This expands Part I by giving you fully curated vocab for each Gothic branch.
1. High Gothic
Grand, oppressive, castle-heavy.
- Diction: vaults, arches, parapets, draped in shadow, cold stone, echoing chambers, ancestral, brooding winds
- Actions: thunder rolling, torches sputtering, footsteps echoing, doors groaning
- Vibes: curses, lineage, grandeur, ruin
2. Victorian Gothic
Psychological, elegant, eerie, repressed.
- Diction: lamplit, distant tapping, genteel decay, velvet shadows, faint perfume
- Actions: glancing back, lingering at thresholds, whispering behind doors
- Vibes: secrets, repression, haunted memories
3. Gothic Romance
Dark beauty, longing, emotion-driven.
- Diction: breathless, aching light, trembling silence, sorrowful wind, moonlit gaze
- Actions: palms trembling, whispered confessions, yearning glances
4. Southern Gothic
Heat, decay, grotesque charm.
- Diction: buckled porch, sagging shutters, kudzu strangling fences, rust-eaten, sweat-salted air
- Actions: fans stuttering, floors groaning, cicadas droning
5. Modern Gothic
Minimalist, eerie, cold, technological.
- Diction: sterile light, metallic hum, vacant hallways, dead quiet, pale screens
- Actions: lights flickering, elevator clicking, empty rooms echoing
6. Dark Fantasy Gothic
Supernatural, vivid, catastrophic.
- Diction: bone-white, blood-lit, cursed sigils, shadow-beasts, eldritch glow
- Actions: shadows writhing, spirits circling, runes burning
7. Gothic Fairy Tale
Enchanting, eerie, lyrical.
- Diction: silvered branches, moon-dusted paths, drifting enchantments, thorn-wrapped, glimmering fog
- Actions: wind chiming, shadows pirouetting, trees whispering
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