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[strategy_master]

Come... Christine. Come, my to your Angel of Music.

I'm at the ShuRa... Opera House. In the... basement. Office.

Hear my call and come under my spell.

[ooc: apologies for spam, but I couldn't help myself.]

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*duuuuuuuuuun dundundundunduuuuuuuuuuun*

[covert_chord]

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.....wow.

*DUN DUN! Dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnn~~*

[strategy_master]

It's past the point of no return.

...This is strangely extremely appropriate.

[covert_chord]

No going back now?

That's what I was thinking.

[strategy_master]

Our passion-play has now, at last, begun.

Now I'm imagining Alle in that smexy dress from the movie version.

[covert_chord]

Past all thought of right or wrong, one final question...

Shu says he's definitely got the hips for it, but he'll have to suck his stomach in.

[strategy_master]

How long should we two wait, before we're one?

Get a mask and a dramatic cape for Shu for that part of the show...

[covert_chord]

When will the blood begin to race, the sleeping bud burst into bloom?

He could pull the look off, I think. Broodbroodbroodangggst.

[strategy_master]

When will the flames, at last, consume us?

And Alle with his adorable naiveness...

[covert_chord]

Past the point of no return...the final threshold...

Shu is just going to be a massive mood-killer here.

[strategy_master]

... the bridge is crossed, so stand and watch it burn.

Unusually destructive for a declaration of love.

Oh, Shu-bb, you gotta work on your seduction skills a little bit more.

[covert_chord]

We've past the point of no return...

I think the song's less about love and more about possession and manipulation, honestly.

Shu says he's a strategist, not a gigolo! D:

[strategy_master]

... Quite right.

Then he should be able to strategize how to do this!

[covert_chord]

If I remember right...this song's used for a play within a play, so to speak; a show they're putting on in the opera house. There's a young, naive girl named Aminta who's been captivated by a man...Christine plays her... And a man named...I don't remember, but he's lusting after her, so he ends up disguising himself and pretending to be the man she's in love with. And the Phantom ends up playing that role after killing the guy who was originally supposed to. So the whole song's about that seduction, him seducing her to be his. And it parallels into Christine and the Phantom.

......I can't believe I remember this much about the show, especially considering that it's centuries old for me.

::now he ded from foreshadowing.::

[strategy_master]

Then it's a subliminal message to the play, something the audience is more aware of than the players themselves?

... Unless one is the Phantom, of course, and sees all aspects of what is occurring.

::happy happy ignorance!::

[covert_chord]

Basically, yes on both ends. He was also the one who wrote the opera they're performing. Don Juan Triumphant. ....oh, yeah, then the guy's name was Don Juan. So the entire thing was more than likely very carefully calculated by the Phantom, both as a parallel and as a plan to get Christine (and then snatch her away right afterwards).

god Shu is a dick. ):

[strategy_master]

This Phantom sounds quite cunning.

But a fool to be so single-minded and selfish. He would tear down everything Christine loves and works for simply to have his way. Is any goal worth that damage?