Post by River Tam on Jan 13, 2008 2:20:22 GMT -5
General
Name:River Tam
Nickname:Meimei(Simon calls her this it’s Chinese for little sister), Brat (Simon again), Sweetheart (Shepherd Book and several others) Little Witch (Mal), Feng Li (Jayne it’s Chinese for crazy), Crazy (Jayne), Little one (Mal), Little Albatross (Mal), Darling (Mal), and there are several others that usually get told to her by other members of the ship
Age:17
Physical
Hair:Long wavy waist length dark brown almost black hair
Eyes:brown and big usually makes her look lost
Height5’3” but she seems allot bigger when she is fighting
Weight: 90 lbs
Build: She is skinny and like a typical dancer her legs and arms are toned and she carries herself very up right like a dancer. She doesn’t have many curves just a few and she is very, very lithe able to move in ways people wouldn’t imagine. She has narrow shoulders, small hands and feet.
Picture www.fireflywiki.org/img/river23.jpg
Mental
Talents
Likes
Dislikes
Strengths
Weaknesses:
Fears (At Least three)
PersonalityRiver was a kind child with a gift or rather she was the gift to her family. She proved from a young age that she had brains like no one else. She was a very verbal child correcting Simons spelling by the time she was three. She was also a playful child and loved to have Simon’s attention. She was spoiled and she knew it too getting into some of the best schools. She and Simon were just happy being around each other.
When River turned fourteen things started to change for her. She was accepted to the alliance academy. Her first interview she had done without her parents’ knowledge. She was accepted and her parents reluctantly let her go to the school soon enough the change in her behavior was apparent by the letters Simon received from her.
As time went on the behavior became even worse and at the academy itself she was known to go from extremely lucid and calm and coherent to violent, hyper, and incoherent. She fell deeper and deeper into psychotic as the experiments continued on her.
After Simon rescued her she was extremely crazy babbling on about things that Simon didn’t understand. He put her into a box so that he could transport her easier without being noticed as much. She was awoken earlier than scheduled by Mal who was surprised to find a young girl who was out of her mind. River at that time was unstable, scared, and desperate. She soon showed a dislike of the med bay when Simon took her into it.
Her behavior on Serenity has varied from playful, friendly, and mostly normal to violent, insane, and babbling. She has also proven to be violent in some cases and set off by words, phrases, codes, and other things like that. She has also been extremely frightened and small or violent and frightening to others. She has proven to be useful and confusing. She has also had few moments of clarity where she picks on Simon.
She stated that she understands but doesn’t comprehend things as well as she should. She also tends to sink into the voids of her mind seeing things as she wishes to see them and not for what they really are. River has been known to be one of the sweetest people on Serenity and at the same time one of the most frightening.
History
Job Student, accomplice to illegal heists, a trained killer, and a genius
Family Simon Tam (brother and the only family that she has ever really connected to) Gabriel Tam (father) Reagan Tam (Mother) and probably various nannies, and other such tutors
HistoryBorn on the planet Osiris to rich parents. She has had a privileged and spoiled life. She was also born an unparallel genius with a way of correcting her brothers spelling when she was three, he was eight. She was put into some of the highest level schools that they would get her into and she proved to be too smart for them. She also showed a love of dance from a young age and she was talented in it too. It is possible that she had some slight border line psychic abilities at this time in her life since she always knew what girls Simon liked.
The beginning of her teen years she started at a college but soon found it to be too slow for her liking. When she was fourteen she got an offer from the alliance academy. She went to her first interview without her parents’ knowledge and was accepted. They hadn’t heard of it but they let her go anyway thinking that since the alliance ran it that she would be fine and nothing would happen to her.
That was soon proven to be wrong when she started sending Simon encrypted letters that told him to come and save her from the academy. She was experimented on by being made to sleep and they would test her mind sticking things in, implanting suggestions and many other things like that. They trained her body as well making her faster and stronger. She became the star pupil according to the academy. She was known to be the fastest strongest, smartest. She was the most psychic child there to.
