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nilla-wafer · 1 year

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sometimes you need to go through a cuba beach divorce in order to get your paris chess proposal.

#i say this to myself whenever things are going mildly bad #x men #x men first class #cuba beach divorce #paris chess proposal #disclaimer i have never watched any of dark pheonix except for the paris chess proposal scene #cherik #nilla-rambles

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itsdynotdaddy · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Hank McCoy & Charles Xavier Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Hank McCoy, Raven | Mystique (mentioned) Additional Tags: Post-X-Men: First Class (2011), Pre-X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Post-Beach Divorce (X-Men), Depressed Charles Xavier, Charles Xavier Needs a Hug, Hurt Charles Xavier, Charles Xavier Loves Erik Lehnsherr, Drinking to Cope, Protective Hank McCoy, Heavy Angst, Charles Xavier is drunk as fuck, Cherik - Freeform, I love writing angst fic to cope with my depressive episode, who is gonna pay for your therapy definitely not me, I am kidding I love you guys sorry for bringing this fic to you, Inspired by Need You Now (Lady Antebellum) Summary:

[Set a few weeks before the event of X-Men: Days Of Future Past]

Charles loved Erik, yet at the same time, he also hated him. He had tried really hard to forget everything about the man who abandoned him alone. He just simply did not want to remember anything about Erik Lehnsherr.

So, Charles Xavier used alcohol to help him forget. His drinking problem had started getting out of control, but it was his only way to cope with the pain in his heart.

Inspired by: Need You Now- Lady Antebellum

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kiwifruit67 · 2 years

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Thinking bout the Cuba beach divorce but they sing 'gotta go my own way' from high musical

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lgbtqforeverything · 9 months

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truly in my mind over here seeing all these posts about the sad gay ships and thinking wow… we owe them so much…

#THESE BITCHES WALKED SO ALL THE OTHER SHIPS COULD RUN #they were the fucking blue print #x men #x men first class #cherik #cuba beach divorce #supernatural #good omens #our flag means death #a.j. posts

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hyper-revenge-sio · 2 years

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Charles was serving looks in the X-Men first class suit and for what? A divorce?

#lmao im sorry #like #im so attracted to him in that suit its so stupid #idk what it is #im also a fan of referring to cuba as the beach divorce lmao #x men movies #x men first class #charles xavier #does mentioning the divorce count as cherik? idk sorry #cherik #for safety

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gerec · 1 year

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Hi!! Do you know of any fics where Erik actually stays after Charles is injured on the beach? So many fix it fics just erase the events on the beach entirely 😔

Hi Anon,

I've tried to keep these to recs for fics where Erik actually stays during/after the accident, and not fics where he leaves them on the beach and then comes back weeks/months/years later. Fix it fics of the latter kind would require an entirely separate and very long list lol.

Hope you enjoy!

Yours, Mine, Ours by ikeracity

Charles may not be able to walk, but that doesn't stop Erik from taking him out on a run every morning. Post-beach fluff.

with so much of my heart (none is left to protest) by friendlyneighbourhoodteacakes

Charles doesn't remain conscious after the bullet hits him in Cuba. Erik doesn't handle it well.

Arms I'd Never Use by alby_mangroves, anselm0

“We’re both disasters,” Erik states quietly. “In all likelihood, this will end in disaster.”

“You love me,” Charles says simply, “as much as I love you. That has to count for something.”

It doesn't end on the beach in Cuba, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy as Erik tries to repair his relationship with Charles.

working my way back (to you, babe) by friendlyneighbourhoodteacakes

23rd October, 1963.

"Uh… Professor?"

"What is it, Hank?"

"Uhm. Erik is at the front door. And he has two toddlers with him. One of them has white hair."

To be said and said by pearl_o

Raven and Erik both came back after the beach. This doesn't mean things are okay.

I conscientiously believe so by orangeslices4scott

Erik stays with Charles after Cuba.

Anger, serenity, and the spaces in between by appleseed

After Cuba, things are going to change - at least if Charles has any say in the matter.

Camelot, Revisited by iberiandoctor (jehane)

On a beach in Cuba, Erik makes a different choice, and Charles can't say no.

Blood Stained Hands by swoopswoop

What if Erik had realised how stupid it was to leave an injured man on a beach in the hands of the enemy?

