Hi there! I am absolutely fascinated by your xmfc modern AU - my friend and I were talking about it today and I wanted to ask : if #mutantrightsnow is the hashtag campaign for The Brotherhood (a more radical mutant rights group?) what would be the Xavier side's slogan? Would he adopt the same hashtag when he joins forces with Erik? What are their ideological differences in this modern world AU? Your edits are amazing, thanks for all the inspiration, you're brilliant!
Hello there!!! Thankyou for your lovely words of encouragement and interesting questions!! The thought of people talking about these edits in the context ofa whole au is super overwhelmingly happy-making. (I may have done a little dancein my chair when I read this ask haha what a nerd). While Iâve never really made those edits witha particular story in mind (theyâre more for general worldbuilding and topossibly act as inspiration for others) your questions got me thinking, and,well.
Charles.Â
Oh Charles. I guess heâs spent most of his life pretty sheltered and privileged, so while heâs aware of the hardships mutants face, hehas a little bit of wide-eyed innocence about it. Before he comes out as a telepath heâs still one of the worldâsleading experts on the X-Gene, which gives him a bit of ground to stand on whenspeaking publicly about his dreams of a more peaceful solution to mutant civil rights struggles than what more militant mutant groups like theBrotherhood endorse. Somewhere along the way he becomes a bit of an unofficial figurehead for theintegrationist movement with his nice, palatable, but still mutant friendlymessage. Itâs something middle-class baseline America can accept. (#weareallhuman)
But then his fatherdies and he inherits the family company and all the money and he starts lookinginto charities and mutant shelters and starts to see things a bit more for whatthey are. This coincides with a spike in anti-mutant hate crimes, the rise ofthe Church of Humanity, the Mutant Registration Act etc etc. Telepaths in particular arebeing singled out, and Charles decides the time has come to reveal hismutation.
Being out as a telepathin a world that is growing more hysterical about mutants by the minute is a huge eye-opener. Talking about peacefulsolutions and everyone being human in the end suddenly doesnât seem like enoughwhen children are having their wings cut off by their parents and teenage telepathsare being force-fed suppressants in schools. And to add to that heâs been spendingmore and more time listening to what the Brotherhoodâs - borderline militant but extremelycompelling, damn that intense mind - Â leader Erik Lehnsherr has to say.
While heâs certainly not in agreement with Erik and is still rather wary of making radial statements⌠Well. Perhaps itâs time tostop asking politely and start demanding #mutantrightsnow.









