bleetman wrote...
Cuddlezarro wrote...
oh Hk-47 how I love you... *really needs to get around to beating the KoTOR2 restoration project*
If it's the same one I've got installed, it's totally worth it. The HK-50 factory is priceless.
Finis Valorum wrote...
Cuddlezarro wrote...
hell with bastila she falls for you regardless of how much of a ass you are too her =/
Yes but that could be explained away because she's psychically connected to you
I never really bought that as an explanation. She is, after all, equally connected with a female character. Which isn't to say "hey, she ought to be a lesbian because of it", particularly. More that I don't see it as a reason for why she's suddenly into a character who leaves flaming orphange wreckage wherever he goes. The whole bond thing can't be that strong, surely.
It's not so much that. Bastila is enormously tempted by the Dark Side all by herself. The whole game isn't
Revan's story at all, it's the story of Bastila's fall and possible redemption. She's intrigued by the power from the start, and her continual perpetual nagging about Revan having to stay righteous is the most transparent "the lady doth protest too much" in the history of the Jedi. She's not trying to convince the PC, she's trying to convince
herself. It's not at all shocking if she fails, even before you add in Revan's inhuman charisma and the fact that she's psychically linked to the dude.
Carth, on the other hand, has no excuse.
That said, if you manage to dig T3's message-from-Bastila out in KotOR II for Dark Side femRevan it is the
slashiest thing in the world oh my GOD, so it's arguable you're not far off on that "she ought to be a lesbian too because of it" thing.
(I mean, she is in my games anyway, but lolmodder.)
Interesting thing, though, speaking of modding KotOR to romance Bastila as a femRevan:
There's like one line in the whole romance that unavoidably refers to you as male. The rest is completely gender neutral. Modders had a hell of a time with Carth, though, and to my knowledge nobody ever managed to pull off a Carth m/m mod at all, because he's calling you a woman every other line. You jump ahead to Mass Effect, and again, the Ashley romance is near-seamless as a modded femShep, even using all the same lines as dudeShep, while trying to do the Kaidan romance means you'll get called Ma'am the whole game through.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this but it's an interesting trend. Obviously if you look at the characters intended to be bi from the start - Leliana, Zev, the whole DA2 crowd - they're relatively gender-neutral as well, with a few flagged variable lines and an otherwise totally parallel experience.
The claims that they cut s/s romance from ME1 because they couldn't make the deadline due to the need to write a completely different m/m romance for Kaidan seems to suggest that they'd
rather do every romance like Carth/Kaidan/Anders, with a distinct path and different feel for each gender. But I really don't think they'll have time for that with ME3, six extra months or no - that's a
lot of work, even for just two characters - and you know, looking at the Carth and Anders romances and comparing them to Ashley's, or Fernis', or hell, Morrigan's (which is also gender-neutral enough in dialog to mod well), I kind of think I'm glad for it.
Though I think Isabela's romance might have benefited from more gender specificity, so IDK. Perhaps I'm just rambling for the sake of it? I do do that sometimes.
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Admit it, it wouldn't be fun at all if you just trolled on Kaidan and no one noticed your efforts 
It is true. Everyone has very unique stories. Some more than others. But Kaidan hit it off with me. 
