and i will not speak to lie

[musesfool]

Since I was thwarted by the MTA yesterday, and because

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[marag]

It's not so much that I ship them (because I don't care one way or the other) as it's been painfully obvious for years that Xavier/Magneto is pretty much canon. Like Remus/Sirius and Frodo/Sam, it's a ship that I forget isn't actually there in the open. I could have *sworn* I read the comic where they were in bed together. Didn't I? Somewhere?

[musesfool]

Yeah, I feel like it must be canon, because it makes so much sense that way.

[pearl_o]

I actually really liked how Charles was sort of a jerk - not an intentional ass, but just able to slide along on his privilege *so* easily, when everyone else had their struggles (and also that he really isn't as restrained with his powers as he should be) because I really like the implications of the growth he is gonna have to go through to get from that guy to Professor X. (Not that I think the movies will actually acknowledge that in any way, but you know. It's interesting, especially since the kernels of all the good stuff about him is totally there, too. I mean, he's definitely going to have regrets about what he could have done differently with Erik on the beach to somehow reign him in, and everything that happened with Ravnen. and then that combined with dealing with how his paralysis takes away some of his privilege, and then even more so with just general maturing (and taking care of the kids, when they come)? Ugh, there's room for so much ineresting stuff in that evolution

[musesfool]

Oh, I liked it too! I just would have liked a little more self-awareness of it from him. I guess he's got time to grow into that, though.

[sienamystic]

It's been kind of hysterical reading some theoretically-in-on-the-secret-of-fandom reviews where they go, "This movie will launch a wave of Magneto/Xavier fanfic!" Because I'm not even in the fandom, and I could find you dozens of them without breaking a sweat.

[musesfool]

People have been shipping it a long time, but there wasn't as much fic as some of the other pairings - I guess because it's old guys in the narrative present of the comics and the first set of movies? - but I think Fassbender and McAvoy will definitely draw in a lot more people.

[dotfic]

As I think I may have mentioned to you, I knew about the Magneto/Xavier. I have read things and seen movies and sure, I could see it. But I went into this movie thinking oh ho hum, a summer superhero movie, hope it's fun, and emerged dazed and blinking and SHIPPING IT LIKE A MAD SHIPPING THING. Where? What? What is going on? FRENEMIES. ♥__♥

I do ship them as characters -- as I said, I've always seen it, but I'm blaming McAvoy and Fassbender for making it a *thing* for me rather than something interesting I was aware of.

[musesfool]

Heh. I've been shipping it for a long time, but I'm happy to see McAvoy and Fassbender bringing in people who might not normally have gone for what is, after all, actually an old guy pairing.

[frogy]

Random X-Men facts of the day: Havok is Scott's brother and Nightcrawler is the son of Azazel and Mystique.

[musesfool]

I know Havok is Scott's brother in the comics, but if he's running around as an adult in 1962, and this is supposedly a prequel to X1, then there is a problem of about 40 years because Scott's only in his mid-20s in that movie.

[hjpatience]

See I was trying to figure out when the Wolverine Movie was set - because we see Scott as a teenager in that, and so feasibly could that be late-60s/early 70s and Havok just looks older than he is... he'd still have to be the older brother though for it to work at all.

Me and the other half plotted out First Class 2 to coincide with the end of the Wolverine Movie so Charles brings Scott to the mansion then, and then we have brotherly strife! Also we say Storm as a kid in the proto-Cerebro sequence so she could feasibly be the same age as Scott in this verse...

And then that works with the first movie when Charles says "Cyclops, Jean & Storm were my first students" because the first class crew weren't students so much as recruits...

I've been thinking way too much about this

[musesfool]

See I was trying to figure out when the Wolverine Movie was set - because we see Scott as a teenager in that,

Ah, I haven't seen that, so I didn't know that.

Also we say Storm as a kid in the proto-Cerebro sequence so she could feasibly be the same age as Scott in this verse...

*nod nod*

I'd figured her for older based on X1, but yes, they could be around the same age. That makes Alex the older brother, I guess. Which I guess could work.