Kaylee Frye

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By	Fandom
Totally Fluxed	the_shiniest	Jewel Staite	Firefly

Basic Stats

Full Name: Kaywinnet Lee Frye
Nickname(s): Kaylee
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Involved with Simon Tam
Home World: The Verse
Residence: Zipper City
Role in the Realm: Works at Scrapper's Den. Kaylee fixes anything brought in to be fixed, or tinkers with things that have been tossed out and rummaged for, to see if they can be fixed, or just tinkers for tinkering's sake.

Powers and Skills

Kaylee is a normal human who just happens to be an ace mechanic. She has a natural affinity for machines: if it's even slightly mechanical, she'll figure out how to fix it. She hasn't had any formal training, she just has a natural talent, as her daddy says.

Personality & Background

Kaylee is like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. She does more than wear her heart on her sleeve: her entire being pretty much is a heart. Her official role on Serenity was as the mechanic, but her unofficial role was basically a morale booster. She was the chipper, happy, optimistic one, even when nobody else was. She sees the best in people, even people who others might say have no best. Just about the only time she ever loses her cheeriness is on the very rare occasions that she feels she has failed in her skills as a mechanic, like when Serenity's engine failed.

Kaylee may be a mechanic (and a darn good one, too!), but she is also a woman. She loves all things girly: wearing pretty, flowery shirts under her coveralls; frilly, floofy dresses; pretty things that she hangs in her bunk; sitting and letting Inara brush her hair. She also enjoys sex, something that can be hard to come by when you're technically smugglers and also on the run from the people who are after Simon and River. Kaylee also loves strawberries: she accepted a box of them as part payment from Shepherd Book for passage on the ship, and she was immediately drawn to a bowl of them when she went to a ball with Mal (in her frilly, floofy dress).

Kaylee left her family behind when Mal offered her the job as mechanic on Serenity (after she fixed the ship when he interrupted her having sex with his then-mechanic, who had said it couldn't be fixed; Mal fired Bester and hired Kaylee on the spot), but the crew of the Serenity became her new family: Mal was like an older brother, and Inara an older sister; Wash, Zoe, and Jayne were good as family, too, and even Shepherd Book. After Simon and River joined the crew, Kaylee had an immediate crush on Simon, but for a long time, there was just everything in the way: he was focused on his sister a lot, and he just seemed to proper and smart to care about a girl like her. It took them almost dying before they finally confessed their feelings for each other.

And, of course, not long after that, Kaylee found a bracelet. It was pretty, and just sitting there. She wondered if maybe Simon had left it for her. She put it on, and then there was just… a door. And it was like she couldn't stop herself walking through it, and then she was somewhere else entirely. She'd seen a lot of crazy things aboard the Serenity, but this went beyond. She was informed that she was in Mu, a sort of world between worlds. She was far from the muscle (that would be Mal, Zoe, and Jayne), so being a Protector was right out for her, but she had her own skills that would be useful here. And she had to admit, getting to learn about and tinker with technology from other places was incredibly tempting to her. Tempting enough that she didn't mind staying, and she got a job working in the repair shop, and an apartment in the area that felt closest to home to her. Sure, she missed her Serenity family, but there was just so much new here, so many interesting things and people from all sorts of places, places she would never have imagined could exist in the 'verse, and places that were a really long time ago. Friendly, cheerful, and optimistic as Kaylee is, she didn't much mind settling into a new place and making new friends. Especially when she learned she could go home for visits. The first time was weird, it was like she'd never left the ship, nobody even seemed to have noticed she was gone.