History Series / DarkDesire

%%This needs more details.* BigBadEnsemble: Darío and Lys in the second season.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Esteban when it comes to Zoe. While Alma and Leonardo don't trust him after what he's done, Zoe still believes he is a good person]].

* FreudianExcuse: Darío's obsession with Alma comes from a forbidden relationship he once had with Lys, his wealthy aunt/adoptive mother, also a married woman to his uncle/adoptive father Alberto, both of whom were his legal guardians at the time of his father's suicide and his mother's mental health deteriorating.

* BigBadEnsemble: Darío and Lys in the second season.

* VigilanteMan: Eugenia decided to murder her rapist, despite Esteban's objection.

* GreenEyedMonster: Darío grows increasingly, even violently, jealous as Alma starts getting back with her husband.

* AdultFear: Alma and Leonardo suffer this as they think Zoe's been kidnapped. However, it turns out she's fine, and wasn't ever in danger.

* TheirFirstTime: Brenda has sex with Darío on a blanket while out for a picnic, and it's explicitly her first time with a man.

* {{Revenge}}: Eugenia tracked down and murdered her rapist in revenge over what he'd done.

* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[spoiler:Lys]] is incredulous at Dario's declaration that she raped him (since they had sex when he was underage) saying he'd enjoyed it.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: A significant amount of the sex occurs outside the bed (for instance outside, in a laundry room etc).

* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler:Dario]] it turns out was raped by his aunt/foster mother, who took advantage of him as a minor.

* AmbiguouslyBi:
** Zoe initially has sex with her friend Karina, and concludes she's straight. Then she's briefly with [[spoiler:Darío]], but often appears conflicted or reluctant when they have sex (although that could be for other reasons). Later on, she kisses Karina again then is shown looking at different couples (opposite and same-sex) thoughtfully, leaving it unsaid what she identifies as.
** In Season 2, she sleeps around with Mauricio behind Karina's back, because she kept wondering if she really was attracted only to women all her life. Zoe concludes in the end that she doesn't want to spent the rest of her life feeling like a freak because she is a lesbian who enjoys the company of a man too. While perhaps not romantically, but she is sexually attracted in the end to men just as much as she is attracted to women.

* ExperimentedInCollege:
** Zoe explores her sexuality by having sex with her friend Karina, who's lesbian. Afterward, she concludes that she's straight. Karina is fine with this and they stay friends.
** In Season 2 she is Karina's girlfriend for a year, but she is still exploring her true sexuality, but with men this time. She genuinely loves Karina and has no doubt in wanting to be with her, but she can't deny being sexually attracted to men.

* NeverSuicide: Brenda is theorized to not have really killed herself, with it being murder made to look that way. [[spoiler:It turns out that she did though.]]

* TwoPersonPoolParty: Regina is shown having sex in the bath with Esteban during a flashback.

* AffectionateNickname: Esteban and Brenda like to call each other "bug" affectionately.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Íñigo, Julieta's father, is not devastated by her death but laments now dealing with things such as planning her funeral which he'd never thought would occur.

* HeelFaithTurn: Esteban becomes a Christian after his life is saved in a church stooding as he held up a Bible to save himself (a bullet passed through it, but the gunman was shot immediately afterward by the police), claiming he has now changed his ways.

** In Season 2, Dario's fiancée Julieta jumps to her death off a building.

* TeacherStudentRomance:
** Alma had sex once with Darío before realizing he was her student, but then afterward she moves the relationship into a full-blown affair despite knowing the dangers.
** Season 2 introduces Mónica, another woman Dario had an affair with when she was his teacher in the past.

* TeacherStudentRomance: Alma had sex once with Darío before realizing he was her student, but then afterward she moves the relationship into a full-blown affair despite knowing the dangers.

* {{Hallucinations}}: Alma sees Darío dead several times quite vividly when he's actually alive. She also sees her friend Brenda, who ''is'' dead. It's later said to be a symptom of [=PTSD=]

** In Season 2, Dario's fiancée Julietta jumps to her death off a building.

* KarmaHoudini: Esteban got away with his crimes in the first season aside from obstructing justice as he managed to discredit or dispose of most evidence to show that he'd committed them. He serves only a short sentence for his single conviction.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Zoe initially has sex with her friend Karina, and concludes she's straight. Then she's briefly with [[spoiler:Darío]], but often appears conflicted or reluctant when they have sex (although that could be for other reasons). Later on, she kisses Karina again then is shown looking at different couples (opposite and same-sex) thoughtfully, leaving it unsaid what she identifies as.
** In Season 2, she sleeps around with Mauricio behind Karina's back, because she kept wondering if she really was attracted only to women all her life. Zoe concludes in the end that she doesn't want to spent the rest of her life feeling like a freak because she is a lesbian who enjoys the company of a man too. Perhaps not romantically, but she is sexually attracted in the end to men just as much as she is attracted to women.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Alma clearly has some unidentified attachment problems, after everything happened between her and Dario in the final of Season 1. A year later, she is still a wreck suffering from PTSD, has sexual nightmares with him, hallucinates seeing him everywhere, it's incapable of moving on from what happened and crumbles in the middle of the night after watching a video with him.

* ExperimentedInCollege: Zoe explores her sexuality by having sex with her friend Karina, who's lesbian. Afterward, she concludes that she's straight. Karina is fine with this and they stay friends.