Grown up Cherik family (with a few grey hairs)
How Charles came to love smoothies
Head canons based on my ‘perfect’ Xavier-Lensherr-Maximoff-Dane family universe
- after the events of days of future past, Charles focuses on the school. He knows very well that he needs help with his alcoholism but he pushes it aside and it isn’t very checked in on. He knows rehab is probably best but he puts the school first.
- Erik and Raven worry about him but he ignores it.
- Eventually when the baby twins come into the picture, Erik confronts Charles and they talk about his alcoholism and that he does need help, especially now that they have children to look after.
- They discuss rehab again but given that Charles now has a school to look after along with their two kids, especially since the only way to communicate with Wanda was with the help of Charles telepathy, they make the decision to instead get him a therapist and to join a support group, along with getting rid of all the alcohol in the house.
- Charles being the ‘support mutant business’ guy he is looks for a fellow telepath for a therapist, instead he finds an empath that works just as well.
- Charles really strives to be better but he finds it difficult given how he has relied on alcohol long before it was a problem. He’s also under a lot of stress with the school and kids which is making things more difficult than he needs.
- The empath suggests he finds a hobby, something to spend his time with to make him happy.
- Charles used to really enjoy making cocktails and mixing and creating new drinks. Of course that involved alcohol, so he looks for a substitute.
- He finds smoothies. The same sort of principles as mixing and creating so he gives it a try.
- However he falls in love.
- He starts making smoothies every morning before class, and making smoothies for dinner. He makes smoothie after smoothie.
- He makes health smoothies before Erik’s morning runs.
- He makes super sweet kiwi and honey smoothies for Peter.
- He makes peach smoothies for Lorna.
- He makes banana smoothies for baby Pietro.
- And he makes strawberry smoothies for baby Wanda.
- He makes mango smoothies for himself.
- Since Charles can’t cook this ended up being how he contributed to meals.
- Charles still struggles and due to not trusting himself he won’t allow him self to take a drink of anything alcoholic. Instead he makes smoothies, sometimes it helps, sometimes it’s tough, but he has Erik to keep him on track and his kids to make sure he wants to stay on track.
Cherik family head canons pt.2 or anything that didn’t fit into the last post
- Peitro could not sit still as a kid.
- Erik made metal jewelry for everyone, so he can track them in the house(his excuse is Charles can do it why can’t he). For Charles it’s his wedding ring, for Lorna it’s her metal pieces necklace, for Peter his goggles, For Pietro and Wanda, there star of David’s.
- Raven dyed Wanda’s hair one afternoon with the help of Lorna.
- Wanda wanted her hair to be like Ravens and claimed that all her siblings(but Piet, who later had his hair died by her and Peter) had colored hair so therefore she should to. Raven was just honored that her niece wanted her to help.
- Peter, being the oldest, became a substitute gym teacher. When he was 25, he became the permanent gym teacher.
- The kids love and hate him.
- Peitro’s first semi word was a slur of Peter and Papa. It is still an argument between Peter and Erik over who he said.
- Wanda’s first word was mama.
- Both dads were very confused.
- Erik calls Charles libeling
- He calls the rest of his kids shatz
- Charles calls Erik love or darling
- Charles calls Peter Pumpkin, Lorna Sweetheart, Pietro sunflower, and Wanda Sunshine.
- Erik had trouble with physical touch in the beginning of his and Charles relationship. Charles is a very touchy and cuddly person so Erik often felt guilty that he wasn’t comfortable with hugs and such. Charles always assured him it was alright and would often joke ‘as long as you still kiss me I’m alright’.
- Erik still felt guilty so he talked to Raven and during the first Hanukkah of their relationship, he got Charles a weighted blanket so he could ‘have a hug that was still from him’
- Charles has kept the blanket to this day. He takes it out when ever he is having a hard time or when Erik is away.
- Erik has gotten more use to physical touch so the need for the blanket isn’t as great a need nowadays. Still Charles holds on to it.
- The siblings are extremely protective of each other, and will go to war for one another.
- However Pietro is especially protective of Wanda, and on many occasions beat a kid up for something they said to Wanda.
- Even if Wanda and Pietro are twins, Wanda is still treated like the youngest sibling. This annoys her a lot. Especially when they baby her.
- Charles and Erik couldn’t be happier with the family they were given.
