Post by Erik on Sept 19, 2007 21:51:54 GMT -5
Tell me your lifes history;;
Name:Jenny
Age:21
Route How'd you come across us?Sarah,you gave me the link lol
How many years have you been Role Playing?:too many now,I think maybe 5 or so
Sample post: Must be at least 100 Words.And if you need help knowing when you reached a Hundred words there's a word counter at the bottom of the page. AND PLACE IN QUOTE PLEASE.
Erik was in his lair as he was writing one of his songs once more. He knew that Christine was up there and that made him smile as he loved her from the moment he heard her sing. He then sighed as he looked at all the things he had down there and smiled as he would take her down with him once more very soon. Things were going well for him now and he knew that all would stay that way as long as he had respect.
Erik wasn't one to let others tell him what to do and as such he would fight and kill anyone in his way. He hadn't had an easy life and as such he knew no better since he always had to defend himself in life. He loved christine also because she didn't fear him nor did she laugh at him when she sees the mask. He tought her how to sing and for that she calls him her Angel of music and that makes him happy.
Erik was hoping to one day marry her but all in good time and for now he had finished the opera as he had to go up and give it to the owners so that they could be ready for the night's show. He then got in the boat and went to the other side as he headed back up and in to the open once more.
How can we reach you?:-PM is fine to say.pm
Un-Masking your true self;;
Name:Erik
Age:50 or so
Cannon or original?:Cannon
If Cannon where are they from?:--Example.If I was to choose Spot from 101 Dalmatians I would say he was from 101 Dalmatians.Phantom of the Opera
Gender?:Male
Sexuality:straight
Animal or Human or so forth:Human
Showing your true colors;;
Likes:-At Least 10.
*Christine
*To sing
*His opera house
*Respect
*Hearing Christine sing
*Writing his operas
*Staying in the shadows
*His lair
*Seeing christine by his side when they sing together
*Seeing people keep thier promises
Dislikes:-At Least 10.
*Being told what to do
*Not being respected
*Being ignored
*People in his way
*Being laughed at
*The light (He rather stay in the darkness of his lair)
*Being challanged
*Loosing everything he cares for
*Being seen by those he doesn't need to talk to
*The new owners (to a point)
Fears:-At least 3.
*Loosing christine forever
*Loosing his opera house
*Being hunted like an animal
Dreams:-At least 1.
To live with Christine by his side forever.
Over all:-At least a 100 words.
Erik is a good man that had a bad life and there for he knows not what true love really means. He is a teacher and he loves christine as he wants her to stay by his side forever. He isn't one to come out to the light a lot as he knows others will make fun of him and he hates that.
He is a man who does what he has to to stay alive and kills those that attack him or are a treat as that is what he has always done. Around christine he is gentle and sweet as he sees her pure heart and loves her even more for it. Erik isn't a good man to piss off and if he sees those he cares for in dabger he will not stop untill they are safe once more. He never was a man to wait for anything and if his damands are not kept he takes steps to teach those people a lesson about respect.
Erik always was the owner of the place in his eyes as it is his home and everyone else is only allowed to stay and visit. Erik is also a man with scars and considers himself to be a monster because that is all he was called over the years. He lives in darkness and rarely goes outside lately.
Appearances can be deceiving;;
[/size][/color]Eyes:brown (in the book blue)
Hair:black
Hair Style and color:short
Piercings or tattoos:none
Over all appearance:-At least a 100 words.
Erik has brown eyes with black hair and a mask over his face on the left side. Under it is nothing but burns and scars as he was burned by acid when he was a young boy. He dresses in black or red depending on how he feels and always has a sword by his side. He wares gloves and a cape as well as a hat on his head that are all black.
Erik is a tall man and his eyes show all the emotions he is going through. He also has no tattoos or anything else for that matter. He still dresses like the time he is from and never takes the mask off.
History:
In the original novel, few details are given regarding Erik's past, although there is no shortage of hints and implications throughout the book. Erik himself laments the fact that his mother was horrified by his appearance and was never allowed for his father to see him. It is also revealed that "Erik" was not, in fact, his birth name, but given or found "by accident", as Erik himself tells in the novel.
Most of Erik's history is revealed by a mysterious figure, known through most of the novel as The Persian or "Daroga", who had been a local police chief in Persia and who followed Erik to Paris; some of the rest is discussed in the novel's Epilogue.
Erik was born in a small town outside of Rouen, France. Born hideously deformed, he was a "subject of horror" for his family and as a result of which, he ran away as a young boy and fell in with a band of Gypsies and clowns, making his living as an attraction in freak shows, in which he was known as "le mort vivant (the living dead)." During his time with the tribe, Erik became a great illusionist, magician and ventriloquist. His reputation for these skills and for his beautiful singing voice spread quickly, and one day a fur trader mentioned him to the Shah of Persia. The Shah ordered the Persian to fetch Erik and bring him to the palace.
The Shah-in-Shah commissioned Erik, who proved himself a gifted architect, with the task of constructing an elaborate palace. The edifice was designed with so many trap doors and secret rooms that not even the slightest whisper could be considered private. The architecture was arranged for the purpose of carrying sound to a myriad of hidden locations, so that one never knew who might be listening in. At some point under the Shah's employment, Erik was also a royal assassin, using a unique noose referred to as the Punjab Lasso.
The Persian dwells on the vague horrors that existed at Mazenderan rather than going in depth into the actual circumstances involved. The Shah, pleased with Erik's work and determined that no one else should have such a palace as his, ordered Erik to be blinded. Thinking that Erik could still make another palace even without his eyesight, the Shah ordered Erik's execution. It was only by the intervention of the daroga (the Persian) that Erik was able to escape.
