Oh yeah, in combat all bets are off, but among friends it gets tricky, especially if it's the kind of power that's active by default, so it takes a great deal of focus not to use it - particularly since you'd be born thinking that everyone saw the world like this, and it wouldn't be until you got older that you really absorbed the concept of minds as private places, when your whole life things hadn't worked like that. I bet it would be really, really easy to end up reading people's minds accidentally too - you'd be trying to figure out what they were thinking using mundane means and then the next thing you know you're giving yourself that extra edge by accident. Especially with people you know so well you'd often be able to tell what they were thinking without extra powers - you wouldn't even realize you were reading their mind as opposed to their demeanor, I suspect.
Oh God, snark!kink is my fastest 'ship now' button after ships that exist in this quiet unvoiced area where the characters are absolutely terrified of admitting what it means to them or that it happens. (Some of which may come from early ships based in subtext, but I think you can strike that tone and still make the relationship entirely textual - it's a matter of careful writing.)
And some of it's my willingness to reach a bit in order to achieve pointless fluff, but in all seriousness, if they had more time for Eric to get attached, if things played out just a little bit differently on the beach, hell, if Charles had said anything other than 'just following orders,' it could have happened. I suspect it would have overtones of "I'm leaving tomorrow. No, really. Tomorrow," until all the tomorrows add up, but, hey.
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Date: 2011-06-19 05:09 pm (UTC)Oh God, snark!kink is my fastest 'ship now' button after ships that exist in this quiet unvoiced area where the characters are absolutely terrified of admitting what it means to them or that it happens. (Some of which may come from early ships based in subtext, but I think you can strike that tone and still make the relationship entirely textual - it's a matter of careful writing.)
And some of it's my willingness to reach a bit in order to achieve pointless fluff, but in all seriousness, if they had more time for Eric to get attached, if things played out just a little bit differently on the beach, hell, if Charles had said anything other than 'just following orders,' it could have happened. I suspect it would have overtones of "I'm leaving tomorrow. No, really. Tomorrow," until all the tomorrows add up, but, hey.
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