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

Re: Here's a related question

[browncoat2x2]

Hmm. I always thought 'Ambassador' was just Mal's nickname for her, not something generally used in relation to Companions - Book didn't make an Ambassador-Companion correlation when they were introduced...

I would think it would be easier to just pay off real whores for information, than try to integrate a Companion undercover at some bordello...

It's an interesting idea, definatly, but i think the situation is different from the Civil War in that the Companion's Guild is much more tied to the Alliance, and it is in their best interest for the Alliance to continue to be in power, so I don't see that they would be playing both sides... of course, there could always be a few rogue elements, so who knows. I wouldn't say it's impossible :o)

I definatley think that there certainly would be information collected, especially for political leverage for the Guild to use, I'm just not convinced about the spying ;o)

Of course, that's where your brilliant storytelling comes in and you convince me ;oD

LOL!:)

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

nah, i'm not out to convince - just rolling some things around in my head - and you've really helped with this. :D

as for 'ambassador' - the connotations could just be in Mal's head - i was thinking of a Browncoat nic-name, i'm not sure Book would be clued into that.

But really i was just sifting mind mud - and like i said, you help pan the gold!:D

Re: LOL!:)

[browncoat2x2]

nah, i'm not out to convince - just rolling some things around in my head

Damn, there goes my angle on some 'convince me fic' ;o)

Re: LOL!:)

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeee! :D