First Word In Your Head... by DarkHood

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First Word In Your Head...

POSTED BY: DARKHOOD
UPDATED: Thursday, June 3, 2004 04:47
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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 5:56 AM

When you think of each character? I'll go first.

Mal - Strong
Zoe - Hair
Wash - Funny
Book - Boring
Kaylee - Cute
Jayne - Muscles
Inara - Sexy
Simon - Spoon
River - Crazy

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Mal's on the ground, about to get speared by Crow. A shot rings out. Crow is kneecapped.

Mal: Nice shot.

Jayne: I was aiming for his head.

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:04 AM

STILLSHINY

Mal - Laughing
Zoe - Loyal
Wash - Pilot
Book - Faith
Kaylee - Hottie
Jayne - Grunt
Inara - Companion
Simon - Plaid Vest
River - Crazy

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:19 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

Mal - Tortured
Zoe - Formidable
Wash - Sanctuary
Book - Spiritual
Kaylee - Innocence
Jayne - Potential
Inara - Secretive
Simon - Lost
River - Victim
Serenity - Haven

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:20 AM

BLACKSHAMROCK5

Mal - psychotic
Zoe - heroine
Wash - shirts
Book - mystery
Kaylee - sweet
Jayne - guns
Inara - S.T.D.
Simon - brother
River - child

Shamrock

He's a reverse vampire. They...uh...they crave the sun.

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:48 AM

JERSEYBROWNCOAT

Mal - Bwa!
Zoe - Fighter
Wash - Hawaii
Book - Cool
Jayne - Hats
Kaylee - Aww
Inara - Speechless
Simon - Proper
River - Squee!

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:53 AM

ZOID

DarkHood:

In my inimitable and infuriating way, I'll say more in the one word you've restricted us to, by relating it to archetypes of Greek mythology, thereby allowing me to imply more than just one word...

Mal = Prometheus (hero of mankind)
Zoe = Artemis (goddess of the hunt)
Wash = Hermes (irreverent and wing-footed)
Book = Zeus (God the Father, somber and wounded)
Kaylee = Demeter (goddess of agriculture -- including strawberries)
Jayne = Ares (god of war)
Inara = Aphrodite (goddess of physical beauty)
Simon = Apollo (god of sophistication and medicine)
River = Athena (goddess of wisdom and insanity, she was literally born a headache)

This exercise seemed more apropos to me, given the Greek names for the planet(oid)s in the Firefly 'verse. Still, it's pretty rude of me to change the rules to fit my own purposes, n'est-ce pas?

Respectfully,

zoid
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"I knew a man once. History will never recall him, or what he gave to make us free. That's the way he wanted it. But as long as I live I'll remember, and he'll never truly die."

- River, from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:00 AM

BEADYEYES

Mal - Honest
Wash - Scared
Zoe - Dead
Jayne - Willing
River - Sad
Simon - Weak
Book - Scary
Kaylee - Yum
Inara - Warm

'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.'
-Joss Whedon

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:17 AM

SLAYER730

Was anyone else confused by Darkhood's Simon word? "Spoon" for Simon??? Spoon for the Tick maybe...

***Never judge a book by its movie***

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:37 AM

DELIA

My list:

Mal -- Captain
Inara -- Tea
River -- Dance
Simon -- Hamster
Jayne -- Cunning
Wash -- Zany
Zoe -- Loyalty
Kaylee -- Dear
Book -- Good

Didn't realize till I was done that I'd managed to turn poor Summer Glau into a much hypered Michael Flatley show. (For which I apologize, though the music was great.)

Zoid, I am giggling over your choice of Apollo for Simon. Seems a bit of a skirt-chaser for Simon, but then, what Greek god wasn't?

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Spike: Why don't you rip her lungs out? It might make an impression.
Angelus: Lacks... poetry.
Spike: It doesn't have to. What rhymes with lungs?

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:49 AM

SPACERABBIT

well....my list:

Mal:free
Kaylee:sparkly
Wash:dinosaurs
Jayne:Vera
Book:hair
Zoe:apples
River:whispers
Inara:serenity
Simon:strong

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to the angel-mobile away!!!

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 11:30 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Mal - hopeful
Zoe - fierce
Wash - love
Book - knowledge
Kaylee - warmth
Jayne - sly
Inara - lonely
Simon - adrift
River - perpetual

spoon? well, maybe spork, but not all out spoon.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 11:50 AM

KARENKAY99

Mal - safe
(wow, had to analyse this. i think because i would feel safe with mal around. guess i'm totally assumming we're on the same side. :-)

Zoe - beautiful

Wash - wacky fun
(i know, that's 2 words, but that's what popped in my head, i'm sorry)

Book - mysterious

Kaylee - sweet

Jayne - clueless
(but one of the reason i love him)

Inara - lovely

Simon - doctor
(not really fair, huh?)

River - Crazy
(yep, you said it, nothing to add)

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 12:45 PM

ANNIK

Mal - tall
Zoe - stoic
Wash - happygolucky

(oneword!)
Book - thoughtful
Simon - geek
River - dissonant
Kaylee - shiny!
Inara - mystic
Jayne - thick (as in mentally! ... get your minds out of the gutter!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 3:06 AM

DARKHOOD

Stop going on about the spoon lol! It was the first word in my head. On closer inspection I guess it may have something to do with being born with a silver spoon in your mouth.

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Mal's on the ground, about to get speared by Crow. A shot rings out. Crow is kneecapped.

