One of the reasons I am interested in Erik's past, I think, is because the experiences that make Charles want to heal Erik also make it impossible for Erik to be healed (even leaving out Charles's dubious qualities as a healer). Erik is absolutely a survivor, I agree, but he's never going to "get over" the Holocaust precisely because he is a survivor; his whole self was shaped by persecution and survival, and when he says "peace was never an option" that goes a whole lot deeper than Charles understands.
I must admit to preferring my head canon for X1-3, in which Charles and Erik were together for 30 years and Charles did manage to provide enough stability for Erik to heal as much as he ever could, until the worsening situation for mutants finally made their political differences too much to ignore. XMFC is a little too insta-angst for me, what with the love at first sight, the whirlwind romance, the bitter breakup a few weeks (?) later. Of course one could argue that it's harder and more heroic to give up true love for your beliefs when that love has lasted for decades, and you're not young anymore and you're uprooting every bit of stability you've ever known.
Oh, god, why must Charles/Erik be so sad? *whimpers*
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I must admit to preferring my head canon for X1-3, in which Charles and Erik were together for 30 years and Charles did manage to provide enough stability for Erik to heal as much as he ever could, until the worsening situation for mutants finally made their political differences too much to ignore. XMFC is a little too insta-angst for me, what with the love at first sight, the whirlwind romance, the bitter breakup a few weeks (?) later. Of course one could argue that it's harder and more heroic to give up true love for your beliefs when that love has lasted for decades, and you're not young anymore and you're uprooting every bit of stability you've ever known.
Oh, god, why must Charles/Erik be so sad? *whimpers*