Player Name: Kerry Personal Journal:justsay_goodbye E-mail: fontcroire @ gmail.com AIM/MSN: fontcroire Timezone: GMT Current Characters in Route: None
Character Name: River Tam Series: Firefly Timeline: Post-Serenity (movie) Canon Resource Links:River Tam @ wikia
Personality: River's personality from one day to the next, even from one moment, depends on numerous things - including any Alliance presence, danger that she may fear or sense or nightmares which can bring about a psychotic episode. After attending The Academy, which was thought to be a school for the gifted, River's brain was experimented on in order to make her the perfect assassin, unlocking parts of the brain which were unused, creating new neurological pathways and tapping into psychic abilities. These experiments were the cause of River's psychotic episodes - by damaging her amygdala, as well as mentally scaring her in fear, River is capable of feeling everything at once - from herself as well as others. Due to the damage she is incapable of shutting this off and the intense feelings started a descent into insanity.
In a calm moment, River is a pleasant girl, thoughtful, sweet and has a smart sense of humour. From a child River has always been intelligent - whilst her brother was smart she was gifted, making him seem like the idiot child. River's gifts allowed her to do anything that she wanted, her mind being capable of accessing and doing anything which she tried. River is also very athletically skilled and is a talented dancer, capable of picking up a dance just by watching it for seconds. Though River is friendly and found to be pleasant, she's also been described as 'not quite right' due to her psychotic episodes and is a little feared due to her unpredictability.
River has a tendency to make 'odd' or inappropriate comments - the logic in them is sound to River but they don't entirely make sense. As a child River gave intellectual and logical answers to arguments or as solutions, something which she is still doing now though the meaning is a little more confused. These comments go so far as to stretch to her actions as well, making her unpredictable but also violent, an example being when she slashed Jayne's chest as he "looked better in red". River is deeply intuitive and combines both her intelligence with her feelings to allow things to follow in a logical path. River's cryptic speech is very meaningful and though it may not outwardly seem so, on the inside it is much deeper. Her genius, as well as her trained assassin skills, make her even more dangerous - this example being something small, as had she actually wished to cause harm no one would have been able to have stopped her.
When suffering from a mental outbreak, the most common of these being when River wakes up from a nightmare or during the presence of the Alliance, River is often very child like and only her brother, Simon, is capable of calming her. Often after, and very quickly too, River will return to her 'normal' state, casually throwing him a caustic remark. River's love for Simon is very grounding for her, capable of helping her to retain as much normalcy as she can. It is likely that if Simon were not with River that the results of her insanity, or even with River herself, would be more severe. The friendships that River has formed aboard Serenity are also very important for her, allowing her to reclaim some of what she's lost in herself whilst helping to stabilise her, lessening the effects of the trauma that she's sustained.
Along with River's altered mentality, The Academy's experimentation caused other effects in River. As well as being deeply intuitive in herself, River is also capable of sensing the feelings of others, as well as displaying telepathic prowess. There have also been moments where River has been able to see or foretell the future, warning the crew of Serenity of impending danger or events - particularly in the case of Reavers. Though River has no control over these abilities, it is possible that over time she will be capable of refining them. Though she will never be able to control her emotions, possibly not even be able to control sensing the emotions of others, she may be able to develop a better grasp over her forewarning and telepathy. Her abilities are powerful, allowing her to locate her way through unknown buildings and can locate or feel things from a distance. It is possible that River's abilities also stretch further as she remarks to Jayne that, "I can kill you with my brain".
River is also stronger than she appears, also due to The Academy. As The Academy trained her to be an assassin, River possesses a high level of skill in bother Kung-Fu and kickboxing, heightened by her love of dance and athletic ability. She is also capable of taking down multiple targets in great numbers and can come out of these counters unscathed. Her training has made her proficient in hand-to-hand combat as well as in the use of weaponry, particularly knifes or guns (with the aid of her psychic abilities also).
