azryal00:

thetendershark:

becauseitsfunnycuteawesome:

This has always bothered me. Especially when you consider that the argument “Well his power is invasive” doesn’t really hold. He can read minds, but Raven can steal identities, and no one other than a telepath or someone with similar powers would know the difference. Also, from what we know of the later movies, she even learns how to be that person. How scary would it be to find out someone else is you? You’ve become replaceable as a person because of her power. But Charles should stay out of everyone’s heads while she shifts into the people around her, and we know she’s had practice morphing because she has a good handle on her powers when the movie starts. She’s able to morph into the people around her fairly easily. So Charles, aside from telling her not to be blue (I’ll rant about that further down) doesn’t seem to have actually stopped her from practicing becoming other people/stealing their forms. /end rant related to confession

As for telling her not to be blue, Charles is a telepath and not as naive as people like to think. He knows how people think, and they are living in a time period where being black could get you killed. How are people going to react to someone blue, who, let’s face it, is way more rare. People were freaking out about mutants even when  there were a ton of them in the 2000s. Nobody knew mutants even existed in the 60s, so the odds that Raven would be carted off and tested on in a lab or killed by a mob were depressingly high. Charles had to make a decision between letting her be herself or keeping her alive. And it’s already been mentioned several times here that if anyone saw their sibling walk up to them naked, they’d ask them to put on clothes.

As for the scene where Raven asks Charles if he would date her and he replies “blue?” it could be him being an asshole. It could also be that since he wasn’t allowed to read her mind, he wouldn’t know that she was feeling insecure about her forms. It didn’t seem like Raven had mentioned it to Charles, and he stayed out of her mind, so he was probably thrown that she was asking about her blue form. He likely had assumed she was comfortable in her blonde form, so these new thoughts he wasn’t allowed to be privy to caught him off guard. /end unrelated rant

Wow, didn’t mean to rant. Whelp, soapbox ends here :3

Finally. Thank you!

Yes. Exactly.

 Nothing much I can add to that – becauseitsfunnycuteawesome has pretty much said exactly my views on this.

One thing, though, is on Charles’s reply to dating Raven in her blue form. The way it seemed to me was that Charles can be very dense and tactless. He’s really not trying to be a jerk or anything, and he’s not trying to repress who Raven really is (apart from keeping her safe, as was mentioned above), he just doesn’t always think things through before he says them (e.g., revealing that Hank is a mutant on their first meeting; trying to convince Erik not to kill all the humans, and in the process giving him the final incentive he needs). He’s probably the only one who’s seen Raven’s real form in years (ever since she escaped her birth family), so the idea of anyone else, people Raven might date not at all exempt, seeing/knowing about her blue form could be completely alien. Like, other people + blue Raven = does not compute. So Charles’s response is something like ‘Blue? Why would anyone else be seeing Raven blue? That doesn’t normally happen.’ (imo)