#poto headcanons

[yourfellowhuman07]

I like to think that in the middle of the night when the opera house is nearly deserted, Erik would go out in the middle of the stage with his violin and voice and just play or sing.

Perhaps he would go as far as to turn on a stage light, so he can pretend to be delivering a solo. He would sing to his fullest to a pretend crowd, and when he delivered the final note he would imagine rapturous applause at his talent.

Then he would open his eyes and the weight of reality crashes down on him.

[poto-ace-week]

Poto ace and aro week headcanons (day 1)

aroace Erik who grew up around opera stories filled with love and romance though he’d never experienced it himself—until, he thought, he found Christine Daae. He assumed the feelings she inspired in him were those that seemed so universal, that she would be the one to complete him. Under the advice of his old friend, the Daroga, Erik opts to approach Christine as an anonymous music tutor instead of an Angel, and it’s thanks to this foundation of honesty between them all that he realizes the relationship he truly wants with her is that of the art, and she helps him to step into the light of a world that’s perhaps a little less cruel than he first thought.

[dross-the-fish]

I've never considered Carlotta could be interesting, do you have any headcanons for her?

Oh I absolutely do! I picture her as someone who made a name for herself fairly young and did so by making some sacrifices. Playing ruthless games, manipulation, even sleeping with the occasional patron or manager for support. She's someone who's voice is good but not great so to make up for it she had to cultivate an image and a following by using charm and cunning and of course, being an absolutely ruthless bitch. She's clawed her way to the top and she's in a position where she knows her limelight is starting to fade and the final nail in the coffin is this twenty-something-year-old nobody from Scandinavia who can't even name her teacher. Just like that, this girl is a sensation over night and Carlotta isn't ready to be dethroned just yet. I like to imagine her as egotistical and materialistic but also bitter and cynical. She fought for years to get what she has and then one day it's just gone. She's aware of what kind of industry she's in and that the world isn't kind to actresses who can't stay young and beautiful so she does what it takes to hold on to that spotlight just a little bit longer.

[luneemeritus]

I've made a very old post about Erik headcanons and I decided to write down another one. This is for a modern AU.

I will use all pronouns for Erik (read the post for explanation). This is mostly Leroux-based, original deformity, skinny body, yellow skin, except he has hair.

There will be triggering headcanons (it's Erik) and a little NSFW in the end, it will all be warned.

「Modern Erik headcanons」

• Romantic Goth

• His favorite goth band is London After Midnight (something something self projecting)

• He is also a very eclectic person

• AMAB Gender fluid (HE/SHE/THEY)

• Bi/pansexual (he identifies as both)

• Their favorite colors are red and black

• Their favorite novel is Bram Stoker's Dracula

• loves flowers, her favorite is black Perfect-love

• loves greek mythology, specially the myth of Hades and Persephone

• Theatre kid

• Does drag performances, her name is Phantasma

• Monsterfucker. Because yes

• He's an anarchist

• Autistic

• BPD

• Agnostic

• Has social anxiety

• Sleeps hugging pillow, one in the arm and one between the legs

• Doesn't know how to act when someone praises them, he almost cries

• 100% little spoon

• Is currently dating Daroga 🏳️‍🌈

「TW: TRAUMA RESPONSE, S/H, TYPICAL SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ERIK BEHAVIOUR, TOXIC ERISTINE」

• used to blame himself for being "mentally broken"

• has constant nightmares, wakes up screaming, sweating and struggling

• has PTSD

• has scars all over his body. He tries to hide all of them with his clothes

• used to do self harm. Like isolating himself, not eating properly, not sleeping properly, not taking care of their own physical and mental health (1/4)

• when his relationship with Christine was going terrible (Erik's fault), the self-harm tendencies got worse (2/4)

• he went to therapy and distanced himself from Christine. Daroga is helping them, and he stopped the self-harm (3/4)

• she and Christine got closer again after some years. Christine forgave them and now they're friends (4/4)

「NSFW」

• has sensitive nipples 🫣

• LOVES bites, specially on his neck

• loves toys (specially dildos), he loves using on himself and his partner

• cuddle sex>>>>> 💖

• cried of emotion during his first time 🥺 (... also screamed, drooled, trembled and farted, it was very awkard)

• switch

• they dated Christine and she used to pegg him 👀

That's it. Maybe I'll do with Daroga next

[ablatheringblatherskite]

I just realized I never shared one of my favorite Raoul headcanons.

What if Raoul has a tattoo, that he got during his Navy days??? Like, a little anchor one on his neck, kinda like this:

I'm thinking when he was on his first expedition, the ship docked for a bit and he and his friends went out drinking for a bit and Raoul and his friends get blackout drunk. And they convince him to get a tattoo with them.

