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Forward / Fan Fic	comment	Forward is a Doorstopper-length Original Flavor Continuation Firefly fanfic written by the same author behind Tiberium Wars and Renegade. It is partially an alternate universe fic, as it Retcons several major character deaths in Serenity, but otherwise remains true to the ending of the movie. The story follows the crew of Serenity as they continue on, and have to struggle with the enemies they've made and new ones that appear, while the Alliance struggles to remain in control.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Notable for strong characterization, believable character development, and a wide, overarching plot arc. General consensus among the reviewers has that the story captures the Firefly essence very well, with many of the reviewers comparing the writing favorably to Joss Whedon's own.The story is separated into episodic story arcs, to emulate the series' episodes. The fic starts off very dark, particularly with regards to River's madness and Mal's more ruthless tendencies, but lightens as the story progresses. As the series has progressed, it has gradually revealed an overarching plot relating to the Academy and the Alliance's more shadowy operations.The primary characters of the story are Mal and River (the latter of whom the author admits is his favorite character), and the story spends a great deal of time exploring both of their mindsets, pasts, and moral quandries. The story does not yet involve a non-canon pairing, though the author has confirmed that the story will have a later pairing involving River and as-yet-unnamed character.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Notable also for its....unusual....take on River's mental processes.The story currently consists of nine story-arc "episodes" and five brief "interludes." In order: Unfinished Business Condor Mosaic Adrift First Interlude Silver Second Interlude Third Interlude Charity Hunt Fourth Interlude Last Man Fifth Interlude Wrath (dead)Last updated May 2013.Be forewarned that this page contains a ton of spoilers. The series has a pretty hefty amount of twists and whams.Also has a Shout Out page.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Forward / Fan Fic / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: In "Silver," Inara deliberately disguises River as this, at least in a high-class sort of way. Inara dresses elegantly, while Mal dresses in his usual formalwear, which he looks awkward to draw attention, while River is dressed in an outfit and makeup that is just proper enough that no one notices her next to Inara and Mal. Inducers are capable of making themselves so ordinary to others that they can walk past them without being noticed.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Jayne has an extremely brief one in "Business" when River takes a bullet for him. He comes out the other end very pissed off. At the end of "Hunt" River violently butchers a Hand of Blue in front of Simon, and is so ashamed at his reaction that she runs off on her own in another ship. Subverted in "Last Man" when Vera is destroyed by Konstantin. Jayne deliberately pushes it aside and soldiers through the shock, because stopping and reacting to it would get him killed.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Forward / Fan Fic / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Notably subverted with River and Jayne, after they survived being tortured by Niska. The aftermath would have provided a perfect opportunity to follow up with one of these, but the author deliberately avoided doing so to develop both of their characters.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Forward / Fan Fic / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: There's a scene at the end of "Charity" showing River lying curled up in bed next to Katie. Its written like a mother holding a sleeping child, which becomes increasingly disturbing when one considers that Katie has essentially mindraped River into forcibly becoming a maternal/protector figure. Later on, when River tries to rebel against Katie and attack her. The resulting scene where Katie mentally crushes River's mind is written like a rape scene, which is entirely appropriate.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Forward / Fan Fic / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Lampshaded repeatedly to the point where it becomes a Running Gag, with characters mentioning at least once an arc that they're going to get jinxed. Which they do. In "Charity" Mal tries to be savvy and keeps his mouth shut about how narrow their escape was. It doesn't work.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1645005b	comment	Evil vs. Evil: In "Unfinished Business," Niska's men against the Hands of Blue. From "Hunt," the Hands of Blue versus Inducer One-One-Nine, with a four-way gang war thrown in for good measure.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Zoe smashing in Marietta's head with Mal's sledgehammer.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Doctor al-Rashid.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_17fe1048	type	Naked on Arrival
Forward / Fan Fic / int_17fe1048	comment	Naked on Arrival: The beginning of the "Silver" arc.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1869b4b1	type	UnreliableNarrator
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Everything in "Charity." No one knew about or noticed the Inducer because she wouldn't let them notice her.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Forward / Fan Fic / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Blanks, who are immune to psychic powers outright, making them ideal as security guards/recovery agents for the Academy's psychics. It is implied that the Hands of Blue are Blanks, as is John Garis. The Academy also has developed some kind of anti-psionic implants that they equip their commandos with, which has a limited effect on protecting them from Inducers and River's empathic senses.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Forward / Fan Fic / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: In Silver, naked Jayne holding a stolen machinegun and spraying fire at a bunch of enemy soldiers.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Forward / Fan Fic / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The final chapter of the "Mosaic" arc. This itself is apparently a reference to a line in the Those Left Behind prequel comic, where Wash asks Mal where they're headed at the end, and he says "Forward."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: In "Mosaic," Ott's crew thinks River is just a skinny teenage girl that they lump in with the rest of the crew when they take the ship. They only realize their thorough mistake once she starts punching out all their blood.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: The Brit and the Frenchman (Gustav) share this role
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: Done with a twist in "Silver": The crew originally backs down from the heist in question, until Womack forces them to go on it anyway.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Dumon't operation involves the production of those designer human organs that Womack smuggles, by growing them inside lobotomized human slaves.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1d9a2764	type	Reality Ensues
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: When the martial arts master charges the girl with the revolver, guess who wins? When River is on the ground and being chased by pirates in a spacecraft, the backwash from their thrusters hits her, picks her up, and slams her into a boulder, apparently breaking her legs and leaving her immobilized.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Mal has no compunctions about shooting Ott in the back as he runs away. The guy tried to kill his entire crew, after all.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1dfd19f9	type	PapaWolf
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Take a wild guess...
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: In the "Third Interlude." Though technically, its Mandarin which Mal is mangling due to his apparent anger.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The events of "Adrift" force the crew to choose between letting Simon die from his injuries or going to the Alliance for help. This puts them between a rock and a hard place, which is literally the predicament Mal finds himself in for most of the first chapter. In "Silver" the following conversation happens:
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Niska gets a few fingers cut off by Jayne.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: River and Jayne during "Charity."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Forward / Fan Fic / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: The story is notably more violent than the series itself; all of the "episodes" tend to involve a least one large gun or melee battle against Mooks, with a hefty body count building up as the story progresses. Lampshaded a few times by both the author and the characters, with the author noting that in the first "episode" alone he probably killed more mooks than the actual series and movie put together.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Forward / Fan Fic / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The Alliance. Their soldiers are enemies in Business but actually become allies of the crew in Condor and Adrift. In particular, Colonel Dannet, who was so affected by what he did to the children at the Academy that he retired early and hid out on a Rim planet, just trying to forget what happened.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Forward / Fan Fic / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Hammer .....which pops up again in "Charity." The knife of Volsky also becomes important later on, when Jayne uses it to escape and cut off Niska's fingers. A literal case in the form of the Lassiter. It was mentioned off-handedly toward the beginning of "Business," and thirty-some-odd chapters later.... The drive discharge capacitor is mentioned early in "Condor." In "Adrift," said capacitor explodes and causes most of the problems in that arc. The carpet that Kaylee wraps around herself in the intro to "Silver" turns out to be a flying carpet that Mal, Jayne, and Kaylee used to escape Dumont's mansion. The power loader in "Hunt."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: River and Jayne start off the story still somewhat hostile toward one another, but after surviving their ordeal in Niska's clutches, they develop into friends, albeit friends who still bicker and tease each other relentlessly.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Forward / Fan Fic / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Jubal Early beating up Kaylee's sister Ashley in the "Second Interlude."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_257a4ec8	type	Out, Damned Spot!
