C/R fluff
Over the past two days I've ended up with ideas for not just one but two different short pieces of 'fluff' fiction for Christine and Raoul (i.e. fairly plotless vignettes designed to give readers of that persuasion happy fluffy feelings about the characters' relationship). It seems to be something to do with bus travel, of all things - perhaps it lets my mind wander more than cycling does.
A slightly expensive source of inspiration, if so, since the bike repairs cost me £45 and a couple of days' bus travel cost me several pounds on top of that - but inspiration is inspiration and one can't complain!
Both stories - if one can even call them that - seem to be musical-based rather than novel-based (there is no Count Philippe, and Raoul and Christine went through the 'Final Lair' rather than the torture-chamber version of events). And this is a future from the original musical continuity which "Love Never Dies" never altered the future retrospectively, in other words it's original POTO canon rather than LND canon and hence takes place earlier in history for characters of the same age :-p
The first one-shot inspiration is set twelve to fifteen years after the end of the musical and features Raoul, Christine and their four children out for an afternoon walk (at least, some of them are keener on walking than others, according to age!) The eldest girl is Raoul's favourite, and they are leaning on a gate together waiting for the others to catch up. (N.B. I need to differentiate her from EMK81's tomboy Erika - not least in case readers seem intent on assuming that she is secretly the Phantom's child, in spite of all probability to the contrary...)
Her younger brother is sandy-haired, small, square and sturdy, and prefers dead frogs to farmyard kittens, though he is not averse to the latter. The smallest girl still gets referred to as "Baby", but her name is really Victoire. The other three are Patrice, Félix and Sylvaine (or possibly Félicie and Sylvain :-P)
The second inspiration features Christine on her honeymoon with Raoul (in a quiet little hotel overlooking the river bridge), coming to terms a little diffidently with the social gulf between them in terms of ancestral portraits and dowager duchesses. But Raoul reminds her of his promise never to leave her; "to hold me and to hide me?" But after the terrors she has already faced down on his behalf, the shielding has every right to be mutual.
Now I really must get on and write them down before the whole thing gets forgotten, rather than getting distracted by Things on the Internet!
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A slightly expensive source of inspiration, if so, since the bike repairs cost me £45 and a couple of days' bus travel cost me several pounds on top of that - but inspiration is inspiration and one can't complain!
Both stories - if one can even call them that - seem to be musical-based rather than novel-based (there is no Count Philippe, and Raoul and Christine went through the 'Final Lair' rather than the torture-chamber version of events). And this is a future from the original musical continuity which "Love Never Dies" never altered the future retrospectively, in other words it's original POTO canon rather than LND canon and hence takes place earlier in history for characters of the same age :-p
The first one-shot inspiration is set twelve to fifteen years after the end of the musical and features Raoul, Christine and their four children out for an afternoon walk (at least, some of them are keener on walking than others, according to age!) The eldest girl is Raoul's favourite, and they are leaning on a gate together waiting for the others to catch up. (N.B. I need to differentiate her from EMK81's tomboy Erika - not least in case readers seem intent on assuming that she is secretly the Phantom's child, in spite of all probability to the contrary...)
Her younger brother is sandy-haired, small, square and sturdy, and prefers dead frogs to farmyard kittens, though he is not averse to the latter. The smallest girl still gets referred to as "Baby", but her name is really Victoire. The other three are Patrice, Félix and Sylvaine (or possibly Félicie and Sylvain :-P)
The second inspiration features Christine on her honeymoon with Raoul (in a quiet little hotel overlooking the river bridge), coming to terms a little diffidently with the social gulf between them in terms of ancestral portraits and dowager duchesses. But Raoul reminds her of his promise never to leave her; "to hold me and to hide me?" But after the terrors she has already faced down on his behalf, the shielding has every right to be mutual.
Now I really must get on and write them down before the whole thing gets forgotten, rather than getting distracted by Things on the Internet!
This entry was originally posted at http://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/76711.html, where there are
comments.