Post by Raoul Edouard de Chagny on Mar 24, 2012 12:14:43 GMT -5
Vicomte Raoul Edouard de Chagny
"You need the man you knew, back here beside you…"
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Player Name: Rachel
Years Roleplaying: A couple years
Gender: I am female.
Contact me: I’m on Facebook as Erik Chaney Lenoir. Or PM me here.
Anything else?: I like to write, draw, sing, love computers, photography etc.
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Basic Information
Age: 35
Canon or OC?: Canon: Love Never Dies, 2010[/size]
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Appearance
Hair Colour: Dark blond. He wears it parted on the left side and with long stylish sideburns.
Body type: He is short of stature and of average bone structure and weight. His hands are medium size with short fingers. He struts a bit when he walks and when he is angry. His walk is decisive. His strong personality makes him appear taller and more impressive.
Eye colour: His eyes are blue/green and they flash when he is angry. His eyes can be gentle with Christine or Gustave.
Wardrobe: Raoul wears the fashionable clothing of the period, 1905. A long coat, coming to about the knee, matching trousers, a silk waistcoat in a pattern matching the colours in the coat and often a matching top hat. A silk cravat with a white shirt and upturned collar complete his fashionable look. He sometimes carries a black umbrella which he uses almost as a stylish walking stick. Raoul wears boots with two inch heels to boost his height a bit. He often wears suits in shades of tan, brown or grey, occasionally black evening clothes.
A subtle sign of his continuing commitment to Christine, even through their troubles, is his wearing of the gold wedding ring upon the ring finger of his left hand.
General Appearance: Not a tall man, Raoul stands straight and wears the heeled boots which make him appear taller. His face, though still handsome, bears ravages of the past ten years. His years of gambling, the worry over the loss of his fortune and his habit of drinking to excess, have only etched themselves visibly on his face. Although only 35 years old, Raoul appears older as the lines around his nose and mouth have deepened and there are often visible circles under his eyes. When he is genuinely happy, he has a very nice smile, but of late, it has been seen very seldom, as his mostly self-inflicted troubles have grown worse. Raoul's speaking voice can range from gentle to sharp and biting depending on hhis mood.
Played By: Simon Gleeson
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Personality
Raoul is confused and made jealous by Christine’s dichotomy of love. She loves Raoul deeply, but she has feelings for the Phantom. At first, he thought that it was all over, but in his mind, the Phantom still looms over their love. Raoul felt that if he could just get back on his feet again financially, he would be able to be a good husband and father again. This is the only reason that he went to Coney Island, to let Christine sing again. Lured by a chance to recover his dignity as he recovers his fortune, Raoul will allow this to happen. His pride is broken, but he will not show it on the outside. He was taunted upon disembarking from the ship that brought them to New York and angrily tried to recover his pride.
Likes: He loves his family, Christine and Gustave. He likes to dress well and to seem as if he still has money. He likes his title and it has become the only thing that he still possesses.
Dislikes: Any thought of the Phantom because he secretly thinks he may still be holding onto some part of her heart; any thought of Christine having to sing again; the loss of his fortune and the embarrassment that causes; any talk of how he lost it.
Habits: Raoul has developed two very bad habits: gambling and drinking. Both of these inner demons cause him and his family much pain. He has not dealt with life well, perhaps because everything had been given to him early in life and he had not had to work for a living. Raoul still has strength of character, but has allowed himself to slide into a haze of self-pity at times.
Dreams and Goals: Raoul still wishes to became the ideal husband and father that his ideals were set on early in life. Being idealistic as a very young man, now ten years later, reality has caught up with him and he feels he is a failure and has fallen into self-pity. And yet he has the hope and goal of regaining all that he had lost, namely his fortune and more importantly, Christine’s respect and love.
Strengths:
1. Overcoming his pride in letting Christine sing again.
2. Courage that he showed ten years ago in rescuing Christine from the Phantom…willingness to put himself in jeopardy for her
3. His willingness to stand up to the Phantom years ago…he would do it again if necessary
4. Love for Christine and Gustave
Weaknesses:
!. Gambling to excess
2. Drinking to excess
3. Jealousy
4. Pride
Fears:
1. That the Phantom may come back at some point and woo Christine away from him
2. Losing face in front of others
3. Not being a good enough husband and father
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The Past
History: The Vicomte Raoul Edouard de Chagny was born 13 Janvier 1870 to the prestigious de Chagny family and inherited his title and fortune from them. As a child, Raoul had met and played with Christine Daaé when his family had been on holiday in northern France. He had become her best childhood friend. One of the things that stayed in both of their minds was his rescuing of her red scarf from the water.
Raoul lost track of Christine then, and did not see her until he was a grown man. In the meantime, he had gone to sea. Upon returning to Paris, he was interested in backing the Paris Opéra with money. He approached the managers and they took him on as a patron.
One night, Raoul, now a Vicomte, had attended the opera. It was the night of the performance of Hannibal, when Christine Daaé was asked to fill in for the Prima Soprano, Carlotta Guidicelli. Christine did a splendid job and Raoul was quite taken with her and recognized his childhood friend. After the opera was over, he renewed the friendship and they continude to see each other. Then Christine told him that she was being taught by an “Angel of Music.” This was based on a legend told to Christine by her now deceased father, Gustave Daaé, a celebrated violinist.
