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Presets (Fanfic)

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It's been three months since the events of Serenity, and life for Malcolm Reynolds and his crew is just beginning to get back to normal. River's in training to become the new pilot, Simon and Kaylee are deeply in love, and Mal's even found a steady contract job. Sounds like paradise, right?Of course, trouble soon rears its head. One day River collapses while on watch, convinced she's killed a man and his blood is on her hands. As it turns out, her conditioning is breaking down and the separation between her true self and the killer within is disappearing. Suddenly she's coping with a personality the Academy brainwashed into her with nothing to stop the memories. And when two passengers turn out to be fugitives from the Alliance, Mal realizes that what happened on Miranda was just the beginning of his struggles against authority - but what will be the cost of his choices?A very well-thought out story that was created to resolve what was left of River's tale, Presets bypasses a light-hearted tone to deal with the problems Miranda left behind. Inara and Mal come to grips with their Will They or Won't They? relationship, Zoe begins to heal from Wash's still-recent demise, Jayne discovers that deep down he does care for everyone on Serenity, and Simon learns about the true meaning of family. Very well-written.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: When Inara discovers she's been suspended from the Guild And when Gabriel Tam learns the truth And when the entire crew witnesses River's death.
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Super-Powered Evil Side
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Superpowered Evil Side: River's conditioned personality, which she grows less and less able to control over the course of the story.
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Morton's Fork
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Morton's Fork
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Hostage Situation
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Hostage Situation: River's Ariel's preferred method of negotiation
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Badass in Distress
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Badass in Distress
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Journey to the Center of the Mind
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Journey to the Center of the Mind: Matthias takes one to try and save River from dying.
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It's All My Fault
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It's All My Fault
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: River gets two, one when she returns to the Academy in exchange for the crew of Serenity going free and another when she kills herself to stop the Alliance from retrieving her or persecuting the crew.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: River calls her conditioned personality Ariel, because it was imprisoned and then freed and now serves.
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Scylla and Charybdis
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Scylla and Charybdis: A problem for nearly every character in the story.
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Memory Gambit
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Memory Gambit: Ariel's presence in River's mind wasn't something she knew about until her conditioning started to break down.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?
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Take Me Instead
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Take Me Instead
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Telepathy
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Telepathy: In this particular flavor of Fanon, Readers are a genetically enabled minority in the population. When Mal actually meets some besides River, they're horrified to discover that she can't filter like they can.
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Brainwash Residue
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Brainwash Residue
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Song Fic
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Song Fic: Played with - many scenes and moods in the story are inspired by songs, which are given in the final chapter of the story, but only one song is actually quoted. The characters are actually singing it, because they're musicians, and it's not out of context for the story.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: It's freaking Firefly. Zoe and River are the two most prominent examples, though.
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Mind over Matter
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Mind over Matter: Matthias's wife is a Reader who happens to be telekinetic. But in order for her to do anything, she must expend the same amount of mental energy it would take to do the task physically. So anything more than a windstorm is generally impossible.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Combined with Downer Ending to form a bittersweet conclusion.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: The final chapter of the story contains a few paragraphs about the author's approximations of how fast Serenity can travel from planet to planet, down to some equations and references to resources. It shows in-story that she did her research.
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