Forward / Fan Fic / int_257a4ec8	comment	Out, Damned Spot!: River has one of these following the brutal fight with Ott's pirates at the end of "Mosiac." In "Charity," it is shown why she has this reaction. Whenever she kills someone in close-combat, River is exposed to a full blast of both their emotions and their personal history, both of which are immediately cut off when they die in a manner that is apparently deeply disturbing.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Zoe killing Kathryn.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: In "Silver," River briefly masquerades as Inara's accounting assistant, which involves her having to actually wear some makeup, brush out her tangled hair, and wear a semi-businesslike outfit. The rest of the crew has a muted version of the typical response to this trope, particularly Jayne.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2a090d00	type	LampshadeHanging
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Mal's tendency toward A Simple Plan is regularly lampshaded. In the shootout in the warehouse in "Business," River tries to ram the doors to escape, but doesn't break through, to which Jayne complains "that always works in the vids." The sheer number of Mooks the crew fights at the beginning of "Business" is lampshaded with Mal commenting that "it was like someone had found a discount site on the Cortex for hired goons." While Simon is confronting the Operative at the party in "Silver", he bluntly lampshades just how overwhelmingly melodramatic the man is. At the beginning of "Mosaic", Wash confesses to "feel like [he's] only alive because of the whims of some silly god." In the first chapter of "Charity" Mal lampshades the number of references and in-jokes they're using during the voice-recording scene. This goes meta and recursive a moment later when River lampshades the lampshading.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Colonel Lee Obrin, Mal and Zoe's former commander. Mal accuses him of being no different from the Alliance due to the way he regards River as a weapon/strategic asset instead of a person, as well as the fact that he believes they have to teach people the "correct" way to think.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: River's Out, Damned Spot! moment in "Charity."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: The author's portrayal of River emphasizes this, pointing out that while being supremely agile and dangerous, one solid hit is all it takes to put River down. She gets tougher as the story progresses, but is still vulnerable to things like broken bones.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: The author holds firmly to the "canon" dates of Mal's birth, putting him in his fifties.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Well, Serenity doesn't carry any guns, but the ship is a pretty damned durable, so it works in a pinch in more than one case.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_330a3b9c	type	Differently Powered Individual
Forward / Fan Fic / int_330a3b9c	comment	Differently Powered Individual: The Academy uses a naming system for the different kinds of psychics, which is detailed below in Psychic Powers.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_33a2a0a	type	Remember That You Trust Me
Forward / Fan Fic / int_33a2a0a	comment	Remember That You Trust Me: River and Zoe have this conversation in "Charity" when River becomes worried that Zoe is afraid of her instability.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Forward / Fan Fic / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Invoked by the author in one of his notes: " River now has a sword that tazes people."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Forward / Fan Fic / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Quite possibly as a backswing to the Grim Dark of Tiberium Wars, this story is actually fairly positive. Sure, the series starts off quite dark and brutal, but as it progresses, the crew ends up being better off, River is recovering, Zoe and Wash are expecting a child, the crew has a backup ship stashed away after killing Ott, and the series repeatedly reaffirms Mal's commitment to his True Companions and doing what he thinks is right over what is smart.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Forward / Fan Fic / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: River and Jayne pull one when River talks Niska into executing Volsky, causing him to drop his knife, which Jayne picks up and uses to cut himself free. In the "Silver" arc, River manipulates the rest of the crew into thinking she's too traumatized to help them on the upcoming heist, which gives her an opening to carry out a private mission of her own. However, doing so results in River being seriously wracked by guilt as she prepares to run off. All of "Wrath" is a trap to get River in the same room with Ornstintz.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Forward / Fan Fic / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Wash asks if River is a robot from the future. Don't forget Mal wielding a sledgehammer, or Mal and Jayne going by the aliases Buck and Dutch. Oh, and don't forget the fact River even called him Captain Hammer a lot after that.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
Forward / Fan Fic / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: In "Condor," Jayne learns that Ashley, the woman has just bedded, is actually Kaylee's sister.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: In "Adrift," when Book charges the Reavers to keep them from getting to River.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Significant development for Jayne, Mal, River, Book, and Zoe. Mal develops into a darker character during the Business arc, particularly when he is forced to torture and kill one of Niska's men to find out where Jayne and River were being taken. Jayne notably softens, at least with regards to River, especially after the two of them survive being tortured by Niska. However, he still regards her as insane, unstable, and somewhat untrustworthy. Book has heavy development of his past, particularly with regards to his history before converting to Christianity, along with indications of a past as an Operative, including the fact that he knows the Operative personally. River gradually matures and develops into her own as a functional person, despite her insanity, though she still remains unstable and dangerous. Zoe both softens and hardens at the same time; her maternal and caring side is shown, and is also contrasted with her cold and ruthless aspects, particularly in the later episodes.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3c0a4666	comment	Another Noodle Incident is mentioned in the same story - the "Boros job" that the Six Rifles went on. Precisely what happened isn't clear, but there was apparently a cross-dresser involved, they got into a shootout with twenty federal marshals, and the Syrian removed shrapnel from "new and interesting places" on the Brit.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3c681ed8	type	Aliens Made Them Do It
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3c681ed8	comment	Inducers Made Them Do It: River and Jayne in "Charity."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": "Neither Jayne nor Mal spared the thought for a question mark at the end of that sentence." Simon and Zoe have this response when they learn River is buying a sword.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3cf10fcf	type	Click Hello
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3cf10fcf	comment	Click Hello: Book gets the drop on a Talon mercenary this way, after knocking out his compatriots when he wasn't looking - in complete silence.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Forward / Fan Fic / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: the Hands of Blue.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_40ad4941	type	Sword and Gun
Forward / Fan Fic / int_40ad4941	comment	Sword and Gun: Both River and Book in "Adrift."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Forward / Fan Fic / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Sirroco Station, called that by name thanks to Wash being a Star Wars fan.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
Forward / Fan Fic / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: No. It doesn't.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_419f0db	type	Bedouin Rescue Service
Forward / Fan Fic / int_419f0db	comment	Bedouin Rescue Service: Implied at the end of the "Fourth Interlude," after River passes out from the slew of injuries she's suffered fighting the pirates.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Forward / Fan Fic / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Niska, who deliberately tortures River and Jayne to get at Mal. And Jayne at Niska afterward, when Jayne begins cutting off his fingers. The Mongol seems to enjoy doing this.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
Forward / Fan Fic / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: Vera, if Andy really was Andrew Cobb, Jayne's uncle.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_454d9422	type	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
Forward / Fan Fic / int_454d9422	comment	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: After being recaptured and brought in to Ornstintz when she comes to Persephone alone to kill him, during her interrogation she casually rattles off the names of several nearby asteroids in unstable orbits, and mentions how easy it would have been for her to redirect one into reentering the atmosphere and targeting him with it. She then proceeds to mention this trope by name.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Si Quan, Ott's resident Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, declares River as one of these. She then shoots him in the throat.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: Business involves two of the most badass crew members both being captured and forced to survive together. Mosaic involves the entire Badass Crew being captured and in distress, until they punch, shoot, and stab their way out of is. Wrath involves River being recaptured by the Academy. Then subverted. It was all part of the plan.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_465966a3	type	Drop the Hammer
Forward / Fan Fic / int_465966a3	comment	Drop the Hammer: Mal gets a "lucky sledgehammer" in Mosaic. It periodically gets reused.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Forward / Fan Fic / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: The Operative executing Obrin at the end of "Condor"
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_49bde8a	type	Traintop Battle
