mind_over_metal | All of the groovy kids are doing it.

JUBILEE :D

Charles is delighted by Jubilee, for all of the headaches that she gives him. The state of the world is dire enough when he's from, and everything he's heard indicates that things are going to get much worse before they get any better, but Jubilee is still so... normal. In the sense of having a life outside of being at war, of being a brat and a teenager and a girl and her own person through all of terrible things that keep happening.

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

M'GANNNNN

So M'gann inspires lots of ~FEELINGS~ in Charles. Even if she weren't a non-human-flesh-toned teenaged-looking shapeshifter girl, he'd still have big brotherly feelings toward her, because that what he does. But, well. She does. So there's a whole host of issues that she stirs up inside of him. Charles is smart enough inside of his own head that he's not really transferring any of his feelings regarding Raven onto M'gann, but M'gann definitely makes him think about Raven. And it makes him both sad and happy, because M'gann is so happy (which makes him happy) in ways that Raven was not (which makes him sad).

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

JESSE ST JAMESSSSssss

The world is big enough for all of us to share. Humans might be an inevitably-ending section on the evolutionary timeline, and they might react badly to seeing that end coming into view -- but they're still (for lack of a better word) people. Neighbors, friends, family, strangers, just the same as mutants are to them.

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?

First impressions for Rogue?

In addition to the obvious mutant interest, Charles is struck by Rogue's sense of insecurity. Even though the future clearly isn't all peachy, she does have the school and the knowledge that she's not alone in what she's going through -- there's obviously other factors at work here. And Charles is curious to know what they are! He wants to help! And he is very clearly not put off by grumpiness or guardedness at all.

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!

Professor!

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.

Relationship meme for Vanya!

Vanya, Vanya, Vanya! There are a number of campers who fire up Charles's teacher/big brother instincts, but Vanya sends them into overdrive. And, obviously, in this case, there's absolutely nothing to do with the whole mutant cause -- it's just pure personal Charles with his compassion and urge to help and also sympathy for a lonely child. He's also no stranger to persisting with people with stubborn/twisted views of themselves (e.g. Erik), and he's very willing to be patient and stick with them and provide the faith that they need, even if it is sometimes, truthfully, frustrating for him.

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!

Sorry this is late, I was waiting for Vanya and Charles' powers thread to reach a good point to comment back and then I forgot I never reversed! This is probably going to be long, so hopefully that will make up for its extreme lateness!

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!

You're saying something about "lateness" to the person who took over a month to finish getting through this meme...

NO APOLOGIES ACCEPTED. ONLY LOVE GIVEN ♥♥

.....by any chance, would you have a link to Vanya talking to Babs about Charles and Erik?

Here's the thread! (http://campfuckudie.livejournal.com/6408403.html?thread=2842090451#t2842090451) It's about ten or so comments in, I believe!

JULIAN :D

Julian is a big, big challenge for Charles. Not in a necessarily negative way and not one that he doesn't feel that he's up to! But still, a challenge. The whole "I am from the future and the future sucks" is a huge downer and mostly makes Charles feel frustrated by not really knowing what he can do to help Julian. Everything just feels so ineffective and he knows that Julian is well beyond the realm of some comforting words and inspiring phrases doing the trick. He's... pretty damn sure that Julian belongs to Erik, for all intents and purposes.

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

SO. Julian is taken from after his runs in X-23 and X-Men: Legacy, where he is basically a very unhappy and chewed on teenager. The culmination of the arc is that Julian is at his lowest point. He's almost violated his one ethical rule (X-Men do not kill), he's ignored his friends' overtures to the point that when he reaches out to them they don't even notice and he ultimately decides he doesn't need anyone or anything. Considering how dependent the babymutants were on each other beforehand, this is not portrayed as a healthy decision at all, and it has had dire consequences on Julian and his mental state. His year in camp has taught him that he can reach out to people sometimes and they won't just ignore him, and that he can withdraw and try and deal with everything that's happened and, more importantly, the people he's reached out to won't abandon him.

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.

UNCLE CHARLES DO YOU LOVE ME

UNCLE CHARLES LOVES YOU VERY MUCH KURT no seriously, Charles finds Kurt to be a joy to be around, most of the time. He really appreciates Kurt's happy-derpy-puppy-ness because it lets Charles indulge in that side of himself as well. The "most of the time" caveat is that sometimes Charles is really just Not In The Mood but doesn't want that to show through, particularly to someone as nice as Kurt, which turns being around Kurt into a rather draining exercise. (Though that's not something particularly specific to Kurt -- it can be a strain to be around just about anyone at some point or another -- Charles does feel a little more walking on eggshells with the Evo kids, since their future seems less horrible than everyone else's and Charles doesn't want to, like, break that or whatever.)

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

OOC Permission granted! Kurt was thinking about his relationship with Mystique during their entire conversation, so Uncle Charles would have picked up on that anyways. And he can dig a little more without Kurt noticing, too.

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.

Super first impressions for Cess? We need to do more threading :(

MORE THAN ONE MONTH LATER...

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

I wanna know Charles' first impression of Fenris! (Especially given the uh . . . cast explosion in his intro post. >D)

WE NEED TO THREAD AGAIN because Charles thought that Fenris was so super groovy. Charles has a huge capacity for wonder and meeting someone who is, like, out of a fantasy book is just fantastic.

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.

We dooo and I need to reply to Tatsumi with Tony I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN I just got so overwhelmed by somanythreads. I still have the tab open and everything!!! And then I got sick.

