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Guest chapter 25 . 8/2 Aaah! Wonderful work. I hope you do publish. I read this in two days, I couldn’t put it down. So much to compliment! I love how the story hits the ground running. I love Erik’s humor, especially in the beginning. I was so impressed and engaged with the detail you put into their different locations, travel methods, and Erik’s tech. I love the constant conflict within Christine and the minute ways it manifests. I loved the realism of Eric not knowing how to believe Christine or take small steps. I love Christine’s growth. When she said no one deserves anyone, I wanted an amen! That paragraph was so beautiful. So often with passionate relationships, they burn bright and quick, or if they stay together it is very unhealthy. It’s so nice to see a story where boundaries and choice are fostered. |
Clipperchaun chapter 1 . 4/23 This story was wonderful. Thank you so much for writing it. |
PrinzKaLaF chapter 25 . 5/26/2023 I just loved this whole story; your sensitive writing, your description of all the places, the tension, the action, the hints to ALW and Leroux, but all above your caring for the characters. I cried a lot reading it, because you found absolutely the right words at the right time (saying this as a not native english speaking person it may point out how deeply your words touched my soul because I just forgot while reading, that it wasnt my mother-tongue...) thank you thank you so much! |
anon chapter 25 . 5/25/2023 Not to sound melodramatic but uhm... it really doesn't feel like erik is worthy of Christine's love and affection, and definitely not her trust. he's done nothing to make up for any of his selfish behavior or the numerous hurts he's caused her (that includes his silly little pretending to be dead stunt) and yet she's become such an impossibly kind and strong and magnanimous person that she somehow finds it in herself to forgive him for everything. she's developed a strength of character that Erik could never hope to match, she's grown far beyond and above him and has quite frankly left him in the dust. she's the superior person by far and she deserves a better man than Erik has shown himself to be, a man who's strong and mature and trustworthy. Erik isn't any of those things yet. maybe in the future he will begin to measure up to her but for now he's not even close to being her equal. |
yimello chapter 24 . 4/16/2023 Oofff, what an emotional roller coaster this has been. I'm not exaggerating when I say this story had me lying awake at night, unable to stop thinking about it. Frankly I'm not even sure what the ending has me feeling more of: euphoria at Christine and Erik finally getting their happy ending, or pure unbridled rage at Erik's godawful behavior. This has been hands down the most up-his-own-ass, in-love-with-his-own-self-pity, infuriatingly self-sabotaging, NARCISSISTIC version of Erik I've come across in 15 years of being a phan. A few times this story honestly had me on the edge of rooting against him — and that's a nearly impossible task to achieve since he's my all time favorite character and I'm tremendously biased in his favor. I still can't tell whether I'd prefer to hug or slap him. To say he's his own worst enemy would be the understatement of the century. I mean, HOLY CRAP, this absolute MORON is just so determined to be miserable that even when he had everything he ever wanted he still couldn't get out of his own way, and he somehow found a way to almost irreversibly implode not only his own life but also the life of the woman he loves. Christine followed him around the world and showed him more kindness and understanding than he gave her any reason to; she CHOSE him of her own volition and explicitly told him so. And how does he repay her? By trying to force her to marry him? By once again disregarding everything she tells him except what he wants to hear, by robbing her of her decision to choose him, by leaving her absolutely miserable by dropping off the face of the Earth and letting her think he died? All this time he spent with her, of her demanding to be heard, and still he DOES NOT listen to her. At the end of the final lair sequence, she outright tells him to take her with him, that she wants to find him once everything has settled down, and he just IGNORES her. Just straight-up refuses to absorb a single word out of her mouth. He might as well have stuck his fingers in his ears and started yelling, "Lalalalala I can't hear you! I'm not listening!" "Letting her go" is his attempt at doing the right thing, at redemption, at making a sacrifice, and yet even when he genuinely tries to be selfless he somehow still manages to act in an altogether solipsistic and selfish manner; when he takes himself out of Christine's life against her express wishes, when he chooses to ignore the fact that she wants him because that goes against the made-up reality in his own head, he is preoccupied above all else with his own awfulness; he is putting his feelings of self-loathing and the certainty that he is unlovable before Christine's right to choose her own fate. He's so myopic and self-obsessed, so blinded by his own self-hatred, that he is unable to see what's staring him right in the face: that Christine can and does want him and that all he needs to do to finally be happy is get out of his own damn