💀Phantom Of The Mindscape💛
This is using an extract from the phantom of the opera!
Ship~ unreciprocated Roceit, Prinxiety
Warnings~ if you know this story you know. Also gore.
"I had no time to think about the meaning he put into his words.
We at once began the duet in Othello and already the catastrophe was upon us.
I sang Desdemona with a despair,
a terror which I had never displayed before.
As for him,
his voice thundered forth his revengeful soul at every note.
Love,
jealousy,
hatred,
burst out around us in harrowing cries.
Janus' black mask made me think of the natural mask if the Moor of Venice.
He was Othello himself.
Suddenly,
I felt the need to see beneath the mask.
I wanted to know the FACE of the voice,
and,
with a movement which I was utterly unable to control,
swiftly my fingers tore away the mask. Oh horror,
horror,
horror!"
Roman stopped,
at the thought of the vision that had scared him,
while the echoes of the night,
which had repeated the name of Janus, now thrice moaned the cry:
"Horror!
...
Horror!
...
Horror!"
He took Virgil's protecting hands in his and,
with a long shiver,
continued:
"Yes,
if I lived to be a hundred,
I should always hear the superhuman cry of anger and rage which he uttered when the terrible sight appeared before my eyes...
Virgil,
you have seen death's heads,
when they have been dried and withered by the centuries,
and,
perhaps,
if you were not the victim of a nightmare,
you saw HIS death's head at Perros.
And then you saw Red Death stalking about at the last masked ball.
But all those death's heads were motionless and their dumb horror was not alive.
But imagine,
if you can,
Red Death's mask suddenly coming to life in order to express,
with the four black holes of its eyes,
its nose and its mouth,
the extreme anger,
the mighty fury of a demon;
AND NOT OF RAY OF LIGHT FROM THE SOCKETS,
for,
as I learned later,
you cannot see his blazing eyes except in the dark.
"I fell back against the wall and he came up to me,
grinding his teeth,
and,
as I fell upon my knees,
he hissed mad,
incoherent words and curses at me.
Leaning over me,
he cried,
'Look!
You want to see?
See!
Feast your eyes,
glut your soul on my cursed ugliness!
Look at Janus' face!
Now you know the face of the voice!
You were not content to hear me,
eh?
You wanted to know,
what I looked like!
Oh,
you men are so inquisitive!
Well,
are you satisfied?
I'm a very good-looking fellow,
eh?
...
When a woman has seen me,
as you have,
she belongs to me.
She loves me forever.
I am a kind of Don Juan,
you know! '
And,
drawing himself up to his full height,
with his hand on his hip,
wagging the hideous thing that was his head on his shoulders,
he roared,
' Look at me!
I AM DON JUAN TRIUMPHANT! '
And,
when I turned away my head and begged for mercy,
he drew it to him,
brutally,
twisting his dead fingers into my hair."
" Enough!
Enough! "
cried Virgil.
" I will kill him.
In heaven's name,
Roman,
tell me where the dining-room on the lake is!
I must kill him! "
"Oh,
be quiet,
Virgil,
if you want to know!"
"Yes,
I want to know how and why you went back;
I must know!
...
But,
on any case,
I will kill him!"
"Oh,
Virgil,
listen,
listen!
...
He dragged me by my hair and then,
...
and then
...
Oh,
it is too horrible!"
"Well,
what?
Out with it!"
exclaimed Virgil fiercely.
"Out with it quick!"
"Then he hissed at me,
'Ah,
I frighten you do I?
...
I dare say
...
Perhaps you think that I have another mask,
eh,
and that this
...
this
...
my head is a mask?
Well,'
he roared,
'tear it off as you did the other!
Come!
Come along!
I insist!
Your hands!
Your hands!
Guve me your hands!'
And he seized my hands and dug them into his awful face.
He tore his flesh with my nails,
tore his terrible flesh with my nails!
...
'Know,'
he shouted,
while his throat throbbed and panted like a furnace,
'Know that I am built up of death from head to foot and that it is a corpse that loves you and adores you and will never,
never leave you!
...
Look,
I am not laughing now,
I am crying,
crying for you,
Roman,
who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!
...
As long as you thought me handsome,
you could have come back,
I know you would have come back
...
but,
now that you know my hideousness,
you would run away for good
...
So I shall keep you here!
...
Why did you want to see me?
Oh,
mad Roman,
who wanted to see me!
...
When my own father never saw me and when my mother,
so as to not see me,
made me a present of my first mask!'
"He had let go of me at last and was dragging himself about on the floor,
uttering terrible sobs.
And then he crawled away like a snake,
went into his room,
closed the door and left me alone to my reflections.
Presently I heard the sound of the organ;
and then I began to understand Janus contemptuous phrase when he spoke about Opera music.
What I now heard was utterly different from what I had heard up to then.
His Don Juan Triumphant
(for I had not a doubt but that he had rushed to his masterpiece to forget the horror of the moment)
seemed to me at first one long,
awful,
magnificent sob.
But,
little by little,
it expressed every emotion,
every suffering of which mankind is capable.
It intoxicated me;
and I opened the door that separated us.
Janus rose,
as I entered,
BUT DARED NOT TURN IN MY DIRECTION.
'Janus,'
I cried,
'show me your face without fear!
I swear that you are the most unhappy and sublime of men;
and,
if ever again I shiver when I look at you,
it will be because I am thinking of the splendor of your genius!'
Roman stopped as tears cascaded down his face.
"And then?"
Virgil asked.
"And then he disappeared.
I haven't seen him since you found me."
Roman sobbed.
Little did the young couple know,
the phantom was there.
Watching as if nothing happened.
He gazed at his prince as he felt a sorrowful smile creep its way onto his deformed face.
" Baby,
you look happier,
you do.
I knew one day you'd fall for someone new.
But if he breaks your heart like lovers do,
Just know that I'll be waiting here for you."
He sang
He kissed Roman's head before disappearing back to his room,
resuming his song.
Except this time
...
he felt nothing but heartbreak.
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