CulturalGeekGirl wrote...
I decided a few weeks ago to look at ME2 from a different perspective: what if Horizon is evidence of Kaidan's character development in Shepard's absence, rather than a mischaracterization of him?
If that's the case, I think we may see is an stronger Kaidan, but also one who is more closed-off, even more risk-averse regarding his emotions. He talked up being careful in ME1, but he fell for Shepard hard and fast. In ME2, given the chance to accept that Shepard was back and open himself up again, he chose, rationally, to not risk it. He always played it safe before with relationships, and now he's playing it even safer. I'd also imagine he's learned better to suppress his emotions, and push right through the pain - after Jump Zero, he was paralyzed. After Shepard's death, he went into overdrive, doing everything he could to ensure Shepard's death wasn't in vain, trying to reach a position where he had a chance of having a voice, where he might be able to warn everyone about the Reapers.
I'm sure that the faithful will have a chance to soften him again, but I think that those who weren't faithful may have to deal with the new, more closed-off, less emotionally available Kaidan.
If i was about to do Kaidan's psychological profile i would say i see a very sensitive and introverted man by nature, who only wanted to have a normal life but thought himself as a freak, especially after what happened to him when he was a teenager, which cost him to be more intoverted and carefull, even frightened and reluctant to try and bond to another person. And that kind of person, usually ends up doing the exact opposite.....an explanation on why he fell hard and fast for Shep. His surpressed need (a powerful motivation) and his personality drove him to fell for a woman that he at the beggining admired, and a woman who accepted him for what he was.
He opened himself and fell in love only to have his heart broken again, and this time leaving a wound that cant easily be healed. Its not about a couple breaking up coz they discovered they were not right for eachother. Its about finding (short of) the love of your life and then losing it in a blink of an eye.
Time is the best healer. He was able to heal from his previous relationship and he was able to move on and be a functional human being. It would take him much more time to heal from losing Shep but eventually he would.....either he would have a normal approach and seek another relationship or giving up by just accepting the thing that he could never find out the love he had and lost (or love in general) is something we will never find out since fate was not kind on him....
I do beleive Shep will have a harder time gaining Kaidan's love again, not coz he does not love her anymore but coz he's too afraid now to deal with another emotional break down.
But i also beleive that Kaidan will be in a constant war with himself and his emotions as well.
And by the way, if my Shep was to see a man she loved and knew was dead for 2 years, well and alive in front of her, working with the enemy as well, she would propably be more harsh than Kaidan
Kaidan said it while he was approaching her......:
You're in the presense of a legend..and a GHOST
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jupp, time to hit ME again. Love playing when I've started to forget things. It feels so much more like the first time I played blind stumbling through the game.
