Babi_Siha wrote...
Ashley is a Spectre because, as it was said before, she was there and Udina needed someone to watch his back during the coup, she herself is skeptical on why Udina chose her. The truth is, before meeting Shepard, she was nothing exceptional, she was a great soldier, but she never had special training, wasn't an N7 graduate, even brainless Vega was called to the program.
She didn't kill Sovereigh, she didn't even help, in fact no one from ME1 directly fought the Reaper, the 5th Fleet and other dreadnoughts, at tops she helped kill Saren. So Miranda, unlike Ash, actually did fight a Reaper. As for Wrex, anyone can kill a krogan warlord shooting him on the back, which was an incredbly coward attitude by the way.
Ashley only made something out of herself because she hitchhiked Shepard's accomplishments. Even if your argument is that her family was blacklisted, if she were that good of a soldier that wouldn't matter.
Ashley maybe tougher than Miranda, the latter is rather squishy actually, and is the better sniper, but on combat Miranda would play smart and would come out superior. On hand-to-hand combat, Ashley could win if Miranda didn't use her biotics, after all Ash is a tank, but using her biotics would give her quite the edge.
And Miranda was forced to be tough way before Ash joined the Alliance, she had to escape the bunch of armed security guards of her father, she couldn't do that unless her father had given her some kind of training, and Cerberus likely gave her an even more extensive field training as well.
I still like you though, krukow xD
Edit: I realized now I'm super late on the conversation, apologizes for that, I don't even know if the argument was finished or not.
1. Ashley is a spectre because 4 council members agreed to make her one, not just Udina. Also, after he's revealed and killed, they do not revoke her status (something they've been happy to do for political reasons in the past). As for her not feeling deserving, that's a recurring character trait. Her undervaluing herself. It's consistent from ME1 (when she didn't think she deserved to be on the Normandy. Shut up, she did!)
2. The game disagrees with you about soverign. "You spoke to one, then blew the damn thing up." I know mirimancers are happy to headcanon whatever they want, but I usually restrict my headcanon to filling out what isn't shown. If the game says Shepard killed Soverign, he did. And Ashley was right there with him.
3. You people want to condemn Ashley for shooting Wrex in the back, but then talk about how Miranda would win with stealth and strategy. Pick one. Miranda would be shooting from behind plenty if she did win.
4. Yes it does. This is a conversation from the first game. Shep is suprised/astonished that Ashley hasn't advanced further, and the reason turns out to be her family name. The game says point blank that Ashley should have advanced farther, but her name held her back.
5. Ashely is better than Miranda with weapons. She's better hand to hand. And biotics are not that big of a deal (my shepard soldier rolls through asari commandos like paper). Miranda has not trained like Ashely. Remember when Miranda spent 2 years running a science project (lazarus)? Ashley was a soldier that whold time, training and drilling. Also, Ashley has spectre training.
6. She ran away from her father, she didn't fight her way out guns blazing. And Cerberus totally trained her, but not just in soldiering. In the sciences. In espionage. In so many various fields. She's a jack of all trades. She's great. But she's not the fighter Ashley is, not even close. One on one, she wouldn't stand a chance.
There, your points refuted.
Also, sometimes I wonder if you all even understand your waifu. When I said Ash would win one on one, why didn't any one of you reply "So? Why would Miranda fight Ash one on one? That's stupid. She'd sabotage her (flying car, don't know the name)'s brakes 2 weeks before a fight happened."
Yet nobody did. You all tried to turn her into Batman/Rambo/Bourne. Batramourn Lawson.
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