Yes, as in Superman Kryptonian.

I'll check out the two you posted in a bit. Thanks!

For the amusement of the group:

"The Phantomess of the Opera and the Half-Blood Prince" - another HP x PotO crossover, Marauder era.

"Erika de l'Opera" (that is seriously her surname, what) is the great-great-granddaughter of Erik. Her parents send her to Hogwarts because Voldemort is apparently a big fan of the Leroux novel and tracked her down for Reasons, and somehow she's supposed to be safer in England.

She has a deformity, but nobody much cares; it is effectively an excuse for her to accessorize with cute masks (ARGH). For some reason she thinks Ralph Lauren had a presence in Great Britain in the `70s and that Severus Snape would dress like that.

Snape is her LO. He is a perfect gentleman at all times. They bond over PotO and Faust, which all their friends love, possibly because it's mentioned in PotO and thus is the only opera they have actually heard of. Naturally, she has the voice of an angel, and Snape tells her this constantly.

Oh, and Erik talks to her in her head. No one thinks this is strange.


"Never Let Go" - PotO, set after the events of the book/play/movie.

This seems to be an alternative to Love Never Dies. (Which doesn't exist. What was I saying? Never mind.) Unfortunately, this story makes no sense at all.

So, Janessa Detris (or Morguis, or whatever her last name is this chapter) was abandoned at birth and grew up in the burnt-down Opera House. Somehow she survives on the infrequent charity of strangers, one of whom apparently has the wherewithal to give her a freaking violin and teach her how to play it, but not to actually take her in.

She grows up and decides to move to Spain. There she runs into Erik, who is now living in the Opera House in Barcelona because a friend of his built a lair for him down there just in case he ever visited (what?). Due to the fact that they have mirroring deformities and sound alike, they deduce that Erik is her father. Yay!

Then some random person threatens her and makes her become an assassin to save Erik from dying. She is terrible at it and ends up getting shot in the chest in an alley, and Erik saves her by taking the bullet out with a knife and sewing her up on the spot. This does not impede her future actions and in fact is never mentioned again.

Erik gets her a role in Les Misérables. No one has any problem with Erik being there, or their deformities. Erik does not appear to be a deranged psycho in any way. One of the other actresses turns out to be Janessa's mom. How the hell Erik ended up in a relationship with this woman is not discussed ever, nor are they shown interacting after everyone realizes who everyone else is. This is irrelevant because it is not about Janessa, who has no issues with either of them over being abandoned. Everything is happy-shiny.

But wait! Some new villain named Descole is threatening to kill people if Janessa doesn't do what he wants! Dun dun dun!

This is all exactly as haphazard and ill-thought-out as it sounds. The story is currently updating. >.
~Neshomeh

The first one looks like a rehash of the movie so far. Dumb, but a pretty boring sort of dumb. I'll scan later chapters to see if it goes off the rails later on.

The last one is actually almost good, as hard as that might be to believe. The mechanics don't suck, and this girl who grew up on a magical island with dragons actually struggles with being dropped into the middle of Hogsmeade with no clue, no proper clothing, and unable to speak English. Props for having actual conflict! This one's safe.

The middle one, on the other hand... it only gets as far as her joining the Fellowship (at Elrond and Gandalf's insistence, not her own), and the mechanics are not as egregiously terrible as I prefer to spork, but it could definitely prove a good DOGA or SIELU case if not a DMS case. She invents two uncanonical islands, one of which has friendly dragons and an uncanonical humanoid race that apparently speaks Greek, or something like it... the Elves are NOT speaking any Sindarin I ever heard of, despite the author knowing that they do speak Sindarin and that most people speak Westron... and all the uncanon stuff is pretty much superfluous to the plot so far. It could be a mission for someone. I'm just not sure it's a mission for me.

Thanks, though! I appreciate anyone Circle-diving for me. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Glad to see Temeraire is safe for now. Probably too...classical? British? I'm not sure what word fits. No movie either.

That first story hurts the parts of my brain that are used for thought.