Not Half As Blinding by keire_ke

Not too long after the Cuban missile crisis, Erik is captured. Charles rescues him.

(This is one of my fandom favorites, and though it doesn't fit your prompt exactly I think it's close enough and definitely worth reading!!!)

#gerec rambles #cherik #cuba #beach divorce #fix-it #xmfc fix-it #fic rec #gerec's fic rec #i just realized i accidentally snuck in a fic where Erik comes back after a year sorry lol #it's good so i'm not taking it out

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alatabouleau · 1 year

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Timeline of First Class

So, we all know that the X-Men-Timeline is messed up and people behind it didn't seem to care much, BUT Something that bothers me is that X-Men: First-Class makes you think that its entire plot was maybe at most, like one month or so, when this couldn't be further from the truth. Let me explain. When Charles gives his presentation about mutation at the CIA, he asks them about the "missiles the US is currently placing in Turkey" which makes people there think he's a spy. This references a real-life event which happened at the 1rst of April, 1962. So, this is where we are in the plot. Now, I thought, "Ok, maybe in this universe because of Shaw's meddling, the cuba crisis escalates a lot quicker than that, so instead of October, it maybe happened in July or something" but no. At the end of the Beach-divorce-scene, we hear Kennedy's Thanksgiving speech from 1962, where he states "There is a lot we can be grateful for in these times, especially when thinking about where we standed ONLY FOUR WEEKS AGO." Thanksgiving 1962 was November 22, which means four weeks before lands perfectly with where the actual escalation of the cuba crisis happened, the weekend from Friday, October 26th to Sunday October 28th. Which means that the plot of First Class rolls out not in one month or something, but over HALF A YEAR. That means the Gay-Mutant-Road-trip must have taken several months, because the trip to Russia and its consequences took out pretty concisely over a short period of time. So, yeah, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

#cherik #x-men-timeline #what am i doing with my life #these movies really couldn't care less about temporal consistency #x men first class

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shipposttt · 5 months

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Ship of the Day: Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr

Character Names: Charles Xavier x Erik Lehnsherr

Ship name: Cherik

Original Content: X-Men (also present in the comics but for the purpose of this post, focused on the movies)

Ship Info:

Before getting too far into it, what you must know is that Cherik is not mainly shipped as a fully happy together ship, these two have gone through a divorce and are only just coming back together after a whole bunch of stuff. Either that or fans are being delusional and ignoring the canon “Beach Divorce” (will be explained later, don’t worry).

The X-Men franchise is an institution in the comics world, a product of some of the best minds at Marvel in the 60s. Homo Sapien Superior are the next stage of human development, dubbed mutants, these people are born with superhuman powers, from telekinesis to intangibility, super speed to power absorption. Standing as metaphors and representations for oppression, the othering of the non-majority, racism, genocide, government control and the fight for equality, the X-Men have stood the test of time and come out of it as a present-forward moving media.

And at the centre of this media is two figures, Charles Xavier, powerful telepath and creator and head of the X-Men and Erik Lensherr, metallokinetic and leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (if going by comics). Two leaders on what would traditionally be thought of as opposing sides, but in the case of the X-Men sphere, they instead play as two sides of the same coin against the true enemy.

The Government.

(Yeah, the writers weren’t playing about with subtlety, were they?)

(And people complain that modern comics are too liberal. This shit has always been here, complainers have just been blind to it. Somehow. I really don’t know how. It is a very much integral part of understanding the world the X-Men live in.)

Charles and Erik meet when they are both in their 20s, Charles recently graduated from Oxford with his doctorate in Genetics and Erik continuing his path of Nazi hunting while searching for the man that killed his mother when they were taken to Auschwitz when Erik was a child. They meet, stuff happens and almost the entirety of X-Men: First Class is just a getting to know you, whirlwind romance summer with a couple of breaks between the flirting and longing stares to further the plot which includes working with the CIA, building a team and, at the culmination of the film, being at the centre of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ah yes, because we needed more of a reminder that we’re in the mid 60s, it’s not like the USSR being a big deal, or the middle-aged Nazi officers or the young looking Holocaust survivors didn’t do a good job of illustrating this point.

