"...I spend my whole life pursuing his dream anyway"
What I love about that almost-shaking-hands scene is how close they hands are. Charles' fingers are almost touching Erik's, he wants to shake his friend's hand - and in the last moment he decides he can't do that (because he can't go with him).
It's interesting to read this scene with Legion and think about the fact that the same scene could have happened in Ultimate!X-Men: here Legion's trying to kill his dad future enemy, in the Ultimate world Legion would try to eliminate the reason why Charles has left Moira and young David (because the only reason to follow your dream about mutant-human coexistence is to leave your family and elope with your male mutant friend...)
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Date: 2011-08-29 07:12 pm (UTC)What I love about that almost-shaking-hands scene is how close they hands are. Charles' fingers are almost touching Erik's, he wants to shake his friend's hand - and in the last moment he decides he can't do that (because he can't go with him).
It's interesting to read this scene with Legion and think about the fact that the same scene could have happened in Ultimate!X-Men: here Legion's trying to kill his dad future enemy, in the Ultimate world Legion would try to eliminate the reason why Charles has left Moira and young David (because the only reason to follow your dream about mutant-human coexistence is to leave your family and elope with your male mutant friend...)