Assuming that Christine realised she loved the Phantom at the moment that she kissed him (because kissing him felt so wonderful!) seems pretty much canonical among E/C writers of a certain tendency... Then, of course, she gets all hurt because Erik is sending her away when she has just pledged herself to him and promised to stay with him forever (and let's be fair; there is some rationale behind this, since the original choice was 'stay with me forever or I kill Raoul' -- kissing Erik is obviously not a 'kill Raoul' signal, so logically speaking it must then have been an 'I accept your love and will stay' signal! After all, what else can 'you are not alone' mean, other than 'I am with you'...?)
The idea that Christine was trying to escape this binary choice and and stop the Phantom from killing Raoul without actually accepting his bargain does not enter into the equation: to authors of that age-group, if you kiss a boy that means you love him and are going to have his babies :-p
The novel is absolutely unambiguous that Christine chooses Raoul -- not even that she chooses him, that there was never any choice for her in the first place: it was 'admit that I love Raoul and put his life in danger' or 'pretend that I care nothing for Raoul in order to keep both of us safe', not 'love Raoul' versus 'love Erik'. But the vast -- the overwhelming -- majority of novel-based fan-fiction is still centred around the idea of 'Erik and his living bride' and Christine learning to appreciate her shrinking and worshipful husband.
I have no plans whatsoever to write any Erik/Christine based fan-fiction, morbid, Leroux-based or not :-p The world is over-supplied with it, and I don't get ideas for Erik-based stories: I don't hypothesise about Erik.
Does Jack Sparrow really abhor cheating? He seems to me the type who would consider it to add an additional savour to the dish, stolen fruit being all the sweeter and his own charms thus definitively proved to be the superior.
I'm no expert in French hairstyles, but Patrick Wilson's hair looks pre-Revolutionary to me -- which puts it a hundred years or so out of date. Fops and dandies of the Napoleonic wars in England wore their hair short and brushed up over the forehead, not long and tied back in a queue: and nobody wore long hair hanging loose that I can think of except for unkempt peasants :-p (One reason why movie-Raoul looks better during the masquerade scene: the old-fashioned military costume makes some sort of sense with the properly-tied-back hair...)
As for late-nineteenth-century gentlemen... the 1990 Kopit/Yeaston Philippe (a.k.a Raoul) de Chagny has hair that is wavering over the outside edge of credible: if he was a member of the much-mocked Aesthetic Movement (imitating Oscar Wilde, for example) then that style might just be authentic. Anything longer than that -- no. Absolutely not!
It was you who proposed Christine/Daroga as parents for a half-Indian Gustave :-)
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Date: 2014-07-06 12:26 am (UTC)The idea that Christine was trying to escape this binary choice and and stop the Phantom from killing Raoul without actually accepting his bargain does not enter into the equation: to authors of that age-group, if you kiss a boy that means you love him and are going to have his babies :-p
The novel is absolutely unambiguous that Christine chooses Raoul -- not even that she chooses him, that there was never any choice for her in the first place: it was 'admit that I love Raoul and put his life in danger' or 'pretend that I care nothing for Raoul in order to keep both of us safe', not 'love Raoul' versus 'love Erik'. But the vast -- the overwhelming -- majority of novel-based fan-fiction is still centred around the idea of 'Erik and his living bride' and Christine learning to appreciate her shrinking and worshipful husband.
I have no plans whatsoever to write any Erik/Christine based fan-fiction, morbid, Leroux-based or not :-p
The world is over-supplied with it, and I don't get ideas for Erik-based stories: I don't hypothesise about Erik.
Does Jack Sparrow really abhor cheating? He seems to me the type who would consider it to add an additional savour to the dish, stolen fruit being all the sweeter and his own charms thus definitively proved to be the superior.
I'm no expert in French hairstyles, but Patrick Wilson's hair looks pre-Revolutionary to me -- which puts it a hundred years or so out of date. Fops and dandies of the Napoleonic wars in England wore their hair short and brushed up over the forehead, not long and tied back in a queue: and nobody wore long hair hanging loose that I can think of except for unkempt peasants :-p (One reason why movie-Raoul looks better during the masquerade scene: the old-fashioned military costume makes some sort of sense with the properly-tied-back hair...)
As for late-nineteenth-century gentlemen... the 1990 Kopit/Yeaston Philippe (a.k.a Raoul) de Chagny has hair that is wavering over the outside edge of credible: if he was a member of the much-mocked Aesthetic Movement (imitating Oscar Wilde, for example) then that style might just be authentic. Anything longer than that -- no. Absolutely not!
It was you who proposed Christine/Daroga as parents for a half-Indian Gustave :-)