Starting To Write Fanfic

[varianbetweenstars]

I've been wanting to write fanfic, except I'm not sure where to begin on that.

Especially since my favorite ridiculous it-would-never-happen ship (Erik/Raoul) is a rarepair.

I have mixed feelings on Erik/Christine, I feel like it's better for darker stories, rather than fluff (at least in original canon, AUs are great for fluff for them.)

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[finch]

In fairness I would read Erik/Raoul just because it's such a crackship.

[varianbetweenstars]

That's how I got into that ship, then I read too many fics and started shipping it myself, oops.

[finch]

All the best crackships work that way, I'm pretty sure.

[igenlode]

Well, Erik/Raoul is certainly so ridiculous it would never happen :-p

(Also, I'm not sure that can ever be done convincingly other than dark, either - have you seen Hideaway or
A Heart Too Soon Made Glad by Shiroimono?)

My major problem with Erik/Christine fluff is that it's utterly out of character (and also incompatible with canon, in its normal scenario).

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The usual way to write fanfic, at least for me, is to start with a fan theory :-)
(e.g. what if it really was Piangi singing in "Point of No Return" after the Phantom's attempt to kill him off backfired :-D)

Or simply writing a canon scene from an alternate point of view; movie-Buquet versus the Phantom with Buquet as the sympathetic protagonist (weirdly, the movie pretty much does this anyway)

Note: despite its reputation, fan-fiction does not actually have to have ships!

[varianbetweenstars]

I have not seen those fics, I'll check them out.

I saw a fan theory on Tumblr that Erik had tried to train Carlotta, and she had rejected him. I even wrote a short fic about it, and then lost it when I deleted my Tumblrs.

[igenlode]

I'm not sure I've come across anything along those themes, but Carlotta in a love/hate relationship with her persecutor is credible...
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4521980/1/Women-of-the-Opera-Carlotta