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Brooke ([personal profile] betweensunandmoon) wrote in [personal profile] igenlode 2019-01-07 03:10 am (UTC)

This sounds like a wonderful story!

I suspect fangirl/'fop' jokes are going to be irresistible, as I've already got Raoul playing a Sir Percy Blakeney role :-p

O.o This is bizarre, because...

1. Last month, I had a cold and was reading Mary Sue parodies to cheer myself up.

2. I also, for some masochistic reason, read a lot of old "humor" fics that weren't funny at all and made liberal use of the f-word, which made me think of the Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro.

3. My mind blended all of the above into Raoul de Chagny, fop by day and Sue-hunter by night. (It helps that Leslie Howard looks like my mental picture of Leroux!Raoul.)

4. I wrote the first chapter and posted it on fanfiction.net, but then my cold got worse, I recovered just in time for Christmas and New Year's, and two original-fiction ideas hijacked my imagination once those were over, so it hasn't been updated since.

5. I just think it's strange we had the same idea, though in different contexts.

Possibly Raoul originally tries to grow a moustache (as in canon) in order to make himself look older, and in imitation of his favourite screen swashbuckling heroes during his adolescence in the 1930s :-D

Robert Donat did have a nice mustache...

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