Saffron
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Sunday, September 16, 2007 15:52
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hi, i'm considering writing saffron into a future fic - a very enjoyable and layered character as was on the show.. any thoughts on the character for me?
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She's a tough one because she is so complex and twisted. She steals not for the money, but for the rush of stealing, and she doesn't care who she screws (literally and figuratively) in her path. In fact, she prides herself on pulling the wool over peoples eyes and taking from them. You could say that she's a kleptomanic as she can't not stop stealing, and she's an Adrenaline Addict to boot, yet at the same time she is highly intelligent with Academy training (as Inara pointed out). But there's still alot more to her than I think we were given in the two episodes she was showcased in. She was probably written to be a multi-episodic and multi-season character/badguy, and the longer the show was on the more layers and mystery would have been revealed.
That probably doesn't help you, but when I had her seek revenge on Mal & Co, I wrote Saffron full of hate but laying on the sweet voice to taunt Mal. I always felt she would be enraged with being outfoxed. And so the first chance to get back at Mal, she'd do it.
Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash
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There's some great tidbits about Saffron as a reoccuring character in the Firefly Official Companion II
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If it had been allowed to go its way for a couple of seasons, my guess is that Saffron would constantly come back, always fuck them over, but almost affectionately. Saffron and Mal would appreciate each other for their bombastic, crazy misdeeds, and that relationship would tease its way along through the episdoes, so that there could be moments where Inara would almost be jealous.
I would have liked to see where they took that.
By the way, the Official Companions to the show and the Visual Companion to the movie are all excellent resources, and I would advise any fanfic writer to pick up copies of all three. Tasty scraps of canon material to fill in some blanks, and lots of pretty pictures and details about weapons. And of course the full shooting scripts, which are always nice to refer to.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
There's some great tidbits about Saffron as a reoccuring character in the Firefly Official Companion IIQuote:
If it had been allowed to go its way for a couple of seasons, my guess is that Saffron would constantly come back, always fuck them over, but almost affectionately. Saffron and Mal would appreciate each other for their bombastic, crazy misdeeds, and that relationship would tease its way along through the episdoes, so that there could be moments where Inara would almost be jealous.
I would have liked to see where they took that.
Ahhh, see as someone that doesn't have the Official Companion Book, I totally missed out on that and just went with the creative liscence. Therefore I need to buy the books obviously.
*So yeah, if you're looking for canon don't take everything I wrote to heart*
Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash
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Oh, I thought you had some excellent insights into Saffron, and your assesment of her character is actually pretty true to canon, I just thought I'd put out what I had on where it might have gone.
I would still definitely suggest the books, of course. There's really an amazing amount of backstory in the few pages not devoted to scripts and pics and such, and some of the things in the scripts that didn't make the final episodes are very interesting as well.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.
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well i appreciated both sets of insights here.
i'm intrigued myself to see if i can bring in a little of saffron's back story -
her academy training/her combat skills -
because there's room there to explore...
but more importantly just the different kinds of strengths she has...
"and i won't tell them how easy it was to get the gun out of your holster"...LOL
attitude wise -
and because tho 'bad' she is presented as appealing to the viewer,
she reminds me in some ways of Faith.
anyone else have a view?
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Oh, I thought you had some excellent insights into Saffron, and your assesment of her character is actually pretty true to canon, I just thought I'd put out what I had on where it might have gone.
No worries, I was just referencing to what I put below about the revenge stuff. My Saffron went for the jugular when she came after Mal & Co, and I was just trying to say that people might want to avoid the uber-evil Saffron. She's bad, but if anyone read my piece they'd see I made her superbitch, which doesn't exactly fall into the canon your snippet from the book gives. No one is really SUPERevil in the Firefly verse (don't get me started with some of the Gabe Tam writing out there lol), and Saffron's plenty bad, but she posesses a certain art to her twisted ways as well as the admiration your quote mentioned.
Of course the way I shorthanded it in my previous reply did not come out well worded. So I apologize for that
Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash
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I've played with the idea of Saffron as a sort of compulsive Judas. She betrays in order to prove that she was trusted, and leaves her victims alive so that they serve as proof. She manipulates everyone so that she is never really vulnerable. If you go with this mindset, she would definately go after the crew of Serenity again, to get them to trust her and then con them, just so she can prove to herself that she is the only one pulling the strings.
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