OOC: Fight with Sabitha Commentary Part 2
Log: Fight with Sabby
Date: June 8, 2006
Players: Sabitha & Rossi
Part 2 continued from Part 1
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Date: June 8, 2006
Players: Sabitha & Rossi
Part 2 continued from Part 1
( Commentary continued below )
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The scenario is as follows. This is the second to last time that Chris will encounter Sabby before she dies, though neither player realized that at the time. In fact, at the time this scene was done, there was no real intent for Sabby to die at all.I have said this to you a lot on channel while reading, but in re-reading, I find it astounding that this is true. It reads so very much like a set-up for her death - although ironically, I think things would have gone different if I'd known she was going to die. Still, I'm going to take it as a sign of our good story-telling, that there is no sign of 'and now we've decided she's going to die', but that instead it flows and fits so neatly, so nicely. I have considered for a long time that Sabby might be a character whose ultimate end was death. I always thought that if this were to happen, I'd want it to be a good one, but I also knew I'd never have the guts to do something like what Leah did, planning it out and following ( ... )
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Me too. I really like that more misunderstandings or sideways communications seem to happen with a lesser amount of meta - and I likewise like that we have LJs which make it easy to see where those were in retrospect. It's like a great balance, wherein you get the perspective to keep things on track when you need that bit of OOC knowledge (because sometimes our characters are smarter or more observant than we are!), but you also have the chance to royally fuck things up. That's one thing I love about this scene, actually - a great deal of this situation is built out of the totally different places and different types of information the two characters have. It makes both of them very sympathetic (I think), and makes the scene just ache with emotion.
You can't just turn on and turn off the way you deal with and handle ( ... )
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I think this pretty much sums up Sabby's life - even, I think, before Sabella, but especially after, and especially in the HFC. She ended so tired because she'd spent so much time treading water just to stay afloat - she never actually swam anywhere. In the end, really, I think even attacking Emma was simply trying to stay afloat. She fought, sure - but she always fought at the place where she didn't have any choice but to fight, and rarely before. She believed she had (and did have, in many instances) good reasons for this, but I do think that Sabby was largely shaped by other people's actions - she responded, she did not act.
If he'd let go, he could have seriously hurt her.
Ah, here it is. I really, honestly am not sure that by the end, she wasn't seeking this. Her self-loathing was spiraling pretty high.
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Me too. The freedom and the ability to do this with another playing is one of my RP greatest joys.
It's not so much a conscious decision on our parts as it is that Sabitha shortens, and I react accordingly, and she reacts to me, and so forth.
Yes and no. I mean, very little that I do in RP is ever a conscious decision, but as much as I'm aware of anything, I am aware of what it does when I switch dialogue-only, and when poses come out short and stacatto like this. I suppose it's not intentional in that I don't do it to create a mood - I do it to react to a mood. The mood is there, and that's what it demands. But if I wanted to slow it down or have her step back, even if the words were the same, I would write more, break up the dialogue a bit.
Ironically, for all this is ( ... )
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