ABSTRACT
Fan works often continue the legacy of beloved narratives and universes. While the television series Firefly (2002) was cancelled after one season, it still has a loyal fandom that participates in the universe through official transmedia texts, such as graphic novels. However, fan role-playing is another way to immerse oneself in these story worlds, and to expand on them. This chapter focuses on fan role-playing inspired by Firefly, both online, but primarily off-line. The highly transmedial narratives that fan players weave in traditional role-playing (such as the Serenity tabletop) are explored as well as an embodied Firefly live-action role-playing (“LARP”?). Through role-playing, fans explore the possibilities and gaps within fictional texts and nostalgically evoke the “worldness”? of their favorite texts.
