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mind_over_metal1K comments, first impressions/relationship meme, where the hell did all of those comments come from so quickly, etc.. Be warned that I will be asking for reverses. Also, that this might take me a while, since yesterday's internet blackout left me quite behind.
Erik, you don't count, you're getting your own essay or something.
Erik, you don't count, you're getting your own essay or something.
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 06:05 am (UTC)That being said, she does give him headaches and for all that he was taking steps toward starting his school, he sometimes gets the sinking feeling of having had parenthood thrust upon him suddenly and surprisingly.
tl;dr YOU GIVE HIM HOPE FOR THE FUTURE AND ALSO ULCERS
someday/ our fight will be won then/ we'll stand in the sun then/ till then/ on days when the sun is gone/ we'll hang on/ wish upon the moon
REVERSE ME
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 06:48 am (UTC)And then there's the telepathy thing! Charles was really super-thrilled by that. Other mutants in general are still pretty new to him -- except for Raven, it's only been a few months that he's known the others -- and telepaths are especially thrilling. The only telepath that he's known in his life has been Emma Frost, who was kind of mean and involved in that whole "start WWIII and kill all of the humans" thing. And being a telepath for Charles is... it's a thing where he understands so much about other people (on a certain level, at least) but there's no one else who understands what he goes through. He lives in a world where he knows other people's minds and there's no one else who can know his in that same way. So it's pretty whoa for him to meet someone who can and for whom it's so normal.
Of course, right now, he's being closed off because he's on such uncertain mental/emotional ground and has never had to deal with another person being able to know him like that when he's in such a state. He's not used to not being the person with the greatest degree of control, and it does make him uncomfortable. But he's also still Charles, who is willing to roll with new developments, so while he's been experiencing a set-back that has been manifesting itself as caution since Erik arrived, he's certainly not resistant.
...so yeah.
please sister, help me/ please give me something oh/ please sister, you know I do what I can
REVERSE ME
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 07:22 am (UTC)Which is to say that Charles doesn't hold Jesse's lack of mutation against him in the least, and really rather appreciates the ways that Jesse has adapted to camp and all of the strange things that it throws at you. The fact that Jesse just kinda rolled with the telepath thing was major points in his favor. Charles also has picked up enough about Jesse to get the sense that he's grown as a person. And he could continue to grow! He just needs some encouragement. And Charles does so love giving encouragement.
I see trees of green and red roses too/ I watch them bloom for me and you/ and I think to myself, oh what a wonderful world
...you'd already given me a first impressions and then I'd failed to reverse. OOPS?
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-29 02:28 am (UTC)And those Professor-ly feelings are only increased by the way that Rogue sees him. Charles's sense of responsibility is only increased by all of this -- it's like he's taking care of the future here a lot more literally than one usually expects it to be. While he realizes that he is his own person and not necessarily what Rogue sees him to be, he nevertheless feels a duty to not disappoint. It's both encouraging and intimidating for him to find so many people with so much faith in him. Mainly, it just inspires him even more strongly to be there for her (and the others) in the way that they need him to be.
and feed them on your dreams/ the one they picked, the one you'll know by/don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry/ so just look at them and sigh and know they love you
Reverse, please!
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Date: 2011-08-29 04:42 am (UTC)Rogue is very aware of the fact that while you are a Professor X, you are not exactly her Professor. So, because you're the Professor, she kind of automatically trusts you, she's just not sure...exactly how much trust to give you because she's not sure how similar you are to the Professor she knows. Like, she really wants to ask you to help with her powers (which you may or may not see in the back of her head???) because her Professor is the one who was helping her with them, but she's not sure if there is anything you could help her with because not even older you could do much and you are still unfamiliar and stranger-ish and she does not want to ask for help. But she is very glad there is at least some sort of Professor in case she loses control again and the psyches go crazy. Basically she wants to see what you can do and see if you are helping other people and eventually Rogue might bring it up. Eventually being way off into the future. Possibly after she's absorbed a few too many people.
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-29 04:19 am (UTC)So Charles will be wanting to keep an eye on Vanya, keep in touch with her. Having someone be consistently there for her -- particularly an adult, from what it seems that her previous experience with adults has been -- seems like something that could do good. And doing good is groovy.
listen to the song here in my heart/ a melody I've started but can't complete/ listen to the sound from deep within/ it's only beginning to find release
Reverse, please!
