I’m Here, I’m Queer And I Draw Sometimes

i watched phantom of the opera last night so 

taako is working as a stagehand for a little extra cash, magnus works at the fancy theater so he hooks taako up with a gig. taako goes exploring one day and discovers that oh, the theater was built on top of an extremely vibing underground lake wizard lair? some wizard just left his shit here? 

taako: its free real estate

of course taako is going to take over this dope spooky wizard lair! taako is a wizard, this works out perfectly. it comes with a boat? and bunch of hidden entrances and exits? taako is loving this

taako tells lup about this and she says “neat” and then taako shows her the cool underground lake and all the hidden tunnels and stuff and tbh they make a litttttttle too much noise so when taako comes in for work the next day? everyone is talking about the “return of the theater ghost”

taako does some poking around, asks magnus about this, learns about “yeah there was just a creepy ghost who wore a mask who kidnapped people and killed them and it was a whole thing and he also like, blackmailed the owners of the theater and it was a WHOLE thing but hes gone now….probably” 

taako: …….I could make a career out of this. 

taako is now the new opera ghost. taako sends letters demanding to be paid to stop doing a spook. the opera owners comply because actually? the return of the theater ghost is doing great things for publicity. taako is running around being spooky and wearing a mask and also leaving scary notes and rattling things and he’s having a GREAT time. hes getting paid to be weird? taako was being weird for free but this is better! 

enter kravitz. 

kravitz is a singer and he has a really really lovely voice and sometimes taako sits behind the mirror and listens to him in the dressing room and also watches because taako thinks boy is….hot. 

taako could just ask him out as a normal person but taako does not do that. taako starts offering commentary from behind the mirror. good going, taako. taako is now kravitz’s resident ghost voice coach. 

kravitz is confused but rolling with this.

enter a series of escalating shenanigans where kravitz is flirting with the opera ghost and wonders where his life went wrong. meanwhile, lup is yelling at taako to just ask??? hot boy out??? whats wrong with you, why are you just haunting hotboy??? taako is just living like this. he’s in too deep now. 

taako wonders if he can…use theater ghost’s notoriety to get kravitz some singing solos? that would be nice for taako, and also for kravitz. he likes watching hotboy. 

enter a series of escalating shenanigans that is very similar to the plot of phantom in which taako tries to blackmail the theater into giving kravitz parts, and meanwhile, kravitz yells at taako to taako? stop? but also gets parts because he is good. 

taako tries to apologize by showing kravitz the spooky wizard lair. taako tries to act spooky the whole time but gives up halfway through. kravitz was not fooled from the beginning, but is a little relieved to realize oh, its just a dumb boy. oh, its just a dumb boy who….i could love. kravitz suggests not being an opera ghost. taako says but he loves this? he’s getting paid 8000 a month to stop. kravitz says :/ 

eventually this fic culminates in a scene where taako accidentally drops a chandelier (he just meant to rattle it!) and then kravitz goes into the spooky wizard lair to yell at taako and taako apologizes! taako says :< sorry about theater ghost. kravitz forgives him 

taako asks whether hypothetically, kravitz likes normal boys, or if its just ghosts that do it for him, hypothetically. kravitz says he could bring himself to love a normal boy, if he must. Taako says cool no reason. taako takes kravitz back in the spooky ghost gondola 

the theater is quiet for a few days. Kravitz wonders where taako went. 

then on the third day, the curtain has been replaced with black velvet with sparkly purple script that says GOODBYE and ABRACAFUCKYOU! underneath 

after the perfomance that night, kravitz gets accosted by a handsome elf holding flowers. “hi” taako says. “big fan of ur work.”