wasting time when I should be working

[vaznetti]

So I am at work, and marking exams, as happens at this time of year. Remind me of why I want to know whether my students are actually learning anything, again? And I know that I still have a couple snippets to go from the last meme (working on them!), but I require short-term distraction at the moment.

Ask me about any character whom I have written, and I will tell you three pieces of personal fanon about them. It is fanon, rather than "personal canon," isn't it? You can try characters I haven't written, but I can't guarantee that I'll have the same kind of knowledge about them.

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[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Zoe Washburne

[vaznetti]

Contrary to that missing scene, Zoe was not raised on a ship; she was raised on-planet, in an orphanage. She came there at the age of three, and doesn't remember much from before that.

She joined the Independents because she didn't have anything else to do -- not many skills and no place to go. It was just a job and a way off-planet, and the first time she met Mal she thought he was crazy for believing so strongly in the cause.

She still suspects he'd be happier if he were more like her about that.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not thrilled with the Zoe-was-raised-on-a-ship thing, so I mostly ignore it myself.