Chapter 7
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Hello everyone,
Thank you for sticking around and putting up with my typos 😆
First things first, I am still getting demands from silent readers to PM them with updates. My question is, why?
Secondly, the explanation I promised. A couple of people wondered why Shlok was not the conniving character seen in the show post-marriage. There are a couple of elements I put in place to make Shlok the way he is right now.
1. The FF has to move much faster than the show because it finishes in a couple of chapter and every element of mystery, development, etc has to happen in this frame. So, Shlok's guilt consumes him during the wedding. You will see in the show too that there are moments where he really suffers regrets when Astha puts too much faith in him. Marriage being the time when Astha puts her life on the line by putting her hand in his, is the ultimate show of faith/trust. That is the moment (small mehendied hand scene) where things change for him and he falls in love (unknowingly).
2. In Chapter 2, Shlok resolved that he will not play anymore mind games with her. I let the cunning part of Shlok go then because he is falling in love during these chapters. He wants Astha to see through him and figure him out because he does not want the destruction that she faces post-marriage. In my story, he does not carry on with the planning and lets her know on the night of the wedding because he does not want to consummate the marriage under false pretenses. Astha, thinking it was a real love marriage, of course does not understand why he starts avoiding her as soon as they are in the bedroom.
3. Astha has no sindoor falling on her nose. This is not supposed to be a happy marriage. But she does not see that sign because she's too much in love. She thinks she can do without that good luck because they love each other. But it is no coincidence.
4. The moment Shlok really falls in love with Astha is when her dad places her hand in his, as I already mentioned. This is a world altering event for him because she's not some random girl who annoyed him. He realizes with a start that she's his wife. Her mother asks him to treasure their only prized possession. Now she's his wife and responsibility. He understands that Astha put her faith and future in him and that kind of investment makes her his and vice versa. She becomes family, someone he can no longer hurt.
5. Astha's parents play a big role in changing Shlok's behavior by putting their expectations on him 1. to treasure her 2. by treasuring him. In psychology, the way to get a person to like you is to ask them do favors for you. Then they rationalize why they should do these favors for you and come to the conclusion that they do it out of love/caring/etc. Shlok has nothing against her parents and respects them too in the show. He cannot let them down.
6. Sleep deprivation has the same effects on a person as getting drunk does. Some people become more emotional and happy than they normally would be. That is why Shlok is more emotional and giddy in chapter 6. He even comments on that. There are two lines when I talk about the sleep deprivation having its effects on him.
7. All this is not to justify myself against criticisms, which are most welcome. I just don't agree that he changed character overnight to become a chocolate boy. He puts up with Astha's rage because he knows he is in the wrong for doing much worse. He's not intentionally nice to her, he just loves her. I am showing you my interpretation of Shlok and how I have built him over the chapters. To me, they real Shlok is the guy who pulls Kavya's cheeks and hugs her by kneeling down, the guy who runs and hides from Astha after he has a fit and hits her, the guy who cries because his ex-girl friend wants nothing to do with him. I see him as an affectionate guy who can go to any extreme (like fake a marriage) to get some love from his dad. Remember, Shlok in the show does not know about his dad's plans for the plot, so it makes no sense why he should keep acting with Astha after the marriage to get that plot. He's not evil. He's acting out against Astha to get her attention because she rejected him. He makes her accept him. It boils down to a fragile ego and need for affection from a guy who clearly grew up without much love in a dysfunctional family.
8. If anyone has changed, it is actually Astha. She has almost had a personality change in my FF because I wanted to destroy her like a Harry Potter pheonix to built the kind of girl that will never be shown on Indian TV. In the show they are going to show a girl who understands and does everything calmly like a good little, meek, well-behaved Desi girl. That's how Khushi behaved too. That's why I wrote the Avenging Angel series to make Arnav go through the grind as as he should gave for wronging her. I put a little bit of me in the women. I think about what I would do in those situations. So the women in my FFs actually do not stick to character. I play down the males and play up the women. rven in the West, a girl like Astha post-marriage will be called a B-word even when she has every justification for being hurt like she has been. My Astha is strong and her words cut like a blades into Shlok. That's what I meant by Astha cutting him in chapter 6 (there was some confusion about that).
