Something jogged my memory of a comment made by a very good online friend a while back. She said she was turned on by the idea of being, say, a superheroine who had been captured by a villain and put in some trap (the specific exampel was tied to the tracks). Her character escaped, but the peril was in a public enough place that it was covered on the evening news, which she and her friends were watching. And there she was, with all her friends commenting on the (public superheroine's) peril, while she in her secret identity had to play along.
I can relate to that. A recurring daydream of mine -- not a dominant one, but one which recurs from time to time, is of a damsel giving a sort of TV ad for a show of her "real story." It would go something like this: "Hi. I'm Caitlyn. I'm a secret agent. And I get captured. A lot." Cut to clips of her latest episode where she is indeed tied to a chair as the time bomb ticks away. "Tune in at 8 PM to see if I escape in time..."
A variant of this daydream is to imagine a damsel's internal thoughts as she struggles, tightly bound and, say, headed to the buzzsaw. "I...I can't budge! This time there's...there's no way out!"
I really don't know why, but the idea of a damsel in distress commenting on her own predicament seems to enhance the peril for me. Weird, or what?
Actually this might just be me, but I've always wanted parody reality show that would just follow an imperiled heroine around constantly.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea why I find that idea so wonderful..but it adds a lot of zest to the typical peril ideas.
Not just you -- I have had that thought from time to time, too. Similar I suppose to the old Batman series where a very arch voiceover wondered "Is this the end????" etc.
ReplyDelete@Lauren: Frankly, I like your idea a lot better than most *reality* shows. I've conceived the same type of idea, with a Villain and a SuperHeroine paired in a sort of Perilous Amazing Race. The idea would be that the winners would be the Villain who managed not to be caught by the local constabulary, and the Heroine who, er, survived.
ReplyDelete@ Fiendish: I'll pass on how delicious I found your spun-sugar binding/gagging sequence to be. I will say that I almost invariably use what is available for gagging, though not necessarily as creatively as you. Often it ends up being a stuffed cleave gag using wads of the damsel's blouse, held in place by her own stockings -- I have always had a thing for ripped stockings, anyway.
I, too, wonder about the damsel's thoughts and feelings as I develop her bindings, and her peril. One of the sexiest photos I've collected is one in which you cannot see the damsel's face, as she sits tied to a chair alone, contemplating her fate (originally posted with a blog entry 11-18-08, on Y360 and re-published here).
One of my best damsel friends sent it to me, and described how sexy she found it to be left alone with her peril, and her racing thoughts. Looking at it from her point of view, I was forced to agree. Nowadays, when I still get a chance to r/p, I incorporate that "alone time" for her in my devious schemes.