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smallfandombangTitle: Perpetual check (less mistakes remain to be made)
Authors:melime & bruna_g
Artist:kingstoken
Fandom: X-Men: The Animated Series
Characters/Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Rating/Category: Mature/Slash
Genre: romance, drama. angst
Word Count: 10583
Warnings: mind control aftermath, repressed memories of childhood abuse, holocaust mentions, survivor's guilt, ptsd, insomnia, slight internalized homophobia, mentions of minority persecutions
Summary: After the rescue from the Salvage Lands, Magnus accepts Xavier's invitation to rest and recover at the Xavier Mansion. However, this experience leaves them with traumas, nightmares, and raised unresolved issues in their past. They try to help one another through this trauma, while each hesitates to share their own concerns. Will the feelings that they still nurture from each other be enough to cut through decades of pain?
Link to fic master post: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46517338
Link to art master post: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46530139
Authors:
melime & bruna_g Artist:
kingstoken Fandom: X-Men: The Animated Series
Characters/Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Rating/Category: Mature/Slash
Genre: romance, drama. angst
Word Count: 10583
Warnings: mind control aftermath, repressed memories of childhood abuse, holocaust mentions, survivor's guilt, ptsd, insomnia, slight internalized homophobia, mentions of minority persecutions
Summary: After the rescue from the Salvage Lands, Magnus accepts Xavier's invitation to rest and recover at the Xavier Mansion. However, this experience leaves them with traumas, nightmares, and raised unresolved issues in their past. They try to help one another through this trauma, while each hesitates to share their own concerns. Will the feelings that they still nurture from each other be enough to cut through decades of pain?
Notes: "Perpetual check", in a game of chess, a forced draw caused by an unescapable series of checks. "less mistakes remain to be made" comes from the song The Story of Chess, from the musical Chess.
The game that they play is heavily based (with a few skips and endgame modifications, as perpetual chess isn't a legal move) on Kramnik, Vladimir (2808) vs. Carlsen, Magnus (2832) - 1-0 | Norway Chess 2017 | Stavanger | 14 Jun 2017 | Round: 7.3 | ECO: C54
Thank you to our beta feygrim!
Thank you to our beta feygrim!
Link to fic master post: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46517338
Link to art master post: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46530139
