frudi wrote...
Lizardviking: you previously wroteWhich I could see making sense if you choose to interpret 'working in shadows' to mean working alone. However, it turns out she never referred to working in shadows (alone by your interpretation), but to working in secret. Therefore it doesn't matter how much time she spent alone as the Shadow Broker, or alone on Illium before that, as that's simply not what she's talking about.Back on Illium, she was truly operating alone and hence in the shadows.
And for working in secret - that's something she does as the Shadow Broker, in fact it's one of the crucial aspects of the job. On the other hand, back on Illium she was not being secretive about her work at all, she was actually well known as one of the most prominent and respected information brokers. To me it doesn't make any sense that she would refer to those years on Illium as 'working in secret'.
Yes, people knew she was an information broker, but I highly doubt she advertised her activities. Such as employing assasins (observer quest) or making buisness arrangement with wanted thieves such as Kasumi (perhaps even hiring them to do jobs?). So you can argue that she was working in secret back then as well.
As for what she actually meant in that dialogue, here's my take on it...
She's drawing parallels between her position as SB and TIM - both work in secret; both through their respective organisations wield an awesome amount of power, enough to shape events on a galactic scale; both are in a position where they can (ab)use that power for highly questionable purposes and motives; both might end up doing that despite their best intentions, even if they believe they are trying to do good. Liara wonders if she could ever fall as far as TIM did and while Shepard tries to convince her that she is nothing like him, she is not quite so sure. She still wonders what if... what if the stakes had been high enough, what if she could have saved Thessia - would she have gone as far as TIM for that?
And this is all really good, but why is it that Liara has this doubt when Shepard tries to convince her? Because she already knows she were willing to do questionable things to reach her goals on Illium, and as you said, if the stakes were high enough, she wonders if she would go as far as TIM did, especially when she has so much power as she has now.
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