#magda x erik

[koolaidcrow]

An underutilized dynamic in the x-men fandom is Charles and Magda being besties. Like, Erik introduces them, terrified they’re going to hate each other or feeling like he’s betraying Magda for loving Charles as well as her, but the two of them love each other.

Like Magda immediately is like “this is the man my husband loves and if Eric loves him, he must be worth it” and Charles has the exact same thought about her.

Eric is there panicking while Magda is already introducing Charles as her husband’s boyfriend and Charles is running errands for her and making her food on Shabbat.

[slagneto4life]

Chat, I'm writing a fic for my X-Men (movieverse) OC and was wondering if anyone wanted to read it 😊

It's got cherik in it don't worry :)

i want a perfect body. i want a perfect soul. (102 words) by Notminniemouse56 Chapters: 1/? Fandom: X-Men (Movieverse) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Magda (X-Men), Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s), Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier Characters: Original Female Character(s), Erik Lehnsherr, Magda (X-Men), Charles Xavier Additional Tags: Xmen, Suicide, Self-Harm, Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Holocaust Survivor Erik Lehnsherr, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period Typical Attitudes, Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Sexism, Ableism, Romani Character, Canon Jewish Character, Mostly my headcannons, IDK BRO, Unhealthy Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Don't Try This At Home, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

[stinkrat-aleks]

cherik soccer au doodles from last night

[sandubadetomate]

Erik? You're not alone.

"Come back to us. I can help you."

What if Erik never got to meet En Shabah Nur? I like to think Charles reached for him and that everything got to be okay! 💕

(I used a nightwing x batgirl comic strip as a refference to this but I just cannot seem to find it anymore, so if any of you can find it, link it in the quotes or smth pleasee, xx)

[gorlicberd]

some magda and erik stuff!! their relationship is so tragic sobs

[bertoyana]

erik thinking about charles the same way he thinks about magda in x-men apocalypse (2016)

[wishchip106]

i’m still just thinking about how in apocalypse the thing that stops magneto from destroying the world is an edit of charles just seeing the good in him.

🤨

not even his DEAD wife and daughter?

or maybe mutants from the brotherhood?

nope. charles

[nathanbellamy]

Giffing notable moments from the xmen scripts, pt 7

(*, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

[delphinetsthjm]

[magneto-and-the-xmen]

Magda & Wanda having the same facial expressions

[velvet4510]

Why Magneto’s Storyline in X-Men: Apocalypse is The Worst (it’s not just Cherik)

Ok I just need to vent because this has been chewing away at my brain for far too long.

Cherik is far from the only reason why Erik’s family plotline in X-Men: Apocalypse is some of the stupidest, sloppiest, and most character-ruining pieces of writing I’ve ever seen. Haters may say “oh you’re just upset because he married someone who wasn’t Charles.” But, like, aside from the fact that the original timeline already established that Erik’s top priority was always the fight for mutantkind and he had no interest in settling down - whether that had anything to do with his feelings for Charles or not - the problems with the Apocalypse writing go WAY beyond just him & Charles:

Erik would never abandon his cause at this point. By the end of DOFP, Erik has just been imprisoned for a full 10 years thanks to the JFK situation. Meaning he has spent a full decade being forcibly inactive in the fight for mutants. And he just learned that all of his fears about humans and mutants came to pass in the future to the level where a time-traveler had to be sent to change the past. And he was so set on averting that future that he tried to kill his friend and the sister of the man he loved, and then made a whole speech on international TV begging for the mutants of the world to fight alongside him. This is the POLAR OPPOSITE of a man who would feel like settling down and walking away from the fight within the next decade. The Sentinels being cancelled did NOT make mutant life easy overnight; Stryker was still up to no good, and there is no way that there weren’t others like him doing the same. Yes, Raven’s actions made a very positive difference, but I think we have enough brain cells to agree that this did not mean things for mutants immediately became sunshine and rainbows to the level where Erik - the most (understandably) paranoid character in the X-Men series - would even consider taking a break, let alone giving up the fight permanently. Knowing what he did about the possibilities of the future would’ve made the Erik we know double down on his commitment to his cause and follow up on his actions in Washington.

Erik wouldn’t risk starting a young family at this moment in his life. Erik was a Holocaust prisoner, his people were massacred, his mom was shot when he couldn’t move the coin, and then Charles was shot when Erik accidentally deflected a bullet into him, and then every member of his Brotherhood save Raven were captured and killed. Not only is this more than enough grief for one character to have, but the man wouldn’t dare risk having a new family of his own when everyone he’s ever loved has gotten hurt (largely because of him), and when he’s an international fugitive. That is no time to risk being selfish, and he would know. He would’ve been the first to realize that a potential spouse and child would also end up killed, and so he’d avoid that altogether. In fact, he wouldn’t even consider it, because, as mentioned, he wouldn’t leave his cause behind. You know, if he was actually in character.

