[picspam] Damon+Mason Torture Parallels
People get torture on Vampire Diaries a lot, which kind of makes sense but is also kind of gratuitous. ANYWAY. There's some interesting parallels between Damon torturing Mason and Jules torturing Damon.
So Damon starts out torturing Mason conventionally. He ties him up and heats a poker:
Once he's got the poker heated up, Damon asks Mason some questions, which he doesn't answer.
Then, Damon knocks Mason onto the ground and sticks the poker through his collarbone:
This produces the expected results:
Because Mason's a werewolf and he heals quickly though, Damon has to keep applying pain. He seems to take great pleasure in this.
Mason dirties up prettily though:
This is the part where I don't have screencaps, so I have to embed a video:
If you can't watch the video, the gist of it is that Damon gets some wolfsbane and forces Mason to eat it. Wolfsbane is poisonous to werewolves in this continuity, so this is considerably painful. The interesting thing is that when Mason's werewolf friend Jules comes to town and tortures Damon, she puts a collar of wooden spikes on him:
This has much the same effect as the wolfsbane, which is that it's really painful and Damon can't heal from the wounds. The spike collar is one step cooler, though, because it can be controlled by someone:
That someone isn't Jules. It's just a lackey that gets to have fun with Damon for a while.
Eventually Jules does come around and she tortures Damon some more.
The interesting thing about these sequences to me is the way that they establish that normal torture methods aren't as effective because of the way that werewolves and vampires heal more quickly so the pain doesn't last the way it would in a normal torture setting.
That Jules is torturing Damon for killing Mason in a similar way is also an interesting angle, because I'm pretty sure she doesn't know how Damon tortured Mason so it's a narrative parallel that's unintended on the character's part. It also seems to be her preferred way of dealing with vampires, but that's a different post.
Really the point is that I enjoyed these scenes for narrative reasons as well as enjoying Damon covered in blood for Reasons. :D
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So Damon starts out torturing Mason conventionally. He ties him up and heats a poker:
Once he's got the poker heated up, Damon asks Mason some questions, which he doesn't answer.
Then, Damon knocks Mason onto the ground and sticks the poker through his collarbone:
This produces the expected results:
Because Mason's a werewolf and he heals quickly though, Damon has to keep applying pain. He seems to take great pleasure in this.
Mason dirties up prettily though:
This is the part where I don't have screencaps, so I have to embed a video:
Click to viewIf you can't watch the video, the gist of it is that Damon gets some wolfsbane and forces Mason to eat it. Wolfsbane is poisonous to werewolves in this continuity, so this is considerably painful. The interesting thing is that when Mason's werewolf friend Jules comes to town and tortures Damon, she puts a collar of wooden spikes on him:
This has much the same effect as the wolfsbane, which is that it's really painful and Damon can't heal from the wounds. The spike collar is one step cooler, though, because it can be controlled by someone:
That someone isn't Jules. It's just a lackey that gets to have fun with Damon for a while.
Eventually Jules does come around and she tortures Damon some more.
The interesting thing about these sequences to me is the way that they establish that normal torture methods aren't as effective because of the way that werewolves and vampires heal more quickly so the pain doesn't last the way it would in a normal torture setting.
That Jules is torturing Damon for killing Mason in a similar way is also an interesting angle, because I'm pretty sure she doesn't know how Damon tortured Mason so it's a narrative parallel that's unintended on the character's part. It also seems to be her preferred way of dealing with vampires, but that's a different post.
Really the point is that I enjoyed these scenes for narrative reasons as well as enjoying Damon covered in blood for Reasons. :D
This entry originally posted here. Original entry currently has
comments. :D