Caption Says It All: Slave Brand

I cropped it a little, so there is a bit more focus on the brand.

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Looks good. Is that 300px wide? If not, what does it look like squished down?

Being in a Japanese-produced work is not enough of a difference to warrant its own trope.

It's the proper size (350). That forum shrink thing has apparently been solved.

edited 3rd Oct '11 11:47:49 PM by DragonQuestZ

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That looks good. Did anyone contact the artist yet? I won't be able to get to it until tonight.

Do we need to, since it's just part of it? I thought it was just for entire pages.

edited 7th Oct '11 12:33:21 PM by DragonQuestZ

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I think for Deviant Art works, we still need to get permission...could be wrong.

I hope it's not too late for me to suggest the Genoshan mutates◊ from Comicbook/X-Men?

This is a sinkhole.

Hmmmm...that seems like another, related trope.

Darn it, I keep expecting this to be about Slave Brand™ products.

I'm almost positive we have a number tatoo trope. I want to say it's You Are Number 6.

Fight smart, not fair.

Nope, That's " A character uses a number as their name". We have Barcode tattoos but not number tattoos.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Here's one.

edited 8th Oct '11 2:39:44 PM by troacctid

Rhymes with "Protracted."

That's nice!

This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.

I'd say it has the same problem as the current image. How do I know it's not a bitchin tattoo? Heck, I don't even know what those... things are. For all I know it's part of their anatomy.

edited 8th Oct '11 12:59:26 PM by Ghilz

1. Because he's all cowed and 2. because you can see it being etched into his skin.

Rhymes with "Protracted."

Well, if you're in the process of getting a "bitchin' tattoo" on your back, there are only so many positions you could assume.

And how do we know it isn't some Proud Warrior Race ritual or something. The only way an image of a tattooed person by him/herself would work is if it said something like "Property of Slave Co (TM)"

How else is supposed to get his back tattooed?

That's usually where a tattoo goes. In the skin.

edited 8th Oct '11 2:10:25 PM by Ghilz

Lying down flat. Sitting on a stool. This guy is kowtowed on the ground having his flesh etched or burnt or something. Normal tattoos generally use ink and needles. And that does not look like a very friendly tattoo artist. What kind of tattoo parlors do they have where you come from?

If the composition and mood and stuff aren't enough for you, it's incredibly easy to clear up any ambiguity in the caption. "You serve Phyrexia now." Boom, done.

edited 8th Oct '11 2:26:37 PM by troacctid

Rhymes with "Protracted."

Which again goes back to my original point: The whole reason we have this thread is that the caption carries all the weight. This is different how?

And Real Life brands use tattoo equipment, or branding irons. Not magic fingers either. IF you want to play the realism card.

Where I come from, they don't have people who look like their flesh is melting, and have giant metal things implanted in their stomach either. Or spikes coming out of their skin. Or foot long fingers. You kinda abandoned any pretence of reality in that image from the start.

edited 8th Oct '11 2:31:45 PM by Ghilz

This is an action shot. It shows him being branded. And it looks like "branding" as opposed to just "tattooing". He's in a subordinated posture, bowed low with his head down. The guy doing the branding has a visibly haughty, superior bearing—note the upright, shoulders-back, chest-slightly-out posture, and the way its head is turned away from the victim and slightly upward.

edited 8th Oct '11 2:36:03 PM by troacctid

Rhymes with "Protracted."

Which doesn't show the "slave" part, which is why I proposed that comic, as the character with the mark clearly states what it is.

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Sorry, but that picture's no better than the original picture.

Being in a Japanese-produced work is not enough of a difference to warrant its own trope.

I reiterate: Unless it says something along the lines of "Property of Slave Co (TM)," an image of just a tattooed person is just not going to work.

Or something that says "This guy belongs to Jim Bob, CEO of Megacorp".

edited 10th Oct '11 8:14:02 PM by Blurring

If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?

I contacted the DA artist about permission for the B/W pic...hopefully I'll hear something soon.