Marybarton 2013-10-20 04:34:18
Thank you for sticking around and putting up with my typos 😆
First things first, I am still getting demands from silent readers to PM them with updates. My question is, why?
Secondly, the explanation I promised. A couple of people wondered why Shlok was not the conniving character seen in the show post-marriage. There are a couple of elements I put in place to make Shlok the way he is right now.
1. The FF has to move much faster than the show because it finishes in a couple of chapter and every element of mystery, development, etc has to happen in this frame. So, Shlok's guilt consumes him during the wedding. You will see in the show too that there are moments where he really suffers regrets when Astha puts too much faith in him. Marriage being the time when Astha puts her life on the line by putting her hand in his, is the ultimate show of faith/trust. That is the moment (small mehendied hand scene) where things change for him and he falls in love (unknowingly).
2. In Chapter 2, Shlok resolved that he will not play anymore mind games with her. I let the cunning part of Shlok go then because he is falling in love during these chapters. He wants Astha to see through him and figure him out because he does not want the destruction that she faces post-marriage. In my story, he does not carry on with the planning and lets her know on the night of the wedding because he does not want to consummate the marriage under false pretenses. Astha, thinking it was a real love marriage, of course does not understand why he starts avoiding her as soon as they are in the bedroom.
3. Astha has no sindoor falling on her nose. This is not supposed to be a happy marriage. But she does not see that sign because she's too much in love. She thinks she can do without that good luck because they love each other. But it is no coincidence.
4. The moment Shlok really falls in love with Astha is when her dad places her hand in his, as I already mentioned. This is a world altering event for him because she's not some random girl who annoyed him. He realizes with a start that she's his wife. Her mother asks him to treasure their only prized possession. Now she's his wife and responsibility. He understands that Astha put her faith and future in him and that kind of investment makes her his and vice versa. She becomes family, someone he can no longer hurt.
5. Astha's parents play a big role in changing Shlok's behavior by putting their expectations on him 1. to treasure her 2. by treasuring him. In psychology, the way to get a person to like you is to ask them do favors for you. Then they rationalize why they should do these favors for you and come to the conclusion that they do it out of love/caring/etc. Shlok has nothing against her parents and respects them too in the show. He cannot let them down.
6. Sleep deprivation has the same effects on a person as getting drunk does. Some people become more emotional and happy than they normally would be. That is why Shlok is more emotional and giddy in chapter 6. He even comments on that. There are two lines when I talk about the sleep deprivation having its effects on him.
7. All this is not to justify myself against criticisms, which are most welcome. I just don't agree that he changed character overnight to become a chocolate boy. He puts up with Astha's rage because he knows he is in the wrong for doing much worse. He's not intentionally nice to her, he just loves her. I am showing you my interpretation of Shlok and how I have built him over the chapters. To me, they real Shlok is the guy who pulls Kavya's cheeks and hugs her by kneeling down, the guy who runs and hides from Astha after he has a fit and hits her, the guy who cries because his ex-girl friend wants nothing to do with him. I see him as an affectionate guy who can go to any extreme (like fake a marriage) to get some love from his dad. Remember, Shlok in the show does not know about his dad's plans for the plot, so it makes no sense why he should keep acting with Astha after the marriage to get that plot. He's not evil. He's acting out against Astha to get her attention because she rejected him. He makes her accept him. It boils down to a fragile ego and need for affection from a guy who clearly grew up without much love in a dysfunctional family.
8. If anyone has changed, it is actually Astha. She has almost had a personality change in my FF because I wanted to destroy her like a Harry Potter pheonix to built the kind of girl that will never be shown on Indian TV. In the show they are going to show a girl who understands and does everything calmly like a good little, meek, well-behaved Desi girl. That's how Khushi behaved too. That's why I wrote the Avenging Angel series to make Arnav go through the grind as as he should gave for wronging her. I put a little bit of me in the women. I think about what I would do in those situations. So the women in my FFs actually do not stick to character. I play down the males and play up the women. rven in the West, a girl like Astha post-marriage will be called a B-word even when she has every justification for being hurt like she has been. My Astha is strong and her words cut like a blades into Shlok. That's what I meant by Astha cutting him in chapter 6 (there was some confusion about that).
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