X-Men First Class (Comic Book)/Fanfic Recs

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These are recommendations made by Tropers for X-Men: First Class fanfics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.

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All Along the Watchtower by NezumiPi
 * Recommended by: Half Born Hel
 * Synopsis: Charles and Erik's complicated feelings are so feelingsy.
 * Pairings: Charles/Erik
 * Tags: AU, Slash, Angst, Character Focus

Rumor Has It by blueink3
 * Recommended by: rewindreplayrepeat
 * Synopsis: Nearly six months after Cuba, Charles' life is turned upside down for the second time. Though he's slowly learning to adapt to the first, he's not sure he can handle the second. Luckily for him, there are a few people out there more than willing to help.
 * Pairings: Charles/Erik
 * Tags: Fluff, Slash, Angst

Excellent Judgment by cimorene
 * Recommended by: rainbowdisease
 * Synopsis: Modern, Human, College/University AU. Charles is a workaholic who owns a speed-dating business.
 * Pairings: Charles/Erik
 * Comments: Adorable, sexy, very in character and thought-provoking.
 * Tags: Explicit, AU, Fluff, Slash

your head caught in a waking dream by addandsubtract
 * Recommended by: rainbowdisease
 * Synopsis: Charles is sent to a mental institution as a child and by the time Raven breaks him out, he's irreparably damaged.
 * Pairings: Charles/Erik
 * Comments: Gorgeous prose, heartrendingly insane Charles and fierce Raven and damaged Erik. Happy ending, however you look at it. Possible trigger warning for mental illness and/or mentioned violence.
 * Tags: AU, Fluff, Angst, Slash

Try, Try Again by and_backagain
 * Recommended by: stardust_rain
 * Synopsis: Erik is forced to repeat that day [on the beach] until he stops being an asshole.
 * Pairing(s): Erik/Charles.
 * Comments: response to a prompt in the kink meme. Poor Erik just can't seem to stop fucking everything up. It's so brimmed with emotions and helplessness, and Erik's frustration, desperation and anger is phenomenal.
 * Tags: Groundhog Day Loop, Set Right What Once Went Wrong, Slash Fic, Angst.

Boden's Mate by kaydeefalls
 * Recommended by: stardust_rain
 * Synopsis: X-Inception crossover/fusion
 * Pairings: ensemble, with a side of Erik/Charles.
 * Comments: ...holy Jesus Mary Joseph, this mind-blowing. It's halfway between a fandom-fusion fic and a crossover and the seams of the fandoms merge beautifully. The X-team are an extractor group, but references to the Inception world are delightfully name-dropped. Erik is the extractor, Raven the forger, Sean the architect, Alex the point man and Hank the chemist who works for Saito's company. Their mission is to extract something from Sebastian Shaw's mind. And Charles...Charles is the shade, the human manifest of guilt, lurking on the edges of Erik's mind. It had echoes and parallels to both Inception and X-men First Class, has a perfect world-building background and spot-on characterisation. Raven is so badass in this! It's very long, mind you, clocking at just under 80, 000 words and there's more to that series.
 * Tags: Crossover

Fools Rush In by LoveSupreme
 * Recommended by: Gevaisa
 * Synopsis:Human AU set on a modern day college campus. Erik, a misanthropic cafe owner, falls in love with Professor Charles Xavier, a man with a lot of very familiar friends and a lot of ex-boyfriend baggage.
 * Pairings: Male slash Erik/Charles
 * Comments: What makes this fic stand out is that it's so well written and emasculates neither guy. There are lemons and it deserves its mature rating.
 * Tags: Slashfic

Nine Eleven Ten by Subtilior
 * Recommended by: Pippin Pips
 * Synopsis: Author's Summary, Years later, Charles would remember that day. Sometimes he would wonder if he could have changed anything; other times he would despair over what he had since become. But he would always hold the image in his mind: Raven, laughing, and his thoughts flying alongside her on strong wings, silver-gold through the winter air. Once upon a time.
 * Pairings: Erik/Charles
 * Comments: This story is beautiful in it's precision, world building, and characters. Charles in this story is a BAMF and Erik, well Erik is interesting. I highly recommend this story.
 * Tags: Slashfic

Timeline series by Unforgotten
 * Recommended by: stardust_rain
 * Synopsis: After Magneto of an X2-ish future succeeds in the unthinkable, Charles sends his consciousness back to 1962 to guide Erik away from the path that will lead to the genocide of the human race forty years hence. Charles knows that Erik has always loved him, and intends to use this knowledge + sex to seduce Erik away from his ideals in his youth. There's no way this well-thought-out, sensible, debugged and 100% bulletproof plan can possibly go wrong.
 * Pairings: Charles/Erik
 * Comments: The first fic is wonderful and funny and Charles is magnificent. The second is a Perspective Flip told from Erik's POV, which still brings the funny, but has some gorgeously bittersweet moments and makes your heart ache.
 * Tags: Slashfic, Peggy Sue, Alternate Timeline, Set Right What Once Went Wrong, Mental Time Travel.