I’m going to hazard a guess here and imagine you don’t generally like Gothic Literature.
As it happens, I recently received another Ask with similar references to the idea of readers “venerating” aspects of Manacled, specifically Draco’s characterization. Here is a link to my response.
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Manacled’s “romance” is quite influenced by Gothic Literature although, I have to admit, it wasn’t actually a conscious choice, the style was simply what I gravitated towards because of its classic emphasis on the visceral nature of the emotions and tendency to toe the line of horror. I was recently chatting with Jamethiel, and laughing about how Draco and Hermione’s dynamic has an odd combination of Jane Eyre/Mr Rochester combined with Cathy/Heathcliff obsessiveness as though I’d just indiscriminately mashed the Bronte sisters together.
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As I mentioned in my linked response, I did not build Draco (or Hermione’s) evolution over the course of the story with the purpose of making them sexier, or more likeable. Human psychology is an interest of mine, and it was a priority for me to write a story where the relationship was built in a way that waspsychologically valid, even when that decision made characters less sexy or likable, or made the romantic relationship less abstractly romantic.
I personally think Manacled is a romantic tragedy, although neither Draco or Hermione die, I always considered it to have a fundamental element of tragedy to it. I think romantic tragedies are very beautiful, but that doesn’t mean I want to personally experience them.
Lin-Manuel Miranda has a quote about writing and performing Hamilton that I think is perhaps the answer to the question you’re looking for.
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“I find that, for me, the work is a safe place to put all the stuff you don’t want to put in your real life. I don’t want to be a crazy, manic asshole. I don’t want to have an affair. I don’t want to have a fucking gunfight. But! There’s a part of your brain that wants to experience everything, and so work’s a safe place to explore it all. Both in the writing and in the performing. I get to write about an affair. I get to have the guilt and the feeling of that without having to fuck my life up. [laughs] Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts.” [Source]
So, I think that holds true for me as a writer exploring and crafting Manacled, and for readers experiencing it by reading it. It gives an opportunity to explore these intense, tragic, horrifying, desperate emotions within the safety of the imagination. People are able to enjoy something without aspiring to it.
Manacled is not going to be to the taste of everyone, I have never had the expectation that it would be. My beta Jame probably spends more time warning people of why they shouldn’t read it than giving reasons why they should. 🤣
I’m sorry you had the misfortune of reading a 370k word story with main characters and a romance that you did not enjoy. I’m glad you enjoyed the plot structure, making it a sort of chiastic triptych was a controversial choice for a lot of readers when the story was in-progress.
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