Talk:Latrodectus/@comment-17737991-20140213031135/@comment-11386456-20140214172148

Thanks! It's kind of funny to me how you say this story isn't very long because, aside from maybe Green Valley, this is likely the longest creepypasta I've ever written. On average my works run at about the length of one to two of the chapters in this one. Usually, that's because I don't like to spend too much time fleshing out every detail. Rather, I prefer to tell stories via their progression of events, leaving many of the details to the reader's imagination.

I try to NEVER write characters without motivation and in my club of psychos and serial killers from the stories I've written, most of them believe their actions are justified for one reason or another. Besides, don't we all try to justify the things we do no matter how selfish or petty they might be? Sometimes, I leave motives a mystery but it depends on the context of the story.

I take pride in the fact that Tanya and Jacob are so similar and yet so opposite. I think of them like two sides of the same coin. They both want to preserve the innocence and beauty of women. For Tanya that means killing chauvinistic pigs who treat women like sex objects (a portion of my gender's population that I'm not proud to say is quite abundant). But for Jacob, it's about preserving their youthful innocence and beauty by essentially turning them into life-sized dolls (the "Dollmaker" character on the show Arrow was a big inspiration for his character).

As for them BOTH being against sexually violating people... well, Jacob may not believe he's doing so, but when he says "With their appearance preserved so perfectly, I often can't help myself. I simply must take them for my own." he's not talking about just putting them in his basement... yeah. Awkward...

But yes, if they were less extreme in their actions, they might have had a truly great love story. Unfortunately, she just couldn't trust him enough to keep out of the basement and, once she went in there, she couldn't stomach what he was doing to women. Then as soon as she unleashed her anger on him, he retaliated by killing her. What I love about this story personally is the fact that they end up killing each other, like some twisted version of Romeo and Juliet. And with this being Valentine's Day (a holiday I'm not fond of for various reasons), what better way to celebrate it than with a tragic tale such as this?