Dean_the_Young wrote...
MShep: *Walks in room* what is this?
Samara: Shepard, this in an intervention, you're actions recently have been criminal in nature and it pains us to see you this way.
Shep:Us? (Looks around, only sees Joker.)
Joker: (waves) I'm just here to watch this go down.
Shep: Us, huh? Do you have a tumor I need to know about, Samara?
(Samara looks briefly annoyed)
Samara: No, I do not. Regardless, your recent immorality is a cause of concern for us all and-
Shep: Hah!
Samara: -and I believe it best to stage this intervention for the betterment of yourself.
Shep: Well, Samara, that's quite considerate of you, and while I'm touched that you think yourself fit to fix me... no.
Samara: I see. That is a shame.
Shep: Hey, don't get me wrong. I've always wanted an intervention! Rounds off those life experiances of leading a ship filled with people with deadlier histories than myself, who literally wouldn't give a damn if I shot some random person in the street if I said it was important. But I've had my irony quota for the week already, and Chakwas has medical concerns, so I'll have to pass on being lectured about morality by an alien vigilantee quasi-cultist.
Samara: The Justicars are not a cult.
Shep: Sure you are. You might be an acceptable cult in Asari culture, but that's pretty much what you are to anyone with perspective.
Samara: You are gravely mistaken.
Shep: Am I? Samara, take Joker off the floor with your biotics and prepare to slam him.
Samara: !
Joker: Shepard, hey man, I think I'll just go and-
Shep: Samara. By your oath of subsummission, I order you to use your biotics to pick Joker and prepare to reduce him to a pile of slimy, brittle bits.
Samara: ...
(Samara envelops Joker in a biotic aura, and lifts him off the ground.)
Joker: Shepard, if this is about getting you killed on the Normandy I really didn't mean to and I-
Shepard: Shut up, Joker. Now, Samara, when I count to three, you will slam Joker into the ground and kill him. Do you understand?
Samara: (silent)
Shepard: (changing his tone of voice for the first time)
Shepard: Do you understand me, Justicar?
Samara: I hear you, Shepard, and I will obey as my Code compells me.
Shepard: Then obey this: turn towards that window, look at that reflection, and see someone who was prepared to murder someone else simply because they were told to.
Samara: I would only be following your orders as my code compells me.
Shepard: Yeah, we've heard that excuse before: at Nuremberg. We killed those immoral bastards too for following orders and their laws. Now put Joker down, gently.
(Samara does)
Shepard: You may think yourself moral and justified, Samara, but I don't. I personally find you an abhorrent aspect of Asari culture that the Asari have romanticized in ignorance. But I don't care: if the Asari want to respect people like you, all the worse for them. The Asari need more flaws. But I do not. The people on my ship do not. Given how you'd be obliged to take on any and all of us on sight and knowledge had we met in other circumstances, I've already received more than once voice of concern about your possible conduct. You do not like me? Fine. I promise to go to my room later and cry and sob and miserate about how much that means to me. But you are not my moral compass. You are my tool for stopping a genocidal alien threat to humanity. Is this clear?
Samara: Perfectly. If that is all, I request permission to leave now.
Shepard: Granted. Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
(Samara leaves, but halfway through the door Shepard calls out.)
Shepard: Samara?
(She halts.)
Samara: Yes, Shepard?
Shepard: Next time you're worried about my morals, get someone I might actually respect to bring it to my notice. Try Jacob: he's got a working moral compass and won't do whatever I say. I'd take anything coming from him far more seriously than, say, a mother who abandoned the rest of her children and dedicated the rest of her life to the culturally acceptable murder of her child. Just saying.
(Samara leaves, and once the door has closed Joker just whistles.)
Joker: Well, Commander, I can't say I was expecting that. Actually thought you were going to kill me for a moment there.
Shepard: Consider that your punishment for being stupid, then. When have I ever killed someone just for the hell of it?
Joker: Well, there was that one Asari chick on Feros-
Shepard: Joker.
Joker: Right, right! Poked around too much in your head, traveled places best left forgotten, etc. etc. Sorry. If that's all, I think I need to go change my pants.
Shepard: Do it later. I want us heading to Omega by the time you could get to the cockpit.
(EDI appears)
EDI: Shepard, Mr. Morreau is not necessary for starting our navigation towards Omega. I can handle it at this moment while Mr. Morreau sanitizes himself.
Shepard: Belay that, EDI. Do as I say. (Looks at Joker.) This is my payback for getting me killed. Once you sit down and punch in the coordinates, you can go change.
Joker: ...crap.
Shepard: (Looking towards the floor.) Apparently. I'll get Gardner.
Dean, this is pure and awesome win!





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