[Our Magic Place] Mun Prompt #6
Apr. 17th, 2007 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
his_sarah_janeDoes your muse engage in and/or enjoy sex? Discuss your muse's sexual behavior and conduct.
Yes and yes. Even though Doctor Who is family friendly television, Sarah’s a feminist living during the start of the sexual revolution and second wave feminism I can wholly see her supporting the ideas go with that as part of advocating Women’s Lib. Like everything else, in her eyes women should be given the same expectations and allowances as men when it comes to sex. They should be capable of engaging in pre-marital sex, have as many partners as they wish, etc. without being looked upon any differently as a man would look upon himself.
She isn’t exactly what I’d describe as promiscuous. I think in order for Sarah Jane to have sex with someone, she has to like them to a reasonable degree. There has to be a level of attraction there. But when it comes down to it, it’s fun to her. It’s just as much of a reaffirmation of how she feels about a person as a way to release frustrations and find pleasure in something stimulating. And it’s also a reminder of just how good life can be, especially I think in the so-called afterglow.
It’s become clear to me as I’ve been role playing her for the past five months that what Sarah Jane really enjoys is flirting. It’s the words thing – she likes being clever and tricky and using words to get a man’s attention much more so than her body (which, I think, she doesn’t necessarily think is anything past pretty). It’s a way of asserting her independence as a person, I think, and having fun. Because I tend to see her as a very, very playful person. She likes to mock, tease, jest and laugh. And flirting is not anything if not playful. But I think she knows where to stop, and most of the time (with exceptions), knows where to draw the line between good natured flirting and anything else.
This is a whole part of her personality that isn’t explored at all on the show, even though I think a lot of her times her behaviour towards the Doctor can be interpreted as flirting. In “School Reunion” I find it very strongly hinted at that she fell in love with him – that he was her ‘one’ so to speak – and that to some level he returned the feelings. But what it implies of any behind the scenes relationship they might have had, I have absolutely no idea. Like I said, and this was very prevalent during SJ’s time on the show: Family Friendly. So: no sex allowed.
As for Sarah’s sexual behaviour and conduct, well, I think certain threads done in the Milliways Bar role play game sort of indicate that, like with flirting, it’s playful. And also very impulsive at times. She has a boyfriend in that game – James Bond (of all people) – and while I’m not going to get to talking about their relationship (although I could probably write a whole essay on that alone) – I still think it’s relevant to mention. There have been a handful of smut threads, and plenty of fade to blacks and to put it concisely: she can’t keep her hands off of him sometimes. It’s like Jamie touching everything, but worse. And they’ve had sex in places they probably shouldn’t, and I think that’s because of her nature to dive head first into everything, including sex.
Which brings me to another point: Sarah Jane does hold a difference between sex and making love. To her, sex is just that – it’s sort of casual interplay between two people. But making love is connecting on a different level. It’s more important to her, it means so much more. It’s about making the other person just as content with life as you are rather than finding your own escape. I noticed that when she started falling in love with James. That was when she started considering what they were doing a lot more than sex. So maybe I should clarify my earlier statement. Sarah Jane will have sex with people she likes and is attracted to, but she’ll only consider it making love if she feels a lot more for that partner than just ‘like’.
So, to summarize (because man, I’ve written an essay here): yes, Sarah Jane enjoys and will engage in sex. Mostly, I’d say she enjoys the companionship, the independence she gets from it as a woman to be able to chose who she wants to be with, and the realization that it’s her that can make a man react in a certain way (see Milliways James threads again). In a way, I’d go as far as to say it’s some sort of power trip, but it’s a little more than that. It’s fun and to her, living in the sexual revolution, absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
There. One thing I thought I’d never write past a couple of lines has turned into a nearly eight hundred word ramble. I hope this has given some insight into the way I play SJ to you all who actually read this, because I think writing it actually did help to clear up some of the thoughts in my head. And yes, to anyone wondering? I will play her slightly more flirty than in canon because I think if Doctor Who hadn’t been such a family friendly show, she might have been like that. C'mon, she reads romance novels for crying out loud!
