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Oh, and I am up for that meme where you ask me to tell you three or more things about my private personal fanon for characters in shows, comics, films and books that I care about. Shows, right now, would be Jossverse, Grey's, Betty, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, Dirt, Big Love, and so on.

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Zoe from Firefly. Or, if you're not into Firefly, Dawn Summers from BtVS.

1. Zoe always assumed that she would die first. She'd been a warrior all her life and she was almost always the one who got shot at when Mal involved them all in his gorram stupid schemes. When you're a warrior, there's always the bullet that you can't duck, and that isn't a flesh wound. It worried her, a little, because she didn't know how Wash would cope with losing her. She had hidden little notes all over Serenity in places where he'd find them, and even found ways of planting things in the computer, just to feed him little bits of her love for the rest of his life.Now he was gone instead and she had to cope with how to live without him. So she went looking, because that was the one thing she could do, and she found that every note she had left had a note from him tucked inside it.
2. The first time Zoe watched River piloting the ship, she thought she would break inside. River's hands darted around the controls so much more gracefully than Wash's ever had, so much more skilfully, but the sequences of movements, even the hesitations and pauses, were the same. It was as if Wash's movements had been a faded copy of River's and yet she knew that River had learned by watching him, that River was the copy. It reminded Zoe that she must never ever fight River; if it became needful to kill her, best to do it from a distance.
3. Jayne made his move in the first bar where they went drinking; he put his hand on Zoe's thigh and Zoe broke his wrist. Inara suggested delicately that she show Zoe some ways of meditating your way through grief and Zoe smiled and said no. Kaylee and Simon just made a point of not holding hands in front of her. Mal kept falling uncharacteristically quiet whenever she was in the room. In the end, Zoe pulled a farmboy on board, screwed him for the five days it took Mal to find a cargo and then threw him out off the boat before they left. It didn't help, but it got them all to behave normally again; she was a widow, not a broken child.

It reminded Zoe that she must never ever fight River; if it became needful to kill her, best to do it from a distance.

And that is Zoe through and through

Number one is beautiful.

1. Sometimes when Dawn studies languages, she finds it too easy for comfort.She isn't learning Sumerian; she's remembering it.
2. She avoided the Immortal as much as she could because sometimes he looked at her with a half-formed question on his lips.
3. Dawn flirted with Andrew because it was fun to freak him out; she didn't flirt with Amanda, because Amanda would have freaked out and it would have been no fun. Sometimes she regrets this, because Amanda died and Andrew lived, and the other way around would have been her preference.

Amanda died and Andrew lived, and the other way around would have been her preference

And this little strain of ruthlessnes is Dawn to a T.

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