Fic: Synthesis (X-Men First Class, Erik/Charles)

[starlady]

Title: Synthesis (Scenes from an AU)
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Wordcount: 15,000
Rating: Mature
Characters: Erik, Charles, most of the movie casts
Pairing(s): Erik/Charles
Synthesis is a dynamic process. Or, scenes from the AU where Charles and Erik have sex, get married, become best friends, and run the school together.

Warnings for the Holocaust, implicit references to torture and child abuse, institutional misogyny, and potential dub-con situations, depending on how you interpret Erik/Charles. This is not "fix-it" fic; this is another possible road. Also contains various other pairings in the background.

Thanks so much to oliviacirce for the awesome beta-reading, hand-holding, and general comics canon pointers.


Synthesis on the AO3


Wow, I'm finished and it's posted! I feel like I could go on for pages about this fic, but I should probably just say that it mixes comic, movie, and cartoon canon with abandon, and let the story speak for itself. All 15K words of it, holy crap.

Comments

[kuwdora]

omggggggggggg

okay I am gonna be back with proper feedback once I can reread and it's not 5am and my nausea is gone because this deserves a lot of flaily feedback

for now have a little bit of flaily feedback

eeeeeeeeee~ look at how you combined and shuffled around all the canon sources and eeeeee ERIK ERIK ERIK and ooh Lorna references and there's Kurt and omggggg Erik and Charles

and Emma teaching at the institute = best thing ever

ERIK ERIK ERIK

HUSBANDS FOREVER

[starlady]

I'm glad you liked it! XD

Yeah, honestly, I have the most familiarity with the cartoons and the movies, so I pretty much let myself pick and choose. And remix and reinterpret.

[oliviacirce]

YAY YOU POSTED. NOW I CAN REC IT EVERYWHERE. <333333

[starlady]

*laughs, is hugely flattered* <33333

I have to admit, I am unusually satisfied with this one. Maybe I just need to write more things where everyone has the knives out, metaphorically or not so metaphorically.

[recessional]

That icon is kind of adorable.

[starlady]

I like it a lot. =)

[talitha78]

I hugely enjoyed this story. Thank you for sharing it! :D

[starlady]

You're welcome, and thank you!

[kindkit]

I meant to comment on this when I first read it, but then I had to go to work and then it slipped my mind. Anyway, I thought it was wonderful.

[starlady]

Thank you!

[thedeadparrot]

I just read this on my Kindle, but it seems like AO3 is down so I can't leave feedback there.

I really, really loved this. I really love this in how difficult it is between the two of them, how imperfect and painful it can be. I also really love the sense of history, of aging, that it comes with this whole story, the way they're forced to become parents to these students. It feels as epic as their canon relationship, and that's pretty amazing.

[starlady]

Thank you very, very much. I'm glad the sense of time passing worked for you; that was one of the things I very much wanted to convey.