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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/irina_01.jpg]]
2[[caption-width-right:350:In a world where the princesses prefer bustiers to ballgowns.]]
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4This is what you get if a comic creator wanted to do one of those pulp adventure stories, that have lots of danger and action, and lots of scantily clad women getting BoundAndGagged, but decided to throw away ''any pretense'' that the latter aspect wasn't blatant {{fanservice}}. So if people are going to get tied up, why not make this world bondage-themed?
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6In the land of Boundaria, Princess Irina and her bodyguard Livia Barlow fight against the many evildoers trying to take over this land. One of them might get captured, but in the end they tie up the villains for the next adventure.
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8Despite being UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} themed, these comics are not that explicit, but do contain enough nudity and violence that they are NotSafeForWork.
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10Currently the series can be found on [[https://yacermino.deviantart.com/gallery/ yacermino's deviantart page]] (but only a few of the stories are listed within their own section; the rest are scattered in the full gallery).
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12!!Tropes Used
13* EightiesHair: One of Irina's hairstyles is much of the top is a spiky poof, as though she's in a hair metal band.
14* ActionGirl: Livia Barlow is Princess Irina's guard for a reason, though Irina can have moments in later stories.
15* AntiHero: The good guys have some sense of justice and morals, but they're still sadistic hedonists who gleefully enslave, torture, and execute anybody who makes herself an enemy. The only reason to root for them is that said enemies are worse.
16* BoundAndGagged: If a character needs to tie someone up, rope will always be available, along with anything to make a convenient gag.
17* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Prince Balin, who is Princess Irina's lover[[note]]or husband; the text goes either way[[/note]], appears in the first adventure, but isn't mentioned after that.
18* ColdBloodedTorture: When Duchess Isobel Von Dominax captures Irina, she does everything short of making the princess bleed, partly to get Irina out of the way so she can be queen, and to punish Irina for apparently taking away the man she wanted.
19* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover for "Captives of the Pirates Island" shows Irina walking the plank of a pirate ship, and then getting gobbled up by a shark. In the actual story, Irina is just held on the ship as it travels to the Duchess's castle.
20* CruelMercy: People will happily spare a defeated enemy for all but the most egregious offenses... but don't expect anything better than a lifetime of slavery.
21** Being a bondage fetish comic most of the protagonists are [[TechnicalPacifist technical pacifists]] and rarely kill anybody directly, but they don't always take care to move their subdued enemies somewhere safe, which can make it look like they're only sparing them to give them a messier and more protracted death later. In ''Lady Sung'' Livia and co. non-lethally subdue a group of henchwomen [[MuggedForDisguise to steal their uniforms]] and subject them to the BoundAndGagged treatment... then abandon the mooks to get vaporized in an explosion they cause as part of their escape plan, giving their "mercy" a rather sadistic bent.
22* DamselInDistress: Irina gets captured at least three times in as many stories.
23* {{Dominatrix}}: Every woman, who isn't a slave, is this to some degree.
24* FormFittingWardrobe: The leather and cloth clothes all seem to be tailored for the wearer's curves.
25* HellBentForLeather: Leather to make corsets, boot, and gloves, are more common than cloth in this world.
26* OfCorsetsSexy: Though full body suits seem to be more common than corsets, plenty still appear, particularly Irina's wardrobe.
27* OffWithHisHead: Duchess Isobel's nephew eventually decides to stage a coup and overthrow his aunt. As it turns out, [[spoiler:he succeeds, and Isobel is beheaded]].
28* PimpedOutCape: A fur-trimmed cape is the most common luxury among the BlueBlood and RoyalBlood, even when they are wearing bdsm gear, or little else. Even Livia can't resist taking one for herself when she's helping Irina again escape from the Duchess's castle.
29* PrettyInMink:
30** As noted, fur trimmed capes are a frequent luxury.
31** Isobel also has a fur hat and fur-trimmed robe.
32** Irina has the most furs. Not only does she have several ermine-trimmed capes, but most of her corsets, gloves, and boots are trimmed with ermine. She also has an ermine-lined ShowgirlSkirt when she's doing ceremonial duties.
33* PrincessesRule: Irina is still the princess of Boundaria, despite it being a kingdom, and her rivals wanting to become queen themselves.
34* PunnyName: The two main kingdoms are Bounderia and Slavenia.
35* SlaveBrand: The pirate captain is an escaped slave. Irina knows this when she sees her kingdom's mark on the captain's skin.
36* SpyCatsuit: These are more common than corsets in the story.
37* {{Swashbuckler}}: When heroes and villains aren't tying each other up, there's a fair amount of swordfighting.
38* TheWorfEffect: Livia Barlow is an ActionGirl beyond compare, a dangerous and unstoppable heroine ... until she crosses paths with Stavos, who establishes how dangerous he is by defeating her in hand-to-hand combat, forcing her to admit her defeat out loud, [[BoundAndGagged tying her up and gagging her]], [[ShamefulStrip stripping her naked]], beating her and then bringing in a psychic opponent from an earlier adventure to dominate her mind and make her his willing slave.
39* TookALevelInBadass: After getting captured enough times, Irina is able to finally fight for herself.
40* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The heroes and villains rarely kill each other, even when they explicitly intend to execute them later. Naturally this tends to be the main reason the villains fail, while also providing them with JokerImmunity. There seems to be some sort of moral code against killing somebody without tying them up first.
41* WorldOfActionGirls: Pretty much everybody of import from leadership to lowly soldiers is a woman. There ''are'' men but they usually fill the roles women traditionally would in pulp comics, generally a male version of the FemmeFatale or MrFanservice love interests. One comic implies that this only applies in one specific region of the world, and that the rest are more traditional patriarchies.

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