Hello! A lot has changed with me, and so will my profile. First, I thought I should tell you all about myself because that is most likely why you're here...

What might be the most interesting to you is that I'm an opera singer! ...well, in training. It's probably the hardest goal I've ever worked for - you have to sing Bel Canto, which literally means "beautiful singing" so, that's a hint on opera's standards right there. To relate it to Phantom, Carlotta knew all kinds of technique, but she did not sing in Bel Canto style. That is why she was so awful. Okay, back on track... I'm a light lyric soprano, and I have an amazing teacher with one of those really pretty French last names. Though, I think you all know who I wish would teach me. I first got into opera Sept 2014, and then I began to train myself. Opera is a very big passion of mine, and, yes, I voluntarily listen to it, a fact which my friends don't understand. Music is it's own language! Not everyone feels it as powerfully. In music's realm, I also have been playing the piano since I was five, and guitar since I was 12. Violins are one of my favorite instruments to listen to other than voice, and if I wasn't so busy, I would learn how to play one!

You all must know that I love to write. This passion spawned from my obsession of books. I kept coming up for ideas of my own, and I'd be like, "Hey, that'd make a great book. I wish I could have someone write this for me." Well, I discovered last year that that person should just be my lazy self. (lol.)

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

-Edgar Allen Poe

(other pending quotes about reality, or lack of)

On my views on Phantom, before you read any of my works:

From the first moment I heard the tale of the Phantom it has haunted my mind, so many questions swirling about in the injustice of it all. That empty feeling after you close the book or turn off the movie/musical. The grandness and magic of the opera house, emotional music heightening every scene, has always beguiled me in its mystery. Was it unrequited love? Or was there more beneath it all? I believed the latter. There has always been a hidden plot that you could only obtain from the constant array of concurrent emotions on the characters' faces.

Most of the main roles have morphed in my mind due to the many incarnations I've seen them in. Now it's impossible to just see them as the 2004 movie characters like I used to. Yet, that is fitting because they're so multi-faceted that they deserve complex development. Therefore, I decided to do a Build-A-Phantom Character. I'll change this around if I ever write them in different lights.

Erik: Gerard Butler's physique/stature, yet leaner - more reedy muscles borderline skeletal, but still really strong. Also from Gerard, those green, blue eyes(what I like to call verdigris), cleft chin, wig, and outfits. I like his hair dark. Speaking voice more of Charles Dance mixed with Gerard Butler. Singing voice with Gerard's emotion, but Ramin's angelic vibrato and technique. Deformity is still only half his face, since I like to show his expressions in more than just eyes when he wears his mask, and is the whole sunken cheek, eye socket, half-sunken nose. Corpse-like. Lips are normal, even if they are a little thinner. Backstory is usually Kay, unless I specify otherwise. His love story with Christine will usually follow the musical, but I will bring them on my own journeys. No mannequin, but yes to a fully-stocked Louis-Phillipe room. Cool, aloof, ghostlike, but entirely elegant movements of Kay's phantom, as well as the droll humor. Sexual energy of Gerard's. How much of a murderer? Depends on the story, but Erik is an anti-hero. He will never be merciless, numb, or as frightening as some versions make him out to be. (Robert Englund, anyone?)

Christine: Emmy Rossum's physique/stature, all doe eyes, doll-like features, long brown ringlets. Emmy's voice is beautiful and soulful, operatically-trained, but she is a mezzo-soprano. Therefore, Christine's voice will be the best of Emmy Rossum's passionate middle and low notes, Sierra Boggess' ringing high notes, and the opera singer who sings for Teri Polo in 1990 Phantom of the Opera's operatic technique. (Seriously, watch the scene where she sings in the bistro vs. Carlotta, or when she sings the Jewel Aria at the end... an Angel of Music, indeed.) Sierra's Christine was much more of a spitfire, so that quality will definitely be in my Christine. At first she's more of a hollow doll, but she will eventually get tired and show her gumption. She will not just whine and cry at why her life is so hard. Of course, it's human to go through that, and a completely bold Christine is unrealistic, but she will have much more character development than she sometimes gets.

Raoul: Though I do not like Raoul for Christine (The feeling blossomed the moment he ignored Christine when she was a dancer and only noticed her when she was in a monolithic sparkling gown onstage, took flowers from Andre and Firmin to give to her, and dismissed her whenever she said that the phantom was real) he is not a villain. The point is, he does not understand the depth of Christine and Erik's situation, and, because of his upbringing, he never will. There are no grey areas for him in his life. He sees in black and white, while Christine and Erik both live in grey in every aspect of the word. (The bending of two worlds, societal standards, etc...) He is a Vicomte, he is reunited with a childhood friend who is now a beautiful woman, and that's the only basis he needs to love her. That's how it was usually done in the 19th century! He doesn't see how despairing Christine is because that goes beyond his simple life. Again, not his fault. He was never alone, never suffered a tragedy... Raoul is complex BECAUSE he's so simple. It's like he has a completely different script than Christine and Erik. For looks, sort of a combination of Wilson and Hadley. Blue eyes, really nice hair, regal bone structure. Proud movements, Hadley's frustration with Christine, but Wilson's gentle attempt at understanding.

Favorite movies: The Phantom of the Opera 2004, The Mortal Instruments, well I'm awful at picking favorite things... Oh! I also love the Breakfast Club, Pretty Woman, anything dark and psychological-- I'll have to update this when I'm not half asleep. Many apologies.

Favorite shows: the Vampire Diaries, The Following, One Tree Hill, Once Upon a Time, New Girl, The Office, Friends ...same deal as movies. I feel like Christine with my lack of decisions.

right, books! Favorite books: The Fifth Wave, Night Circus, Divergent trilogy, The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, We Were Liars, Juliet: the Novel, The Host, The Phantom of the Opera, Phantom, to be continued...

I plan on writing stories from extremely (I hope) interesting ideas running around in my head. Summer is almost here, and so is that evasive concept of "free time"!

PM me if you ever want an insight to opera singing or being an opera singer! I am pretty much in Christine's boat as a freshman in college. I have the least experience, and yet I am currently the understudy for the lead female role in The Mikado (the cast is full of adults and grad students), while also being in the chorus. I've met some Carlotta's and Meg's, and am hoping to soon meet my own Angel of Music.