Ex-Convict of the Opera!
May. 20th, 2006 18:29A wee question for the flist:
A man who has been hideously wronged by society becomes a father figure to an orphaned girl twenty to forty years his junior, then falls in love with her and throws a jealous shitfit when she wants to marry some charming young man he doesn't know.
A man who has been hideously wronged by society becomes a father figure to an orphaned girl forty-five-ish years his junior, then falls in love with her and throws a jealous shitfit when she wants to marry some charming young man he doesn't know.
Why is the first one tragically romantic and the second one squicky as hell?
ETA: *facepalm* That idea is not allowed to give me plotbunnies. NO.
A man who has been hideously wronged by society becomes a father figure to an orphaned girl twenty to forty years his junior, then falls in love with her and throws a jealous shitfit when she wants to marry some charming young man he doesn't know.
A man who has been hideously wronged by society becomes a father figure to an orphaned girl forty-five-ish years his junior, then falls in love with her and throws a jealous shitfit when she wants to marry some charming young man he doesn't know.
Why is the first one tragically romantic and the second one squicky as hell?
ETA: *facepalm* That idea is not allowed to give me plotbunnies. NO.
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