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boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (1/?)

[anonymous]

When Charles is eight years old, his power manifests itself in the worst way possible

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (3/?)

[anonymous]

I love the way you're writing this prompt! I can't wait for Erik and Charles to meet.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (3/?)

[timelineshuffle]

This is incredibly sad and his pain is just so...tangible. CHARLES.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (3/?)

[sakurabloms]

OH MY GOD!!! Are they just beating him up in part 3 or...Cause I mean he's talking about not being able to sleep on his back and...I mean that could mean...You know?! And after what Michael did... *_*

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (3/?)

[anonymous]

This is like immersion, like tunnel-vision -- you've gotten inside Charles' head and basically constructed it in the story so that we're *there* with him, hurt and confused and afraid of himself and despairing and exhausted and lonely... My heart, poor Charles' heart; congratulations, author, you appear to have reached total empathy with your character. I'm stunned.
Thank you so much for writing and sharing.

boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (4/?)

[anonymous]

It's not always miserable for Charles, despite everything University is a blessing, especially after the horror show of secondary school and sixth form, because for the first time he realizes there actually are other people like him. Not freaks, no, not people who overflow into the heads of those around them, but people who really, genuinely enjoy learning.

It's not something to be shoved and spit at over anymore. It's not showing off, or being wrong again, somehow. University is more cerebral--sure, there are still the rough-and-tumble rugby players who go out of their way to trip him in the halls, but now it seems juvenile. Childish. Charles isn't the freak quite as much as he was--now he's a quiet, somewhat shy boy trying to make his way though his classes, just like everyone else.

Well. Not like everyone else, necessarily, because he figures out very quickly that university is easy. School always has been, for him, but he refuses to feel like an outsider again just because he enjoys lectures and musty old science journals.

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (4/?)

[nudeonthemoon]

oh, he's breaking my heart!! how is poor erik going to make this better??

boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (4/?)

[anonymous]

It's not always miserable for Charles, despite everything University is a blessing, especially after the horror show of secondary school and sixth form, because for the first time he realizes there actually are other people like him. Not freaks, no, not people who overflow into the heads of those around them, but people who really, genuinely enjoy learning.

It's not something to be shoved and spit at over anymore. It's not showing off, or being wrong again, somehow. University is more cerebral--sure, there are still the rough-and-tumble rugby players who go out of their way to trip him in the halls, but now it seems juvenile. Childish. Charles isn't the freak quite as much as he was--now he's a quiet, somewhat shy boy trying to make his way though his classes, just like everyone else.

Well. Not like everyone else, necessarily, because he figures out very quickly that university is easy. School always has been, for him, but he refuses to feel like an outsider again just because he enjoys lectures and musty old science journals.

Anon here.

[anonymous]

ugh sorry about the double post...

Anon here.

[anonymous]

Also, it's been like a day and the rest of these posts aren't showing up, so I can't post more? Why is that? I am baffled and angered by LJ.

boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (5/?)

[anonymous]

The smiling girl is the one who finds him, in the end. They're at a party, one of those accidental dormitory affairs that everyone just kind of winds up at, without knowing quite how they've gotten there. Charles has downed five pints and a few spectacularly awful mixed drinks by this point, and he's melted into the couch, slumped over and half-asleep and almost happy.

She sits down next to him, too close, her thigh bare and warm against the wool of his trousers. She's pretty, he thinks muzzily, in such a California way--none of that anaemic English pallor, just gold skin and white teeth and hair the colour of corn silk.

He realizes, abruptly, that it's the texture of corn silk, too. Which he knows, because he's touching it.

'Sorry, so sorry,' he murmurs, snatching his hand back. He's not that drunk, he's never that drunk. What the hell is he doing? Smiling doesn't mean she's okay with touching him, doesn't mean she wants him touching her and what if she thinks he's trying to pick her up, Christ, he can't exactly come out with

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (5/?)

[nausicaa83]

Wow, I can't wait to read more. So intriguing! *_____*

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (5/?)

[anonymous]

Oh, this just keeps getting better and better.

I can't wait to see Erik!

Re: boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (5/?)

[anonymous]

I totally fist pumped when Raven showed up! Your writing is really engaging, and I look forward to your updates more than I can say. :D

OP

[anonymous]

I swear, this just gets better and better with every update. The sheer depth of Charles' depression is overwhelming and feels so real, it's physically heartwrenching. I can't wait for more, I know it'll be amazing.

Thank you for writing this, and for writing this so well.

boys wear overcoats in the heat like this to keep themselves from showing (6a/?)

[anonymous]

Erik, despite the girl's prediction--Raven's, Charles corrects, and such a bitter, black name for such a bright young thing--does not love him