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I think I just died a little inside.

All of these things are true, and yet he is still a pansy. (And just cause he was a sailor doesn't mean he's buff/strong. This wasn't America, with its boot camp and such. As an aristocrat, he probably went straight to officer-dom.)

True, but I mean to be able to hold up on a boat takes some physical strength but yes he IS a pansy. Just... not a bad pansy.

On my birthday, my ultimate PHAN moment, I was thrown a surprise party. Everyone was cheering when I walked through the door, and singing. I was all happy, and I go to sit down and eat cake, when the lights go out all flickery, and my friend lamely presses a button on the cd player, playing the Phantom of the Opera. I cracked up, and listened pleasantly, then began to sing off key along with it. I was about to sing Erik's part, but was interrupted by the lights being flung on.

And there in the hallway, was the Phantom, walking towards me, singing off-key also, to the song. He had the hat and the mask (on the wrong side of his face, but whatever), and sang to me. As he got closer I realized it was my good buddy (And crush), and he suddenly got annoyed, knocked over the cd player, and says,
"Screw this, I can't sing."
And sits down at the piano and plays the song.

I died. heart But not really.

Hee, I've never seen it on Broadway or tour, I'm really quite jealous of all you. I can never be a true phan. XP

And our beloved Erik cried often too. The point is that while Van Helsing and Erik are portrayed as strong, Raoul isn't. He deos heroic things, but when he does them he does them stupidly. When Van Helsing/Erik did things, he did them intelligently. Just read the novel and you get the image of a very effiminate yougn man runnign down a hallway sobbing after a Christine being led away by a tall, dark figure.

Any guy who would go running through a labyrinth in pitch black darkness, knowing there's a man that would like to see him dead lurking about in it, is not a pansy in my book. He goes to save a girl who had previously "dumped" him in a way, but still loves her enough to go risk his life.
Well-dressed does not equal pansy.
(In ALW's version, the Phantom dresses nicely. And I don't believe him to be a pansy)

I need to read the book again, I'm being too vague. ^^'

Well she had shoved him away but only to protect him really. Anyways the night before she was abducted they'd agreed to run away. She begged to sing for Erik one last time, just out of the goodness of her heart because it would be too cruel to just abandon him. She really did pity and care about him in away... until he shove a chloroformed rag over her face and knocked her out. But yes.