The picture links below are part of something that I want to comp with a parent/child set up. In Picture 1, basically, what I want is to see the "child" through the black and have the white "V" separate them. the "mask" is a PSD - white "V", black fill, and transparent flanks (where you see the food). I normally just do a white&transparent PSD when I want the "white" to be the child on top of the clip underneath. In this case, I actually want to preserve one of the mask elements...the "V." I would also like it to be white.

Picture 1 | Picture 2   

Picture 2 shows what I get in regular Alpha mode using a red "V" and a white fill. everything works the way I'd like it to, only the red "V" is now a translucent combination of the two images. I've tried all kinds of settings & combinations, but can't seem to figure out how to get one color to "show the child" and another color to be left unchanged. Is this even possible with the parent child set up?

If worse comes to worse, I could always put the white "V" over the whole works and just match the movement of the mask in the parent position, but I'm hoping there's an easier solution than that.

Thanks in advance for any help.