And the next day Raoul wakes up and freaks out when he sees the tattoo because what will Philippe think?? And he hopefully tries to wipe it off but when it stays he starts panicking about it more while his friends are CACKLING watching him. He never gets that drunk again (narrows eyes at Love Never Dies NOT MY RAOUL)

So when Raoul goes back home, he's very self-conscious and makes sure his collar is covering it (good thing collars during that time were so high!). Although I'm SURE Christine finds it eventually and is like, shocked by it HAHAHA. But she shows him how to hide it with makeup and stuff. And my friend and I were also imagining that Christine likes to fluster him by kissing the tattoo tee hee hee.

And another friend was like, what if the Punjab Lasso ruins the tattoo a bit so along with like. scars and stuff. Raoul's tattoo is never the same after that night 😭

[queerolddad]

ok but

what was the intended conclusion of Don Juan Triumphant?

Because, based only on the context of Point of No Return, there are only two options:

1. my man didn’t think that far ahead (likely)

Or

2. he really thought he and Christine were gonna raw dog it right there in front of God and everyone (very likely)

Which also begs the question — which act are they in? Of how many? Because I dunno what’s funnier, them fucking and then “goodnight everyone hope you enjoyed the show” or “it’s intermission!!! go grab yourself some chocolate covered raisins”

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

Okay, hold up. I was thinking about how similar I find Meg and Raoul in the ALWverse. Both are brave, sweet, inquisitive, and over all they want Christine safe. They even look a little alike in a lot of productions, with hair often being the same sort of blondish color.

What if....drumroll...they're uncle and niece? What if Madame Giry and Phillippe fell passionately in love in their youth? What if Madame Giry...is La Sorelli in the ALW verse?

Shut up and lemme think this through.

When Sorelli finds out she's pregnant, she's disillusioned by Phillipe's reaction. He insists she marry the first decent single man he can find, and settles on his family's accountant, Jules Giry. He's a kind but older man, and dies a few years into the marriage.

Now I need to plan a fic where I can bring the whole crew together.

Maybe Christine and Raoul move to the de Chagny estate after leaving the Phantom's lair. Philippe is infuriated by their elopement, but can't find it in him to turn his back completely on his baby brother.

Christine struggles to fit in under his cold dismissive eye and the haughty society around her. What she can't know is that Philippe isn't quite as heartless as you'd imagine. When he sees this young woman from the opera house, he can’t help but think of his own daughter just a few years younger. A daughter he's never known outside slipping in late to a show and seeing her lead her line in the corps de ballet.

He may also envy his brother his willingness to marry the woman he loved despite what it might mean for the family name.

Madame Giry learns when to use their situation to her advantage. When the Phantom demands an increase in his salary, she persuades Philippe to at least convince his brother to act as the opera's new patron, if he himself is still too cowardly to regularly attend like he used to.

So when the opera house closes in the wake of the Don Juan disaster, Madame Giry turns to him again. His daughter is now out of a job. While he may be too much of a hypocrite to ever acknowledge her as his, surely he doesn't want her to suffer the fate many attractive young unemployed girls in her position do.

To her surprise, he invites them into his home. Being around Christine and hearing her reminisce fondly about her best friend Meg suddenly makes him determined to get to know his daughter as much as he can without telling her the truth -- Madame Giry is right in that he's too afraid to face that.

So mother and daughter show up with whom they describe as a composer who wants to open a new dance school and theater with the Girys. He goes only by the name of Erik. He's a brilliant but aloof man, probably because what looks like a stroke or some such injury. One half of his face the skin seems pulled in too taught, almost paralyzed. It's almost as if the skin isn't real, instead a mask to try making him look like anyone.

(Sorelli was a dancer in a particular traveling carnival when she was a young woman, and was so incensed by the cruelty around her that she left, determined to find a serious career for herself on the stage -- but not before releasing that poor boy from his cage).

This Erik stares too much at the new Viscountess de Chagny. Yet he's also surprisingly insecure when some of the aristocratic men in their society begin taking notice of Meg. The pretty, peppy dancer hasn't the first clue how to behave properly in society, and that there are men ready to take advantage. Philippe also notices and struggles not to be too protective.

So what happens when Raoul notices for the first time how much Meg resembles his sister Roberte when they're standing next to each other? What of Christine's terrified conviction about who this Erik really is? What of Erik yearning to watch over her once more, his beautiful angel, his life -- dammit, must this damn Dauphin So-and-So keep looking at Meg like she's steak tartare?

