Who is scariest?

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GAEBOLGA

Friday, May 16, 2003 12:52 PM

If we're just talking about the crew, I say Book is the scariest, no question. If we're not limited to Serenity, I've got six little words for ya:

Two by two, hands of blue....

- Fear the badger, for it is mighty!

SERENITYVALLEY

Friday, May 16, 2003 3:54 PM

Well, book's hair is definately frightening...or really funny. I think if you could be friends with Mal or Zoe you'd have no problem. River would be a little nerve racking b/c she's not very stable and you never know what she'll do next. Jayne's not scary. His machoness is pretty funny, but he's not theh pee your pants kind of scary.

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" -Wash
"I told him to sit down," -Simon

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, May 16, 2003 5:53 PM

Mal.

why ?

Because he's such an honorable, decent sort of fellow, that you never, ever see it coming - till it hits you.

Ask Crow about that.. oh yeah, you can't, he got sucked through the intake... maybe you could ask Atherton, perhaps ?
Hell, ask Jayne, there ya go.

Thing is, Mal seems such a decent fellow, till someone crosses a line with him, and there's a natural assumption that being such a decent guy most of the time, he's always that way, and it just ain't so.

That's one guy I would *NOT* piss off, if I could help it.

-Frem
"This is all the money Nishka gave us..." - Mal

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, May 16, 2003 6:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gaebolga:
If we're just talking about the crew, I say Book is the scariest, no question. If we're not limited to Serenity, I've got six little words for ya:

Two by two, hands of blue....

- Fear the badger, for it is mighty!

I didn't even consider the posiblity fo off Serenity. Yopu got me they are the scariest in the 'verse, with revers at a close second.

KIRTIL

Friday, May 16, 2003 9:27 PM

I will go with Jayne on who might be the scariest one.

All others have their own moral values, ethics thus their actions can be anticipated. Even river is predictable in her unpredictable-weird-crazy way. All but Jayne. All i predict of him is to be tough, be stupid, and doesnt think much. And that combination seems the scariest to me.

to quote Mary in Spider Robinson's Callahan's Lady:
"From force of habit, you'll keep expecting him to react intelligently - and he won't always oblige."

OBSESSED

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:53 AM

I have to go with River. Book, Mal, Zoe, and Jayne all have the potential to be dangerous, but River is truly unpredictable. Book used to be frightening, but he is generally safe now, unless he or the crew is in danger. Whatever he was before is over, and he is trustworthy now. The unknown aspect about him is scary sometimes, but he has obviously changed, which he has proven several times.
Mal and Zoe are fine as long as you're loyal. Jayne is plenty predictable; he likes money. If you keep him paid off, he's just boorish and rude.
River, on the other hand, has the potential to be even more dangerous. As Kaylee said, neither Mal nor Zoe nor Jayne could have shot like she did. And she does not always have a predictable pattern of insanity, as someone said above. Of course she's going to have an aversion to the infirmary, but there's no way to predict things like her mistaking a gun for a stick or slicing Jayne open (not that they can't spare him.)
I don't think she can really kill people with her brain or anything, or she would have done it to the three guys she shot, but she is still very dangerous. If that wasn't enough, just being around her without calling the cops makes you a criminal, and the Blue Hands will just kill anyone associated with her, so just knowing her would always carry the possibility of capture or death, in case she wasn't scary enough on her own.
She would also know if you were going to harm her, so you could never put anything over on her.

Book: I'd forgotten - you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now.
Simon: No, but I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

WREN

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:33 AM

Mal cos there is a whole lot of despair and anger tied up inside him. We have seen small parts of it - his treatment of Wash when Zoe got shot and nearly sending Jayne out the airlock. However, would he be able to retain control of it if say, Zoe were killed? I wouldn't want to be around when he explodes.

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:19 PM

I'm gonna agree with the "scared of Mal" crowd.

Book is mysterious, and he has a certain darkness to him, but he doesn't strike me as being particularly cruel (which, for me, is a requirement of scary).

I agree with Zoe's analysis of River; that she's not likely to hurt anyone (we can't spare). Jayne may not be too bright, but but I'm pretty sure I could outsmart him. Plus he's the kinda guy who, if you do manage to befriend him, he'll stick by you through Hell until you do something wrong.

Mal, OTOH, is the nice guy. Speaking as a nice guy myself, you do not want to p*ss off the nice guy.

It's like the Joss quote that sometimes pops up upscreen. When you're a nice guy, you can only get so angry, but Mal's been all hollowed out inside. Get in his way, he will kill you dead; no compassion, no mercy, no hesitation.

Everyone has a certain darkness in them. Most people spend their lives trying to tame it. Mal hasn't tamed it; he's trained it. It's not just fury, it's fury with discipline and intelligence.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

MAUGWAI

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:38 PM

I'm going to have to agree with Book. The rage with which he says "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not" is extreme. I think his religion keeps his rage in control. If he were forced too much to question it too closely he might go nuts and kill people. We have no idea what he's capable of.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

DAVCO92

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:42 PM

I agree to a certain extent. Can you say "Fallen Angel"? But, I can see Book being methodical about it, planning it out step-by-step, like an assassin. Take everything positive about Book and twist it, turn it dark. River would be scary but you could probably empathize with her. If Book went bad it would be because he lost his faith and then decided to act in such a fassion. That would not be pretty...

Burn the land, boil the sea...

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