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    This is a Phantom of the Opera fix-it that began with "Safe with You", imagining a gentler story for Erik and Christine—full of music, love, and second chances.

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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    A year after the night that changed everything, Erik has learned to live without Christine, but not to stop loving her. When she and Raoul are taken, he will cross any distance to bring them home, even if it means returning her to a life that is not his. Because loving Christine has always meant saving her… and saying goodbye.

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    06 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    TL; DR: What if someone gave Christine Daaé a knife instead of singing lessons and told her she was her own means of production

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    Paris, 1890: In the soot covered streets of the French Empire, Christine Daaé is a factory girl with nothing left to lose, sold to a brothel, orphaned, desperate to be rid of the burden that is her life. In the quiet shadows of the Paris catacombs, Erik is leading a rebellion that is slowly falling apart with nothing to give them hope, clinging to recruits from brothels and work houses, starved, desperate to destroy the people that keep them on their knees. When fate brings the two of them together, when Christine Daaé is handed nothing but a rifle and a fever dream, when Erik takes on the scrawny brothel girl as his protégée, the path of their stories might change, but only if they are brave enough to face their tangled emotions first.

    This is basically a clashing of my two special interest, Phantom of the Opera and communism. So let's get in losers, we are seizing the means of production, opera-style!

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    29 Dec 2025

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    For the sake of his little wife, Erik intends to give her the married life he promised, along with all of the sundry that comes with it: a sun-lit house above the ground. A devoted and gentle husband. Damp, dark soil, filled with all manner of things rich and thriving.

    Unfortunately for him, Christine cannot forget the past so easily. And rot will always find its way into even the happiest of homes.

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    17 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 43

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    The King of France holds a Royal Ball in hopes that his son, Raoul de France, will find a bride. The King's eldest son, Erik de France, is only there to offer moral support for his little brother...

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    15 Dec 2025

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    Christine Daaé has spent eight months imagining what she might say to the Opera Ghost if she ever saw him again. Now he is here in her flat, quite by accident, and the fact of the matter is she can no longer speak.

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    28 Nov 2025