I think this is the first time I have read this post...and it is absolutely perfect! So articulate, and so thorough! (like all of your other work and writing) You have such a way with words Napstermonster and I am forever upset over the fact that we don't see your posts anymore (I think that's another loss along with Paro that Rangrasiya had- all the great writers left too!...But I don't blame any of you!)
I think these two parts below are my favourite because it descibes why I CANNOT ever accept another woman besides Paro for Rudra. You have literally written why any other woman for him can never work. No matter if her physical appearance is the same. Rudra was never that shallow and her beauty was something he grew to love but her soul was what captured him.
And it's ironic how now more than ever when we need this piece of beautiful writing to give us all some validation on how we're not just a bunch of people obsessed with a TV show and can't let go of a pairing, it pops back up almost telling us we're not wrong for thinking this way!
So thank you again! And I applaud your writing! 👏👏👏
So what do you do? As the creator of such a man--What woman do you give to a man who hates women? You can try an educated and worldly lady, and he will sneer at her and turn away. A colleague? He does not see women as equals, so what colleague? You can offer a confident, experienced woman, and after giving her the sexual thrill-ride of her life he'll walk out the door. You can try a "vamp" -- smart, knowing, manipulative. This man? Having been trained by the best to expect the worst out of women, he will catch her out at her own game. He will outplay the player, and then? watch out!!
So you think it over. And you accept defeat. You wanted a sherni to his sher, didn't you? A modern-shodern woman? All those hard hitting Hitler-Didi heroines, wielding brooms, jobs, paychecks and Mahila-Samithy memberships? No. You created this man, and you cannot give him the ordinary girl. The twenty other normal men out there would be happy with that girl. But for this man? You give him his exact opposite. You freak out the fan-dom, and give this hero his exact foil--an innocent who exists because he does. You take symbiosis literally, and create a woman who will die if he dies. A mirror image, only, like all images--the reverse image. The positive to the negative film. A ying to the yang. You give him--Paro.
Edited by MP07 - 11 years ago
