Erik should make an Erik mannequin. Maybe they kiss. Maybe one of them is wearing a clown wig when it happens. It’s good maybe. Maybe Christine watches. Maybe the Christine mannequin is there too. Maybe they are also kissing. Maybe both mannequins should kiss. I would like to see it.
Summary: Erik and Christine are newly married and working on building their relationship, when she happens upon Erik in a compromising position one night. How will Christine feel about what she accidentally discovered? Erik/Christine, Mannequin
Originally posted on AO3 in October 2020. Rated ‘E’ for explicit sexual content.
Art by @geickogarbage, which is fitting, because this story was inspired by some different art of theirs :)
Alright, time to get serious. Erik and Christine or Erik and the Mannequin! You must choose!
ANON. WHY?? Why would you make me CHOOSE???
But, since you did demand ask, I will answer...and it’s pretty much the same answer I’ve given to previous asks about my ships (X, X, X, X).
I think I gotta go with Erik/Mannequin! Don’t get me wrong, I *adore* E/C. I’ve shipped E/C for almost a quarter century. But, depending on the version/characterizations/etc, I don’t always necessarily want E/C to end up together. Erik/Mannequin, though...I mean, unless she’s made up of human skin or Christine’s taxidermied body, I’m pretty much always good to go 😂
Okayyyyyyy so I just watched Act 1 of LND for the first time (cue applause; it was an impressive feat). Let’s begin with overall thoughts. Most of the songs so far have been interesting to listen to (though nowhere near as good at the songs in POTO). I thought that making a sequel to POTO would be utterly fruitless because nothing can live up to the original--especially THAT original--and I was right, of course! I mean, you went from an OPERA HOUSE to a CARNIVAL. What am I meant to take from that??? The whole setting was too bright and colorful and not even close to the creepiness and ethereality of POTO.
Alright. Song #1: Prologue. Um...creepy-ish? I feel like POTO has such a good prologue with an epic overture that you can’t top with another moment-in-the-future-when-everyone’s-old-now-we’re-going-back-in-time. I really like the LND theme music though.
2: The Coney Island Waltz, all those dance-y lighthearted songs. I like the vibe, it was fun and the instrumentals were cool for the transition from the overture.
Skip ahead to “Till I Hear You Sing.” Weird-ass shit. Ramin’s singing was good, as per usual, and Angry PhantomTM energy was strong. Overall the song was a bop. I found it--disconcerting? that Meg wanted Erik’s approval...isn’t she supposed to be really scared of him? And WHY did Madame Giry consent to work for him? She should be in charge. Of course, this is where we saw the Christine mannequin and I was like--AHA THIS IS WHERE THOSE ERIK X MANNEQUIN FICS COME FROM (you guys are kinky ngl)!
Dear Old Friend: similar to “Notes,” except, not funny. So not as good. Christine was so gullible not to know Erik was involved in this shitshow, especially with the name of this attraction being called “Phantasma” and having skull-and-ugly-face stuff everywhere. Erik wild for that.
The Beauty Underneath. WHAT. THE. FUCK??????? Fucking weirrrrrrd. I want to forget this song. No, I want to forget this whole musical, but mainly this. It sounded like ALW was trying to mimic the rock vibes of the title song in POTO (and disastrously failing). Erik and Gustave were just running around and screaming the whole time (like father like son amirite) and I was so CONFUSED??? To top it all off, Erik’s lair in LND is soooo underwhelming, like, the place needs about 2,000 more candelabras and 1 more giant underground lake. It looked like they were prancing around in some goth teenager’s attic. And then Erik takes his mask off--does he just expect a ten-year-old child to just not scream? Sure, the boy’s been singing about “the beauty underneath” finding the beauty in “ugliness” but he’s TEN. He doesn’t know what the fuck he’s singing about.The deformity was a lot worse in LND than POTO I think.
Overall, I was very unimpressed, but not disappointed. I expected this to be shit coming in, ya know? You guys prepared me for it, so thank you. I don’t know why I did this, but I’m still going to watch act two soon. I’ve never watched Beneath a Moonless Sky so we’ll see how that goes hahaaaaa. This felt like shitty fanfiction. Which, I guess, it was. I don’t know how it stayed on broadway for almost ten years. I don’t get it.
Wish me luck for Act 2. Imma need it. I’ve already lost 20 years of my life. I’m down to 2 brain cells.
MeI decided to compile a list of some rarer and not-so-rare PotO ships that are not E/C, partly just to see how many I could come up with it and also, hopefully, to encourage and maybe inspire people to enter the PotO Rarer Pairs Contest I’m trying to run (x). Plus it’s an excellent distraction from various current problems of mine. Some of these are serious, some are a little more cracky, you might be surprised at some of the ones on this list that I have actually written.
So, without further ado, here is the list. There are 43 ships on it, many of which have never been written. There are obviously more too, and you can come up with any combination you want.
I hope people can at least get some amusement out of this list!