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Date: 2011-09-27 05:02 am (UTC)Vanya really likes Charles and is just so happy that he seems to not hate her. Vanya has a lot of Camp family, and she definitely is starting to consider Charles as part of it and one day she'll ask him if he minds that.
Even though she's never heard about Professor Xavier or the X-Men before being in Camp, she understand that they're very important superheroes and Vanya is kind of surprised but also excited that he's willing to help her. She trusts him, which is saying a lot because Vanya doesn't like trusting adults. She was glad that when they first met he didn't seem to care that she didn't have powers, so she knew he was nothing like Hargreeves. She's even happier now that she has what she thinks is a real reason to talk to him, and will probably use her powers as an excuse to bother him more. As much as Vanya's afraid of adults and doesn't like trusting them due to previous experiences, she craves their approval and attention, so that fact that Charles is willing to help her and talk to her makes her so happy.
ALSO, this probably seems like a minor thing, but Charles calls her by name a lot (Magneto does this too, which is an even bigger deal to her), which is a huge deal for Vanya since Hargreeves refused to call her anything but her number and she didn't even have a name until sometime after her tenth birthday. Little things like adults calling her by name or offering her advice or showing interest in her mean more to Vanya than one would think since she never got that kind of attention at home. Small things like this is why Vanya was okay with Charles looking into her mind even though she knew he was going to see some horrible things that she's afraid to tell people about.
Vanya also worries about Charles a little now that she's met Magneto and also talked to Babs a little bit about Charles and Magneto. Vanya can tell that they are (or were) really good friends, but something's wrong now and it makes her sad. Vanya has decided that they are probably each others' "most important person" and she wants to help them, but she has no idea how. She's hoping she'll figure out a way to help them because they are now part of her Camp family and she wants them to be happy!
SORRY THAT WAS SO LONG. She has a lot of feelings!
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Date: 2011-09-27 05:06 am (UTC)NO APOLOGIES ACCEPTED. ONLY LOVE GIVEN ♥♥
.....by any chance, would you have a link to Vanya talking to Babs about Charles and Erik?
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Date: 2011-09-27 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-16 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-29 05:26 am (UTC)But he cares for Julian and is determined on Julian's behalf to work even harder. He'll be there for Julian, whether Julian wants him to be or not. And he has no plans on giving up on him, even if Julian ends up pushing him away, which Charles does fear that he'll do. Charles is... pretty aware of his lack of adequacy for some, thanks to recent events lololol.
And there's also the part of him that looks at Julian and sees someone else with a life-changing physical injury and wants to reach out, not just for Julian's sake but because Charles sometimes feels alone in that and wouldn't mind feeling just a little less isolated because of it. He tries to mostly suppress it because Julian is a kid and it doesn't feel fair for Charles to feel like that, but it's still there.
you have drunk a bitter wine with none to be your comfort/ you who once were left behind will be welcome at love's tables
REVERSE ME, KELLER
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Date: 2011-09-04 11:54 am (UTC)The last one is a big thing. Julian has been abandoned by everyone in his life that he trusted and loved. So when people reach out to him, even if he's not ready for it then, even if he rebuffs it, he notices. So when Charles reaches out to him, even if Julian is just "I don't need this", he registers it and it reminds him that he's not alone. He's not been abandoned, people are there and when he's ready to try to connect with them again, they'll be there. I mean, even in his "I don't need you :|" threads with Charles, there's information that he gives him that he doesn't give to people he doesn't trust. He's sending out mixed messages, and sometimes he's self-aware enough to know that they are mixed messages. And other times he is just NO FUCKS ARE GIVEN (but they are).
THIS SOUNDS SO DEPRESSING.
Anyway, the hands! The hands come up a lot. Julian thinks he's a mutilated freak because of them, and to his knowledge Charles is pretty much the only one who gets having lost something in a traumatic situation. Julian's situation wasn't helped by the fact that apparently everyone with any authority on Utopia is an asshole (ASK ANOLE ABOUT THE TIME MAGIK SENT HIM TO HELL BECAUSE HE ANNOYED HER), but he's lonely and scared and there's not really anything he can do or anyone who he could tell about what he's lost without it coming across as whining. So if it came up with Charles, he'd ... feel awkward because at least he can walk, but it is something he can open up about if Charles presented it.