And what of that despite the years that have passed and the bitterness and guilt between them, there may still lie a deep love between Philippe and La Sorelli?

A Little Night Music meets Phantom, essentially.

Tagging @thewildwestpyro

[littlelqtte]

raoul de chagny spoils christine because i said so even if she doesn't ask him to he just does i have many ideas for how if anybody's up to hearing them

[carpeossa]

Can we just appreciate that Erik is the kind of friend who will actively make sure his best friend (Daroga) knows every single mundane/annoying detail of his life and that when he went silent for 2 weeks because he kidnapped Christine, the Daroga had to go to his home to find out what he was up to?

Also, you know for a fact that the Persian had a feeling that Erik was up to something prior to the kidnapping.

I present to you all, my headcannon:

Daroga: *reading the mail in his parlor* “Erik, I can’t make it to the cafe on Tuesday. I have a meeting with a transcriber who needs help on some documents in Farsi. I can reschedule for Friday at 2.”

Erik: *smoking one of the Daroga’s cigarettes and sitting in his chair* “That won’t work for me, I have an appointment that day. How about the following Monday at 9?”

Daroga: *Stops reading the mail and stares at Erik* “What do you mean you have an appointment?”

Erik: *Waves cigarette as he says* “Just that. I have an appointment.”

Daroga: *points at Erik with the mail* “No, no you don’t.”

Erik: *takes a long puff then exhales, smoke billowing under the vail of his mask* “What? You think that I’m incapable of having a social life that doesn’t involve you?“

Daroga: “Yes.”

Erik: *indignantly flicks ash onto the rug* “Contrary to your asinine beliefs, I am fully capable of having competent discourse with other members of society.”

Daroga: *ignoring the ash and advancing slightly towards Erik*

“You have never in your life given a thought to other members of society. You have always held them with contempt and disdain for not valuing the simple pleasures of being able to walk freely without ridicule or scorn for wearing a mask.”

“So yes, I highly doubt you having any other friends or making any, for that matter, with the exception of me.”

Erik: *promptly standing and towering over the Persian. Throwing the cigarette into the fire*

“You don’t know me Daroga. You may think you know me, but you are sorely mistaken. You are a fool who thinks that I want you, or that I need to converse with you. I am a man fully capable of making connections with other people than you! You damnable ass!”

*Erik storms out of the room*

Erik: *yelling* “Darius! I am leaving you to your boob of an employer! I require my cloak!”

Daroga: *following Erik* “Who is this poor devil that you are harassing?!”

Erik: *turning around and leaning close into the Daroga’s face before shouting* “You will never refer to them as a devil! You will give them at least that much respect!”

*turning back to the hall and shouting* “Darius! Quick, man! Or I shall be forced to render your employer unconscious!”

Darius: *rushing with Erik’s cloak in his out stretched hands*

Erik: *Yanking it from Darius’ hands and putting it on before storming out and slamming the front door*

Darius: “Forgive me for saying this, Sir. But he seemed more impertinent than usual.”

Daroga: *waving off Darius’ apology* “The truth needs no apology, Darius.”

*sighs* “I don’t know who his new obsession is, but I know he holds them in high esteem.”

Darius: “Would that not be a good thing? He generally hates everyone.”

Daroga: “For normal people, yes. But he is not normal. And when he realizes that the person he is obsessed with is not the personification of his vision of perfection, he with become wrathful.”

Darius: “How can he be any worse than how he is with you? He’s tame towards Señora Carlota when compared with how he treats you.”

Daroga: “You’re too young to know about what he did for the Shah. Erik is the most frightening creature you will ever encounter when he is angry. And thus far, Darius, you have only seen him annoyed.”

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Just... the fact that Erik and Christine are both on record as referring to the other as "Angel of Music"

Like they get into disgusting cutesy couple fights

"You're my Angel of music"

"No, you're my Angel of music"

"No, you!"

"No, you!"

And Daroga/Mme. G and Raoul are just retching in the background. (Meg thinks its adorable and enables their sickening antics 1000%)

[poto-ace-week]

PotO Ace and Aro Week Headcanon Day 2

When Christine had first declared her intention of never marrying, she had been a little girl and her papa had laughed at her words. She would change her mind when she got older, he had said with a smile—she would meet someone and she would change her mind then. But as the years went on, Christine remained firm in her stance—she had meant what she’d said. Crushes and romance and proposals meant little to her, and she had yet to ever meet anyone that might change her mind on this. All of her friends and peers around her grew up and got married one by one until she was the only left all alone. Her friends all sighed and moaned for her, laments over what she was supposedly missing by being on her lonesome. Except—she never truly felt alone. She enjoyed her moments of solitude, of coming home to her own room decorated just the way she liked it, of having relaxing silence greeting her when she was done with her workday. She loved cooking for herself, adjusting the flavors of her meals to suit her and only her. She loved the spontaneity of planning her schedule and being able to change her mind at the last minute and do something else if the fancy struck her. 

