[XMFC] Charles' Killer 'Verse

[lunchee]

CK (Charles' Killer) 'Verse by hero_for_ghosts
Verse Summary:

When detective Charles Xavier finds himself hunting down a vendetta-driven serial killer, it doesn't take long for him to realize he's in over his head. It only takes a little longer for him to realize his killer is, too.

Music: La ronde des fees and Entre ciel et fer
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence

This 'verse is best experienced in the order that the author has written them in, therefore the following lists the best order to listen them to, and the numbers denote where they take place chronologically.



Title: #3 Run while you still can
Pairing: Erik/Charles
File Info: 6mins
Summary:

"You're what keeps me awake at night."

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points: status (5) + length (1) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 26




Title: #8 Sometime around midnight
Pairing: Erik/Charles; Charles/Moira
File Info: 19mins
Summary:

Seven months after the phone call.

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points: status (5) + length (2) + fandom (10) + pairing (10+10) + language (0) = 37




Title: #1 One Hell of a Mess
Pairing: Gen
File Info: 9mins
Summary:

CK's first kill.

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points: status (5) + length (1) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 26




Title: #2 YOU DESERVE TO DIE LIKE THIS
Pairing: Gen
File Info: 11mins
Summary:

CK's third kill.

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points: status (5) + length (2) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 27




Title: #4 Down the drain and out of your mouth
Pairing:Charles/Erik
File Info: 16mins
Summary:

After the phone call.

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points: status (5) + length (2) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 27




Title: #5 The Division Bell
Pairing:Charles/Erik
File Info: 17mins
Summary:

A couple of months after the break-in.

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points: status (5) + length (2) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 27




Title: #6 Living lower, feeling higher
Pairing:Charles/Erik; Shaw/Frost
File Info: 8mins
Summary:

The day after Cain's murder.

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points: status (5) + length (1) + fandom (10) + pairing (10+10) + language (0) = 36




Title: #7 A walk-on part in the war; a lead role in a cage
Pairing:Charles/Erik
File Info: 41mins
Summary:

A couple months after the death of Cain Marko; just a bit before Moira arrives.

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points: status (5) + length (5) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 30




Title: #10 Burning out, going harder
Pairing:Charles/Erik
File Info: 15mins
Summary:

Post-Moira by another couple of months.

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points: status (5) + length (2) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 27




Title: #11 My bullet makes no distinction
Pairing:Charles/Erik
File Info: 24mins
Summary:

Half an hour after Emma's apartment.

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points: status (5) + length (3) + fandom (10) + pairing (10) + language (0) = 28




Title: #9 His body is a battlefield
Pairing:Charles/Erik; Shaw/Frost
File Info: 31mins
Summary:

Before all the Shaw-induced drama by a month or so.

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points: status (5) + length (4) + fandom (10) + pairing (10+10) + language (0) = 39




Title: #12 One cold steel rail
Pairing:Charles/Erik; Shaw/Frost
File Info: 35mins
Summary:

Nearly immediately after the Shaw-induced drama.

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points: status (5) + length (4) + fandom (10) + pairing (10+10) + language (0) = 39



Title: #13 Wish you were here
Pairing:Charles/Erik; Shaw/Frost
File Info: 32mins
Summary:

Three months after the hospital.

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points: status (5) + length (4) + fandom (10) + pairing (10+10) + language (0) = 39

Download the whole 'verse* (m4b and mp3) at my journal.

*Note: The audiobook and MP3 of the entire 'verse have been compiled in the order they were written, not in chronological order.

total points for post: 408

Comments

[curiously_me]

OMG! You posted! You posted! *runs around excitedly*

[lunchee]

Thanks for all the enthusiastic cheerleading bb, I really appreciate it ♥♥♥♥

[curiously_me]

Anytime, dearie! I'm going to listen to the whole thing (again, lol) on the drive home from #Femmevengers wkend.

[lunchee]

(sorry for the delayed response, I didn't see this in my inbox :( )

How was the femmevengers?? That sounds like a fun thing that only happens in America :( Not sure if serial killing is a good thing to drive to...

[curiously_me]

I'm typing up an after-event DW post for femmevengers and will include a few pics. :D

I would have to agree that the serial killing is not so good, but your reading? SO good for me!

