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1. Before I Knew Your Name by SomeHobbitButSomeElf

   Fandoms: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   04 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Erik | Phantom of the Opera/Original Female Character(s)
   • Erik | Phantom of the Opera
   • Original Characters
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Eventual Romance
   • Soul Bond
   • Soulmates
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Phantom of the Opera inspired
   • Slow Burn
   • Erik is Autistic (headcanon)
   • Erik has BPD (headcanon)
   • Healing
   • Domestic Violence
   • Pregnancy
   • Miscarriage
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Child Abandonment
   • Self-Harm
   • Gaslighting
   • Sexual Coercion
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Rape/Non-con Elements
   • Past Lives
   • Disabled Character
   • BAMF Original Female Character
   • Erik Deserves Happiness
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Love Across Lifetimes
   • yumeship - Freeform
   • Historical accuracy matters to Erik
   • Belle is not Christine
   • Found Family
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Erik has PTSD
   • Coercive Control
   • Gothic
   • Reincarnation
   • Touch-Starved
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Parenthood
   • Christine Daaé (Mentioned) - Freeform
   • Raoul de Chagny (mentioned) - Freeform
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Autistic Erik (Headcanon)

   Summary

   Some loves are too large for one lifetime.

   In another century, a masked man and a flying girl loved each other through cruel separation and death itself. Their memories of their past are gone.

   Now it is 1977, and a corpse-faced child and a wanted daughter are born an hour apart, behind two doors in the same Paris hospital. Neither knows the other. But the soul remembers. And their souls, life after life, are trying to find their way home.

   A Gothic romance about love that outlasts death, the cages we mistake for safety, and learning to stop hearing the noise and start hearing the music.

   This will be a long fic, and I'll update as much as possible. Please be patient with me as I go through :)

   The entire novel is complete; now it's just the editing and uploading

   Series

   • Part 4 of The Phantom's Acrobat Universe

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   77,097

   Chapters:

   25/?

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