Magneto also posed to my scrunchie, which I thought was funny at the time and moreso now that it is featured in the commentary! I really like playing small environmental things with Magneto's player, because her vision can be very cinematic. I also think she has a gift for comedy in her meta that fits well with my apparently endless pursuit of the ridiculous in RP.
Magneto and Valkyrie, as a relationship, could be very serious. In fact, this scene could be very serious, and in ways it is. But I never feel when I am playing with Mags that we must be wedded to the sturm and drang, and sometimes even in the midst of dramatics and blood and bone, it is the right time for a crack about peanut butter. Or Viagra. You never know.
I love that you pose visual things for me to cue off of. I think I remember you saying that you are not visual but you still pose very visually so -- I do not know! I appreciate it. I tend to get into scenes better when I can picture what is going on.
I think you are right about neither of us being that intent upon being UTTERLY SERIOUS in our scenes. But I do think this is one of the darkest ones we've played. It is depressing. It is a hard subject to lighten up! I suspect that is part of what makes me uncomfortable about it. Waxing on about how massively depressed and persecuted he feels he is...I dunno. I DUNNO. I've only really just started turning out logs that aren't black holes again. I kind of hope it stays that way for a little while.
Of course, having come in, she is confronted by the fact that she did not actually have anything to say. Rather than permit this to prove as some sort of obstacle, she tells him about her day! This means that she issues random observations about their surroundings. She is aware that this is not precisely socially correct behavior, in that she recalls similar behavior from Yuriko and being uncertain as to how to respond to it, but that is the extent of the social analysis here.
OH ELLEN. It did remind him of Yuriko, obviously, as I made not of it in my side of the story. He finds it charming, though. Oh look, the crazy person has come to tell me about their day, how nice! Etc.
I like Erik’s glasses.
Me too. LOL PROPZ.
Ellen occasionally frustrates me because real people do not talk like this. Striking a balance between the overblown formality and drama that are her chosen speech pattern and ‘just too far out there for the spoken word’ is occasionally difficult. I write dialogue by instinctive feel, and sometimes Ellen boggles me. I can’t tell the difference between ‘Ellen is weird in this particular way’ and ‘sometimes this is just bad writing’. Let us pretend that I am just really artistic.
I like the way Ellen talks, and so does Erik. I think Storm is probably more theatrical on a regular basis. Ellen merely strikes me as very certain in most everything she says. She doesn't care if it doesn't follow conversational trends because she is Ellen and her agenda and focus is a little different from the average person's. I can't immediately recall ever thinking of it as awkward. Her voice is very consistent and pretty unmistakable. I bet if we played a game where everyone submitted a line of dialogue and we mixed them up and then tried to play connect the line to the character NOBODY WOULD GET ELLEN'S WRONG.
Magneto also posed to my scrunchie, which I thought was funny at the time and moreso now that it is featured in the commentary! I really like playing small environmental things with Magneto's player, because her vision can be very cinematic. I also think she has a gift for comedy in her meta that fits well with my apparently endless pursuit of the ridiculous in RP.
Magneto and Valkyrie, as a relationship, could be very serious. In fact, this scene could be very serious, and in ways it is. But I never feel when I am playing with Mags that we must be wedded to the sturm and drang, and sometimes even in the midst of dramatics and blood and bone, it is the right time for a crack about peanut butter. Or Viagra. You never know.
I love that you pose visual things for me to cue off of. I think I remember you saying that you are not visual but you still pose very visually so -- I do not know! I appreciate it. I tend to get into scenes better when I can picture what is going on.
I think you are right about neither of us being that intent upon being UTTERLY SERIOUS in our scenes. But I do think this is one of the darkest ones we've played. It is depressing. It is a hard subject to lighten up! I suspect that is part of what makes me uncomfortable about it. Waxing on about how massively depressed and persecuted he feels he is...I dunno. I DUNNO. I've only really just started turning out logs that aren't black holes again. I kind of hope it stays that way for a little while.
Of course, having come in, she is confronted by the fact that she did not actually have anything to say. Rather than permit this to prove as some sort of obstacle, she tells him about her day! This means that she issues random observations about their surroundings. She is aware that this is not precisely socially correct behavior, in that she recalls similar behavior from Yuriko and being uncertain as to how to respond to it, but that is the extent of the social analysis here.
OH ELLEN. It did remind him of Yuriko, obviously, as I made not of it in my side of the story. He finds it charming, though. Oh look, the crazy person has come to tell me about their day, how nice! Etc.
I like Erik’s glasses.
Me too. LOL PROPZ.
Ellen occasionally frustrates me because real people do not talk like this. Striking a balance between the overblown formality and drama that are her chosen speech pattern and ‘just too far out there for the spoken word’ is occasionally difficult. I write dialogue by instinctive feel, and sometimes Ellen boggles me. I can’t tell the difference between ‘Ellen is weird in this particular way’ and ‘sometimes this is just bad writing’. Let us pretend that I am just really artistic.
I like the way Ellen talks, and so does Erik. I think Storm is probably more theatrical on a regular basis. Ellen merely strikes me as very certain in most everything she says. She doesn't care if it doesn't follow conversational trends because she is Ellen and her agenda and focus is a little different from the average person's. I can't immediately recall ever thinking of it as awkward. Her voice is very consistent and pretty unmistakable. I bet if we played a game where everyone submitted a line of dialogue and we mixed them up and then tried to play connect the line to the character NOBODY WOULD GET ELLEN'S WRONG.
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