kaasknot: screencap of ali ibn el-kharish (0)
kaasknot ([personal profile] kaasknot) wrote in [personal profile] kradeelav 2022-01-03 02:51 pm (UTC)

I'm looking through your gallery now, and the main thought I'm having is "I can def see the fashkink"—by which I mean there's a lot of implicit threat, casualness/comfort with having power over others, and affable evilness. Almost all the villains are smirking: they control the outcome, they're holding all the cards, and they're going to enjoy watching their victim squirm. If the subject isn't a smirking, in-control villain-type, there's usually some element of being loomed over, or bound, or otherwise visually restrained—e.g. the hellsing cover with the character reading in a chair? The chair is massive and looms over her almost like a hulking, smirking villain. There's a strong sense of power dynamics in your art, specifically power dynamics that are grossly uneven and either held in abeyance for amusement or very soon to be abused.

ETA: it's the exceptions that prove the rule. The one of Vau creeping through the swamp: there's clear power, but it's in the form of competence, and it's not being held over another person. Then the other one, under the hellsing tab, of the two ppl kissing up against a building: I don't know the characters or context, but going on pure visuals there's no power imbalance there either. Also no one was smirking in either of these pics :P

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