Listen I realize this is going to sound like a shitpost, but I swear to fuck I'm serious, bear with me:
If Blitzo is the "Phantom of the Opera," as evidenced not only by his obviously-referencing facial scar design and Lowly Place in the Underworld, but Moxxie's ridiculously elaborate hallucination and continuous musical/performance/masquerade motifs...
Then who is his Christine?
Hint: not Moxxie! Who seemed to cast himself as Raoul in his own fantasy (which is adorable in its own right), not the very obvious Christine choice, which basically any other show (and frankly, in any other case, THIS show) would have done as a natural "joke". Basically IF IT WERE A JOKE/NOT IMPORTANT, they would have gone for a Moxxie Christine! We do see Moxxie in a pretty dress, but it's just a random Generic Pretty Dress, not something that would have actually been in/associated with the Phantom of the Opera, which these (INCREDIBLY detail-meticulous) writers/artists would absolutely know. So who is Blitzo's "Christine," his driving obsession/goal/symbol of his idealized past and (at least supposedly) impossible future? It's not Stolas either, because the Phantom's desire goes TOWARD the unattainable object of his affections, not toward HIM.
...It's fucking Fizzarolli.
The """Angel""" of Music, so far above and beyond him, (whose "replacement," as in the musical, is a source of rage!), so far out of reach he might as well be the sun, compared to the "Phantom"'s lowly place in the Underworld. In this essay I will
