[writing] laying it out
May. 16th, 2014 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grimorieI'm writing this here to lay it out in my head since the story isn't moving at ALL.
At this point in time, Sam Shaw and Dani Reese are distinct people in my head, which is awesome since that means Shaw gets more fleshed out, but complicated for me since I'm still writing the Life/Person of Interest fusion the whole premise (since I started this in Relevance) is that Shaw is actually Dani Reese, who had to fake her death in order to become Sameen Shaw.
I think can still make it work, I'll make it work, its just getting a little bit hard because, like I said they're two distinct people in my head. They have the same template but diverges on pretty well. They're both fiercely and incredibly loyal people but the key thing for me is, and always will be the partnership between Crews and Reese (Shaw) so that's something I have to get right.
In Crews and Reese's dynamic the moderating force that keeps Crews grounded started with Reese. In my head, Crews wanted/needed someone to hold the leash, so to speak, especially coming from the regulated world of prison.
In this 'verse its Crews, who astoundingly finds himself as a moderating force to Shaw, which is pretty damned weird for him since in his tenure in the LAPD he's always the one who is the loose canon. Not that Shaw is, just that in the world of the LAPD, *assassin* is pretty much out of its context.
Actually that's one thing I'm expecting to work on, how they'll come to be partners that's both familiar and different to the canon Crews/Reese dynamic.
In the larger world, I think PoI also lines up well in the Life world especially given its philosophy of 'Everything is connected' since that's something POI-verse or at least The Machine's operating procedure, finding the hidden connections between people/events.
Also, Crews's documentary also can play into the Machine viewing the documentary.
Another key difference between Dani Reese and Sam Shaw is that Dani Reese has an addictive personality, she's in recovery for both drugs and alcohol. She's been clean for almost two years, but only recently sober.
Shaw on the other hand has a dissociative personality and loves to drink. The harder, the better.
(Dani loves that too except, well... she's in recovery so that's not a possibility. I also considered Dani and Shaw as long lost twin sisters but... I'm already going to do that for Fairly Lethal -- Kate and Shaw.)
Jack Reese never died, he wasn't military but maybe his brother was, maybe they were a military family and Jack Reese didn't follow the family code and turned police instead.
There isn't much of a difference, but its enough. But Jack runs his family like his father ran his family. So out of defiance Dani steps into joining up into the Navy instead of the Police Academy. Something to pay off med school but she gets kicked out because apparently she needs to act like Sister Mary Empathy to become a doctor.
Then she steps up even more joining the Marines (I'm going to research if that's even possible) and realizes she's good at killing. So good that the blackest of black ops outfits recruits her but in order to become she was required to fake her own death.
After the events of Relevance, and after making sure that Cole's parents are alright, Shaw returns back to LA to lie low and break into Karen Davis's home.
Shaw/Reese's relationship with Karen Davis will also be explored because Shaw|Reese just like canon!Dani Reese has a complicated relationship with Davis.
But Davis has had a prolonged exposure to Charlie Crews and that tends to make other people's world views open up a bit.
She's also not born yesterday and pretty soon realizes that Dani joined up in a covert ops outfit. She's appalled at Dani for this and encourages her to reconnect with her family, her mother at least.
This is where the story starts, when Shaw meets up with Crews and the problem they had before remains the threat: Roman Nevikof.
So that's where I'm at.
Because of her time away from LA and that circle, Shaw is more curious than canon!Dani Reese. Dani Reese has a lot of issues to go around the Conspiracy and actively doesn't let herself know anything about it.
Shaw is different, and because she grew up with the belief that actionable intel is better than a kevlar jacket she goes out of her way to find out.
Karen even challenges her: You've been a soldier all your life, now be a detective.
I need Shaw to meet Crews but I can't seem to get there and its driving me nuts. The whole plot can't kick off if they don't meet. Anything I've written doesn't feel write. WHY ARE YOU SO STUBBORN SHAW?
At this point in time, Sam Shaw and Dani Reese are distinct people in my head, which is awesome since that means Shaw gets more fleshed out, but complicated for me since I'm still writing the Life/Person of Interest fusion the whole premise (since I started this in Relevance) is that Shaw is actually Dani Reese, who had to fake her death in order to become Sameen Shaw.
I think can still make it work, I'll make it work, its just getting a little bit hard because, like I said they're two distinct people in my head. They have the same template but diverges on pretty well. They're both fiercely and incredibly loyal people but the key thing for me is, and always will be the partnership between Crews and Reese (Shaw) so that's something I have to get right.
In Crews and Reese's dynamic the moderating force that keeps Crews grounded started with Reese. In my head, Crews wanted/needed someone to hold the leash, so to speak, especially coming from the regulated world of prison.
In this 'verse its Crews, who astoundingly finds himself as a moderating force to Shaw, which is pretty damned weird for him since in his tenure in the LAPD he's always the one who is the loose canon. Not that Shaw is, just that in the world of the LAPD, *assassin* is pretty much out of its context.
Actually that's one thing I'm expecting to work on, how they'll come to be partners that's both familiar and different to the canon Crews/Reese dynamic.
In the larger world, I think PoI also lines up well in the Life world especially given its philosophy of 'Everything is connected' since that's something POI-verse or at least The Machine's operating procedure, finding the hidden connections between people/events.
Also, Crews's documentary also can play into the Machine viewing the documentary.
Another key difference between Dani Reese and Sam Shaw is that Dani Reese has an addictive personality, she's in recovery for both drugs and alcohol. She's been clean for almost two years, but only recently sober.
Shaw on the other hand has a dissociative personality and loves to drink. The harder, the better.
(Dani loves that too except, well... she's in recovery so that's not a possibility. I also considered Dani and Shaw as long lost twin sisters but... I'm already going to do that for Fairly Lethal -- Kate and Shaw.)
Jack Reese never died, he wasn't military but maybe his brother was, maybe they were a military family and Jack Reese didn't follow the family code and turned police instead.
There isn't much of a difference, but its enough. But Jack runs his family like his father ran his family. So out of defiance Dani steps into joining up into the Navy instead of the Police Academy. Something to pay off med school but she gets kicked out because apparently she needs to act like Sister Mary Empathy to become a doctor.
Then she steps up even more joining the Marines (I'm going to research if that's even possible) and realizes she's good at killing. So good that the blackest of black ops outfits recruits her but in order to become she was required to fake her own death.
After the events of Relevance, and after making sure that Cole's parents are alright, Shaw returns back to LA to lie low and break into Karen Davis's home.
Shaw/Reese's relationship with Karen Davis will also be explored because Shaw|Reese just like canon!Dani Reese has a complicated relationship with Davis.
But Davis has had a prolonged exposure to Charlie Crews and that tends to make other people's world views open up a bit.
She's also not born yesterday and pretty soon realizes that Dani joined up in a covert ops outfit. She's appalled at Dani for this and encourages her to reconnect with her family, her mother at least.
This is where the story starts, when Shaw meets up with Crews and the problem they had before remains the threat: Roman Nevikof.
So that's where I'm at.
Because of her time away from LA and that circle, Shaw is more curious than canon!Dani Reese. Dani Reese has a lot of issues to go around the Conspiracy and actively doesn't let herself know anything about it.
Shaw is different, and because she grew up with the belief that actionable intel is better than a kevlar jacket she goes out of her way to find out.
Karen even challenges her: You've been a soldier all your life, now be a detective.
I need Shaw to meet Crews but I can't seem to get there and its driving me nuts. The whole plot can't kick off if they don't meet. Anything I've written doesn't feel write. WHY ARE YOU SO STUBBORN SHAW?
