Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Or, "This replaces any obligation I have to ever essay about Charles's personality. No, really."

( Mommie Dearest Meets Peck's Bad Boy )

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In the recent LJ news post LJ-staff sneakily mentions that "Comment pages have been redesigned!" with no further information and that these changes will go live on Tuesday, 20th Dec 2011. These changes had been communicated to Russian language user-base for some time in their Russian beta-site, but this post was the first indication of the change for English-language users.

These changes means NO MORE VISIBLE SUBJECT LINES TO COMMENTS starting Tuesday, which means most meme activity will become difficult if not impossible. After pages of comments there has been only one message from the LJ-staff which tells users to switch to S2 style if they want to see comment headings. The S2 styles, which are not only unable to handle large numbers of comments but are also not very accessible to everyone. The only reason given for this change, is that (no subject) on collapsed comments entries with no heading looks ugly, and that "less than 1% user base uses headings".

So, if you don't like this change and specially if you have paid journals, please go and make your voice heard, please please try to remain calm and polite and rational, and remember that ficcing and RPing and Memeing is not the only thing that goes on, on LJ and that LJ provides a very important platform for the Russian political blogosphere, (which is not very happy with this change either). But please make you voice heard (and spread the word if possible).

For a screencap of the new comment form, go here [Russian language] (via ceilidh in this comment on the news post). Why yes, it does look like it would take more time to load, in addition to making accessibility more difficult!

Polite comments requesting LJ staff to change their mind on this matter are being encouraged at both the news post and comment in question.

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LOL

Sticking my academic schedule here. Classes are just about the smallest thing on my plate -- I'll also be in production throughout the year, which means that there is a constant stream of rehearsals, meetings, office work and performances that have no set repeating schedule. I'll be doing an estimate of my overall state of semi-hiatus/hiatus for the year based on my most updated information.

Basically, my activity level will become very low, sporadic and unpredictable. But I still want to do things with you! This will hopefully help to plan. The most important part of this, however, as with any schedule, is the following note: SUBJECT TO CHANGE. I might end up unexpectedly available! Conversely, I might end up unexpectedly unavailable/drunk. But this gives a general shape of things, at least.

( Class Schedule - Fall 2011 )

( Availability Projection )

Applies to: Enjolras, Maladict, Tatsumi Seiichirou, Takeuchi Sora, Van Grants, Rorschach, Captain Jack Harkness and Charles Xavier

1K 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.

Age: 30*
Height: 5'7" (170 cm) standing... shorter in the wheelchair
Blood Type: --
Birthday: 1932*

*Charles is seen in 1944 and 1962. The young Charles is credited as being 12, which makes sense. The older Charles, however, is credited as being 24. Which defies both math and getting your doctoral degree at a reasonable age. So I'm sticking with Charles having been 12 in 1944, which would make him 30 in 1962.

Medical Info: Up until very recently, Charles was, medically speaking, a very normal young man. He was pretty healthy and relatively fit, though certainly not excessively so on either count. Things would probably look a little strange if you gave him a brain scan, but otherwise, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.

And then he got a bullet thrown into his spine.

He was wearing a bullet-proof suit at the time, so the bullet didn't actually enter his body, but the impact was, naturally, enough to cause traumatic spinal injury that left his legs paralyzed. I'm saying that sensation starts becoming severely spotty right above the top of the hips and is completely gone by the time you reach the top of the thighs.

Pulling him from the very end of the movie would mean that this happened to him at most a couple weeks ago. So there's still a lot of pain, and he's still adjusting in a very major way.

Eyes: big baby blues
Hair: brown, thick

Physical Traits: Slim build, though not lean -- kind of soft around the edges. A tendency toward tweedy-looking clothing. Quirks his left eyebrow something wicked. And he's not wearing cherry lip gloss, his mouth is just naturally like that.

What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Go for it. Charles is meant for breaking.

Abilities: Super-duper telepath. Including, but likely not limited to...

-Basic mind-reading. It's just like any other sense -- he can be just casually hearing the thoughts of people around him or be actively listening in.
-Commandeering other people's senses (kind of like having human spy drones...)
-Commandeering other people's, uh... persons. Basically, he can turn other people into human puppets. It's entirely as god-moddy as it sounds.
-Talking to people inside of their heads (which, given his ability to hear other people's thoughts, means that he can have entirely mental conversations with people, telepaths or not)
-Exploring memories, even those no longer consciously remembered
-Erasing memories

Only other telepaths seem to know when Charles is being sneaky inside of their heads (sometimes he's obvious).

He can also play a mean game of chess.

Notes for the Psychics: Unless you are absolute god-mode, you will not be able to get into Charles's head (or get past the blocks in there, I suppose, is more accurate). And if you are up there in the power scale, please talk to me about it. Charles himself isn't actually a god-mode against other telepaths. While not a babymutant, Charles is still young and hasn't reached the height of his power yet.

Empaths, on the other hand, would probably get a sense of some deep, recent trauma, no matter how calm he looks on the outside. And the calmness isn't totally an act -- it would feel genuine as well. It's just not the entire story.

Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Sure, just talk to me for the body-swapping, natch.

Hugging/Kissing/Other non-violent physical contact: GO FOR IT.

Maim/Murder/Death: His boyfriend already did the first, but you're more than welcome to continue the work. I'm also really open to getting him killed, too.

Cooking: If he had to cook for himself, he... wouldn't starve. It's not one of his strengths, though.

Other: British accent! That he picked up in Westchester, NY, apparently. idkmybff movieverse.