Basically, Julian is a sarcastic bag of dicks who has been traumatised and Charles' reaching out to him matters. Even if he acts like an asshole about it, Julian notices and it affects him.
THIS MADE NO SENSE THE END.
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-09 07:58 pm (UTC)AS FOR MYSTIQUE Charles will not be telling Kurt the details of that anytime soon. But he does feel even more responsible for Kurt now, though it remains to be seen if that will manifest itself in any noticeable ways. Even though there's the whole alternate realities thing going on, Charles still feels a little guilty, because whatever happened to Kurt because of Mystique (and, with your OOC permission, Charles will be checking that out at some point without telling Kurt) somehow links back to Raven becoming Mystique in the first place, which, if Charles hadn't failed her and lost her, would not have happened in the first place.
Also, Charles just doesn't want to think about his little sister getting knocked up. >.<;;
REVERSE ME, NEPHEW
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Date: 2011-09-10 02:04 am (UTC)KURT LIKES THE PROFESSOR is the bottom line. Even though it's a little weird that he's younger and has hair, he's still The Professor. Kurt's said as much. And even if he isn't Evo Professor, he is by association a man that Kurt deeply respects and loves like family. But! He also gets that this Professor is different, which is honestly why he's maybe even a little bit more excited to get to know him. The Professor he knows is old and wise and stuff, and while he can be a bit of a jokester he is still The Professor (it's like Dumbledore or something). But Uncle Charles is closer in age to Kurt and has his own struggles with being a mutant--or that's how Kurt sees it, at least. And struggles with the not walking thing (sorry, Uncle Charles, this much is obvious). The Professor has everything together! Uncle Charles is still figuring things out. And while Kurt knows The Professor isn't infallible, Uncle Charles isn't on as high of a pedestal. So it's like he gets all the respect and love that comes with being The Professor, but he also gets all of the badgering that Kurt would otherwise NOT do to Evo Professor.
ONE DAY, WHEN KURT IS NOT DUMB, HE MIGHT NOTICE THAT UNCLE CHARLES IS UNCLE CHARLES. Then he will never get away, because that means he's family. You are doomed to be stuck with him forever, Uncle Charles. Accept it.
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Date: 2011-08-16 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-24 11:50 pm (UTC)So there are a couple of spectacular failures with teenage/twenty-something young mutant women very fresh in Charles's mind right now. And while Charles certainly isn't transferring/substituting or anything like that with Cess in any way, he's also well aware that, just statistically speaking, he seems to have some issues with this particular demographic. And it's a weird thing for him, too, with the age differences and being seen as more of a parental figure while he's used to seeing himself as more of a big brother figure (who, granted, does act in more of a parental capacity, but there is still a definite difference between the two). So just the general situation is kind of... funky.
With that context, Charles particularly treasures the trust that Cess seems to have in him, and he really, really doesn't want to disappoint her. All of the... touchy-feely emotional stuff is still rather fraught for him, and he's probably more apparently shaky with it than he ever has been (and ever will be), as he's just come to fully realise exactly how much he falls short (and what the consequences of that can be) but hasn't had much time to work on remedying it yet.
BASICALLY he likes Cess a lot and wants to be there for her and help her, though being around her tends to make him feel more unsure about himself.
REVERSE ME, PLEASE
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Date: 2011-08-16 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 12:50 am (UTC)Of course, Charles was well aware of the nearby drama that happened when he first arrived. (Y'all were giving him a headache...) And Fenris was being very stiff-minded. But the background of pain and trauma in Fenris's mind -- it's amazing that he's still functioning at all. So of course Charles is interested, even if Fenris weren't an elf, he would still be fascinating.
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Date: 2011-09-25 02:21 am (UTC)But once I am better and can think again, I WILL PICK UP I swear.
But yeah, Fenris' mind would be absolutely fascinating. It's all twisted up in knots that he's really just starting to unravel, years after escaping his master. XD His character quest in Act III brings him finally to a point where he can move past his slave mindset, so he's really just beginning to blossom as his own person.
And then there's the amnesia and starting to remember tiny bits thing and that would have to be interesting as well, I'm sure. XD (Fun tidbit; his 'real name', which he remembers only once, is the same as Charles' cabinmate, Leto!)