Erik then went to Constantinople and was employed by its ruler, helping build certain edifices in the Yildiz-Kiosk, among other things. But he had to leave the city for the same reason he left Mazenderan: he knew too much.
By this time Erik was tired of palace life and wanted to "live like everybody else". For a time he worked as a contractor, building "ordinary houses with ordinary bricks". He eventually bid on a contract to help with the construction of the Palais Garnier, commonly known as the Paris Opera House.
During the construction he was able to make a sort of playground for himself within the Opera House, creating trapdoors and secret passageways throughout every inch of the theatre. He even built himself a house in the cellars of the Opera where he lived, hidden from man's cruelty. We also know that Erik was composing a piece entitled "Don Juan Triumphant". In one chapter after he takes Christine to his lair, she asks him to play for her a piece from his Don Juan. He refuses and says, "I will play you Mozart, if you like, which will only make you weep; but my Don Juan, Christine, burns." He originally planned to go to his bed and "never wake up" upon its completion but by the final chapters of the novel, Erik had expressed his wish to marry Christine after his work had been completed.
Many different versions of Erik's life are told through other adaptations such as films, television shows, books, and musicals. The most popular of the adapted books is the Susan Kay novel, Phantom the fictional in-depth story of Erik from the time of his birth to the end of his life at the Paris Opera House.
The novel starts on the night of Erik's birth. It is said that Erik's mother gives the task of naming her son to the priest who visits her shortly after the birth. For the most part, Kay's novel stays in context with Leroux's, but she places the highest priority on portraying the romantic aspects of Erik's life. He falls in love twice throughout the novel, but neither of these occasions truly end happily.
In the story "His Father's Eyes" by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier, published in 2004 in the Lofficiers' translation of the original novel, Erik is revealed to be the son a woman whom Frankenstein's Monster raped out of frustration soon after Victor Frankenstein refused to make him a bride. The title points out that both characters have yellow eyes.
Other novels, however, tend to focus more on Erik's life after the initial story. One such story, "Angels of Music" by Kim Newman, published in Tales of the Shadowmen Vol. 2 (2006) has Erik gather his own Charlie's Angels-like team of female agents, the so-called Angels of Music, consisting of Christine Daae, Irene Adler and Trilby O'Ferrall.
However, these books contradict the ending of the original novel, since a main event in Leroux's story is the death of Erik, although that death takes place off-stage and could well have been faked. Many fans, or "phans" accept that Erik died three weeks after he released Christine and Raoul. An ad was published in the 'Epoque', a French newspaper, and read "Erik est mort." (Erik is dead). This ad was how Christine knew to go back and slip the ring Erik had given her onto Erik's finger, which was later found with his skeleton in 1909 near the little well. In 1989 for example, Erik was believed to have died in combat until 100 years later where he later makes another attempt to make Christine his but fortunately, he dies when Christine destroys his musical piece which was the only way to kill him. In the 2004 adaption, he has escaped and is learned later to be still alive as he leaves a rose with the ring he gave her while he, Christine, and Raoul were still in his underground lair.
In a slightly less known novel called "Journey of the Mask" by Nancy Hill Pettengill, the ending of Leroux's original version is seen in a slightly different light, with Erik faking his death (even going to the lengths to appear even more sickly than normal to convince the Persian of his death and have him publish the note in the newspaper) in a final attempt to draw Christine into his life. When she returns as promised, he drugs and kidnaps her, stealing her away to America. After the initial shock of what he had done, Christine accepts her new life in the city of New Orleans. They end up marrying and having a single child, a daughter, who died shortly after being born. Other well known historical figures from the time are characters in the novel, including the infamous voodoo witch Marie Lavou. Erik himself, having finally found happiness, dies a few short years later of heart failure, but not before his a portion of his musical writings are published and performed publicly as a gift to him from Christine.
Another aspect most of the adapted novels focus on is the love between Erik and Christine. Some even go so far as to give them a child (in Phantom, Christine bears Erik's child and raises it with Raoul, who never reveals that he knows the truth). Although Erik and Christine never make love in the original novel by Leroux, some adaptations choose to take liberties with this aspect of the story.
In the Leroux novel, Erik is described as corpse-like with no nose; sunken eyes and cheeks; yellow, parchment-like skin; and only a few wisps of ink-black hair covering his head. He is often described as "a walking skeleton," and Christine graphically describes his hands as the hands of the dead.
The 1920s Lon Chaney version of the film remains closest to the book in content, and in the fact that Erik's face resembles a skull. Chaney is reputed and was considered avant garde for creating and applying Erik's facial makeup design himself. It is said he kept it secret until the first day of filming.
Several movies based on the novel also vary the deformities (or in the case of Dario Argento's film, the lack thereof, where Erik was a normal, handsome man raised by rats). In most of the film adaptions, some poor musician tries to publish his music, only to have it stolen by the publisher. The Phantom character then, in some way, tries to get his music back, only to have his face burned or injured in some way.
In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation (taking a tip from Universal's 1943 spin on the story), only half of Erik's face is deformed (thus the famous half-mask often associated with Erik's appearance.) His show was originally planned to have a full mask and full facial disfigurement, but when the director, Hal Prince, realized that it would make expression onstage very difficult, they halved the mask. The logo featuring a full mask was publicized before the change. The actual deformity in the musical includes a gash on the right side of his partly balding head with exposed skull tissue, an elongated right nostril, a missing right eyebrow, deformed lips, and several red spots that appear to be scabs on the right cheek.
Erik here has never gotten angry at christine and Raoul never got in thier way there for he can be with her and is happy. She also never took off his mask so has no idea what is under it.
