Reavers
POSTED BY: RochesterBrowncaot
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 19:55
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I think that the Reavers have little Reaver babies.
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I think that the Reavers have little Reaver babies.
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Okay, so, here's what I think.
The pax only affects the small portion of the population (tenth of a percent, or whatever). So for any Reavers to be made from consumption of Reaver flesh, there'd have to be a whole lot of people eating Reavers for this to be anywhere near a substantial influx of population.
When people watch their family and friends being tortured, raped, and eaten, they go crazy. They don't exactly become Reavers, they just go nuts and imitate being Reavers. While this could make for more Reavers from the point of view of the generic person that doesn't know about the pax, it's not to say that the actual Reaver-increased-aggression-through-chemicals is spread. And it probably doesn't happen all that often. I know that if I were a killing/raping crazy maniac, I'd rather kill someone than leave 'em alive to have a new buddy [;-)].
If Reavers go around raping lots and lots of people, their sex drives are probably upped just as much as their agression. Even if not, they clearly still have sex drives, and so likely reproduce amongst themselves. Sure, it would be difficult for a child to grow up in such a situation. But it's not like the Reaver population is booming. Serenity and crew went through Reaver territory and picked up how many ships, at most 40? Big ships, but that's still not a whooole lot of people. And besides internal fighting (which doesn't look to be that bad, since the Reavers don't look like they're fighting each other whenever we see them), it's not like they have a major source of death...
"I'd rather have a show that a hundred people need to watch than that a thousand people like to watch." --Joss
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I haven't read absolutely all of the posts, but it seems many of you have the impression of some kind of viral or otherwise infectious medical condition causing the reavers to be reavers.
IMHO, both the series and the movie pretty clearly states that this is a mental disorder, and has no physical manifestation. The only physical part of it is the gas that initiated the whole deal. The original few reavers was made because of the gas, but the ones that are created by the originals are just being mentally tormented to turn into reavers.
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Quote:No, actually that's a normal vampire; a vampire drinking your blood will kill you, but to turn you, they have to give you a sip of their blood.
Originally posted by DonCoat:
That would make Reavers a sort of vampire-in-reverse -- you become a Reaver by drinking one's blood, rather than the other way around.
And no, it's not just a Buffyverse thing, it was in Stoker's novel too (Dracula cut his chest and forced Mina to drink).
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Originally posted by Ronan:
I took the Bushwhacked guy to have suffered from something like the Helsinki syndrome - you know where a captive spends enough time with a captor to begin to behave like them and believe in their 'philosophy'. You get the idea anyway...
It's Stockholme Syndrome.
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And no, it's not just a Buffyverse thing, it was in Stoker's novel too (Dracula cut his chest and forced Mina to drink).
... and in Anne Rice's novels as well.
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Thanks for correcting my mistake nearly 2 months after making it and just to get even - there's no 'e' in Stockholm.
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i keep seeing people ask why reavers dont eat/rape each other the way i understand it is that there aggression is sent sky rocketing.
it reminds me of football hooligans and the mob mentality that the doont attack each other because thats there team if you get me.
basically they are like rioters. at least thats what i get from it.
also why wud they need to reproduce 10% of the population of a planet is a lot
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Ease up on the hostilities. Just thought you should know...
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