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ya, where Raoul ends up being a drunk or cheats on Christine. Blah! Would never happen...Hmm, I'm gonna make a thread about why ErikXChristine would never work.

I would just like to add to this post:



Nope. Never. He's childish, selfish, insane, psychotic (read as: would likely murder you if you accidentally pissed him off enough). His issues from his 50 or so years of life would leave him so emotionally scarred that even the best shrinks in the world couldn't fix him. Love does not make someone's deep-seeded psychological issues just disappear. He needs a lot more than loving; like pills and many, many years of therapy.



It's actually possible, show him a little kindness he might either:
A) Kill you for patronising him
B) Attach himself to you like he did Christine wherefore you will be stuck with him to deal with the aforementioned consequences with no Raoul to save you.



I didn't know what to expect when I first read the book, but as desensitised as I am even *I* felt kinda ill when I first read about his appearance.



I hate crossover/parallel universe type fiction when it just butchers the characters.

Erik in high school: What kind of issues other than excessive angst could a teenager have? He's not the same Erik at 15 as he is at 50.

Erik is brought to the future (or any other type of modern day versions, really): It's called plastic surgery, prozac, and therapy. It doesn't work these days. Forcing it to work is futile as well, as it makes the whole thing very contrived.

Christine realises she loves Erik: She can love him, it doesn't change the fact that he's described as being "touched in the head". Therefore caring about him doesn't mean she needs to go racing back to his technically dead a** (read the book) to make sweet love to him in the damp basement of the Opera House.



I largely blame this on people wanting to make Erik happy. Erik is not Erik if he is happy. Therefore, making him happy will make the story suck. The end.

I agree with you alot, though I don't entirly.

I hate and I repeat hate, Christine and Erik phics it get rather trying to read.

I agree most of the time travel sucks, but I've red one that was good it had two different people who were like Erik and Christine and go back in the past and change a bit of history, but failed. Still if you red it you would of liked it.

I like the ones that are a bit modern, a girl I'm friends with kind of pushes into Eriks past or into a future type of Erik kid (not a kid who goes to school not at all!), but changes it's all her own. It has no Christine only Erik and her own characters, she's written amazing work and she has a good head.

I've red alot of phanphiction, the ones I read are good or has Christine having a twin. But really if you can write and are not repeating some silly idea than I'll read it.

But at least 99% of the phanphiction I've ever red has been well written good plot and a different idea. Anyways I like phanphiction long as it's: well written or a good plot/idea and has idea of what they're writing, that's good enough for me

I write them when I have the time (which is never), and it's been a long, long time since I've found something that suits my tastes. The majority of phanphic makes my soul die on the inside and I no longer have the patience to wade through the plethora of tripe to find the gems. A lot of my favorite phanphics, however, are so old that they are disappearing from the Internet and I only had the foresight to save a few of them on my computer. Alas.

lol. Omg...the Sues. I hate Mary Sues. I remember reading one where 2 girls go back in time and transform into Christine and Meg so they can try to get with Gaston Leroux and Erik. It was...horrible. xd

I agree with Malevolent Phantom. Most "phics" are badly written. There are pretty good E/C fics out there but they're probably pretty old. I don't even like E/OC phics. Those are just...blech.