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.