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Date: 2011-09-26 02:15 am (UTC)Fenris still finds every human who doesn't automatically relegate him to the status of a lesser being slightly bewildering; while most of his friends from home aren't prejudiced, the fact is that they're highly unusual and 99% of the humans in Thedas consider the "knife-ears" to be distinctly subhuman, many going as far as viewing them as non-persons. Months in camp hasn't completely erased Fenris' expectation that humans will react to him with fear (because he's a knife-ear with a sword/axe/giant-fucking-hammer) and disdain, since that's an expectation built over the course of years, and not easily put aside.
Add to that the fact that Charles seemed so enthusiastic to learn about people, and sounded so accepting, and Fenris was just like ". . . seriously, is he for real?" It's a positive sort of bewilderment, of course, because not being considered sub . . . human . . . (THESE WORDS ARE INSUFFICIENT, ENGLISH LANGUAGE) is good! So Fenris has a vague positive, if confused, impression of Charles, and will be civil with him. He'd also be happy to talk to Charles about his world, if Charles wants to learn.
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Date: 2011-08-16 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 01:58 am (UTC)Reverse me!!
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Date: 2011-08-16 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 02:32 am (UTC)tl;dr Charles would like to chat with her more. She seems like a very good person to know!
Reverse, please?
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Date: 2011-09-25 03:03 am (UTC)Charles Xavier seems like a school teacher that everyone likes--the easy-going one who is encouraging about finger-painting and colouring outside the lines. Outside of the whole having mental powers and having awkward moments with his friend, he seemed sensible enough. He has obviously been through some serious stuff, which Tiffany won't ask about so soon because she is trying to exercise tact. She will check in on him as discreetly as possibly because that's what witches do. And have conversations with him because he doesn't talk down to her--not that many people do that after the initial meeting. She also appreciates him not prying into her mind.
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Date: 2011-08-17 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 03:05 am (UTC)Charles is feeling less sad these days and more... tumultuous, so he's probably less with any sympathetic fits of melancholy. But it's still a relief for him to hang out with Ryuuken sometimes and just... not have to be all right or set an example or Be The Adult or save the world.
Reverse, plase?
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Date: 2011-08-17 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 04:27 am (UTC)Reverse, please?
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Date: 2011-08-17 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-26 04:38 am (UTC)Charles is kind of ridiculously fond of Leto. In the full sense of fond -- it's to a pretty foolish extent, and he's aware of that. Though he's aware of how extreme Leto's circumstances are and how far above him Leto is on the power scale, he still finds a lot in Leto that's... relateable, and Charles isn't used to having that. Having been a strange child, being the Smartest Guy In The Room In A Very Extreme Way (which Charles isn't with Leto, which is kind of weird and was initially pretty discomforting but he's gotten mostly used to it), the vast majority of people (including other mutants) having an instinctive (and justified) revulsion to what you are, the self-righteous sense of mission... Particularly before Erik got to camp, that relateability was something that had been lacking in Charles's life. (As for after Erik got to camp, I'll go into that over in your meme.) And of course, Charles is drawn to Leto's sharpness, power and, of course, his Sad And Alone-ness. Charles made up his mind to be Leto's friend pretty much from the get-go, and Charles is very stubborn that way. Also, there are a lot of funny levels going on, where Charles simultaneously sees Leto as a peer, a foreign entity of greater power and a lonely 15-year old kid. Charles treasures any time he gets to see the 15-year old and wants to be there for that kid as much as he can.
On a less emotional level, Leto is smart and funny and kind of a dick, so Charles likes him. The fact that he's mentally self-controlled is also nice to live with -- Charles loves his mutantbabies, but he honestly isn't at the point of being able to take sleeping in the same room as so much PTSD.
I AM THE WORST RESPONDER BUT REVERSE ME ANYWAYS
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Date: 2011-09-29 10:47 am (UTC)So Leto is going to keep being a dick, but not extremely, unless Charles is willing to push through his barriers, then all bets are off. Still, he enjoys his time with Charles and he is not likely to jeopardize it without good reason to.
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Date: 2011-08-17 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-26 05:00 am (UTC)And then there's M'gann, and you seem like a fine, upstanding, dependable boy, which is good, because if you do anything to her, Charles will break you. ♥
Reverse, please?
