💙My Favorite Character From My Favorite Musical Elisabeth!!!💙 Wow It Took Me YEARS To Make A Fan

god Raoul just…loves Christine so much. Literally all he wants is for her to be happy and alive. Genuinely tragic that most of his Final Lair lines are hidden underneath the Erik/Christine harmonized argument, because he's out here saying lines like "for pity's sake, Christine say no! Don't throw your life away for my sake!" and "Why make her lie to you to save me?!” and "Christine, forgive me! Please forgive me! I did it all for you and all for nothing!” while being strangled to death.

Like...do you all realize that he was asking her to let him die so she could be free? He was literally willing to be tortured/killed by an obsessive stalker so that Christine could be free and happy. It's the only REAL personal desire he shows in the whole musical besides asking for her love: for Christine to be alive, healthy, and happy.

And his Big Duet with Christine backs this up! In "All I Ask of You," Christine tells Raoul that "all [she wants] is freedom/a world with no more night," implicitly rejecting Mr. "Music of the Night" and the terror he brings. And Raoul, because he loves her, swears to give that to Christine as best as he's able. The only things he asks of her in the entire song is to love him ("love me, that's all I ask of you" // "Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime") and let him allow her to feel safe and free ("let me be your shelter" // "let me be your freedom"). The entirety of "All I Ask of You" is just….*chef's kiss* honestly.

But of course words are cheap. All the sweet nothings in the world wouldn't prove his worth as a suitor if he wasn't willing to walk the walk. But he is. Raoul spends the rest of the musical proving what he told Christine in that song: that he really is the genuinely sweet, loyal, and protective man who would go to the ends of the earth for her, including being willing to sacrifice his own life so she can have both her freedom and a life without being trapped by the "night" (Erik).

Kind of crazy that so many people genuinely want Christine to end up with the man who groomed her, stalked her, harrassed and manipulated her, kidnapped her on two separate occasions, killed two of her coworkers, was going to force her to marry him against her will, tried to kill her fiancé while guilt-tripping her into thinking it would be her own fault (“buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me and you send your lover to his death!”), tried to kill her (with the chandelier), and generally made her life a living hell for at least a year instead. Lol. Hard pass.

Elisabeth, but burning schobrunn like mrs.danvers burning manderley??

How far down in your 2024 Wrapped Playlist does the first non-English language song appear?

If never, consider expanding your horizons, hmu for recs if you need them

Raoul after Christine gives him some attention (and kisses him all over the face) (bonus points if he was actually turned into a dog) (I need someone to draw Raoul himself with kisses all over his face tho 😭 wish I could draw)

Tomorrow? like the thing that killed Macbeth?

Literally every character from the Vicious

My favourite thing about Elisabeth das Musical is that while it’s this truly dark, grandiose story of a decaying dynasty

It’s told entirely through the eyes of this guy:

“Wir fallen, und nichts was uns hält. “

Der Tod x Graf von Krolock

Death and Immortal

i love when people say "meg was so out of character in love never dies" because then i have the opportunity to tell them about the theory she was written that way as revenge against patti lupone and her one million dollar andrew lloyd webber memorial pool

Hans Thoma (1839–1924) - Death and the Girl, 1916

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