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Collected thoughts on Raoul: head-canons
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igenlodeCollected thoughts on Raoul and fanfiction (assembled from various conversations with an in-depth reviewer):
I don't really have many persistent head-canons beyond the actual canon details; one is the argument that Christine's famous scarf which Raoul rescued was actually a headscarf; the original French bears it out, and the concept neatly explains why she was wearing a scarf in the middle of summer and how it came to blow off so easily.
And another is the idea that Leroux-Raoul, whose entire estate is stated to be in the hands of his older brother, doesn't actually have a lot of cash at his disposal; when we see him buy his own tickets for the train or to the opera, for example, he buys cheap seats (sitting up overnight all the way to Brittany is not the preferred travel method of a luxury-living aristocrat!), and we see him go around Paris on foot. Of course the Comte normally pays for anything and everything his little brother might want as a matter of course -- but my head-canon is that when Raoul is trying to do things that he doesn't want Philippe to know about, and hence can't just charge everything to his brother's account, he has to think about where he's going to get the money from...
Head-canons
I don't really have many persistent head-canons beyond the actual canon details; one is the argument that Christine's famous scarf which Raoul rescued was actually a headscarf; the original French bears it out, and the concept neatly explains why she was wearing a scarf in the middle of summer and how it came to blow off so easily.
And another is the idea that Leroux-Raoul, whose entire estate is stated to be in the hands of his older brother, doesn't actually have a lot of cash at his disposal; when we see him buy his own tickets for the train or to the opera, for example, he buys cheap seats (sitting up overnight all the way to Brittany is not the preferred travel method of a luxury-living aristocrat!), and we see him go around Paris on foot. Of course the Comte normally pays for anything and everything his little brother might want as a matter of course -- but my head-canon is that when Raoul is trying to do things that he doesn't want Philippe to know about, and hence can't just charge everything to his brother's account, he has to think about where he's going to get the money from...
