Forever memes.

[balsamandash]

Today has been A Day. I thought I was gonna have actual stuff to say at one point, and then it was A Day, and I am just too drained. I am staring at a twitch stream and failing to make myself do things.

I am not tired enough to sleep, though, and I'm rambly lately, so have another meme? I don't know guys. Memes are all I got.

Give a fandom, I will tell you:
1. the character I least understand
2. interactions I enjoyed the most
3. the character who scares me the most
4. the character who is most like me
5. hottest looks character look I'm gonna come up empty on this one basically every time, so instead, how about a character I'd have liked to see more of
6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
7. one thing I like about my hated character
8. a quote or scene that haunts me
9. a character I wish died but didn’t
10. my ship that never sailed

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[st_aurafina]

Firefly?

Firefly!

[balsamandash]

1. the character I least understand
I mean, Book is a mystery for story reasons, but he's still a mystery.

2. interactions I enjoyed the most
I really like any time the crew is being, well, crew. Also, Tam siblings, and Book with basically anyone.

3. the character who scares me the most
Niska and the Operative are both stellar antagonists to watch who I would run far, far away from in real life.

4. the character who is most like me
So my friends group referred to me as their River for years -- at least one of them still regularly does so when we talk. I don't know exactly how accurate that is at this point, to be honest, but it's an association it got hard to shake.

5. a character I'd have liked to see more of
The Operative was really fascinating and I'd have like to see more of him. Also, I love Inara with everyone but Mal, and I would have really liked more scenes with everyone else.

6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
I wish we'd gotten more of River one-on-one with the whole crew; I feel like the show did not have enough time to give us every single possible one-on-one dynamic on the ship, and I never really got to see much of, say, River with Wash or Zoe. Other than that... I know there's some problems with Firefly, but River's entire characterization and story arc speaks to me really vibrantly and I would not change a thing about it.

7. one thing I like about my hated character
The characters I disliked were mostly antagonists, and the antagonists were interesting antagonists, even when they would be awful people.

8. a quote or scene that haunts me
Going... going back, like... apple bits coming back up. Chaos.... The sun came out, and I walked on my feet, and heard with my ears. I hate the bits, the bits that stay down and I work, I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits, fluids -- what am I?

There are a good amount of other things that stick with me -- off the top of my head, River in Safe, You gave up everything you had to find me, and you found me broken. It's not fair to you. You gave up everything that you had.... Daddy will come and take us home. And I'll get better. I'll get better.; Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed; I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early, and I'll just fade away.; and for some reason, Zoe in the deleted scene from the pilot, saying almost offhand as she moves offsceen, Once you've been in Serenity, you never leave. You just learn to live there. -- but that one speech hits me in particular.

9. a character I wish died but didn’t
I would have liked to see Niska killed off, but eh. Also I would be really interested in seeing how far you'd have to go to give Jayne a decent, in-character self-sacrifice arc -- not "the whole ship is in it together and in danger", but very much "sacrificing myself for everyone else and actually going 100% through with it" -- but that's a totally different thing altogether.

10. my ship that never sailed
So I'm not usually a shipper that wants things to happen in canon, but Simon and Inara had some really great, really interesting chemistry, and I'll be honest, I kind of hate Mal/Inara, and I think it would have been much more interesting for those two to get together. I also just ship it really hard in fandom and that's generally good enough for me, but I do think it could have been fun to see onscreen.

Also femmeslash. God, I just want all the femmeslash for this show.

Re: Firefly!

[st_aurafina]

They were the best crew! I could have watched hours of them just being together and doing stuff.

The Operative was *terrifying*! So softly spoken, and so merciless.

Totally agree that Simon and Inara could have had a thing - they had a lot of strange things in common. Etiquette, for one thing.