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Full Name: Malcolm Reynolds DOB: September 20, 2486 Current Age: 33 Birthplace: Shadow Position on Serenity: Captain War Record: Volunteered for the Independents, and stationed with the 57th Overlanders. Was brevetted a Sergeant just before the battle of Serenity Valley, commanded over five thousand at one time. |
| Bio: “You don’t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.” - “Serenity, Pt 2” Mal’s come pretty far since his birth on Shadow, where he was raised by his mother and a bunch of the ranch hands. It’s implied that Mal’s mother was both a very tough lady (to run an entire ranch by herself) and a very religious lady (seeing as Mal was more religious than most when he entered the war). Her lessons must have sunk in, as Mal still remembers most of the ranching advice she gave him, and until Serenity Valley, carried a cross around his neck and inspired his troops with “sermons and stories of honor and glory” (as Tracey puts it in “The Message”). It was while serving in the war that he met Corporal Zoe Alleyne, one of the few women in their unit - the 57th Overlanders, Balls and Bayonets Brigade. Zoe became his right hand, and her pragmatism and knowledge of the military combined with his sheer dumb luck and talent for brilliant maneuvers got her and Mal through six years of war together. They ended up being the only ones left out of their entire unit by the end of the war - after the bloodbath of Serenity Valley. And that’s really where you get to the heart of Malcolm Reynolds, seeing as he left his in that Valley. He and his soldiers held the Valley for a good month and a half, including two weeks after the Independent High Command gave it (and them) up for dead. His squadron was dying around him, the Alliance was still taking potshots at them, and his commanders abandoned him. It was enough to make Mal lose every bit of faith he’d ever possessed - for what kind of God could allow a travesty like Serenity Valley to happen? After spending an unspecified amount of time in an Alliance detention camp after the war, he and Zoe shipped out together, trying to get as far from the Alliance as they could. It was love at first sight when Mal came across an old Firefly-class transport while looking for a ship to call his own. He bought her, named her Serenity after the Valley he still couldn’t get out of, and he and Zoe shipped out across the galaxy. They found themselves a pilot (Wash, who Zoe married despite Mal‘s feelings on the matter); a genius mechanic (Kaylee, who Mal hired in some rather interesting circumstances); a mercenary (Jayne, who was staring at them from the wrong end of a gun), and a high-class Companion (Inara, who despite having told Mal not to call her a whore, still hears it from him). Mal was doing fairly well for himself when Serenity stopped for passengers on Persephone one day in 2517. A Shepherd called Book joined the crew - annoying Mal to no end due to the man’s religious beliefs. A man named Dobson - he doesn’t stay too long - came aboard as well. And then there was Simon Tam, a wealthy doctor with a mysterious bit of luggage: a large crate the boy barely let out of his sight. When Dobson was revealed to be an Alliance mole, Mal opened the crate to find Simon’s 17-year-old sister, River. The girl was a fugitive from the Alliance, and well - any chance to stick it to the Alliance was good enough for Mal. He agreed to harbor them, and set off on the run. It’s been a busy year for Mal - what with running from Reavers and bounty hunters, getting attacked by assorted psychotic lowlifes, landing himself in a sword duel, a crew member who double-crossed him, various gunshot wounds, and even getting inadvertently married once. But he takes it in stride . . . at least they’re still flying, still one step ahead of the Alliance. As he says, it’s not much, but it’s enough. Portrayed By: Nathan Fillion |
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