[Report This]Date: December 12 2020 12:18 PM Title: Chapter 26: Love
The best part is that I can't say any of this is real love and Sihil and Teagan are both just buried neck deep in Stockholm/Lima Syndrome and nothing is going to change my mind because this is fucking textbook, you've hit all the symptoms. It's not and never "real" love, but desperation bonding through traumatic experience and you've written it horrifically (that is to say, realistically).
Is one of your courses in college psychology?
Anyways since I'm apparently a wizard now I'm going to guess that Sihil is going to ask Aaliyah and Hassan if they want to be let go and they're going to refuse because they're worried about her.
Author's Response:
Yeah, Teagan and Sihil are probably only interacting the way they are because of the total crappiness of their joint situation. That being said, hey, who's to say that love born through horrific circumstance and tortuous suffering isn't real love? Most people, actually, but, y'know, it sure beats loneliness... probably. Psychology isn't quite my area of expertise - I actually plan on being a writer, so if you find a fantasy novel by someone named Enzo, give it a read ;p - but I figured a captive-captor relationship would be rather volatile, and tried to depict it as such.