indiaalphawhiskey: “Okay,” he began warily, trying to be gentle, open, hoping that if th
indiaalphawhiskey: “Okay,” he began warily, trying to be gentle, open, hoping that if this got bloody, Angela wouldn’t place the blame entirely on him. “Present your argument, counsellor,” he teased.Marcel smiled back calmly, a lilt of certainty already woven into his voice like this argument was a shoo-in. “You first,” he said, almost gracious. “Why combat?”Louis pursed his lips, quickly running through the things he wanted to say, trying to figure out what Marcel was up to.“Well, first of all,” he said, carefully. “Combat is about movement, and describing any kind of movement is difficult.” A simple enough statement, he decided confidently. “When you write it, the sequence has to be logical, both for your character, and for your character in relation to another person. You have to be conscious – aware of where all the bodies are, all the time. It’s choreography – every action begets a reaction. It has to flow.”“Mm-hmm,” Marcel agreed, nodding slowly. “Movement, choreography, bodies,” The last word sounded slightly sweeter than the rest, and it made Louis pause for a beat, but Marcel had his eyes on the table, too busy with his pen flying across a page of scrap paper like he was taking notes. He flicked his eyes up at the silence, his expression expectant. “Go on.”Louis licked his lips, and shook off the vague niggling at the back of his mind quickly, beginning again.“Then you have the vocabulary, which is incredibly particular because the weight of certain actions differ,” he turned to the fan in an effort to illustrate his meaning. “A punch means something different than a slap, or a smack – ““Kind of like a peck, or a bite, or a lick?” Marcel’s unassuming tone was a little infuriating now, just enough to make Louis’ jaw flicker before he turned around. He was met with only an innocent shrug, Marcel’s white teeth sinking shallowly into the plush of his bottom lip as he tried to bite down on a smile.– Combat vs. Smut, from Our Lives, Non-Fiction by indiaalphawhiskey -- source link
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