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Published: 2012-08-27 07:05:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 3619; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 15
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This is my Mass Effect shortcomic The Solution. An Alternative Ending-ish thing. I normally just try to explain a few things why I think the Mass Effect game shouldn't have ended here.WARNING! CONTAINS MAYOR SPOILERS! YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME YET!
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Page 02: The "shady" one.
Why does the Catalyst looks like the child we have seen on Earth and in our dreams.
We don't know who created the Reapers, but we can be sure they were not human looking. So why does the catalyst appear in the form of a human in the first place, and why in the form of a child.
Because Shepard feels guilty for not capable saving the child (if the child was ever real in the first place) The Catalyst tries to lean on that guilt to make Shepard do what he wants.
Which only means he can read Shepard's mind, or even interfere with it. No matter what explanation I come up with to make it reasonable to that, the fact that the Catalyst takes the form of a human child, only means he tries to earn Shepard's trust somehow.
Now why would he need to earn Shepard's trust?
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I still haven't decided if Shep's indoctrinated or having the weirdest dream ever after, y'know, getting struck by a Reaper superlaser or whatever it was supposed to be. The kid, 3 colors and a few other, commonly noticed flaws.
I can get the Alliance is desperate to use the Catalyst, at least unless they find a better option - stuff just hit the fan and oh crap, Shepard WAS right! *rolls eyes* So yeah, a bit dumb and really hasty.
I can believe Shep's Lazarus implants and maybe some working armor component kept him/her alive after being hit by a big heap of something way too big to see properly.
But the blue brat? Either the Reapers are messing with Shepard's mind or s/he's injured enough to hallucinate. Concussion, broken bones, possibly half-blinded (that thing was damn bright)... At least that's what I thought back then. Call it fanon if you please.
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Funny thing is I came up with another theory since this whole indoctrination thing.
The last scene the boy and the man are talking, revealing that the game was nothing but the tale of the old man.
-Did all that really happened?
-βYes, but some of the details have been lost in time. It all happened so very long ago"
-Conclusion:
The last part of the game probably didn't happened the way we played it.
Why? It's a tale, and first off nobody was there but Shepard. Who told the story if nobody else was there to witness it?
That's why the ending doesn't make sense. Because it's made up by the people who live in that universe to explain what happened and they couldn't see.
They couldn't accept that Shepard just died by activiating the Crucible, he stood for so much more than just defeating the reapers. So they came up with this moral decision crap to fill up the blank spot in history, raising Shepart into an even higher position from being a Hero to being a Symbol.
Thus the ending's poor story telling.
What do you think?
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Actually, that makes sense! Assuming Bioware just couldn't make it look decent, but tried to encompass the post-war chaos of rumors, rebuilding and taking stock of all the damage... It's a much bigger scale than any Earth war, after all. I like the notion.
The great hero who was right after all runs around helping people as much as possible, then disappears. Some saw Shepard running towards the beam, some not. Some were sure Shepard did get there (since hey, Commander F***ing Shepard, right?), some not (Hackett's "nobody made it" comment). Some saw Shepard at least once, maybe even up close, some only saw the various images from what we heard of in ME2. And that's only the Citadel-connected worlds - what about people who ran away, enlisted etc., all the while never seeing or hearing of Shepard before they left their corners of the galaxy? And what about people who either didn't believe Shepard was dead or that it WAS Shepard that came back from who knows what exactly?
So frankly? Nobody besides Shep knows what happened... and even that's not necessarily the full truth since man, that armor had to take a LOT of beating - if a big mech couldn't really scar it with 1 shot, what the hell actually happened to have it scorched like that? People guess and extrapolate all the time, so regardless of whether the Commander survived or not, theories were bound to be as common as ruins. So the rumor mill had to work overtime while Shepard's memories (or just dead body, depending on exact ending details) gave their own incomplete story.
We're facing wildly incomplete data filtered by millions or more minds. That's not necessarily fact, but definitely theory and legend... and that's how history is often written, from tales instead of solid proof. So the Stargazer guy? He might know a local legend or a screwed-up, half-forgotten memory remaining after the person who passed it on died. Never mind if it was the official history or, say, what Solana Vakarian recalled from Garrus' hospital rambling - it is and will remain incomplete.
And since I'm planning to make a fic due to recurring feels, you just gave me a few more ideas
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Very good points, you read up on the Indoctrination Theory?
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Thanks, that too, and also I thinked about it my self. I actually was thinking that Shepard is Indoctrinated so I searched for the idea on google and that's how I found the Theory. It's a great idea with many supporters, but I think other logical explenations should be also considered
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