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Happy Ending Gothic
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After following your suggestions and a little more research i came to this conclusion.

A romance gone wrong.

Where Romance is understood as it was in the Romantic Art Movement. An unusual being's passionate quest to achieve the impossible results in understanding and respect of nature. And Gothic as a subset of this romance is an unusual being's obsessive pursuit that ends in madness and transgression of natural laws.

A bad romance.

Where Romance is the longing for a significant other. And Gothic encloses: sensationalism, gore, tabu, decay, deprivation, exploitation, violence, lust, all things dark and unknown. It's when a relationship that must have been all love and care between parts degrades in isolation and constant dread, but still the hero wants to stay to reveal the mystery instead of scape.

For both the terror/ horror element that causes madness/dread must be inexplicable/ supernatural or at least pretend to be in the eyes of the hero, otherwise the former would be a failed quest and the latter, domestic violence. There's always the possibility that they might be just that since it should be suggested in the story that what was told is a parcial embellishment of what was in true worse.
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Happy Ending Gothic - by pikkuneko - 02-19-2016, 09:29 PM
RE: Happy Ending Gothic - by RareMale - 02-20-2016, 03:05 AM
RE: Happy Ending Gothic - by pikkuneko - 02-21-2016, 10:46 PM
RE: Happy Ending Gothic - by GothicLover - 02-23-2016, 05:37 PM
RE: Happy Ending Gothic - by pikkuneko - 02-23-2016, 08:11 PM
RE: Happy Ending Gothic - by pikkuneko - 03-04-2016, 08:39 PM

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