So...

Yes, this story is still going. But it's on a temporary hiatus.

I did mention the posting for this would be sporadic, depending on my inspiration, but since I started Share Each Day With Me, as a phan and about my point of view for POTO, I've changed a bit.

My ships are still very much the sames, and it's actually my point of view about Christine that changed. Yes, I went through my phase where I didn't like her very much: not because she chose the love of her life over poor, unhappy Erik, since she is a person who has every right to make her own choices, but because I found her pointless and annoying, until the very end where she finally decides to seize her destiny and behave as an adult, and this, in the most compassionate and heroic way.

Strange enough, hmm? I know I'm contradicting myself. Anywho, I came to love Christine a great deal, and even acknowledge that she's a badass in her own way. She has a beautiful quiet courage going along with her, despite her rather melancholic attitude. Personally, I still don't like it when some phans (especially some Christine-defenders) make her too strong-willed, feminist, plucky, not to say even sassy most of the time just to make her a more appropriate match to Erik, overlooking all her still-present vulnerability and issues, because that's making her out of character pretty much at the basis for the same purpose of turning Raoul into a jerk. There are different kinds of courage. Courage doesn't mean being demonstrative with it. And ALW!Christine's courage has to be respected and well-represented.

So I might just rewrite some parts in this story, since the author's notes I made made me wince and I came to wonder if my writing was influenced by this. More to come of this phic soon...

Thanks to all of you who faved/followed/reviewed this story! I swear I'm not abandoning this!