Thus we reach the height of the movie, the missiles are on their way to Cuba and are currently being held in the air by Erik. Erik views the shooting of these missiles as a betrayal as they have been working with those who just sent the missiles for the duration of the movie and wants retaliation so spins the rockets around and sends them back in the direction of the US and Soviet fleets. Charles is also feeling pretty betrayed but does not believe that the men on the ships should die for it. And in a moment of what is probably one of the stupidest moments of Charles Francis Xavier’s life, he tells a child survivor of the Holocaust that the soldiers who have just fired upon them with the intention to kill them are “simply following orders”.

Yikes, Charles.

They have a grapple across the floor, Erik loses concentration, he wins the fight, regains control of the missiles, continues them on their course for the ships before getting interrupted by one of the X-Men team shooting his metal helmet to break his concentration. He deflects the bullets, cause, ya know, metallokinetic. It just so happens that he deflects one of these bullets into Charles’ back. More specifically his spine. Instantly paralysing him.

There’s a whole moment of Erik cradling Charles' body and apologising. A bunch of other things happen that ends with Erik leaving Charles on that beach with no way to go home and only a couple allies.

Thus, the beach divorce.

It is here that Charles and Erik’s stories can go two ways, because the X-Men movies have fully canon time travel that they used to end the old early 2000’s timeline and restart, allowing them to make more money. In both of these, Erik is arrested for the murder of JFK, in the original timeline he stays there until the mid-2000s and is often visited by Charles. On these visits they play chess and have civil conversations. As elder men, they greatly respect one another and in fact, Erik even comes to Charles’ defence against one of his own brotherhood members when they disparage Charles. Both see that the other is working towards the same goal, they simply have differing opinions on how mutants should get to the equality they are fighting for. Charles believes it can be fostered through education, defanging misinformation and working alongside the human governments. Erik believes that it is too systemic and instead mutants must take their place in the world and not fear or be afraid of humans. By the end of their timeline, they are back to being by each other's sides, any differences are put to the side due to the nature of their existence dwindling. Instead they work together and stay by each other, giving each other comfort in the others continued existence.

In the alternate timeline, Erik is broken out of prison in the mid 70s by the combined effort of a time travelling Wolverine, Charles, Charles and Erik’s past teammate and Charles’ caretaker Hank and a very young Quicksilver, who is not yet aware that Erik is his father. Though to be fair, no one on that mission knows that. In these films, Erik attempts to build a life, getting a quickly fridge-ed wife and daughter and goes on to build the mutant nation safe haven island Genosha. Charles goes on to found his school for mutants, as he did in the original timeline. This timeline ends with Erik and Charles meeting at a cafe in Paris (romantic, huh) and sitting down to play some chess (yes, chess is almost definitely a flirting metaphor, the amount they do it).

Type of ship: Queer Read

Despite the fact that all 4 actors who have portrayed Erik and Charles in these movies have shipped them, at the end of the day there was never an intentional move done by any of the creatives to intentionally mislead fans to the idea that a romantic relationship may develop between the two.

Both characters have had female partners throughout the duration of the movies and yet, neither of them last. Erik’s wife dies simply to further the plot within 10 minutes of introducing her on screen and Charles has a kind of girlfriend who he ends up wiping the memory of and leaving alone. By the end of the timeline, they don’t have any partners and are instead with each other.

Erik and Charles are so compelling as characters, both separately and in combination and one of the reasons for that is how they act as foils for one another. Differing values, same mission, the utmost respect for each other. They are lovers ripped from each other by tragedy, both in terms of the divorce and in terms of being on opposite sides. But they are not just on opposite sides, instead they lead them and that is one of the most tragic parts of their existence. They love each other, but not more than the fight they lead, the ideas they believe.

At the end, in 1983, when they both finish their missions, passing them on to the next generation, they come together in the romance capital of the world and play chess together. They come back together after so long apart and simply begin to exist in each other's presence in a way they haven’t done since the 60s.

Admin🦉

#fandom #gay ships #lgbtq community #ships #shipping #cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #x men #xmen first class #beach divorce

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bardicious · 4 months

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Hi friend do you have any Charles/Erik fic recommendations of a gentle variety? I watched the First Class era recently and am just….a lil broken up Re:: the pain of Charles losing his best friend and his sister at the same time… and then bottling up that pain for as long as he could until “you took her away and you left me!”

