Firefly: Family Trees and Bending

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Firefly: the late, great, tragically cancelled Space Western. If you know it, you almost certainly love it (or you’re a Reaver.) If you don’t know it, you really, really, seriously should.

Here are some thoughts I’ve been having about it.

Serenity Clan Family Tree

As is usual for a show in which the characters are well-developed (or developed at

Comments

[rattyjol]

Personally I think Inara's a waterbender. Water is . . . smooth, fluid. Which makes sense, because it's, y'know, a fluid. And Inara is very smooth. In movement. What did you think I meant

yes, yes, yes, yes

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beautiful. this is a-freaking-mazing.

Books of Bayern=AU

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Because both have elemental powers, it's easy to assume that the Books of Bayern is in the same universe as Avatar. It probably came before because there are only a couple of benders, although there's a chance it came after because in Goose Girl, Isi's aunt/babysitter told her there was a time long ago when everyone could talk to everything. Anyway, I bring this up to point out there are other types of bending/speaking than just the elements. Rinna can tree speak, which is probably a variation on water bending like the swamp benders. AU=Bayern deals with the issue of Inara and Saffron being nonbenders. They're probably just people-speakers, which do in fact exist in the AU with Azula and probably Iroh. They are not less powerful just because they don't have traditional bending.