#HIS NAME IS ERIK!!

[hawkeye221b]

Hi, im going to ramble about my oldest, most special of interests and its going to be long so i'll be hiding it under a cut but just know i have been enabled by internet strangers and the fact that tumblr (to my knowledge) does not have a word limit. and if it does, i will be finding it.

So i'll try to organize the ramblings?? maybe?? we'll see how organized it is but honestly i just want to talk about Phantom of the Opera.

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So to start my ramblings i will be talking about the musical and book; mostly because i think about the differences almost all the time (it is my roman empire)

For example; to my understanding there are those who don't like the book because they think it says she's 15 which.. isn't true. it came from the line of 'she was as pure as that of a 15 yr old' but if she was that old during the events of the book, then the childhood friendship with Raoul would be impossible since he'd be 5 yrs older than her- an 10yr old and a 5 yr old basically if the 15 thing was right.

Another example is the shifting roles.. if memory serves me right, Madame Giry didn't have much of an impactful or big role in the book, but the musical pretty much just cut out the Daroga and split his roles between her and the music box. and even then it changes- in the 2005 movie version, there;s the flashback to show madame Giry as a little girl, helping the Phantom (my mans Erik) escape- but in the 25th anniversary recording, she says that he vanished (presumably without her help)

(Complete side note but why did we even have Daroga erasure in the musical?? justice for the man who put up with Erik's shit for so long..)

------------------- Another thing i wanna kinda ramble on is how Erik is almost always being exploited or used and its fascinating to analyze cause like.. i mean:

he was born with a deformity; he was shunned for it and cast aside and mocked openly

but he was a prodigy. mastermind in many different ways

and yet people took advantage of him- of his desperation as he grew cause no one wanted to be near or associated with what they considered a freak

they benefited and he was used because what else was there for him?

in the 2005 edition he kills because he was pushed to it!! to protect himself!! he was a child then!! a child shown as a freak and abused for people to laugh at!! ofc he was gonna snap! and since no one taught him right and wrong ofc he'd fall back on that defense mechanism whenever he wanted or needed something. its the safest thing he has!!

and in the other variations, its still similar. iirc he was highly under paid and unaccredited for his work. cause no one wanted to admit he was behind the success they benefited from.

and then he finds an orphan girl, come to live in the opera house. a soul broken as he was. and she longs for guidance, and he longs to teach someone. so they find solace in one another.

in my mind they both have delusions and dissonance with one another. he mistakes her friendship for love because no one told him the difference. and she mistakes him as the ghost of her father. its unhealthy yeah but they're both unhealthy people.

and then Raoul comes into her life once more. a reminder of the good in her childhood and the phantom panics cause hes about to lose something he hasn't had before. so he begins to lash out because he doesn't know better

and then.. and then!! because she goes to Raoul, its a betrayal all over again

even if she doesn't mean it the way he sees, she's still benefiting from his work. benefiting from his time in teaching her without credit. without praise or recognition.

in leaving him behind, she's become like the rest of them in his eyes- exploiting him for his talents while rejecting him for how he looks

Honestly i have more thoughts but i think this is really long already and the brain is wanting to over brain so like.. yeah. i love this story and i want to blorb about it all the damn time this is my roman empire

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[right to left]

finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

[robo-milky]

Wanted to base the masquerade fit on Anthony Warlow’s version- looking closely, I just love the two bows on the shoulders??? Idk what it is but I love outfits that are huge and accentuate the silhouette- like it screams power-

[razmerry]

x-nyan: first clan

Wolverine and Nightcrawler

Angel

Mystique and Juggernaut

Darwin

Sabretooth

Forge, Jubilee, and Dazzler

Cable and Deadpool

Kitty Pryde

Storm, Psylocke, and Havok

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch

Beak, Callisto, and Caliban

[myuminji]

[bertoyana]

erik thinking about charles the same way he thinks about magda in x-men apocalypse (2016)

[thedrawingduke]