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!)

. . . also, I know you didn't ask for a reverse, but I'll give it anyways. o/ Because I am sick and bored and thus feel like rambling.

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.

SUP :D

PROFESSOR LIEK KID FLASH 8DDD Wally is bright and fun and good-natured and ambitious. And on a mixed team, non-powered human and powered human and non-human. And delightfully young. It's so... refreshing. And he's a scientist, which is wonderful. Wally is the intellectual type that Charles tends to relate to him on a more equal level than he does with others who are closer to his age. Because when it comes down to it, Charles is a nerd-bro. And while it can feel a little... indulgent, when there are so many of "his own" kids who are so troubled and traumatized, it's also a great reminder of some of the things Charles wants to win and win back. LET'S BE PALS, WALLY.

Reverse me!!

First impressions?

Charles is so impressed by Tiffany. She's very clearly extremely sensible, and also a person who gets things done. And she does so as a witch who nevertheless is... well. She isn't sporting some attention-grabbing pointy hat or giant cape or anything like that. Charles appreciates what seems to be a level-headed manner of working steadily toward the desired results -- she seems like a far-sighted sort of person. And they shared Proud Mom Faces. Really, Charles views her as more of a potential colleague, despite their age difference.

tl;dr Charles would like to chat with her more. She seems like a very good person to know!

Reverse, please?

You already know what she was like when she was eleven . . .

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.

Ryuuken and first impressions for Fuuma?

Fuuma is the sort of person that Charles would have really liked when he was a student, in the life before Moira approached him in the bar and everything changed. Intelligent, friendly, handsome, charming, just slightly wild without being too rough. The type of person with whom one could have entertaining conversations without getting too close. As things currently are, Charles views Fuuma as probably a good person for information and certainly wouldn't object to his company, but his active, personal interest is limited.

Charles really likes Dr. Ishida. He has a lot of respect for Ryuuken as a professional. And as has been shown, Charles has a thing for the grumpy ones. IT'S JUST SO FUN TO LET THE PRICKLY EXTERIORS ROLL OFF HIS BACK AND ENJOY THE SQUISHINESS THAT HE KNOWS IS INSIDE :x But Charles really does trust Ryuuken a lot as a doctor, and he really helped him when he first arrived in camp, so that was a super-strong first impression. As was Ryuuken's sadness. That also struck a very sensitive place for Charles when he first arrived in camp, given what had just recently happened to him in his life. And Charles is very stubborn about sticking by sad people normally anyways.

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?

:D?

PROFESSOR LIEK DICK oh wai- well, there's no saving that one. But Charles really does like Robin a lot. He's like the nerdy kid brother Charles never had! Intelligent, earnest but not without a sharp wit, with a higher cause that he's loyal to -- Robin's just a great kid, all around. And as with Wally, he's a bit of a refreshing contrast to all of Charles's PTSD'ed kids and all. And I'm serious about the library dates. Charles is super smart, but fifty years of late twentieth-century technology is a lot to catch up on -- it's great to have someone to work with on that stuff. Plus, they've both been in camp for about the same amount of time, so they're going through learning this environment on the same timeframe. Charles probably chats with Robin a good deal, just running into him casually in daily business and such.

Reverse, please?

Meeeeeeeeeee

SO. LETO. BEST/WORST ROOMMATE ♥

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

So Charles can read minds. Leto generally has a very negative opinion of mind-readers. However, with Charles, it's different, mostly because no matter how Leto trolls him, Charles is able to respond and even stand his ground, which is enough to earn Leto's respect. But at the same time, Leto is jealous of what Charles has. He has a purpose, he has students, people who look up to him, he has people like Erik. For Leto, what Charles has is enviable. So, when Charles claims to be his friend, Leto was a little angry and stumped. He doesn't have friends! He has people who respect him or people who get close because they are masochists. No denying Charles is a masochist, it was still a pretty genuine declaration, one that Leto has no defenses against because he had never thought of wanting a friend before. And he acknowledged that Charles is pretty similar to himself, and that, verbal foreplay aside, they can actually see eye to eye.

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.

Supeyyyyy

CHARLES IS A LITTLE UNSURE ABOUT SUPERBOY BUT LIKES HIM ANYWAYS because Charles is Charles and likes people. He knows that Superboy is super-uneasy about him, but that's okay, Charles is willing to take it slow. (Superboy being interested in a chess game was like a victory!) He's curious about Superboy's deal and will probably try to find out more through his teammates.

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?

... that heart is not safe, i mean

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.

NECOCO AND ZEX YEEEEAAAAH

CHARLES THINKS THAT ZEX IS GROOVY AND WOULD LIKE TOT TALK TO HIM AGAIN. Seriously, aliens. And Zex was into meeting other people, too! Charles is sure that they could have some absolutely fascinating conversations.

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 ♥ ;;

NECOCO THINKS THAT CHARLES IS CUTE and would not mind making out with him but! Whatever. He's a cool dude and Necoco likes being helpful, so that's been a positive thing all around. Not a whole lot of emotional investment beyond him being Jubilee's mutantmom and therefore super important. Necoco would mafia for Charles but he doubts Charles needs it.

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 ♥

MEEEEEE

/over a month late, what?

/over a month late, what?

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

LOOKS LIKE I COMMENTED RIGHT ON TIME, THEN 8D

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

All of the groovy kids are doing it.

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