#Cherik au

[wishchip106]

imagining an end of the world cherik au….

70+ y/o cherik sitting in same room they used to spend most of their days in, playing chess and debating (among other things)

the ground is shaking and books and miscellaneous items are falling onto the floor but they’re still playing one last game of chess with memories of the past floating all around them

they smile at each other as the ceiling caves in

“Checkmate, old friend”

[star-lights-up]

nothing quite like searching up a fact for a fic and getting a reddit chain answering the question themed around your fandom 😂

[myoonmii]

Cried like 3 times drawing this. I love decades old, friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers old man yaoi

[stinkrat-aleks]

cherik wedding (the first one)

[icarusredwings]

Cherik fic where Logan and Victor only know Charles by 'Dearest' and Erik by 'Darling' just how Lady only knows her owners by 'Darling' and 'Jim, dear'

And the first time they hear him call him 'Erik', Dearest is very... not himself. He's angry. And he's crying. And now the cats are confused. Who's Erik??

[badplayerana]

Current favorite cherik fics

part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8

And I really mean 'current' because this changes every other week lol but for now I'd like to give back and rec them, if the cherik nation is looking for some really good stories

Stars Will Tumble From The Blue by Baamon5evr

“Just one night, no fear, no shame, no blame or rage. Just serenity. Just us. Just one night to acknowledge that there is more here and then we go our separate ways and you go back to being angry and hating me.” *missing scene* set between First Class and Days of Future Past

One Life for Yourself and One for Your Dreams by endingthemes

When 00 Agent Raven Darkholme manages to capture the elusive Magneto and bring him in for questioning about a dangerous arms deal involving international criminal Sebastian Shaw, it’s up to Quartermaster Charles Xavier to get him to talk. With time running out, Charles needs to convince Magneto to trust him, but they’re both far too good at keeping secrets, and the growing attraction between them is only making things more difficult.

Dark Flowers by Niphrehdil (I made a post dedicated to this one a while back but this might be my all time favorite, so here it is again)

When Charles is captured by a secret organization and used as a weapon for searching and destroying other mutants, Erik has to go after and save him. Erik keeps telling himself he does it only for the mutant kind. At least until he finds Charles.

the way it travels in and keeps emitting light by populuxe

Charles and Erik aren’t friends: their mutual dislike was both instant and enduring, from that very first day Raven introduced them. But when Charles gets into a life-altering accident, the connections between all three of them start to fundamentally shift, too.

Robbers by dsrobertson (mind the tags/warnings!!)

1933. Bank robber AU. The Bureau of Investigation are after Public Enemy Number Two, bank robber Erik Lehnsherr. Charles Xavier is fiancé to Special Agent Moira MacTaggart. A closet homosexual, Charles visits the Manhattan pansy club scene and meets Max Eisenhardt. Only as time goes on, Max Eisenhardt turns out to be Erik Lehnsherr. Public Enemy Number Two. Charles learns exactly what happens when you accidentally fall in love with a male bank robber in 1930s America.

[timid-owl]

Don't get me wrong I absolutely adore the jane eyre cherik aus where Erik is Rochester and Charles’s the governess but -

I also love the concept of Mr Xavier, master of the house, some Earl of Viscount or whatnot, hireing a tutor for his wards and getting this angry mean strange gorgeous man without a penny to his name, a raging socialist who like reads Marx and goes to protests and helps assemble explosives for the suffragettes or something, and also has some beef with his lordship Sebastian Shaw, member of the parlament... 

and Charles - who's like the most enviable bachelor to ever bachelor, and a promising young scientist who studded at Oxford and had himself some fancy life going on there, and just got back and for some reason found himself with the house and the land and all these kids to take care of, and is just sweet and constantly overwhelmed - well he sees Erik and goes yep that's my man, come here let me teach you some kindness, and bribe your fine arse out of some shady business, and well i dispise violence but your ratio of nitroglycerin to gunpowder is not ideal, and Engels is much deeper won't you say, and do you maybe want to play some chess. And of course please by all means take all my money to go on your personal vendetta that I will absolutely help accomplish

Including: 

- traditionally, somebody swimming in a lake in a plain shirt, not realising they are being watched

- erik fixing mechanisms - clocks, bells, carriages, music boxes, whatever goes - in the house out of spiteful gratefulness

- erik and the children having to adapt to eachother but getting along brilliantly in the long run. Eric is methodical in his explanations but the children still need some help from charles to show them different facettes of thoughts ans concepts and help them reveal their full potential

