Suggestion: Emotionless Girl

I know, I know, this topic's been done to death and nothing before has worked. However, I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while now and if I don't at least make an attempt it'll bug me to death. If it flies, cool; if not, oh well. It's Jones from Gunnerkrigg Court in a variety of situations that should elicit some kind of emotion, but Jones being Jones, she doesn't break expression at all.

Fits the mold to me. Stoicism and no emotional responses don't say "emotion" to me.

edited 27th Feb '13 2:40:00 PM by SeptimusHeap

I actually refrained from suggesting the uppermost pair of panels for Nerves of Steel because I thought Jones was already on this page.

So, yes.

I actually refrained from suggesting the uppermost pair of panels for Nerves of Steel because I thought Jones was already on this page.

So, yes.

I'm sure somebody's gonna take issue with it like we've always had with this topic, but hell, I'm good with it.

Not the best configuration of images, but kinda works.

What the Duck said. Works OK, arrangement could be improved.

I realized a few minutes ago that it would look aesthetically better to have the bottom panel in the middle, creating an hourglass effect, than how it is now. Also, I noticed that it artifacted when I was resizing it...if it actually gets approved, I can try to recapture the panels as PNGs for resizing and then save the entire thing as a JPG when it's done.

edited 27th Feb '13 5:06:26 PM by Willbyr

Here's a downsized and rearranged version that fixes the artifacting problem.

Also, we should probably consider this as a replacement for The Stoic if it ends up not getting the nod for this trope. The current pic on The Stoic is alright but just alright.

edited 27th Feb '13 5:39:12 PM by Willbyr

It could probably do with borders.

I'd thought about that, and about filling in the blank spaces with maybe a dark blue color and the Court's logo on both sides. I'll play around with it some later.

edited 27th Feb '13 6:00:21 PM by Willbyr

I may vote for a bordered version. If not, the party hat pic alone can go on The Stoic.

The more I think about this, the more I think it might be better to use this for The Stoic...I'm going to look through one chapter of GC to try to find something that might get the "emotionless" part across more clearly, but it might be a spoiler. If it is, I'll probably scrap this thread and start a new one for The Stoic.

edited 28th Feb '13 4:27:53 AM by Willbyr

I feel we'll need to draft a clear difference between The Stoic and Emotionless Girl.

Okay, is the next-to-last panel of [1] too much of a spoiler? If not, would replacing the party hat panel with it be sufficient to get the trope across?

Second to last panel relies too much on the text. It's just her telling you she's emotionless. I'd prefer one of the ones where she actually acts emotionless.

The problem with that is that if all you have to go by is her actions, you can't know if it's truly emotionless or just not showing emotion, which I've come to remind myself of over the course of this thread. Having her state the emotionlessness, along with demonstrations of how far that goes, is about the only way to depict the trope and not have it be confused with The Stoic.

Doesn't change the fact that it's nothing but text.

I'm going to go ahead and close this and set up a thread for The Stoic at some point in the future.