As time went on at the academy she became more and more distressed as she was interviewed and she was known to have violent outburst one incident including her tearing her mattress to shreds. She was experimented on more and she was reading tarot cards and doing many other activities that made her psychic abilities stronger. The academy was probably unaware as to how strong since she wasn’t fully tested on the matter of it.
When she turned seventeen, her brother Simon finally had the means to break her out, he made arrangements with people for ships and landings. He had disguises and weapons and medical supplies with him. He eventually got her to a planet and boarded Serenity with her in a box that kept her frozen for a certain amount of time. Two weeks before the process of needing to be thawed out Mal opened the box and thawed her out which probably just traumatized her more.
After this incident Simon took her to the med bay where she refused to go fighting with him for a while before he got her in. Her first day on the ship proved to be quite traumatizing with Kaylee getting shot, Simon holding a gun, her being a point blank range with a member of the alliance police force. Mal shot the guy, Dobson, and threw him off of the ship. Her second day she awakens again and panics from a dream but refuses to tell Simon about it. She has enough clarity at that time to realize that she isn’t at home on Osiris and she starts to panic. Simon tells her that they are on a ship and she gives the full logistics of the ship without pausing once.
As time goes on she becomes more comfortable with the crew and begins to wander the ship avoiding the med bay as much as possible. She has caused chaos on the ship though with throwing fits, cutting Jayne, tearing the labels off of the food. She has done a fair amount of screaming and carrying on as well. She has also proven to be useful although once no one acted on it since she had started distracting Badger and everyone just watched in awe. The other time she actually shot three men with her eyes closed and Kaylee didn’t tell anyone about it. She just kind of kept it a secret until River picked up another gun under the illusion that it was a stick.
River and Simon have gone throw allot while on Serenity everything from bounty hunters to almost being burned at the stake by hill folk because of River’s abilities. River was soon being put to use on the ship when she was told to accompany a job with the crew that usually went on jobs, Mal, Zoe, and Jayne. At this time Shepherd Book left to be on the planet Haven and Inara left to work in a companion training house. River pointed out a man on the heist who was going to shoot at one of the crew that went along and she also sensed the reavers that were coming. Soon after this they discovered that they had an operative on their trail and he was after River. She isn’t found until they are on Beaumonde and Simon and River were leaving Serenity for good.
On Beaumonde the code that set River off was shown in the bar named Maidenhead while Jayne and Mal are finishing the job for Fanty and Mingo. River is soon on a killing rampage through the bar after muttering Miranda. She was just about to shoot Mal when Simon said the safe word and put her to sleep. Soon enough Miranda is revealed to them but no one knows what it really is until she locks down the ship and shows them. Soon enough they are there and they find a signal from a ship and decide to put it out using Mr. Universe who was killed by a sword and Mal had to get out the signal. While this is going on the rest of the crew is fighting Reavers and after both Zoe and Kaylee are injured along with Simon and he realizes he doesn’t have his bag and the door needs to be closed from the other side. River gets up and jumps into the pit of reavers getting Simon’s bag and closing the door.
She ended up not getting out since a reaver grabbed her foot and she was pulled back in the next thing they know the doors are open from the outside mal returns to the crew as this happens showing River for the most part unscathed by the event. The alliance is on one side and the crew is on the other. The alliance backs down and then helps them rebuild the now destroyed Serenity and River is allowed to copilot the ship. Now River is starting to fall back into her psychotic ways again but is trying to hide it at the moment. Currently none of the crew or Simon knows about her having episodes again. River at the moment just generally leaves the guests and passengers on the ship alone at the moment so that no one will find out what is going on with her.
