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Avoiding the Damsel in Distress

Queshire

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Is this thread necromanced? Well, anyways, there's plenty of things you can do with a captured female then just Damsel in Distress. I suggest throwing her in a cell with other women who ARE damsels in distress, she'd have to rally the other prisoners and keep them strong in the face of their captors, she can't do anything physically against her captors, but if you keep her strong willed and try to psychologically manipulate her captors (make them WANT to give her up) then you can avoid the damsel in distress cliche.

I don't suppose you've read the Bloody Jack series of young adult novels? The book "In the Belly of the Bloodhound" shows a good example of captured females who are certainly NOT just waiting there to be rescued.
 
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