Fic progress
31 May 2021 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeRight, I think we've definitively finished Chapter Six of Hertha now, and have thus completed Act I. (I spent a couple of days fiddling around with the final line of the chapter -- in which Hertha is feeling insecure because Christine is featuring in Raoul's post-traumatic nightmares; admittedly they're nightmares, but Another Woman is in them and she isn't -- and am still not all that happy that it conveys the above sentiment effectively. But I have now written a hundred words or so of the next bit, which means the preceding chapter is fairly well 'set'.)
Now for the unknown territory covering the six months between the chandelier falling and the masquerade -- which is implicitly being held to celebrate "the new chandelier" and hence, I'm assuming, the reopening of the Opera Populaire after the structural repairs that would have been necessary. Although it's possible that the damage wasn't that great, i.e. the Phantom simply released the cables that would normally winch the chandelier down for cleaning/lighting... but I've written it as ripping through the plasterwork (based I think on a vague memory of the 2004 film!) and crashing through the timbers of the stage, so there would have been a lot of building work necesary to make the auditorium safe again in this version.
(In reality, the chandelier at the Palais Garnier was apparently raised up into the cupola above via a trap-door arrangement rather than being lowered all the way to ground level!)
Now for the unknown territory covering the six months between the chandelier falling and the masquerade -- which is implicitly being held to celebrate "the new chandelier" and hence, I'm assuming, the reopening of the Opera Populaire after the structural repairs that would have been necessary. Although it's possible that the damage wasn't that great, i.e. the Phantom simply released the cables that would normally winch the chandelier down for cleaning/lighting... but I've written it as ripping through the plasterwork (based I think on a vague memory of the 2004 film!) and crashing through the timbers of the stage, so there would have been a lot of building work necesary to make the auditorium safe again in this version.
(In reality, the chandelier at the Palais Garnier was apparently raised up into the cupola above via a trap-door arrangement rather than being lowered all the way to ground level!)
