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Message: [QUOTE="SpcDaicon, post: 359696, member: 134388"] You gotta embrace the cringe within you. Feel it and use it in your favor! Yeah, dark romance is just cringe wish fulfillment for women just like those harem anime are wish fulfillment for men. I think it just scratches a very specific itch we all have, but are too afraid/ashamed to admit. Maybe do something more interesting and make the initally good-natured main character decends into a dark path as she gets involved with the male main character. Something like "I can fix him!" but she just gets more and more broken, not in as victim, but realizing she was just as broken as the male lead and was just suppressing that side due to social conventions, being a woman and all. Just like horror movies or true crime, those kinds of book help us to experience otherwise traumatic events on a safe environment. [/QUOTE]

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