Anecdotally, a lot of R/C fans tended to describe themselves as having been swept away by the romance of Erik when they were teenagers and having seen the light in subsequent years...
Now that there seems to be a fashion for random pairings of everybody and anybody (even characters who barely meet in canon, such as Christine and the Daroga) there may be less monolithic teenage groupthink -- but certainly in the days of 'the Fop' it would take a very strong-minded teenage girl to stand out against the E/C consensus of her peers :-p
It's not so much that E/C writers are younger and more inexperienced as that the inexperienced writers tend to write E/C, again I think because that's the 'standard' to follow (just as they write fiction featuring 'the masked man', 'the soprano', 'chocolate coloured curls' and 'Nadir', because that's what they've seen everyone else do).
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Date: 2019-07-10 11:29 pm (UTC)Now that there seems to be a fashion for random pairings of everybody and anybody (even characters who barely meet in canon, such as Christine and the Daroga) there may be less monolithic teenage groupthink -- but certainly in the days of 'the Fop' it would take a very strong-minded teenage girl to stand out against the E/C consensus of her peers :-p
It's not so much that E/C writers are younger and more inexperienced as that the inexperienced writers tend to write E/C, again I think because that's the 'standard' to follow (just as they write fiction featuring 'the masked man', 'the soprano', 'chocolate coloured curls' and 'Nadir', because that's what they've seen everyone else do).