That all the head cannons for now for my ‘perfect universe’. I’ll probabaly think up some more soon
Cherik family head cannons pt. 1
- Quick summary: After DOFP, Erik stays with Charles. They start to date and eventually realize that after everything maybe their more than boyfriends and end up having a small non legal marriage(because fuck 1970 or anytime before 2015) they discuss the prospect of kids. Charles has always wanted children, and Erik has always wanted a large family to stick to Shaw. But they decide there not ready for kids as they are rebuilding the school. But of course that gets ruined when a women comes to their door claiming to need their help. This women is Natalya, the ‘best fiend’ of Magda, mom of Wanda and Peitro. Magda and Erik had gotten in a relationship a little before Erik was taken to the Pentagon. That resulted in the twins. But when they were born, Wanda’s mutation manifested and well the twins were taken but a mutant control organization. Magda later died. Natalya and made it her mission to find Erik, and the kids. So a little mission gets started and Natalya, who is a witch, and Erik break into the MCO to retrieve two practical babies. And of course Charles and Erik take them in with out question. A few months later Peter and Lorna show up looking for Erik, and they are integrated into the family.
- Wanda was a very quiet child, and was behind on development, while Peitro was the opposite.
- Lorna was 14 when she joined the family, and when Charles and Erik became her legal guardians. But Lorna held some resentment for Erik. Her mother had recently died due to cancer and she blamed Erik for not being there. However she did find comfort in Charles and quickly accepted him as her step dad.
- The first time Lorna called Erik Pa, he didn’t know how to respond and froze. She laughed.
- Peter didn’t give much of a fuck, and literally five minutes after the reveal of being Erik’s son he started calling Erik Pa, and Pops.
- All the kids decided that Erik was Pa and Charles is Dad.
- Wanda and Peitro called him Vati as well as Pa.
- Peitro’s mutation took some time manifest, but he was still fairly early. He manifested when he was two, and Lorna was the one watching the twins when it happened. He was just learning to walk and Lorna looked at Wanda for two seconds and he was gone.
- Peter almost threw a party when he found out his little brother was a speedster to.
- Charles burns water, Erik learns he loves to cook. Turns out Peter inherited this gift so the two are the main cookers in the family. Lorna will occasionally make pancakes and waffles from a box but that’s as much as she knows. Wanda, when she’s older, learns how to bake and loves it. Peitro only knows how to make smoothies and that’s it.
- Charles was an atheist for most his life, believing in science over religion, but he understood why it was very important to Erik that the children be raised Jewish. After a few years of celebrating Shabbat, Hanukkah, Passover, and visiting the synagogue, Charles started to feel more and more comfortable in Judaism and grew a connection with it, till eventually he converted.
- Because Wanda, Peitro, and Peter are Roma, and since Charles and Erik aren’t, and since Erik knows what it’s like to not be able to practice his culture, he and Charles got in contact with Magda’s brother, Django and his wife Mayra, who had recently immigrated to America, and made sure they could be Uncle Django and Aunt Mayra to the kids. They talked to the couple and explained how they wanted their children to be taught about their culture. Aunt Mayra and Uncle Django can often be found babysitting the kids or being over for family dinners.
- Natalya visits the twins every now and then. To them she is Aunt Natalya. But if the twins had never taken and her dear Magda had never died, than to the twins she would have been ‘mama’. However the twins were taken, and her dear Magda did die, so she remains Aunt Natalya.
- Raven is Aunt Raven to all the kids.
- A speed round of the aunts and uncles: Aunt Irene, Uncle Logan, Uncle Hank, and Aunt Emma
- Wanda was a selective mute when she was little. The only times she would talk would be to say the name of the person she wanted the attention of.
- Charles could read her mind and so she gravitated towards him since she could have a conversation without having to talk.
- Charles noticed that she had some telepathic abilities so he taught her how to send messages. She doesn’t use them often with anyone but her family.
- Wanda used to hide behind Erik’s legs when she was nervous. Or she would pull on his pant leg to ask to be picked up.
- With Charles, Wanda would pull on the blanket he normally has over his legs so that Charles would pick her up and she could sit on his lap.
- Once Charles taught an entire class with Wanda on his lap. She eventually feel asleep.
This is part one because somehow I wrote more than what was aloud on a text post haha