Erik
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The Living Corpse, The Devil's Child; it was behind those bars that his loathing of humanity was fuelled. (Susan Kay, Phantom [Fake|RP|Parody|21+]
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“She wanted an Angel of Music . . . I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel.”

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He folded his arms, the black of his cloak rippling as he shook his head. “Mon Dieu… you and the machine are not so different. Both loud, both misunderstood, both prone to alarming everyone in the room.”
Erik let out a sharp breath through his nose, pacing once around the fallen toaster before fixing Adam with an incredulous stare.

“You threw it,” he hissed, half in disbelief, half in reluctant amusement. “The contraption sings its little song, and your first instinct is violence?”
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He folded his arms, glancing once more at the toaster’s faint glow. “Though if it is a bell, it tolls for bread rather than for God.”
Erik turned his head toward the hunchback, eyes glinting from beneath the shadow of his mask.

“A bell, you say?” he murmured, voice low and edged with irony. “Then perhaps it’s your kin, Quasimodo. You might understand its language better than the rest of us.”
He circled the device like a predator assessing its prey, every movement deliberate.

“I hear its growl,” he muttered, gloved fingers twitching but unwilling to touch. “Tell me, Yeshua… are you certain this contraption will not explode?”
Erik stood a few paces behind him, cloak drawn close about his shoulders, eyes narrowed at the strange metal box. The faint hum set his nerves on edge.

“It swallowed your bread?” he repeated, his voice low and sharp with suspicion. “Mon Dieu… it hums as though it were alive.”
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//Also neurospicy… hi!
Is this what you wanted to see?
//He’s not a touchy guy 🤣
“WH-AAAGH!! No! No touching!”
*Shrieks. That is all.*
Perhaps not tonight, though. He should, apparently, sleep.
Indeed, he does. She is most welcome to visit any time she wishes. The samovar is perpetually bubbling.
“Hmm? Oh.. Thank you.”
Quite possibly. I have found it happens occasionally.
Are we talking to ourselves again, too?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Yes. Yes, it is.
Hello, Christine. My name is Erik.

Is that really so difficult?
He smiled softly, sighing as the sun’s gentle rays crept across his skin, seeming to caress and warm his corpse-like features. ‬
‪He felt safe there. As safe, and secure as he did below ground, now basking in the light. ‬
lofty vantage point, nestled into Apollo’s Lyre. ‬

‪ Once certain he was settled, he slowly, carefully, prised his precious porcelain away from his face, and set it into his lap.
All around, the city was bathed in the soft glow of dawn; the sun’s golden rays glittering on the city’s many windows. There seemed to be a few people milling around. A baker setting off to bake the day’s bread. The milkman and his cart. He watched them quietly from his
The soft, golden light of dawn began to filter down into the labyrinth as he slowly‪ ‬ascended.
Leaving his lantern at the door, the Opera Ghost emerged into‪ ‬the light; inhaling the warm, summer air‪ deep into his lungs. ‬
‪Heaven. ‬