How do you see yourself on Serenity?

POSTED BY: Daikath
UPDATED: Friday, November 12, 2004 01:32
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DAIKATH

Monday, October 25, 2004 8:32 PM

In the thread where we all talked about why we love Firefly and we pretty much all agreed it was at least partly because we all felt like we were another crewmember.

So that is where my thread comes into place, how would you want to be a passanger onboard Serenity?

Mine would be a passenger who would just but a passenger cabin with a priceless Game Boy Advance with games (the last surviving handheld from Earth-That-Was) and stay aboard there. Not going on any mission unless it would be necesary but playing chess or something with Inara and Book while they are out and I would definatly like playing a boardgame with all 10 crewmembers on that big table.

So how would you like to see yourself onboard Serenity?

MALICIOUS

Monday, October 25, 2004 8:38 PM

I definitely see me cleaning and doing dishes, cuz I'm a neat freak. I also see myself helping Kaylee in the engine room, fetching things for her while she's doing the worker-person stuff. I'd also cook or help others cook. Of course, I'd also be Mal's cuddle-buddy, which is why I'd be on the ship in the first place.

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

CAITE

Monday, October 25, 2004 8:56 PM

I definitely see myself either as the cook or the computer guru. I think I would be from the same planet as Kaylee, because I see myself as being wonderful friends with her. I'd probably want to be the one who understands River...

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Monday, October 25, 2004 9:03 PM

Well, lets see. If it was Me, with a captial M, then I suppose the Serenity crew would, while taking a long detour to avoid the feds, stumble across an abandoned wreck. Inside it a cryogenic pod, holding a person - me, a relic of the Earth That Was, cryogenically frozen before they really knew anyway to unfreeze people without killing them- most such people were lost in the destruction of Earth, or destroyed in the civil war as the designated repository for such people (until it was decided what to do with them) was blown up. Me, I was a rare exception and bound for a private collection when some disaster struck the ship. Wackiness ensues and they wind up reviving me, so, not knowing much about this brave new world, they let me stick around.

But, really, the question generally asks "if you were someone who was already in the Firefly 'verse"... so, I think I'd like to be a local planet bound guy, dreaming of the stars. The crew arrives on a job, and things get hairy as someone recognizes Simon and/or River. I wind up risking everything to help them get away when they tell me the truth, and, having nothing left and facing charges for aiding and abetting if anyone ever found out, they let me on.

Either way, I mostly keep to myself, but try to help out where-ever I can. I wouldn't do anything I think of as particularly immoral, though, which would put me out of some of the jobs, and I don't think I'd ever handle a weapon.
Maybe, to make myself useful, I'd see if I could get either Simon to train me as a medical aide or Kaylee to teach me something about engines, so I can fill in if there's an emergency.

As for interactions, I'd probably get along reasonably well with Kaylee, Simon, River, Book, and Wash. I'd not like Jayne too much (but might grow to appreciate him if he doesn't sell us out). I'd probably like but be faintly scared of Zoe cause she's the toughest, even more than Jayne. Like the Captain in general but not be too close on account of him being the local authority figure, and probably get along and like but not be terribly close with Inara. No particular reason, I just have that sense.

Star Pilot Grainger
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FEMALEJAYNE

Monday, October 25, 2004 9:09 PM

I think I'd be Wash's sister trying to find out if this Zoe person was good enough for my big brother. LOL!! I know it's out there.
Well either that or I'd be a cook/herblist helping Simon and Kaylee get things together. I'd also be making a move on Jayne. ;) there is just something about tall men that seems so manly.

With Hope because love is nothing without hope.

SOUPCATCHER

Monday, October 25, 2004 9:26 PM

I'd be an old roommate of Wash's from flight school (he went on to stunning success - I flunked out after a few years). I'd bounced around the rim doing odd jobs and happened to hook up with Wash again when Serenity landed on a backwater moon. Got drunk and passed out somewhere on Serenity and wasn't found until after the crew had left on their next job.

They keep me around because I know a little bit about hydroponics (got this idea from other people's suggestions in earlier threads that this could be a needed skill on Serenity). Lots of early conflict because the only things I can initially grow successfully are potatoes, lots and lots of potatoes.

There are three kinds of people: fighters, lovers, and screamers.

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

Monday, October 25, 2004 10:19 PM

Ideally, I'd be this guy who tumbles out of a wormhole, buys an older model Firefly ship, and gets into business like the folks on Serenity.

Were I just on the ship itself. I'm mechanically and computer-ally inclined, so I could hope I'd find work on those systems on the ship. I don't think they've much need for an English teacher otherwise.

-Taylor

Uncharted Outlaw!
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GOJIRO

Monday, October 25, 2004 10:33 PM

I figure I'd be mostly like Tracey -- a Browncoat vet, a real cut-up, telling jokes, pulling pranks, etc. 'Ceptin' I wouldn't smuggle someone else's guts inside me. And I'd try to be a productive hired gun, not eatin' beans when there's killin' to be done. I imagine I'd spend most of my time on the bridge, staring out at the black.

gojiro

MAUGWAI

Monday, October 25, 2004 10:42 PM

I'd be a restless young adult princess on some ambiguous planet. I hire the crew to do a job stealing from my daddy. In order to get in, Jayne poses as my bodyguard and starts to like my tough but sexy demeanor. When we have stolen the goods, the crew sweeps me away to a better place on Serenity, where I spend my ship time teasing the lustful Jayne and learning from Zoe how to kick ass.

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

LOSTINTHEVERSE

Monday, October 25, 2004 11:06 PM

I'd be nekkid. Yep, that's about it. That and maybe have a pet chicken or something. Yeah. Nekkid with a pet chicken named "Bongo". And maybe some juggling geese. Bongo can collect tips from the crew while I juggle. Yeah, that's it... I'd be the entertainment and I'd only show up at really weird times. Especially when we land places... new people to juggle for and for Bongo to scam credits out of by playing that "find the queen" card game, except "find the plum" from the tall card deck.

~ Lost In The 'Verse

"About a year before we met, I spent 6 months on a moon where the primary form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to god. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled!"

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