gearseffect wrote...
But Tali and Kasumi I can't write them for anything, unless I'm writing things from the game but then I feel as if it's redundant and out of place, because I've been putting my own twist on those events.
The problem with those two characters for me stems from the fact that I've never really connected with either of them. They were just there and didn't really do anything for me. So writing for them is like the hardest thing to do.
That's hard. I have the same problem with several other characters, for the same reasons. :-/ I don't know if this will help, but here's how I've always seen Tali and Kasumi. Obviously this is just me and different players are going to have different perspectives or emphasis.
Tali is everyone's little sister. She's younger than the rest (she's only 25 in ME3), she's a bit bumbling in everyday life, and though she's honest to a fault it always comes out in the most awkward way possible. Her mother died when she was a child and she was left in the care of an aloof father who couldn't tell the difference between loving his daughter and loving his people- he was a big picture guy with a child who needed tangible affection. So she's been responsible for herself (to greater or lesser degrees) since her mother's death, and it's left her a legacy of just figuring it out as she goes and hoping for the best. At times this gives her a surprising depth of maturity (like when she swallows her pride and compromises on the data with Legion in ME2), while at others she looks like a kid playing dress-up in her father's clothes (like when she has no idea how to make the other admirals listen to her). She's that inscrutable combination of wise beyond her years and hopelessly naive that comes from having to raise yourself. She's terrified that her inexperience is transparent to everyone around her. There's a reason she obsesses on Miranda- Miranda was in more-or-less the same situation as Tali, with a cruddy father and a lonely childhood filled with expectations beyond her ability to meet, but Miranda actually has her **** together. Tali's never in her life had her **** together. Tali's at a point in her life where she's trying to break free from what everyone else wants her to do, and figure out what she herself wants. She's also new to the world of romantic relationships and often conflates sexuality with maturity in an attempt to seem attractive to the objects of her affection, much like a teenaged girl. Her comments about wanting to feel Shepard's skin against hers or using Garrus for his body feel out of place, if sweetly so.
Kasumi on the other hand is a charmed woman. She's only a little older than Tali, but she has the world on a string, and likely this has been the case since she was a child. Despite her youth she's at the pinnacle of her profession, and she's rarely encountered failure, which makes her cocky to the point of irritating those around her. It's probable that she began training as a thief in her youth, and that she's childish because she never had a childhood. And, oh my, is she childish- she's unable to take anything seriously, she keeps trophies from her memorable jobs and will leave clients in the lurch if it seems more fun, and she keeps a diary that reads like Bella Swan. It's unclear whether her paramour embraced or tolerated this quality of hers. She's oddly charming, though, carrying an irreverant air that's designed to convince the world that she sees life as nothing more than a giant game. The only time she's ever really lost anything- Keiji- it became an all-consuming obsession. She doesn't know how to confront loss in a healthy manner. She feels strongly that she's deeply, madly in love with Keiji, romance-novel-style, but there's no evidence of any depth to it. She'll mourn her loss in one breath and gush about Jacob in the next. But she's damn good at what she does, and she won't ever let anyone forget it- her job requires her to operate in isolation, so in a very real sense, it's all she has. Keiji broke through that shell and was a part of that world, and a part of me wonders if that shared connection is what Kasumi truly misses, more than Keiji himself. He died and left her, once more, a lonely thief. Even her clothing speaks to the contrast- she shields her face to prevent identification, but goes out of her way to make her visible make-up very distinct. She can't have a public life but she wants desperately to be noticed and acknowledged- validated.
Modifié par Lilivati, 08 août 2012 - 02:25 .
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