Aurora313 wrote...
For Badpie:
Is your Shepard going to suffer any lasting effects from the Crucible detonation in your headcanon? Is he crippled? Suffers some PTSD? What? Does Ash help him through it or does she have her own issues to work through?
I can't imagine that anyone who has been through everything he's been through would come out of it without some emotional scarring. I don't know yet what I'm gonna do with my story in that respect yet. I mean you're talking about a guy who died once, almost died twice, lost everyone on Akuze, lost more friends in ME1, killed over 300,000 people in Arrival and then chose the destroy option and wiped out even more sentient life - not that he could even be sure any of that really happened or if he was just hallucinating the star brat due to injury or worse, indoctrination. He's strong, but now that he doesn't have to be - now that he doesn't have a world saving mission - it might come crashing down on him. You have to think too that his life has been constant high stress and high tension every day for the last few years. A sudden end to that, while good, would also be a MAJOR adjustment.
As for Ashley, she's always used humor to deflect and I think in ME3 she really took a lot of Shepard's burden on her shoulders. Even in the scene before Cerberus, she seemed to take a moment at the door behind him to steel herself before trying to make light of the situation for his sake. Ash strikes me as the type that did everything she could to make sure he was okay - and to her that meant not showing that SHE wasn't okay, even if she wasn't. If she cried about things, or stress or despair got the better of her, no one knew. Any breakdowns she may have had were probably private and short lived.
Both will surely have issues in the aftermath of ME3. Everyone will. And with the state of the galaxy in relative shambles it's not going to be all roses and rainbows. Life will probably be more challenging for everyone. Then there is the question of - do they retire? Do they continue to fight? What is the right answer for them? Either would be hard and stressful. Through it all though the important thing is that they'll be there for each other. I think that's the tether that will keep both of them sane.
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