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Their story is hardly a fairy tale.
They're not ordinary people and they have no chance of making their own fairy tale... at least, of the one with a happy ending.
Some Malak's thoughts on his relationship with Revan before the Mandalorian Wars from a short (i do hope so) fic I'm trying to write. A kind of a prediction if you like...
You're allowed to be weak. At least with me. It's okay, Akk.
THE ECLIPSE (2022)
#Aziraphale didn’t know he was starving for Crowley’s love until he tasted him.
i want to be in love because then id always have someone to go on long walks with
Anytime I see people who say 'Erik should have gotten Chirstine!' I always let out such a loud sigh because they are completely missing the point of the book.
The tradgedy is not, and never has been, the fact that The Phantom didn't get Christine, it's the fact that he never got to be human.
Erik, as a character, is so insanely full of love and yearning and that is exactly what leads people to sympathise with him; to lead them to the point of 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. He's poetic with his suffering and expresses his truama in a obsessive and borderline psychopathic way in order to deal with it and get what he wants. To have what he never had; real affection. To be kissed without his masked chucked at his face.
To be looked at with fondness instead of fear.
Leroux's whole point with the character of The Phantom isn't that he's another man who deserved the girl, his point was how real life literature Others are treated. Erik is both The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Quasimodo and Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason. Both, of which, despite the fact they don't conform to societal standards, still deserve to be treated as humans.
Erik deserves to be treated like a human despite his deformity, despite his otherness that has literally forced him into the basement of an Opera House he helped build; to be loved like any human wants love. Everybody in that book demonises him for such a human feeling and that is the point. That is the metaphorical kick to the chest.
Further, rounding back around to the 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. If Erik got Christine, he wouldn't learn that the fact he murdered multiple people to get there, that he threatened to blow up half of Paris, that he tricked a young girl into believing he was her dead father, was wrong. If he got what he wanted, with no consequences, then it wouldn't teach Erik anything, because he would never learn what real affection would be like.
That's why, at the end of the book, where Christine shows him genuine love, willingly, he absolutely crumbles because he realises that is what it means to be human. To feel human; pure love given of someone's own accord.
To love is to be changed, as the poets' say, and that's exactly what it does to him.
Y'ALL OMFG ANGSTY WOLFSTAR!DAUGHTER DRABBLE BECAUSE THIS IS SO THEM AND I'D LIKE TO WRITE A STORY ABOUT IT BECAUSE I LOVE SAD THINGS😜🤙 (or if someone else does it tag me please🙏)
(this is inspired by the tiktok trend btw)
Just imagine...
"They look so angry, daddy..." she murmurs, clutching her father's shirt and hiding her little body behind his legs. "Why is everyone looking at you that way? Why is dad looking at you that way?"
Sirius just strokes her hair in silence, while looking at Remus and all the other members of the Order with a heartbroken expression. The look in Remus' eyes however, is the ugliest of them all, it's something he would never have wanted to see. There is only hatred in them and the feeling of being betrayed.
But the only person who kept that little flame of hope burning inside his heart was their little daughter. The only one who would never believe what they said about Sirius. Her daddy was a good person and he would never hurt his friends. And Remus and her.
"Y/n" Remus calls her daughter, taking a step forward. "Darling, come here"
But she only tightens her grip on Sirius' clothes.
"Sweetheart, please" Remus begs with a quivering tone. "Please come here, come to dad"
Sirius puts his palm on her back, gently urging her to move forward and she looks up at him with big eyes.
"It's okay, puppy" he whispers. "Go to him"
"But..." she hesitates. "But what about you, daddy?"
"It's going to be okay, don't worry about me. You just go with dad, mh? I'll see you later"
She looks between him and Remus, choosing whether to follow the words of her dad or daddy. And finally, with a kiss on the head from Sirius, she moves away from him to walk slowly towards Remus.
She turns to look at Sirius one last time and he gives her an encouraging smile while mouthing an "I love you". And he grudgingly decides not to look at the tears that are coming out of her big eyes.
Remus picks her up and hugs her tightly to his chest and even though he doesn't want to feel that way for any reason in the world, he can't help but be afraid that Sirius would take his daughter away. He's not going to let him hurt her like he did to him and all of his friends.
Remus walks away from Sirius without even say the last "I love you" or a simple "Goodbye Sirius". Their innocent daughter still doesn't know that Sirius won't see her later, like he said. And she won't see him for another twelve long years.