Forward / Fan Fic / int_49bde8a	comment	Traintop Battle: Played with in the climax of "Charity" - mercenary troops are rappelling down onto the train, but the crew fights them by shooting at them as they come down, from the sides of the train, as the top of the train has no cover.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Forward / Fan Fic / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Mal puts it best when talking about the Sword Fight he had with Atherton Wing in "Shindig": Jayne kills a Hand of Blue using a bedpan and scalpel. And for the rest of the series, he keeps on fighting dirty whenever possible. Later on, Mal kills one of Ott's pirates by stabbing him in the eye with a glass shard. River is not afraid to bring a gun to a kung-fu fight. Nor are the Hands of Blue. Nor are the Reavers. Do not get into a hand-to-hand fight with Zoe. Especially if she's got a knife. In "Mosaic", Ott is running away after having barely survived tangling with Serenity's crew, and Mal calmly shoots him in the back. Its one of the coldest scenes in the story, but it fits perfectly with his character. Kaylee, of all people. Power loader! The entire crew, collectively, in "Silver". They got Womack to lay off them earlier by telling him they planted an EMP bomb on his ship, which he found offscreen. Problem is, they didn't plant one bomb. They planted three.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4a3e547f	comment	"Charity" had a decoding file name at the top of each chapter, ostensibly as part of a file that Book was reconstructing that eventually named Inducer One-One-Nine.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The first few chapters of the first story start off upbeat, with River indicating that while she's still not fully recovered, she's healing. Then Niska gets his hands on her. The next few story arcs have her simply trying to recover from that trauma on top of all the other issues she already suffers from. By the time "Charity" rolls around, it looks like River has mostly recovered and is becoming happy. Then Inducer One-One-Nine mindrapes her and kidnaps her, and the subsequent arc involves being brutally mindraped multiple times by said Inducer, followed by River killing a Hand of Blue in a berserk fury in front of Simon that causes a complete shame-driven Freak Out! when she realizes he saw her rip the man's face apart.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: River eventually gains access to an electro-sword which is essentially a Chinese jian that channels electricity.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Countless. In "Business" Jayne uses a metal bedpan and a surgical scalpel to kill a Blue Hand. In "Mosaic" Mal uses a shard of glass to kill two of Ott's goons. In "Silver", Zoe and Book turn the mule into a giant fragmentation grenade to blow up Womack's ship. In "Last Man" young Jayne turns an entire storage shed into a bomb using propane, gasoline, mining explosives, and a lighter. During the same story arc, the rest of Serenity's crew is assembling an anti-ship missile to shoot down Konstantin's ship out of a scrapped missile drone and parts of Inara's shuttle.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Charity" has one hell of one: "Katie." "Wrath": "Tell me, River, have you noticed that your powers have been becoming stronger?" Also, in "Wrath": "Because I can kill you with my brain."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Colonel Rishard Dannet, River's former combat trainer at the Academy. His guilt over working on the project grew to the point where, as he put it, "it was either retirement or suicide." When River corners him, he is perfectly willing to let her have her revenge for his participation in what happened to her. She forgives him instead, because he sees her as a person, not a tool or a weapon.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: River and Jayne. Though not romantically paired up in the story (yet), the two have developed a brother-sister dynamic that often invokes this.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_4f84cdef	type	SmugSnake
Forward / Fan Fic / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: In Wrath, Ornstintz. It's this quality that allows River to manipulate him into letting his guard down.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: "Riverthink," an...odd...way of showing River's confused mental processes. Most of the text in the story is left aligned, but the text during River's thoughts is centered, with a mixture of text changes, including bolds, italics, underlines, and capitalizations. Mixed in with a combination of non-sequiters, Cloud Cuckoolander babbling, random thoughts, and semi-coherent perceptions, it does a really good job showing River's screwy mind. In the eighth chapter of "Charity" this gets turned on its head: an Inducer grabs River's hand, and through tactile contact is able to control her mind. This is signified by the text suddenly becoming normal, left-aligned, with no embellishments and the prose being completely clear and lucid.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Forward / Fan Fic / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: In a manner worthy of Salvador, Jayne dual-wields an LMG and Vera.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
Forward / Fan Fic / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: It turns out that the new Browncoat/Independent leadership spends most of their time arguing amongst themselves as to what to do.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Deliberately averted in River's case. The author has outright said that he dislikes stories where River is used as the "solve everything" button. As a result, while River is portrayed as one of the deadliest fighters in the setting, she is still quite vulnerable, and has actually been either defeated or suffered serious injuries in most of the fights she's been in.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5313c266	comment	Book-Ends: The beginning of "Charity" opens with Zoe waking up to find Wash crying in his sleep, and comforting him from his Bad Dreams. The end of "Hunt" features Wash doing the same to Zoe after the emotional wringer she's been through.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Forward / Fan Fic / int_537dd8fe	comment	Though most of the villains are clear-cut, John/Echo is a much more morally gray character who honestly seems to care about River, and is overall a very nice and friendly guy.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Forward / Fan Fic / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: "Condor" opens with a flashback to the Unification War, and other flashbacks to the series itself are often used to highlight the importance of certain scenes. The "Fourth Interlude" makes heavy use of flashbacks, mostly in the form of dreams River has while asleep, flashing back to her childhood on Osiris or her time at the Academy. Much of "Last Man" involves a flashback to a much younger Jayne while he was being hunted by the Six Rifles.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Forward / Fan Fic / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The American (Andy)
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_54163958	type	Shower of Love
Forward / Fan Fic / int_54163958	comment	Shower of Love: Jayne and Ashley in "Condor"
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Forward / Fan Fic / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Currently at fifty chapters and counting, with the average page number per chapter coming out at around fifteen pages. That comes out to over six hundred pages if this was an actual paper book.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_574c0dd2	type	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
Forward / Fan Fic / int_574c0dd2	comment	Conveniently-Placed Sharp Thing: In "Mosaic," when Ott's crew has captured Mal and his crew, Mal manages to escape by palming a piece of broken glass and using that to cut free. Afterward, Mal uses said glass to kill both of Ott's mooks. Also notably averted with River in the same sequence; she simply gets free by working her way out of her restraints when no one is looking.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: The author describes River as this, in an effort to prevent her from being a God-Mode Sue. She is very fast, very acrobatic, very deadly, but one good hit will stop her. The problem is scoring the hit.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Un-Reveal: The relationship between Jayne and the American is never outright stated. At one point it seems like Konstantin is about to reveal it, and then Wash shoots him. Word of God is that the relationship can be inferred by clues scattered throughout "Last Man."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: "Second Interlude" implies that whatever the Academy's true goal is, it's something far more sinister than simply creating psychic supersoldiers. "Fifth Interlude" indicates something like large-scale mind control.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Throughout the "Charity" arc, there a number of minor scenes involving [ Zoe and a young, terrified little girl from the village named Katie. Most of these scenes are small and mentioned in passing, and are generally forgettable. Except Katie is an Inducer.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: In "Business," Mal spaces one of Niska's henchmen after interrogating him, pointing out that he will not risk leaving a likely gun at his back while he's rescuing his captured crewmembers.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Weaponized. Lancelot, and the Merlins in general, seem to work by hitting people with mental bursts of their own traumatic memories to incapacitate them.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_5f9d7299	type	EnfanteTerrible
Forward / Fan Fic / int_5f9d7299	comment	Enfante Terrible: Deconstructed in the form of Inducer One-One-Nine. Since One-One-Nine is a child, she has extremely poor impulse control, which drives her to kill any Blue Sun employees she encounters, mentally associating them with the Academy. This leads directly to the Academy finding and sending the Talon mercenaries after her, and it is how both Serenity's crew and the Hands of Blue track her down later, as even when she's hiding she can't control her impulses to kill.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_607a4594	type	Scope Snipe
Forward / Fan Fic / int_607a4594	comment	Scope Snipe: Jayne pulls one of these on an Operative in "Condor." While on top of Serenity, as it's flying over a city, two kilometers away!
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_60fb6e02	type	I Am Not a Gun
Forward / Fan Fic / int_60fb6e02	comment	I Am Not a Gun: River makes this assertion in "First Interlude." Her fears and insecurities regarding this are explored over the series, culminating in a Freak Out! in "Hunt" when she becomes terrified of what her combat programming is making her do.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Forward / Fan Fic / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: The Operative is working for the Browncoats against the Alliance.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Forward / Fan Fic / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Doctor Kondraki's logs in "Charity" as he apparently falls under the control of an Inducer.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Numerous hooks for future arcs are being dropped in the earlier parts of the story. For example, Book's data needle, at least three other Academy escapees, at least one more of the "six men" who came to kill Jayne still being alive and plenty more.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_63557923	type	Death World
