Batlass8 wrote...
@Kate: That picture is my favorite Ash-hug. Not necessarily because I see her and Joker as a great couple (Ash and Shep are my OTP), but because it is so frakking adorable. I mean, she's wearing his hat! 
(However, my canon fem!Shep would invent a time machine for the sole purpose of leaving Ash on Virmire if she ever thought Williams was putting the moves on Joker...)
I go back and forth on my feelings about Virmire. On the one hand, it's in-character. Ash wouldn't buy Shep's sudden 180, and she wouldn't leave her place with the Alliance and follow him on a whim. On the other hand, I don't think she'd jump to call him a traitor either, especially since she grew up in a blacklisted family. And...that terrible dialogue. Although I do love that one line "I loved you." My canon!Shep always stops listening to what she's saying at that point because he's hung up on the fact that she loved him. As in no longer loves. At least that's what I tell myself to explain his terrible dialogue...
Ah yes, "past tense"...
I don't know, I had just assumed she was speaking out of hurt. That's why I have no truly negative feelings against her or the whole Horizon situation. Along with...conflicting loyalties, people say things they don't mean in such situations. I feel the VS is desperately trying to preserve themselves, staying on the defensive so those opened wounds don't get air and salt on them (I would say Shepard's whole "how you doin'?" approach is proverbial salt in those wounds he/she himself brought up) and leaves before it gets any worse.
That's where the email comes in...granted, I feel an email should be sent even if you weren't in love (maybe a romantic one and a friendly one? As long s you weren't a complete jerk?), but I think, in the case where it IS sent, it proves that Ashley still cares. I think her saying she can't bear to loose Shepard again is proof enough she still loves him, even if she doesn't want to or won't come right out with it. After all, she's the one who did the best job of getting over him. She had a mourning period and moved on in the most normal fashion. I imagine she wants to keep all her emotions in check, but when he reappears so suddenly...well, it's difficult.
If only the SR-2's computers had a response button.
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I can't see her really liking love poems at all.
later we find out Ash hasn't "let herself think of the memories in over a year" so the past tense is a way for her to distance herself, albeit probably not very convincingly, from her feelings for Shepard.
