Sialater wrote...
Meghan approves of Rory.
Gosh, thank you - I consider that high praise, indeed

jlb524 wrote...
jbauck wrote...
Rory sees the world as "good guys", "bad guys", and "people the good guys save from the bad guys". She'll go to the wall for the good guys, and she'll put the bad guys up against a wall and execute them.
Interesting character...I wonder what decision she will make (or has made) regarding Balak and the hostages?
Heh ... hardest decision in the whole game for Rory, and it's in the dlc. It really could have gone either way. Ultimately, the deciding factor was what she did on Feros. I didn't really plan ahead what decisions she would make, and she just happened to do BDtS right after Feros, where she murdered Ethan Jeong (the ExoGeni guy who has been ordered to kill all the colonists). She didn't even try to talk him down - she just shot him.
So when she did BDtS, she was having a bit of a crisis of conscience. Ethan Jeong was an idiot beauracrat who was in way over his head, not a monster. She's wondering if the freedom of being a Spectre is a good thing, and whether or not she's on the verge of losing it and going too far. She's worried that she'll be the monster because she can get away with it.
There were a few other factors in there, but in retrospect from her perspective, she made the selfish decision to let Balak go and save the hostages, to preserve her own self-image as the good guy, despite how badly she wanted to kill him. At the time, though, she was worried that killing him and letting the hostages die was the selfish decision, because she just genuinely hates Batarians that much, and she was bothered that she was willing to let the hostages die to satisfy her desire to kill him. So she would have ended up feeling guilty and selfish about that decision either way.
She deeply,
deeply regrets letting Balak go. Balak most certainly was a monster who felt killing millions of people was right, so she knows he'll try something like this again - and when he does, if he succeeds, it will be all her fault.
As a player, it's my favorite choice in ME1. Rory is all about Righteous Fury. That's the decision where "righteousness" and "fury" were at odds.