narrative formation

A bizarre pose performed by three people in reference to the first Gundam Narrative key visual (Danbooru post #3225243), originally done by Jona Basta, Michelle Luio, and Zoltan Akkanen. One person (as Jona) stands while reaching to something above them, while the others (as Michelle and Zoltan) kneel between the standing character's legs, one with their arm wrapped around the standing character, the other looking back with a twisted torso.

It bears an eerie, though not exact, resemblance to the 16th-century sculpture Abduction of a Sabine Woman by the Flemish sculptor Giambologna, which depicts an anguished young woman being lifted and carried away by a man over the cowering figure of another, older man. Although the complicated sculpture was initially conceived merely as an exhibition of the artist's skill, upon completion it was entitled to commemorate the early Romans' mythical mass kidnapping of women from neighboring cities during the reign of King Romulus, circa 750 BC.