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Gothic Romance Meme

Gothic Romance Meme

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…

The story goes like this: There is a house. It may be haunted. The house has a resident, or two, who has some secrets. They may be charming, or brooding, often both. Someone may have been murdered. A newcomer arrives, either as bride, governess, or journalist, and they begin to unravel all the secrets and lies lurking within the house ~~of Usher~~.

Locations may be in any country, in any era, but there must be a gloomy and opulent old mansion, and some sort of dark and terrible secret to be uncovered (or just ghosts. ghosts are always an option.)

The Newcomer
1. The new bride or groom. Your new spouse is charming and attractive, but do you really know all their secrets?
2. Tutor or governess to the estate children. They seem like such innocent children.
3. Companion—perhaps as a chaperone, perhaps merely as company, but you’ve been hired to come to some remote old house to keep an unknown stranger company. Probably just reading to them, or listening to them chatter on whenever travel is required.
4. Hired hand. You’ve been hired up from the local village—or perhaps the city—as a footman or a maid. Just an ordinary job. Nice house, though.
5. Distant relation. Thanks to your circumstances, you’re reduced to accepting hospitality from some remote relations of yours. They may never turn up to family gatherings, and you’ve never heard much about them, but they’re probably just reclusive.
6. Journalist. You’ve heard some interesting rumours about this old mansion in the middle of nowhere.
7. The neighbour. You know that things are not quite right in that old house on the hill. Perhaps you feel it’s your duty to interfere. Perhaps you’re just curious. Perhaps you are childhood friends with the house’s resident.

The Resident
1. Past transgressions. Perhaps a mad wife in the attic? Someone buried in the cellar?
2. The unquiet dead. Look, you just live here. You’re not responsible for the ghosts. Even if they do all seem to be related to you.
3. The monster. You are the thing in the house to be feared. Actual monsters or monster AUs totally an option here! Vampires, werewolves, beasts and horrors all possible. Perhaps put an ordinary face on when you receive your new guest.
4. Wildcard. Choose your own deep dark secret: maybe your character naturally comes with one.

Threaded | Flat

[Governess or journalist if newcomer. Past transgressions if resident.]

[Newcomer, probably new groom or companion, could also be journalist. Very open to cross-canon and AUs!]

[If newcomer, he's either groom or companion, beautiful and a little too trusting. If resident, he's half-mad with loneliness and despair and living in his family's ruined mansion, with the corpses of his family upstairs in a room he never enters.]

[ resident; monster or wildcard. m/f for shipping. ]

[The resident, could be the monster but past transgressions could also be a factor for him.]

[ Preferably the newcomer; a tutor, companion, or maybe a bride? ]

[Alayne Stone available, as well]

[Preference for new bride, distant relation or neighbor if newcomer. Open to any option as the resident.]

[The resident, likely held on house arrest due to his mutation. It's his family home, that has perhaps fallen to ruin since he was isolated from the rest of society.]

[Tutor or journalist. Traveling through trying to spread news of his cause.]

[Resident. Either the monster or hiding the dark secret that he conducts fear experiments in the basement.]

[The monster hiding out at the bottom of this gothic story that is slowly sapping all the energy out of the rest of family/staff. May or may not have a long list twin brother.]

[Newcomer. Booth is a rare books archivist for a museum, so he's best suited to companion (if sent by museum to try to acquire something by getting chummy), hired hand (if hired to catalogue the resident's book collection), or journalist (if investigating some sort of history for the museum). OTA for anything, but if sexual M/M please since he's canonically gay--though he's, um, likely to be resistant to sexual advances regardless.]

[The monster or the unquiet dead if resident. New groom or companion if newcomer. m/m for shipping.]

((Definitely resident ghost/monster. Can play as the newcomer, maybe distant relation.))

{New bride/Governess or Wildcard.}

[Most likely scenarios, Newcomer: 1,2,5,7. Resident: 2 ]

[ Tutor or 2 or 3 under Resident are most likely. Open to discussing others. ]

( A resident the blood of mages and abominations on his hands. And some of the bodies in the walls, maybe. )

[ Resident or "hired hand", of sorts, by canon. But I'm sure she'd make someone a lovely new bride/governess/companion in an AU. ]

[Resident! Could be the oldest son or a sorts-of maybe priest who's just a permanent guest in the house (or was sent to meet you and help getting you 'settled in'.) As for scenarios, I can offer a mysteriously missing family members, a couple of undead issues in the vicinity or the question of Kuro's nocturnal habits and overly prominent canines - or you can hit me up with a scenario of your own! :) ]

[Canonically, a witch with a love of vintage things and a troubled past. Could be either the resident or newcomer. OTA for gen but I prefer not to ship without previous CR.]

[Definitely the resident and most likely with many dangerous pets lurking in the maze of rooms that is the house. Replies might be slow because it's been a while since I've played him and I'm a bit rusty.]

[Can be newcomer or resident, willing to roll with whichever!]

Threaded | Flat

Moira MacTaggert | X-Men (Comics) | OTA

Abel | Starfighter (Comic) | M/M

Ashley Raventon | Lost Souls

nuada silverlance | hellboy

Aric Dominija [Death] | The Arcana Chronicles

mina harker ➞ dracula ➞ ota

Nancy | Oliver Twist ( Modern AU )

Sansa Stark | A Song of Ice and Fire | OTA

Mai | ATLA | OTA

Charles Xavier - X Men - M/M

Enjolras | Les Miserables | M/M

Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight | ota

The Nogitsune | Teen Wolf | ota gen, m/m else

Kyle Murchison Booth | The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth | OTA

Fumikage Tokoyami | My Hero Academia

Violet Harmon | American Horror Story: Murder House | OTA

Princess Nuala | Hellboy II

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf

Elijah Mikaelson | The Vampire Diaries/Originals

Cullen Rutherford | Dragon Age | OTA

Vanessa Ives | Penny Dreadful

Kuro | Servamp - OTA

Lily Ivory |The Witchcraft Mysteries

Count D | Petshop of Horrors

Shoichi Irie - Katekyo Hitman Reborn - ota