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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1816267" data-attributes="member: 6182">Just a matter of personal taste.  I find "The obscenely chaste blonde, blue-eyed princess in a tower waiting for prince charming to rescue her" thing to be frightfully dull.I like my romance to be a bit spicier.Like my tale of the royal race with a seductive society who make harems of their would be assassins.  Much more interesting to win over the enemy by making them burn with desire than, say, preaching them in to complacancy or impressing them with your purity.It's part of what worries me about the psychic animals of the world.  It looks too cuddly.  Now, if some of them are reptiles, or something like boars and wolverines...Tragic romantic figures are always good, of course.  The bard who pines for his lost love, seeking to find her features in others, but always dissapointed with the rest of their features... very romantic, but actually the kind of sick obssessive compulsive thing you actually find once in awhile (Albeit usually via stalkers, heh).Basically, while I'm not neccissarily in to -dark- romance (though that can be quite fun, too), the pastel romance (like all things pastel in hue) makes me mildly queazy.  I'm hoping Blue Rose promotes romantic fantasy in general, and not just the sort that inspires rosy cheeks, high foreheads, gray eyes, blonde curls, etc.Give me gypsy or pirate style romance, now that's where the fun is.</blockquote>