Kaylee Frye 2/3?froda_bagginsMarch 1 2010, 05:07:44 UTC
Strengths: On a technical level, her main strength lies in her ability to make things work, even things that seem to be irreperably broken. It's something she was born with, rather than something she was taught - she can look at an engine and just know how it ought to work, the best way to make it go. In short, she's a prodigy, and she'll always be most comfortable in an engine room, specifically Serenity's engine room. That is her heart's home, and it's the heart of the ship. It's where she belongs.
Emotionally, her biggest strength is her innate goodness. Her crew is her family, and to a large extent (while Mal is the leader and inspiration), Kaylee is the emotional glue that holds them together - everyone loves her, and she loves them all completely, unconditionally. Kaylee always tries to see the good in people, lending her an air of innocence that, to some extent, does tend to bring out the good in others. Even Jayne, an amoral hired gun who is brutish, vulgar, and violent, has a soft spot in his heart for Kaylee.
Physically, she's pretty agile, having spent her entire life from the time she could walk climbing in, out, and around engines, though she's far from being able to hold her own in a fight - her agility is more likely to serve her well in dodging and running away.
Weaknesses: Kaylee's naivete could very well land her in trouble. The protective instincts she arouses in her crew are well-founded - if someone was truly evil enough to want to hurt Kaylee, they would easily succeed without trouble if other members of the crew weren't around to intervene. Once, she even got caught in the cross-fire - literally - and nearly lost her life to a stray gunshot. Kaylee is not a fighter. Hand her a gun and she hardly knows which end to point at the other guy, and in a high-pressure situation she becomes frightened and mostly unable to do anything.
When something does go wrong with Serenity's engine, and Kaylee can't fix it (which is very rare, but has been known to happen), Kaylee becomes incredibly self-critical and it's difficult to convince her she's not at fault for being unable to fix things.
Furthermore, for all her sweetness, Kaylee can have a rough edge at times. She grew up in a house full of men, she's used to doing work that is traditionally considered "men's work", and she can sometimes be disdainful of people with "soft hands", so to speak, or those with puritanical attitudes - she's very down-to-earth and expects others to be as well. She doesn't really understand anything beyond the social milieu in which she was born and raised.
Finally, while she knows pretty much everything there is to know about engines and machinery, she has no formal training (aside from what her Pa taught her back home) and her education in general is severely lacking - she has maybe the equivalent of a high school diploma, and that's it.
Emotionally, her biggest strength is her innate goodness. Her crew is her family, and to a large extent (while Mal is the leader and inspiration), Kaylee is the emotional glue that holds them together - everyone loves her, and she loves them all completely, unconditionally. Kaylee always tries to see the good in people, lending her an air of innocence that, to some extent, does tend to bring out the good in others. Even Jayne, an amoral hired gun who is brutish, vulgar, and violent, has a soft spot in his heart for Kaylee.
Physically, she's pretty agile, having spent her entire life from the time she could walk climbing in, out, and around engines, though she's far from being able to hold her own in a fight - her agility is more likely to serve her well in dodging and running away.
Weaknesses: Kaylee's naivete could very well land her in trouble. The protective instincts she arouses in her crew are well-founded - if someone was truly evil enough to want to hurt Kaylee, they would easily succeed without trouble if other members of the crew weren't around to intervene. Once, she even got caught in the cross-fire - literally - and nearly lost her life to a stray gunshot. Kaylee is not a fighter. Hand her a gun and she hardly knows which end to point at the other guy, and in a high-pressure situation she becomes frightened and mostly unable to do anything.
When something does go wrong with Serenity's engine, and Kaylee can't fix it (which is very rare, but has been known to happen), Kaylee becomes incredibly self-critical and it's difficult to convince her she's not at fault for being unable to fix things.
Furthermore, for all her sweetness, Kaylee can have a rough edge at times. She grew up in a house full of men, she's used to doing work that is traditionally considered "men's work", and she can sometimes be disdainful of people with "soft hands", so to speak, or those with puritanical attitudes - she's very down-to-earth and expects others to be as well. She doesn't really understand anything beyond the social milieu in which she was born and raised.
Finally, while she knows pretty much everything there is to know about engines and machinery, she has no formal training (aside from what her Pa taught her back home) and her education in general is severely lacking - she has maybe the equivalent of a high school diploma, and that's it.
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