Forward / Fan Fic / int_63557923	comment	Death World: The planet of Silverhold is presented as one, where the terraforming process resulted in the unexpected creation of a deadly, heavy silvery gas that renders it nearly impossible to survive below a certain altitude.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Andy willingly gives his life to save the young Jayne's in "Last Man."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Forward / Fan Fic / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: In the epilogue for "Hunt," Wash has to leave the infirmary when Simon finishes reading the letter River wrote him, because he felt he shouldn't be there while the doctor cried, noting that "it was a man thing."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Forward / Fan Fic / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: A major part of "Condor" involves this, with Book acquiring data on the Academy's experiments. It is implied that the data is enough to potentially bring about a second civil war.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The author is a huge fan of Summer Glau. It shows; River is often one of the dominant characters, and there are several scenes where River is naked or her sexuality is explored. As the author says himself, "She's easily my favorite character, and she's such a versitale walking plot device that I can't help but play with her." Aside from the fact that this story is partially River-centric, the author's also written several T:SCC stories focusing on Cameron and Allison Young as well as a T:SCC and Mass Effect crossover involving Cameron. Another, more subtle one (only notable when one looks at the author's other works like Tiberium Wars and Renegade) is that Peptuck is a hardcore military and firearms fan, and it shows in both how often professional soldiers and mercenaries show up, and in how he describes their movements, weapons, and kit. Especially noticeable in "Last Man" where the narrative takes pains to show how both the Rifles, Konstantin's later mercenary group, and Jayne are constantly aiming down sights, checking gear, and moving around like well-trained soldiers who cover one another, call out targets, and generally behave like real soldiers.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: In "Mosaic," when River tears apart Ott's goons, the scene shows just how horrifying she is to them. In "Last Man", the perception of Jayne from Konstantin's squad in the present day (especially when compared with the flashback involving the Six) is that he is a scary, deadly tracker and soldier that they're in over their head while hunting.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Forward / Fan Fic / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Jayne appears to have developed one in regards to River, after both of them survived being tortured by Niska. River even goes so far as to call Jayne a "sociopathic big brother." In "Hunt", Katie uses her Psychic Powers to supplant one of these on River.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: "Nemo" is the Operative. Inducer One-One-Nine is Katie.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Anytime Jayne sees red. In "Charity," an Inducer forces Pherson, the village's elder, into a violent, berserk fury against Mal that ends with Mal bleeding out and unconscious from a gun butt to the cranium. In "Hunt" a Hand of Blue shoots Simon. River is a few feet away. Guess what happens next.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The man named Nemo in the Condor arc, because there is nothing left to see. Captain Earnest Townsend, who happens to be captain of an Alliance frigate named the Hemmingway. There's also Echo, which is likely also a reference to Dollhouse. And River's callsign during a training mission at the Academy was "Alpha." Very, very clear references to Dollhouse there. River naming the sword "Laertes." The Merlin supersoldiers appear to be named after King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: The "Talon" mercenaries in "Charity," who are apparently part of a big interplanetary mercenary firm called "Skyhawk Intervention." The Six Rifles are an elite six-man mercenary team.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Quite a lot of the Academy's test subjects end up killing themselves, or at least trying to. River attempted to do so when she finally decided Simon was never going to come for her, but was stopped by the Academy guards.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6d89ad1a	type	The Ophelia
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6d89ad1a	comment	River naming the sword "Laertes."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_6e514f2	type	Moment of Awesome / Sugar Wiki
Forward / Fan Fic / int_6e514f2	comment	Second Interlude has Jubal Early having his ass handed to him on a platter by Echo. It's exactly as good as it sounds.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: River pulls these occasionally, and Inara does one as well, complete with a bit of Lampshade Hanging by Simon.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Forward / Fan Fic / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Womack in "Silver."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Forward / Fan Fic / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: an almost infuriating number of teases and clues and hints are dropped about the Academy as the series progresses, though they've been coming in faster and faster as the plot progresses. "Charity" had a decoding file name at the top of each chapter, ostensibly as part of a file that Book was reconstructing that eventually named Inducer One-One-Nine.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Forward / Fan Fic / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Opens with one, as a direct result of Jayne's Nice Hat.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
Forward / Fan Fic / int_71a223fc	comment	Up to Eleven: Part of the Original Flavor is due to the series upping a characters already inherent and memorable traits even more. Inducers have the capacity to do this to human emotions and feelings, aplifying and controlling them to the point where people act completely irrationally around them.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Forward / Fan Fic / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Pick an arc. Either River or Mal will get conga'd - possibly both at the same time.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_720ef89f	type	Unconventional Formatting
Forward / Fan Fic / int_720ef89f	comment	Unconventional Formatting: Used to indicate River's unbalanced state of mind.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Forward / Fan Fic / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big-Bad Ensemble: There's also the other Browncoats, as well as John Garis, who may or may not be working for the Academy. While most of the main arcs have clear-cut villains.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
Forward / Fan Fic / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: One of the villagers in the "Charity" episode was forced to commit suicide after being used as a murder weapon by an Inducer; this is one of the clues that allows Book to piece together who was really behind the events of that episode. "Hunt" opens with a particularly chilling example of this as Katie forces a Blue Sun worker to commit suicide by pushing him past the Despair Event Horizon.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Steel Condor" in, appropriately, the "Condor" arc, which references a Browncoat code-phrase that means "troops trapped behind enemy lines."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Forward / Fan Fic / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Mal after "Charity," after he gets shot and beaten, rendering him comatose.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
Forward / Fan Fic / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: It is implied that the American is Jayne's uncle, and that he turns on the other Six to protect Jayne for this reason.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7870735b	type	FromBadToWorse
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Happens often enough that Mal gets worried when things are going smooth. Several arcs in particular stand out: "Unfinished Business": River and Jayne get kidnapped by Niska, then tortured for hours on end. Niska tries to collect the bounty on River, bringing the Hands of Blue down on their heads. Meanwhile tensions rise between the rest of Serenity's crew as Mal tortures one of Niska's mercenaries and then throws him out the airlock when he's finished. Things don't start turning around until Niska orders one of his guards to rape River, at which point Jayne sees red. And then the Hands of Blue show up. "Adrift": Everything that could possibly go wrong does so in the very first chapter. Mal gets pinned to the side of the ship by an asteroid because the winch stopped working due to an electrical surge that also wiped out power to everything on board, including the gravity generator (mercifully, the life support is still intact). Simon is in the infirmary at the time, and gets a pair of surgical scissors stuck in his chest. Kaylee's tether gets snapped and she goes tumbling out into the Black, and Jayne just barely manages to rescue her. Once they get back inside, things get even worse as Wash and Mal discover that someone is approaching: Reavers. "Charity." Hoo boy. It starts off with a murder investigation that rapidly turns into the crew fending off an army of mercenaries, which turns into a desperate escape via train. Then there's another attack by mercenaries, this time with heavily-armed gunships....and that's before The Reveal, Mal getting shot and clubbed into a coma, and River being mentally beaten into submission and kidnapped by an insane, murdering psychic. Happens in record time in "Hunt": What looks at first like it'll simply be a story about the crew going to Sirroco and rescuing River goes off the rails in part one, when the Hands of Blue arrive and Katie psychically ends the truce between the four gangs controlling the station. Happens simultaneously in both the present and the flashback in "Last Man." The Cossack has come to get revenge on Jayne in the present, while in the flashback the Six Rifles are trying to kill him as a teenager. As the story progresses, the Cossack closes in on Jayne in the present and bears down on wash, using him as a hostage to draw Jayne out. In the past, Jayne's robbery crew is killed and he is chased out of town into the wilderness, where he fights a cat-and-mouse battle against the Six while running low on ammo and getting injured more and more, culminating in getting shot in the leg and captured by the Mongol.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Forward / Fan Fic / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Both Wash and Book survive because of this. Wash instead turned in his chair toward Zoe while speaking his Famous Last Words, and thus the spear only sliced across his chest instead of impaling him. In Book's case, Word of God is that Simon got there first instead of Mal, and just barely saved Book from death.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_79da90f4	type	MindManipulation
Forward / Fan Fic / int_79da90f4	comment	Mind Manipulation: The "Inducer" psychics appear to control emotions and responses in people.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Galahad, one of the "Merlins."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Ashley Frye's relationship with her family is unpleasant, to say the least. This means she hasn't spoken with the rest of her family in years. It is strongly implied that this is because she supported unification and joined the Alliance military. She appears to get along decently enough with Kaylee, at least.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: A couple of these. Shower of Awkward: Sort of; in "Charity" River asks Jayne to stand outside the room while she takes a shower. This is coupled with some Redemption in the Rain for River, as River has bad memories associated with showers from her time in the Academy, and is facing that trauma by forcing herself to take a shower, and has Jayne stand outside to provide her with a stable mind to latch onto. Shower of Angst: River's Out, Damned Spot! moment in "Charity." Shower of Love: Jayne and Ashley in "Condor"
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: In "Silver," Womack forces Mal into one of these by demanding he attack Dumont's estate and destroy the evidence of their organ harvesting operations. If they refuse, he'll have them arrested for organ smuggling instead.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Forward / Fan Fic / int_7fbe9a30	comment	By the time "Charity" rolls around, it looks like River has mostly recovered and is becoming happy. Then Inducer One-One-Nine mindrapes her and kidnaps her, and the subsequent arc involves being brutally mindraped multiple times by said Inducer, followed by River killing a Hand of Blue in a berserk fury in front of Simon that causes a complete shame-driven Freak Out! when she realizes he saw her rip the man's face apart.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Forward / Fan Fic / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: At the end of the Fourth Interlude, River does an Informed Self-Diagnosis on all of the injuries that she accrued.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Forward / Fan Fic / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The various Interludes and a number of chapters show slice-of-life moments among the crew in an attempt to break up the action.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Forward / Fan Fic / int_80b57bec	comment	Super Soldier: The "Merlin" assassins created by the Academy.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: Central to the "Charity" episode, which asks why the mercenaries are attacking an otherwise unremarkable village.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_823c6e3e	type	LargeHam