During this time, strange things started to happen at the opera house, sudden dropping of backdrops, mysterious letters signed O.G., and at one point, Raoul heard voices in Christine’s dressing room, one a male voice. Christine was found to be missing for a short time and then she returned. Christine told Raoul that there was an opera ghost, but he didn't believe her, even though she said she had been to his lair and seen his terrifying face.
During the Bal Masque, the Phantom appeared disguised in a costume called Red Death. He demanded that his own opera, Don Juan Triumphant, be performed. After this, Christine and Raoul ran to the rooftop of the opera house and declared their love for each other. They were overheard by the Phantom. During the performance of the Phantom’s opera, the Phantom killed Piangi, the actor who was playing the lead and assumed his costume and place on stage. Christine discovered the ruse and pulled his hood off and also unmasked him in front of the whole audience. Angrily, he disappeared with her and took her to his lair.
Raoul bravely followed Christine to rescue her and almost drowned in an underwater trap. He finally found his way to the lair, only to be caught and almost killed by the Phantom with the deadly Punjab lasso. The Phantom finally let both of them leave, after he had been kissed tenderly by Christine.
Raoul and Christine were married then, had a child soon after and named him Gustave after his maternal grandfather. He inherited his mother’s musical ability.
In the meantime, things did not go well for Raoul. He developed a gambling habit and after ten years, had lost nearly all his wealth on the gambling tables. Taking to drink, things got worse and worse. Raoul did not allow Christine to follow her natural inclination to music, for it reminded him too much of the Phantom and how he had almost lost Christine to the deformed man.
But then, after losing the bigger part of his fortune, Raoul decided that in order to make ends meet, they needed to make money another way. Christine received an invitation to come to Coney Island to sing. It would indeed pay well. Raoul swallowed his pride and decided to let her sing. They took the ship to New York and were greeted by those who had heard of Christine's former fame and of the Vicomte's misfortune, and they flung the dismal, but true facts in his face. He proudly held up the fact that Christine, a singer of renown, was simply reviving her career. With the epithets of the crowd stinging his pride, Raoul and his family went to Coney Island to their hotel room where Raoul fell into despair and began to drink. A note came then, calling him to meet Mr Oscar Hammerstein in the saloon and he went off to meet the famed composer.
RP Sample
The Vicomte Raoul de Chagny had come home, angry that Hammerstein had not appeared. He had spent the entire evening feeling full of self-pity.His pride arising, he made up his mind to leave New York at once the next morning to hell with the debts that needed paying. Gustave started playing a tune on the piano and it irritated Raoul. He asked the child what it was. Gustave replied that it was just something that he had found on the piano.
More determined than ever to leave New York in the morning, Raoul went to bed drunk and angry. He couldn’t get the tune that Gustave had been playing out of his head. Finally falling into a restless sleep, Raoul had the oddest nightmare. He saw Christine sitting in their hotel living room and suddenly, out of nowhere appeared Erik, the Phantom! Christine fainted, but upon opening her eyes, she and the Phantom kissed over and over again. Raoul sat up, a muffled moan erupting from his mouth. Then he realized it was just a dream, a nightmare at that.
Again falling into a fitful sleep, Raoul had the same dream over and over. Finally he could no longer sleep anymore. He paced for a few moments and then decided to look in on Christine sleeping in the next room. He took an oil lamp, so as not to awaken her by turning on the electric light. He opened the door slowly and gazed upon her sleeping peacefully. His mind at ease, Raoul went back to bed and slept.
In the morning, the pounding pain in his head awakened him. He didn’t feel like getting up, but he knew he must. He sat on the edge of the bed without turning on any lights. He mechanically went to the wardrobe where his clothes were hung and chose a grey suit, waistcoat and matching cravat.
His head still pounding, Raoul decided to check on Christine and Gustave and then find something for the pain before he started the day. He went to Christine’s room and opened the door. Then Raoul stood there blinking. There was no room next door. There was only a dusty corridor. How could his eyes deceive him so badly? He must still be drunk. He closed the door quietly, thinking perhaps he didn’t remember where the rooms were. But that was absurd…there was no sign of Christine of Gustave. He went back into his own room to see if Christine had suddenly decided to take Gustave back to Paris on her own. Extremely unlike his wife, but … anything was possible.
Raoul opoened the door and went back in his room, and stood there in amazement. The room was exactly the same as it had been just moments before, except it looked as if it had 100 years’ worth of dust, cobwebs and disrepair hoisted upon it in a few minutes’ time. The electric lights no longer worked. The lace curtains were in shreds. The carpet looked as if mobs of people had danced on it every night for a hundred years. Strands of cobwebs covered in dust hung from the ceiling and the piano that Gustave had played on, only last night, was covered in thick dust and grime. Raoul went over to it and played a few notes, but it was badly out of tune.
Raoul walked about the room, dazed, thinking it was either another nightmare or he had gone mad. He sat on the beautiful embossed settee, which only last night, Christine had remarked upon its beauty. Now the dust flew up in the air as he sat down and he quickly arose. He began to cough.
Raoul quickly went out in the hallway and went first in one direction, then another. Finally he stopped, and leaned against the wall…”Where in hell am I?” he mumbled. Then he shouted it, “Where in hell am I?”
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