#daroga

Have you ever wondered what "Love Never Dies" would have been like if our beloved (and, unfortunately, always unjustly overlooked) Daroga had been in it too?

Because I imagine he’d be COMPLETELY exasperated (as he should be) by Erik’s behavior...

For example, I often imagine that in moments like these:

Our dear Daroga's reaction would be nothing more and nothing less than this:

The Opera Ghost and the Unplanned Honeymoon

The first month of married life is not going quite as Erik and Christine imagined.

They are desperately, blissfully in love, but unfortunately seem incapable of being left alone long enough to enjoy it. Between hovering family members, overinvested friends, emotional baggage, unexpected vulnerability, and Erik discovering he may secretly enjoy domestic happiness, the newlyweds find themselves learning each other in ways both deeply tender and profoundly chaotic.

Warm, funny, earnest, sensual, and intensely character-driven, this story follows Erik and Christine as they navigate marriage, healing, intimacy, found family, and the frightening realization that they may finally have a future worth hoping for.

Erik is immortal and all of Daroga’s descendants make it their personal mission to babysit him for hundreds of years, passing the burden down from generation to generation. I don’t know if it was meant to be funny, but it always makes me laugh.