Forward / Fan Fic / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: In the Second Interlude, Morris the bartender. Then again, that's only natural, as the author commented that the character was inspired by BRIAN BLESSED.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_82f05a5d	type	ConservationOfNinjitsu
Forward / Fan Fic / int_82f05a5d	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: In the comic Those Left Behind Ott's four-man crew manages to put up a good fight against Serenity's crew. In this story, Ott expands his crew to a couple dozen men. They get plastered. Either Ott isn't savvy enough, or River simply absorbed all of their kung fu through proximity.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: At one point in "Charity," Mal is held at gunpoint by a mercenary who is seriously compensating for something.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Forward / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Admiral Havelock views the Academy as some horrible, evil sickness, and is at one point on the verge of purging the whole program. She also believes the Academy's actions are completely necessary.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Forward / Fan Fic / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: at the beginning of Mosaic There's also Mal's heartfelt concern for a dissatisfied customer in Condor: In "Wrath", River delivers one right before she kills the power.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Forward / Fan Fic / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Four known "types" of psychics are revealed in the data that Book recovers in "Condor": Blanks, Kinetics, Inducers, and Empaths, the latter of which River is noted to be the strongest. From what has been hinted at so far, it appears that Kinetics are telekinetics, and Blanks are immune to psychic effects. Empaths are, well, The Empath. Inducers appear to use a form of Mind Manipulation that works on either generating or enhancing emotions and perceptions, allowing them to subtly control minds.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_880e65be	type	No Gravity for You
Forward / Fan Fic / int_880e65be	comment	No Gravity for You: When the Reavers attack Serenity in "Adrift", Mal lets them board, only for them to discover the gravity on the ship has been disabled (due to damage earlier in that episode). The sudden transition from a ship with gravity and a ship without it turns them into easy prey as they flail about helplessly.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8879db82	comment	Mosaic involves the entire Badass Crew being captured and in distress, until they punch, shoot, and stab their way out of is.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_89204ffb	type	Shrug of God
Forward / Fan Fic / int_89204ffb	comment	Shrug of God: The final scene of "Business," where River is shown waking up, sitting down next to an unidentified male crewmember, and thanking him for bringing her home, is left open to reader interpretation as to who she is speaking to. The scene is rendered in "Riverthink" and therefore the name of whoever it is happens to be left unclear. It could be Mal, Jayne, or possibly even Book or Wash, depending on the interpretation. The relationship between Jayne and the American. Word of God is that the clues are there, but that he doesn't want to state it outright, instead leaving the reader to figure it out on their own.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_89540fd2	type	ElectricBoogaloo
Forward / Fan Fic / int_89540fd2	comment	Electric Boogaloo: Deliberately referenced by the author, who admits that "Business" is essentially the premise of "War Stories" with different characters and the use of the Alliance and the Hands of Blue. "Adrift" is essentially the premise of "Out of Gas" with Reavers, the Alliance, and Simon nearly dying. "Silver" is essentially the premise of "Trash," only with Lieutenant Womack, the Operative, and River's combat trainer from the Academy thrown in.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: River explicitly accuses Colonel Dannett of the "mundane torture" version when confronting him at the end of Silver. The "Inducer" psychics can do the "psychic attack" variant to people, and the Merlin supersoldiers can disorient by blasting people with their own agonizing memories.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Jayne is well aware that he is a bastard, who has done all kinds of horrible things. But even he finds rape to be an appalling evil, and goes into an Unstoppable Rage when Niska's men try to rape River. He's still shaken by the event later.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: John Garis/Echo appears to be one of these toward River.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The "Silver" arc is presented out of order, with brief flashes of the Operative's slaughter of Dumont's men taking the lead in each chapter, and the prologue featuring Mal, Jayne, and Kaylee standing around stark naked at the end of the latest job. The events leading up to this are detailed in the subsequent story.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Forward / Fan Fic / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Charity." River and Jayne start going at it. There's an Inducer controlling the village, and its Katie. And then Mal's shot, suffered brutal head trauma, and now he's bleeding out. And Katie's mindraped River and now controlling her and making her walk away from the crew. "Hunt" has a less brutal but no less important one, where River, rather than being rescued, flees from the crew out of both shame and fear that she cannot control her combat programming. The last scene of "Last Man" shows River being captured by the Hands on Persephone. Chapter Four of "Wrath". There's a neural lace of atom-thing superconducting wire being assembled inside River's brain. It is not just making her more sane and powerful, but also constructing a Cortex receiver to allow for remote control of her brain by the Alliance. And then on top of that, there's the reveal that River let herself be captured.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_90769dd0	type	Evil Genius
Forward / Fan Fic / int_90769dd0	comment	Evil Genius: The Mongol
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_91a7d252	type	Fake in the Hole
Forward / Fan Fic / int_91a7d252	comment	Fake in the Hole: In the Condor arc, Mal and Zoe duck for cover only to find that what was thrown at them was an empty magazine, with the message of "we could have tossed a grenade".
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
Forward / Fan Fic / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: The Six Rifles Big Bad: The Cossack (Alexi Konstantine) The Dragon: The American (Andy) The Brute: The Brit and the Frenchman (Gustav) share this role Evil Genius: The Mongol Sixth Ranger: The Syrian
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Forward / Fan Fic / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: "Silver." SIMON PUNCH! Also, in the same chapter, River ambushing Dannet via fridge.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Forward / Fan Fic / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Inducer One-One-Nine is terrified of the Hands of Blue, and it doesn't help that River likens her to the people who experimented on both of them. The Cossack in "Last Man" gradually becomes more and more unhinged as Jayne kills his team one by one, both in the present and the flashback. He eventually ends up shooting the last survivor of his team in the present when he suggests they retreat and get reinforcements.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Forward / Fan Fic / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Simon can't find a decent therapist for River, so he turns to the closest thing they've got: Inara. Unfortunately, River is being stubborn and difficult for her to treat, and Inara doesn't want to push her.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Forward / Fan Fic / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Cossack (Alexi Konstantine)
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Forward / Fan Fic / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Konstantin is willing to dive headlong into a blizzard and forgo aerial support because he wants to kill Jayne personally. When Jayne kills three of his men and the last one objects to continuing the pursuit, Konstantin responds by shooting him in the mouth and moving on alone.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_993cf18f	type	Not So Different
Forward / Fan Fic / int_993cf18f	comment	Not So Different: River accuses Inducer One-One-Nine of being no different than the Academy's agents. This causes some consternation on One-One-Nine's part. In "Condor", Mal claims Obrin is just like the Alliance— ready and willing to trample the rights of the few to make life marginally better for the many.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Forward / Fan Fic / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Konstantin has a cybernetic arm and leg, thanks to having them both get blown off by Vera. The "Merlin" supersoldiers created by the Academy are all cybernetic. River thanks to the neural lace in her brain.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_9c842299	type	Weaponized Exhaust
Forward / Fan Fic / int_9c842299	comment	Weaponized Exhaust: In no fewer than three instances, someone has used the exhaust of a ship as a weapon. In "Business" Wash uses the plasma from a full burn to blind and heat up the hull of an Alliance gunship, allowing the crew a chance to open fire with their small arms and do some actual damage. It isn't until Jayne uses an armor-piercing shot that he actually penetrates the hull. In "Adrift" Wash blinds a Reaver ship with the damaged engine's exhaust, and in the "Fourth Interlude" River manages to send a pirate ship into an out of control spin by directing her ship's exhaust into the intakes of one of its engines, causing an emergency shutdown on that thruster.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Forward / Fan Fic / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: In "Business" River spots one of Niska's men about to shoot Jayne during the gun battle after the mule is crashed and moves to block it. The subsequent realization of what River did is what fuels Jayne's subsequent Unstoppable Rage.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Forward / Fan Fic / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on in "Mosiac," Mal warns Jayne to not set anything on fire. At the arc's climax, Jayne sets himself on fire. Early in "Charity," Zoe notes Simon has a vial of a drug that suppresses female sexuality, which Simon is keeping on hand because River is finally coming down off a long-term treatment by the Academy that suppresses her sexual impulses. Inducer One-One-Nine uses River's uncontrolled sexual impulses against her later to distract her. "Charity" also has the decoding file at the top of each chapter. Paying close attention to the file as it decodes would reveal a few chapters early who Inducer One-One-Nine was, especially if one notes the only character in the story thus far with a name that has seven letters with "hry" in them. "Third Interlude" has the "Mongol" make reference to "Andy's old rifle" and a man named "Konstantin" when confronting Jayne, with implications being that the Mongol is one of the six men who came to kill Jayne. In "Last Man" the, well, last man of the six ("The Cossack") has finally tracked Jayne down.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Forward / Fan Fic / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: What appears to be Nemo in the opening scenes of each chapter of "Silver," which depicts him/her massacring more than two dozen armed men with guns using only a blade.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_9f8a455a	type	Override Command
