Phantom of the Opera/TCoAaL AU
I have made this blog because I am so sad to no one thought up anything this
-Possibly took place in early 1900s? Can still take place in the late 1900s
-The Graves are still poor and living in an apartment
-When Ashley was born, her face looked like a skull much like Erik, and Renee hated her immensely. As soon as Andrew was able to, she handed her off to him and made Ashley wear a mask
-Andrew took care of her like canon and Ashley grew very attached to him. He sang to her a lot, and even though she was bad at it, they had a lot of fun singing together. Ashley cherished those memories a lot.
-Andrew had a lot of high hopes by his parents for being a talented singer, so they tried to get him to sing as much as possible.
-Andrew tried to give her friends through Julia and Nina, who were his choirmates, but they weren't very good at it due to being creeped out by her. It got worse when Ashley took off her mask one day and they screamed and ran away.
-When Andrew was 12 and Ashley was 10, the apartment burned down while Andrew was out with Julia, with both their parents dying and Ashley missing. Andrew became extremely heartbroken and depressed, with Nina and Julia helping him through it.
-However, Ashley didn't die, having fled the apartment and picked up by a circus to be part of a freak show. She was very heartbroken feeling abandoned by Andrew, but couldn't dwell on it because of having to work. To cope, she tried to learn the circus arts (though she is by no means a master like Erik) and improving her singing to hopefully be a better performer.
-Eventually she got tired of the abuse and summons a demon out of desperation to escape. To do so, she sacrificed several of the troupe members and went to hide in a newly built theatre where she pulls some pranks to get what she wants, sacrifices a poor soul now and then, and create the most delightful, macabre show for the demon so it can remove her disfigurement.
-Andrew, Nina, and Julia happened to join that theatre as regular singers, though not as good as the more well-paid competition. When Ashley saw him, she didn't know that was Andrew, thinking it's someone who looks a lot like him older and has the same name as him. Lonely, she talks with him in his dressing room while hidden.
-Andrew recognized Ashley's voice though, even when she's older and worn down by life, but doesn't say anything because he's afraid she'll get mad at him for seemingly abandoning her and leave him too. It gets awkward when he starts developing feelings for her.
-Ashley sabotages the male lead role for Andrew to get the role and starts showing herself to him after he nails it. They have a somewhat sweet and a very angry reunion, but then it gets ruined when Andrew returns to find out Julia overheard their conversation. Things go downhill from there.
-Nina gets sacrificed at some point, and most likely Julia too at the end, as Ashley wants to change her deal with the demon to both remove her disfigurement and bind Andrew to her. However, the demon is not happy with that, which leads to both Andrew and Ashley having to fight it.
-After it's all done, Andrew decides to run away with Ashley, not caring how she looks or what she did in her desperate attempt to keep him. He loves her no matter what, and nothing will ever change that.
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I'm not surprised Andrew would mistreat Julia. I mean, almost everybody in the game are terrible people and I don't support anybody, except Julia.
Granted, I did want Renee to be more ruthless but her arc ended very quickly. Unless we're uncovering more of her parenting in the next episodes, then that's fine with me.
But this also means I can draw Thomas Graves inflicting the worst sort of pain and suffering on Andrew and not feel bad about it, lol.
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hi so 17 hours ago i received this anon related to this whole au and it drove me fucking wild like no tomorrow so after i was done with work? i wrote an entire oneshot for it!
no, i didn't make this one a self insert like the things written by the fabulous amazing @leyley-graves but i did really want to write something from Andrew's perspective and flesh out this character solely on my end! i'm not used to writing SI but it seems interesting so i might take a shot at it one day but i LOVE second person narrative and any opportunity to use it so!!!
now as a heads up those doves are fucking really dead so tag list which includes potential triggers under the cut. this was meant to be Mature but Andrew's final fantasy in it pushed this very firmly into explicit
if you read it, please enjoy, i'd love to know your feedback too!
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I have- 2 Role Swap AU ideas so allow me to ramble about them both
Demon swapped with the Graves Siblings
The demon (we’re just going to call them Dem in this AU) is now a resident of the building who’s cultist neighbor summons two hot demon siblings. They catch Dem spying and they invite themselves into their home. Ashley convinces Dem to give into their hunger and eat the cultist, while Andrew can hear Dem’s intrusive thoughts on escaping and persuades him to act out on it. Giving them sacrifices in exchange for escape and demon “friends”
Nina and Julia swapped with Ashley and Andrew
A young Nina and Julia are tired of LeyLey mistreating them, so they decide to lock her in the warehouse her and Andrew play in to teach her a lesson on being mean. Unfortunately it doesn’t go to plan and they accidentally kill LeyLey. They’re horrified and Nina is frantically trying to justify what they did with “She deserved it!”. Both are scarred by the experience, Nina becoming paranoid Julia will snitch on her- so she takes up very underhanded tactics to make Julia feel indebted to her so she won’t tell.
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