

Because of her abrasive personality, she often clashes with her companions.
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She presents a long series of bad habits such as pathological gambling, alcoholism, excessive consumption of cigarettes and cigars, unwarranted violence, and forcing work on others. She's often seen lying around while the others work on a bounty and spends a majority of her time taking care of her appearance. " You know the first rule of combat? Shoot them before they shoot you." ―Faye Valentine įaye is an arrogant and lazy character. She is seen doing this in many instances throughout Cowboy Bebop, with the first being her first appearance in Honky Tonk Women. As someone who constantly lives in an environment where she must seize every opportunity to find money, dressing revealingly makes people pay more attention to her and also distracts them long enough for her to take advantage of them. The Beta tape found in Speak Like A Child, suggests that Faye has changed a lot from the innocent girl she used to be. Her standard outfit consists of yellow shorts, a matching buttoned shirt, white ankle boots, flesh-colored stockings, and a loose red jacket.
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Her frame is tall and slender, and her skin is pale.

Similarly to the wild west, everyone’s just trying to make a living, too broke to take in the landscape.Faye is a young woman of Singaporean descent with chin-length angular dark purple hair and green eyes. However, at this point in mankind’s history, the charm of space exploration is long gone and has become just another mundane part of the daily grind. A harmonica lazily sets the tone while starcraft routinely take off via super advanced space discs. No subtext, no explanation - its refusal to break and provide context is a testament to its cool. Watching the show again today, I’m still enamored with the first episode. Similarly to Scorsese’s anarchic noir tribute, Taxi Driver, in which the streets of New York become their own entity, Bebop’s locations pulse with life. If you cut out all the plot and its dialogue and were left simply with images of ships flying and people eating, drinking, and smoking, they would still be just as impactful. Not just the Bebop herself, but entire planetary colonies and major cities are given room to display their own personalities. The amount of detail that was put into setting certain tones underscores the importance of creating a truly unique atmosphere. These happen to be my favorite moments in the show. So many of the show’s scenes hinge on mood, most prominently when nothing major is happening.

Call me shallow, but smoking just looks so damn classy on the screen. Through the medium of anime, the animated smoke languidly billows out from our heroes lips, taking its time without a care in the solar system. Just as this was a cool cinematic prop in celluloid days of old, so it works here. One can almost sense Phillip Marlowe’s spirit being channeled as Spike, Jet, and Faye puff away nonplused. The interior of the Bebop must smell like one massive metal ashtray with all the cigarette smoke. References to hard-boiled detective films are the easiest to spot. RELATED: Starfield Developer Names Cowboy Bebop Among The Game's Inspirations And, like fellow film-buff Quentin Tarantino, Watanabe’s influences are written all over the show’s interstellar sleeves. At its beating center, Bebop was always a “space-western” (nothing has come close before or since) infused with enough neo-noir and melodrama to subconsciously stretch out its appeal to multiple demographics. While re-watching the series, I was able to put my finger on a number of elements that weren’t on my radar when I was younger.
