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Natura Non Contristatur by quietdown
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men: First Class (Comics), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)
21 Jan 2026
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By you, this World has everything left to lose. / And I, your sentry of ice, shall allways protect / what your Joy so dangerously resumes. / I'll destroy no World / so long it keeps turning with flurry & gush, / petals & stems bending and lush, / and allways our hushes returning anew.
— Mark Z. DanielewskiEveryone is born with a genetic Indication determining their Dominant or submissive score. Those lower on the scale are naturally inclined to defer to those higher. Erik Lehnsherr is one of the 27 global population of D5s, hyper-dominants that can use vocal persuasion to make anyone, of any score, do anything.
Charles Xavier happens to be his generation's first recorded S1, a hyper-submissive and the only Indication capable of resisting a D5 and retaining their own agency. Some stories start out inevitable. And while there are sparks, there is also one small caveat:
Erik Lehnsherr is in a CIA detention facility after blowing up a government building, the Shaw Institute, in a terrorist attack and killing 10 scientists. Charles Xavier has been assigned by Moira MacTaggert as Erik's forensic psychiatrist during his trial.