fortunesque wrote...
Here's another question:
What is your femShep's greatest regret? What does she feel she could have done better?
For Madeline, it would have to be Mindor....for not saving her parents from death. Even though it was not her fault, nor could she have done anything to save them (she would have been killed too), carries a deep seeded regret for not trying. She feel that, being her "Father's daughter" and after everything he taught her about being strong and how to fight, all se could do is watch....paralyzed with fear as her parents were butchered:
"Go on Maddy, what happened next?"
"Just then, my father comes running in yelling about something that is happening....just can't understand him. He has fear in his eyes.....something I had never seen in him before. My mother is scared too, and comes to find me...rambling....almost about needing to hide me..I...don't know why....I..I am terrified now as well....I can feel tears welling up in my eyes..."
"....After my mother puts me into the service tunnel beneath the house 5 Batarians kick our front door in and barge into the house...I can hear my mother scream as one of them grabs her and drags her into the living room.....I can hear my father yelling at them to leave mother alone, I know that is what he said... I just couldn't hear his exact words..."
"..I stick my head up through the service hatch in the dinning room so that I can see what's happening....I remember seeing one of them hit my mother really hard and my father jump up to attack the Batarian...the one that hit her.....then.....um....they uh....." *choking back tears*
"Then what happened..... to your father?"
"(tearful sigh) .they....the one he attacked, stabbed him with uh...a uh..large knife......when he uh..fell to his knees…another one shot him in the temple...and it splattered all over my mother…..who began screaming...and screaming, until....they uh..um (chokes back tears) ....they..(voice falters)..slit her throat..."
"Her blood...was everywhere, it ran like ...um...like..a river..as one of the Batarians drug their bodies out the front door. That was the last time...I..I saw either of them (tearfully panting, trying hard not to cry).."
*long pause*
"..what happened after that Maddy...how did you escape?"
"....Don't really remember exactly how I got out, but I remember the tears....the lump in throat and in my stomach......and the pure, unbridled rage and hate …..that consumed me like a black hole. I remember making it to the kitchen and finding the knife.."
"What knife?"
"...The 14 inch kitchen knife that my mother had been using just minutes earlier" I remember picking it up and...the rest is a little blurry"
"well what do you remember from that time?"
"......I just remember using what my father had taught me....and killed every last one of those f***ers…..who had killed my parents......I stabbed them, sliced and hacked at them until I was to weak to hold the knife anymore....or see through the tears, blood and rage.......It was the first time I had ever taken a life." (clears throat and wipes her eyes)…….I was a different person after that….I felt…different..”
Her feelings of regret are also strengthened by her mother's ultimate sacrifice, hiding her and "taking the fall" in the hopes that they would not find Maddy....something Madeline feels she needs to "earn" through her own life.
...Sorry, that was a bit "long winded"
That was a bit from my FanFic I'm workin' on, just hope it painted a good picture
Rising Empire I'd checked out before but for some reason I didn't feel fit the rest of the list, but I'm surprised I missed Aggressive Intervention, so that one's added. Thanks!
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