draken-heart wrote...
it was just an example, plus people with chemistry do not need to fall in love with each other. people who are like each other in any way imaginable are capable of just being friends.
plus i played ME1, i can see Shepard and Liara just being very close friends from through the entire series.
I think they're nothing alike. They're not polar opposites, but they're nothing like each other.
Shepard is a confident soldier, she can play it smooth or go in and get what she wants. She obviously wasn't very pleased by Liara's attention at the beginning because she felt that she was more of a test subject than a person, but those feelings changed over time, and it all came together when the Normandy was grounded on the Citadel. That spark.
Liara was very introverted, and extremely awkward since she wasn't very used to dealing with actual living things. Archeologist, remember? Her attempts to get to know Shepard better, and by some extension study Shepard's connection to the Protheans kept her professional interest up, and then her personal curiosity got the better of her.
By the same token of your expression, two people with chemistry can just as easily fall in love, regardless of their gender. It is merely our human societal norms which view single gendered relationships as strange, as it does not make genetic sense. The asari however, well they can breed with anything, can't they? Remember when they had hair?