Strengths/Weaknesses: Strengths:
- river is pleasant, thoughtful, sweet and has a smart sense of humour. She is very caring, particularly towards those that she views as family (originally just Simon but by the end of the series the crew of Serenity had also become her family) - river is very intelligent, a child prodigy. When describing River her brother made note that he was intelligent but that she made him look like an idiot child - river is very intuitive, although this is due to her psychic abilities. River is known as a reader, capable of 'hearing' what is around her (not only their thoughts but feelings too). I would like her to keep this just for her Pokemon please? - river is also very athletically gifted. She is a skilled dancer and was capable of learning a dance just by watching others dance it for several seconds. Due to the Academy she is also experienced and gifted in combat (skilled in kung-fu and kickboxing and was trained (with the use of hidden coded messages) to be an assassin). She was made to be a weapon and she's shown it before - in the series she was able to shoot (and kill) with her eyes shut after examining the positions of the men for a matter of seconds. In the movie Serenity River manages to take down the Reavers and comes out with barely a scratch on her. By using her combat skills along with her psychic abilities she is the perfect weapon - she is deadly and can predict your moves to avoid it and use them against you. (Although in Route she will lack her psychic abilities to aide her with this)
Weaknesses:
- river's mind is jumbled and 'broken' due to the experiments done to her by the Academy. Her shifts in her personality are unpredictable and the smallest thing can cause a shift (for example Shepherd Book's hair made her hysterical, although it was not the strongest of her 'episodes'). River also frequently suffers from nightmares due to her experiences at the Academy - river's mind and personality shifts also make her incredibly unpredictable, making people fear her - despite her intelligence the experiments have made a lot of what River says "odd" or inappropriate - although the logic is still there the way she expresses herself is less straightforward and often a little nonsensical - due to River's caring personality, being separated from her family (Simon & the crew of Serenity) will trouble her, particularly as they are not safe
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder Starter: Ralts ("Simon") Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples First Person Sample: We're not alone.
[ There's no one on the feed the first time that you look but several seconds later? A face. One that is very close to the camera ]
There are others. More.
[ A beat ]
Not here.
[ She also wasn't referring to everyone that was at home, that had been left behind ]
It's not right. Taken and altered. People don't want to be changed.
[ For as calm as she sounds now she was far more panicked earlier ]
Taken. Left aside. Not home. Not anywhere.
[ A beat ]
Not Alliance. Don't have to run but people do, people are.
[ It wasn't quite the same but running was running, and it wasn't the fun exercise kind that she was meaning - she'd seen both ]
Not enough answers. Too many questions all left. And you can't tell.
[ She couldn't tell. 'Reading' may not be natural, or a comfort to her - it was part of something terrible that had happened, but being suddenly without it? It made her feel lost ]
Third Person Sample: Panic. That was her first feeling. The Alliance being her first thought. She wasn't on Serenity. She also wasn't on any planet that River recognised. She reached, not intentionally but her mind couldn't help from doing so. Where was she?
She didn't find anything, though, at least not what she was looking for.
"Quiet. It is different, like space but not. Wrong." River pauses, looking around her. Whilst this place was indeed different it wasn't that that River had been referring to.
"Something changed, altered. They're not there." It wasn't just that she wasn't on Serenity but she couldn't find, couldn't hear anyone from Serenity. Her mind was blank, quiet with only her own thoughts. She wasn't just cut off from Serenity but from everyone. It was quiet.
It was lonely.
After being connected, after hearing everything for as long as she had? It felt natural to her despite how uneasy it made her, how strange it was. And yet having it gone? It felt just as wrong, and not as comforting as you would have thought.
"Not right. Not fixed." River was aware that she was talking to herself but it only seemed to serve her point. She was damaged. Broken. Nothing was right.
"We're meddlesome; easy to break but can't be repaired. Manipulated. Malleable." For anyone that was around, that may have been watching her her next action may have appeared to be a fall, or a collapse, although really? She was fine. As fine as a now non-psychic psychic could be. River had let herself fall, managing to do so without hurting herself. And now laid upon the ground? She was in effect grounding herself, holding onto something that she knew was solid - something that wasn't going to as easily change.
Except it had. This planet was unfamiliar, and Serenity wasn't here - not that she knew.
