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Ddriana β C+H: Dating tips with Commander Shepard
Published: 2012-05-07 09:43:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 22973; Favourites: 399; Downloads: 116
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Shepard, I may be a socially awkward penguin but even I can see that some of your moves are, uh, not optimal.Shepard and dating. It can quickly get really, really awkward. Especially when the dialogue wheel doesn't tell you what, or even how, you are really going to say. Either you wish to say that you are good friends (Kaidan) and Shepard suddenly goes all Lannister twins on you, or you merely want to get to know Jacob and oh dear lord, the voice actress is really flirting, it didn't say it was flirting, I don't want to flirt, what do I do?! D: Made even more awkward by the fact that Mass Effect makes me want to be 100% faithful to Garrus so... yeah. Awkward XD
The Garrus thing you can choose at least, and thank god for that. The idea of losing on purpose to feed my boyfriend's ego is unacceptable (to be fair, Garrus doesn't have a hissy fit if he doesn't win).
Also, a pretend loss is insulting.
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Oh wow. I love this so much. It's absolutely gorgeous and perfectly sums up the whole dating scene in ME. Brilliant work!
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Shepard on panel 3: VERY SMOOTH. Perfect timing too.
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In Shepard's defense, treating your ex like a sibling can either help mend a friendship...though the way she does it, she might need some help.
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I think Shepard needs some help in... everything relationship-y to be honest XD I may be a socially awkward penguin, but watching Shepard can sometimes be quite painful...
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Tell me about it, watching Shepard make advances on Vega made things awkward in a number of ways.
1. I doubt Vega was a bisexual romance option
2. Shepard (in my playthrough) was already in a relationship with Ashley, who would have probably killed them both.
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Haha, well, consider that my renegade FemShep didn't even let him call her Lola. He still oogled and made comments. It pissed me off that I couldn't tell him to cut it out :I (and then Garrus goes and has a bromance with the guy harrassing his girlfriend. Must be a turian thing...)
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Heh, after getting one of my friends into Mass Effect, she's going to be starting it with ME3, and she can't decide between Kaidan and Garrus.
I think Garrus bromances any guy, seriously.
I had fun picking on Ashley at certain points, like when she went to blow off steam, and Vega got her drunk. I might be crazy, but I think Vega may have had a crush on her.
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I like to think of it as 'Garrus has confidence in my ability to deal with my own problems', rather than 'the developers didn't shed a single thought to the idea that I might not like getting oogled by my inferiors'.
Seriously though, for me there was no competition. Kaidan was that 'I've got no better option' in ME1, who bitched and wouldn't listen in ME2, and then returns and tries to patch things up in ME3 (with a maturity level that was impressive, this time). Garrus... is the one character who is always there. Always. And one of the few I grew attached to in ME1. Also, dat voice Sorry Kaidan... you never stood a chance.
Oh... I should do a playthrough and keep Ashley around :I If only the ending didn't make me feel so ugh about it all :I
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When I put my teammates in consideration, I always think about who would be my second in command, and honestly it was always Garrus that I felt would be that. Yeah, Miranda was supposed to be that in ME2, but she was to much of a bitch to be one. Garrus was the one that everyone respected, and with Tali, well...if you don't romance either of them, you catch them making out before the final act.
I'm pretty sure I know what you mean. I liked Ashley from the beginning, maybe because I like tomboys. Maybe I like a woman who's capable of taking care of herself. Or it could be that none of the other romances felt right, it wasn't too hard to be single in ME2, Tali was more like a kid sister, Miranda's a bitch, and Kelly was (as Ashley put it in ME3) a table dancing tart. Okay, it's because Ashley's both tough and she has her moments of being adorable. I just wish that with her new outfit that there was a dialogue choice of "What happened to 'never seeing you in a skirt'?"
Keeping Ashley around proves that I wouldn't make a good commander.
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I did make a dudeShep playthrough, and got about halfway through ME2 before ME3 came out. I purposly played all paragon, all hero, all the time. In other words, he had an obsessive need to save EVERYONE. Thus he had to romance Jack, because who needs saving on your crew more than her? Also, Jack
Tali was an option to me, up until ME3. It felt as if their relationship had the potential to slowly grow, and was based more on personality and trust than anything physical. But then in ME3 I found that Tali kept annoying me more and more :I I can't even put my finger on why.
But yes... if I do get around to play the entire series again (and I do want to), I'll keep Ashley around. Got to have some variation, if nothing else XD
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It was funny to see how much Jack had changed in ME3, especially how she had to cut down on her language. I wasn't surprised when it was Joker who made her relapse in front of "her kids".
Maybe it's the whole "little sister" vibe I had gotten from her? At times, there's nothing more annoying than a younger sibling.
I think that after playing ME2 with FemShep, I decided that I made the right decision. Ashley had more of a hurt/betrayed tone in her voice than whiny when Shep meets her again.
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Haha, I read the note you find that she's written but isn't signed by anyone and went all "geez, this person is rather... unstable..." and then you realize it's Jack and, lo and behold, it's pretty damn stable by her standards. I was silly happy for her, seeing that she'd found someone other than herself to care for and seeing her trying to be a good rolemodel.
Maybe, I'm not really sure. I was more protective of her in ME2 than ME3, really.
I've got to give Kaidan credit though. He leveled up in maturity between ME2 and ME3 like you wouldn't believe. Though it was hilarious to do the Mars mission with him, as he desperately tried to have a conversation about what happened and getting repeatedly shut down by Shepard XD
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Heh, for Jack, it's very stable for her. It actually makes it a small universe when it's Anderson's love interest from the novels who takes her in.
