Erik Destler (The Phantom of the Opera)

Erik Destler is a tall man with yellow eyes and a white mask in black formal attire, usually wearing a sparkly cape and carrying rope. The mask is to cover his facial deformity which includes his absence of a nose, a swollen cleft lip, and rough skin.

He was born in Rouen, France to his Catholic mother Madeleine who hated him for his facial deformity and forced him to wear a white mask. He was Catholic until he learned that animals do not have souls after the death of his beloved dog, Sasha. He ran away and was forced to join a traveling circus while he was young, where he was abused further for his deformity. He escaped, and traveled through Italy and Persia, before returning to France after his mother's death to oversee the building of the Palais Garnier where he made his lair underneath, along with an underground lake and torture chamber.

In Italy, he had met a man named Giovanni and his bratty daughter who seemed determined to annoy Erik. Giovanni was his first and only father figure before he fled to Persia after his daughter fell off the roof of the house and died after an argument. In Persia, he built brutal torture chambers for the royal family until he had to flee as well to escape execution.

Now, he lives in the Palais Garnier and haunts it as the Phantom, or the Opera Ghost, scaring the managers, ballet girls, and other workers into obeying him. He isn't afraid to kill by strangling his victims with the 'Punjab lasso', his rope, by hooking them like a noose.

He is bipolar and prone to tantrums, as he is childish and insecure about his face. He gets incredibly angry and incredibly sad at times and sees himself as a worthless monster. Despite this, when he first meets people, he tends to be hostile and sarcastic. He feeds into the monster mentality he has for himself, even if he is unaware of it.

He is mostly sassy, hopeless, narcissistic, bipolar, sadomasochistic, commanding, defiant, and cold. He can especially be manipulative and obsessive. Despite all this, he is intelligent and knows better, underneath all his emotions. He is just not very emotionally intelligent. His go-to emotion is anger, but he is forgiving of those he loves. He sees pity as unnecessary and is offended even at the thought of being pitied.

He writes the musicals for the opera and has a heavenly voice, as he is also very talented at playing the piano/organ. He's a talented illusionist, magician, musician, and ventriloquist.

It is easy for him to get attached, even if he does hate people. When he cares for someone, he is different. He has care and love reserved not even for him, but for someone who he thinks deserves more than him.

Based on Ramin Karimloo's Phantom, from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical adaptation, "Phantom" by Susan Kay, and "La Fantôme de L'opéra" by Gaston Leroux

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