Erika (Phantom)

Apearence

with her face looking more like a "sunburn", her disfigurement resembles that of a face mildly malformed by a birthmark, wich is covered by a white mask that covers that half of her face. She has long black hair and pale skin, she had heterochromia, with her right eye on a subtle grey color, and the left one in a yellowish/ amber. She has slim and tall figure, aproximetly 6th foot tall. She wears her long black hair brushed backwards, over a top hat or fedora. She usually wears fitted suits or fracs, with red velvet and embroided vests, and black cloak.

Story.

She was born in a little town in Persia, daughter of a man working under construction. Her mother sold her away when she was just a little child because of her malformation, having to use a wooden mask or sack on her head as she wandered on the streets looking to survive. Early on her adult years she started to work as an architect, working for a Sultan in northern Turkey. She traveled then in a caravan trough Asia as a magician, where se found her loving for the finner arts and music. She afiliated with the construction of the Royal Opera House During the construction she is able to make a sort of playground for herself within the Opera House, creating trapdoors and secret passageways throughout every inch of the theatre. She even builds herself a mansion in the cellars of the Opera where she could live far from man's cruelty, of intrinsec hallways. In her isolation, Erika spends twenty years composing a piece entitled Don Juan Triumphant. One day, wandering trough the catacombs she found a young ballet dancer humming in her dressing room, she was found emblessed with her, from that day she started giving her lessons, not letting herself show, only with her voice and under the pseudunim of the "Angel of Music" In one chapter after he takes Christine to his lair, she asks him to play her a piece from her masterwork. She refuses and says, "I will play you Mozart, if you like, which will only make you weep; but my Don Juan, Christine, burns." Eventually, after she has wrenched off his mask and seen her deformed face, she begins to play it. Christine says that at first it seemed to be "one great awful sob," but then became alert to its nuances and power.

Personality and Mind

The Opera Ghost , The Phantom Of the Opera, The Red Death , The Woman's Voice, The Angel of Music, Phantom" Are the names giving to the "Ghost" of the Opera from the workers there. She is reserved, shy even to make contact with Christine even if she is very passionate and desesperate for her, she usually acts charming and cool, using her mask to not only and logicaly hide her deformation, but her low selfesstime she has. She never felt the love of anyone in her entire life, yearning for a praise, a touch or a caress from someone