Okay but Doc now /I/ want your ifea for a POTO sequel that wouldn't reverse the Phantom's character development
I don't even think it would necessarily be that hard! This is just an off the top of the head, blurted out idea.
Stick with Coney Island and a freak show thing. Neat. Love it. Erik's Big Weird American Adventure.
He's enjoying success, and for the first time in his life, he's doing it as himself. America is a strange place, and he is both a freak and the master of freaks, the American public enchanted by his repulsiveness*. The people who used to boo him now applaud him, and he feels a sense of responsibility for his 'children,' the fellow freaks he employs, showing that while he's grown, he's never quite gone back from the paternalistic, I know what's best attitude. We're all works in progress.
Enter Christine. Much of this we can keep the same as LND--Raoul is a drunk and a gambler, and Christine has watched his fortune and all of her theatrical dreams fall away. BUT. She's come to America because she's heard about the Devil's Angel, the Risen Demon, the man with a face from hell and a heavenly choir inside him. She knows it has to be him, and she comes.
Christine is becoming, oh, obsessed, as she researches about him, what his life is like now, his fine brownstone and his playing the parlors of the rich. She begins to spiral, imagining what her life would have been like if they had both stolen away to America. Here's a great place for an UNHINGED version of "Love Never Dies." She begins to imagine a world where she came back, because she loved him. A world where her child was not Raoul's.
She hunts him down, finally creeping into his bedroom in a way that doesn't feel UNLIKE what he did to her when she was young. This would be a great place for an unsettling "Beneath a Moonless Sky" type thing where Christine describes everything that didn't happen, but instead of like, backing her, Erik can be describing how he escaped from Paris, beneath a moonless sky.
Anyway, it all comes to a head beneath the big top, and I haven't thought of a good way to make it all come together yet, being as I've spent all of 20 minutes thinking on this, or so, but we could have some big dramatic moment where Christine is up with the trapeze artists or something, and she has her son, and she's getting all weirdly, 'magical lasso' and both Erik and Raoul are like hmm wow *teeth gritted* but Raoul is a coward now, and so Erik berates him in a very fun little song while he climbs to the top of the tent and saves the boy, falling in the process, and as he falls we hear the chandelier crash to the ground in the background and Christine either lives or dies, really it's not important and SCENE.
*We could have a really fun song about America here! He could do a very Dickens level "They love me! I loathe them. America!" He's French after all.
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"How did Shuro think he could marry Falin when he hated her brother?" you have to understand. Toshiro is from a whole different country. In his head he and Falin would move back to the Eastern Archipelago and they'd see Laios twice a year tops. You can pretend to get along with in-laws you don't like for a few days a year, people do that all the time.
The actual flaw in his plan– which shows he doesn't really understand either of the Touden siblings– is the fact that if the plot hadn't happened and Falin had for some reason said yes to his proposal, Laios would have packed his bags and moved away with them instantly.
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I hope wherever Pixal is she's absolutely fine, not because I don't want to see my blorbos hurt, in fact I love when they get fucked up, but specifically for the comedy potential. Because knowing Pixal, there's a high chance she's already completely accepted that Zane has died for the 10th time somewhere and is probably in the midst of trying to find and revive him along with the other ninja. She's entered full "guess Zane's dead again time to cope by not coping at all" mode. She abandoned the grieving stage once she realized this was a common occurrence. The grind never stops, she hasn't seen sunlight in six months, and probably didn't even realize the realms Merged.
Zane, however, is very much not used to being on the other side of "this person I love might be dead or is otherwise missing somewhere". He's moping on the floor. Staring out the window like a victorian maiden. Longing for when his beloved will return from the war. The saddest, soaking wet kitten you ever did see. About to recite poetry at a moments notice. He's given sympathies as well as being mocked endlessly by his annoyed friends because yeah, how does it feel NOW, Zane? FEELS BAD DOESN'T IT
And then they just find each other at a store somewhere in the Crossroads like it's an average Tuesday afternoon. Do you see the vision
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