The truth is, after the destruction of the Normandy in Mass Effect 2 Commander Shepard never woke up. After Shepard helped Joker into the escape pod, a massive explosion blasted Shepard into the pod as well, suffering extreme trauma and losing consciousness. Joker managed to stop the bleeding with medigel, but Shepard was still unconscious when they were rescued. Commander Shepard was rushed to Mars Naval Medical Center, where the Alliance's best surgeons did their best to save Shepard's life, and although they were able to stabilize Shepard's life signs, they were never able to restore consciousness. Shepard lost several limbs and internal organs in the attack, suffered severe brain trauma, and the nerve damage was so severe that Shepard would probably die of shock if Shepard were ever to wake up, not to mention that Shepard's body could not survive off life support, requiring advance medical equipment to pick up the slack left by the organs Shepard lost.
Now I know what you're thinking, that this is ridiculous, but do you think it is more likely that Shepard was permanently disabled by the injuries Shepard suffered in the attack, or that Shepard was brought back from the dead by a rogue Alliance black-ops cell that Shepard had declared war on?
The attack seen in Mass Effect 2 is actually the starting point of the series, not Mass Effect 1. Mass Effect 1 is merely the way that Shepard remembers the events that took place before the attack. No matter what you think Shepard did in Mass Effect 1, Shepard actually romanced Liara. Even if Shepard thinks that if Shepard romanced Kaidan, Ashley, or no one on the trip to the Mu Relay, this is merely a result of brain damage Shepard suffered in the attack. Shepard had been Liara's first and only lover, and she could never truly accept what had happened to him. Commander Shepard partially regained consciousness just once, and Shepard would remember this event as a mission in which Shepard and Shepard's team discovered the MSV Worthington, the ship where Julia slaughtered her entire crew in order to prevent her lover, Jacob from being taken off life support. In reality, Jacob was Shepard and Julia was Liara. This mission was merely how Shepard made sense of the time when Liara kidnapped him to prevent him from being taken off of life support, and slaughtering everyone who tried to stop her.
After escaping from the hospital, Liara changed her identity and set up Shepard's life support systems on an isolated world where she hoped Shepard would heal. However, after two years passed and Shepard had still not regained consciousness, Liara became desperate. She decided that if she could not be with Shepard in real life, she would merge minds with him so that she could be together with him in Shepard's dreams. After restarting Shepard's mind, she set up an alternate reality within Shepard's dreaming mind where she had been Shepard's savior, recovering Shepard's body, and handing it over to Shepard's former enemies to be resurrected. However, after Shepard's mind had almost completely recovered, Liara found him much more difficult to control than she had expected.
Although she had intended to keep tight control over what Shepard imagined, she could not stop him from imagining many new characters and events that were not part of her design. Worst of all, some of the characters Shepard dreamed up were romance options. In some cases Liara has a great deal of difficulty getting Shepard to remember their relationship. If you get the "glitch" in which Liara comes to Shepard aboard the Normandy after Udina has grounded it, even if Shepard thinks Shepard remembers rejecting her, this is merely Liara trying to force him to remember the love they once shared.
Even more infuriating than the fact that Shepard may not remember being involved with Liara in the events of Mass Effect 1, was that Shepard may also sleep with Shepard's imaginary friends in Mass Effect 2 and 3. In Mass Effect 2, any of Shepard's squad mates can die in the suicide mission. In Mass Effect 3, Thane and Miranda can get murdered by Kai Leng, Jacob may cheat on and dump Shepard, Kelly can get murdered by Cerberus, Ashley and Kaidan will betray Shepard, possibly being killed by Shepard or Garrus, Tali might kill herself, and in the cruelest twist of all, Shepard may be forced to kill Jack and Morinth if they are turned into a Phantom and a Banshee respectively. It is no coincidence that Liara is immune to this plague of terrifying deaths, because she caused them. While she would like to just kill all her imaginary love rivals outright, she has to obey the rules of Shepard's dreams in order for him to believe it, so instead she works behind the scenes to kill off Shepard's imaginary friends in ways that Shepard can believe.
Even if Shepard can never remember being involved with Liara, Liara can remember, which is why Liara can be heard telling her father about her relationship with Shepard, even Shepard doesn't remember one. Liara's dad is imaginary too. She couldn't deal with losing her Mother, and ever since she died Liara has been constructing her dad's persona in her mind so that she wouldn't feel so alone, telling herself that she would one day meet her and she would be just like what she imagined. After she made the decision to construct a dream world in Shepard's brain, she couldn't resist inserting this character.
Liara had intended to continue living in Shepard's dream until Shepard's natural death, and think of a satisfying conclusion to Shepard's conflict against the reapers, but alas, she would never get the chance to, for the reapers were still on the move in the real world. Liara hated the Star Child ending herself and badly wanted to think of a better ending, but alas, she ran out of time, and made Shepard dream the ending of Mass Effect 3 when the reapers were just about to discover the compound where she was keeping him, which is why the endings seemed so rushed and nonsensical.
So there you have it, nearly everything that happened to Shepard in the Mass Effect series was just a fantasy dreamed up in Liara's mind. She really pulled the wool over your eyes. But now that you know the truth, doesn't everything make so much more sense? Discuss below.
TL:DR, The ending was a hallucination brought about by Shepard embracing eternity too many times. In the real world, Shepard could not stop the Reapers from destroying the galaxy because Shepard was in a coma the whole time.
Modifié par bobobo878, 22 mai 2012 - 01:24 .
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