Yes! Classic.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Kate P. - Aug 29, 2005 11:02:47 am PDT #4568 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:03:05 am PDT #4569 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aeryn seems to meet your criteria as well, ita.
No, Aeryn was too special for me -- as a Peacekeeper she was better than mere mortals, and she was an atypical Peacekeeper too -- that was less about her fighting, but she still had a taint of special about her.
Zoe's just a normal woman who fights. Not a member of a warrior race, just some chick with skills.
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 11:06:17 am PDT #4570 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That's true. She's also more relaxed with her fighting; she'll do it when she has to, but it isn't a big deal.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2005 11:07:07 am PDT #4571 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Zoe's just a normal woman who fights. Not a member of a warrior race, just some chick with skills.
I assume Major Kira wasn't quite warrior enough, then?
Damn, now I want more of Zoe's (well... and everybody else's) backstory. How did she get the skills? Did she decide to get them or did she need to get them?
Lee - Aug 29, 2005 11:07:51 am PDT #4572 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Other than the insane vengeful slave thing (which could count as conflicts coming from other things), Justine from AtS seems to fit the criteria.
brenda m - Aug 29, 2005 11:09:08 am PDT #4573 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Other than the insane vengeful slave thing (which could count as conflicts coming from other things), Justine from AtS seems to fit the criteria.
I don't think she meets the second - she's doing this because she's fucked up.
Lee - Aug 29, 2005 11:10:44 am PDT #4574 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oops. Misread.
I think the fucked upedness falls into my apart from clause.
I think she is at ease with the fighting; she's just driven by anger, unlike Zoe.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2005 11:11:06 am PDT #4575 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I don't think she meets the second - she's doing this because she's fucked up.
Yeah, I would definitely say she was not at ease with it.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:14:59 am PDT #4576 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I assume Major Kira wasn't quite warrior enough, then?
Little Miss anger issues? Fighting against the race that sold her people into slavery?
I'm sure it could turn out that Zoe went into the army because her family's plantation was razed to the ground and it was a reaction that drove her to violent works.
But I don't want it to be that way. I want it to be on a level of whatever with Wash being a pilot or Kaylee being a mechanic.
Just a thing.
Don't get me wrong -- I like a lot of these women (Justine rocks), but their fighting because of something exceptional -- a birthright, a trauma, whatever.
Zoe just fights.
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 11:15:02 am PDT #4577 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
You know why the series centers around Mal and not Zoe? Because Zoe is sane and well-adjusted.