Okay so I’m really sleep-deprived from travelling all day, but I was thinking about why ALW!Phantom vanishes at the end of the play and my brain was like, “Well, what if the Phantom was a literal poltergeist who had unfinished business and Christine resolved it for him and now he can cross over to the afterlife?!?!?” (My more rational side says they did it because it’s better than showing him die a slow depressing death and it leaves the ending more open-ended while allowing the Phantom one more magic trick for y’all to gawk at)
Dude, when I first saw the OCR as a wee little one….I thought that WAS what happened. Holy shit! XD
OH FUCK… MY HEART….
@15thvullyraptor @crystalshardsofsouls @harklesparkle @thephantomofthebarricadeI’m not joking, when I first learned the plot of the musical my thought was this:
“The Phantom was a deformed guy who was being paraded around at a carnival. He killed his master and escaped, but drowned in the river (I don’t know why I thought this, but I did and I cannot explain why). His ghost started haunting the opera house and causing all the trouble. He fell in love with Christine and when she showed him love for the first time at the end, he felt complete enough to move on. Proving that the rumors were true, the opera house truly was haunted.”
I was a dumb kid, and I later learned I was dead wrong; but it’s interesting to think about.
Maybe because he lives on the lake, which runs outside the Opera into the river? His body could’ve floated into the lake from the river, and that’s what caused him to haunt the Opera. I think that plot would make a great AU! It’s a unique spin on the story.
I wouldn’t complain if a newer adaptation were to come out where that was the case. ^^ Hey, maybe someday you and I can pull a Susan Kay an co-op a book about that!
“The (Literal) Phantom of the Opera”
Maybe! That’d be fun 😀
You know….it would explain a lot. Like why he’s so obsessed with death, how he can create illusions and manipulate objects seemingly with his mind, ect. …… Actually, this makes more logical sense the more I dwell on it.
Oh my God, yeah. It could explain details in a few different versions tbh.
The coffin bed
The fireballs during Wandering Child
How the candles in the lair rise from the water and light on their own
Why he can appear and disappear so fast seemingly with no route to do so on
Why he talks in 3rd person (trying to make sure he doesn’t forget his mortal life)
And most importantly
The threat of blowing up the opera house. it wouldn’t kill him, and would leave her a ghost with him, so Christine’s choice becomes “stay with me, or stay with me as a ghost” without her knowing it. That has so many extra implications and is dark as hell.
I love this AU already.If we apply it to Leroux, he could’ve tried to re-inhabit his mortal husk after he left it, so that’s how he’s capable of physically touching things……as well as explain the smell of death that follows him everywhere. It also gives his wanting a “living bride” a whole new meaning. And the way he constantly calls himself a corpse.
…..oh my god, what have we stumbled across?!
If you go by the “felt of death” side of the “felt vs smelt” translation issue, it also explains why he was as cold as a corpse, because he is a corpse.
And if you go by Kay, it explains why he was so adamant about not killing the spider: because it’s an innocent but ugly creature that doesn’t deserve to die for it’s appearance, and that’s exactly what happened to him.We’ve found a damn good au, my friend.
A damn, damn good au. I’m saving this thread.
GOD BLESS THIS AU POST I WANT MORE!!!!!
@cyrodiil-phantom ~ The people are demanding this, should we give it to them?
I say we absolutely should!
I say let’s do it, then! Let’s start plotting a fic!
I’m going to hound you two on this one. I shall not rest until the deed is done.
I shall see it through. I don’t care what happens I’m going to see this into the world.
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