[lunchee]

I'm glad you enjoyed it in it's complete form :D

Your post sounds relevant to my interests! Please link when you're done :)

[elaineofshalott]

Wow! Looking forward to listening to this!

[lunchee]

fantastic! Really hope you enjoy it ♥

[elaineofshalott]

OMG

This was totally amazing.

I always have a bit of a difficult time commenting on the reading of a podfic as a separate thing from the fic's story, but I think here that that's much to your credit--you read this so effectively that I was totally immersed in the story. I did notice that your voicing of Emma was fantastic--she's so...cool and devil-may-care and arrogant and fabulous. (I've never liked Emma Frost much, even in fic, but I love her here.) Anyway THANKS LOTS for recording this, it gave me some happy hours of knitting, and also pulled me into this adorable serial killer AU. :D

[lunchee]

I feel you! It's so hard to leave feedback for podficcers because you know you like how they did it, but pinpointing how exactly to word it is so difficult! I'm so happy you were immersed in it though ♥ There's something delightful about the way luchia wrote the suspense and mystery and bloodiness that really appealed to me. Emma was great fun to voice! I really love her brand of brilliance and psychopathy that authors in XMFC like to bring to her. It amuses me to voice her so much :D I'm so glad you enjoyed listening, thank you so much for the lovely feedback (and apologies for the belated reply!)

A..Adorable!? I... I guess it must be? My imagination, no matter how much amazingly flirty charles there is, just won't compute serial killers + adorable in the same sentence...)

[dodificus]

Your archive pages for the compilations are here: m4b | mp3

Did you need them archived individually as well?

[lunchee]

thank you dodi ♥

I don't think it's necessary to archive them individually if the compilation is already there, seems like creating more work for you for no reason :( Also, this is really terrible of me, but even though the author of this is hero-for-ghosts, that's actually one one luchia's aliases (or luchia13, on LJ)? So I'm not sure if you'd rather file it under her author tag or not (if she has one already, that is!)

[dodificus]

*collapses with relief* Thank you<3

luchia13 was in the archive as an alias, so I changed the entries for you:)

[dodificus]

This was awesome, I love this story and I think when I first read it, it was in a really disjointed way over a period of time just because of the way things on kink memes are posted.

So getting to experience it again all in one sitting was great.

Ok, so there was spot where Erik and Charles were having a phone coversation (I think Marko was in the bathroom?) and Erik pretty much *yelled* at Erik and you scared the crap out of me with it. I literally jerked in bed and then had to laugh at myself:D

[lunchee]

Yay, I'm glad you enjoyed it! For some reason, the disjointed posting appealed to me even more, because I always thought, 'oh no! That's the end!' and then the next week there would be more! I still remember my shock when Shaw showed up, it was like, 'THIS WHOLE TOWN IS CORRUPTTTT'!! Happy days, lol.

(Sorry about the volume thing - Jo usually tells me off about stuff like that, but because it was amplificathon I forewent beta-ing! I always forget people listen to pod before bed, eep.)

[dodificus]

No, no, you have me wrong. I meant I jumped in a 'eep that was scary/forceful yelling' not in a 'it was too loud and hurt my ears' kind of way. It was atmospheric yelling:D

[lunchee]

In that case - YAYYYYYY! I always re-do those yelling lines because I don't think I sound convincingly pissed off/menacing enough, so it's great to hear it made you jump :D

Wow

[dinofly]

Thank you for this story. Your reading is exquisite. The way how you work with voices, accents (even trough I can't distinguish them so much, with English not being my first or even second language), the tempo of speach and just the difference betwen narration and direct speach. Wow.

The emotion and drama you manage to convey make it quite hard to listen to at work. I've really felt the emotion you've conveyed and let me tell you, when you are anxious or excited or scared, it is very very very hard to work. Or at least seem professional. :) (at those pointt I had to pause the audiobook and calm down, so that my boss or customers wouldn't notice too much and let me finish listening to it in peace).

I really appreciate the clear sound of your recording, no scratches, beeping, animals or traffic in the background. It had to take a lot of work (or at least to clean the sound afterwards) and it makes all the difference.

Also, the cuts and sound effects (not sure if used here but definitely in the other works you've read) are very well done and thought out. Thanks for that.

Well, I am probably running out of superlatives. You've set the bar high, I hope to listen to more works from you in the future. There are only a few people out there in the fanfiction world, who can do what you do and do it so well. Please continue and thank you once more.