Whatever you say about them, kids in The Tribe echoed the kids we know now in an awful lot of ways, especially when it comes to love--first, last or always. Yep, they went hormonal & had to make it through the same crazed situations a lot of us cringe when we think back on. There are waaay too many instances to cover here--believe me, no one was immune--so I'm pulling out a specific example from each season.
The most in-your-face example from Season-1 was Ebony. Her connection with Zoot had to be a craving for power because we know her love-fixation was always on Bray. Did Zoot love her back? Well according to her nightmares it was, "Eat a rat, Ebony. Prove you're worthy." Of course she couldn't, didn't, and then Zoot died & she was back on her own. And it was Trudy who had Zoot's baby. To say the least, Ebony chose poorly.
Season-2? Ahhh, our wayward Salene. She too had a craving for Bray. When Bray finally made everybody understand Amber was the girl for him, Salene did what a lot of people do. She settled for somebody who cared for her. Did it matter she didn't love Ryan? It should have. A lot of pain & anguish could have been avoided if Sal had been honest.
In Season-3 it was the return of Amber & the downfall of
Pride. He didn't understand the depth of her feelings for Bray or what it did to her when Bray found her with the Eco-Tribe. So what does our Pride do? He follows Amber to the city. He gets his heart broken. He starts sleeping around & breaking hearts on his own. It wasn't pretty.
Season-4 gave us the Technos &
Ram with his mini-harem, Java & Siva. He successfully added Ebony to that harem, but Siva wound up going off & bonding with Lex. When Ram found out Siva stole from him to save her new boy-toy's life, what was Ram to do but throw a fit & punish her? And then throw her out... ah, Ram. Power corrupts, huh?
Then there was Season-5. So many to choose from. Let's go with Ruby. Dear sweet Ruby who agreed to a one-off with Slade. That became a second night... And suddenly Ebony was moving in on her
territory, so Ruby had to sleep with Slade again so she could throw it in Ebony's face & ultimately start this amazing cat-fight. (Which, for the record, Ebony would've won.) Slade wasn't very good with making the choices. It was really a wonder Ebony didn't succeed in killing Ruby when the girls all thought Ruby was pregnant.
Ahh...the things we do for love...
Isn't it great we can get older & conveniently forget most of them? Or at the very least deny we were ever that strange. Unfortunately for our Tribe guys 'n girls, their crazies are forever on film for the world to see.
-Chyna
photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"
It's a great site for all the updated Tribe news, including the newest fiction book that's out now. That's also where I found this great great photo --->
BRAY. Bray was The Tribe's conflicted hero. Despite all the girls vying for his attention, the guys trying to knock him off his pedestal, the enemies he made, at his heart Bray was a genuinely good guy. There were times he lost his way, but his innate sense of decency and what's right always brought him back.
Whatever you say about them, kids in The Tribe echoed the kids we know now in an awful lot of ways, especially when it comes to love--first, last or always. Yep, they went hormonal & had to make it through the same crazed situations a lot of us cringe when we think back on. There are waaay too many instances to cover here--believe me, no one was immune--so I'm pulling out a specific example from each season.
In Season-3 it was the return of Amber & the downfall of Pride. He didn't understand the depth of her feelings for Bray or what it did to her when Bray found her with the Eco-Tribe. So what does our Pride do? He follows Amber to the city. He gets his heart broken. He starts sleeping around & breaking hearts on his own. It wasn't pretty.
Season-4 gave us the Technos & Ram with his mini-harem, Java & Siva. He successfully added Ebony to that harem, but Siva wound up going off & bonding with Lex. When Ram found out Siva stole from him to save her new boy-toy's life, what was Ram to do but throw a fit & punish her? And then throw her out... ah, Ram. Power corrupts, huh?
Tonight I was reading game posts & remembering moments from The Tribe that really stayed with me. That's the way I am, mostly. I'll watch a movie or a tv series or read a book, and it's like my brain sorts through the highlights & keeps them for my thinking pleasure. Here, I'll share.
Maybe that's it with me--it's the life & death moments that stand out starkly in my mind. In Season-2 it was always the look on Ebony's face as the car pushed & pushed & pushed her into the water off the pier...and maybe to her death.
Season-4 gave us the Technos. Do you remember your first glimpse of them? Whether it was the plane scene or the trucks or the troops on the ground, the sight of Jay in full Techno gear stayed with me throughout the rest of that season.
Moments can be powerful things.
Ok, I can't help myself. I can't keep from speculating what might be in store, in a game-season with the name Guardians of Fort River. You see, Kane did come up with a name, sort of, for his crew as his plot begins to take shape in season 10. He said I should use the word "Guardians." 
Ok, deep breath...calm down, Chyna...
The Guardian and his Chosen were often confusing, especially with their Zoot-isms. It always felt like they despised weakness but could find ways to use it. They were intimidated by strength that didn't come from Zoot, which explains why they turned against Bray when he wouldn't help them deify his brother.
We also know the Chosen were militant. They didn't have any problem killing whoever got in their way. So far we haven't seen that from Kane & Company, but we do know that they are big and strong and there are a LOT of them. They've set up barricades around the city, so we have to speculate they'd use force to enforce those barricades, hm? 
It's late fall in "Keep The Dream Alive" rpg. Our characters have just finished the blow-out party of the season, our version of a harvest festival before we settle in & settle down for the winter to come.
I've let this go too long & I'm really sorry. My last post was in May? Now it's September? *sigh* I don't know where the time went. Summer had a few more surprises than I anticipated, and life in general has been...complicated.
Nobody's perfect. And if we're honest, we don't want 'em to be. Especially in an rpg, where the best characters take on a life of their own.
The Tribe wasn't big on masks. Was it?
