This was beautiful! I do love stories that deal with Charles's past--after all, he may be an optimist, but he's not a naive one--and also Erik trying to be comforting even when he doesn't believe he can (oh, Erik), and the suggestion of more to come at the end... *applause*
This He has, after all, seen nearly every type of ugliness that mankind is capable of conceiving. That this comes as any sort of a surprise at all is more a testament to sentiment than anything else, sentiment and Erik's idiot need to see Charles--brilliant, reckless, cheerfully dissolute Charles--as someone untouched by that ugliness. really just sums them both up, here, I think. Lovely.
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Date: 2012-07-11 07:42 pm (UTC)This He has, after all, seen nearly every type of ugliness that mankind is capable of conceiving. That this comes as any sort of a surprise at all is more a testament to sentiment than anything else, sentiment and Erik's idiot need to see Charles--brilliant, reckless, cheerfully dissolute Charles--as someone untouched by that ugliness. really just sums them both up, here, I think. Lovely.