#Beneath a moonless sky

[sakuraiss]

Beneath a moonless sky - Once upon another time (Luke McCall & Manon Taris)

from Lover Never Dies Asia Tour 29/10/2023 Shanghai Evening

Luke McCall as the Phantom

Manon Taris as Christine Daaé

-Please do not share this audio outside of Tumblr-

(sry but no trading for now)

[areinca]

something i wrote ages ago that feels like a tumblr post so i edited and posted it

LOVE NEVER DIES (tpoto sequel) SPOILERS AHEAD:

the most unrealistic part of Beneath a Moonless Sky is that it was able to happen at all. you know that i know that we know if Christine came back after Final Lair, after all the events that happened like "ok im back lets fuck", with Erik (the phantom of the opera, yes, that is his name let’s call him that he is not a ghost he is just a guy he says so himself, explicitly in the book) in the mental and emotional state he was in in Phantom and in that song in general, he would need at LEAST 9-10 business days to recover and process it i mean come on you really think he would be like "ok slay lets do it" after all the emotional turmoil of final lair even if he did agree because you also know that theres no way that he would agree to that, he literally told them to go now and leave him (paraphrased quote from final lair) but let's say for some reason he did, he would either pass out or shut down (erik.exe is not working fr) or completely fall apart because come on ALW did you watch phantom? did you watch final lair? you WROTE those songs. he would not be touching her and feeling her and hearing those ravishing refrains of the singing in her veins (paraphrased literal lyrics from beneath a moonless sky) he would be screaming crying eating furniture and you know it ALW come on ALW you can't tell me you DONT know it you WROTE PHANTOM

[abonnymouse]

Watched LND on the stream the other day and I had some Thoughts

[anobsessedchocolatechip]

The entirety of Beneath A Moonless Sky is so hilarious to me. Christine, about to get married, randomly shows up to wherever the hell Erik is, to “tell him she must go,” which like. Imagine going somewhere with the sole intention of saying hey mate I gotta go.

Then they do the good ol devil’s tango not once, not twice, but

Again and then again

(Let’s not even get into the logistics of that)

And then Erik, who just got the woman of his dreams, does the least Erik thing possible and just. Bounces. Just leaves her in bed.

AND THEN CHRISTINE JUST GOES BACK TO RAOUL??? AND CASUALLY GETS MARRIED??

The entire thing is just s o out of character why am I obsessed

[arkytiorwrites]

Day 1: Beneath A Moonless Sky

Sinister Strange x Reader

Staring out into the vortex that was the only source of light in this dying universe, I waited for my captor to reveal themselves.

I knew my occupation as a dimension hopper would lead me into some form of trouble, but never something like this. I could only guess that the one who held me was a sorcerer of Karma Taj, considering I had been put in an entrapment ring inside the once magnificent New York Sanctum Sanctorum.

Ears pricking get the faint sound of footsteps, I snorted dryly, "Took you long enough. So, what's it going to be. “How did you get here?" “This is impossible.” Or the old-fashioned "At last, your powers" - "

I cut myself off as I turned and saw who had been foolish enough to even attempt to trap me.

It was Stephen Strange. Only, he appeared far more ragged and haunted than the last time I'd seen him.

I chuckled softly before confessing, "I should have known that you'd be here, I should have known it all along. This whole arrangement bears your stamp; you're in each nuance of this spell."

Incandescent rage filled me at the audacity of this man. How dare he drag me back to this hellhole of a universe after he had made it perfectly clear that I was nothing to him. After he had caused me to do something that no other being had. He had made me cry. " How dare you try and claim me now? " I hissed. " How dare you come invade my life?"

Coming closer to the circle, Stephen whispered, "If you could know the pain I've known, then you would know I had no choice. My Y/N."

Laughing harshly, I fired back, "Your Y/N? I was yours one brief night long ago. Long ago, with a man that I have never known!"

Closing his eyes as he accepted the truth of my words, Stephen couldn't help but put in the last word. "Ah, Y/N, you came and found where I hid, don’t you deny that you did, that long ago night!”

“That night?" I asked rhetorically as I turned my back on the sorcerer to gaze into the vortex. "That night was a mistake."

It was silent before Stephen confessed, "It wasn't for me."

"This isn't a romcom, Strange. I'm not gonna come running back just cuz you pay attention to me,” I snarled coldly.

"I'm aware, Angel - "

“You lost the privilege to call me that."

"Y/N please," Stephen begged. "That night, beneath a moonless sky. It was too dark to see, too dark to even try. You stole to my side, asking me not to let you go."

“Don't," I warned. “Don't you dare.”

I finally turned on him to show him the magic struggling to be released behind my eyes.

"You don't get to talk about that night like it meant something to you.”

