Let's shine a light on Nandi... (Thanks people! YOU RULE!)

[wytchcroft]

 

So...

...i'm trying to clear my head and start from scratch about Nandi and see if the story i have in mind is right for her. Sometimes they don't fit the characters i hope they will - or that inspire them in the first place... Inara's done that to me - and Book - and River too.

So... my primary question is about time;
How much time between the Guild and the palais de tin foil in Heart of Gold.

I'm interested in where the girls came from - were they on the planet already - or did they come with Nandi? (yeah yeah, that's the ears on my plot bunny sticking up)...

The Dulcimer story;
I don't buy it, too neat and too funny, so what incident(s) caused Nandi to detach from the life of a Companion?

And lastly of course Nandi herself.
Who is she, what is her character and when did it chrystalize into the Nandi of HOG (Oh and there's the bunny's whiskers!)?

So - a lot of questions... I'd like to thrash em out on someone's lj age but shoot, everyone's disappeared!

Advice would be shiny!

Discussion would be the thing that comes after shiny!!:)


 

Comments

[charlie-bz.livejournal.com]

ooo, yeah! She's hiding. Woman like her could do many, many things. But why live on a deserted moon run by a guy like Rance?

She's hiding from the dulcimer manufacturer!

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

LOL!:)

But you could be right in a way. Damn, i always think SHORT story, short! And then...

but it's fun too, like - Inara's an indoor girl i reckon, balconies are bliss, and shady bowers. And she don't have much an appetite, seemingly.
Nandi she's chicken wings and BBQ - she actually is i think, how much of the 'aint' is affectation is hard to say. That line (now wytch TM obviously) is quite snobby really. Oh a woman of contradictions...

[charlie-bz.livejournal.com]

Maybe Nandi just clicked there in the frozen dinner house. loved the away from civilization, Queen of her own castle, loved her family - so like Mal, she is. Except without all the torment.

I don't think she had any grand aspirations in the Guild. Perhaps she just woke up and said, "Nope! Not the life for me." Much like I think Inara may have done but later on in life.

Spot on!

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

Yeah she's a Mal mirror and Inara too - she has what they both search for (and are often blind too - until BDM finale possibly) in many ways throughout firefly.
Nandi has it - and that's the tragedy.

Re: Spot on!

[charlie-bz.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! Didn't think about her being an Inara mirror. Good point!