(no subject)

[ingenue_bait]

MADEMOISELLE

THIS 'ICON,' AS YOU CALL IT, IS NOT NEARLY AS AMUSING AS YOU SEEM TO THINK, REPEATEDLY AND AT LENGTH. ERIK'S FACE IS A PERSONAL THING. NO ONE MAY SEE IT AND LIVE! AND YET YOU PARADE THIS GHASTLY MISREPRESENTATION NOT MERELY WITHOUT REGARD FOR MY MODESTY, BUT WITH EVIDENT ATTEMPT TO MAKE OTHERS LAUGH!

IF SUCH IS YOUR DISRESPECT FOR ERIK, YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO REPRESENT HIM IN WHATEVER MELODRAMA OR FARCE YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THESE DAYS. WE HAVE BEEN COMPANIONS FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS, NOW, AND AT NO POINT HAVE I BEEN MORE DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR IMMATURITY.

EXCEPT PERHAPS THE TIME YOU WISHED TO WATCH THE ONE WITH THE RATS AGAIN.

YOURS IN PROTEST,

O.G.

Comments

[primabelladonna]

WHY DO YOU SHOUT, MONSIEUR?

[ingenue_bait]

WHO SAYS ERIK SHOUTS?

[primabelladonna]

CHRISTINE DAAE.

OUR LITTLE INGENUE.

[ingenue_bait]

YOU ARE UNWORTHY TO EVEN FORM HER NAME WITH YOUR DISEASED LIPS.

[primabelladonna]

DO NOT SPEAK TO ME OF DISEASED LIPS.


MONSIEUR.

[ingenue_bait]

DO NOT SPEAK TO ME OF LIPS

AT LEAST YOU HAVE THEM.

[primabelladonna]

MY LIPS ARE THE BIRTHING CANAL THROUGH WHICH THE SWEETEST NOTES IN ALL OF PARIS ARE BROUGHT TO LIFE.

[ingenue_bait]

ERIK IS A VIRGIN AND YET NOW FEELS INFECTED WITH YOUR INNUENDO. YOU OFFEND ALL OF PARIS WITH YOUR ORIFICE.

[primabelladonna]

I AM THE FIRST LADY OF THE STAGE.

HAVE YOU NOT HEARD THE SONG?

[ingenue_bait]

WHAT SONG?

[primabelladonna]

PRIIIIIIIIIIIMA DOOOOOOONNA FIRST LADY OF THE STAGE
YOUR DEVOTEES
ARE ON THEIR KNEES
TO IMPLORE YOOOOOOOU

CAN YOU BOW OUT
WHEN THEY'RE SHOUTING YOUR NAME?
THINK OF HOW THEY ALL
ADORE YOOOOOOOOU

[ingenue_bait]

THAT SOUNDS LIKE LLOYD WEBBER TRIPE.

[primabelladonna]

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU SPEAK OF,

YOU PRETENTIOUS BUFFOON!

[ingenue_bait]

BE VERY GLAD ERIK IS NOT SPEAKING TO YOU WHERE HE IS CERTAIN MLLE. DAAE WOULD NOT HEAR.

[la_daae]

[Oh dear.]

...Erik, I believe you may have blown your poor mundane's eardrums.

Hm. It's rather odd, that icon almost looks like a drawing. Perhaps it's not truly a picture, but rather, a painting?

[ingenue_bait]

ERIK IS NOT EVEN SPEAKING, HOW COULD HE INJURE SOMEONE'S HEARING?

PERHAPS. IT IS NOT IN THE LEAST AMUSING, HOWEVER.

[la_daae]

[Don't you Caps Locks at me, mister.]

Oh...yes, of course.

Perhaps she will not use it as often as the others, though. And if it is a painting then it isn't truly your face, just an artist's portrayal.

[ingenue_bait]

that is not the work of an artist. that is the work of some sort of pervert.

besides, this is not the point. if an attempt to portray me must be made, is it too much to ask for a shred of dignity?

[la_daae]

I must admit, it does look rather...suggestive.

Yes, I see your point. Strange that an artist would portray you at all without even knowing you. Unless you know artists besides yourself?

[ingenue_bait]

there are no artists besides myself. erik is the greatest creative talent to ever live!

but i find that this happens all too frequently. usually involving people entirely unsuited to the task.

[la_daae]

Now, now. You must allow others to share the spotlight, as it were. Surely, without them, you would have never known music at all.

Ah...yes. I recall my mundane referring to those as well, including the aforementioned...rat film, as well as the exploits of one M. Butler. I have heard there are only a few that have done an adequate job.

[ingenue_bait]

erik is self-taught.

and i believe that any attempt to tell erik's story is by its nature akin to sideshow exploitation.

[la_daae]

Indeed, I see no entertainment value in all of our private stories being made into something that people may view at their leisure.

In fact, it's simply disturbing.