browngirl

Thinking about it, it's really the kind of thing that only happens in epics. Not just stories that are epics, but epic-scale relationships, where the characters' relationship reflects some bigger pattern, something that goes beyond just them. And also where the character for whom the destruction happens is scorchingly hot (there's descriptions of Sita's breasts-and-hips-and-eyes-and-mouth in the Ramayana that go on for pages). So :) The Slade/Dick implications are, um, interesting.