Yes and yes. Even though Doctor Who is family friendly television, Sarah’s a feminist living during the start of the sexual revolution and second wave feminism I can wholly see her supporting the ideas go with that as part of advocating Women’s Lib. Like everything else, in her eyes women should be given the same expectations and allowances as men when it comes to sex. They should be capable of engaging in pre-marital sex, have as many partners as they wish, etc. without being looked upon any differently as a man would look upon himself.
She isn’t exactly what I’d describe as promiscuous. I think in order for Sarah Jane to have sex with someone, she has to like them to a reasonable degree. There has to be a level of attraction there. But when it comes down to it, it’s fun to her. It’s just as much of a reaffirmation of how she feels about a person as a way to release frustrations and find pleasure in something stimulating. And it’s also a reminder of just how good life can be, especially I think in the so-called afterglow.
It’s become clear to me as I’ve been role playing her for the past five months that what Sarah Jane really enjoys is flirting. It’s the words thing – she likes being clever and tricky and using words to get a man’s attention much more so than her body (which, I think, she doesn’t necessarily think is anything past pretty). It’s a way of asserting her independence as a person, I think, and having fun. Because I tend to see her as a very, very playful person. She likes to mock, tease, jest and laugh. And flirting is not anything if not playful. But I think she knows where to stop, and most of the time (with exceptions), knows where to draw the line between good natured flirting and anything else.
This is a whole part of her personality that isn’t explored at all on the show, even though I think a lot of her times her behaviour towards the Doctor can be interpreted as flirting. In “School Reunion” I find it very strongly hinted at that she fell in love with him – that he was her ‘one’ so to speak – and that to some level he returned the feelings. But what it implies of any behind the scenes relationship they might have had, I have absolutely no idea. Like I said, and this was very prevalent during SJ’s time on the show: Family Friendly. So: no sex allowed.
As for Sarah’s sexual behaviour and conduct, well, I think certain threads done in the Milliways Bar role play game sort of indicate that, like with flirting, it’s playful. And also very impulsive at times. She has a boyfriend in that game – James Bond (of all people) – and while I’m not going to get to talking about their relationship (although I could probably write a whole essay on that alone) – I still think it’s relevant to mention. There have been a handful of smut threads, and plenty of fade to blacks and to put it concisely: she can’t keep her hands off of him sometimes. It’s like Jamie touching everything, but worse. And they’ve had sex in places they probably shouldn’t, and I think that’s because of her nature to dive head first into everything, including sex.
Which brings me to another point: Sarah Jane does hold a difference between sex and making love. To her, sex is just that – it’s sort of casual interplay between two people. But making love is connecting on a different level. It’s more important to her, it means so much more. It’s about making the other person just as content with life as you are rather than finding your own escape. I noticed that when she started falling in love with James. That was when she started considering what they were doing a lot more than sex. So maybe I should clarify my earlier statement. Sarah Jane will have sex with people she likes and is attracted to, but she’ll only consider it making love if she feels a lot more for that partner than just ‘like’.
So, to summarize (because man, I’ve written an essay here): yes, Sarah Jane enjoys and will engage in sex. Mostly, I’d say she enjoys the companionship, the independence she gets from it as a woman to be able to chose who she wants to be with, and the realization that it’s her that can make a man react in a certain way (see Milliways James threads again). In a way, I’d go as far as to say it’s some sort of power trip, but it’s a little more than that. It’s fun and to her, living in the sexual revolution, absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
There. One thing I thought I’d never write past a couple of lines has turned into a nearly eight hundred word ramble. I hope this has given some insight into the way I play SJ to you all who actually read this, because I think writing it actually did help to clear up some of the thoughts in my head. And yes, to anyone wondering? I will play her slightly more flirty than in canon because I think if Doctor Who hadn’t been such a family friendly show, she might have been like that. C'mon, she reads romance novels for crying out loud!
