Excellent piece. Just my two cents on why there are Raoul haters, though, and I hope I don't sound like a jerk when I do this: Raoul isn't patronizing, manipulative, foppish, a bastard, or otherwise. I have nothing against his character in the least, and I think people do only because he breaks up Erik/Christine and that's their immature way to react to that. But he's BORING.
He's a sweet, innocent, understanding guy. He's a knight in shining armor. He's eternally supportive of his lady love. He has no flaws or complications. He's obviously the perfect choice for Christine in every respect. It's spelled out for you to the point that you don't want to care just out of sheer protest.
I'd never write fanfic for them because there's not really much you can do to expand on them, especially if you don't write straight fluff. I'd never think about them because everything gets signed, sealed, and delivered. It's a lot more fun to sit down and work out ways that Christine's sympathy for Erik could have blossomed into a lasting friendship, at the very least, or all the ways that Erik's life could have gone once the lovers left.
To reduce it to a sentence, I guess, Raoul doesn't seem REAL.
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Date: 2005-04-22 05:30 am (UTC)He's a sweet, innocent, understanding guy. He's a knight in shining armor. He's eternally supportive of his lady love. He has no flaws or complications. He's obviously the perfect choice for Christine in every respect. It's spelled out for you to the point that you don't want to care just out of sheer protest.
I'd never write fanfic for them because there's not really much you can do to expand on them, especially if you don't write straight fluff. I'd never think about them because everything gets signed, sealed, and delivered. It's a lot more fun to sit down and work out ways that Christine's sympathy for Erik could have blossomed into a lasting friendship, at the very least, or all the ways that Erik's life could have gone once the lovers left.
To reduce it to a sentence, I guess, Raoul doesn't seem REAL.