<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=307047.msg15278564#msg15278564">Quote from: clonkertink on 16-02-2020, 03:51:58</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Say what you will about Danae, she does drive the plot forward. ;D<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Danae's been fun to write so far - I think of her as a mix of a genderswapped male suitor out of Austen/one of the Brontë and something out of an MR James story with a hint of Lovecraft/Clive Barker thrown in.  The hypocrisy, paranoia, and serial infidelity she blames on everyone but herself are all some of the less attractive features of English country gentry, though to be fair she honestly buys into the 'officer and a gentle(wo)man' presentation.  She's a pretty toxic wife and/or lover, but then again, good girls don't go to Ravenloft!