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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I think I read somewhere that Inara, very early, was supposed to be a more rough-and-tumble actual whore, and a drug addiction might have played into that version.

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Inara has enough complex issues that arise from what we've already seen and a drug addiction would just seems tacked on. It would, if anything, give a bland, trite reason for behaviors that would be more interesting if they were merely psychological.

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Originally posted by wytchcroft:

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I think I read somewhere that Inara, very early, was supposed to be a more rough-and-tumble actual whore, and a drug addiction might have played into that version.

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oh wow - like Nandi? maybe HAerts of Gold was originallly helping Inara directly - ooh speculation!

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Inara has enough complex issues that arise from what we've already seen and a drug addiction would just seems tacked on. It would, if anything, give a bland, trite reason for behaviors that would be more interesting if they were merely psychological.

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i pretty much agree - i wonder if she was SICK?
we only have her word that the examination she had was 'routine'...

but that too could veer off to a predictable place i guess...

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