In a world where the princesses prefer bustiers to ballgowns.
This 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 Bound and Gagged, 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?
In 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.
Despite being BDSM themed, these comics are not that explicit, but do contain enough nudity and violence that they are Not Safe for Work.
Currently the series can be found on 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).
Tropes Used
- '80s Hair: One of Irina's hairstyles is much of the top is a spiky poof, as though she's in a hair metal band.
- Action Girl: Livia Barlow is Princess Irina's guard for a reason, though Irina can have moments in later stories.
- Anti-Hero: 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.
- Bound and Gagged: If a character needs to tie someone up, rope will always be available, along with anything to make a convenient gag.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Prince Balin, who is Princess Irina's lovernote , appears in the first adventure, but isn't mentioned after that.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: 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.
- Covers Always Lie: 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.
- Cruel Mercy: 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.
- Being a bondage fetish comic most of the protagonists are 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 to steal their uniforms and subject them to the Bound and Gagged 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.
- Damsel in Distress: Irina gets captured at least three times in as many stories.
- Dominatrix: Every woman, who isn't a slave, is this to some degree.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: The leather and cloth clothes all seem to be tailored for the wearer's curves.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Leather to make corsets, boot, and gloves, are more common than cloth in this world.
- Of Corsets Sexy: Though full body suits seem to be more common than corsets, plenty still appear, particularly Irina's wardrobe.
- Off with His Head!: Duchess Isobel's nephew eventually decides to stage a coup and overthrow his aunt. As it turns out, he succeeds, and Isobel is beheaded.
- Pimped-Out Cape: A fur-trimmed cape is the most common luxury among the Blue Blood and Royal Blood, 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.
- Pretty in Mink:
- As noted, fur trimmed capes are a frequent luxury.
- Isobel also has a fur hat and fur-trimmed robe.
- 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 Showgirl Skirt when she's doing ceremonial duties.
- Princesses Rule: Irina is still the princess of Boundaria, despite it being a kingdom, and her rivals wanting to become queen themselves.
- Punny Name: The two main kingdoms are Bounderia and Slavenia.
- Slave Brand: The pirate captain is an escaped slave. Irina knows this when she sees her kingdom's mark on the captain's skin.
- Spy Catsuit: These are more common than corsets in the story.
- Swashbuckler: When heroes and villains aren't tying each other up, there's a fair amount of swordfighting.
- The Worf Effect: Livia Barlow is an Action Girl 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, tying her up and gagging her, 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.
- Took a Level in Badass: After getting captured enough times, Irina is able to finally fight for herself.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: 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 Joker Immunity. There seems to be some sort of moral code against killing somebody without tying them up first.
- World of Action Girls: 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 Femme Fatale or Mr. Fanservice love interests. One comic implies that this only applies in one specific region of the world, and that the rest are more traditional patriarchies.
