"Nameless, Faceless, Soulless"

Work: the Phantom of the Opera
Genre: Angst
Character(s): the Phantom
Rating: PG
Note: Yes, I know he has a name, but in the show and movie we never learn it, which I found very interesting. Plus, "Erik" doesn't really do it for me. I think knowing the name takes something away from it. Drop me a review and let me know what you think!


I. Nameless

Here is a man who should have been honored as a composer, an inventor, a genius.

Here is a man who will be remembered by few, and mourned by less.

He is a man, or he was, once; he must have a name. Does it ever occur to him that none know it, not even the woman he loves? Does he even remember it himself, he who was driven to madness by his solitude?

The only names he has now are those he has earned: the Devil's Child, the Phantom, the Opera Ghost... the Angel of Music. So he is known by those whose lives he has touched, for good or ill. But when these people are gone, he too will be all but forgotten, though his music should have been played through the ages.

Perhaps he shall fall into legend, a superstition of an old ghost in the decaying opera house. Or, perhaps some day his unsigned music shall be discovered: some of it beautiful (for it was written with her in mind), yet most harsh and full of the torment of years. Most likely, though, he will pass out of the memory of the world, forever to remain in the darkness which shelters him.

He is, and shall remain, nameless and alone.