way; that by punishing himself for his wrongdoings he is punishing her as well, that he is causing her even more misery than he already has. It doesn't even occur to him that his death might cause her pain because he's too busy castigating himself over how awful and unlovable he thinks he is to pay attention to any evidence on the contrary. And then, to top it all off, if Nadir hadn't intervened Erik would have continued to inadvertently let Christine suffer by letting her think he's dead, secure in the knowledge that she couldn't possibly want him, wallowing in his own misery because that's what he does best, while simultaneously patting himself on the back about the "great sacrifice" he made for Christine's sake — all of it without ever bothering to get her opinion on the matter. What piece of work this man is. Christine will need the patience of a saint to spend the rest of her life with him. |
yimello chapter 22 . 12/3/2022 Knowing everything we do about Erik his claim of the whole world hating him on sight comes across as more whiny than anything else. Compared to Leroux's living corpse the musical deformity is underwhelming to begin with and in a modern day fic it becomes pretty unbelievable that it would have given Erik enough hardship to force him into becoming a hermit. And this particular Erik has untold amounts of money which could surely have bought him the best plastic surgery on the planet - and it isn't like he's missing a nose so really, how hard could it be to make him look normal? There really doesn't seem to be a good reason for him to live the way he does - he might have not even tried to live like a normal man. Either he's gone through life imagining rejection where there was none, or he secretly quite enjoys feeling like an outcast because it gives him a justification for behaving the way he does. If he's not part of society then he doesn't need to stick to society's pesky rules. If Christine can't possibly ever accept him because of his face then he can't approach her as a normal man would; instead he has to lie and manipulate and abduct her, drag her across half the globe and blackmail her into being with him by threatening her fiance's life. It's the only way for him! That's how I imagine his thought process going. With every version of Erik there's always an element of his isolation being partly caused by his own actions; but this particular Erik's loneliness seems to be entirely self-inflicted. |
Casey chapter 25 . 11/5/2022 This is one fanfiction I always come back to ever couple years for a reread and to my ABSOLUTE delight.. THERES A NEW CHAPTER! You’re amazing. Thank you for this beautiful story, it’s one of my all time favorites. The growth and the absolute love for these characters is nothing short of breathtaking and the way you managed to make them flow so seamlessly in a real world setting.. it’s just phenomenal. Thank you! |
sharletqueen909 chapter 23 . 10/17/2022 Crying… sobbing… phew, made it through this! |
Guest chapter 25 . 9/15/2022 This was one of the first fics in the fandom I ever read, back in 2008. I haven't checked in on it for the past few years, but went to see POTO in Sydney on Tuesday and decided to revisit my old faves. Thank you so much for this unexpected delight. |
Katabasis chapter 1 . 9/14/2022 After all of the phics I read, I can't believe I glossed over this one! This was SO good that I ended up binging it in one night and then re-read the whole thing several times over later on. I loved it so much. Thank you for writing such a fun and gripping story. The whole billionaire, whiplash-neck-breaking-speed-action-ness of it all was thrilling and so, so fun to read. Thank you for sharing your writing! I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled if you decide to write any new stories |
yimello chapter 11 . 7/3/2022 Man, Erik's so hot in this chapter it's shocking Christine isn't just throwing herself at him the first chance she's got. |
Guest chapter 14 . 5/7/2022 Difficult yo follow this lifestyle of cties, mafia people, computers, phones hooking up here and there, jets, trains, weird curtained autos?never fresh air, touring all these places, or hardly eating. Why is this theory of skinny people so important. I hate their lifestyle. So cold and boring. Its all seems about high rollers, mafia fighting. No pets. Eric always liked animals. Just a super jet set, fasf fast lane Erik and Christine. Hardly romantic or tender. |
SugarPlumCuttlefish chapter 25 . 5/7/2022 My god, the YEARNING...it's so perfect. From both of them, but especially Erik. It's everything I want in a Phantom AU. Thank you for this perfection. And especially this lovely epilogue. I needed them to have this blissful coming together so desperately. |
Suehunt1945gmai chapter 7 . 4/30/2022 I zadmire all your intelligent readers, but do far this story is boring to me It's not the phantom I know and love. He's a computer genius and I cannot so far get into this phic. Do they ever go outside and be somewhat human? This is overwhelming me and cold. Just tech and air ports Very little life and warmth. |
DarkPhantom101 chapter 25 . 3/3/2022 I love this story, I had to binge read the story all in one day. It made me feel so much, So much love and heartbreak . I'm thankful I didn't have to wait for the whole story. I don't know how you were able to make me so much but if love i |