The sorcerer fell silent as the weight of his actions finally hit him. He finally understood that he had hurt you and hurt you horribly.

You turned your back to him, wrapping your arms tightly around yourself.

"When it was done, before the sun could rise. Ashamed of what I am, afraid to see your eyes," he confessed.

"I stood while you slept and whispered a goodbye. I slipped into the dark, beneath a moonless sky.”

You were quiet for so long, Stephen feared that you had completely shut down.

Then he heard you whisper, "I loved you."

“What?" he asked hoarsely, a knife sinking into his heart at the words.

"Yes, I loved you!” you snapped, still not turning. "I'd have followed anywhere you led. I woke to swear my love but found you'd gone instead.”

“I loved you to," he admitted, the knife twisting even more. "And I left you. Yet I had to. But that night I won't regret, from now until I die. The night I can't forget, beneath a moonless sky."

You still didn't respond, yet your body was minutely shaking. Stepping closer until he was almost touching the trapping circle.

"And now?" he asked softly, silently praying to any god that was left that you would choose to stay; that he wouldn't be alone anymore.

“How can you talk of now?" you demanded, your voice shaking.

You turned to face him once more. In that moment, Stephen knew that he had destroyed any hope he had long ago. Tears trailed down your cheeks, and there was so much pain in your eyes.

“How can you talk of now? For us . . . there is no now.”

With a snap of her fingers and a violent flash of green and purple light, the circle shattered, and you vanished from his world without a trace.

[music-in-my-veins14]

And I loved 😍 you

Oh I loved 😍 you

And I left you

How I loved 😍 you

And I had to both of us knew why

We both knew why

[filthybonnet]

The World Around Us Fell Away by Filthybonnet

This is a phic of what is happening to Christine and Erik separately after the final lair leading up to that fateful night “Beneath A Moonless Sky.” Christine finds Raoul’s sisters are not as welcoming to her becoming their brother’s wife as she would like. Meanwhile as Erik plans to escape to America, part of his past will not leave him be.

It’s been some time since I worked on this but I finally wrote a new chapter so I decided to do a whole new cover collage and just promote the whole phic instead of just the new chapter.

On AO3:https://archiveofourown.org/works/39285609/chapters/98307030

On FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14087187/1/The-World-Around-Us-Fell-Away

[qernn]

@luiwritings

Fear can turn to love. You’ll learn to see the man behind the monster. This repulsive carcass which seems a beast, but secretly yearns for heaven, secretly, secretly, secretly. Oh Christine.

[lyrakarma]

Mafdet will deny it but Beneath a Moonless Sky from Love Never Dies is such a her and Khonshu coded song. Let's face it, they've hate fucked a few times I'm sure...🙄

[vaperarmand]

another of my favorite times in rpf history: does anyone remember when broadway stars ramin karimloo and sierra boggess were cast as the phantom and christine for the universally panned phantom of the opera sequel love never dies on the west end in 2010 and subsequently in the 25th anniversary performance recorded live at royal albert hall in 2011. and sort of relatedly alw said sierra boggess was how he always pictured christine in his mind. and ramin and sierra became very close and had out of this world chemistry and regularly recorded backstage “broadway diaries” packed full of sexual tension and were always posting about each other on instagram. and then a couple of years later they stopped posting about each other (and i think also unfollowed each other?) and ramin started posting about his wife a LOT more and then he said he’d never sing any of the songs from love never dies because it reminded him of a difficult time for him and his family. i know they did it but i just can’t prove it

[opera-ghost]

it's honestly amazing how love never dies, in its most recent iteration with the US tour, did so much to improve upon the original london production

the sets look beautiful, the music still goes hard, the lyrics were reworked, and they had an extremely talented cast with great chemistry

and despite it all, it still managed to be one of the worst things i've ever seen. absolutely nothing can save that dumpster fire, and i think that's beautiful

[smooth-boob]

taking my regular dose of listening to love never dies like I’m trying to inoculate myself against secondhand embarrassment

[phantom-sith]

Rekindled Symphony

Two months since Phantom's Opera, Christine questions her future and the unsettling feelings that have continued to haunt her. Wishing nothing more than to put her past to rest so she can move on with her life without regret, she seeks out the man who tormented her.

[149panda149]

what i wouldn't give to hear michael crawford sing certain songs in lnd......

[dearest-darlingest]

was listening to "friends 'til the end" by shipwrecked comedy, a song about a young girl and her strange, older lover who has a fixation with her throat

not to be confused with phantom of the opera, a musical about a young girl and her strange, older (kind of) lover who has a fixation with her throat

[music-in-my-veins14]

Cloaked under the night 🌙, with nothing to suppress

A woman 👩 and a man 👨, no 👎 more and yet no 👎less

And I kissed 😘 you ❤️