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CARRD. written by rabbit.

The final lair except the thing that pulls him out of Christine’s pity kiss is the deep rooted childhood complex his mother gave him insisting that anyone who smooched him would simply die (fact checked)

#why. would you do this #+ erik.#enough. STOP

lonlonranching

#NOOO LEAVE HIM ALONE but also yes make him crawl #+ erik.

he's trying to communicate with me........i'm coming erik!!! *starts frantically digging*

#+ ooc.#get it bc he's d--SLEEPING.#working really hard to come back here #missing my rotten goblin children but of course mostly P of the O

thephantomessoftheopera

The fifth cellar and the lake under the Opera house

The fifth cellar under the stage of the Opera Garnier still features the original stage machinery which was used to move trapdoors, set pieces and elevators. The entrance to the underground lake is located here, but access to the lake is extremely restricted.

The entrance to the lake is rather inconspicuous. There is a cage around it to make sure no unauthorized person can access it.

The ladder that descends into the lake. The lake itself holds ground water in a concrete basin. The water is fairly clean, it smells a bit like a fish tank. It is not a part of the sewer system! There apparently used to be a couple of fish living in the lake, but they are no longer there.

The water level was quite high when we visited, but when it is lower, it would be very much possible to use a boat down there. As the ceiling is low and curved, it probably makes sense that in the novel, Erik sits down and rows the boat, instead of standing up with the risk of hitting his head on the ceiling.

The (now modern) door to the fifth cellar

#let me in... LET ME IN!!!!!!

hello erik nation. please listen to this thing* and #thinkofme. miss you all

#* it is not good #+ ooc.#HORRIBLE week like 10-12 hour days and i am only just now recuperating #i miss my rotten goblin children badly #hope to return soon #Youtube

rexiedemibunny

uhm… pleased to bleat you? 🐑

rexiedemibunny

#+ lamb.#disrespect your surroundings

narinder in the fucking maid dress is frying me

#+ ooc.#for those unfamiliar with cotl: that's the big boss at the end of the main game lol #it's a bit of a thing in the fandom that when you add him to your cult you put him in the maid outfit #and this stream and art is from the actual devs

thekwikemart

#+ katharina.#fjdfjbnfg

i just think that if we're talking psychoanalytically, erik is arguably a castrated figure who seeks to gain the symbolic phallus via possession of the emotional and social token that is the love of a desirable woman. but that's me

#+ ooc.

i started reading a book to help with my gender in poto essay lol and i'm wondering, candidly, if i have something of an intellectual block around erik, such that i'm not understanding/agreeing with its contents. this book went psychoanalytic almost immediately which, sure, fine, but it seems to immediately assume that erik, by definition, is a phallic figure in the sense of embodying a male-coded power, authority, and position in the text; it doesn't even make an initial argument for the definition of him as phallic, just launches into talking about him As Such. while i do agree that, like other gothic figures in different works (i can talk about this whole schema at another time--i have diagrams lol), erik "punctures"/"penetrates" the upper world with his deathly presence, and is feared/hated by raoul as a sexual competitor/possible threat to christine, his actual movements in the text tend to be something a bit... less than what i'd call "typically masculine" in the sense of direct. he achieves almost everything by tricks, subterfuge, and game-playing. while at times he demonstrates the "typically masculine" traits of rage and violence, he subsides into a weeping emotionality that parallels him with the failed-male-hero figure of raoul. neither of them is truly "masculine" in the sense of strong, heroic, capable, clear-sighted, and morally true--that's christine. so thinking of him as phallic in the sense of male-aligned male-coded and masculine (the author argues that his home is full of penile and scrotal symbols, which he goads christine into interacting with as a part of his sexual game-playing with her) doesn't quite click for me.

#+ ooc.