"It's all gone. Not here, not meant to be. Couldn't stop it." But really, how could she have tried to when she didn't know what had happened?
River Tam | Firefly
Name: Kerry
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Character
Name: River Tam
Series: Firefly
Timeline: Post-Serenity (movie)
Canon Resource Links: River Tam @ wikia
Personality: River's personality from one day to the next, even from one moment, depends on numerous things - including any Alliance presence, danger that she may fear or sense or nightmares which can bring about a psychotic episode. After attending The Academy, which was thought to be a school for the gifted, River's brain was experimented on in order to make her the perfect assassin, unlocking parts of the brain which were unused, creating new neurological pathways and tapping into psychic abilities. These experiments were the cause of River's psychotic episodes - by damaging her amygdala, as well as mentally scaring her in fear, River is capable of feeling everything at once - from herself as well as others. Due to the damage she is incapable of shutting this off and the intense feelings started a descent into insanity.
In a calm moment, River is a pleasant girl, thoughtful, sweet and has a smart sense of humour. From a child River has always been intelligent - whilst her brother was smart she was gifted, making him seem like the idiot child. River's gifts allowed her to do anything that she wanted, her mind being capable of accessing and doing anything which she tried. River is also very athletically skilled and is a talented dancer, capable of picking up a dance just by watching it for seconds. Though River is friendly and found to be pleasant, she's also been described as 'not quite right' due to her psychotic episodes and is a little feared due to her unpredictability.
River has a tendency to make 'odd' or inappropriate comments - the logic in them is sound to River but they don't entirely make sense. As a child River gave intellectual and logical answers to arguments or as solutions, something which she is still doing now though the meaning is a little more confused. These comments go so far as to stretch to her actions as well, making her unpredictable but also violent, an example being when she slashed Jayne's chest as he "looked better in red". River is deeply intuitive and combines both her intelligence with her feelings to allow things to follow in a logical path. River's cryptic speech is very meaningful and though it may not outwardly seem so, on the inside it is much deeper. Her genius, as well as her trained assassin skills, make her even more dangerous - this example being something small, as had she actually wished to cause harm no one would have been able to have stopped her.
When suffering from a mental outbreak, the most common of these being when River wakes up from a nightmare or during the presence of the Alliance, River is often very child like and only her brother, Simon, is capable of calming her. Often after, and very quickly too, River will return to her 'normal' state, casually throwing him a caustic remark. River's love for Simon is very grounding for her, capable of helping her to retain as much normalcy as she can. It is likely that if Simon were not with River that the results of her insanity, or even with River herself, would be more severe. The friendships that River has formed aboard Serenity are also very important for her, allowing her to reclaim some of what she's lost in herself whilst helping to stabilise her, lessening the effects of the trauma that she's sustained.
Along with River's altered mentality, The Academy's experimentation caused other effects in River. As well as being deeply intuitive in herself, River is also capable of sensing the feelings of others, as well as displaying telepathic prowess. There have also been moments where River has been able to see or foretell the future, warning the crew of Serenity of impending danger or events - particularly in the case of Reavers. Though River has no control over these abilities, it is possible that over time she will be capable of refining them. Though she will never be able to control her emotions, possibly not even be able to control sensing the emotions of others, she may be able to develop a better grasp over her forewarning and telepathy. Her abilities are powerful, allowing her to locate her way through unknown buildings and can locate or feel things from a distance. It is possible that River's abilities also stretch further as she remarks to Jayne that, "I can kill you with my brain".
River is also stronger than she appears, also due to The Academy. As The Academy trained her to be an assassin, River possesses a high level of skill in bother Kung-Fu and kickboxing, heightened by her love of dance and athletic ability. She is also capable of taking down multiple targets in great numbers and can come out of these counters unscathed. Her training has made her proficient in hand-to-hand combat as well as in the use of weaponry, particularly knifes or guns (with the aid of her psychic abilities also).
