OOO. The what if. I'm... going to have to think carefully about this.
All right, after some thought, two options. And I'm torn:
1) What if Faye never decided to invite herself to move onto the Bebop? Thus, she has met Spike and Jet, and had a couple of run-ins with them, but never joined up with them (and they're nothing but freaking idiots who like to handcuff people to toilets what the hell is up with that), and the entire series after Gateway Shuffle never happened. Expect obnoxious, "enterprising" /ahem, cynical and hardened Faye in her prime.
2) What if she never got on the shuttle that had the accident when she was 20 years old? Essentially, this one choice would change her entire life as we know it. She would've never been frozen and woken up 54 years later, acquired a debt she could never pay, lost her memories, been taken advantage of by a con artist posing as a lawyer, become a bounty hunter, or developed the "We deceive or we are deceived" attitude that now defines her. Since those events affected her psychology so profoundly, it is likely that, while her core personality would remain the same, her behavior and more superficial personality aspects would be vastly different. This is a direction that I'd really love to explore, but it would require a ton of thought on my part to pull off right.
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All right, after some thought, two options. And I'm torn:
1) What if Faye never decided to invite herself to move onto the Bebop? Thus, she has met Spike and Jet, and had a couple of run-ins with them, but never joined up with them (and they're nothing but freaking idiots who like to handcuff people to toilets what the hell is up with that), and the entire series after Gateway Shuffle never happened. Expect obnoxious, "enterprising"
/ahem, cynical and hardened Faye in her prime.2) What if she never got on the shuttle that had the accident when she was 20 years old? Essentially, this one choice would change her entire life as we know it. She would've never been frozen and woken up 54 years later, acquired a debt she could never pay, lost her memories, been taken advantage of by a con artist posing as a lawyer, become a bounty hunter, or developed the "We deceive or we are deceived" attitude that now defines her. Since those events affected her psychology so profoundly, it is likely that, while her core personality would remain the same, her behavior and more superficial personality aspects would be vastly different. This is a direction that I'd really love to explore, but it would require a ton of thought on my part to pull off right.
/tl;dr I am conflicted.