Name:River Tam
Nickname:Meimei(Simon calls her this it’s Chinese for little sister), Brat (Simon again), Sweetheart (Shepherd Book and several others) Little Witch (Mal), Feng Li (Jayne it’s Chinese for crazy), Crazy (Jayne), Little one (Mal), Little Albatross (Mal), Darling (Mal), and there are several others that usually get told to her by other members of the ship
Age:17
Physical
Hair:Long wavy waist length dark brown almost black hair
Eyes:brown and big usually makes her look lost
Height5’3” but she seems allot bigger when she is fighting
Weight: 90 lbs
Build: She is skinny and like a typical dancer her legs and arms are toned and she carries herself very up right like a dancer. She doesn’t have many curves just a few and she is very, very lithe able to move in ways people wouldn’t imagine. She has narrow shoulders, small hands and feet.
Picture www.fireflywiki.org/img/river23.jpg
Mental
Talents
- Dance
- school or anything that she needs to use her brain for *she can rattle off the entire line of things that pertains to Serenity from its serial number to the class of ship that it is*
- Fighting
Likes
- Her brother
- Dancing
- Learning
Dislikes
- Hospitals
- The Alliance
- The Academy
Strengths
- Dance
- Her Fighting *you need to see it to understand*
- Her brain *she’s a psychic and a genius that can correct her brother when she was three*
Weaknesses:
- Her mental state *she is borderline schizophrenic*
- Her safe word *it puts her to sleep*
- Her fears
Fears (At Least three)
- The Academy
- Her Dreams
- Herself
PersonalityRiver was a kind child with a gift or rather she was the gift to her family. She proved from a young age that she had brains like no one else. She was a very verbal child correcting Simons spelling by the time she was three. She was also a playful child and loved to have Simon’s attention. She was spoiled and she knew it too getting into some of the best schools. She and Simon were just happy being around each other.
When River turned fourteen things started to change for her. She was accepted to the alliance academy. Her first interview she had done without her parents’ knowledge. She was accepted and her parents reluctantly let her go to the school soon enough the change in her behavior was apparent by the letters Simon received from her.
As time went on the behavior became even worse and at the academy itself she was known to go from extremely lucid and calm and coherent to violent, hyper, and incoherent. She fell deeper and deeper into psychotic as the experiments continued on her.
After Simon rescued her she was extremely crazy babbling on about things that Simon didn’t understand. He put her into a box so that he could transport her easier without being noticed as much. She was awoken earlier than scheduled by Mal who was surprised to find a young girl who was out of her mind. River at that time was unstable, scared, and desperate. She soon showed a dislike of the med bay when Simon took her into it.
Her behavior on Serenity has varied from playful, friendly, and mostly normal to violent, insane, and babbling. She has also proven to be violent in some cases and set off by words, phrases, codes, and other things like that. She has also been extremely frightened and small or violent and frightening to others. She has proven to be useful and confusing. She has also had few moments of clarity where she picks on Simon.
She stated that she understands but doesn’t comprehend things as well as she should. She also tends to sink into the voids of her mind seeing things as she wishes to see them and not for what they really are. River has been known to be one of the sweetest people on Serenity and at the same time one of the most frightening.
History
Job Student, accomplice to illegal heists, a trained killer, and a genius
Family Simon Tam (brother and the only family that she has ever really connected to) Gabriel Tam (father) Reagan Tam (Mother) and probably various nannies, and other such tutors
HistoryBorn on the planet Osiris to rich parents. She has had a privileged and spoiled life. She was also born an unparallel genius with a way of correcting her brothers spelling when she was three, he was eight. She was put into some of the highest level schools that they would get her into and she proved to be too smart for them. She also showed a love of dance from a young age and she was talented in it too. It is possible that she had some slight border line psychic abilities at this time in her life since she always knew what girls Simon liked.
The beginning of her teen years she started at a college but soon found it to be too slow for her liking. When she was fourteen she got an offer from the alliance academy. She went to her first interview without her parents’ knowledge and was accepted. They hadn’t heard of it but they let her go anyway thinking that since the alliance ran it that she would be fine and nothing would happen to her.
