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zellephantom) wrote2019-04-22 05:23 pm
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Phantom Thoughts pt. 38
{"Christine," said Raoul, rising, "you tell me that you love me; but you had recovered your liberty hardly a few hours before you returned to Erik! Remember the masked ball!"
"Yes; and do you remember those hours which I passed with you, Raoul ... to the great danger of both of us?"
"I doubted your love for me, during those hours."
"Do you doubt it still, Raoul? ... Then know that each of my visits to Erik increased my horror of him; for each of those visits, instead of calming him, as I hoped, made him mad with love! And I am so frightened, so frightened! ..."}
This is... interesting. I almost wonder if Christine's exaggerating her horror of Erik to Raoul so he won't get jealous.
{"You are frightened ... but do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?"
She rose in her turn, put her two trembling arms round the young man's neck and said:
"Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last."
He kissed her lips; but the night that surrounded them was rent asunder, they fled as at the approach of a storm and their eyes, filled with dread of Erik, showed them, before they disappeared, high up above them, an immense night-bird that stared at them with its blazing eyes and seemed to cling to the string of Apollo's lyre.}
She.. avoided that question very effectively. Christine said, basically, "It doesn't matter if I love Erik, especially in a circumstance that could never be- I love you and I wouldn't let you do this if I didn't."
But it's an interesting thought. If Erik didn't have such an unfortunate face (therefore making his childhood and life in general a lot less awful and hopefully make him less of a jerk), would Christine still love Raoul? I think she would, but I don't know if she would ultimately choose him as a romantic partner in the end. She loves Raoul, both as an old friend and romantically, but, in this AU, would she love Erik more, enough to spend her life with him? (The E/C shipper in me says YES, but really I could see her falling for and ending up with either one of them in this scenario.)
Also, I'm a little confused. Did they actually see that Erik was there watching them, did they imagine it, or simply recognize the possibility that he could be watching and decide to leave in order to be safe?
{There was no performance at the Opera that night and the passages were empty. Suddenly, a queer-looking form stood before them and blocked the road:
"No, not this way!"
And the form pointed to another passage by which they were to reach the wings. Raoul wanted to stop and ask for an explanation. But the form, which wore a sort of long frock-coat and a pointed cap, said:
"Quick! Go away quickly!"}
Ah, the ever-delightful daroga makes his first appearance!
{Christine was already dragging Raoul, compelling him to start running again.
"But who is he? Who is that man?" he asked.
Christine replied: "It's the Persian."
"What's he doing here?"
"Nobody knows. He is always in the Opera."}
Christine is so chill about this. "Oh, yeah, we have a mysterious creepy guy lurking around the Opera all the time and nobody knows what his deal is... Well, technically we have two counting Erik, but nbd."
{"You are making me run away, for the first time in my life. If we really saw Erik, what I ought to have done was to nail him to Apollo's lyre, just as we nail the owls to the walls of our Breton farms; and there would have been no more question of him."}
Overly violent threats really don't suit you, Raoul. (And you're still harboring the delusion that you could, in fact, take Erik in a fight. Seriously, if it wasn't for Christine you'd be dead.)
Also that's just a super disturbing practice?? (I really like owls. They're gorgeous birds. You wouldn't hurt Hedwig, would you?? Or Gylfie, for that matter, if you like semi-obscure fandoms.)
{"My dear Raoul, you would first have had to climb up to Apollo's lyre: that is no easy matter."}
Christine here with a much-needed reality check that manages to convince Raoul of the thoughtlessness of his plan without hurting his ego.
{"The blazing eyes were there!"
"Oh, you are getting like me now, seeing him everywhere! What I took for blazing eyes was probably a couple of stars shining through the strings of the lyre."}
Or WAS IT??
"Yes; and do you remember those hours which I passed with you, Raoul ... to the great danger of both of us?"
"I doubted your love for me, during those hours."
"Do you doubt it still, Raoul? ... Then know that each of my visits to Erik increased my horror of him; for each of those visits, instead of calming him, as I hoped, made him mad with love! And I am so frightened, so frightened! ..."}
This is... interesting. I almost wonder if Christine's exaggerating her horror of Erik to Raoul so he won't get jealous.
{"You are frightened ... but do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?"
She rose in her turn, put her two trembling arms round the young man's neck and said:
"Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last."
He kissed her lips; but the night that surrounded them was rent asunder, they fled as at the approach of a storm and their eyes, filled with dread of Erik, showed them, before they disappeared, high up above them, an immense night-bird that stared at them with its blazing eyes and seemed to cling to the string of Apollo's lyre.}
She.. avoided that question very effectively. Christine said, basically, "It doesn't matter if I love Erik, especially in a circumstance that could never be- I love you and I wouldn't let you do this if I didn't."
But it's an interesting thought. If Erik didn't have such an unfortunate face (therefore making his childhood and life in general a lot less awful and hopefully make him less of a jerk), would Christine still love Raoul? I think she would, but I don't know if she would ultimately choose him as a romantic partner in the end. She loves Raoul, both as an old friend and romantically, but, in this AU, would she love Erik more, enough to spend her life with him? (The E/C shipper in me says YES, but really I could see her falling for and ending up with either one of them in this scenario.)
Also, I'm a little confused. Did they actually see that Erik was there watching them, did they imagine it, or simply recognize the possibility that he could be watching and decide to leave in order to be safe?
{There was no performance at the Opera that night and the passages were empty. Suddenly, a queer-looking form stood before them and blocked the road:
"No, not this way!"
And the form pointed to another passage by which they were to reach the wings. Raoul wanted to stop and ask for an explanation. But the form, which wore a sort of long frock-coat and a pointed cap, said:
"Quick! Go away quickly!"}
Ah, the ever-delightful daroga makes his first appearance!
{Christine was already dragging Raoul, compelling him to start running again.
"But who is he? Who is that man?" he asked.
Christine replied: "It's the Persian."
"What's he doing here?"
"Nobody knows. He is always in the Opera."}
Christine is so chill about this. "Oh, yeah, we have a mysterious creepy guy lurking around the Opera all the time and nobody knows what his deal is... Well, technically we have two counting Erik, but nbd."
{"You are making me run away, for the first time in my life. If we really saw Erik, what I ought to have done was to nail him to Apollo's lyre, just as we nail the owls to the walls of our Breton farms; and there would have been no more question of him."}
Overly violent threats really don't suit you, Raoul. (And you're still harboring the delusion that you could, in fact, take Erik in a fight. Seriously, if it wasn't for Christine you'd be dead.)
Also that's just a super disturbing practice?? (I really like owls. They're gorgeous birds. You wouldn't hurt Hedwig, would you?? Or Gylfie, for that matter, if you like semi-obscure fandoms.)
{"My dear Raoul, you would first have had to climb up to Apollo's lyre: that is no easy matter."}
Christine here with a much-needed reality check that manages to convince Raoul of the thoughtlessness of his plan without hurting his ego.
{"The blazing eyes were there!"
"Oh, you are getting like me now, seeing him everywhere! What I took for blazing eyes was probably a couple of stars shining through the strings of the lyre."}
Or WAS IT??