yeah, I totally would love to see this filled.
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That always interested me too. Charles: upperclass, wealthy, no real family (save Raven, and that's a whole other bundle of issues), witnesses a wide array of human evils looking out through his telepathy. Erik: lowerclass, poor, a loving mother (at least), witnesses a wide array of human evils as they're focused in against him and his people. While reiterating the points that, one, not much compares to the Holocaust, but also, two, that it doesn't make Charles' childhood abuse/neglect less important -- yeah, the ways in which they parallel and contrast one another makes for a lot of potential meta and interesting character dynamics. :D
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Captcha says LOVE in all caps. :D
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Foreveeeeeer.
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Charles' control is brilliant. And, in retrospect, that's really the first thing that should have made him suspicious. Charles never, never makes mistakes--no misfires, no slips. Absolutely nothing. Everything he does, he means, every thought he shares is precisely what he wants to communicate.
Erik himself can't control his power half the time. He still makes snarled messes of the TV antenna when Alex's jibes wear a little thin and God knows, the rest of them make mistakes. Even Raven forgets her eye colour, sometimes, but Charles never does. Erik never sees him slip.
Erik could attribute it to a thousand things. Charles had a better education, a better upbringing, a better chance. A mutant sister, someone to grow with and around and into, because he and Raven don't finish each other's sentences, but it's a close miss. Maybe Charles learned so he could teach Raven. Maybe his power developed early. Maybe he's had longer to learn. Maybe he's just a natural ( ... )
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Anyways, I like that line about Erik liking Breakfast at Tiffany's and how Raven just chills in his room. XD
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