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xxSgt_Reed_24xx wrote...
To go back to an older post... (sorry for bringing it back up, but I wasn't here when topics were switched)ADLegend21 wrote...
@Reed Ashley CAN rally a species, she can rally the Alliance. I can see alot fo the brass besides Hackett and Anderson being short and mistrusting with Shepard and leaving her out to dry when she needs them, then Ashley standing at her side and getting them on Shepard's "team" so to speak. With Shepard out of the picture Ashley is the best thing the Alliance has going so she can rally them if need be. Kaidan too. Tehy're both career marines so they msut have a ton of pull now since they're Spectre's. Hell they could rally the Spectre's, which would be amazing.
Good luck rallying the alliance or the humans.... they're kinda busy being wiped out by the reapers fighting for Earth. Doesn't their fleet practically get obliterated?
Good thing you brought it back, reed, as this is the topic of my ruined post from yesterday - I really shouldn't
post with my hair covering my eyes, that'll teach me - and I want to give it another try.
The question is how much of the Alliance is still intact, as it seems at least the units stationed on and around earth have been complelely obliterated by the Reapers and though the Alliance is more widespread than that, who is
to say, that the other parts are still intact. How much of the Alliance brass is still alive? I can imagine most of
them coming to earth to question the infamous Cmdr. Shepard, maybe Shepard and Anderson are the only ones, who made it out of the hearing alive?
But there will be officers left somewhere and maybe the lines of communication between the remaining units are not
working. Shepard and Ashley (or Kaidan) finding those units and bringing them together into one large force again
would be kind of epic. I always wanted to see Lt. Marie Durand of the 14th Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 10th Frontier
Division again. This could be just the context for this.
The Alliance isn't humantiy, that was one of the points ME2 tried to show in its clumsy way. As we have seen there
are humans who want nothing to do with the Alliance and are trying to establish colonies beyond their reach
*cough*horizon*cough*; it's basically the same as during earth's colonisation period, people trying to be free of
certain restrictions the homeworld imposes.
In the context of Citadel politics, badpie is probably right: humanity is the Alliance.
The human focus point of the story is Shepard, coming from the ranks of the Alliance, becoming a Spectre, dying in
the line of duty, being brought back by an extremist organization outside of the Alliance, s/he encompasses the
full human experience within the galactic reality and they understand that being human is much more than being
Alliance.
As for my canon Sheps: Though they still feel some love for the Alliance, they don't feel exactly like a part of it
anymore.
That is where Ashley (and Kaidan for that matter) is coming in: In a way she represents Shepard's own past within
the Alliance, s/he has been trained by them and is who s/he is thanks to them, (some people seem to forget that and
their lack of respect for the Alliance is disgusting and very unbecoming for any Shepard - I, too, play some
Shepards sympathetic to Cerberus and without any plans to ever go back to the Alliance, but they never forget,
where they came from and how much they owe the Alliance and they don't feel the need to whine about how the
Alliance owes them for destroying the Collectors, because pettiness really isn't part of their self-image.)
So Ashley is a sweet way for my Shepards to finally get a taste of the Alliance again, reconnecting with their own
origin as an elite Alliance soldier, with the part of them that equals being human with being Alliance, which isn't neccessarily true for all of my Shepards, but it is for my favourite ones.
One more thing on the Ashley is a practical person argument.
While I agree a person woudn't normally change their nature in that regard, it is not uncommon for someone to adjust their opinon about what is actually practical, over the course of their lives.
That said, as a man who had his hair way past his shoulders in multiple phases of his life, I agree, that hair hanging in front of your eyes while trying to focus on a job is highly annoying, but I have met others who had no problem with that.
And regardless of my opinion, wether or not it is practical, I am not so blinkered that a minor thing like that could ruin my enjoyment of the game.
And even being the high priestess of the sisterhood of the eternal bun, I wouldn't have a problem, if we only get the one new hairstyle for her, I have many beautiful screenshots of her with a bun to look at.
If I started to get upset over personal dislikes and what I consider realistic, I wouldn't have made it through ME1 once.
My enjoyment > My opinion
Also the lack of Ashley cosplay at the conventions is disturbing. I hope ME3 will inspire a few girls to do it next
year.
edit: ToP:
edit2:
V-rex wrote...
I don't want to appear like I'm spitting in the face of the one good thing Ashley fans have been handed in so long.
That exactly was my problem with many of the posts about that subject in the past, not that I ever counted your posts among them.
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