She loved a little less, perhaps, having to explain to the vicomte her reasons for continuing to turn down his advances, wondering peevishly at times why he couldn’t simply accept her friendship as enough. It took months for him to finally believe that there was not some other man—or perhaps woman—in the picture, or that she might already be secretly married to someone—fears which all reemerged upon his learning of her music tutor whom no one was allowed to see or speak to. 

Her music tutor—another man who also couldn’t quite seem to wrap his mind around her preferred method of life, though he seemed to accept it mostly well. That is, until Raoul was ever mentioned, at which point he had to be copiously reassured that there was nothing going on between them and never would be. All for the sake of her music lessons, of course, Erik said, but she knew it was more likely that Erik had other reasons for wanting her to not be involved with anyone else. He never came out and said it, however, and she was thankful that he seemed content in the knowledge that while she would never marry him, she would never marry anyone either. 

She had her friends, her tutor, her blossoming career that afforded her financial independence, and she had herself to herself. At the end of the day, Christine was truly the mistress of her own destiny, and she would not have it any other way.

[theoscout]

Headcanon that Erik IS SUPER MEGA OBSESSED with being organised/ neatness/ control etc to the point where he'll stop you from going out if he dislikes your choices in clothes. He doesn't really care about other people outside of the operas they put on because they can all kick rocks as far as he's concerned, but if the show's bad or he doesn't like the acting/ directing etc he WILL show up and mess things up to make a statement. Spec of dust or dirt? Clean it. Clothes wrinkled? Straighten them. Missing space? Fill it. He's more bothered about the aesthetics of everything than how practical it is, and all the time he isn't busy watching musicals or scaring the cast he's down in his sewer trying to make it presentable. The places he takes Christine down to are the result of decades of obsessive cleanliness.

It's also an in universe explanation for why he doesn't have pets, because I thought at some point he would try keeping a dog or something since pets can love you without judging on your looks, but if this headcanon is true then Erik would be too pissed off about picking up dog poop or fur or whatever to ever even bother trying to raise a pet. And since he was raised in a freak show where people would have been treated as an animal at the time, it would have made sense for him to be cleanly as hell, because chances are that they would have limited sanitation and medical stuff available so god help you if you got sick or infected. Being in dirty places probably reminds him of being back at the show as well :(

This could also explain why he dresses up all rich and cultured then acts all entitled, when he was young he saw rich nasty people living happy lives and being shit to everyone around them, and he thought it was necessary to live like that in order to be happy, and he's obsessed with living like that even if he doesn't want to, he thinks in terms of all or nothing and his moral code is something like blue and orange. His reason for staying underneath the opera is because not only of the music, but because it makes him feel more cultured like the rich people who made fun of him. He could be acting like shit because that's what he thinks others expect him to do, regardless of how rational it is.

Unrelated but I like how people tag their posts as Yandere!Phantom or Yandere!Erik ignoring the fact that he's 101% a yandere in universe regardless of adaptation

[luneemeritus]

「My headcanons for Erik」

These were written both for the musical version and the Leroux version

• has social anxiety

• pansexual 🏳️‍🌈

• he has no fragile masculinity, he likes to wear feminine clothing and makeup

• gets scared when someone yells at him or raises his hand near him (he thinks they gonna beat him 🥺)

• he gets emotional to the slightest demonstrations of affection

• if anyone praises him, he cries

• sleeps hugging pillow, one in the arm and one between the legs

• he loves neck kisses. It drives him crazy 😍

• in his house there is hot and cold water (this is said in the book), but he just likes to take a hot shower because only then can he feel warm and imagine someone there with him

• he has nightmares almost every night and wakes up screaming, sweating and struggling, so he sleeps badly

• his dream is to be the little spoon with Christine

• he isolates himself because he is afraid of scaring people with both his face and his despair over love and affection

• he blames himself for being emotionally broken and mentally damaged

• he doesn't give a shit about the "moral and religious" conceptions of the 19th century. Truly a man ahead of his time

• his body is full with scars (years of physical abuse and slavery 😓), he hates them, it only makes him feel uglier

• he has a collection of blasphemous and controversial books: Dante's Inferno, The Flowers of Evil, Carmilla, Nana, etc

