There’s someone else out there. There’s someone in the water.
#omg when charles suddenly doubles over because he can feel erik’s mind and all the anger and pain and his memories are so agonizing and perhaps to a normal person that would be a big fat STAY THE FUCK AWAY signal but charles is an idiot and probably the kind of guy who snuck bits of his dinner to stray ducks wandering around his estate when he was a kid and helps people who get lost on the tube and so he jumps his ass in that water and does his vulcan mind meld thang because not only does he need this guy to know that he’s not alone but he is fascinated by him and he has to help him because he feels his pain in the actual literal way not in the just-trying-to-sympathize way because in that one second on the stairs he actually physically experienced all of erik’s pain all at once I KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU ughhh these assholes #soulmate level match
#Ugh in the last gif he looks like he’s going to cry #Like everyone goes on about Raven’s ostracization but charles was alone too #He had nobody to go to in his family they basically ignored him he had no one to talk to about his mutation and then along came raven and she was different and he could talk to her but still he could never get close to anyone else he could never fall in love with anyone because he was messed up a freak and he heard the things people didn’t want him to hear and he couldn’t help it and people kept on breaking his hearts and when he finally could control his powers he knew that he couldn’t get to close to anyone because he could never ever really be himself so he settled for one night stand at the bar because the only intimacy he could achieve was the physical kind and he wanted more than that but he couldn’t have it and he’s the type of person who loves so unconditionally so it hurts him to realize that people would never accept him and his powers #So in the last gif he’s so grateful for raven but he’s so heartbroken because he believes he can never get close with anyone else that he can never love someone in a romantic capacity and he doesn’t know what to do about the swell of loneliness he feels
I really enjoy the fact that we, the people of tumblr, have taken a mediocre summer blockbuster and made it into a Greek fucking tragedy. [Note: not sarcasm. It’s awesome.]