Forward / Fan Fic / int_9f8a455a	comment	Override Command: Hardwired override controls are in in every Alliance ship, apparently. The codes for activating these are known only to high-ranking officials and Operatives. And a certain psychic. When the neural lace in River's brain is finished, it will allow this to be used on River, either taking control of her or killing her.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a06162e8	type	Phlebotinum Rebel
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a06162e8	comment	Phlebotinum Rebel: In addition to River, there are at least three other Academy test subjects who have escaped, one apparently during River's escape and two more later on. One of them is Inducer One-One-Nine, whose name is Kathryn wade, and she is almost psychopathically violent.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a0c38039	type	Refrigerator Ambush
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a0c38039	comment	Refrigerator Ambush: River Tam ambushes an ex-Academy instructor from the fridge. Word of God confirms it was a deliberate nod to Watchmen.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: "We are all sons-of-bitches."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Zoe proves to be extremely adept at being able to lock her emotions down behind "iron-hard discipline." This proves to be critical in "Hunt," where she uses her control over her emotions to let her ignore the maternal love and concern Kathryn is forcing into her mind and shoot her.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Gunboat captain Durant, who cements his Genre Blindness by even saying that "They'll never penetrate our hulls or windows with-" right before an armor-piercing grenade punches through the window of his bridge. In "Last Man", Brayko is killed mid-sentence by Konstantin for protesting that their current course is suicidal.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Later on, Mal kills one of Ott's pirates by stabbing him in the eye with a glass shard.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: The author has stated that while most of the series canon is being used in this story, he is disregarding the "Shepherd's Tale" comic, as the background laid out in that is incompatible with the background he'd originally come up with for Book in this story. That being said, he has also stated he is willing to use elements from that comic, i.e. the interrogation scene.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In "Charity" the story intercuts between the majority of the crew fighting for their lives against a huge number of heavily-armed mercenaries, and Wash and Kaylee sitting around back on the ship, bored out of their minds.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: A lot of one-shot characters are brought back for individual episodes, and some of them even become recurring guest stars. These include Colonel Obrin, the Operative, Ott and his crew, Lieutenant Womack, and Jubal Early.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a6cbef9a	type	Joker Immunity
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a6cbef9a	comment	Joker Immunity: Both played straight and averted. Niska and Womack both survive tangling with the crew of Serenity, though only because Jayne was distracted from killing Niska by River, and no one could stick around to make sure Womack stayed dead when they shot down his ship. On the other hand, Mal bluntly executes Ott by shooting him in the back. Several minor villains, i.e. Dumant, Obrin, and Bascjo are outright killed.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Forward / Fan Fic / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: In "Business," Niska manages to escape a second time after Jayne gets loose and starts cutting off his fingers. Later, in "Silver," Womack manages to survive the destruction of his ship through sheer ice-cold ruthlessness.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: In the "Third Interlude", River tries to sweet-talk a bystander into letting her take his ATV. Jayne demonstrates they don't have time by punching the man off the bike and stealing it.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Three consecutive ones in Unfinished Business: A minor one comes when Niska contacts the Alliance about River's bounty: In Chapter Four of Wrath, Ornstintz nearly shits himself when he sees something in River that he's never seen before: absolute lucidity.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ad363f77	type	Dead Fic
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ad363f77	comment	Dead Fic: Was last updated May 4 2013.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Most scenes from River's perspective have her mentally snarking, particularly at Mal or Jayne, when she's being more lucid.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ae69516f	type	Artificial Gravity
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ae69516f	comment	Artificial Gravity: Played with in "Adrift," where the gravity is cut out and the crew are forced to move and operate without any gravity systems. This is later used as a weapon when Reavers board the ship. Mal lures them into entering through the floor hatch in Serenity's bay, and when they all rush from their gravity-equipped ship into the zero-G Serenity, they begin flying about the bay in an uncontrolled fashion. naturally, this makes them perfect targets to shoot at.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
Forward / Fan Fic / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: "So, they're like zombies. Power armored government zombies. Shiny." (The head is the most vulnerable part of the power armor. So you have to shoot them in the head.)
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b00d5a3c	type	Badass Grandpa
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b00d5a3c	comment	Badass Grandpa: Book, of course. There's also Doctor Rashid, who is such a badass that he can defeat River in hand-to-hand.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Used as part of The Reveal whenever the author is being deliberately obfuscating about a character's identity, said characters being The Operative and Jubal Early.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Too early to be certain, but the unnamed village in "Charity" may be one of these. Confirmed. They're apparently being controlled by an Inducer-type psychic.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Mal and Zoe in "Business," with regards to torturing and executing one of Niska's soldiers. Zoe in "Hunt" when she kills Kathryn.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming-of-Age Story: For River, notably; a major part of the story's plot is her development into a functional adult, with the "First Interlude" showing her resolving to move past her trauma on her eighteenth birthday.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Mr. Whitman, current head of the Academy, got his job this way.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b41acf08	comment	Axe-Crazy though she may be, River has nothing on Inducer One-One-Nine.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: The entire reason why Niska kidnaps Jayne and River during "Business." It turns out that the reason why Konstantin wants to kill Jayne is to get back at Andy for betraying the Six.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_b90feedc	type	Schedule Slip
Forward / Fan Fic / int_b90feedc	comment	Schedule Slip: Hasn't updated since May, 2013.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Forward / Fan Fic / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Dr. Rashid discovers that the Alliance implanted some sort of self-replicating nanotechnology in River's brain that is rebuilding some of the damaged connections and has been playing a significant role in what seemed to be her recovering mental state. It's also constructing a Cortex transmitter that will allow the Alliance to control her—or kill her—remotely when it's completed (in approximately eight months from the time it is discovered). River is left with a choice: Remove the implant or leave it in place. If she even survives the surgery to remove the implant (for which Dr. Rashid gives her a poor prognosis in the first place) it will undo all of River's progress towards becoming an independent and functional woman and she would revert back to the mental state she was in when Simon first rescued her from the Academy. If she leaves it in and allows the implant to be completed, the Alliance (or potentially even the Independents, who have been expressing increasing interest in turning River to their side) will be able to control or kill her if she's anywhere within range of the Cortex. At least as of the most recent chapter of Wrath, no other alternatives have been presented and without hesitation River demanded the device be removed.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bb7916c	type	Ship-to-Ship Combat
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bb7916c	comment	It isn't helped by the fact that the author both openly ships River/Jayne and has no objections to River/Mal. The author is steadfastly neutral in the Ship-to-Ship Combat within the Firefly fandom.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: In "Charity," Mal deliberately snarks at a mercenary holding him at gunpoint, giving Book the opportunity to knock out his comrades and sneak up on him. Afterward, Mal kicks him in the shins. During "Last Man" Jayne taunts the Cossack with a stream of insults relating to his mangled arm and leg to piss him off and draw him away from pursuing Wash.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Colonel Obrin, who wants to use River's abilities for the sake of the Browncoats. Also, the Operative, who kills an ambulance crew just to protect the crew of Serenity without their knowledge.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In "Last Man," the Frenchman's response to the American missing what should have been an easy shot is "Baise?" (the French word for "fuck.") This is pretty much the only actual word he's spoken in the story.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bc74ef27	comment	In "Hunt" a Hand of Blue shoots Simon. River is a few feet away. Guess what happens next.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: River, when confronted by Si Quan, does just shoot him.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Quite a few of River's loopier moments, especially in the two interludes focusing on her. There's a particularly screwy moment where River hallucinates Jubal Early coming after her, which threw more than one reviewer for a loop, as Early actually is alive and is hunting for her.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammer...: When all you have is the ability to enslave minds by manipulating emotions...though in this case, the character is a mentally unstable nine-year-old, and her repeated use of Mind Rape and psychic murder is what led to more violence, which leads to more psychic assault and murder....
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_bfaff026	type	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_bfaff026	comment	When the martial arts master charges the girl with the revolver, guess who wins?
