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sebastienneparty time at the Pansexual House of Love once again... do people ever convene here in a way that doesn't degenerate into BDSM? if I'd told my fourteen-year-old self (the one utterly taken over by the placebowiefect) that I would be living like this she'd at once have said "well obviously, it's my destiny" and then whispered in my ear, "but how...?"
speaking of alternate selves, the one thing that's going to stay with me most from Saturday's LARP is what my character came across in the Labyrinth of Selves. The Labyrinth of Selves is a great maze full of mirrors, in standard underneath-royal-palace style, in which you meet nothing more simple, or more terrible, than reflections of yourself as you will be, might be, could be... no-one really knows. Clare met two possible-future versions of herself; one that has followed the path of orthodoxy, and one that has followed a path that could be utterly, utterly stupid, or could be the most amazing truthlike innocent perfection. To put this into a fangirlishly understandable analogy (if anyone is still reading this who doesn't know the White City) these two future selves are the difference between turning around and going home, or walking into the sky, at the end of Northern Lights. Between Rose stepping into the Tardis, or marrying Mickey. Narrative convention, as well as making things interesting for me to play her, both constrain Clare to say the equivalent of "I will take the ring to Mordor, although I do not know the way".
speaking of alternate selves, the one thing that's going to stay with me most from Saturday's LARP is what my character came across in the Labyrinth of Selves. The Labyrinth of Selves is a great maze full of mirrors, in standard underneath-royal-palace style, in which you meet nothing more simple, or more terrible, than reflections of yourself as you will be, might be, could be... no-one really knows. Clare met two possible-future versions of herself; one that has followed the path of orthodoxy, and one that has followed a path that could be utterly, utterly stupid, or could be the most amazing truthlike innocent perfection. To put this into a fangirlishly understandable analogy (if anyone is still reading this who doesn't know the White City) these two future selves are the difference between turning around and going home, or walking into the sky, at the end of Northern Lights. Between Rose stepping into the Tardis, or marrying Mickey. Narrative convention, as well as making things interesting for me to play her, both constrain Clare to say the equivalent of "I will take the ring to Mordor, although I do not know the way".
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Date: 2006-04-17 11:03 am (UTC)If the Doctor were a horrific, purple-eyed monstrosity who'd been locked up for years, and who was being hunted by the authorities for crimes against nature, but who Rose still thought might just have been misunderstood.
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Date: 2006-04-17 11:17 am (UTC)besides, at the end of episode one, rose has no way of knowing the doctor is anything that he says he is.. under the London Eye she had to save his life, which doesn't bode well for his being a safe travelling companion... she could be going to nasty horrible pain and death and she knows it. but she goes anyway, because when else is she ever going to get a chance at travelling in time?
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Date: 2006-04-17 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 12:22 pm (UTC)That'd be me, then, despite
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Date: 2006-04-17 12:24 pm (UTC)the next OU3FS party is Sophie's birthday, on Friday.
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Date: 2006-04-17 01:34 pm (UTC)(Course, we can assume that Claire doesn't know that in character; all that's really known is that it's a sign you're /associated/ with Name Magic. Maybe just that you've had lots of it cast on you.)
Unless you just mean that she preferred the purple-eyed Claire's worldview, even if she knew that she didn't ever want to /become/ that Claire.
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Date: 2006-04-17 01:56 pm (UTC)xx
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Date: 2006-04-17 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 02:08 pm (UTC)But Clare wants it to be true.
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Date: 2006-04-17 02:09 pm (UTC)and it's mostly roleplaying that's driving it away. like, exposure therapy, or something.
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Date: 2006-04-17 03:50 pm (UTC)Innocence is eeeeeeeeevil!
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Date: 2006-04-17 03:59 pm (UTC)Also, thesis ;-)
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Date: 2006-04-17 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 09:56 pm (UTC)She's an Ancient History student at the College of a Thousand Arts, which is the university in the White City. When she was in her first year, the events that Helen describes with "He Who Walks Wilderness" took place, and the first Naming & Binding war (the original binding of the namers) became a trendy topic in her department.
She joined the Cloistered Brethren and started to study Chain Magic (the magic with which the namers are kept bound) - at the moment she's 2nd level, which means she can cast pretty nifty spells like "bind the tongue" and "bind the eyes".
She was once quiet, bookish, introverted. She still is... but LARPs I've taken her on have conspired to add to that a naive teeny-socialist revolutionary fervour (inspired by her chaste girly-crush on Jessie's character Adi, as well as a certain people-are-inherently-good naivety), certain unorthodox views about possible sexual uses of Chain Magic (after she met a wonderfully kinky 4th level chain mage... bear in mind that higher up in that power there's the ability to "bind the will", which can make people do anything as long as it doesn't go against their essential nature...) and intellectual intensity as concerns the namers (inspired by a minor dream power in the north who described them to her as having once been beautiful, and showed her a vision of the original binding).
The two future-selves that she saw herself as in the Labyrinth were a high-level Chain Mage, or as a Priestess of the Namers.
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Date: 2006-04-18 11:15 am (UTC)Dialup is now eating my brains so will catch up later!!!
Love, Tx
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Date: 2006-04-18 12:19 pm (UTC)one thing I would say is LIGHTBULBS. because we never seem to have any in when bulbs blow, and that would be so much easier.
there's nothing of great urgency, anyway.