Mal: Nice shot.

Jayne: I was aiming for his head.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:10 AM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Jayne = Ares (god of war)

I'd paint Jayne as more of a Hercules-type. The original myth one, not the Kevin Sorbo superhero.

Ares was cunning and ultra-powerful, and his name evokes images of a sinister and brutal elegence (he was a god, after all).

Hercules, OTOH, was the thick-headed lout whose heart was (usually) in the right place. While powerful, he was mortal (well, half-mortal), and not known for living in Olympian splendour. He wore an animal skin (not armour crafted by Hephaistos) and carried a big club (not a sword capable of splitting hairs).

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:25 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Mal - Tortured
Zoe - Strength
Wash - Jovial
Book - Wisdom
Kaylee - Innocence
Jayne - Misguided
Inara - Grace
Simon - Protective
River - Lost
Serenity - Home

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 6:27 AM

ANNIK

??,MA,riginally posted by Cybersnark:
Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Jayne = Ares (god of war)
I'd paint Jayne as more of a Hercules-type. The original myth one, not the Kevin Sorbo superhero.

Ares was cunning and ultra-powerful, and his name evokes images of a sinister and brutal elegence (he was a god, after all).

Hercules, OTOH, was the thick-headed lout whose heart was (usually) in the right place. While powerful, he was mortal (well, half-mortal), and not known for living in Olympian splendour. He wore an animal skin (not armour crafted by Hephaistos) and carried a big club (not a sword capable of splitting hairs).

And didn't the mythological Hercules also have an ... um ... 'relationship' with his nephew? That's where the analogy doesn't work for me.

Perhaps Thor, as depicted by Douglas Adams?

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 7:04 AM

ZOID

Cybersnark wrote:

Quote:
I'd paint Jayne as more of a Hercules-type. The original myth one, not the Kevin Sorbo superhero.

Ares was cunning and ultra-powerful, and his name evokes images of a sinister and brutal elegence (he was a god, after all).

Hercules wouldn't necessarily be a bad choice, but I was sticking with gods (Prometheus was a Titan, a pre-Olympian Greek god, BTW). Having said that, I'd go with Ares anyway. He was single-minded, fickle (he'd back whoever appeared to be the most brave/foolhardy, more than a few times switching sides in the middle of a battle) and not overly concerned with the morality of either side of the conflict. Kind of a 'split someone's skull open and ask questions later, if ever' kind of guy. We see Jayne always wanting to mix it up, even against disastrous odds ("The only fluid I see is this puddle...") and only Mal holding his leash keeps him from making that crucial tactical error.

Ares was not all-powerful, and was defeated on occasion on the field of battle by mortal men (he had a penchant for getting on the field himself, as did the other Olympians, to a lesser degree).

Respectfully,

zoid
_________________________________________________

"I knew a man once. History will never recall him, or what he gave to make us free. That's the way he wanted it. But as long as I live I'll remember, and he'll never truly die."

- River, from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 8:18 AM

DARKHOOD

Where did you lot learn about Greek gods?

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Mal's on the ground, about to get speared by Crow. A shot rings out. Crow is kneecapped.

Mal: Nice shot.

Jayne: I was aiming for his head.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 8:45 AM

ZOID

DarkHood:

When I was a schoolboy (starting in 3rd grade) I ingested everything I could find on Greek mythology and dinosaurs and astronomy. I also read the Roman adaptation of Greek mythology, but found it distastefully bland and perverse in comparison. I think our modern Judeo-Christian society owes more to -- resonates more with -- classical Greek philosophy than it does with ancient Roman morality.

It's important to remember I'll soon be 46, and when I was a child we only had AM radio and 3 channels on TV. We were forced to read and engage in physical outdoors activity in order to entertain ourselves. Poor us.

Respectfully,

zoid
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"I knew a man once. History will never recall him, or what he gave to make us free. That's the way he wanted it. But as long as I live I'll remember, and he'll never truly die."

- River, from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 9:36 AM

WHOODAHN

Mal - Lost
Zoe - Loyal
Wash - Comic relief
Book - Mystery
Kaylee - Childlike
Jayne - Manly
Inara - Searching
Simon - Caring
River - Broken

"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 10:12 AM

TEELABROWN

Mal- psychotic (As in Serenity, when they're laughing...)
Book- hair
River- dance
Simon- proper/respectable
Kaylee- adorable
Inara- culture
Wash- Hawaiian shirt (two words, one idea)
Zoe- fighter
Jayne- Vera...well, gun in general

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 10:18 AM

TEELABROWN

Side note: I get images in my head, so words can be hard...

River keeps gettin' "crazy", which is true, I think River's cooler when dancing. Also "graceful".

Another side note: I didn't look at any of these before I posted, except for the first one.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

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Thursday, June 3, 2004 4:21 AM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by DarkHood:
Where did you lot learn about Greek gods?

Well, a few years back I took Greek Myth as an elective (part of the whole "you need 30 credits, but we don't give a rat's ass what they're in" thing that organized "education" is so big on), but even before that I've always been heavily into mythology/supernatural/paranormal/occult stuff.

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Thursday, June 3, 2004 4:47 AM

APEMAN61

Mal - unusual
Zoe - Jasmine
Wash - corky
Book - hiding
Kaylee - childlike
Jayne - agressive
Inara - sex
Simon - lost
River - damaged

"Rule of thumb? Maybe it should be rule of wrist."

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