Well, half of it works ...

[andraste]

I saw a thread on meme today where you take your two favourite pairings and swap the partners and see if the results are still pairings you would like. This brought me to the realisation that G'Kar/Magneto is a perfectly cromulant pairing of freedom fighters bonding over REVOLUTION and I would certainly be into it.

On the other hand, Charles Xavier and Londo Mollari would just would not work as a pairing on any level. Charles would find Londo fascinating and entertaining in small doses, but also exhausting, and I just can't see Londo being interested at all. Besides which, if Charles was in the B5 universe somehow he would be far too distracted taking over the Psi Corps to date anyone from there. (Obviously he is intending to run it in the best interests of the telepaths rather than EarthGov! Which I'm sure would work out for the best with absolutely no negative consequences at all ...)

Meanwhile, I do not think Jean Valjean and/or Javert have done anything to deserve being anywhere near any of these people. (Javert deserves lots of things, but being dragged into the complexities of mutant rights and/or a very confusing space station is not it.)

Comments

[wychwood]

The very concept of Charles/Londo is boggling my mind. No.

I don't think Londo/Magneto works either, though. But... Charles/G'Kar?? That might have potential?

[selenak]

Clearly, the telepath Londo would go for is Emma Frost. I'm just saying. A different case could also be made for Jean Grey, but of the two, I think Emma is the one who'd flirt back and might for either pragmatic, devious or actually charmed reasons have a fling with him.

[lilacsigil]

I think Charles would get along well with Jean Valjean - not because they're alike, but because Valjean is obviously a mutant and they have similar outlooks about using their money to help people. He'd just have to get Valjean past the extreme self-sacrifice part. Meanwhile, Magneto would pitch Javert head first into the Seine.