Magda is a human. At this point, Erik hates humans. Again, he has just been imprisoned by humans for 10 years for trying to save a mutant, and he just learned that in the future, humans would’ve wiped out mutants, exactly as he feared. Everything that happened in DOFP would only further inflame his already-passionate hatred of humans. He is not in the mental state to even begin to consider Charles’ philosophy and give a human a chance at a relationship, let alone marry a human.

The family lives in Poland. The country where Auschwitz is. The country where Erik and his family and people was imprisoned, tortured, and executed. The country where Erik had to watch Shaw kill his mother. Basically the LAST country in the freaking WORLD that Erik would want to ever see again, let alone spend the rest of his life in. Erik is fluent in multiple languages - he is shown to easily converse in French and Spanish in First Class - and has been all over the world thanks to his Nazi hunting, so if he really needed to flee the U.S., there were a hundred other countries he could’ve gone to and blended into (Canada, France, Mexico, anywhere in South America, heck, he even could’ve discovered Genosha during this time). But in the original timeline, he didn’t leave the U.S. at all despite being a national fugitive after escaping his plastic prison, and he never did get caught again, so….

Erik’s first meeting with Magda is completely OOC for him. Erik mentions that he told Magda who he was the first night they met and he trusted her then. EXCUSE ME??? Erik Lehnsherr does not trust strangers. Erik Lehnsherr does not tell the complete truth about himself and his past to just anyone; look at how deeply Charles had to probe before Erik opened up to him. This stupid line was obviously shoehorned in just to make their relationship seem like perfect soulmates and thus ensure it is doubly tragic when she gets thrown in the fridge 5 minutes later (more on that in a sec). Obviously the intention is for the audience to go “aww, he instantly trusted her, she instantly accepted him, this is true love…” Give me a break. You’re really telling me that Magda met this stranger one night, found out he was none other than the international fugitive who apparently killed the U.S. president and just tried to kill another president on live TV, and went “oh, no problem, honey, let’s make a baby and live the cottagecore dream!” That’s some BS if I’ve ever heard it, and I’m convinced the writers subconsciously knew it; there’s a reason that is revealed in a throwaway line rather than shown onscreen, because then nobody would’ve bought it.

Fridging. Magda and Nina exist in the movie for one reason and one reason only: To get brutally killed and give Erik even more grief and trauma so that he’ll seek revenge on the entire world, aka do what the plot demands of him, aka have the same journey as he did in First Class (more on that in a sec). That’s all. Neither of them are any more than one-dimensional plot devices. They are not characters at all. Magda isn’t even named in the actual movie (he doesn’t even say her name when she dies) - it’s so obvious they didn’t even know what her name would be when they made the movie. This is textbook fridging, and one of the worst examples of it of all time. It’s all the worse considering that Erik never met Magda in the original pre-DOFP timeline, meaning Magda originally most likely lived a long happy life and died old in bed. But now, she gets fridged just because the writers didn’t know what more to do with Erik. It’s misogyny of the highest level.

A parenthood story for Erik was already set up. DOFP already hinted at Erik being a father, with Peter’s comment about his mom. So if the writers wanted to show Erik as a father, and to include Magda, they already had a solution that would seamlessly flow from the previous film - make Erik and Peter’s relationship one of the centerpieces of the story, and let Magda be Peter’s mom! (You know, like she is in the comics!)

It doesn’t contribute anything new to Erik’s character development. From a screenwriting POV, this is unforgivable. May I remind you that Erik’s entire storyline in First Class revolved around grief and trauma for the loss of his family and people, especially his mom, and seeking revenge for it. Giving him a wife and daughter just so they can get killed too adds absolutely NOTHING to his character development. It’s merely retreading everything that already happened in his arc: he loses his family and goes on a roaring rampage of revenge. Completely superfluous, right down to Charles insisting that there’s good in him beyond the pain. The redundancy becomes apparent even in the dialogue, where Charles literally says “I told you since I first met you there’s good in you too.” The script itself can’t help but point out that all of this has happened before and literally nothing new has been added to Erik’s character arc.

See? It’s not just because of Cherik. Erik’s story in X-Men: Apocalypse is an atrocity in basic screenwriting and character development, on every level. And I will always despise it.

(Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels this way…)

[eternal-desserts]

A bit old and very rushed but I think it’s sort of cute

[slagneto4life]

Magdalena Maximoff

[unadulteratedchaoscreation]

Wanda: *finds a stary cat*

Wanda: we should keep it

Magda: we can't. Your father is allergic

Wanda: father can stay outside.

[uniquecellest]

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