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths:
- river is pleasant, thoughtful, sweet and has a smart sense of humour. She is very caring, particularly towards those that she views as family (originally just Simon but by the end of the series the crew of Serenity had also become her family)
- river is very intelligent, a child prodigy. When describing River her brother made note that he was intelligent but that she made him look like an idiot child
- river is very intuitive, although this is due to her psychic abilities. River is known as a reader, capable of 'hearing' what is around her (not only their thoughts but feelings too). I would like her to keep this just for her Pokemon please?
- river is also very athletically gifted. She is a skilled dancer and was capable of learning a dance just by watching others dance it for several seconds. Due to the Academy she is also experienced and gifted in combat (skilled in kung-fu and kickboxing and was trained (with the use of hidden coded messages) to be an assassin). She was made to be a weapon and she's shown it before - in the series she was able to shoot (and kill) with her eyes shut after examining the positions of the men for a matter of seconds. In the movie Serenity River manages to take down the Reavers and comes out with barely a scratch on her. By using her combat skills along with her psychic abilities she is the perfect weapon - she is deadly and can predict your moves to avoid it and use them against you. (Although in Route she will lack her psychic abilities to aide her with this)
Weaknesses:
- river's mind is jumbled and 'broken' due to the experiments done to her by the Academy. Her shifts in her personality are unpredictable and the smallest thing can cause a shift (for example Shepherd Book's hair made her hysterical, although it was not the strongest of her 'episodes'). River also frequently suffers from nightmares due to her experiences at the Academy
- river's mind and personality shifts also make her incredibly unpredictable, making people fear her
- despite her intelligence the experiments have made a lot of what River says "odd" or inappropriate - although the logic is still there the way she expresses herself is less straightforward and often a little nonsensical
- due to River's caring personality, being separated from her family (Simon & the crew of Serenity) will trouble her, particularly as they are not safe
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Ralts ("Simon")
Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample: We're not alone.
[ There's no one on the feed the first time that you look but several seconds later? A face. One that is very close to the camera ]
There are others. More.
[ A beat ]
Not here.
[ She also wasn't referring to everyone that was at home, that had been left behind ]
It's not right. Taken and altered. People don't want to be changed.
[ For as calm as she sounds now she was far more panicked earlier ]
Taken. Left aside. Not home. Not anywhere.
[ A beat ]
Not Alliance. Don't have to run but people do, people are.
[ It wasn't quite the same but running was running, and it wasn't the fun exercise kind that she was meaning - she'd seen both ]
Not enough answers. Too many questions all left. And you can't tell.
[ She couldn't tell. 'Reading' may not be natural, or a comfort to her - it was part of something terrible that had happened, but being suddenly without it? It made her feel lost ]
Third Person Sample: Panic. That was her first feeling. The Alliance being her first thought. She wasn't on Serenity. She also wasn't on any planet that River recognised. She reached, not intentionally but her mind couldn't help from doing so. Where was she?
She didn't find anything, though, at least not what she was looking for.
"Quiet. It is different, like space but not. Wrong." River pauses, looking around her. Whilst this place was indeed different it wasn't that that River had been referring to.
"Something changed, altered. They're not there." It wasn't just that she wasn't on Serenity but she couldn't find, couldn't hear anyone from Serenity. Her mind was blank, quiet with only her own thoughts. She wasn't just cut off from Serenity but from everyone. It was quiet.
It was lonely.
After being connected, after hearing everything for as long as she had? It felt natural to her despite how uneasy it made her, how strange it was. And yet having it gone? It felt just as wrong, and not as comforting as you would have thought.
"Not right. Not fixed." River was aware that she was talking to herself but it only seemed to serve her point. She was damaged. Broken. Nothing was right.
"We're meddlesome; easy to break but can't be repaired. Manipulated. Malleable." For anyone that was around, that may have been watching her her next action may have appeared to be a fall, or a collapse, although really? She was fine. As fine as a now non-psychic psychic could be. River had let herself fall, managing to do so without hurting herself. And now laid upon the ground? She was in effect grounding herself, holding onto something that she knew was solid - something that wasn't going to as easily change.
Except it had. This planet was unfamiliar, and Serenity wasn't here - not that she knew.
"It's all gone. Not here, not meant to be. Couldn't stop it." But really, how could she have tried to when she didn't know what had happened?