Zoe and Mal have the same body language. Complete confidence in how they move. Book has it to a degree, but none of the others. There is a calmness about the three of them, each in their own way. To me it is obvious that whoever parented them, mom, farm hands, tutors, they gave the children a sense of worth.
And this! Yes!
Whatever their backgrounds you know that if something was needed, and they didn't have it, they could invent a substitue without much fuss.
Yup. Self-sufficiency and self-confidence. Kaylee has this, too--but only as it applies to engines. Elsewise, she's very coltish and wide-open and admiring of all the new stuff she's getting to see and experience.
I emailed that OSC review of FF to some friends. One of them forwarded it to her Dad who is an OSC fan. He has now requested to borrow her FF dvds.
Take me some time, Nilly, but I'll work on it. Anne? You remember any of this? I could use the help remembering. I seem to recall we had a difference of opinion about Wash's background, but not what it was, right now.
Erk! I'm trying to remember as well. I
think
I saw Wash as someone who came from a lower middle-class family in a blue-collar city (think Pittsburgh, Baltimore, etc.), had a decent, but not great, education at something like a tech school. Or something. I'll see if anything pings my memory.
Anne, that's about how I saw Wash, too. Tech school being flight school, in that case. The pollution on his planet that kept him from ever seeing stars makes it sound like an industrial planet, low-tech (comparatively) enough not to have non-polluting technology. Not on the Rim, maybe, but not in the Core, either. He had enough money to get into flight school, which probably isn't cheap, or else he was skilled enough to get a scholarship. He has done his share of crap work, which he wasn't very good at - fired from a fry-cook job, for example - so maybe he worked his way through school. I see him as from a blue-collar family, with his only real ambition being getting the heck off that planet. The only thing I don't really understand about him is why he doesn't seem to have any qualms about taking up a lifestyle on the wrong side of the law. Maybe his family was doing some shady deals all along, so he's kinda used to it?
Maybe his family was doing some shady deals all along
He struck me as the type who came from a family just not-well-off enough that when they needed to fix an appliance or something were the type to jump the junkyard fence and find what they needed. The whole family was probably good at stretching things to meet. Wash may even have done a little on planet smuggling at home in exchange for piloting lessons. His family lived as much by bartering as by buying things outright.
Just thought I'd pass along to everyone that the BDM is getting groomed to purrfection; and that the tests have been very positive!
Serenity...
Quote last night from AB over at the prospero OB.
One time when positive test results are good...
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A fic that explores Wash's background, for those of you so inclined.
Does anybody know if there is a Firefly font out there for download?
