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DB-artwork In reply to Otherladyinblack [2019-05-04 20:44:00 +0000 UTC]

Let me start of by saying that yes, I am very very aware of the story, message, and it's tragedy. I have read the original book several times and i'm fully aware that Erik and Christine were never going to end up together (as I mentioned from my description), and that it was never about sex. Erik was too damaged throughout his life, that I highly doubt that he could have made Christine happy. Erik only learned to take what he wanted and react with violence if anyone saw his face or got in his way. Christine letting Erik kiss her, and returning the same gesture gave him that chance to know what love is. Which is what made him realized that this was not the life he wanted for her and let her go. But then again if your going to based it off fully on Gaston Leroux's version then you can't really say much on what Erik and Christine thoughts were or what they went through together since the whole book is in Raul and Nadir (Persian)'s perspective, and we only hear a little of what Christine shared and a bit of Erik from what Nadir shared. Now i don’t know if you’ve read Susan Kay’s book Phantom where we get to see everyone’s POV, Erik and Christine relationship, and the unanswered questions we had that Leroux never answered.  But I get the feeling that you’re sticking more to the original.

Again, I’m not saying I disagree with the events that happen but I do want to point out that this is my Fan interpretation of the happy ending that I wished. Not saying that sex was specifically in his mind but just wanted to imagine Christine fully loving him despite his deformities. At the end of the day, Erik was a man and like any human he for sure yearned that affection from someone as he probably witnessed from other couples he’s seen in the opera. I’m not trying to attack you or remind you what happened but I needed to make myself clear that I’m well informed about the story so there’s no need for you to say that I have “not understood anything of the story at all.”

This is after all Deviant Art, where anyone can draw what they like, and in most cases artist interpreting their favorite characters in their way through art, poetry, and fiction. If you’re looking for accuracy, then you’ve probably stumbled on the wrong site, since I’m not the only one who has changed the ending for poor Erik. But then again it's also a place to express what you like, so you have every right to demonstrate your view of it in your art and have others follow your perspective of it. I love Gaston Leroux story and all the other versions that came after it (except Phantom in Manhattan *shudder*), since we can always explore other artist’s take of the story. I just happen to be another fan and artist that wanted to show my version of it, and satisfy those who wanted this ending.

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DragonSisterKelsi In reply to Otherladyinblack [2019-05-04 16:41:36 +0000 UTC]

I completely understand what you're saying here, and I agree 100%. The Phantom is a sublime monster who, because of his unconventionality, can never have a conventional happy ending.

But I am afraid that YOU have not understood anything about what the artist is trying to do. The entire point of fanfiction and fan-created work is for a fan to put their own twist on the canon and share THEIR personal interpretation of the story, even if they understand that it would never work in the actual source material. As this artist writes in the description of this piece, "I totally understand Christine's choice and agree that it was the way it should end," so she already understands why the original story ends the way it does and understands that this is a very different interpretation of the Phantom and Christine. Even so, the interpretation is still hers, and that's what fan-created work is all about.

I understand your argument completely--this piece has caused a reaction in you because it deviates from the original material so much. But you can't use that argument to tear down this one piece without tearing down every single piece of fan-created work ever conceived.

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Otherladyinblack In reply to DragonSisterKelsi [2019-05-04 17:06:27 +0000 UTC]

I understand what you say (by the way, I have no need of being yelled...). I agree that  you can put your own twist in an already existant character... but not to the point to turn it into a completely different thing, or alter its original traits and background until it has became unrecognizable and even just the opposite of it once was. If you do so... I think is just better to put it a different name and make an entirely new character of your own.  And this is not just a criticism to certain fan-art... What I am trying to say is that, for me, this is not a happy ending, not desirable, and not certainly which it should have been. Phantom of the Opera is about titanical passsions, not material for mere eye- candy (which, in the other hand, can be very enticing and well-executed)...

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