#if Moira makes Charles happy he'll be happy for them

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Erik feels jealous of Moira because unlike him she doesn't have as much baggage and seems like a more realistic option for Charles, she doesn't have anything that stops her from accepting Charles into her mind.

Charles feels jealous of Magda because she has seen and experienced first hand the Holocaust (going comic route since the movies didn't give her backstory) and understands Erik's pain and anger and hurt on a level that - even being a telepath - Charles can never understand

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They're switches but Charles tops more Despite coming from wealth he and Raven have shopped from like Dollar Tree/ .99 cent and similar stores for food, it's a trait they've carried over with their romantic interests as well Charles's love languages is gift giving and words of affirmation Erik's love languages are baking/cooking (i think that counts as gift giving idk) and acts of service (jm so bad with describing love languages lol)

In mafia aus Charles should be the head boss not bc of wealth but bc he does things differently and he and his crew are so discreet no one knows what they really look like. Most people confuse Erik for being the head when really hes Charles's right hand and/or civilian partner that knows about the mafia In pregnancy aus (at least the ones that follow the 2010 movies) I don't think either would a) know they're pregnant if jt happens right before cuba (we can talk if it's like months before) but even then they wouldn't use the pregnancy to get the other on their side. They'd let bygones be bygones (Hank runs the school, Raven the brotherhood, these two fucked off to the countryside somewhere to raise their kids) Hank and Darwin are more Charles's kids, Angel and Alex more Erik's, Sean was the kid that would've kept them together I think Shaw should've caused more angst for them by meeting Charles earlier. Maybe bringing stuff about Erik where Charles would've punched him (Erik: I'd hate to be on the side of Charles's right hook. *Erik 11 yrs later) Alpha Charles Omega Erik Moira knew about them. She did. And she kept it secret bc 60s. They would've been at the frontlines at Stonewall Nina and Peter love Charles to a point Erik thinks they favor Charles over him (it's okay. Jean does the same thing makes Charles think she prefers Erik over Charles) They're audhd4audhd Bad guys need to learn if you want to take over the world you kidnap them both but keep them separate. Real good torture. (Also you're dead in like 5min if you kidnap one and leave the other roaming around) Charles reintroduced Erik to some of his Jewish heritage by doing small things with him (i forget the name but I know there's one thing where Jewish people don't eat or drink from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday) eventually Erik reached out to a rabi (idk how it's spelt) and they start celebrating every Jewish holiday together Bc of his upbringing Charles has a complicated relationship with religion via his parents. He'll celebrate Christmas and Easter but not much else. (He mainly just celebrates Christmas the more he gets older) Theyd run the US for 16 yrs (2 terms Charles 2 terms Erik while the other is vp/first gentleman) Erik thinks Charles has fine china, and tries to make any metal plates form back together if broken (Charles doesn't care.) Living together outside the Xavier estate they have a small cottage that looks like it's at most two bed on the outside but it's super spacious inside and hosts all of their kids and friends in their own rooms Scalp massages help Charles with any headaches (regular or chronic) Erik is more than happy to give

I have things to say because you fed me with these head canons. in order are my responses:

agreed. both switch, but yeah, charles tops more.

raven, in my mind, would be more prone to shop at places like that, and over time, charles just gets used to it because his sister drags him there enough for random snacks and drinks. and honestly, who wants to pay loads of money for basic essentials.

charles dotes on erik, it's disgusting.

erik helps charles out whenever he knows he needs it most without having to be told, and charles fawns over it.

love that. it's because erik is scary to most upon meeting them, but charles running things is great.

so what you're saying is that once charles/erik tells the other of their pregnancy, both would cave and just give up their goals to raise their babies together? I'm soft, I love that.

ooooh, spicy thought. always thought of alex as charles' kid, very interesting. though sean definitely would have kept them together - he's like the baby.

in what way do you think charles would have met shaw? just sometime before cuba? or entirely different circumstances? (I imagine you're keeping to the movie-verse, so I assume before cuba.) charles would have taken one look in that man's mind and severely debilitated him.

praise alpha!charles and omega!erik. (I'm going to get around to writing a fic with that, I swear.)

agreed, and love the concept of it. moira really is a great friend.