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Date: 2011-09-28 12:34 am (UTC)Likewise, Superboy is unsure about Charles. He still has issues with people being in his mind without his trust. But he does like him, mostly because M'gann likes Charles so much. He's willing to forgive that whole mind thing and take things slow. He promises not to punch you out of your wheelchair and into the cornfield mutantmom.
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Date: 2011-08-18 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-26 05:16 am (UTC)And Charles thinks that Necoco is a very nice boy and also quite groovy. ROBOT FROM THE FUTURE. And Necoco made a very strong first impression on Charles, what with being so helpful and kind. All of the "boyfriend" talk that came up in the later thread did kind of weird out Charles "Heteronormativity" Xavier's pre-Stonewall self, though just because it was so... strange. Foreign! Charles is certainly quite aware of homosexuality and has no moral objections to it, but it just isn't part of the society that he lives in the same way that it is here.
REVERSE ME, EVEN THOUGH I'M THE WORST RESPONDER ♥ ;;
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Date: 2011-09-26 07:23 am (UTC)ZEX has never seen anyone in a wheelchair before, so that was a bit of a novelty for him. Otherwise, Charles is polite, interesting, and has a good attitude about this place--he seems to roll with the punches well, and that's important to ZEX because that means there's less of a likelihood for Charles to freak out RE: ZEX and all of ZEX's horrible choices. If Charles let slip that he's a telepath, ZEX would be happy but kind of... blase about it? There are lots of psychics where he's from, so it wouldn't really be a conversation point for him, haha.
MORE THREADS SOON OKAY ♥
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Date: 2011-09-26 02:11 am (UTC)/over a month late, what?
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Date: 2011-09-26 05:55 am (UTC)Kind of like my replies, you mean? |DD
Despite being from a completely different world, Charles definitely feels more parental toward Brianna than he does toward the X-kids. Part of it is the age thing, with her being younger, and part of it being the fact that she is from a different world, so he doesn't feel like he's... inheriting someone else's relationship with her. So it's more straightforward! She's a kid! She's been through shit! She needs some adults that she can rely on! And Charles would love to provide that for her and will try his best. He's well aware that she finds the telepathy thing kind of creepy, but he's used to that, so it doesn't bother him. And that actually also increases the parental feeling -- mom's gotta do what mom's gotta do. :|||
...and then there's the Erik factor. Charles is... actually pretty glad about Erik and Breeze's relationship. He thinks that Brianna has a solid enough head on her shoulders and strong enough relationships with the X-kids that she won't be, like, immediately brainwashed into "KILL ALL HUMANS" or anything (even if she does have... sympathies -- Charles sees a little bit of Angel in Brianna, something that he can't quite reach, for some reason), and that the trade-off -- Erik having a kid of his own (given how his relationships with the X-kids will always be influenced by his future/alternate selves) -- can only do good. Even if it would make Charles extremely uncomfortable to see Brianna running around with Magneto's helmet on. CHARLES WILL RUN INTERFERENCE IF HE FEELS THAT HE NEEDS TO but he doesn't see a need for that yet.
REVERSE ME
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Date: 2011-09-26 09:07 pm (UTC)When Brianna first met Charles she had a hard time because... Professor X is supposed to be old and bald, not young and groovy. She's going to call him Professor X forever, just because that's his name, to her. But after Magneto showed up, she got over them being younger pretty quickly. The more muties that show up, the more used to different timelines and universes she gets.
Yes, the telepathy creeps her out. Brianna's kind of weird - she has trouble hiding her emotions from others, but she gets really uncomfortable when people see her being vulnerable. A big part of her consciousness is devoted to building herself up so that when she acts like she's totally capable and awesome and can never lose, she actually believes that. But underneath is a lot of doubt, and when people point out that part of her and force her to admit that she can't always win, she canonically gets pretty upset. :| So knowing that Charles can, at any time, go looking around in her mind and pick out any self-doubt or worry that she has, freaks her out a lot. And she doesn't really believe him when he says he won't do it if she doesn't want him to - he's an adult and adults lie to kids, the end.
BUT OVERALL, she does really like Charles. He's Professor X, so she knows he's a good guy and wouldn't purposefully do anything to hurt her. She totally doesn't get his relationship with Magneto, but she told Jubilee that she agrees with the nicknames Momfessor and Dadneto, so I think subconsciously she understands that they are married. :|a