- raven going to a sufragette protest with erik and getting slightely hurt, charles getting absolutely mental over it; some discussion about how change is always violent no it isn’t you just have to wait for people to accept it 

- erik getting jealous and possessive during a ball but also generally very sarcastic with the guests 

- charles reading stories in the evenings with voices and all, and maybe even some poetry and is he looking at Erik when he says "What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal"? and Erik's heart just melts 

- erik probably revealing that Shaw has ruined his family or something, and possibly has some evil plan to - whatever, pass a misanthropic bill,  overthrow the government, something something 

- is there a ghost in the house? I mean it might be a symbolical thing in Erik's head or it actually might be charles finding an absolute worst solution to help a mentally unstable (pyromaniac?) girl named jean for instance? Who knows

- some tension in the library? Yes definitely that

[roseburning]

I've been thinking about those soulmate AUs where whatever happens to your skin translate's to your soulmates, so when you get hurt, they get hurt as well. Those can be really cute with other ships when one doddles on their skin, or if one works as vet and has weird scratches.

But Cherik. Fuck, Cherik.

Kurt beating Charles up and Erik thinking that the bruises he doesn't remember is just Shaw experimenting on him while unconscious. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

One random morning when Charles is a kid, he feels this excruciating pain and numbers appear on forearm. From that point beyond it's just downhill, everyday he screams like it's torture, because, well, it is.

It gets to a point where even his negligent mother can't ignore and takes him to a hospital, he gets tested for every single type of chronic pain possible, but it all turns negative, so they think he's faking it/ it's psychological. But his shitty family still doesn't want to deal with that, so they lock him up in the hospital, so the doctors can "treat him" and "ease the pain", however nothing works — because the it's not Charles', it's Erik's.

At this point some might suspect it's soulmate induced, but what kind of person would be torture this much for so long?

Raven is the only one who keeps visiting, disguised as a nurse or a doctor, she's the only one who believes him. Until the late 1940s, when the pain stops. Erik is free from the camps. Charles is discharged from the hospital.

It's not until some years later, the world learns the the horrors the Nazis were doing, and my god the tattoo — that's when Charles understands what kind of person his soulmate is. He never cried so hard as that night. Raven hugs him, saying that his soulmate has to have survived, or else he'd be dead too, right? Right?

They want to search for his soulmate, but all they have is the numbers (and they'd assume it's a girl because of period typical homophobia). Besides, if they're soulmates, the universe is going to put them together, right?

And then Charles saves a random man who was going to drown trying to throw a submarine at a Nazi yacht. Their minds touch, and it's like they've known each other their wholes lives, it's beautiful.

Charles shows him his numbers and Erik shows his, and they match — because of they do — and my god, IT'S YOU!!

Erik didn't even thought he had a soulmate, thought he was doomed to be alone, but Charles is cheering and hugging him because IT'S YOU WHO I'VE BEEN IN HELL FOR! oh my god you've been through hell OH MY GOD WE'VE BEEN THROUGH HELL!

Raven is crying in the background because she has a new brother-in-law. Erik is a bit confused in the beginning, but as soon as he realizes Charles has suffered in Shaw's hands as much as he did, he hugs him to never let go. He cries variations of ‘I'm sorry’, but Charles reassures him it was never his fault.

And they go hunt Shaw together, holding hands. And Charles doesn't protest when Erik wants to kill him with the coin. He endures holding Shaw still while Erik gets his closure, he endured so much for Erik, it's just one more thing, once and for all. It's revenge for us both.

There's no beach divorce.

They live happily ever after.

[babybenn]

HEAR ME OUT :

AU where Erik is a renowned painter, and Charles is his timeless muse.

Across every lifetime, their paths inevitably cross and each meeting is a thread in a tapestry of love, passion, and creativity that transcends time itself.

Erik is the only one to ALWAYS remembers Charles, and yet he always falls harder for him.

Charles on the other end, NEVER remembers his past lives, but always feels attracted to that grumpy young man who he seems to see everywhere.

Their lives have never been calm. They have always been a complicated mixed of emotions, danger and uncertainty, but in the end, no matter what, they always seem to find each other.

In this fic we would follow their different encounters through the ages, from the Antiquity to the modern ages. And every time, Erik would end up creating a new work out of his love for Charles.

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I had this idea for about two months now and I really want to write this fic for my best friend’s birthday in about a month and a half, but I’m really afraid to not finish it in time, so I need people to tell me to write bc I’ll never do it otherwise LOL.