That was soon proven to be wrong when she started sending Simon encrypted letters that told him to come and save her from the academy. She was experimented on by being made to sleep and they would test her mind sticking things in, implanting suggestions and many other things like that. They trained her body as well making her faster and stronger. She became the star pupil according to the academy. She was known to be the fastest strongest, smartest. She was the most psychic child there to.
As time went on at the academy she became more and more distressed as she was interviewed and she was known to have violent outburst one incident including her tearing her mattress to shreds. She was experimented on more and she was reading tarot cards and doing many other activities that made her psychic abilities stronger. The academy was probably unaware as to how strong since she wasn’t fully tested on the matter of it.
When she turned seventeen, her brother Simon finally had the means to break her out, he made arrangements with people for ships and landings. He had disguises and weapons and medical supplies with him. He eventually got her to a planet and boarded Serenity with her in a box that kept her frozen for a certain amount of time. Two weeks before the process of needing to be thawed out Mal opened the box and thawed her out which probably just traumatized her more.
After this incident Simon took her to the med bay where she refused to go fighting with him for a while before he got her in. Her first day on the ship proved to be quite traumatizing with Kaylee getting shot, Simon holding a gun, her being a point blank range with a member of the alliance police force. Mal shot the guy, Dobson, and threw him off of the ship. Her second day she awakens again and panics from a dream but refuses to tell Simon about it. She has enough clarity at that time to realize that she isn’t at home on Osiris and she starts to panic. Simon tells her that they are on a ship and she gives the full logistics of the ship without pausing once.
As time goes on she becomes more comfortable with the crew and begins to wander the ship avoiding the med bay as much as possible. She has caused chaos on the ship though with throwing fits, cutting Jayne, tearing the labels off of the food. She has done a fair amount of screaming and carrying on as well. She has also proven to be useful although once no one acted on it since she had started distracting Badger and everyone just watched in awe. The other time she actually shot three men with her eyes closed and Kaylee didn’t tell anyone about it. She just kind of kept it a secret until River picked up another gun under the illusion that it was a stick.
River and Simon have gone throw allot while on Serenity everything from bounty hunters to almost being burned at the stake by hill folk because of River’s abilities. River was soon being put to use on the ship when she was told to accompany a job with the crew that usually went on jobs, Mal, Zoe, and Jayne. At this time Shepherd Book left to be on the planet Haven and Inara left to work in a companion training house. River pointed out a man on the heist who was going to shoot at one of the crew that went along and she also sensed the reavers that were coming. Soon after this they discovered that they had an operative on their trail and he was after River. She isn’t found until they are on Beaumonde and Simon and River were leaving Serenity for good.
On Beaumonde the code that set River off was shown in the bar named Maidenhead while Jayne and Mal are finishing the job for Fanty and Mingo. River is soon on a killing rampage through the bar after muttering Miranda. She was just about to shoot Mal when Simon said the safe word and put her to sleep. Soon enough Miranda is revealed to them but no one knows what it really is until she locks down the ship and shows them. Soon enough they are there and they find a signal from a ship and decide to put it out using Mr. Universe who was killed by a sword and Mal had to get out the signal. While this is going on the rest of the crew is fighting Reavers and after both Zoe and Kaylee are injured along with Simon and he realizes he doesn’t have his bag and the door needs to be closed from the other side. River gets up and jumps into the pit of reavers getting Simon’s bag and closing the door.
She ended up not getting out since a reaver grabbed her foot and she was pulled back in the next thing they know the doors are open from the outside mal returns to the crew as this happens showing River for the most part unscathed by the event. The alliance is on one side and the crew is on the other. The alliance backs down and then helps them rebuild the now destroyed Serenity and River is allowed to copilot the ship. Now River is starting to fall back into her psychotic ways again but is trying to hide it at the moment. Currently none of the crew or Simon knows about her having episodes again. River at the moment just generally leaves the guests and passengers on the ship alone at the moment so that no one will find out what is going on with her.
