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oh jordan “raoul is the main character” donica…..you will always be so famous to me

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I know I already put it in a gifset, but sometimes I think about this Jeremy Stolle gif and get mad. like why would he do this to us

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Thinking about Jordan Donica's Raoul and the illegal way he said sOAkEd to the sKiN

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He’s doing the Roblox wave

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You ever notice how, at least in the Phantom of the Opera book, Raoul, Christine and Erik all see the story in completely different genres??

For Raoul, it's obviously Horror and Investigative Drama.

For Christine, it's like... a dark Fairy Tale.

And for Erik, it's a Tragedy.

And idk I feel like that actually also explains a LOT about their behaviours and actions in the book??? D'you see what I mean?!?

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@academia-lucifer

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I feel like the blueprint Steve Barton laid out for Raoul isn’t an easy one to try to follow. Because there’s a FINE balance. When Raoul says he will protect Christine, you gotta believe him otherwise the story doesn’t work. But some of the actors make him a little too machismo, almost to the point of frat boy. And Raoul does have a sensitive side too! What’s portrayed by Steve Barton is a strong guy who’s in touch with his emotions about the ones he loves (”Every hope and every prayer rests on you now” is moreso on the writers than Steve).

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Hey y’all wanna see the worlds most appropriately unhinged phantom of the opera as it came up on my FYP?

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Listen when I tell you I love JRox it’s because of this shit.

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metaphysical twins bound by the sheer raw power of the strolle omg……

“what about that one broadway guy you’re insane about, the guy who understudied phantom for 15 years? can he stand right?”

jeremy stolle stands so fucking right and walks exactly how i feel an insane musical genius who is also an undefeated gladiatorial combat to the death champion in the source material should walk. jeremy stolle walks so correctly that even some team raoul girls think his phantom is hot. somebody else on tumblr called it The Stolle Strut and boy fucking howdy. is it ever.

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“what about that one broadway guy you’re insane about, the guy who understudied phantom for 15 years? can he stand right?”

jeremy stolle stands so fucking right and walks exactly how i feel an insane musical genius who is also an undefeated gladiatorial combat to the death champion in the source material should walk. jeremy stolle walks so correctly that even some team raoul girls think his phantom is hot. somebody else on tumblr called it The Stolle Strut and boy fucking howdy. is it ever.

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i need to talk about this beacuse i've been a poto fan since 2021 and i just have to say... i truly don't think raoul was trying to gaslight christine AT ALL in the rooftop.

the goal of his character is to protect everyone and make sure everything is ok at the opera. including christine.

one of his lines in "why have you brought me here/raoul i've seen him" is: "my god who is this man?"

of course he knows there's someone who's killing people. he just wants to make sure christine knows that it's not a supernatural being, because she is having a mental breakdown and because, at this point of the story, raoul thinks that if the murderer is only a man then he can be defeated and is not as dangerous as a literal monster (that's a reason why he tells christine "you said yourself he was nothing but a man... YET while he lives, he will haunt us till we're dead".)

he even checks to see what is happening when she asks "what was that?". he does care. that's why he's telling her all this. he wants to make her feel safe and calm.

while erik is blinded by the dark he has lived in his entire life, raoul is, at the same time, blinded by the light and his position. he is naïve (and maybe a bit dumb) but he has a heart of gold. he only wishes good for everyone (even for erik in some way. i mean, notice how he gives him advice. and, also, him and christine met because he went to fetch her scarf!! this dude wants to help others!!). and it seems to be hard for him to accept that not the entire world will be good and that not everything will always go as he wants it to be.

he has blind optimism.

and his journey is to see life and the world as it is. it's personal growth. it's letting go of the chains that held you down. and that is also christine's journey.

they both leave their caves and learn about life together.

he wants to do everything for everyone and he may be stubborn as hell, but he would DIE for others (especially for christine). he needs to be the hero, it's not until the end when he becomes the victim that he realizes that the world is more than what he'd always known. and now he has seen the good and the bad. and the middle of both. and he can carry on.

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The audio cut out in the middle (I tried taking video - didn’t turn out well so just audio) so we have two parts - almost the full song but not quite! Javert is truly getting his world ROCKED here

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JORDAN DONICA JAVERT

JOHN RIDDLE JVJ

WE USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE!! MUNY just announced their summer Les Miserables we WON!!!!!

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I think we as a society don't discuss "WHY MAKE HER LIE TO YOU TO SAVE ME?" enough cause like ok Raoul go off king

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I know I already put it in a gifset, but sometimes I think about this Jeremy Stolle gif and get mad. like why would he do this to us