• agnostic 🧐

• sometimes when there is no ngm looking, he squeezes the Greco-Roman statues' tits and dicks. He finds it hilarious

• just leave his house at night to find Daroga

• he steals food from opera visitors

• sometimes he has cries out of fear of dying unloved and lonely

• he often has existential crises

• he loves Greek mythology (also referred in the book), his favorite myths are Medusa, the story of Hades and Persephone, and Hekate the goddess of witches 🗝️

• he loves flowers 💖🌹 his favorite is black Perfect-love

• he was influenced at lot by the oriental culture since he lived half of his life visiting the Middle East and Asia (this is more about the Leroux Erik)

I'll probably add more (you can let sugestions if you want <3)

[thelesbianoftheopera]

Headcannons about Christine's red scarf:

The scarf was her mother's, which is why it means so much to her

If Christine ever is nervous before a performance, she'll take the scarf out of its drawer in her dressing room and hold onto it and focus on her breathing for a while

Her scarf disappeared once when she was still training to be a ballerina, she spent most of the morning trashing the opera house with Meg to find it, (i.e: throwing blankets off of ballet rats cots, emptying drawers, turning over tables.) Turns out Madame Giry took it to repair a hole in it and didn't tell Christine (And then she made Christine and Meg clean up said mess for the rest of the day)

Christine will wear that scarf no matter the weather, she'll find a way to include it in her outfit as a sash, shawl, etc.

Placed inside the scarf in the drawer is a family photo of Christine, Her mother and her Father the spring before her mother died. She'll often take it out and look at it, sometimes even tell them about her day as if they were somehow here again (I had to, ok-)

Harm that scarf and Christine will take your knees.

One time an older ballet girl took it from Christine to be funny and dangled it over her head (since she was still small at the time), her response was to cry and scream until Sorelli stepped in and got her scarf back for her.

Christine was buried with the scarf, per her wishes.

[annachum]

Phantom of the Opera is an adaptation of Swan Lake. Correct if I'm wrong.

Like :

. Christine Daae's animal motif being A SWAN

. Christine's abused by the Phantom for 10 years AND NO ONE KNEW. Until she tells everyone after the fateful mask reveal.

. Raoul is a beacon of light and hope in her life and returns to her life AFTER 12 YEARS and basically IS A REMINDER OF THE WOMAN CHRISTINE IS AND THAT THE PHANTOM CAN NEVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM HER

. Christine struggles between her light ( seemingly pure, gentle and loving ) side and dark ( can be unhinged at times and has a taste for macabre things ) side. Her learning to embrace both sides plays a part in her victory against the Phantom.

. THE BALLET GIRLS ( ESPECIALLY MEG ) AND CHRISTINE'S PARIS OPERA FRIENDS BEING KINDA LIKE THE SWAN COMPANIONS TO ODETTE AAAAAAHH

. SWAN Lake and POTO are basically tales about rising above abuse and darkness.

. RAOUL AND CHRISTINE'S LOVE FOR EACH OTHER IS SO POWERFUL THAT IT INADVERTENTLY SAVED EVERYONE WHO SURVIVED THE POTO MADNESS

. The fairytale like allusions to Swan Lake ( the graveyard, the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House )

. Christine transforms from being initially rather naive yet troubled at first, to a martyr like heroine who is literally willing to play Aminta for her loved ones ( no matter how EVERYONE around her begs her not to do so )

. The Phantom shuns Christine's light side and TRIES to coerce her to dark side ( listen to Music of the Night ). Raoul embraces BOTH her light and dark sides. And that is one reason why Raoul and Christine are soulmates.

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

This is 100% valid and I endorse it

She's got Luna Lovegood vibes. Huge staring eyes, odd little ticks and mannerisms. She tried to share all the Norwegian and Swedish fairytales her father taught her and the other girls thought they were weird and freaky. Except Meg because Meg is awesome. But there's still been a little disconnect between Christine and Meg. Like Meg still doesn't fully *get* all of her little oddities, and resigned herself to that fact early on. That's why they're such good friends. Meg is cool with just letting Christine be odd. Befriending Christine was an excercise in "Wow, you're kinda weird 😄😊".

I absolutely cannot accept any other headcanon for Christine Daae except that she's just. A really fucking weird person. Like, still very nice and polite, a bit shy. You'd like her if you met her. But you talk to her for a few moments and you're like, "Oh! Okay! You're the weirdest bitch I ever met in my life!" I fully believe all the other dancers found out about the whole Situation she got involved in with the Opera Ghost and were just like, "Mm, yeah, that checks out."