YES. with raven alongside as well, I feel.

ooooh, you think jean has a very strong relationship with erik, nice. I feel like that's not common, but maybe I'm just a jean-hater from time to time. I'm learning to love her and her relationship with her dads though.

yeah, I think erik definitely has some neurodivergency there, but charles is definitely autistic in my mind. his telepathy alleviates his autistic tendencies, but when he's without it, he's fully unmasked and unable to gather the social cues he gained by his telepathy. though, it does make me wonder if he has relied on his telepathy for so long that he naturally is unable to do x, y, and z without it, and his mannerisms, actions, and thoughts appear to align with autism. kind of like what came first, y'know?

oh, yeah - erik can hear charles' getting tortured in the other room and vice versa. definitely affects them psychologically and emotionally.

sabbath and rabbi, right? and yeah, I love the idea of reclamation of erik's ethnicity and religion. however, I also feel that erik might have difficulty doing so and tends to abstain from jewish tradition because he feels slighted by whatever higher power might be out that there chose to do those atrocities to his people. I've seen both sides from older jewish people who survived the holocaust, and I think both ideas could apply to erik. the first one is beautiful though.

agreed. I just tend to look at charles as an agnostic atheist. I see him too involved with science to believe in anything else other than the absence of a god.

could you imagine charles and erik as presidents? the things they'd get done? the stark differences between how they run the country? oof, incredible.

lol, kind of love erik just not knowing but thinking it's important to charles.

yeah, them having an alternate house is definitely a big head canon of mine. the house will be a little cottage or cabin with tons of books and two chess tables and barely any metal around, and they go there whenever they just need to get away or spend time away from technologically advanced world. after all, they are old men.

erik giving charles a scalp massage is the cutest thought ever. he'd do anything for his man.

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I want to thank your for your amazing fics and recs!!

Plus I wanted to ask if you have any Halloween cherik fic recs? It could about them just celebrating Halloween or about them being monsters or something spooky. Anything that��s considered Halloween themed.

Guys, Sept and Oct have been such busy months for me in RL I haven't had the chance to catch up with recs and writing eek! Hopefully after next week things will slow down so I can properly partake in fandom again lol.

In the meantime, here are a list of Halloween fics for you to check out! I linked a post at the end to a list of vampire aus, but I'll be back with a monster themed Halloween rec list in a short while. Happy reading!!!

HALLOWEEN FIC RECS - PART 1

King of the Pumpkin Patch by tahariel

Charles has a Scaring deficit, but Erik is happy to help him learn to be more frightening this Halloween.

Fusion with Nightmare Before Christmas.

Ring In The Witching Hour by luninosity

Halloween at the mansion (written February 2012). Costume parties, ethics debates, emotional hurt/comfort, implied sex; slight warning for not-very-explicit mention of abuse in Charles's childhood.

To Boldly Dress (Like Those Who Might Have Gone Before) by iberiandoctor (jehane)

Erik doesn’t do Halloween costumes. Peter and Charles try to change his mind.

Seal Your Doom Tonight by CharryWotter

It's October at the X-Mansion, and as everyone prepares for the Halloween party, Peter makes a promise to his friends that he'll finally confess to Erik that he's his son...on Halloween.

When the day rolls around, at Peter's suggestion, Erik is dressed up as a zombie - and is completely out of his element. The party is loud and crowded; and through the noise, Peter gets up the courage and shouts the truth to Erik.

There's just one problem. Under the pounding music of the party, the words "You're my dad," sound quite a lot like "You're undead."

So can you really blame Erik for replying, "I AM AWARE! IT'S YOUR FAULT!"?

with the spiders on the wall by orphan_account

Erik is used to getting roped into a costume for Halloween, what with having 7 year old twins. This year is no different.

Trick or Treat by ximeria

Erik might have developed a bit of a crush on Raven's brother without ever having met him. It's just that he keeps witnessing Raven losing every argument with him on the phone and Erik is curious, okay? Anyone who can argue Raven out of one of her harebrained ideas has to be worth meeting.

The Most Sincere Patch by starlady

"Sexy professor" Charles meets a sexy vampire at Moira's annual Halloween party.

Xavier Family Values by winter_hiems

Charles and Erik love all their children. They’re just a little worried that David might be becoming, well… normal.

(An X-Men Addams Family AU)

trick or treat by pocky_slash

A Halloween ficlet collection.

Haunted House on the Hill by ximeria

Erik's not too sure at first about Raven talking him into taking Lorna to a haunted house party in Westchester. What if it's too scary? What if it's too boring? Is he expected to socialize as well?

Adam and Steve by TurtleTotem

Charles doesn't have a partner for Emma's couples-themed Halloween party, but perhaps he can tempt Erik to help him out...

A Headmaster in Sleepy Hollow by arcapelago (arcanewinter)

Sean is engrossed with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow when Charles lets slip that the historical location is just 30 miles away on the other side of Westchester county. Sean and Alex sneak out of the mansion to investigate, and Charles and Erik go to retrieve them, surprised to discover that North Tarrytown has at least one mystery for the holiday. (Set in the Burdens universe.)

