I think it *would* be a wonderful story, which is why I've clung into it in my mental queue for so many years. Although the main problem with it was that it was basically all backstory and virtually no present-day plot; I never did get to grips with quite why Christine would have to go down and negotiate with the Phantom in order to help this Allied airman escape, since I don't see how blowing things up would be involved in that scenario. I have a vague feeling that it was his linguistic skills that were required -- maybe the RAF pilot was Polish and Raoul was unable to communicate with him adequately? And I never wrote the actual escape at all, though I made mental notes during my research of the sort of 'other' Resistance exploits/scenarios one might use for future stories: the idea was that there would be a whole series of R/C Resistance fighter fics under the "Double Agents de Chagny" banner, although that got revised to the more realistic aim of maybe writing just the one shortish adventure plus the full backstory as a 'prequel' if people were interested. Which I strongly suspect, on experience, that they wouldn't be; it's practically impossible to get people interested in spin-offs of anything with a potential audience as low as that.
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Date: 2019-01-07 03:34 am (UTC)And I never wrote the actual escape at all, though I made mental notes during my research of the sort of 'other' Resistance exploits/scenarios one might use for future stories: the idea was that there would be a whole series of R/C Resistance fighter fics under the "Double Agents de Chagny" banner, although that got revised to the more realistic aim of maybe writing just the one shortish adventure plus the full backstory as a 'prequel' if people were interested. Which I strongly suspect, on experience, that they wouldn't be; it's practically impossible to get people interested in spin-offs of anything with a potential audience as low as that.
I think I probably linked you already to the fact that I picked Leslie Howard as my 'face-claim' for LND-Raoul in "The Choices of Raoul de Chagny" ;-)
http://ivory.vlexofree.com/Tower/Fiction/Raoul/cast.html
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.
Oh, I never saw that... Unfortunately as it stands it looks like standard Mary Sue material or a parody thereof, with no sign of the caped crusader :-(
Ouch, that review! Is it for real, or did you leave it yourself as a further parody? It's so much of a cliché as to be barely believable...