1- Would be what I've been calling the 'dignified damsel', characters who are often good in a moral sense, or at least convinced of their righteousness, they are also proud but not arrogant, just convinced of their own self worth. Basically the type of damsel who, upon being captured, doesn't panic or struggle too fiercely, just remains as neutral as she can to preserve what's left of her pride.
2- Are the 'wild damsels' (also a made up name) but those would be damsels who are usually strong and confident, maybe even annoyingly proud and overconfident, too used to be able to overcome things and probably hate loosing control. Once they get captured, these are the type of damsels that bite their gags and fiercely fight their restraints, often needing to be restrained even more strictly because of it.
3- Would be the 'confident damsel', women who are not only confident and slightly arrogant, but also kind of sassy end even mean even if playfully. Once captured they usually are or pretend to be on top of things, even when they clearly arent, the type that often knows she can escape or that she should't fear, even if just to deny her captors seeing her afraid.
To give some examples of what I mean: A good example of number one would be Xena (From Xena the warrior princess) she often gets captured in the show (Although not enough in my opinion
) but she rarely puts on a show by struggling when there's no point on it and of course she never breaks and starts to ask for mercy or plead to be let go. Another good example would be Octavia from the Anime Tears of Tiara, she has a really good DID scene which I believe encapsulates what I'm saying pretty well.As of the second, I can't really think of a many examples outside of specifically DID media. The character Karyn Strongblood from KiwiKink on deviantart as well as the character Eyiel from @banshee , who posts on this site are good examples within DID media. Outside of it, I can think of Red Sonja from the omonymus comic series, but not much more, so feel free to tell me if you can think of one.
When it comes to the third I can think of many, Drew Barrymore's character in Charlie's Angels is bound by the villains at some type and she remains calm and confident most of the time until the threat of her situation becomes more clear. This scene I'm referring to perfectly encapsulates the two things I like the most of these damsels: Their confidence being brought by their ability to escape (Which is often a good enough excuse to tie them tighter
) and how good it is to see them lose confidence once it becomes clear that they are no longer on top of things. Also within this category I would include Fujiko Mine from the Lupin III series as well as most iterations of catwoman, black cat and black widow, which often show this attitude when captured.Quite a long winded response, but I guess responses can never bee too long. If anyone has something they want to add to this categories I made up feel free to tell me!