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: When Niska captures Jayne and River, he calls up Mal to show them off and gloats about it.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c2619557	type	Girl with Psycho Weapon
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c2619557	comment	Girl with Psycho Weapon: Marietta, who is a psychotic, heavily armed woman on Ott's crew carrying a massive chaingun.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Deconstructed with Mal, whose devotion to his crew means that he is willing to torture and execute one of Niska's men to protect them. Also, this is the entire reason Mal shoots Ott in the back at the end of "Mosaic." Do not fuck with Mal's crew. In "Adrift," Mal makes the cold, rational decision to let a wounded Simon die rather than risk the crew's lives taking him to a nearby Alliance vessel for treatment. This does not sit well with him, however, and after some prodding from Kaylee, he relents and decides to give the crazy plan to save Simon a shot. Unfortunately, Inara, believing Mal really was going to let Simon die, went behind his back and helped Book steal a shuttle to transport Simon to the Alliance vessel. Mal is not happy, and there are some extremely tense scenes between them afterward. By the end of the arc, though, Inara and Mal manage to clear the air, with Inara pointing out that she only made the choice that she thought Mal should have been making, and that he ultimately did, and Mal reluctantly agrees.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Womack forces Mal into one of these in the "Silver" arc, with his primary goal being to placate his superiors in Allied Enforcement and keep any evidence from being traced back to himself. Either Mal goes after Dumont and destroys the evidence of the organ smuggling, or Womack arrests Mal and his crew and uses them as scapegoats. If Mal is taken down in the subsequent mission, the attack will force Dumont to flee the planet, achieving Womack's goals anyway. If Mal succeeds, he destroys all evidence of Womack's operations and Womack goes scot-free.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c36cba70	comment	The sheer number of Mooks the crew fights at the beginning of "Business" is lampshaded with Mal commenting that "it was like someone had found a discount site on the Cortex for hired goons."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Constantly. Nearly every chapter ends with one, which the reviewers have noted makes the wait for updates painful.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c6e5d575	type	Retirony
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c6e5d575	comment	Ret Irony: Played with in the "Charity" chapter "Bastion." One of the mercs named Willis Gardner had decided he didn't like the job and would be leaving after this mission. We only learn his name and this information because River is reading his mind as she's killing him. This is less to establish sympathy for the character, and rather to set up the Out, Damned Spot! moment mentioned above.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c6fc2c83	type	Plot Threads
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c6fc2c83	comment	Plot Threads: The series ties together three concurring plots: Mal's personal war with Niska, River coming to terms with her trauma at the hands of Niska and the Academy, and Book's explorations of the data needle pertaining to the Academy's operations. There are several smaller threads that have developed over the series as well, including Zoe's pregnancy, Ashley looking for Kaylee, Echo hunting for Serenity, and whatever the hell it is that the Operative is doing.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out/ Actor Allusion: Countless. The author loves these.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_c887dc21	type	You Can Barely Stand
Forward / Fan Fic / int_c887dc21	comment	You Can Barely Stand: River and Jayne at the end of the "Business" arc, when they are confronted by the Hands of Blue.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
Forward / Fan Fic / int_cabd513c	comment	Jedi Mind Trick: Pretty much what Inducer One-One-Nine uses to avoid detection, by making herself appear unremarkable while focusing others' attention on something else in the environment. Toward the end of "Charity", One-One-Nine uses this to sneak River right past the rest of the crew while they're trying to help a critically-wounded Mal.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_caf8c66c	type	TheChainsOfCommanding
Forward / Fan Fic / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Mal experiences these in increasingly heavy amounts as the series progresses. Zoe later begins to strain under the weight when Mal is in a coma.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Forward / Fan Fic / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Whitman, coupled with a bit of Mad Scientist.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Forward / Fan Fic / int_cc4b45f6	comment	The relationship between Jayne and the American. Word of God is that the clues are there, but that he doesn't want to state it outright, instead leaving the reader to figure it out on their own.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Jayne corners Niska and slices of several fingers once he gets free.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Though most of the villains are clear-cut, John/Echo is a much more morally gray character who honestly seems to care about River, and is overall a very nice and friendly guy. The American in the Six Rifles. For good reason, too: he is both the "best man" of the group, and possibly Jayne's uncle.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The title of the series as a whole, as well as most of its "episodes", such as: Condor Mosaic Charity
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d323d090	type	Incendiary Exponent
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d323d090	comment	Incendiary Exponent: in "Mosaic" Jayne, armed only with a knife and a cupboard full of chemicals and an old coat, sets himself on fire to terrify Ott's crew, reasoning that nothing is scarier than a huge man charging you with a giant knife while on fire. "Last Man" implies that Jayne got the notion from how he killed the Brit, who did the exact same thing to him, only involuntarily. Man on Fire
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d38f2bc8	type	Fetal Position Rebirth
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d38f2bc8	comment	Fetal Position Rebirth: Used during the "First Interlude" while River is writing in her journal. She strips naked in her bunk, curls up in a fetal position, and writes down in her journal a personal declaration that she will no longer be a victim or tool for anyone else. For added symbolism, this happens on her eighteenth birthday.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: suffice to say, most of the crew are not happy about Mal spacing Niska's henchman. His initial decision to let Simon die rather than risk seeking medical aid from the Alliance was not very well received either.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Jayne and River while being tortured by Niska. In the flashbacks, after River tries to kill herself, John Garis assures her that she isn't alone.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Jayne sets himself on fire to save the rest of the crew.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d6c074b	type	Shower of Awkward
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d6c074b	comment	Shower of Awkward: Sort of; in "Charity" River asks Jayne to stand outside the room while she takes a shower. This is coupled with some Redemption in the Rain for River, as River has bad memories associated with showers from her time in the Academy, and is facing that trauma by forcing herself to take a shower, and has Jayne stand outside to provide her with a stable mind to latch onto.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The members of the Six Rifles generally go by their nationalities/ethnicities, i.e. "the American," or "the Cossack." The members of the group do appear to know each others' actual names, or parts of them, and the only one whose real name is entirely unknown is the Mongol.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: River and Jayne develop into these as the story progresses.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Forward / Fan Fic / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: Ott's crew ends up on the receiving end of one of these at the hands of Serenity's crew, especially after Jayne sets himself on fire. There's also the opening scenes of each chapter of the "Silver" arc, which depict....someone....being utterly massacred by....well, someone else. At the end you learn it's Dumont's guards being slaughtered by Nemo. Second Interlude has Jubal Early having his ass handed to him on a platter by Echo. It's exactly as good as it sounds. A particularly wince-inducing one occurs in "Hunt," with a Hand of Blue facing Kaylee driving a power loader. Needless to say, the Hand loses. River against the Persephone police in "Wrath." She pounds through fully armored SWAT units unarmed without even really trying, to the point that she's shocked at how easy it is. Then she gets curbstomped in turn by Lancelot. In the same episode, River gets repeatedly curbstomped for weeks while sparring with Rashid.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dabc7a46	comment	Sixth Ranger: The Syrian
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Corporal Ashley Frye, one of Kaylee's older sisters, and a soldier for the Alliance.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_db1888f0	type	Bad Dreams
Forward / Fan Fic / int_db1888f0	comment	Bad Dreams: Wash periodically has nightmare about his time in a POW camp during the war. River also has consistently unpleasant dreams that are often mixed in with horrid memories of the Academy. Mal has bad dreams about all of the horrible things he's experienced or been forced to do over the course of his career.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Forward / Fan Fic / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Volsky, whom Niska got to replace the one killed in "War Stories." Mal and Zoe are revealed not to be these in Business. The Mongol appears to be one, but Konstantin refuses to let him "indulge."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Forward / Fan Fic / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: The Hands of Blue, whose blue gloves (and undersuits) are actually a strength- and speed-enhancing suit of low-profile Power Armor. They're almost blindingly-fast when they need to be, can tank gunfire (and Inara's crossbow bolts) and hit like sledgehammers.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: A justified instance in Condor, when Book accidentally leads an Operative's men to Simon and Kaylee. They both happened to be in the same area, and Book was trying to hide from them before Kaylee spotted him and called his name. Less excusable is them being rescued by a squad of Alliance soldiers that happens to include Ash, Kaylee's sister. The author lampshades this in the author's notes, saying: "What a craaaazy coincidence." In "Last Man," Jayne finishes telling Sheppard Book about his encounter with the Six Rifles moments before Wash informs him the last surviving member is on Glacier looking for them. This gets lampshaded too, it's described as being "the most disturbingly ill-timed news ever."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: the author has hinted at both River/Mal and River/Jayne. It isn't helped by the fact that the author both openly ships River/Jayne and has no objections to River/Mal. The author is steadfastly neutral in the Ship-to-Ship Combat within the Firefly fandom. The the "Charity" arc has this in spades between River and Jayne. And then subverted. River and Jayne actually do start making out, but this is because Inducer One-One-Nine is apparently distracting River from noticing her by making her focus on Jayne. Except that Induced feelings don't go away. They stay. So from now on, River and Jayne are going to feel a lot of lust for one another. And also, according to Katie, Inducers can't generate emotions that aren't already there, hey can only enhance ones that already exist. "Hunt" has a small scene where River stops to look at Jayne, and he makes her feel, ahem, warm.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Zoe, as of the "Mosiac" arc.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: A number of minor characters either appearing or mentioned in the series make return appearances as side characters or villains. The old man that Inara speaks to at the beginning of the dance in Shindig is a major player in Condor. Colonel Obrin, mentioned in passing in "The Message," also appears in "Condor" as a contact for Mal and Zoe, and later as a villain. Ott and his crew, who were characters who appeared at the beginning of the Those Left Behind comic, are the primary villains of Mosiac. Reavers. Early on in "Silver," there are off-hand mentions of a man named Colonel Dannet, who turns out to be one of the men who worked at the Academy, and is River's target at the end of that story arc. In "Silver," there's a mention of a psychic known as Inducer One-One-Nine. Inducer One-One-Nine is apparently behind everything in "Charity."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Forward / Fan Fic / int_dda99fa8	comment	"Hunt" opens with a particularly chilling example of this as Katie forces a Blue Sun worker to commit suicide by pushing him past the Despair Event Horizon.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Forward / Fan Fic / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: "Silver" ended up being one of these, with competing gambits from Mal, Womack, River, and the Operative. The story as a whole appears to be one of these, with conflicting background gambits between the Alliance, the Browncoats (who the Operative/Nemo appears to be working with - maybe, we're not sure yet what their angle is), and apparently the Academy and John Garis/Echo, who may actually be doing something completely counter to them (again, no idea yet what he's planning, if anything.)
