Mein Gott, he says

The following is an unsuspected fandom rant. Please beware, I have nothing against anyone, I just have thoughts and feelings I need to get out so I can return to a more wholesome and healthy Kuro who is not strung out on Erik & Charles and physics. They are the greatest love and hate of my life.

Extremes are bad. Balance is good. I am trying.


Sub!Charles is not growing on me with an increasing need in the fandom for a totally doe-blue-eyed boy.

And it's not that I don't find him adorable, I do, I am absolutely crushing on Charles like I crush on James McAvoy. But it feels so unbelievably out of character, he is a thirty year old man, if not a telepath. And it's absolutely not because I find that age to be unappealing or slashable because anyone who knows me has gotta know older men=my biggest kink ever.

And it's not like I don't want Charles as the bottom, I love him playing the uke in the relationship but I hate seeing him submit or 'enjoy' submitting to control no matter how sweet and tender, oh this word, the sex may be. And I think I might sound contradictory but I firmly believe that there is a difference between submission and gay bum sex.

There is no doubt about it, I am sure there are wonderful writers who write great sub!Charles and there are fics that I have read before (this uneasy feeling of reading sub!Charles grew on me) that I thought were wonderful and exceptional. And I know its just another kink but there is a scary notion for me when I see this character being written in the fashion like it's alright to submit to control.

This is a personal opinion among everything else:

Charles Xavier is the epitome of a whole new world and he won't take your shit.

Thus, implying I also don't like it when Erik becomes overly dominant either. Because he is not a possessive character, obsessive maybe probably actually, but I don't think one should confuse the two. He may not be charismatic like Charles but he has a certain charm, or at least something close to it that propelled Charles to him.

(Maybe it's his magnetism? Oh my jokes are horrible, I know.)

Height differences aside, I can't see Charles being manhandled at all. He can be all the apple pie and sunshine and blue skies in the world but he is a telepath (AUs aside of course). Just like Erik may be viewed as the more physical one or the one with the stick constantly up his ass (no pun intended here I swear), he is still a little boy who has lost his mum. There is a vulnerability to that, one that even Charles can't compete with.

(Not something I would want to compete with, mind you.)

And its because of this constant vulnerability in Erik that Charles matches up with the understanding that makes their relationship a perfect balance.

If either one steps over that line, everything will topple over, like the horrible beach divorce all over again.

So yes, I like them ambiguous, like they don't know who is seme and who is uke because it doesn't even matter, they are in love. And its finally wholesome again.


Do note, this is not fandom hate at all (as I am aware that XMFC has a rather large fan base with a tendency to hate on quite a few things: cockblocking girls for one), this is fandom love. No fandom has conjure this sort of emotion or at least this strong of an opinion from me, because I am usually the passive-obsessive reader lurking all over your fanfics and then also the endlessly updating writer who won't leave that single pairing alone with her annoying antics and plot?what plot?fics. But there are preferences and then there is this.

Erik and Charles does it for me. Fandom is great.