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↳ tickles my pickle + xmen; requested by naturalcolor
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# I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED HOW CHARLES HELD ONTO RAVEN THOUGH# :’)# HE HAD HIS FAULTS OBVIOUSLY BUT I DON’T THINK HE WAS THAT SHITTY OF AN OLDER BROTHER
Charles only ever wanted to protect Raven. Of course that was the whole problem. With any number of other people, it would’ve been different. If it had been Sean or Hank who showed up in that kitchen, for instance — I think either of them would have been content to follow Charles’s lead. But Raven needed to step outside that protection in order to feel like her true self and Charles didn’t understand that until it was too late to salvage their relationship. :’(
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New/Old promotional photoshoot for ‘X-Men: First Class’, featuring Jennifer as Mystique (x)
Headcanon: Raven’s X-suit is unzipped so far down, not because she wanted to give anyone a show (because, srsly, time and place, honey), but because it was fitted to her in human guise. Her natural form has bigger boobs than Blonde Mode, so she has to leave it looser in order to breathe. As to why she chose to make Blonde Mode have smaller boobs… maybe she just hadn’t ‘updated’ it in a few years, hadn’t realized how big her real ones had gotten.
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We are different , but we shouldn’t be trying to fit into society.
Society should aspire to be more like us.
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I’ve also heard it theorized that the scene was originally much longer and was cut together oddly. But yes, I’m right there with the “wanting to cry” sentiment. :(
(Source: firstclassconfessions)
I honestly don’t ship Raven and Erik at all.
I think Erik is pretty good at giving people what they need to be strong - that’s one of the big reasons people follow him - and that’s what the kiss was about.
He’s meeting Raven on her own terms, because physicality is extremely important to her (a fact which is related to her mutation) so words simply wouldn’t have been enough.
I really like this idea. It also explains why Mystique seems to circle back to Magneto any time she’s not actively with someone else — for validation and companionship, not because either of them have any delusions that they’re each other’s One True Love.
I haven’t heard this before about physicality and her mutation, that I recall. I can see the physicality now that I think about it (snuggling against Charles on the couch, sitting on Hank’s lap, the nudity thing could be a way of increasing contact with her surroundings, etc.) but why is it related to her mutation? Other than her mutation being, of course, a very physical one, rather than an invisible/mental one like Charles’s or Erik’s.
Mystique (X-Men: First Class) - Faceless (suggested by unlikely-alliance)
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So really there are four things to react to here:
(1) Raven being immature. And I really think she kind of is. My headcanon is that because her cells age so much more slowly, her psyche does too. Technically she’s in her early twenties, but emotionally she’s closer to 12.
(2) Erik having a similar problem with accepting responsibility. I… don’t see any particular evidence of that? Yeah, he blames Moira for hurting Charles, runs hard and fast when Charles says it’s his fault, but better people than Erik have freaked out at the idea of a loved one’s life-changing injury being their fault. Is there some other sign of responsibility-dodging that I’m not remembering off the top of my head?
(3) Erik being a serial killer. Technically, ‘serial killer’ just means someone who commits a string of murders. That applies. Hit men, for instance, are technically serial killers. Likewise handsome Nazi hunters. The usual connotation of ‘serial killer,’ though, is someone who gets off on killing people. Which… possibly also applies. I mean, have you seen his face in that bar in Argentina? I really don’t want to think of Erik as a serial killer but… technically…
(4) The headcanon. I can very much see Charles doing that, taking some kind of fall to protect Raven and sparing her the knowledge of it when really, they would both have been better off if he’d been truthful about it. Very much in keeping with their relationship: Charles tries too hard to be kind and noble, he and Raven fail to communicate, Raven blames him for things that are somewhat-but-not-entirely his fault, their relationship implodes.
