Erik's face

[Amourdelafantom]

i'm thoroughly amused by what MUST be a bunch of kids saying how much they wish they could meet Erik. i just WISH i could see it happen. all that cringing and screaming would just be hilarious. He had a face like a skull folks or weren't you paying attention? Have you ever SEEN anyone with no nose? it's not the prettiest of sights. on top of the that he was violently possessive and controlling. quite honestly he reminds me of my ex husband (i'm a widow) as a writer, artist and vocalist myself, i understand obsession (ours was mutual) but it takes 1 obsessive to match another anything less would just make you another Christine to him.

[Amourdelafantom]

since i've obviously had a few people look at this i thought i'd update it.. he was supposed to be VERY tall (considering men were approaching what we now consider normal height in the mid 1800's i think we can assume 6'3" or 4" at least) very thin with long thin fingered hands and to accomplish some of the acrobatics accreddited to him he would have had to be be slender bordering on thin and very muscular. The line from the song "like yellow parchment is his skin and a great black hole for the nose that never grew" and his eyes are variously described as golden or yellow (so probably a light brown/hazel which can look golden or yellow in candle/gaslight) i have done several sketches of what *I* think he looks like from the various descriptions and i'd be happy to share... email me (my address should be in my memeber profile) and put phantom fan as the subject and i'll sned you a scan! always happy to talk to fellow fans

[PhantomLover2]

Erik is supposed to have a face like a skull and yes he is also not supposed to have a nose. However, looks aren't the only thing that count in a friendship/relationship. In a video I watched I saw somone with no nose and yes it's not a very nice sight. If you realize that physical beauty is only skin deep and that it's the inside that counts, then it is possible to love Erik. As to his possessive/ obssessive behavoir, if you are obssessed with the same thing such as music, then you at least have common ground. Are you sure that once he knows he's loved and that he won't be badly treated that he won't stop being possessive? I think that if All these things are realized then Erik can be loved. I am one of those who wants to see Erik and I know that because or his many talents that I would admire him. I can't say I wouldn't recoil at the first glance I had of his face but I would respect him. That's just what I think. I'd also be interested in the drwings that you have created of Erik from discriptions.

[Amourdelafantom]

good to know someone.. well, but you know that 1st cringe would get you in trouble.

[Llawen]

Ickyness. LOL!

[avari]

that 1st cringe would get you in trouble.

lol. it probably would! and if some adoring gerik phans longing to meet him really did, I don't think it would work quite as they'd hoped. I don't think he could really mesh with someone other than christine.

what frightened me most about erik was his behaviour...

on top of the that he was violently possessive and controlling.

yeah. that and the weeping/fawning at her skirts. although I think he was probably less insane and obsessive before christine came in to his life. I mean, he saw something he thought he actually had a chance at and when he saw that it might be snatched away from him he went nuts. I think the sad thing is that that could happen to anyone (details aside), but he really had a slim chance of being her 'angel' again, while perhaps a more attractive man would have found reconciliation a tad easier.

put phantom fan as the subject and i'll sned you a scan!

I just pm'd you... I think the subject was 'erik sketches' or something...

[EdgarCarroll13]

To be honest, I don't know whether to be disgusted by his behavior or feel sorry for him. I mean, back then, they were all superstitions and stuff I'm sure, more then there is now, so you can understand why people feared him. However, that gave them no right to treat him as they did.

I guess how to look at Erik is a sort of paradox, you know? Like, someone you know that you shouldn't try to pass off the actions of, but you can't help but want to!

Getting back to his face, the pity swells when he says that his face earned a mother's fear and hatred, and you just want him to be happy, because all of his life has been fraught with misfortune, but his methods of obtaining happiness are all wrong!

[RDraconis]

It would be interesting to meet him. Admittedly, the flinch would be a tad detrimental to any hopes of getting on his good side- but still...
It might not help that I'm hopelessly curious and have a desire to poke and prod at it until I figure out exactly what happened and how it was he looked like that and such.
Ah, curiosity killed the cat...

Getting back to his face, the pity swells when he says that his face earned a mother's fear and hatred, and you just want him to be happy, because all of his life has been fraught with misfortune, but his methods of obtaining happiness are all wrong!

Well... honestly, he might not know any other ways. They say your first, what, 5 years are the most shaping- and if his mother treated him like that... they couldn't have been great. Maybe he doesn't know of any other ways. And if he lived most of his life surrounded by opera and that being his main source of viewing the outside world- he'd expect everthing to be overdramatic, because that's what most plays and operas and such are.

i'm thoroughly amused by what MUST be a bunch of kids saying how much they wish they could meet Erik. i just WISH i could see it happen. all that cringing and screaming would just be hilarious.

Perhaps they were referring to the '04 movie version? Half of his face was quite nice, the other half wasn't particularly bad at all. Actually, he looked positively adorable in the last scene with the music box. It made most of the lyrics about him being repulsive amusing...

[phantomgirl]

i hated how they did erik's face in the movie. it just looked like a third-degree burn. you'd think, after seeing how elaborate the movie was, they could afford some decent make-up and/or make-up artists!

[emilysweety]

He's ugly, every one despised him. He's cold-blooded because no one ever talks to him, no one ever comforts him when he is upset. Every one hated him, even his own mother.

[Phangirl7]

Erik's face is actually supposed to look like a skull with no nose. Just hideous. His eyes are supposed to be golden. (Kind of like Edward's in Twilight.) I didn't really like the way they did the deformity in the movie, especially after seeing it onstage.
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