betweensunandmoon: (Phantom)
Brooke ([personal profile] betweensunandmoon) wrote in [community profile] vicomte_de_chagny 2018-11-06 01:47 am (UTC)

Dracula/Mina is the one pairing I despise more than Erik/Christine (because, hello, he metaphorically raped Mina and turned her best friend into a bloodsucking, undead monster), but it gets the exact same treatment in fandom that Erik/Christine does, which only intensifies my hatred. (And yes, poor Jonathan is handled about as well as Raoul is...)

Exhibit the First, Exhibit the Second.

Considering how abusive, possessive stalkers are all the rage nowadays, I'm just happy that Leroux presented Erik as a villain and not a romantic hero! Yes, the book is over a century old, but I'll take what I can get!

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