| Sharisha [message #19707] |
Thu, 25 December 2008 05:42  |
 Anodyne
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Since Sharisha didn't have her own topic (that I could find) and the question running through my mind right now isn't on-topic for Fey, Diamondback or Chaka, I went ahead and created one for her.
Anyways: since Sharisha just made the enormous error of outing Fey and Toni in front of an outsider - and, in the process, shredding the Masquerade that Poe cottage works to keep up around outsiders...what are the in-cottage consequences going to be? I somehow doubt that the other Poesies are going to be satisfied with just letting Diamondback beat the crap out of Sharisha, after all - not with something like this...
Further, what exactly is Sharisha's problem with the TG portion of Poe cottage? She's been on Team Kimba's case all school-year so far, and we don't have much evidence suggesting that she's any nicer to non-Kimbas. If the answer relates to the plot of a future story, let me know so I can plug my ears in time.
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| Re: Sharisha [message #19710 is a reply to message #19707 ] |
Thu, 25 December 2008 07:53  |
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tensai
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| Anodyne wrote on Thu, 25 December 2008 02:42 |
Since Sharisha didn't have her own topic (that I could find) and the question running through my mind right now isn't on-topic for Fey, Diamondback or Chaka, I went ahead and created one for her.
Anyways: since Sharisha just made the enormous error of outing Fey and Toni in front of an outsider - and, in the process, shredding the Masquerade that Poe cottage works to keep up around outsiders...what are the in-cottage consequences going to be? I somehow doubt that the other Poesies are going to be satisfied with just letting Diamondback beat the crap out of Sharisha, after all - not with something like this...
Further, what exactly is Sharisha's problem with the TG portion of Poe cottage? She's been on Team Kimba's case all school-year so far, and we don't have much evidence suggesting that she's any nicer to non-Kimbas. If the answer relates to the plot of a future story, let me know so I can plug my ears in time.
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Don't forget the Masquerade is school-sanctioned. Sharisha's in DEEP crap for doing that.
As for the why? Well, I don't recall the exact reason why she's in Poe (something which has vexed me since she started making an ass of herself in Ayla), but Diane had this to mention:
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And Sharisha can't let it go. It is so fucking NOT FAIR that these goddamn BOYS are like a hundred times hotter than she is and they're GUYS! Ayla still has a goddamn dick! This is just eating at poor Sharisha like a cancer. Vanessa has appointed herself as the person who's going to help Sharisha get over this.
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Based on this and the fact that she's one of the girls at the Lesbian Hot Tub thing, I'm going to go with her being in Poe because she likes girls.
As for the hostility? I'm not an expert on the subject, but... *pulls up a armchair*
Sharisha seems to qualify as a militant lesbian, at least to surface appearances; that means Girls Are Better. For her, MtFs like Marty and Jade are like fifth-columnists in her little War on the Whang-Doodle. FtMs aren't much better, since they're defecting to the enemy (so to speak).
...of course, I could be reading a little much into it. More likely, it's along the lines of what Diane's talking about: There's these boys, and now they're girls, and they're HOT, and Sharisha isn't getting any action.
"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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| Re: Sharisha [message #19740 is a reply to message #19707 ] |
Thu, 25 December 2008 20:42 |
Jabbrwock
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I always had this creeping feeling that Sharisha's real problem is that she wishes she were a FtM TG herself - she doesn't see herself as a lesbian, she sees herself as a straight guy stuck in a girl's body. I'm completely going on a WAG there, though, but it would explain a lot of her hostility to the T-Girls in her cottage. Much as Tansy's repressed lesbianism justifies, at least in her own alleged mind, her hatred of non-repressed lesbians.
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| Re: Sharisha [message #19827 is a reply to message #19786 ] |
Fri, 26 December 2008 17:58 |
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Diane Castle
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Sharisha is a lesbian.
She's had some REALLY bad times from guys in her life. Pretty much constantly, if you have to know, starting from early childhood, moving up through being bullied all her life, and then stepping up to being targeted once her powers manifested.
But that's not the big problem. She can't STAND Chaka. Sharisha is big and chubby and has spent her entire life being told she's fat and ugly and worthless. She still sees herself that way, even after getting some improvement from her powers. And here's this other black girl who's hip, and cool, and.. and.. AND SHE ISN'T EVEN A GIRL! How ugly and hideous do you have to be to look a hundred times worse than BOYS?
Sharisha hates herself. She's just externalized it into a central image: Toni 'Chaka' Chandler. And, by extension, Chaka's cool friends, who are also members of the Genderbender Brigade. Maybe, if Sharisha had ever felt good about herself, she could deal. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Diane
"WHO has deactivated my BEAUTIFUL frogs?"
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| Re: Sharisha [message #19894 is a reply to message #19707 ] |
Sat, 27 December 2008 17:30 |
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God_of_Awesome
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Isn't she the one Chou beat the ever loving crap out of?
Because, despite the apparent consequence, that was the most satisfying scene I ever read.
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| Re: Sharisha [message #19955 is a reply to message #19707 ] |
Sun, 28 December 2008 12:04 |
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stacy
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Indiana |
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Chou's thrashing of Sharisa was either during To the Mountain, or right around there, cause it was while she was under the dream attacks by the Tong, and before she gave in and killed the man with cancer for the good of his family.
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| Re: Sharisha [message #19996 is a reply to message #19979 ] |
Mon, 29 December 2008 02:33 |
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Diane Castle
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| dpragan wrote on Sun, 28 December 2008 14:37 |
The fact that BOTH Lancer and Hippy were straining to hold her and Toni had to go to dangerous levels of Ki to slap some sense into Chou make me think that the Tao wanted her to deliver a lesson to Sharisha. Otherwise, Chou would have had normal strength and anyone could have stopped her.
Too bad Sharisha refused to learn the lesson taught to her.
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In my limited experience, people who are completely driven by anger, fear, desperation, bitterness, etc., don't learn from their experiences. No, they tend to force everything in life through their own personal, strangely-colored filter. So they learn the wrong lesson. They learn a lesson that those of with perspective might think was *insane*.
Sharisha probably 'learned' from that incident that all the TGs are out to get her. She probably will 'remember' it as them all ganging up on her.
Some people have epiphanies; most never get farther than obituaries.
Diane
"WHO has deactivated my BEAUTIFUL frogs?"
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