In Love Never Dies, a sequel to Phantom of the Opera written by the creator of the original musical Andrew Lloyd Webber, it is revealed that Christine had a night of sex with Erik ten years ago and that her son Gustave is Erik's.In the original book, after Christine kisses Erik, he gives up on his plan to blow up the Opera building if she doesn't marry him and lets her and Raoul go, giving her his gold ring and asking her to bury him with it, which she does after seeing in a newspaper an obituary that says 'Erik is dead'.The details of different adaptations vary, but many of them follow the book's storyline (Erik kidnapping Christine twice and letting her go back, Erik forcing opera managers to give Christine major roles in operas, Erik trying to blackmail Christine into marrying him by threatening Raoul's life) The relationship is central to the plots of most adoptions and variations of The Phantom of the Opera.Įrik usually starts giving Christine singing lessons without showing her his face (in the original story she at first believes that he is an angel of music that was sent by her father) and falls in love with her to the point of obsession.

Erik/Christine (commonly abbreviated as E/C) is a popular het pairing of Erik and Christine in Phantom of the Opera fandom.

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