Okay, nonnie! I've got a few here that may interest you. Now, I'm a big fan of hurt/comfort fics, so I can't promise anything too gentle, unfortunately. 😅 (Most of my bookmarks are hella dark apparently) Anyway! Ill list you some I recently read, and mostly remember.

How Still My Love by Regann

"A mysterious sleeping disease, three loyal guardians, and a friend-turned-foe with unclear motives. It might sound like something out of a fairy tale but it's life after Cuba in the Xavier manor for what's left of the so-called X-Men. When Charles can no longer lead them, it's up to Hank, Alex and Sean to figure out a way to protect their mentor, especially once Erik comes seeking an audience. (Variously nicknamed "the Fairytale Fix-it," "Snow Charles and the Three Wishes," and "Alex feels via Charles/Erik." All three are pretty accurate.)"

This one I highly recommend, it's so cute, and the way the author played with fairy tales is fun. Fair warning tho, Erik doesn't stay at the end of this fic. But Charles' heart is a bit more mended.

Second Chances by justavagrant

This one is a time travel fic. Basically young child age Charles, Raven, and Erik replace their older counterparts. The kids build a close friendship real quick, and I believe it's ongoing.

Another Like Me by Ad_astrah

It's 1950, young Charles is getting his powers under control. He meets Erik, 19 years old, who's tracking down Nazis and killing them. They go on a little adventure together.

Elpis by garrideb

Cute protective Erik, injured Charles. This fic is a treat!

Not Yet by GenuineSnoof

"AU - No Beach Divorce and no bullet, but Erik still didn't stay at the school for good. They have an established "with benefits" relationship."

Cold Hands, Warm Heart by pinkoptics

Cherik fic set in Genosha!

Idiot Control Now by cygnaut

"Hank screws something up in the lab and everyone's powers increase tenfold. Not knowing how to control them like this, they all try to cope and not kill each other by mistake while Hank tries to find a way to reverse the effects. Charles has a particularly hard time of it."

Come Together by blarfkey

Series of fics, from Peter's point of view. Decent amounts of Cherik.

Peter's Stepdad by nzeedee

"Peter takes his time to observe and learn more about Erik as he works up the courage to make a family connection. Soon he realizes that Charles is a valuable asset in Erik's life and they may come as a unified pair."

AND some honorable mentions:

First Class Era:

5 Ways Logan Fixed Everything (Like a Boss) by Starlingthefool

Reverse Polarity by smilebackwards (powerswap fic, can't remember well tho)

What Not To Expect When You're Not Expecting It by thehoyden (mpreg, but if you're not into that, I'm not usually either, I think this one was done in a fun way)

DOFP:

A source of knowledge, a source of hope by redaurorarora

Post/Apocalypse: (these might be my favorite, I'm a sucker for comforting charles after apocalypse)

More by humanveil

things we lost in the fire by goodmorningbeloved (3799steps)

all the things i thought I knew (I'm learning again) by spacenarwhal

Hope you like these, nonnie! Sorry if they couldn't be more gentle! I do hope they're more satisfying than the end of FC. 💀 I know your pain.

#Bardicious Asks #Anonymous #cherik #cherik recs #cherik fic #first class fic #x men #Between Rage and Serenity #xmen #xmen movieverse #xmen dofp #xmen first class #xmen apocalypse #most of my bookmarks involve SO much pain lmao #so I really went for the ones I mostly remembered #I don't think any of these ended with heartbreak #the first one is cute #I wish I could give more!#if I find new ones Ill add to this post

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cherikdogfood · 6 months

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I want a fic where Erik, after getting locked up in the Pentagon, go back in time to before Cuba, as a ghost.

So he can see and hear everything that's going on, he can see past!Charles AND his past self... and he realizes that he can hear and feel past!Charles' thoughts and feelings.

Cue Erik hearing Charles thoughts about him, how much Charles loves Erik, etc... Erik hears pretty great thoughts...

Until the beach divorce happens. And he hears & feels Charles' agony when he killed Shaw and put on the helmet, when Charles kept pleading to Erik to listen to him... and after that fatal bullet shot, how much pain Charles is in, both physically and emotionally.

