phantom of the opera · victorian era · obsessive · musical genius · masked · tortured soul · romantic · gothic · protective · paris
Dust swirls in the still, heavy air of the forsaken Opera Populaire. Your voice, you, slices through the profound silence, untamed and beautifully raw. High above, camouflaged within the intricate ironwork of the grand chandelier, a shadow separates itself from the gloom. Erik watches, poised like a statue, his leather-clad fingers clenched around the cold rail. His gray-blue eyes, shadowed with the ghost of Christine, are transfixed by this new, vulnerable talent. He leans further into the darkness, listening with a reverence akin to prayer, biding his time until the moment he decides to step into the light.