ladyvader wrote...
What I want to know is exactly how is the import going to work. I know we'll get to pick which Shepard we want to use, but will be be able to pick which file within that Shepard's save file.
That's how it worked in DA2, you'd pick a character and then pick a save...
Yuqi wrote...
I do have the Genisis Comic. I did somehow pick the romance once,(Admits to, skimming through comic by abusing the B button,after listening to it once) I'm not 100% sure what page/scene to pick..
It's not that hard, at one point it's talking about relationships getting in the way of the mission and you have to pick
Ashley/Kaiden
Focus on the mission (or somthing to that effect) O
Liara
Xilizhra wrote...
The most spiteful? I don't know; I'd say the anti-s/s dolts are by far the worst.
s/s?
...Shepard... ...Samara?
alex90c wrote...
Liara was in ME2 for like a two minute cameo, I thought that would have satisfied her haters enough.
Well the whole Shadow Broker thing gives her the best arc of any of the LIs.
In my unbiased opinion.
Yuqi wrote...
I never tought about it that way, you have a point. The other thing could be, that link they did to get clarity to shep's visions. Correct me if I'm wrong but woulden't that kind of stay with her?
In my head-canon their relationship went something like this:
Shepard was an orphan raised on the streets of the great megatropolises covering Earth. She escaped the life of petty crime and underworld gangs by enlisting with the Alliance military when she turned eighteen. She never let anyone get close to her because everyone who'd ever tried was trying to take advantage of her in one way or another.
Oddly her first best father figure was her drill instructor (by the by I'm having a hard time figuring out what branch of the service Shepard is in. N7 is a marine outfit but she'd s Lt. Commander and that's not a marine rank (I think that would be a captain or a major in the USMC) plus, you know, captain of a
ship) who lead with his own special brand of tough hate. He was tough but fair, she always said... or at least tough but never tried to coerce anyone into robbing a jewellry store.
She was always bright but not particularly well schooled - although a mathematical prodigy (I'm of the firm opinion that you couldn't be a cook on a military space ship without a firm grasp of physics and mathematics (Because Sir Issacc Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-**** in space) the only reason she made it through the required courses was due to the help of one of her fellow officer candidates. He was her first real friend and confidant. He was an absolute genius and came across as a bit of a ****** until you got to know him. They graduated in the top two spots in their class and were both assigned to the same ship.
And they were both on Elysium during the Skyllian Blitz. He didn't survive.
After that Shepard satisfied herself with more surface level friendships preferring not to let anyone get to close. Even people like Garrus who she'd gladly entrust her life to would be kept at arms length, usually she used her jocular humour as a distancing mechanism...
Shepard's attraction to Liara crept up on her so quickly that she didn't notice it and, as much as she might try to resist, she couldn't deny it. Liara was brilliant, beautiful and charming in her own naive way. And more importantly she was someone Shepard couldn't hid her inner self from, couldn't BS and push away. They'd been linked. Mind and body and soul.
Once Shepard let her into her heart there was no getting her out. Shepard became a lot more friendly after that and opened up more to her friends, now her humour was genuine. Liara had seen to the core of her being and swept away the shadows. She still feared what might happen to her friends and her lover in the upcoming battle but now she had real hope for a future after the fighting (and something
real to look forward to). Nothing had ever gone quite right in Shepard's life. Orphaned at a young age and left to the tender mercies of the street gangs she could have so easily slipped into a life of crime or become some two bit merc like so many before her but she couldn't let that happen. She pulled herself up by her bootstraps to get to where she was. Liara inspired to go beyond that, to be the best Shepard she could be (a paragon if you will).
Liara on the other hand was simply smitten with Shepard. A knight in shining armour came to free her from the geth and on top of that the woman was absolutely fascinating. An inspirational leader of men who had a unique link to the protheians that she had spent most of her life studying. Shepard, despite being little more than a quatrer of her age seemed so mature and worldly, all put together Liara had to find out everything about this wonderful woman that had crashed into her life. And the more she did the more she loved her.
And then Shepard ordered Liara off her ship, to get the crew to safety while she went back into the runied CIC to haul Joker's stubon ass into an escape pod. If she had only insisted that she go with Shepard, or left Joker to his own devices (the escape pod was
right there. How things would have been different...
Liara spent two years dealing with the loss of Shepard and she wasn't about to jump back into a relationship with her (as much as she might want to) while they are both in such danger of dying. Shepard on the other hand has a different problem. It's like she fell asleep over the skies of Alchera and woke up the next morning and her entire world had changed. Half of her crew was dead, the rest dispersed. Her friends were either missing or hated her the council she'd fought so hard to save had tuned into raving lunatics (Oh, yes. "Reapers". We have dismissed that claim). She couldn't help but wonder if they'd even been worth saving. She'd spent her entire adult life trying to do the right thing, trying to do her duty trying to rise above the easy-way-out mentality she'd been brought up with (although she still occasionally tasered mercenaries in the back to save her friends from gunships etc.) and what happens? She ends up disappeared, disavowed and despised, working for someone she hates just to save the ungrateful asses of the galaxy.
And worst of all; he lover, the one person she could share every part of herself with, the one person who has seen everything she is from the inner greatness everyone aspires to down to the petty jealousies and small fears and accepted her without reservation... wanted nothing more to do with her than to give her a couple of glorified fetch quests. And she wouldn't even say why. From Shepard's perspective they'd been together for a month or two, the happiest weeks of her life even with the oncoming galactic apocalypse... and the next day it was over.
Of course Liara was dealing with her own issues, survivour's guilt, guilt at losing Feron, guilt at turning Shepard over Cerberus... that may seem like a no-brainer at the time but it was a calculated risk. They might rebuild her but how? Would she still be the same person she was before or had Liara just sacrificed everything that Shepard was, everything she stood for ... just to save her life? Was that the right thing to do, or was it her own selfishness at work?
Well that's what goes on in my head when I'm seeing this... and this is why I don't write fanfiction.
Kind of went off the rails there but I was on a roll.
Yuqi wrote...
Also is Liara/Femshep more popular then Liara/MShep?
Answering that question requires admitting the possibility that MShep exists, or to put it another way:
Ah, yes. "MShep". The mythical male protagonist of the Mass Effect series. We have dismissed that claim.
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