#lprock

Rules: Copy and paste and bold your fic preferences.

1. Slowburn or Love at First Sight

2. Fake Dating or Secretly Dating

3. Enemies to Lovers or Best Friends to Lovers

4. “Oh no, there’s Only One Bed,” or Long Distance Correspondence

5. Hurt/Comfort or Amnesia

6. Fantasy AU or Modern AU

7. Mutual Pining or Domestic Bliss

8. Smut or Fluff

9. Canon-Compliant/Missing Scenes or Fix-It

10. Alternate Universe or Future Fic

11. One Shot or Multichapter

12. Kid Fic or Roadtrip Fic

13. Reincarnation or Character Death -- Though I haven’t read any re-incarnation fics, the trope sounds fun!

14. Arranged Marriage or Accidental Marriage

15. High School Romance or Middle-Aged Romance

16. Time Travel or Isolated Together

17. Neighbours or Roommates

18. Sci Fi AU or Magic AU (I have developed a love for Magic AUs, much thanks to the efforts of @gerec and @irelise)

19. Bodyswap or Genderbend

20. Angst or Crack

21. Apocalyptic or Mundane

Erik doesn’t really celebrate Christmas, but that doesn’t stop him from getting a cat for Charles.

Hey there!

1. who’s your celebrity crush?

James. Duh. xD He’s held that #1 position longer than anyone else, even though Taika Waititi has been closing in A LOT lately. 

2. are you single or taken?

Single. So tragically single. I’ve jumped back into the dating pool but with no luck so far. Probable reasons for that are too high expectations set by examples listed above. 

10. name a dog

That's for you, sister @l-p-r-o-c-k !! I wish you a very happy birthday! ! 😘

@l-p-r-o-c-k and @unearthlydust YES YES YES to Charles in glasses!

Charles has worn specs for as long as he knows. He barely remembers a time before it. Hypermetropia, the Optometrist had told him when he was little- meaning that he would have to strain his eyes to see anything within arm’s length without his thick glasses.

The upside was that he didn’t have to wear them all the time, only when he had to read or inspect anything up-close. The downside was being chided endlessly by Raven that he had an old man’s problem. Granted, Hypermetropia generally showed itself in the later stages of life in the general population; that didn’t make it an ‘old man’s problem’. Many children lived with it as well.

‘With your sweater vests and specs, I can call you my father and people wouldn’t suspect a thing Charles,’ she would say. ‘And we wouldn’t even have to use our powers to convince them.’

It was all fun and fine. Untill Erik.

The thing is, Charles likes Erik. A lot. He wants Erik’s attention on him. And he’s not going to garner it with his image of an 'Old fart’. Raven’s words, not his.

Meaning to say that he has never worn his specs in Erik’s presence and he wants to keep it that way. It’s juvenile, he knows; but every time he perches his glasses up his nose, he can hear Raven’s imaginary voice in his head mocking him: 'Old man Charles’. Of course, he would pull it out when he had to solve a random cross word or overlook a file, but he would be equally quick to pocket it on sensing Erik’s mind in the periphery. It helped that he didn’t have to read when he could pluck the information from people’s minds.

Untill now. In hindsight, it really was his mistake. He shouldn’t have suggested to Erik to head to the Xavier library to spend an empty afternoon. It didn’t help that Erik readily agreed.

Charles knows the Xavier library like the back of his hand. Any other time, he would have enthusiastically offered to show Erik around, gushing over the vast collection and suggesting some of his favourites. Now, he just lets Erik look while he heads straight for the Genetics section. He easily picks out a book on Mutant Evolution that he had been in the middle of reading (for the third time). He knows the cover too well to pick it out without having to read​ the title.

So he settles himself against a desk lining a large window, futilely hoping that the light would aid his vision. He opens the book around the bookmark to a sea of muddled black. He holds the book out the a little further and then a little nearer, squinting and straining his eyes to read a word, a letter. It’s too tempting to pull out his specs from his trouser pockets and clear his eyes of the blurred jumble.