Perfect Match by Gerec

Cherik - mistaken identity at a Halloween party

Vampire AUs

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@lyricfulloflight - Sorry for my presumption, but I had to. I hope you like it.

Düsseldorf, Germany, 1956

"Erik." Jakob Lehnsherr sighs. "Watches require patience and precision and today you are showing neither."

"'Tschuldigung, Papa." Erik shakes his head. "I'll pay more attention, I promise."

"Are you hoping Magda will stop by?"

Erik can feel himself blushing. "...no, I - "

Jakob smiles. "You'd better start cleaning up out back, Junge. Can't have you messing up an order."

"Yes, Papa." He turns around. "Still no letter?"

Jakob puts down his tools. "No, I've wondered that myself. Have you and Charles had a falling out?"

"No. I think," he adds softly.

Jakob puts his arm around his shoulder. "Maybe he's met a girl, too."

Erik snorts. "I would have known." In fact, he does know about Moira, a girl Charles has met exactly once at one of his mother's 'soirées', and who Erik has since irrationally hated from afar. Luckily, Charles' family doesn't approve because she's Scottish, though Erik doesn't know what that has to do with anything.

Jakob pats his shoulder. "These things happen, Erik. You're both working hard on your studies."

"It's the only thing he does." He looks at his father. "Papa, he doesn't have any friends."

Jakob frowns, and Erik takes heart. "He doesn't seem to talk to anyone. He seems so happy to read my letters, as if he's been holding things in for weeks before he can write again. And it's not fair. He's so kind."

"And you've been a friend to him," Jakob says. "I'm proud of you, Erik."

"But now he's stopped writing," Erik says. "I've written twice without a response."

"Maybe you should stop," Jakob says.

"I don't - what if he's in trouble?"

"Surely, Charles can turn to someone?"

"Papa, no. His family - he doesn't mention them. It's as if they don't exist. As if he never misses them. And, sometimes, there's these weird smudges on the page."

The bell to the shop rings. "We'll talk about it tonight," Jakob says, and Erik busies himself cleaning with a weary shrug. Afterwards, he goes to see Kurt Wagner - their family just bought a tv.

That night, Jakob does come to him, though. "Are you afraid people are hurting Charles, Junge?"

He bites his lip, then nods.

Jakob sighs. "I think you should stop writing to him."

Erik jerks. "No, but-"

Jakob pushes him down. "Listen, you hothead. If somebody really is hurting him, they will not want him to have friends. Even penpals."

Erik blinks. "But then I..."

"You should be careful," Jakob says. "Is there anywhere else you can reach him?"

"At school," Erik muses. "But he's asked me not to, if I can help it. Says people make fun of him."

He can see his father thinking. "English people write a lot of Christmas cards, though."

Erik looks at him, scandalised. "Papa - "

Jakob laughs. "Consider it a mitzvah. Write to him at school, thank him, then tell him how to reach you, if he wants. I have to be in England during Advent, I can post it there, with an English stamp, so no one knows it's you."

Erik's throat hurts. "Papa, danke."

Jakob's looks sad. "You have to leave it there, Junge. You can't write him if it's not safe."

Erik's chest feels heavy. "Yes, Papa."

Jakob hugs him. "You're a good boy, Erik."

It's strange, to wait for Advent more than Chanuka. Erik knows he might never get a reply even so. But the thought of leaving his friend hurts far more.

Besides, he knows where Charles is headed. Oxford. Erik hopes to get a place in Düsseldorf - he can't afford to move out, not at first; he'll need the highest marks to make sure he can attend his first choice of school as it is. But he can travel in summer. If only for a couple of days.

Papa and Mama will let him, if he finds them the money.

"Papa?" he says the next morning, "Do you need some extra help working the shop?"

Cherik Fic: Someday I’ll Find You

Because I obviously have nothing better to do with my time and my brain is focused on Cherik and Cherik only, here is another little Cherik fic.  Hope you like it!  I may - hopefully - continue this at some point.

Someday I’ll Find You

Xavier Estate, Rural England 1956

Charles stands as still as he can, staring straight at his step-father and refusing to give in to the impulse to look away and let his tears fall.

“Thought you could keep this from me, didn’t you?  Thought I wouldn’t find out about your little love affair.” Kurt’s voice is dripping with disgust.

“They are letters to my pen pal.  Eton set up foreign pen pals for every student.  I am not conducting any sort of affair.  I have never even met my correspondent in person.”  Charles explains, for what must have been the fifth time.

His words have no impact.  Kurt continues to throw letters into the fire and rage.

