by quietdown
The year is 1954. The discovery of abiogenesis, DNA and the double helix have made massive waves in the fields of biology and chemistry. Erik and Charles meet as young men attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, initially opposing one another on the Mutatis Mutandis panels.
Erik is an ex-Sonderkommando and Haganah veteran who fled to the USA after defecting at Sinai, versus Charles - a too-privileged-for-his-own-good trust-fund nepo baby with more depth and complexity than the former could ever truly comprehend. Raven is a "private investigator" in polite company, and a mercenary to everyone else. The CIA shows up to ruin everyone's day.
All of their lives are forever altered by these intersections. Lots of bickering, trauma, and yes, the overwhelming power of love. Follows Erik and Charles as they establish the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youth, and over time develop disparate views as Erik grows increasingly radical in his pursuit for mutant safety and Charles suffers a devastating injury at the behest of Sebastian Shaw.
Words: 132396, Chapters: 17/?, Language: English
- Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
- Rating: Explicit
- Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
- Categories: M/M, Multi
- Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Sebastian Shaw/Klaus Schmidt, Sayid al-Zaman/Apocalypse, Raven Darkholme, Hank McCoy, Daniel Shomron, Carmen Pryde, Isadore Cohen, Janos Quested, Jean Grey, Aura Ziel-Tarish, Kurt Wagner, Emma Frost, Victor Creed, Amahl Farouk, Dominikos Petrakis, Ororo Munroe, Frederick Duncan, Warren Worthington II, Angel Worthington (deceased), Christopher Summers, William Stryker, Enoch Ivanov/Azazel Rasputin, William Kaplan, Gabrielle Haller, Taima Kashih, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Jason Wyngarde
- Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr/Sebastian Shaw, Erik Lehnsherr/Sayid al-Zaman, Erik Lehnsherr/En Sabah Nur, Magneto/Professor X, Raven Darkholme/Gabrielle Haller, Erik Lehnsherr/Magda Maximoff, Aura Ziel-Tarish/Dominikos Petrakis, Warren Worthington II/Jenna Worthington, Edith Eisenhardt/Iakov Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier/Gabrielle Haller, Carmen Pryde/Teresa Pardo
- Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1950s, Magneto Testament, Civil Rights, Period-Typical Bigotry, Holocaust, Mental Illness, Canon Disabled Character, Canon Jewish Character, World War II, trauma & recovery, Child Abuse, Wealth disparity, Genocide, Torture, Mercenaries, CIA/Espionage, MLK/Malcolm X Allegories, Genosha, Kibbutzim, Arab-Israeli War (1948), The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, War Crimes, Mutant Separatist Movement, Mutant Integrationist Movement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leftist Infighting, Terrorism, Time Travel