No. He can simply pretend that he’s reading.

After a while, he sees Erik bring out a bring out a book of his own and settle two desks across from him. It’s a book on Force fields and their prominence. It’s a little unfair how he can read the title of Erik’s book and not his own.

Charles sits a little straighter, adjusting the book and squinting his eyes to resemble a look of pure concentration.

As time passes, his eyes begin to pain with the strain. He blinks it off the water collecting at the corners, hoping that the stress upon his eyes wouldn’t give him a headache later. When he looks down again, there’s something else between his face and the book. It’s still a blurred black, but its structure is clearer. Two squares. Two sticks probably? The object hovers nearer to his face, and then it hits him. Metal hinges.

He quickly pads his hand over his trouser pocket. It’s empty.

'Charles, you’re holding your book upside down,’ he hears Erik’s amused voice from across him.

Charles feels his face heat up in embarrassment. He fumbles with the book and the glasses in front of his face, sending him into deeper depths of mortification. He’s in the middle of contemplating where to hide his face when a thought blasts his mind. He stills. It’s from Erik.

You should wear your glasses more often. You look adorable in them Charles!

*

Six weeks later

Charles wears his specs almost all the time now. Even when he doesn’t have to read. The upside is that his clothes seem to vanish quickly when he slides his glasses to the tip of his nose. And the downside is… well he can hardly think of one.

I was tagged by my lovely friend @l-p-r-o-c-k and... that´s the rules: you can only say guilty or innocent. You are not allowed to explain anything unless  messages you or asks you


asked someone to marry you: guilty


kissed one of your friends: guilty ( and the friendship is over now, sadly...)


danced on a table in a bar or tavern: innocent


ever told a lie: guilty


had feelings for someone whom you can’t have: guilty 


ever kissed someone of the opposite sex: guilty


ever kissed someone of the same sex: innocent


kissed a picture: guilty


slept in until 5pm: innocent


fallen asleep at work or school:  guilty


held a snake: innocent


been suspended from school: innocent


stolen something: guilty


done something you regret: guilty


laughed until what you were drinking came out of your nose: innocent


caught a snowflake on your tongue: innocent


sat on a roof top: guilty


sang in the shower: guilty


been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on: guilty


slept naked: guilty


made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry: innocent


been in a band: innocent


shot a gun: innocent


donated blood: innocent


eaten alligator meat: innocent


eaten cheesecake: guilty


still loved someone you shouldn’t: guilty 


have/had a tattoo: innocent


been too honest: guilty


ruined a surprise: innocent


ate in a restaurant and got so bloated you can’t walk after: innocent


erased someone in your friends list: guilty


dressed in a man’s clothes: guilty


dressed in a woman’s clothes: guilty


joined a pageant: guilty


been told you’re beautiful by someone who meant it: guilty


still have communication with your ex: innocent


cheated on someone: innocent


got totally drunk the night before an important exam: innocent


a total stranger treated you by paying your fare: innocent


got so angry that you cried: guilty


tried to stay away from someone for their own good: innocent


actually murdered someone: innocent


thought about mass murder: guilty


actually committed a mass murder: innocent


rode in a stranger’s vehicle: guilty


stalked someone: guilty


had a girlfriend: innocent


had a boyfriend: guilty

I was tagged by @l-p-r-o-c-k and @cherikyassss

Relationship status: single

Favorite color: I like bright and cheerful colors but I tend to find the shades of blue more appealing.

Pets: 2 cats, both female one black and the other gray :)

Last song I listened to: ‘I see fire’ by Ed Sheeran

Favorite TV show: It’s tough to choose just one, Queer as Folk and Spartacus have a special spot for me.

First fandom: Can´t remember but surely some anime like Sailor Moon or Saint Seiya.

Hobbies: reading fanfiction, movies, drawing, some tv shows about cooking contests or project runway.

Favorite book: I'm not an avid book reader... embarrassingly haha... but if I had to say probably would be the Captive Prince trilogy.