“Writing love letters to another boy.  I will not stand by and let this happen under my roof.  You have always been a disappointment – to me and your mother.  But a to be a fairy boy? A homosexual as well!?  I won’t have it.”  Kurt tosses the final letter onto the fire and stalks over to Charles, towering over him. “You will never contact this boy again.  You will never see him.  You will find a nice girl and bring her to all your mother’s social affairs.  I never, ever want to see even a hint of deviant behaviour from you while your under my roof.”

Charles literally bit his tongue to keep from snapping back at Kurt that this was not his house at all, it was the Xavier estate and it had belonged to his father and should someday belong to him – not Kurt.  Though that was true, it did no good to remind Kurt of the fact.  At fifteen Charles had no legal claim to the estate.

“Answer me!” Kurt shouts, as Charles let the silence stretch too long between them.

“I will never contact him again.  I will attend mother’s parties.  I will not engage in any inappropriate behaviour.” Charles repeats flatly.

Kurt’s nostrils continue to flare and his breathes in angrily.  Charles’ agreement did little to cool his rage.  It isn’t surprising that a verbal tirade would not quench Kurt’s anger over the letters – his backhand to Charles’ face, which cleanly split his lip a half hour earlier certainly hadn’t cooled his temper either.

Charles remains still and calm, and waits.  All he can do is hope that Kurt’s anger will fade.  That usually takes days, but Charles knows that patience is the key to surviving this place and Kurt’s hatred.

“Get out of my sight.” Kurt growls. “Go to your room and stay there – I don’t want to see you for the rest of the weekend.  And if I do, you’re going to become a lot more familiar with the back of my hand. Do you understand?”

“Yes.”

Charles turns and walks away. His foot steps echo through the main hallway and up the grand staircase and then fade to almost nothing he was steps onto the thick carpet of his second floor bedroom.  He closes his door behind him as quietly as possible.  Then he walks over to his bookshelf and takes out his favourite book: ‘The Once and Future King’.

Charles lets the book fall open in his hands, and there nestled within its pages he finds his prize: a small black and white photo.  In it stands a tall, gangly boy, with a toothy grin, his arm slung across the shoulders of a smaller woman who is looking up at him with pure love in her eyes.

Charles stares at the picture, the tears he’d been holding in since Kurt discovered him writing at his desk earlier in the afternoon finally, finally falling, burning hot trails down his cheeks.  He will never write another letter to his pen pal.  The boy he’d been writing to for the entire school year and had continued to write over the horrid summer break spent at home with Kurt, Cain and his mother.  That was until today, the late August morning when he’d been caught out.

Kurt was wrong of course, he wasn’t exchanging love letters.  But he was writing a friend.  Though worlds apart Charles felt a kinship with his German pen pal he had never felt with his Eton classmates.  They’d conducted chess matches via letter and talked of their plans for future studies at prestigious universities.  Charles had hesitantly tried out his German writing skills, which were horrible (he was much better at Latin and French) and been completely blown away at how well his pen pal could write in the English.

His pen pal had been his friend.  His only friend. The only person in his life who cared about who he was, what he dreamt of, or who he hoped to become.  His hopes, his dreams, his soul, all poured out into each and every letter and returned with equal fervor. There had never been anything deviant about their letters – nothing sexual or inappropriate. Which did not mean, of course, that Charles hadn’t been at least a little bit in love.  How could you not fall in love with someone who cared for you when no one else did?

There would be no more letters now. No more shared dreams.  No more long distance chess matches.  Charles doesn’t even have a single letter left to re-read – they had all been burned.  All his had was one photograph.

Charles holds the picture tightly to his chest.  He might not have the letters, but he does have the memories.  He will not forget.  He will finish his studies at Eton and graduate early as planned.  He will leave this house.  He will finally get out from under the controlling eyes and brutal hands of Kurt and Cain.

Charles pulls the photograph from his chest and looks down at it intensely.

“I will do this, Erik.  I will escape this ridiculous life.  And one day, somehow, I will find you.  I promise, my friend.”

[uniquecellest]

Charles and Erik are entirely selfish when it comes to the other. Like they make a new friend? Cool. Someone gets interested in them romantically? Forget it.

Erik's selfish is he knows Charles better so if Moira or Liliandra try and get close his jealousy shows. With Charles he'll be friendly with anyone - Magda, Polaris' mom, etc - who has an interest in Erik but inside he's seething bc Erik is very closed off but is somewhat more open with them (Charles forgets he has access to Erik's mind btw). The only thing Charles hopes is that Erik is happy with the other person, and while Erik wishes the same he'll be damned if anyone else knows Charles as well or even more than he does