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Mind and Matter, Erik/Charles (X-Men: First Class)creepy_shetanDecember 29 2013, 23:36:10 UTC
(An idea that wouldn’t leave me alone, despite real life’s best efforts. Hope you like it.)
Power: all of the old clichés for power -- the pen and the sword, the brain and the brawn, the mind and the matter -- seem to point to one answer, but the only ones Charles believes nowadays are the clichés about teachers and doers, words and actions, promises and performances.
Strength: the search for strength never ends -- there is always something more, something greater, to attain or destroy -- and as Erik grows weary of the insatiability, he begins to worry that he doesn’t have the strength to turn around and pursue a not-altogether-new path.
Might: might is right just as might looks on and despairs -- Charles acts in his own best interest by leaving his incomplete future in clever hands with nimble brains, while Erik decides to challenge his ominous future by chasing something brilliantly fulfilling instead -- and therefore neither man minds that nothing else matters because nothing’s worse than what might have been.
"Expecto patronum," calls Lily, and there's the bright, bright light she is accustomed to, and... a shape, something huge, her first corporeal patronus; the dementors quail and Lily laughs.
James whistles, and says, "An elephant, love?"
The knowledge is suddenly there, just as though it always was, and Lily laughs again and says, "Yes, a mother elephant."
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Brick, Brendan Frye, he grew up and went bad
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Women, money, power - all for the price of a few dead bodies.
I know what I am.
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Thank you! Now I really wanna know how he reached that point.
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Brick, Brendan Frye, his fear response has never worked right
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X-Men, Erik/Charles, neither of them really knows how powerful they truly are
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Power: all of the old clichés for power -- the pen and the sword, the brain and the brawn, the mind and the matter -- seem to point to one answer, but the only ones Charles believes nowadays are the clichés about teachers and doers, words and actions, promises and performances.
Strength: the search for strength never ends -- there is always something more, something greater, to attain or destroy -- and as Erik grows weary of the insatiability, he begins to worry that he doesn’t have the strength to turn around and pursue a not-altogether-new path.
Might: might is right just as might looks on and despairs -- Charles acts in his own best interest by leaving his incomplete future in clever hands with nimble brains, while Erik decides to challenge his ominous future by chasing something brilliantly fulfilling instead -- and therefore neither man minds that nothing else matters because nothing’s worse than what might have been.
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Thank you!
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X-Men, author’s choice, Magneto is and always will be more badass than you
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Harry Potter, author’s choice, a world where Lily’s patronus was either a mama elephant or a lioness
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James whistles, and says, "An elephant, love?"
The knowledge is suddenly there, just as though it always was, and Lily laughs again and says, "Yes, a mother elephant."
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Thank you!
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