I want Erik to regret, to feel pain, and hopefully get a happy ending, with Charles.

And since I'm no great writer, there's only 2 ways this fic is written.

1. An angel descends to write this fic

2. This fic writes itself, because well, that's what good fics should do, right?

#cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #i want this #please #fanfic

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fouralignments · 1 year

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So did you ever wrote down where Peter was when Cuba happened. I know obviously Erik would never bring him on a dangerous mission. So...did they find a babysitter?

Just looking at what happened in Cuba dangerous is an understatement...Um I don't think I did. But I would assume he's still at the Mansion under guard someone has to be looking after the place. Growing up traveling with Erik, like Peter is used to being alone. It isn't like Shaw knows where they are.

As shown the crisis didn't really last all that long (the critical point where the Shaw and the X-Men came in was October 25ish). Speaking of which the X-Jet had to get there pretty damn quick from New York to Cuba its like an eight hour flight; I would say that they got there in under two hours.

Could you imagine like Peter sneaking his way on to the X-Jet and it was Peter who got shot in the leg and therefore no beach divorce? I don't know Charles loses his ability to walk b/c of a spinal degenerative disease or something and the stress of it all is what does it; stress like does bad things to the body and makes thing so much worse.

#ask four alignments #four alignments' ask box #4 alighments replies to a question #X-Men First Class #So what was Peter doing at the time??#dadneto #peter maximoff #erik lehnsherr #charles xavier #quickson #quicksilver #stepdad! charles xavier #x-men #cherik #magneto

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ellenchain · 1 year

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No. 29 - Beach Time travel Erik took his husband to settle things in Cuba with him

Beach divorce?? Don't know her

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#Cherik #X-Men #Charles Xavier #Erik Lehnsherr #Beach Divorce #Kinktober 2022

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xstick-noodlesx · 2 years

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Imagine how truly AWKWARD the beach divorce scene from X-Men: First Class would have ended like if Azazel hadn’t been there to teleport people off Cuba.

Like Charles and Erik breaking up, everyone chosing sides, relationships torn apart, Charles being paralysed, Erik throwing people across the beach, Moira nearly being choked, Raven leaving her brother and all of that while they were still stuck on the same beach, looking at each other like 👀👀

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rivertigo · 5 months

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listening to this older cuba beach divorce themed cherik playlist i made & this bitch (me like a year ago) was either insane or experiencing divine revelations. northern downpour is on it

DAMN!

#asks #I think I might have deleted my old cherik playlist…

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nerdy-valkyrie · 1 year

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Why must I wait until 2024 to watch the little gay men get divorced on a beach in cuba???

Why is First Class not available on Disney+ now???

#val's random bullshit #x men #x men first class #disney+#disney plus

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gerec · 1 year

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this might be an odd request but do you know of any fics where charles and erik have sex for the first time since charles’ paralysis/since he stopped taking the serum? where they have to learn each others(or i guess just charles’) bodies all over again?

I don't have many recs for this one and it might just be that it's been a long time since I read xmfc era fics (and I don't recall a lot of dofp ones related to the serum sorry) :D Please if anyone has recs definitely share with Anon, and I'm also going to tag @earnestly-endlessly who is much better than I am with canon recs :D :D :D

Right by Unforgotten

It's their first time after the beach, and Erik can't get it up.

Unexpected by liminalist

Six weeks after the beach divorce, Erik makes an unexpected visit.

He's Been Gone For Such A Long Time by fengirl88

Ten months since he and Charles parted on that beach in Cuba, almost to the day. He'd thought it would get better with time, but if anything it seems to be getting worse.

Sensitivities by frau_kali

Sex is different for Charles post Cuba, but Erik is still determined to be as generous a lover as he usually is. Set during 'If You Loved Me', my canon divergent DoFP AU fic, but that's not required reading for this.

No Memory of the Sky by pearl_o

Erik's sleep is overtaken by vivid, erotic dreams, until he confronts their source.

(This is also one of my fandom faves - and it's not what you asked exactly but definitely recommend reading this post-Cuba fic :D)

#gerec rambles #cherik #fic rec #gerec's fic rec #sex post-injury #post-Cuba #post beach divorce #xmfc #dofp

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