knightnblu wrote...
You know, there was once a thread dedicated to this very discussion. In ME1 she was a strong, confident soldier who stuck by your side every inch of the way after you saved her life on Eden Prime. She even helped you boost an Alliance warship and mutinied in order to support you. In ME2 she did an about face.
In ME2 she directly accuses you of treason and treats you as if you were lower than whale excrement. Why? Because Cerberus took your corpse and reanimated you like some H.P. Lovecraft Herbert West reject. Oh, and since the corpse didn't phone during that period of time she was totally justified in treating you like a bastard step child on Horizon.
What's more, she never comes to see you while you are locked up despite being asked by Anderson to do so. She will write you a tepid email in ME2, but in ME3 you are dead to her. She loved you so much, that she had to cut you off like a gangrenous hand.
Despite all of this, if you bend over and grab your ankles for her, she will eventually take you back once she has drunk enough alcohol to be able to stand you once again. I have friends that say that she is nothing more than prestige **** who uses Shepard like a tampon in order to get her way and I believe that they are right.
She casts her lot with Shepard in ME1, saves the galaxy, and she is on the fast track to prestige and power. She experiences a meteoric rise in rank going from Gunnery Chief to Lt. Cmdr. in just two and a half years. She has a wonderful career in black ops and she has broken the Williams family curse and all she had to do is toss Shepard under the bus. Who says that you can't sleep your way to the top? It worked beautifully with Shepard.
The reunion with Williams is awkward to say the least. She continues to accuse him of treason, she lies to him repeatedly by telling him she trusts him when it is obvious that she doesn't, and ultimately she stares through her sights at him with her finger on the trigger and her front sight firmly positioned on his forehead. What a girl.
If anyone should have known Shepard and what he was about, it was Ashley Williams. Yet she treats him as bad as dear old grandpa Williams was treated by the Alliance. Worse, if you consider that she claims to have loved him before she knifes him in the back. Shepard becomes a floating corpsecicle and returns two years later from the dead and she has absolutely no use for him. In fact, it takes less than three and one half minutes to decide that she no longer wants to have anything to do with him and avoids him like the plague with the exception of the aforementioned tepid email apology. In light of her hoisting her backside up on her shoulders in ME3, one wonders why she even bothered to send it in the first place.
Make no mistake, Ashley is toxic and she needs to go in the worst possible way before she begins cooking rabbits in the galley. But if you absolutely must have her, just continue to lick her backside like a little lamb and she will eventually drink enough booze to be able to take you back. My advice? Put boot to hind end and toss her sorry self off of your ship and be happy that you did so because that is all the payback that BioWare will let you get for her insane behavior.
You know, in ME2, I hated how she accused Shepard of treason. That went too far. But the rest of what she said was nothing my Shepard hadn't thought of himself. Didn't help that, yes, Cerberus was using Shepard to pursue TIM's own agenda. Helping colonies was a happy coincidence.
Which is why I'm glad in ME3 her doubts shifted from "Shepard the traitor" to "that may not be Shepard" If you listen to what she's saying rather that tuning it out as ranting, what she says makes sense. Shepard died. Who's to say that this Shepard is the same person? Either an imposter, or Shepard's head has been screwed with, or is somehow being manipulated through a hidden control chip? I find such doubts far more reasonable, something I can live with. Heck, it's doubts more people should have had about Shepard in ME2.
But the point is, in ME3 Ash does not accuse Shepard of treaason. She asks if Shepard might know why Cerberus would be attacking Mars (not an unreasonable question, of the three Shepard is the resident "Cerberus expert") She asks if Shepard really had cut all ties with Cerberus. When Shep affirms he had, and James backs him, she apologises for asking. And I don't know what you said to her on Mars or in the hospital, but she barely hesitates when it comes to believing Shepard during the coup in my game. Heck, she expressed a wish to rejoin the Normandy before the coup even took place. What a wonder being patient with someone skittish about trust can be
What people keep forgetting about Ash is she doesn't have, never had, a trusting nature. She is suspicious of people's motives. Not jsut aliens, all people's. So when a dead Shepard appears to walk again, and is working with Cerberus, Ash needs to regain that trust again. Yes, that may be Shepard. What what if it's not? Does she dare believe it's really the Skipper? What if she does and turns out to be wrong? I imagine Ash has had to be very casreful who she put her faith in, when so many held her family's name against her. In the case of a LI, does she dare risk having her heart broken again?
Romanced Ash did love Shepard. But is this man before her the same person? Or some zombified abomination created by the Illusive Man, wearing her beloved's face, but empty and soulless inside? She wants to believe, but is afraid to at the same time. That's something people don't seem to realize. We know Shepard is still Shepard. Because we are Shepard. But how are others' supposed to react? Not everyone can be Tali or Garrus, who unquestioningly greet Shepard with open arms.
And while the drunk scene was amusing, I think I would have preferred to have her "What was dying like?" conversation instead. Sadly, that was cut.
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