Where are the chicks? Ahem... I mean Reaverettes?
POSTED BY: IsaacShepherd
UPDATED: Saturday, February 18, 2006 18:57
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women are too smart to be that craven...
:-)
reavers rape you till you die... women are ill equipped for raping...
Chindi
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Funny, I usually notice things like that. Some of the Reavers do have longish hair, not that that necessisarily means anything but perhaps why I didnt notice before. I wonder if they reproduce. It would seem theyd need to, the fleet between Haven and Miranda is WAY too big in my opinion to be only 10% of Miranda's pop. Either that or theres not many Reavers per ship...but that wouldnt fit the masses seen in the raiding parties...
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Originally posted by ShadowChild:
...I wonder if they reproduce. It would seem theyd need to....
Well, after all, there ARE raver breeding parties...
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There ARE? O.o ...Ew...That must be...interesting...to see... ><
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The point about female Reavers and rape was dead on, but the point about the number of Reavers in that fleet was completely wrong. The BDM is set only ten years after the Miranda disaster. There hasn't been enough time to breed more late-adolescents or adults. There must have been more people on Miranda than we think - unless some of the Reavers in the fleet were "created" afterwards like the guy in Bushwhacked.
Anyway, if the Reavers were created due to an environmental issue, would this be a mutation in their DNA and therefore heritable, or would it be a one-off?
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Not to get too specific, graphic or downright gross, rape is not normally a sexual act. It a violent act that assaults the victim's sexuality. Female Reavers, if there were any, could rape too in that sense.
I don't think Reavers procreate. If by some chance a female Reaver brought a baby to term, what kind of nurturing do you think that child would receive? - Probably murder on sight. If not, then torture to death, just like all other helpless feeling creatures they can get their hands on.
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If you read the script book (which you totally should anyways), the script specifically mentions a female reaver on Lilac. Whether the reaver scenes were actually filmed with women or not is another thing, but in the script process at least, Joss had planned on there being female reavers.
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Female Reavers would be HOT!
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Re: Reaver reproduction
The popular theory with my little Browncoat group is that Reavers are somehow able to sense each other and, for whatever reason, don't attack. If there wasn't some kind of mechanism stopping them from tearing each other apart, I doubt they could even FORM Reaver boarding parties, let alone raver breeding parties. They may be savage, but the do appear organized, heck, in the BDM chase, some of them are on gunner duty! That implies, to me, organization of some kind, and the ability to tell friend from lunch.
As such, we figured that the Reavers are able to somehow tell whoever has the particular genetic defect required to become a Reaver when exposed to Pax. Now they can either intentionally or by accident carry the Pax with them in the atmospheres of their ships, or perhaps even in their own bloodstream/bodily fluids. In any case, they might have found the poor devil from Bushwhacked, sensed he could be a Reaver, and exposed him to Pax either intentionally or by accident by simply sensing his genetic abnormality and not killing him. After all, he was aboard that ship, alone, for at least a few months. If memory serves, wasn't the ship due to have arrived at its destination a good six months ago? Plenty of time, methinks, for a body to be mutated by an atmospheric contaminant in a confined, airtight space.
Just our theory, take it as you will.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!
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