[beans-ha]

Save me house of M civil war cherik! House of M civil war cherik save me!

We have only seen them for like one and a half issues together but they are so incredibly important to me!! Living together on Asteroid M with the kids, being always on the same side, Xavier‘s slutty waist lol

Even once Genosha is established Charles is still his voice of reason and always manages to calm Erik ;u;

He is so worried for his husband!!!

[wishchip106]

sighh cherik au where they meet in a coffee shop but they both work there

Charles runs the cafe while Erik is the new hire who is a bit too good at his job

calm down Erik you’re just a barista 🤨���

uhhh classic rom-com type scenarios ensue with maybe a dash of angst in there and then happy ending wahoo!

hrmm employer x employee…. not entirely sure how i feel about it but oh well

maybe they can be based more on dofp versions… that would be fun

the cafe is running low on business and Charles is taking it personally (likely added on from other stuff as well)💔 then boom new guy comes around (Erik) and makes everything better huzzah!!

i don’t see many fics where Charles is just doing shit before he meets Erik. hmmm…

[lehnsherrrr]

Echoes of control - Chapter 5, out now

This chapter really gets into the action, nothing too gory, just a good old fashioned fight.

Check it out!

The year is 1950, Erik Lehnsherr is a hired by a secret service to seek out and stop the tyrannical mutant on the loose. A telepath with great power, dubbed 'Mindbreaker' by the public.

Or

Charles Xavier is evil and Erik is hunting him down, each time they fight their banter becomes closer to flirting. They do say keep your enemies closer.

And if you needed further convincing, here's art I did of their costumes a while back:

[chainuuser]

more university au cherik :)

[stinkrat-aleks]

@jeriais sent me this picture and I had to manifest the soccer AU dadneto vision

[icarusredwings]

Thinking about an Au where when Magneto gets nervous he looses control of his powers.

Him and charles go out to a random pizza joint and the cashier is like "would you like the senior discount?" And Eric stifles a laugh.

"Ah yes. Laugh at the paralyzed bald man. Very mature."

But then he gets hit with the "Wait didn't you kill the president??" And suddenly it's Charles whos looking away with his shit eating smug grin as Eric sighs. "No, thats a common misconception. C-can we please just order?"

".......I'm calling the police.."

"For what!? I haven't even done anything!" He pouts, throwing his arms up. Charles just snickers.

Eric glares at him like "You think this is funny but this is exactly what im talking about! Im being discriminated agasint simply because im a mutant. This is the world you invision?!"

"Eric darling, all of the seating appears to be levitating. How interesting."

".......Ah.." They drop and hes standing there ashamed and awkward.

"...Ill fix them.. apologizes.." Then goes off to put the tables upright, and Charles is like, "How much do I owe you?" Knowing damn well the tables and chairs are damaged.

[wyrm-mlm]

MORE SEAL LORE FOR YALL

So these are their markings from above(other than the general shape I will not keep them consistent because Erik has so many spots ugh) as well as scars that happen at some point in this au.

My kinda general idea is that at some point Shaw(going by Schmitt) took Erik’s pelt and instead of forcing him into marriage as is common in Selkie stories, he just kinda wanted to experiment on him because of his inherent magic.

Eventually Erik did get his pelt back(there was a lot of blood spilled) and for years refused to shed it and go on land with humans, too wary of them.

Meanwhile Charles is fascinated by humans!(very little mermaid) He has never had his pelt taken and so frequents a harbor town, pretending to be a traveling student. He’s quite close with Raven(a waitress and maybe a changeling?)and Moira(a biologist and very human)as well as a few others scattered around town as well.(Sean who is an actual Banshee blending in with humans too, The werewolf Hank, maybe fire elemental Alex?)

But there are no other Selkies in the area and Charles does find himself quite lonely. Then some new business man comes to town by the name of Shaw who is taking an interest in all of Charles’ not so human friends. Shortly after his arrival he find another Selkie! Yeah he’s beat all to hell and wants to rip Shaw’s throat out with his teeth, but Charles isn’t alone!

It does take a while to coax Erik into shedding his pelt, promising to keep it safe and hidden, rather than lurk in the water and scare all the fisherman but its well worth it in the end.

(And Moira is very confused when there are sightings of a leopard seal in the northern hemisphere.)

(Also shoutout to @veevil as you’re a huge inspiration for this!! Aquatic cherik shenanigans and all)