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Zoe in "Charity", particularly when the mercenaries assault the chapel. Then it's called into question when Katie is outed as an Inducer, since she outright states that she was manipulating those feelings in Zoe because she wanted a mother. Of course, Inducers can't do anything with feelings that aren't already there, so she likely does have those tendencies; they were just being driven Up to Eleven by Katie. It also appears to have left a pretty heavy effect on Zoe after she realized what had happened.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Subverted. Mal and Zoe are unable to get one of Niska's men to give up the location of Niska's ship. They eventually have to rely on Book and Wash to coax the information out of him.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e16fb8ca	type	Hero Killer
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: Deliberately invoked with the Hands of Blue. Though they haven't been able to kill anyone yet, it hasn't been from a lack of skill or effort; in fact, in both instances where they've fought River, they've handily beaten her. Of the four that have appeared in the story, one had to be hit by a sneak-attack from Mal, Jayne had to pummel another senseless with a bedpan and slit his throat with a scalpel after a drawn-out brawl, another required Kaylee to hijack a power loader to stop, and the last was only stopped when he accidentally triggered an Unstoppable Rage in River by shooting Simon. Pretty much, whenever these guys appear, it's an Oh, Crap! moment for everyone involved, and for good reason.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: River delivers one to Volsky as he is torturing her, revealing not only the fact that his wife is cheating on him, but that he is plotting to assassinate Niska and the rest of his men.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: The Hands of Blue are only identified by their last names.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e2e08b77	type	SuddenlySexuality
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e2e08b77	comment	Suddenly Sexuality: Subverted in Mosiac, where River has a brief lesbian makeout session. However, it turns out that River doesn't like girls, but she was drunk and confused, and there are hints at other, darker reasons behind the incident, relating to River's past at the Academy.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: And again:
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e539f64f	type	Kill Him Already!
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e539f64f	comment	Kill Him Already!: Good advice, which both Mal and River follow when dealing with Ott and Si Quan.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The train's engineer in Charity seems suspiciously familiar.... Inducer One-One-Nine is a black-haired, nine year-old girl with a penchant for mind-raping people, is psychopathically violent against her tormenters, and her last name is Wade. Hrm.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Forward / Fan Fic / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: What with Mal and Original Flavor, this one is pretty much a given. Jayne also shows shades of it, as does Book while fighting the Reavers in "Adrift." River also starts showing signs of it as the story progresses, with her drawing inspiration and determination from her experiences with Mal, Book, Jayne, and Zoe. River fully qualifies in the Fourth Interlude. Damn. Continues in Wrath, where her response to torture and the threat of torture by Ornstintz is to defiantly keep challenging him to hurt her more because she's learned how to deal with pain. And in the flashback, she spends weeks straight getting curbstomped every time she spars with Dr. Rashid until she learns how to use her combat conditioning effectively.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Forward / Fan Fic / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Considering Firefly is the Trope Namer, this should come as no surprise: In "Business," Mal popping a Hand of Blue in the skull right as he's about to shoot Jayne. Colonel Obrin actually accuses Mal of thinking he is a "big damn hero" in "Condor." Almost immediately afterward, Serenity shows up. In "Mosaic," Jayne, on fire, wielding a knife, and charging into the cargo bay. In "Adrift," first River to save the beleaguered Alliance soldiers, Simon, and Book, and then Book, when River is hit by paralytic darts. Later on, Serenity saving the shuttle from Reavers. In "Charity," Wash and Monty roaring in as the train is about to be blown up by the Talon mercenaries. In "Last Man" there's a triple whammy in the final chapter: In the flashback, the American saving Jayne from being tortured by the Mongol, and in the present, Wash saving Jayne from the Cossack by first putting his shuttle between them, and then by shooting the Cossack six times in the body armor when he boards the shuttle and is chocking out Jayne.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One Steve Limit: Two of the gangs on Sirroco Station are called the Iron Talons and Red Talons, on top of the mercenary group Talon. River theorizes that none of these guys are very creative.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_efbe6837	type	TheUndefeated
Forward / Fan Fic / int_efbe6837	comment	The Undefeated: The Browncoats under Obrin's command.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f0af9e34	type	WorldOfCardboardSpeech
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f0af9e34	comment	"World of Cardboard" Speech: Simon has one when Zoe hints that his fear for his sister might get in the way of a rescue operation. River's letter to Simon at the end of "Hunt" is nothing but this.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Literally. In "Charity", a psychic Inducer distracts River by having her become sexually attracted to Jayne, so she won't notice another Academy escapee. Paired with the Inducer's ability to become literally unremarkable enough that no one notices, and River never realizes she's there until the climax of the arc.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f1e837cc	comment	From what has been hinted at so far, it appears that Kinetics are telekinetics, and Blanks are immune to psychic effects. Empaths are, well, The Empath. Inducers appear to use a form of Mind Manipulation that works on either generating or enhancing emotions and perceptions, allowing them to subtly control minds.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f2a5f7f2	type	Expospeak Gag
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f2a5f7f2	comment	Expospeak Gag: One of the chapters is titled "Ponderous Condemned Champions." Also happens frequently with River's dialogue.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f332d990	comment	Too Much Information: Wash's reaction to when River jokes that Jayne doesn't just use gun lube on guns.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Discussed in "Silver" when Mal, Jayne, and Kaylee discover Dumont's slaves. Mal and Kaylee both agree that it didn't sit right that they couldn't put those brain-dead people out of their misery, but Mal is pragmatic enough to know that they didn't have time. In "Last Man," Konstantin shooting Voronin as he lays dying from a lethal bullet wound from Jayne's ambush.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Inducer One-One-Nine.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Mal is perfectly willing to belt River across the face when she goes berserk in "Mosaic" and starts shooting up the scenery.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: For River, "I am functional."
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f4a5b281	type	Ceiling Cling
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f4a5b281	comment	Ceiling Cling: In "Charity" River uses one of these to ambush several mercenaries. "Hunt" reveals that all telepaths have an affinity for it, and the Hands of Blue are trained to always check the ceiling.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Inducer One-One-Nine's approach to most problems.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: During the "Business" story arc, one of Niska's men attempts to rape River. Jayne objects.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_f9f2c33	type	RunningGag
Forward / Fan Fic / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "...the not-so-[good/fine/great] ship Serenity." Mr. Quinn cannot ever finish speaking his code phrase without being interrupted. Wash ramming things. He's rammed gunships, drones, and at one point nearly crushed Womack's ship against his hull when the latter threatened to shoot Serenity down.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_faf5732b	type	I Call It "Vera"
Forward / Fan Fic / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": River buys the electrosword that was stolen in the "Adrift" arc and names it "Laertes." Jayne names his revolver "Boo," and his oversized knife "Binky." The Trope Namer herself gets to see a lot of action as well.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_fb3576b2	type	TheDogBitesBack
Forward / Fan Fic / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Lampshaded by Jayne: after he gets free from the binding Niska's men had put on him, he manages to kill all of Niska's men with a knife and then tortures Niska, pointing out that, while Niska likes to torture little girls (River) he does not seem to like when the little girl and the bear (Jayne) fight back.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Forward / Fan Fic / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Merlins are apparently named after the Knights of the Round Table. So far, there's been one named "Galahad" and another named "Lancelot".
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Forward / Fan Fic / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Jayne setting himself on fire and charging with a knife to terrify his enemies in "Mosaic." Comes back with a dark echo in "Last Man" when in a flashback, it is shown that the Brit charging Jayne with a knife while on fire is one of the most terrifying things he ever experienced.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_fe48cea2	type	Lady of War
Forward / Fan Fic / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: "Adrift" explicitly invokes this, referring to River as an "Angel of Death" as she massacres Reavers.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Forward / Fan Fic / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Jayne in particular does this.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Forward / Fan Fic / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Book. Though he was already a badass preacher in the series, in "Adrift" he charges into the middle of a Reaver horde, whispering Bible quotes while wielding a sword.
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Forward / Fan Fic / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Forward / Fan Fic / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The author goes on a short spiel about why Vera's bullets would actually work in a no-oxygen environment, and then comes up with a plausible explanation as to why Vera's bullets actually don't fire very well in a vacuum. The author put a bit of research into Arabic naming conventions, which shows in the "Fourth Interlude."
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Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Chekhov's Gunman / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Dirty Mind-Reading / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Fake in the Hole / int_d2ad1f34
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Fix Fic / int_d2ad1f34
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	I Am Not a Gun / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Improvised Weapon / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Informed Self-Diagnosis / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Molotov Truck / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Original Flavour / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Powered Armor / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Psychic Block Defense / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Refrigerator Ambush / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Terraform / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Unconventional Formatting / int_6f437754
forward	sameAs	Forward / Fan Fic
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Emphasize EVERYTHING / int_6f437754
Forward / Fan Fic	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_d2ad1f34

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