alternately titled: an extremely self indulgent web weave with no clear theme other than my current (very jumbled) feelings
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at some point depression is just embarrassing like hey yeah I've wanted to kill myself since I was Seven Years Old idk I guess I'm procrastinating yes I am Still Depressed god just put me down like a sick dog why don't you
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In the shadow of your family's crumbling fortune, you face an impossible choice: surrender to a loveless marriage to salvage your name, or embrace ruin that will drag everyone you cherish into poverty and disgrace.
Étreinte is a Victorian tale of love, duty, and forbidden longing. Where propriety meets passion behind closed doors.
Can you claim your own life in an age of rigid expectations, or will duty consume everything you are?
-CW: sexual themes, misogyny, sexism, classism, discrimination, etc.
-Set in 1840s London amidst the glittering decay of high society
-Gender lock female. This story follows a female protagonist, written to explore the specific expectations and constraints placed upon women in Victorian society
-Customize your protagonist's identity and desires
-Navigate three distinct romance paths (for now): your forbidden love from different social background, your wealthy but mysterious betrothed, and a forbidden same-gender connection
-Make choices that determine whether you pursue love, security, independence, or scandal
-Explore themes of class, duty, identity and womanhood in an unforgiving era.
In a world ruled by reputation and restraint, desire is the most dangerous game of all.
The lover — Elias Hart
To touch him is to court disgrace; to love him is to betray the life laid out before you.
Gentle hands and eyes that burn with defiance and devotion. Elias has nothing to offer but his heart — and that, he gives wholly. A man born with no title and no fortune, yet with more honor than most nobles could dream of.
He is everything your world forbids but everything your heart craves.
The Betrothed — Lucian Blackwell
His affection feels like a bargain—one you suspect you’ll never stop paying for.
The name on every tongue and the envy of every salon. Duke Blackwell is a man both admired and quietly feared. In conversation, he is effortless; in business, merciless.
And yet, when he looks at you, there is no trace of calculation. You can’t imagine what a man like him — so far above your station, probably so accustomed to getting what he wants—could possibly see in you.
The Confidant — Helena Waverly
She has known you since childhood. Now, every glance between you trembles with what cannot be spoken.
Refined. Poised. Married to your brother. Helena embodies everything London adores in a woman: grace, decorum, and a kindness so polished it borders on illusion.
You grew up side by side, your lives forever intertwined. But lately, her glances linger too long. Her touch, too soft. And her words — once sisterly — carry an undercurrent that feels far more dangerous.
You try to ignore it. But late at night, when memory and longing blur, you cannot quite forget the way she whispered your name as though it belonged to her.
Love them, resent them, but you can't ever quite escape them.
Lady Beatrice Waverly – Mother
The perfect matriarch — graceful and ruthless when it comes to maintaining appearances. Your mother's love was always conditional, her affection a performance. To her, your marriage is not only about securing your future…it’s the family’s last lifeline.
Lord Edmund Waverly – Father
A kind but weary man. Once respected, now quietly ruined by debts he hides from everyone but himself. He loves you dearly — but in his silence, he has condemned you to a gilded cage.
Mrs. Eugenia Pembroke - Aunt
Sharp-witted and sharper-tongued, the family gossip and self-proclaimed moral compass. She knows everything — or thinks she does.
Mr. Nathaniel Waverly – Older Brother
Once charming, now reckless. His charm has faded into deceit, his debts a festering secret. Every bad hand he plays pushes your family closer to ruin. And somehow, it is always you who must pay the price.
Miss Clara Waverly – Younger Sister
Sweet and endlessly hopeful. Clara is untouched by the cruelty of the world, living in a quiet realm of imagination. You protect her from everything — even the truth.
She is light in a world that loves shadows.
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