Any good pictures?: Silk Hiding Steel

And how would this best be represented?

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Good question...the only way I could see this possibly being picced is with a collage showing one character in two or three different roles that show the "silk" and "steel" aspects.

Perhaps something like this?

In one you have the dress and the smile and in the other a close up of the glare. There's likely a better combination (or better yet, a single pic). I'm throwing this out as an idea

edited 9th Sep '11 11:37:31 PM by ChaoticNovelist

Something like that, but we really shouldn't use an anime pic because we don't want to encourage more confusion between this and Yamato Nadeshiko.

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Good point. How about [[

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One picture. On the left a princess with a silky dress and on the right a ninja as a metaphor for the hiddenness.

Or a picture of Zelda in her dress, but holding her rapier?

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I considered that, but I was afarid it would be confused with Lady of War.

Zelda is Japanese too. Somehow I was thinking about that Booby Trap joke in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Or something along those lines.

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Legend of Zelda is made by a Japanese company but Zelda herself is not a japanese princess. I see your point though. Do you have an image of the Booby Trap in question?

Best I have on that one.◊

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Bah too dark... It would be perfect though if it wasn't, lady like but you push her she bites back. (and not in the Plucky Girl kinda way.)

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Something like that would be perfect. There's no way it would be mistaken for Yamato Nadeshiko but still has the silk and steel components.

What about the 'misdirection' in the trope? 'Lady-like manipulation'. Is that picturable?

Jessica Rabbit is a sultry vixen, though. She's not a woman who appears demure or meek but is inwardly strong and determined.

I still like the Zelda pic. Despite being from a game made in Japan, there's no way anyone could mistake her for Yamato Nadeshiko.

Drawing of Zelda with her sword.◊

Zelda in-game with her sword.

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I like the in game one better. The other one has some funny blurring on it.

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Well the blurring likely wouldn't show up when shrunk down.

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They're jpg artefacts. They get worse when shrunk because they're data corruption.

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Not if you shrink it and adjust properly.

How's this?

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EDIT: But here's the CG pic to compare:

edited 15th Sep '11 6:19:58 PM by DragonQuestZ

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Yeah, that first one looks terrible. It's pixilated, blocky, and blurrier. Her head is all fuzzy and she looks like she has a skin condition. It's not about right or wrong. It just gets worse when shrunk.

Second one is decent though.

edited 15th Sep '11 6:41:52 PM by shimaspawn

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Where is the pixelation? I'm not someone who just doesn't notice details, so I really am confused as to what you mean. And don't give me "the whole picture". That's a non-answer. tell me specific parts where you see the blurring and the pixelation.

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I think its a moot point. This trope is not about fighting, that's Lady of War. A princess with a sword could be mistaken for Lady of War or Badass Princess.

Her face, her chest, her hair, the bottom of her skirt, all the black lines, the fuchsia bits, the big cloudy aura of multicoloured pixels around her. It's just terrible.

edited 15th Sep '11 7:19:28 PM by shimaspawn

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Those are so small that I had to squint to see them, which makes pictures blurry anyway.

But then again, there is the post above yours. Does this trope overlap with those tropes to allow this kind of picture?

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Not really. He does have a point. Silk Hiding Steel is not normally a warrior women. It's the sweet grandmother with a backbone to stand up to her husband. It's the oh so nice girl next door who doesn't take any back talk.

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