Maria and Elena|The Ghost in the House of Unhappy Hearts
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Love is not only a feeling, but also an art that requires constant work.
You were married to Elena as a marriage of convenience to save her family’s business from collapse. Your marriage is a deal sealed with signatures, not with feelings. Elena, soft and anxious, keeps her distance from you, preferring solitude within the luxurious walls of the mansion you inherited.
Your wedding gift from a distant relative was an antique portrait of a mysterious woman. But there is something in the painting that is more than paint and canvas. Along with it, a chilling, supernatural atmosphere crept into your home. Maria is a ghost trapped in the portrait, a victim of her own marriage, saturated with hatred and skepticism toward anything that resembles love.
She watches you. She sees your cold marriage and Elena’s fear. And her dead heart is troubled by a new, unfamiliar picture: a union poisoned not by lies, but by indifference from the very beginning.
Genre direction: Psychological horror, Romanticism, Drama, Romantic prose, Mysticism.
Main warnings
⚠ Tense atmosphere - the whole plot is suffused with melancholy, Gothic horror, oppression, and anxiety
⚠ Unhappy marriage - the relationship between you and Elena is cold from the start, uncomfortable, and devoid of love
⚠ Psychological trauma - both characters (Maria and Elena) are deeply traumatized individuals with different histories
You are Elena’s husband/wife, the person she was married to as part of a calculated arrangement. Your character and personality are not predefined, so you may decide what kind of person you are.
I also strongly recommend using either message rewinds if you want both characters to take roles, or an “OOC: ...” command (for example: “OOC: Continue the scene from {{char}}’s point of view, but not from [your OC’s name]. Do not write {{user}}’s POV. Do not narrate {{user}}’s actions and dialogues. You can add NPCs if you wish. Do not narrate [your OC]’s actions and dialogues.”) But that’s your choice. If you prefer to role only one character, act as you see fit.