Character Biographies

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Sunday, February 13, 2011 1:59 AM

Hello.

Does anyone know if there are Official Character Biographies of the Firefly crew? I'm working on a project and wanted to include a short paragraph about each character. I could write my own, but I'd be happier if I could find something established.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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BYTEMITE

Sunday, February 13, 2011 2:43 AM

The Serenity RPG handbook? There's some bios there, but they're from Mal's POV, taking about his crew and passengers. About one page long each.

I could post it for you.

Or, there's shorter biographical descriptions from a neutral/Alliance POV included in the Serenity Blue Ray extras. They're pulled from the files that the Operative looks at one point. Only one who doesn't have much on him is Book because his file is confidential.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Sunday, February 13, 2011 3:38 AM

Hi Bytemite..
Thanks the RPG Handbook would be good. Does it give you a Biography of Mal too?

I think that should do in the absence of anything from the pen of Joss, or the other creators.

I didn't know that about the BluRay DVD version. I still have just the regular DVD.

Thanks again.
Ric


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BYTEMITE

Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:26 AM

Okay, here goes. I might see if I can transcribe the data files from the movie tomorrow maybe, though it runs pretty slow on my hardware.

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Malcolm Reynolds:

“Find a ship. Find a crew. Keep flyin’. I found a ship, name of Serenity. I found a crew. Some I didn’t go looking for, but they’re here and so long as they work to keep us flyin’, they’ll stay.

“Name’s Malcolm Reynolds. I’m captain of Serenity. Some call me ‘Mal.’ Others call me ‘Captain.’ I answer to both, so long as it’s understood who’s in command. Which would be me.

“I was born on Shadow. Family owned a ranch there. Mother raised me, along with a few dozen hired hands. She saw to it that I had a goodly amount of schooling, though that’s nothing I brag on. Our hired hands saw to it I had a good amount of schooling, too, though not of the same sort. My mother taught me to play the gentleman’s part at a fancy dress ball. The ranch foreman taught me how to shoot my way out of that fancy dress ball, if I had to.

“Was brought up a man of faith, lost that in Serenity Valley. Found something else there, though. More on that to come.

“The central planets’ government—the Alliance—was always trying to meddle in our affairs. Their meddling got worse and worse and finally some of us lost our stomach for it. When the Unification War broke out, I volunteered for the side that believed a man should be able to live his life pretty much as he wants, so long as he doesn’t take to harming others, with no one havin’ the right to tell him what to think or how to think it. Our side was called many things, ‘Independents,’ ‘Browncoats.’ Our side lost.

“I was Sergeant Malcolm Reynolds then, of the 57th Overlanders. We were stationed on Hera, in Serenity Valley, during what turned out to be one of the bloodiest battles of the war. We held out against overwhelming numbers for seven weeks—two of those after our sorry-assed commanders had surrendered. Took sixty-eight percent casualties. Me and Zoe—her as is part of my crew—were the only two as came out of the 57th breathin’. I won’t say alive.

“It was there I found that all a man should put his faith in is his ship, that which keeps him flyin’. Thus, the name, Serenity.

“As for knowin’ some things about me. I’m a man of my word. If I take a job, I do the job. When I do a job, I get paid. If that don’t happen, there’s like to be trouble.

“I keep to the border planets, mostly. Stay away from the Alliance. I’ve been bound by law five times and the experience was not pleasuresome. Charges never stuck, though.

“I’m still flyin’.”

—Conversation with Malcolm Reynolds

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“First known to me as Corporal Alleyne. She was and is my right hand. She is as true a friend as a man can ever have. I’ve trusted her with my life more times than there are stars in the black.

“As to her raisin’ and upbringing, I guess she’ll tell you about that if she thinks it needful. What she generally says is that she was born in the black, raised to life aboard a ship. Like me, she volunteered to fight the Alliance and, like me, she was in Serenity Valley. Like me, she came out breathin’.

“Our views on life being much the same, she agreed to throw in her lot with me and come on board Serenity as First Mate. I must say that Zoe didn’t seem to think much of the ship when first she set eyes on her. Nor did she think much of the man I hired as our pilot, a fellow called Wash.

“I’ve got to admit that he did take some getting used to, what with his palm tree shirts and fairly constant wisecracking, but, as I told her, he is good at his job. And I’m the captain.

“Well, Zoe and Wash flung Chinese cusswords at one another on a regular basis and I thought that probably bullets was like to follow until I took to noticin’ that all their rows seemed to end up in the bunk of one or t’other.

“Before I know it, Zoe—who can creep up on a man and slit his throat so fast and so silent that he’s in the Bad Place before he knows what hit him—starts getting all melty and tearsome whe

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