her default appearance is NOT her armor. Granted you an put her in that in combat, but you can do the same thing with Liara, and Tali with their default on shi appearances. All three, however, come with two seperate outfits that are combat ready(Liara gets armor or phantomish armor just like Ashley does) you must have all Kaidan playthroughs if you didn't know you ocld put her in a suit of armor or a suit of phantom armor. seriously it's that damn easy. As for her looks she literally wears the SAME THING for two years. on th Normandy as it's going she's got phoenix heavy armor and her hair bun, two years later on Horizon, Phoenix heavy armor and her bun. Kaidan wears Phoenix armor on the Normandy when it's blowing up, and then on Horizon he has a new set of armor. She was due for a new outfit after three years, finally. You're compaining hat Ashley had a hang over after drinking, but I guess you've got no problem with TALI having an actively drunk scene BECAUSE MIRANDA GOT TO KILL HER FATHER. That had NOTHING to do with Tali an yet she's getting drunk because Mrianda killing her oppresive father made her regret being her dad's soldier instead of her daughter. I ont' thinkyou really paid attention to Ashley during the game, not really. Ashley is pretty much a more mature version of her ME1 self. Granted she seems a bit cut off from the crew and even Sheaprd because of auto-dialogue and her not having banter with other characters but she's incredibly similar to the woman from ME1. I dont know which Ashley williams you had in your game, maybe he one fro army of darkness???HagarIshay wrote...
This is an issue that bugged me ever since Ashley was first revealed to be in ME3. But after doing a playthrough with her (which i haven't even finished, due to my great disappointment), i realised the problem was much more serious than i first thought.
I'll start by saying how much i loved Ashley's character in Mass effect 1. Not only she had a great personality, she was also original. Something that is very missing in games.
Ashley was a strong soldier, who didn't give a damm about what people thought of her and her looks. While i found her pretty, i definitely didn't think of her as having sexual appereance. The only thing that seemed to me out of place about her is her pink armor. And after putting the pheonix armor on Wrex and Garrus, it didn't really bothered me much.
Ashley's personality was great. She and Kaidan were two out of a few (If not the only ones) squadmates that gave political statements. Even if you don't agree with her, She still brought interesting viewpoints to the ones that listened. The best thing was about her, She wasn't there to please the player with utter adoration to Sheaprd. She wasn't loyal to Shepard and indifferent about his/her actions, And was definitely not Shepard's puppet. Again, one of the few squadmates which had that quality. Ashley williams was one of my favorite squadmates, and what i saw as one of the best written characters in the Mass Effect series.
I'll bet most of you now know where i'm going with this.
starting with the obvious: Ashley's looks.
Makeup? I can handle it. You barley see a woman this days without an eyeshadow. In the future i don't see much difference.
Hair? I wouldn't have so much of a problem of it wasn't out of character. I mean, it seems no one will give a damm about hair regulations in the future (Defualt femshep is a great example) But still... why did she need to loosen her hair? maybe fix the bun, but getting rid of it entirely? don't really see the reason.
Armor? Completly ridicules. Why would the artists do that!? You are making an outfits for the woman who used to wear heavy armor for god's sake! Why giving her such a tight and completly unbulletproof clothes? She isn't Miranda. She can't perfectly dodge from gunfire. Or making a biotic bubble like Jack or Samara. And she is not made out of metal!!! I really wanted my maleshep to laugh at her face when she said to him "I wear armor to battle, not swimmwear".
But you know, i could have gotten over it. It would have been hard, but i could. Then Bioware dropped the second bomb which really made me despise her writer. The annoying fact she wasn't anymore someone that would say "i'm okay" when getting hurt. I don't think i heard her say a sarcastic comment even once throughout the game.
It can be argued that she has her reasons. She is worried about her family, She don't have time to make funny comments. But is she that much of a mess that she will completely forget she has to serve the next day and get totally drunk? That much of a mess that it's looks like she is going to burst into tears every second? No!
Her family had suffred for a long time of a bad reputation. But it's only driven her more to prove herself. You'd think her sister's dead husband and the loss of so many humans will only make her more determind, not depressed.
Now when i think of Ashely i see her as two diffrent characters. An alliance soldier or an alliance cheerleader. To be honest i believe i perfer the cerberus's cheerleader. At least she had a personality.
Sorry for the rant, But it really bothered me. Did anyone felt the same about her? Or am i being too picky here? did anyone actually thought it suited her characterism and maybe i read her wrong?
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