Thinking about this fact, I starting thinking about Ender as a character. He spends 90% of the book inside his own head. No one else knows his fears and worries, because he has to be the good commander and never show that side of himself. Especially true after Mazer Rackham become's Ender's "enemy" (tutor), and starts drilling in that Ender has to be better than the best and can't falter. The only way Ender can show his terrible worry at possibly being unable to save the universe from the Buggars is by gnawing on his own hands in his sleep. Ender only finally shows his closest friends his feelings AFTER victory is achieved, when he hugs them, crying, and says, "I don't have to be your commander anymore, do I? I don't want to command anybody again."
Compare this to many people's complaints about Shepard in ME2. That she never seems to talk about how awful it was for her to die and come back to life, and how that might worry her, and maybe how she is afraid she won't be able to stop the Reapers, etc. Some considered this bad writing. But I think they are writing Shepard as if she were Ender, only we don't get a narrator telling us that Shep is feeling angst - we just have to decide for ourselves whether she is feeling it or not. But what I think is that we're going to get a massively cathartic moment at the end of ME3, where the normally stone-faced Shepard will break down the way Ender does, crying, relieved, and finally happy to be free of the burden of saving the galaxy.
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