When Selenia was new, he ended up in a lot of games with Mau and Red that became "WHO OF US WILL DIVE INTO TRAFFIC THIS TIME?" As evidenced by this game thread with Mau, Red and Selenia all arguing over who gets to run into traffic. (f-forgive my typos in that thread orz). ...And it's also important to note that this is how Selenia learned about games from Red in the context of 'who rushes to take the hit' (...the answer being 'Red' but CLEARLY that just means Selenia had competition!). So, understandably, his impression of Sapphire was that it was a self-sacrificial team and that he would have to line himself up to take hits every now and then, and that he'd be competing for that role with Mau and Red. He also learned that Sapphire was very lucky and had no deaths for as long as Red was on the team (outside of Mal) but I can't find the thread for that. And this all happened when he arrived just at the end of a trauma game train and then there were no trauma games for a while where the damage was avoidable. So he both a) got the assumption that games weren't that bad and b) that in the event that things go bad, Sapphire will stand to protect other teams at the cost of their own safety if necessary.
...And then they were all crushed to death and the team didn't like it so he went a good long while thinking that everyone on his team just DOESN'T UNDERSTAND that when you self-sacrifice, there's an actual sacrifice involved! And feeling greatly insulted that he felt like he died for nothing and that the ideals he was hoping to uphold meant nothing to anyone else.
Buuuut as he's been in more games with Apple after her heart game and such, he's gotten the idea that the ideal that Sapphire upholds has changed from 'protect others at all costs' to 'defy the Personae and their expectations as much as possible'. Which ideally isn't a bad thing and he would've gotten along just fine with it, except for the fact that Sapphire also seems to try and defy the games as much as possible without every understanding that their are consequences involved and sometimes those consequences means dragging everyone else down with you (like expecting Red and Apple to catch fire in the game and maybe the whole team would burn to death because they wanted to make a point). He thinks Sapphire has great ideals but that they aren't tempered with any sense of reality whatsoever and that they end up dying a lot for nothing, which is the worse part of all.
...OOCly I think he's being a biiiiit overdramatic about it. I say, to understate things. BUT YES, Sapphire has definitely changed in the year I've been on it, but that's to be expected with turnover and the fact that we ended up with new teammates with different ideas of how things are to be done and even teammates who have stayed as long as they have have also changed their tactics. (I know there was at least one game where Red chose not to self-sacrifice, which is a huge thing if you know Allen Walker from DGM canon. And obviously, Selenia's ideas have changed to be something closer to what he had in canon too, as an example of change happening in the opposite direction.)
But this is an interesting question. Does Apple think Sapphire's tactics have changed?
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...And then they were all crushed to death and the team didn't like it so he went a good long while thinking that everyone on his team just DOESN'T UNDERSTAND that when you self-sacrifice, there's an actual sacrifice involved! And feeling greatly insulted that he felt like he died for nothing and that the ideals he was hoping to uphold meant nothing to anyone else.
Buuuut as he's been in more games with Apple after her heart game and such, he's gotten the idea that the ideal that Sapphire upholds has changed from 'protect others at all costs' to 'defy the Personae and their expectations as much as possible'. Which ideally isn't a bad thing and he would've gotten along just fine with it, except for the fact that Sapphire also seems to try and defy the games as much as possible without every understanding that their are consequences involved and sometimes those consequences means dragging everyone else down with you (like expecting Red and Apple to catch fire in the game and maybe the whole team would burn to death because they wanted to make a point). He thinks Sapphire has great ideals but that they aren't tempered with any sense of reality whatsoever and that they end up dying a lot for nothing, which is the worse part of all.
...OOCly I think he's being a biiiiit overdramatic about it. I say, to understate things. BUT YES, Sapphire has definitely changed in the year I've been on it, but that's to be expected with turnover and the fact that we ended up with new teammates with different ideas of how things are to be done and even teammates who have stayed as long as they have have also changed their tactics. (I know there was at least one game where Red chose not to self-sacrifice, which is a huge thing if you know Allen Walker from DGM canon. And obviously, Selenia's ideas have changed to be something closer to what he had in canon too, as an example of change happening in the opposite direction.)
But this is an interesting question. Does Apple think Sapphire's tactics have changed?