Big Damn Inara Theory
POSTED BY: raptored
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 23:35
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There is a fanfic on this site in which Inara, on the way to meet a client who likes exceptionally rough sex, takes a drug that dulls her sensations and responses so she'll be able to satisfy the client without feeling too much pain or injuring herself (at least if I recall it correctly--I couldn't even say which category of fic it was in). Perhaps this drug inspired the other one, and she's planning to go out fighting.
Personally, life-extension and time-travel seem to me to be too wacky sci-fi.
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Originally posted by Belacgod:
Personally, life-extension and time-travel seem to me to be too wacky sci-fi.
Me too, but she is running from some thing. Mal asked as much in Out of Gas, and in Hart of Gold Nandi said it was a shock that se left so I can only see it being something drastic that happened. But the show is too "down to earth" (figure of speech) to go in to time travel or have some youth drug.
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I thought it was a suicide kit at first as well.
But since it isn't I had to think it was something else.
If it was a life extension drug, what would be the point of it if you're going to be torn to shreds? None.
Time travel? Although the idea isn't bad, it doesn't fit the firefly verse. Sorry, no offense.
Anesthetic to dull senses? Possibly, that could work.
My ideas:
1. A coma drug to make it seem as if she was dead so the reavers would leave her alone.
2. A highly horrible, deadly infectious disease. If she's gonna die, she's gonna make sure she takes as many of them as possible with her.
3. Super steriods. Afterall, she does have some weapons training, so juicing herself and fighting back might be plausible. A companion might have something like that to prevent someone from forcing entry into her quarters and raping her. Which could also be why she's kind of hiding from her past. Maybe beat the holy hell out of some client who wanted more than he paid for. Or maybe she had been raped before and now carried protection with her.
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Originally posted by Belacgod:
Personally, life-extension and time-travel seem to me to be too wacky sci-fi.
I think some of you people are missing the point of this thread. I'd be very surprised if the original poster was being serious. I for one found his "theories" very funny, and I think that was the way they were meant to be.
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It seems as the months go by and I come to this site, the subject of "Inaria's secret" has come up again and again. When I first posted my analysis regarding it, it was old news then:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=4&t=8747
The Cliff Notes are as follows:
1. Inara is terminal and dying.
2. She is much older than she appears.
3. She left Sihnon by her own choice, but she did not want to leave.
Of course this thread focuses on the needle issue, but it usually gets lumped into the overarching "Inara's past" issue.
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Having just watched Firefly on DVD completely through, i noticed a few things which has lead me to agree with the "Inara having a terminal illness idea". Though it is probably rehash from teh old thread, for the people who have not read it yet, here are MY observations:
1.) Why would Inara have left, as Nandi had said, when she was in line to take over at the Companion House? It was even stated that she had been aiming her sights on the position as well. It would make sense that, if she were diagnosed with an illness of some kind, she would realize that she couldn't continue her old life, hence fleeing for freedom on Serenity. Also, explains her insistence on keeping her and Mal's relationship strictly professional (lying through her teeth, btw :D)
2.) In Objects in Space, when Rivier is "reading their minds", it seems to me that in both Simon and Jayne's cases, they were thinking things which they had either said previously or were going to say later in the ep. (Book then has an interesting quote which leads me to some conclusion that he may have arrested an innocent man, spurring him on to join the monestary) Anyway, Inara says something to the effect of "Just tell me. I'm a big girl, I can handle it." Is she reffering to mal's feelings, or referring back to the revelation of her illness?
3.) In Ariel, when Inara returns from her doctor's visit, she responds to questions about how it went with "Same as last year." Not "Fine" or "good". I think if she is really dying, this wouldbe a normal reaction to answer with.
4.) Futhermore, if Joss indeed said that it was NOT a suicide drug in the pilot episode, it would stand to assume that perhaps it was some kind of medication? Maybe for the pain...which would also agree with the idea that she would take it to dull any pain.
5.) Nothing to do with the show itself, but morena Baccarin, in several interviews, has stated that she'd hate to have Mal and Inara get together, because the chemistry in their sexual tension would be gone. She also said that if they did get together, it would be best for one of them to die. Maybe reading too much into it, but since both Joss AND Morena know the entire backstory of Inara, it could be argued that she'd just teasing us with hints we're not even aware of!
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Not sure how great the arguement was, but I hope it gives you all something to think about!
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It could be a cosmetic drug. She could have some manner of disfiguring disease and she needs the drug to stave it off.
It could be a poison or STD. Inara said that she supported unification, maybe she was once employed by the Alliance as an assassin, she takes whatever’s in the vial and transfers some sort of disease or toxin into the person she has sex with.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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I like the assassin idea. Maybe she was in some government program similar to River and that's why she left Sihnon.
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Maybe Inara is not who she seems. Companions are supposed to be based on Geisha. Young girls were bought and trained by Geisha houses. It is possible that the Companion guilds do the same thing. Perhaps Inara was never trained by a Companion guild. Maybe she was just a regular prostitute and acquired the status of Companion through illegitimate means. It is also possible that she contracted an STD as a regular prostitute and the syringe is a drug that represses it.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Hi guys. Thanks for responding! I would have posted earlier but I have a spotty Internet connection....sigh
Anyway, I was serious when I posted this, but I knew the idea was shaky enough that I needed other ideas, and you guys gave really good feedback.
Okay, so probably no time travel. I'm just interested in why she pulls the box out at "that" particular moment before the Reavers attack? Surely there's a significance to why it appears then and at no other time?
My only other thought is maybe we're approaching this the wrong way? Maybe she doesn't want to "use" whatever is in the box, but needs to find a way to destory it so the Reavers don't get ahold of it? Any ideas?
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