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8:18 AM
Excommunicate him? Unlikely. At that very moment Kimmie was in the gym with the other Glamazons waiting for their turn to pitch the theme of the coming dance. Thus was Basil stuck in homeroom, his eyes staring at the television screen in boredom as he wondered: "How long is this going to take?"
The Goths or Emos or whatever they called themselves, Basil didn't really care, had already presented some "shadow dance" idea. How… moronic.
At this point some sort of masquerade ball idea would be… No, that would be horrible. It would invite "Is that your mask or your face" questions and those were questions Basil did not want and it was the reason why he was dreading Halloween. People may have said he didn't look that bad and that the scars were an improvement but Basil was not always sure about that.
He did not want to be compared to Erik, the Phantom of the Opera either. Although his deformity was often toned down in adaptations, to the well-read Basil all that appeared in his head when he heard the moniker was the corpse-like man with a "death's head." Although a villain Erik had his both good and bad qualities, one portrayal was that of an irredeemable slayer and Basil could only hope none of his classmates had ever seen that adaptation. All Erik wanted was to be loved and have his work proclaimed a masterpiece and he was a sad, confused man whose deformity caused him to not know what to do with himself but despite being a master of music, art and architecture and possessing the most beautiful voice a man could have the way he had been treated because of his deformities had caused him to cut himself off from humanity and become a mad animal. Erik's jealousy was also something not good, as he did not take Christine Daae's love for Raoul de Chagny well and he even felt entitled to have Christine but at least had the decency to not defile her. Basil could have thought of some more reasons he would have not wanted to be compared to Erik but in his mind he had thought of enough. To be compared to a kidnapper and a murderer was not something Basil wanted. He may have not looked the best but there was no way he would ever wish to be compared to Erik, whose alias included the Phantom of the Opera, the Opera Ghost, the Angel of Music, the Red Death, the Trapdoor Lover, the Man's Voice, le Mort Vivant and the Mask.
No, no. None of that! None of any such things that would result in an insult to him! Basil could only hope that the themes to be suggested would not be something moronic, something horrible, something inviting to insults.