round 3 overflow post

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Round 3 Overflow Post

This post is for Round 3 fills only. We ask that when a round hits 8500 comments, fillers begin moving their fills to this post.

Format:
SUBJECT LINE -- Round #, short description of fic (ex: "Alex/Hank, lab partners")
--- Link to the prompt
--- Text of the prompt

--- Link to the fill
OR
--- Entire text of the fill

EXAMPLE:
Prompt: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=1038472#t2038174

Charles/Erik -- Charles is a bakery owner whose most frequent customer is Erik.

Fill: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=0139482#t4502942

Charles started off the morning the same way he always did...

Comments

Anon!author

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, they're on Genosha. I couldn't find a way to shoehorn it into the fic without resorting to an infodump, but in my head, Erik's Brotherhood is at a point where they're beginning to transition from a militant organisation into a government. Insofar that Erik is ruling Genosha, it's really more out of a lack of any other contender than anything else -- the mutants had pushed out the non-mutant inhabitants, but they haven't actually gotten around to creating an actual nation-state.

My take on the alpha-omega dynamics in this fic was extrapolated from the prompt: law or no law, the tradition of alphas "owning" omegas is pretty much ingrained culturally, to a lesser or greater extent depending on where you are. Erik could've laid down a rule fully emancipating mutant omegas on Genosha, but... he didn't. He never even thought about it. Hence Charles being gently mocking/bitter about Erik's ideology: hurray for mutant supremacy or whatever, but from where he's standing, there's not much difference between "humans" and mutants -- genetically and culturally. Certainly not where omegas are concerned.

You've nailed it re: Mystique. I like to think that when the chips are down, she'll side with Charles, but she hasn't been pushed to that point just yet. Right now, to her it's all about Charles and what he specifically went through, but she doesn't see that if the way this world works isn't so stacked against omegas, Charles might never be so damaged in the first place.

Re: Anon!author

[(Anonymous)]

Erik could've laid down a rule fully emancipating mutant omegas on Genosha, but... he didn't. He never even thought about it.

OUCH. Poor Charles.

Someone posted a prompt about a D/s verse where the subs had all risen up in revolution and formed their own country. I find myself hoping that something similar happens in this universe down the line.

I may try to shake loose a plotbunny myself, but I do hope someone picks this up.

Re: Anon!author

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Oh god I thought that too! This fic is like, a terrifying prelude to that segregation. And even without a fill I've seen OP and other anons tossing around a few solid ideas for other prompt's world building as well. Of course my mind is automatically combining both prompts into a giant dark dystopia. I can see this Erik banging on the Wall demanding his omega (sub w/other prompt) back, but I doubt this Charles will yield. Their epic love will have to wait a few generations and one reincarnation to work.

(but how do they reproduce, separated like that? Omegas using artificial insermination using their own sperm, and alphas straight out cloning? Shit that's ground for genetic memory/generation xerox, if I ever seen one.)