If you have any comment to make about how I'm playing Sarah from Telltale's Walking Dead, please let me know here! Only constructive crit will be considered.
I'm mainly portraying Sarah's behavior with keeping in mind her conversation with Clementine in mid-ep 4 (with her coming out of the trailer alive) after they get back to the main meeting area. In that conversation Sarah makes a remark about how her dad will be coming back soon and Clementine is given the option to try and say something about it. In my gameplay Clementine tells Sarah that Carlos is dead, but Sarah just remains completely quiet about it.
To me this moment represents another part of the avoidance issues Sarah has been shown to have, when it comes to accepting grim realities. She's been seen to react to them in three ways: -shutting down (like she did in the trailer or after Carlos was forced to hit her) -panicking (in more immediate danger situations, like the walker hoard or Carver coming to the cabin while only she and Clementine are there) -pretending nothing is wrong (saying her dad is alive and her general behavior with Clementine in earlier episodes).
The first two seem to generally come first and then the third takes its course afterward. By season 2 the Walker uprising has been going on for two years so it's inevitable Sarah has seen horrible things, especially being in Carver's camp for a while until escaping. Her interactions with Clementine in episode 1 and early episode 2 are notably abnormal and the player can comment on it to Carlos. He has sheltered her from the world outside because he doesn't think she can deal with the world outside, and that's become a self-fulfilling prophecy. My reasoning is that she acts that way (i.e. how she acted with Clementine in episode 1 and early episode 2) as her usual routine of avoidance. In her mind if she pretends things are okay, then they will be okay.
So if it seems like I'm playing her with an ep 2 mindset in mind, it's because I see that mindset as prevalent in Sarah's coping mechanism for the horrible things that happen in her life. She's not really dealing with the reality of what has happened, she's just pretending nothing has happened at all and so nothing is wrong. So I'm definitely playing her with that delusion in mind and incorporating her oddly ignorant behavior seen in the earlier episodes as part of her way of dealing with the horrible circumstances.
As time goes on my plan is to get her to a point where she can accept her dad really is dead and stop avoiding the issues. Off the bat though she'll act like nothing has really happened, like genuinely believing her dad is alive and saying as much to others. I hope this explanation clears things up!
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I'm mainly portraying Sarah's behavior with keeping in mind her conversation with Clementine in mid-ep 4 (with her coming out of the trailer alive) after they get back to the main meeting area. In that conversation Sarah makes a remark about how her dad will be coming back soon and Clementine is given the option to try and say something about it. In my gameplay Clementine tells Sarah that Carlos is dead, but Sarah just remains completely quiet about it.
To me this moment represents another part of the avoidance issues Sarah has been shown to have, when it comes to accepting grim realities. She's been seen to react to them in three ways:
-shutting down (like she did in the trailer or after Carlos was forced to hit her)
-panicking (in more immediate danger situations, like the walker hoard or Carver coming to the cabin while only she and Clementine are there)
-pretending nothing is wrong (saying her dad is alive and her general behavior with Clementine in earlier episodes).
The first two seem to generally come first and then the third takes its course afterward. By season 2 the Walker uprising has been going on for two years so it's inevitable Sarah has seen horrible things, especially being in Carver's camp for a while until escaping. Her interactions with Clementine in episode 1 and early episode 2 are notably abnormal and the player can comment on it to Carlos. He has sheltered her from the world outside because he doesn't think she can deal with the world outside, and that's become a self-fulfilling prophecy. My reasoning is that she acts that way (i.e. how she acted with Clementine in episode 1 and early episode 2) as her usual routine of avoidance. In her mind if she pretends things are okay, then they will be okay.
So if it seems like I'm playing her with an ep 2 mindset in mind, it's because I see that mindset as prevalent in Sarah's coping mechanism for the horrible things that happen in her life. She's not really dealing with the reality of what has happened, she's just pretending nothing has happened at all and so nothing is wrong. So I'm definitely playing her with that delusion in mind and incorporating her oddly ignorant behavior seen in the earlier episodes as part of her way of dealing with the horrible circumstances.
As time goes on my plan is to get her to a point where she can accept her dad really is dead and stop avoiding the issues. Off the bat though she'll act like nothing has really happened, like genuinely believing her dad is alive and saying as much to others. I hope this explanation clears things up!