Maybe it's because Tali's not in the role she usually is. Usually she's got some problems that Shepard has to help her with.
I kinda wish that Kaiden and Ashley could have both survived ME, given how both have very high opinions of Shepard, those two probably would have argued quite a bit.
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I had heard that she appears in the novels, but I haven't got around to reading them yet. I guess they really wanted to include her. Personally, I think it kind of works due to the whole concept of the school. But yeah, small universe.
I dunno. I was never really protective of her because she needed my help, it was more of a loyalty thing. I'm *horrible* with Garrus. If he goes down in battle, I charge the one who killed him... in that emotional, not really thinking logically kind of way. I've got some near deaths due to that kind of behavior XD
Yeah... I kinda wish you could have saved them both and sacrificed an alien or two, for that whole 'humanity first' kind of a playthrough.
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I think they wanted to add her in to make Anderson more human, having someone who cares about him, with an on and off history going back decades. And I suppose they wanted someone at Grissom Academy who had a background, albeit that her face hasn't been seen until ME3 and that the Academy is named after her father (that small universe getting even smaller now?).
I know that feeling, did that a number of times when a banshee took down Ashley. Unfortunately those encounters usually turned into disasters.
Wrex and Liara, perhaps? Never felt close to either of them, and despite how "killable" your squadmates are, Liara seemed to be untouchable in that department, as you couldn't send her to her death in ME, and wasn't around for the suicide mission in ME2.
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Yesterday I realized I didn't need the CD to run ME1 on my laptop, so... now I've started a black widow run XD Ashley is going to survive this time, which is only right. She, too, is a lonely survivor XD
God yes... I never cared for Wrex or Liara, and it's frustrating to see Liara so... protected. And then the DLC for ME2 that was all about her (but good otherwise... aside from the whole 'I can tell who the spy is from the very beginning' thing). And the way she took Miranda's old room as would-be second in command (sorry, that room is reserved for the characters who think they are more valued than they are and are left behind...) and the way she forced herself on your team at times. Ugh. Go away. You may be a developer favorite but you are not mine. Go to the room of shame and stay there.
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Heh, sounds good. Though I hear that if Ashley died in ME, in ME3 Shepard talks about missing her. That's funny because Kaiden's only mentioned once.
You know, I once thought that I was the only one who didn't like Liara. Glad to know that I'm not. I think that the developers spent too much time on making her and the asari as "sexy" as they can be that they spent too little time on giving them depth as a race. They actually admitted this in the Mass Effect art book.
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You know... I'm not surprised. I love Samara to bits and pieces, but she is the only asari I like. And I really, really want to give her better clothes. High heels and a low cleavage does not a proper warrior make. And it doesn't help that her boobs are shaped like blue oranges and are way too low. It's distracting in that "what the hell anatomy?" kind of a way :I
If I had been given the choice to sacrifice one planet and race to save the others, I would have chosen Tessia and the asari. No hesitation. And a slight hint of unrepentant glee, I fear, as they annoy me too much XD
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"Hey, let's throw in a race of blue bisexual aliens."
"Good idea, but how about they're all female and they'll be interstellar strippers?"
"Excellent idea, but let's just say they only look female and be vague on how reproduction works."
I imagine that's how the asari conversation went, and I think the fact that Liara and Vega are their favorites (maybe they should get hitched or something), I think that any asari character that we see in Mass Effect will always be annoyingly "sexy" (using that term loosely) with either blue oranges for boobs, or they'd wear tight fitting clothing that looks rather uncomfortable.
I'd have to agree actually, there really wasn't any redeeming factor to the asari, and what happened in ME3 with redeeming the krogan with Eve, all Liara did was bring people down around her and from what I heard, she was a pretty bad girlfriend too. I'm not going to lie, but I laughed when the asari had the final piece of the Crucible puzzle and by keeping it a secret from everyone else, they essentially screwed themselves over.
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Yeah... I think the worst part is how torn up Shepard was about losing Tessia. I mean, you had no choice but to be horribly, horribly upset. Meanwhile, I was sitting there going "PALAVEN TTATT" but does Shepard react? No. No she does not. The fact that I love the turian race and they were the main motivation behind my choice of ending ("no one has the right to alter the turians - no one") make no difference here. Shepard faps asari. Even when you don't want her to.
(and when I write about Shepard I always work from the assumption that we're talking about femShep... cause that's what I played and dudeShep feels wrong)
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The fact that it's Garrus and Vega who's having the conversation about Palaven reinforces who the new love child of the series is. I supported Javik in every confrontation he has with Liara, partly because I like trolling Liara, and partly because Liara was coming off as a stuck up bitch in those arguments.
(That and you play as femShep. Granted, if Ashley was bi, then I'd probably play as femShep.)
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Haha XD Almost makes me wish I had the DLC. But then there would be more Liara interactions and I'm perfectly fine without them :I
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Heh, Javik was awesome, he pretty much trolled everyone that was annoying. When Wreav made a comment about how better krogans were than protheans, which ended in asking how many protheans were left, Javik replies "Enough to kill you." While Javik seems to be harsh in some of his comments, there are those moments that shows that he has a soft side, like when he opened up to Tali when the two get drunk.
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I love Shepard's faces in all the panels. Oh and Shameless self promotion on related topic
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Haha, related indeed XD
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or as miranda would say
It's not a tangent, not really, but clearly you were a mistake.
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lol very nice, the Thane was is my fav
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Heh, thanks. Nothing compares to that awkward timing of Shepard...
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