RainyDayLover wrote...
2leggywillow wrote...
I've never really pictured my Shepards settling down and having kids, mostly because she doesn't think she'd be any good at it... and this is perfectly reflected here.
Yeah, my femshep's the same way. Honestly, every single line in that conversation really hit home for me.
Since my Shepard never knew her parents as she grew up an orphan (Earthborn background), and since she never had any mentor outside of Anderson....having him say "You did good, child..you did good. I'm proud of you."....yeah, I almost lost it.
And then "Not everything I've done is something to be proud of" after Anderson telling her how her kids would be proud of her mom, that killed me. She'd always been a ruthless/renegade up until the end of the first game (that's when she realized she'd finally found a family aboard the Normandy....people she actually cared for). All those people she got slaughtered on Torfan, sending some of the colonists on Feros to their deaths, getting Kaidan killed on Virmire, blowing up the Batarian relay, and a whole lot of stuff from her backstory that I won't get into, all those moments rung as quick, successive flashbacks as she said that. It was that powerful.
It's funny, that line rang really true for me as well, and I played as a straight Paragon. To me, it broke my heart because I saw it as my Shepard still being really hard on herself and thinking of all the things she feels she could have done better (Thessia, the Batarian relay, losing Ashley on Virmire, her squad on Akuze, etc.), despite all the good she's done.
I guess that's a testament to how good the writing is, that we can both feel powerfully that lines like this are about OUR Shepard, even if our versions of Shepard are radically different.
. Many thanks to Ottemis and Ele
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How sad.
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