Rezources wrote...
Let me clarify: I like that he doesn't look like a supermodel. I like that he has flaws like a real person. I like that his nose is a little flat and he's big but not really defined. Going back through this thread, I see how many people are upset about those things and I'm not one of them. It's that damn haircut that I cannot stand. If he is a professional killer and not some inexperienced kid, than that makes that haircut even more terrible. I would hope someone like that would have a little more sense.
Your points are fair, but keep in mind that it's the future. Fashion and style can mean a completely different thing in the Mass Effect universe than it does in ours. The haircut may be an issue to you because of how you associate it, but it might have some meaning in the context of th game.
I would hope Bioware decides not to go down the same route of "I may look this way but actually I'm completely the opposite" again with Vega like they did with Miranda. Relying mostly on contradicting a character's looks with their personality does not always make a deep, interesting character, especially if it has already been done in a previous game.
It worked with Miranda because it made sense. She was made to be
genetically perfect but could never be perfect because she was a human
being with emotions. She lets Shepard know this from the beginning and
it immediately excuses her appearance and made for an interesting
character even before her loyalty mission because conversations with her
would go from what she could do to what she couldn't do and why she
thought she didn't have an excuse for it.
I agree to some degree, but to be fair, not many games have done the Mary Sue deconstruction like Bioware has with Miranda. I don't want him to be a complete and total opposite from his look either because it might feel shoehorned, but I do want him to be complex. I think we're in agreement here, right?
Personally though, I think making him exclusively gay would probably a nice twist. Would kind of change his dynamic a lot as a character, as long as they don't let that be his defining feature in the story, of course.
With Vega, if he acts the way he looks in the beginning, I'll still hate him for half of the game or at whatever point he decides to come clean about his insecurities and fears. The best way to differ that kind of arc with Miranda's would be to make him so ridiculously cocky that's it's kind of funny and endearing and then reveal how pants-crappingly scared he really is. Still though, that's basically the same as Miranda's arc.
I actually quite like this idea. I also think it would work well if he was painfully naive. Here's this incredibly good soldier, can kill on the battlefield, but he has an Alistair air to him. That would work well with his look without having to make him a complete opposite. At least, IMO.
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