Well, I remember saying he didn't have much reaction. But then I remembered something he said if you dump him during the date. And that got me to thinking about if you dump him in the first conversation.
And then I got really, truly, incredibly sad because his reaction very much meshes with something he tells Shepard in both ME2 and ME3.
Basically, if you dump him during the reunion, he'll say something about he understands, that he didn't want to be a distraction. Shepard tells him twice that he was never a distraction, even though he doesn't seem to be upset. I'm pretty sure his take is that he's managed to get Shepard's mind off her duty, and being a better turian than he claims to be, Garrus thinks Shepard has decided to put duty first. I'm pretty sure that would have him feeling quietly miserable, especially given what he says if you do continue the romance: that for the past six months, he's been trying to figure out how this reunion is supposed to go. Yes, I know he's been watching Joker's sex vids, but I don't think he's got any better source for human relationship information. Put bluntly, while I'm sure he does enjoy the idea of sexing up Shepard, he's also struggling to find a way to express to her how he feels.
If you wait until the date to dump him, he does make one comment I didn't think too much about (because it sounded a little... mean, actually) until after the farewell speech. He says something like, "Well, we did make an odd couple." Shepard then tells him she thinks they were never strange. And Garrus's response? "Not until you try to imagine what our kids would look like." It just seemed a little offhanded and out-of-nowhere, and as I said, maybe even a little cruel to say something like that to Shepard. But... after the farewell speech, you realize, that's how long, at least, he's been thinking of starting a family with Shepard. And probably longer.
So what makes this make the ending so much more tragic for Garrus? Because if you dump him, he's going to pretend he doesn't care because he's already prepared himself for the worse. He says in both ME2 and ME3 that he always expects the worst, so that when something good happens he's pleasantly surprised. Hence why he seems taken aback when Shepard admits she loves him. He feels the same, but it's something he doesn't dare to say, just in case. But with Shepard, he's daring to hope. He's imagining a future. His heart's two steps ahead of him while he's always hesitant and nervous to actually move forward and ask Shepard what she wants. But in the farewell speech, he's building a future for the two of them with a tropical home and kids. It's the first thing that's ever gone really truly right for him, and he's daring to hope that everything might work out.
But he knows it won't. Which is why the order to stay alive, and the talk about turian Heaven. And why when Shepard tells him he'll never be alone, he repeats the word, "never." It's not just that grim premonition that she'll never come back to him. It's also because she's told him, without his asking, exactly what he wanted to know: would she want to spend her life with him? The answer is not just her life, but eternity.
And so even if you survive, knowing that Shepard's unlikely to see Garrus ever again, even knowing he's not a real person, it's truly heartbreaking to think about the situation that puts Garrus in. Because the one thing that finally went right for him has now gone horribly wrong. And we don't even get to see him mourn.
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