Black Rose Bride

About this drama

The source for this entry is a single sentence of 146 characters: a stolen bride is thrown into a monster's chapel, but the cursed guardian kneels to no family, only to the woman the estate itself dares to choose. The sentence is transcribed with its dash smoothed and nothing else changed. Three figures and a house do all the work. The bride is stolen, so a transaction precedes the plot. The monster and the guardian are fused into one chapel-bound figure, and the refusal to kneel to family redraws him as loyal by choice rather than by leash. The estate is the quiet fourth character, an animate house with taste, since dares makes it the one taking the risk of choosing her. Gothic furniture, in other words, arranged in one breath, with the chapel doing the marrying and the house doing the choosing. The bride's own will is the one thing the sentence does not locate, which is either the point or the gap. What the curse costs, and why the estate chooses, are the two blanks the run must fill. It is eighty episodes, tied for the second-longest run in this batch, with 4,784 views, the third-highest count. The blanks are large.

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