Prolouge
Many years ago, rebels known as independent and browncoats rebelled against the alliance, who attempted to give them peace and a better way of living. They lost, and unity was achieved, although some of these rebels still live out in the black, stealing, still rebelling against the good alliance.
This is what I would have been taught on worlds such as Ariel. But instead, I was raised, not against the browncoats, but with them. My name is Rain Serenity Tam. I live on a ship that I share a middle name with. Some people would hate that, being named after a ship, but I take it as an honor, knowing how much Mom loves her. How much she loves me.
My Mother's name is Kailee Fyre. My father is Simon Tam. My aunt is River Tam. They are the only ones I share blood with on the ship, but here we're all family. And I don't call them "mommy" or "Daddy" or "Aunty" I'm a part of this crew, they are "Kailee," "Simon" and "River".
The captain is Malcom Reynolds. He is one of the two who actually fought in the war against the alliance. The other is his second in command, Zoe Warren, who's married to our pilot, Hoban Washburne, but we all just call him Wash. Jayne doesn't really do much excepts keep us all alive when there's people out tryn' to kill us, which is pretty important, I guess. Simon's the medic, Kailee's the mechanic. River is...no one really knows what River is. Maybe a kid, like me. She's smart, like me, and child-like, but the alliance did something to her, and sometimes she can't really do anything, but she's pretty cool, I mean, when everyone was busy, she took care of me when I was a baby. Kailee's fixin' Serenity, Simon's fixin' Jayne or the Captin', or just about everyone else. Mostly left River and I, but I didn't mind.
Most of my life has been spent flying around the 'verse. Avoiding alliance and reivers. And this is a small part of that life.