:(
I agree with most of the above except for Raven’s actual age. In the beginning of the film, 1944, she’s at least 9-10 years old when she meets Charles, who looks about 11-12. In 1962, she’d be roughly 27-28 years old and Charles would be roughly 29-30. This is assuming that her slowed aging didn’t kick in until she was in her teens. If it kicked in earlier, she’d be older not younger than Charles. The movie seems to support the idea that Raven is genuinely younger though, and that she and Charles grew at roughly the same pace for most of their childhoods. The fact that she starts acting like someone much younger the moment she’s around people who don’t know her true age, and the fact that her first dating choice (aside from Charles) is Hank who is several years younger, shows that despite her desire for respect and equality, a part of her still thinks very immaturely.
Dang, you’re right, she’s even older than I thought. My argument is supported!
And that’s a very interesting point about her acting younger when she gets around the other ‘kids’… I wonder if a certain amount of that might not be chameleonic. There was discussion going around a while back theorizing that Raven acts the way she thinks she’s supposed to act — for instance she’s terrified of Azazel when everyone around her is terrified, then after she joins the Brotherhood the people around her consider him awesome and she ends up dating the guy. Whether that trait is part of her chameleonic mutation, an effect of her mutation, or the cause of her mutation (I have a theory that the way mutants’ powers manifest is personality/situation-related) is ripe for debate.
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So really there are four things to react to here:
(1) Raven being immature. And I really think she kind of is. My headcanon is that because her cells age so much more slowly, her psyche does too. Technically she’s in her early twenties, but emotionally she’s closer to 12.
(2) Erik having a similar problem with accepting responsibility. I… don’t see any particular evidence of that? Yeah, he blames Moira for hurting Charles, runs hard and fast when Charles says it’s his fault, but better people than Erik have freaked out at the idea of a loved one’s life-changing injury being their fault. Is there some other sign of responsibility-dodging that I’m not remembering off the top of my head?
(3) Erik being a serial killer. Technically, ‘serial killer’ just means someone who commits a string of murders. That applies. Hit men, for instance, are technically serial killers. Likewise handsome Nazi hunters. The usual connotation of ‘serial killer,’ though, is someone who gets off on killing people. Which… possibly also applies. I mean, have you seen his face in that bar in Argentina? I really don’t want to think of Erik as a serial killer but… technically…
(4) The headcanon. I can very much see Charles doing that, taking some kind of fall to protect Raven and sparing her the knowledge of it when really, they would both have been better off if he’d been truthful about it. Very much in keeping with their relationship: Charles tries too hard to be kind and noble, he and Raven fail to communicate, Raven blames him for things that are somewhat-but-not-entirely his fault, their relationship implodes.
:(
(Source: firstclassconfessions)
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WHY BABY MYSTIQUE, WHY YOU GOTTA
LOOK COME WITH ME I WILL FEED YOU AND WE WILL BRAID HAIR AND IT WILL BE AWESOME
AAAAAAAAAAAH
apparently visiting my 1 year old nephew has brought out my maternal instincts again
NO, YOU CAN’T HAVE HER SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN ADOPTED BY ME SORRY ABOUT YOUR LATENESS.
I AM GOING TO GET HER A KITTEN AND A PUPPY AND ICE CREAM.
OK FINE BUT I AM GOING TO BE THE ANNOYING AUNT WHO COMES OVER UNINVITED ALL THE TIME AND DUMPS PRESENTS AND CANDY ON HER AND THEN LEAVES FOR YOU TO DEAL WITH THE SUGAR RUSH OK
OKAY THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN ACCEPTABLE PLAN.
RAVEN ON A SUGAR RUSH SOUNDS A BIT STRESSFUL, THO.
LIKE SHE WOULD PROBABLY GROW WINGS AND START BUZZING AROUND THE CEILING OR SOMETHING.
AND THEN
GROW TEETH AND A SNOUT LIKE A CROCODILE AND CHASE AROUND THE PUPPY AND KITTEN what kind of a monster am I HAHA I MEANSHE WOULD TRY TO BE MORE LIKE THE PUPPY AND KITTEN.YEAH.
I have nothing to add.
I just wanna say this conversation is perfect.
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Have you ever looked at a tiger and thought you ought to cover it up? You are an exquisite creature, Raven. All your life the world has tried to tame you. It’s time for you to be free.
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