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More Erik doodles, this time inspired by the musical adaption

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Lovebirds 💜

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Random Phan-art

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There’s not a single day that goes by that I’m not saddened by how many people don’t know or actively chose to disregard the fact that Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny walked out the door of his brother’s home determined to take Christine to safety, probably knowing that he was giving up his title and inheritance (“Have you quite made up your mind? You are going to-night? With her?” / No reply / .“Surely you will not do anything so foolish? I SHALL know how to prevent you!” / “Good-bye, Philippe,” said the viscount again and left the room) and didn’t even care anymore if she was willing to marry him or not (“I shall hide you in some unknown corner of the world, where HE can not come to look for you. You will be safe; and then I shall go away … as you have sworn never to marry.”) and what a big sacrifice that was. He left his whole life behind for her sake and not just that, he was also ready to do it literally, to actually die if this meant helping her in any way. This boy loved Christine so much and was so clever (that passage where his preparations for their departure are described is one of my favourites in the whole book) and so strong, given how young and inexperienced he was, and I find it quite awful how many people completely erase his character just to be able to form another bland and cliche love triangle. 

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erik on his regularly scheduled bullshit

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Erik undergoes a mental breakdown as Christine sings to him his opera ( p_q)

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Old art. Yippee! I forgor to post this. This is how I found out how to draw Erik’s face, which some of you like I guess haha. I was worried it would be too scary(silly, for fanart of a horror novel lol)

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Dark Week 2024 UPDATE!

New Date of event May 27-June 1st!!!

I've received lots of feedback this year from many folks who really want to participate in Dark Week but require more time. (including me!) Therefore, it's being postponed a few weeks!

Let all of your darkest versions of your beloved POTO characters out to play May 27- June 1st!

Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Misery and Macabre galore!

This is an opportunity to really delve down into the most twisted and deranged versions of your POTO characters and give them some life.  

Here is how to participate:

1. Follow the tag POTO Dark Week 2024

2. Create new dark POTO content, this could be fics, art, memes, posts, whatever! Use the POTO Dark Week 2024 tag when you post.

3. Repost or reblog any dark works you have created in the past. Use the POTO Dark Week 2024 tag when you post.

4. Support the dark works of others by reading, leaving feedback or reblogging.

Note: Taboo, gore or any other graphic subjects are welcome, it is descent into darkness after all, but be sure to tag or provide some warning for sensitive readers.

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Phantom fabric porn! 

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Would you happened to know what religion Raoul and Christine are? I'm confused because I thought they were catholic but then there's like some Christian references but then again I'm not too good w/ religious themes. Also I know Erik reveals he believes in God at the very end but what do you think about his religious tendencies?

This is a great question!

Let’s start with Raoul, since he’s the easiest case to analyze. In “The Enchanted Violin,” Leroux writes an interview between M. Mifroid, the Commissary of Police, and Raoul. In it, Mifroid asks Raoul, “Vous êtes superstitieux?” — “Are you superstitious?” To which Raoul replies, “Non, monsieur, je suis croyant.” — “No, monsieur, I am religious” (literally “a believer”). Since the majority of France was (and still is) Catholic, and since Raoul came from an old French family, it is almost certain that he was Catholic.

Christine was born in Sweden, and as such, was most likely raised a Lutheran, since that was (and is) the country’s dominant religion. However, it is likely that she and her father became Catholic after they moved to France when Christine was a girl. Daddy Daaé is buried in a Catholic cemetery in Perros-Guirec, and when Christine goes to visit her father’s grave, she requests that a mass be performed in his honor, and then spends many hours in prayer in the Catholic church there. There were Lutheran churches in France at the time, so if Daddy Daaé had been particularly adherent to that faith, he probably would have been buried in a Lutheran cemetery.

As for Erik, I’m pretty sure that he was, in his own way, still tied to the Catholic faith. He was most likely rather ambivalent about God for much of his life, but I don’t think that he was an atheist, and I strongly doubt that he had notions of devil worship like Susan Kay wrote for the Erik in her novel.

He writes masses in the Catholic tradition — of course, with his own spin, and usually to commemorate the death of some unfortunate soul.

When Christine first tells Erik to show her his face without fear, he “leva vers le Destin ses mains décharnées, et tomba à mes genoux avec des mots d’amour” — “he raised his skeletal hands towards Destiny, and he fell to his knees before me with words of love.”

Erik insists that he and Christine get married properly in the Madeleine Church — Erik is a stickler for rules (at least the ones that he decides are important); he tells Christine, “j’ai toujours eu la maladie du décorum” — “I have always had an obsession with etiquette.”

When Erik speaks to the Persian about Christine at the end of the novel, he says, “Seigneur du ciel! vous m’avez donné tout le bonheur du monde!” — “Lord in Heaven! You have given me all the happiness in the world!” It is Christine’s act of crying with Erik that ultimately revives and saves the man in Erik, and allows the Beast to perish. Remember that the line “Jesus wept” is from the Lazarus story — John 11:35 — which Leroux uses throughout his novel.

All of this is to say, I am pretty sure that Erik wasn’t an apostate from Catholicism (as numerous fanon traditions would have him be), but had a very complex relationship to faith, and was redeemed in many senses of the word by Christine’s kindness and compassion.

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The characters in The Phantom of the Opera are Catholic, right? Christine had a mass said for her father and prayed for his soul in Perros, and when trying to get her to marry him, Erik told her she could either have a wedding mass or a requiem mass. I thought I read somewhere that Gaston Leroux was Lutheran but now I can't find where I read that and I can't remember if it was a dream or not. Do Lutherans have masses said for the deceased?

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just some phantom doodles <3

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AU where everything is the same except erik wears them groucho glasses

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girls r like "but he's my comfort character" and then it's literally the most emotionally traumatized man you have ever seen ever

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📸 Zoe Zhao

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