Is this just because fandom has leaned more toward moral purity, or do people really not get it? There seem to be so many discussions about how they can ship what they want to ship because it's FANTASY or because they don't like Raoul. Even worse is a book I just read today, which, honestly, performs character assassination on Phillipe and Raoul De Changy and excuses Erik's murders to be, idk, more palatable.
I think that's just modern fandom and purity culture doing its thing. Erik is a villain, so you're not allowed to ship him with the heroine, unless you find a way to mentally re-conceptualize him as a tragically misunderstood hero and woobify him into a poor little meow-meow who never did any wrong.
I've not been in POTO fandom for a long time, but it's the same pattern you run into in a lot of other fandoms now as well.
(I was all about Erik/Christine when I first saw the musical, and then I watched "Love Never Dies" with the revised West End ending and came away shipping Erik/Raoul hard, LOL. I don't know how those two assholes will manage to raise Gustave into a functional member of society, but I'm here for that trainwreck.)
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There seem to be so many discussions about how they can ship what they want to ship because it's FANTASY or because they don't like Raoul. Even worse is a book I just read today, which, honestly, performs character assassination on Phillipe and Raoul De Changy and excuses Erik's murders to be, idk, more palatable.
I think that's just modern fandom and purity culture doing its thing. Erik is a villain, so you're not allowed to ship him with the heroine, unless you find a way to mentally re-conceptualize him as a tragically misunderstood hero and woobify him into a poor little meow-meow who never did any wrong.
I've not been in POTO fandom for a long time, but it's the same pattern you run into in a lot of other fandoms now as well.
(I was all about Erik/Christine when I first saw the musical, and then I watched "Love Never Dies" with the revised West End ending and came away shipping Erik/Raoul hard, LOL. I don't know how those two assholes will manage to raise Gustave into a functional member of society, but I'm here for that trainwreck.)