BESTIE!!!! Tell Me All About Rest Now, My Child (The Day Is Over)! What Inspired This Idea? Were There

BESTIE!!!! Tell me all about Rest Now, My Child (The Day is Over)! What inspired this idea? Were there any other details you thought about including but didn’t? LOVE YOU!!’

AHHHH BESTIEEEEE!!! I would absolutely LOVE to talk about Rest Now My Child because I think it’s some of the best angst/comfort I’ve ever written in a while!!

To be honest, it was shamelessly inspired by an Irondad and Spiderson fic of the same concept where Peter P. arrived at Stark Tower covered in blood and Tony helped him clean it up. I can’t remember if it ever explained how it happened in that fic, but I’m pretty sure I saw it on Tumblr, so if anyone knows which one it is please let me know and I’ll credit the author and fic!

I absolutely loved writing it though, because it’s protective Erik but in a very gentle way. It’s not covering Peter in a magnetic shield in the middle of battle but taking on the task that Peter is too broken to do on his own. It’s protecting him from having to keep living in the trauma and the shame and reassuring him through one of the hardest trials of his life. There's nothing worse than not being able to help those you love, and we really see that struggle with Erik as he wrestles with how he can help his son, not realising he's already doing everything he can 😭

And ooo that's an interesting question. Before I had Erik stepping out to clean up Peter's room, I was originally going to have Erik sort of guide Peter to sit on the bed and talk about what happened, before embracing Peter until he fell asleep after crying it out for a while. In the end I decided it was more haunting to have Peter be the one to openly tell Erik the truth, ready to finally say it to the one person he trusts the most.

Thank you so much for letting me ramble, and AHH I LOVE YOU TOO BESTIE!!! 💕💕💕

-Superherotiger

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‘X Men Apocalypse’ Group Therapy Session - MTV After Hours (2016) —> Wandavision (2021)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr & Pietro Maximoff, Erik Lehnsherr & Peter Maximoff (X-Men Alternate Timeline Movies), Pietro Maximoff & Charles Xavier Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Pietro Maximoff, Charles Xavier, Hank McCoy, Raven | Mystique, Kurt Wagner, Ororo Munroe, Jubilation Lee, Jean Grey Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, Protective Erik Lehnsherr, Good Parent Erik Lehnsherr, Erik Lehnsherr Knows Peter Maximoff is His Child (X-Men Alternate Timeline Movies), Hurt Pietro Maximoff, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Kidnapping, Abduction, Aftermath of Torture, Canon-Typical Violence, Pietro Maximoff-centric, Mutant Husbands | Married Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Whump, Charles Xavier Loves Erik Lehnsherr, Erik Lehnsherr Loves Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr Has Feelings, Jewish Erik Lehnsherr, Yiddish, First Aid, Stitches, Carrying, BAMF Erik Lehnsherr, Interfaith Cherik, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Good Parent Charles Xavier, Protective Charles Xavier, Post-Movie: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Charles Xavier is Pietro’s Adoptive Father, Because he and Erik are married, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Worth Issues, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Peter’s step-dad to be specific, Forehead Kisses Summary:

“They have Peter,” Erik’s voice is breaking. “They have our son.”

The teacup Charles was holding shatters on the floor. “What happened?”

Erik’s trembling hands produce the package that had been dropped on the mansion’s doorstep. A tuft of silver hair spills onto Charles’ desk, along with a typed letter and a polaroid.

“They said they want information about Cerebro. They know I helped you build it. And I – I put Peter in danger, taking him in. This is my fault.” Erik all but collapses into Charles. “He doesn’t know anything about Cerebro, but they don’t know that. They’re hurting him, Charles.”

Charles Xavier is not a vengeful person. But one look at the Polaroid on his desk fills him with an unusual rage. Peter’s kidnappers had cut his hair – and scalp in some places – and there were bruises flowering across his face. There’s no telling what damage has been done to the rest of his body.

“Erik,” Charles whispers, rubbing his husband’s shaking shoulders. “We’re going to get him back. No matter what it takes. We’re going to bring our son home.” *** Whumptober prompts fulfilled: search party, wound cleaning, stitches, team as family

Here comes the long awaited dadneto fic:

"This day couldn't get any worse. Except for the fact it keeps repeating. When will this stop?"

Peter is stuck in a time loop and the only thing that will get him out is telling Erik he is his son.

(let's pretend i posted it yesterday)

hm so you'll ramble about the wips that won't even be complete in 5+ years but you won't finish the luna fic? okay worm (I'm a hypocrite)

Me tryna find the third chapter of fault lines like:

You’re on THIN ice bestie, but I’ll never refuse a chance to ramble haha, especially if it’s about the Outsider POV!!

‘It’s A Quiet Starry Place’ is by far my favourite AU from all the dadneto fics I’ve written! It kills me that I haven’t been able to work on it lately because there is just so much to dig into with this concept, especially in regards to Luna! Like where do I even begin?

I knew from the start that Laura and Luna’s dynamic was going to be a core part of this story, and getting to explore the world through their eyes is as fascinating as it is challenging. Logan (the film not the character lol) did such a good job at showing Laura as this highly competent and dangerous mutant but also as an innocent, learning child. It’s an interesting balance, and trying to figure out what they do and don’t understand because of their upbringing is something I have to ask myself almost every moment while writing the fic (which is why it takes so long to write too XD).

And of course, it wouldn’t be one of my fics if dadneto and quickson wasn’t the star of the show! I think Luna’s POV provides one of the most interesting, layered and complex perspectives of Erik and Peter that I’m probably ever going to have to tackle in this AU. Not only does this installment hint to a lot of events that have happened in their past, but Luna’s introduction is one of the most contentious points in their whole relationship. It’s easy to see that Peter accepts her as his own daughter almost immediately, but there’s still so much guilt and shame there for not knowing and not being able to protect her that weighs on him. And when all Peter needs is support, Erik is too busy struggling with his own thoughts, because how could the humans have gotten their hands on their son’s DNA? How could a violation like that have happened without any of them knowing? Erik’s protectiveness over Peter blinds him to realising that Peter has willingly taken on the role as a father himself, and in response, Peter’s protectiveness over Luna bites back, putting them at odds. It’s such an interesting dynamic, and it’s the plotline I’m most looking forward to writing in the coming chapters (because they are coming, I promise- I PROMISE OKAY?!?!)!

Some other elements that I love to think about but don’t always get to touch on because it’s from Luna’s POV is how the other X-Men and Brotherhood members are feeling over having clone children, most of which died before even knowing they existed. Some are quick to consider them their child, like Avalanche and Jean, who clearly took it hard learning that their respective kids had died without ever getting to meet them. Others have more complicated feelings about it, like Sabretooth and Gambit, which we’ll get a glimpse of in the next chapter. Sabretooth especially is interesting I think, because given the chance, I think he would have tried to be a decent father, if only to say he was better at it than Logan hah. Since he never had that opportunity though, he finds it easier to pretend he never cared about his kid instead of admitting that he might be mad at himself for not saving them in time.

If any of you are wondering how much I’ve thought about this AU, there’s a 12 page document dedicated just to the timeline, and I also have a list of all 23 children in the X23 program and who they belonged to lol. So yes, this AU lives in my head rent free and refuses to get evicted hahah!

Thanks for letting me ramble about this AU on top of all the other times I’ve rotted to you about it bestie, I love you!

-Superherotiger

Send me an ask about the backstory of any of my fics and I’ll ramble!! ✨