mhm so uh yeah
Everybody knows I love Arcane. Everybody knows I love Phantom of the Opera. But what if they were more similar than we think?
Okay. Erik. While this isn’t very known, I’ve never seen anyone say anything about it, he does hear voices like Jinx does. In the 2004 movie he thinks he hears Christine and Raoul singing to each other as they leave, and it can’t be them, it must be his mind, for they’re on their way out and Christine even looks back at Erik. She’s not singing. Erik only thinks he hears their promises of romance echo in his head, like he does at the rooftop scene where again the words echo— causing him to, like Jinx, suffer a breakdown, tear up the rose, and scream out to the sky. Like Jinx, he becomes a symbol— the Phantom, and not a man; she’s the Savior of Zaun, and not a real, breathing person. Like how the Phantom’s mask is symbolic and feared, Jinx’s blue hair is distinctive and inspires Zaunites. They both were once traumatized young kids, saved.. but not really saved. Erik was taken to the opera house by Madame Giry as an older teen, and young Powder taken in by Silco. They both kill people due to thinking them similar to those who traumatized them— Jinx kills a Firelight who looks like Vi, and the man who exploited young Erik as the “Devil’s Child” looks an awful lot like Joseph Buquet, who Erik kills.
And come on.. they both have the thing with those creepy monkey cymbal toy things! For Erik, he keeps the monkey toy as a reminder of his childhood, as it was something he made, while Jinx also made a monkey bomb as a kid, and used the monkey as her symbol or calling card.
Jinx is rescued from her suicide attempt from Ekko. Christine saves Erik from going off the deep end just by showing him compassion.. the same compassion Ekko gives to Jinx which talks her down from killing herself.
So imagine this. Phantom!Jinx and Christine!Ekko. Work with me here, okay?
“Pitiful creature of darkness.. what kind of life have you known?”
“God give me courage to show you..”
“You are not alone.”