Happy (belated) Halloween from the worms that live in my brain! 💀✨🪱

Here’s some concept sketches too. It was very hard to get the poses figured out…

Hope you guys had a safe and spooky October ♥️

@ thedrawingduke on Instagram + Bluesky

[j2x3e]

Reinhard and Felt Role Swap for @deafknell's fanweek: Day 2

[nb-n0v4]

Rewatched the 2004 Phantom of the Opera bc I remembered it existed but I spent like the whole movie getting increasingly dismayed over how normal Erik looked so I decided to draw a more, eh, lore accurate version? at least according to his description in the novel

[nathanbellamy]

This is played as such a dramatic moment and I GET IT but also I will forever be laughing about Erik changing his name to HENRYK of all things to avoid detection and then acting like there’s some big reveal

Bc like. This man is an internationally known terrorist. Famous for his control over metal. And to work in a /steel factory/ he chose a name that is like two inches to the right of his real name????

Truly Hannibal the cannibal levels of subtlety. There’s no way his fellow workers didn’t clock him within 0.00001 seconds of meeting him

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The other factory workers: *discussing the infamous mutant Magneto*

Fellow human Henryk who most certainly isn’t Magneto in disguise:

[pacing-er]

X-Men Red: Magneto's last words and Charles in mourning.

Important additions from Resurrection of Magneto:

[wishchip106]

sweating in this heat rn

oh how i crave for an american christmas

i do not like summer ☹️ cherik save me

[dr9com9ge-ix]

Silly doodles mostly inspired by my pals saying things!

[cardinalsine]

oh he's...

[dismas-n-dismay]

Azmidi/Caller Boi headcanons for the soul 😫😫 (based slightly off of my animal traits d(a)emons hcs)

- Cannot, for the life of himself, stand the texture of clothes. They always itch against his scales, though most often he can be seen wearing a large, thinly knitted murky cyan/turquoise sweater Sweetie made him!

He also has a penchant for gathering clothes he likes the feel/vibe of but not actually wearing them and has a little nest made out of them! He mostly gathers ripped jeans and baggy jeans

- Would wear hoodies if his kelp like hair wasn’t so consistently wet that his hoods were always soaked, it sucks

- Cuddle monster with literal autism who NEEDS to be overstimulated with physical touch (like being hugged tightly, or squeeze til his non existent bones crack) or he’ll die and go crazy

His ass would love a weighted blanket

- With a weighted blanket he ends up sleeping like all day and only manages to send Sweetie occasional barely intelligible texts, they’re happy he’s sleeping

- Can also levitate similar to empathy and serenity demons due to his amphibious traits (Magic explaination for this is it’s just his body’s natural state of mimicking floating through water and this it’s Actually harder for him to pretend to be bound to gravity and walk on the floor. So if anything his levitation is the natural state and walking and following the laws of gravity is the hard part so technically he’s in a whole different class from empathy and serenity demons)

- Will chew on his tail or his hair or the trail of hair on his tail 9/10 times you aren’t talking to him and if called out on it he’ll just let it drop out of his mouth plainly to gross you out as punishment

- Honestly this man could use a chew toy he’s Always biting himself out of boredom

- Will make ur bed into a nest with no permission asked and will pout if you ask him to undo it

- Has to be reminded of the amount of space he takes up relative to everything else, he acts like he’s a little guy but he’s like 1.5x the size of a grown ass man (nearly 8 feet when not hunched over)

- Pretty princess and likes to sit on ur lap for fun ! Most people are scared of him and that’s cool but he likes to be treated nicely and sit and be held, Sweetie always indulges him

- Passenger princess as all daemons are. He’s eating in ur car, playing his music in the aux, feeding you Cheetos when ur at a stop light- making eye contact w kids in other cars and scaring them by licking his own eyeball purposely before y’all drive away- he’s a menace but he’s so bbg

- His nickname from Sweetie is Boo, because he’s their boo and also cause he’s cute and spooky. Def has a hoodie/sweater w a ghost on it knitted by sweetie because of it

- Fav cereal would be booberry and he Would be made they don’t make it year round so he hoards all of it from the store for months until it’s out again. One box per month for a whole year 😭

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