#I hate Byronic heroes all my homies hate Byronic heroes

[momokatzetzgo]

Pechorin from A Hero of Our Time is truly just. One of the guys of all time

[tybaltsjuliet]

very curious about gothic frozen — I’ve also had Thoughts about a darker version that’d draw more from The Snow Queen but not as a gothic interpretation specifically

hi! yeah, i love frozen but more so i love everything it could have been and everything it is in my heart. i personally am pretty neutral on how much my Frozen Gothic takes or doesn't from "the snow queen" (except ditching kristoff. all my homies hate kristoff; give me the robber girl immediately.) mostly, it would lean in to the darker elements it already contains all on its own.

which is to say, the appeal of Frozen Gothic for me specifically lies in the element of "emotionally stunted sisters with terrible parents growing up as strangers and haunting their own empty home, which in a pleasing coincidence for The Aesthetic happens to be a scandinavian castle, and despite their estrangement being co-dependent to the point of insanity, even when it nearly kills both of them."

[you must leave this house.] how can i? these walls are my skin. this room is my heart. besides, i have a sister. - the fall of the house of usher, steven berkoff, from edgar allan poe

obviously, one cannot expect a disney movie to go All In on my favored dynamic in this regard, but, then again, disney is the one who made anna and elsa's climactic moment A NEAR DIRECT CONTEXTUAL MIRROR OF THAT OF THEIR GREATEST ANIMATED ROMANCE EVER, so i'll do what i want.

the entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that i have lost her! - wuthering heights, emily brontë

besides, elsa is already halfway to a byronic hero (which the broadway musical, MY BELOVED, recognized well!), and hans's entire plan could be right out of an 18th- or 19th-century gothic novel.

you speak like a heroine; we shall see whether you can suffer like one. - the mysteries of udolpho, ann radcliffe

it’s really just a matter of axing the contemptible snowman and the worse scruffy-looking reindeer-herder, and allowing anna, elsa, and hans to breathe freely in their agonies.

(my Frozen Gothic would also have a large helping of folk horror - ‘cause i like it, not merely because the broadway huldrefolk are FAR sexier than the kickable rock trolls. but that helps.)