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Wild Concerto - Erik/Christine
10 June 2014 02:42 amA reply to Erik/Christine: Top 10 reasons why it doesn't work:
As you know, I'm not really an expert on E/C shipping, but I always assumed that the majority of people shipped even Leroux' Erik together with Christine — I've certainly seen quite a few fan fictions along those lines. Admittedly the ones I've read were mostly morbid-fic because those are the only ones that are at all plausible to me; there is no way that the original Erik is likely to have a happy ever after existence with anyone, so they tend to end up with two or more of Erik, Christine and Raoul dead and/or insane.
But after all, Christine and Raoul got their happy ending in the novel (although possibly not all that happy, as they both had to go into exile and leave everything they knew behind). There's no need to write fan-fiction in order to 'fix' that, and not much potential plot in "Christine and Raoul live happily ever after": it's probably not surprising that all the married-in-Sweden stories I've seen have been one-shot vignettes. On the other hand, every single E/C story involves a plot to rewrite the original outcome, possibly requiring sixty or seventy chapters to explain just how this can be achieved...
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As you know, I'm not really an expert on E/C shipping, but I always assumed that the majority of people shipped even Leroux' Erik together with Christine — I've certainly seen quite a few fan fictions along those lines. Admittedly the ones I've read were mostly morbid-fic because those are the only ones that are at all plausible to me; there is no way that the original Erik is likely to have a happy ever after existence with anyone, so they tend to end up with two or more of Erik, Christine and Raoul dead and/or insane.
But after all, Christine and Raoul got their happy ending in the novel (although possibly not all that happy, as they both had to go into exile and leave everything they knew behind). There's no need to write fan-fiction in order to 'fix' that, and not much potential plot in "Christine and Raoul live happily ever after": it's probably not surprising that all the married-in-Sweden stories I've seen have been one-shot vignettes. On the other hand, every single E/C story involves a plot to rewrite the original outcome, possibly requiring sixty or seventy chapters to explain just how this can be achieved...
( Read more... )
