V-rex wrote...
Okay, to add a new topic and bring the thread back up:
Do you reckon Ashley might have tried to date again sometime after Shepard died or do you reckon she instead chose to focus on her career?
Personally I'd say the latter, after all in the email she sends she sure didn't mention any attempts at dating and plus she had always struck me as the independent type who didn't think that she would need a new man to 'step into Shepard's shoes' . But still it is possible that after opening up her heart to him only to then lose him she might have gotten a little more emotionally fragile and vulnerable as a result.
Actually come to think of it, that's another question to ask:
Do you think Ashley losing Shepard would make her more emotionally soft or would it just make her force herself to harden up?
Given the progression of the relationship with Shepard, I'd think that Ashley would have a hard time dating someone again right away; granted, two years is anything but "right away" ... I still think that she'd be wary of anything too serious. I could see her sisters or friends trying to be helpful and setting her up on a date with someone, but I'm not sure there'd even be a second past that.
To the second question - I think the experience of losing Shepard wounded her deeply, and I think she'd become more guarded as a result (which we do see hints of on Horizon). The combination of losing him and, what I believe to be her reaction to it, probably fed into each other in a way and made it very difficult for her to open up to people and to want to give herself to someone else in the way that she had to Shepard.