R/C favourites

[igenlode]

I've just been through twenty-two pages of the top POTO fanfics (as sorted by number of favourites), and it turns out that in over five hundred stories there is not one RC fic in there. Unless you count the two where Raoul is dead and a broken Christine ends up with the Phantom.

I wasn't expecting the majority of the favourite fics in the fandom to be anything other than EC, but I did expect some to show up. (Surely "Phantoms of the Past", with 128 favourites, must have been in there? Oh, of course, it's M-rated, and I didn't adjust the filters...)

Comments

[erimia]

This is sad. :( But not very surprising, considering that there is not that much R/C in general, and there was probably very little of it written until the last ten years.

Hmm, I wonder if the percent of R/C is larger on AO3 than on FFN? The search that excludes the pairings that pair them with other people shows about 200 R/C fics. Interestingly, the first pages of the lists sorted by the most kudos and most hits don't show any exclusively R/C fics, but show some E/R ones, though it's probably due to AO3 being a slash-heavy website.