Good stuff. Keep it up.

What an amazing little insight! It's perfect and whole and needs nothing else. You got Jayne and River perfectly, and I love the 'love of weapons' and 'love of River-as-weapon' analogy. This is a thing of beauty for sure!

Beautifully written! I love the Rayne pairing but I haven't found many fics focusing on this couple that I like; they are rarely written true to character and usually end with River seducing Jayne or River getting injured and Jayne becoming an emotional mess over it (or both).

But I really like YOUR take on their relationship; much more subtle and thoughtful and (most importantly) slow. I can see this being the build-up to a closer relationship in the future but it definitely needs groundwork- which is exactly what you've laid out, here. Love it!

Thanks for a great read! ^_^

I've read some Rayne before, but most stories seem to just jump into the relationship and never explain how it got there. This is a VERY real/believable explanation for any kind of relationship between the two (romantic or platonic) that moves beyond where we saw them last in Serenity (the film) and into future territory (this is excluding of course the comics which I haven't read and so can't comment on). Amazing piece of work! Thank you!

Very good comparison of Jayne's POV and River's. This was short and wonderful as a stand-alone, thanks.
Cheers Jen

Until reading this fic I was rather sceptical about the Jayne?River pairing, but I now I can see how it would work. It makes total sense that Jayne would respect and accept River this way, and that River would like the way he feels about her.

The writing has a serene quality to it... I felt as if I were floating as I read it.

Wonderful!

Thanks for sharing.

This is a beautiful little story. I actually have a little bit of respect for this version of Jayne - simple, cut down to the essentials, but still capable of seeing beauty. And I always love River.

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This was gorgeous. You have a way with words, when it comes to this pairing, that I really appreciate. You have taken what would normally be an 'odd' pairing and made it cannon for me.

This story makes me all calm and happy. It's soothing and beautiful. Utterly perfect :).

This was beautifully written and well characterized. It makes a lot of sense, the idea that Jayne could see her this way when others couldn't. I think it's really the heart of why so many people write Rayne, though they don't often express it as well as it has been in this story.

great work.

Very very nice. I like this a great deal. You are rally good at characterization.

I like it! This really made me look at both River and Jayne in a whole different way. I like the comparison as River-as-a-weapon, and how Jayne could accept what they'd done to her perhaps more easily than the rest of the crew, now that she kind of has the worst of her craziness under her own control. It's different and very well done.

Poetry!

not sure if I already reviewed, but if I have, so what? this is good enough for a second review. Great look into River's thoughts about what others think and the confusion she feels about Jayne's thoughts. Hope you either continue this as a series, or have other works planned.