Intimate mood

The overall scene reads with a safe, nonsexual emotional tone of closeness and privacy.

Visual traits

• sense of closeness
• private atmosphere
• nonsexual intimacy

Expected changes

• The scene is more likely to read with an emotional tone of closeness and privacy.

Definition

Intimate mood is an overall emotional atmosphere suggesting psychological or spatial closeness and privacy. It does not determine romance, a sexual relationship, family, consent, a particular number of people, an interior, darkness, or culture.

In more detail

It concerns the atmosphere of a scene that feels close or private in a safe, nonsexual sense. This mood alone does not infer a relationship between people, contact, romance, sexuality, family ties, or consent. It can be expressed through distance and treatment of a scene with one subject, no people, or an outdoor setting.

Includes

• An emotional atmosphere suggesting psychological or spatial closeness and privacy

Excludes

• Romance, a sexual relationship, family, consent, a particular number of people, an interior, darkness, or culture
• An inference of a relationship or contact between people

What this does not imply

• Romance, a sexual relationship, family, consent, a particular number of people, an interior, darkness, or culture

Variability

Distance, number of subjects, setting, brightness, relationships, and actions can be adjusted separately.

Usage

• Specify only closeness and privacy without adding a relationship or sexual meaning

Distinguish similar expressions

• Specify relationships between people, contact, romance, sexuality, family, or setting separately only when needed

Typical uses

• Give scenes containing people, animals, unoccupied spaces, or landscapes a safe nonsexual mood of closeness and privacy

Possible failure modes

• The result becomes fixed as romantic or sexual
• Family or consent is inferred without support
• An interior or darkness is added as a required element