Christine Daaé

== Personal Life ==
Christine was born to Gustave Daaè and Katri Egnell on October 11, 1873. Her parents had gotten married in the spring of 1867. 
Money was incredibly tight in their family since Gustave worked as a struggling violinist. They lived in a run-down cottage on the outskirts of a Swedish town. 
Due to the bad conditions of the house, winter hit them incredibly hard, and Katri ended up passing away from the conditions in 1879. 
In the spring after his wife's death, Gustave packed up their belongings and began to travel with a circus. While at the circus, Christine was kept away from the oddities since Gustave did not want to disturb her. Christine regards those days as being very joyful, and it provided for her to form a closer bond with her father. 
When Gustave was offered a job by Philibert de Chagny, who was traveling and took pity on Gustave, he took the opportunity. They were given residence at the de Chagny mansion in 1881. 
While on vacation with her father in Calais, Christine sang by the beachside and attracted the attention of a nurse tending to a little boy. The boy almost instantly developed a crush on Christine, and upon noticing that the girl's red scarf had flown off her neck, he ran into the ocean to rescue it. Gustave rushed in to save the boy from drowning, and it was made apparent that the boy was the youngest son, Raoul, of the de Chagny family. 
Raoul and Christine grew close to one another on the vacation, and Raoul played with her between his tutoring lessons. When his nurse heard him innocently proclaim that he wanted to marry Christine, she reported it to Phillipe, the head of the household. With this news, Phillipe fired Gustave, and they were forced onto the streets in 1883. 
In 1884, while performing at a local fair, Gustave and Christine drew the eye of Florin Valèrius, a former music professor. Florin offered to pay for Christine's education as long as she studied music as well. Gustave and Christine moved to Paris and lived in crowded apartments. In these apartments, disease sprang up left and right, and Gustave contracted one in 1886. 
When alerted of the conditions of the apartments, Florin and his wife, Lucette, gave them room in their mansion. Gustave survived his sickness but was incredibly weakened from it. Along with her education, Christine took care of her father as he slowly recovered. 
One day, when returning from one of his travels, Florin came down with a sickness. Gustave, having fostered a deep friendship with the man, attempted to nurse him back to health, but Gustave caught the disease. Florin died, and a devastated Lucette called for several nurses to look after Gustave. Due to the contagiousness, Christine was instructed to stay away from her father, which only added to Christine's despair when Gustave perished in 1888. 
After her father's death, Christine refused to learn any more music. Lucette officially adopted Christine in 1889.
In 1890, Christine was visited by Raoul after he heard talk of her in the region. In the back garden, they shared a private conservation. Raoul parted ways with her, declaring that he would never forget about her, and if he survived his navy journey, he would return to marry her. 
After a stint with a disease in 1891, Lucette was bedridden, and she ordered Christine to study at a nearby opera. 
Since Christine had promised herself to never sing again, she became a ballerina.