robertthebard wrote...
In just what context did Shepard need to be questioned, especially after James makes it clear that there was no way Shepard had any contact with Cerberus after he turns himself in. This is an important detail, there was no pitched battle in which Shepard was captured, he turned himself in, after delaying yet another Reaper plot, all while the Alliance/Council sat on their asses doing nothing, even with what Ashley saw at Horizon. Where does stopping the Collectors from getting the entire colony suddenly shift to working for the Collectors. The fact is, based on the events of ME 2, barring Arrival DLC, which she doesn't have security clearance for most likely, where does she get the feeling that she needs to question Shepard? Exactly what role did the Alliance or Council play in stopping the threat? Oh, that's right, she went to investigate Cerberus for working with the Collectors? The events on Horizon were, of course, staged for her benefit?
And Shepard having no contact with Cerberus changes the fact s/he worked for them? Shepard might not be the same person s/he used to be. Shepard could still have a terrorist heart. Shepard can have a control chip. And tell me, who are you going to believe? The people you worked for several years, know they are helping humanity in a good way, or one person who was persumed dead, came back after two years from nowhere, and went off to work for terrorists, which the military you work for it fighting them several years? Don't tell me you are going to believe such a person, no matter who that person was before to you. Believing Shepard, after s/he doesn't even give any evidences to Ashley that the collectors are working with the reapers, is crazy.
Isn't it funny that she will automatically support Udina, who, for political expedience, will disregard the events around Sovereign, despite the fact that Ash could have very well been standing there listening to Vigil? In one of my playthroughs, this is exactly what happened. She will automatically trust him over Shepard, despite knowing that Udina did nothing to attempt to drive the council towards being ready for what's coming, and will, more to the point, suspect that, despite what she knows to be true historically, believe that Cerberus is working for the Collectors/Reapers.
Udina is a respectable counciler that even if was an A-hole, still did his job. Shepard went rouge. And the fact you treat Ashley like sh** doesn't make your point any better (I assume the fact she atomatically trusts Udina is because you treated her like that). Did Shepard do anything in the last three years to make amends, to make Ashley trust him/her again? Killing some Cerberus operatives doesn't say much, from reasons I said above.
BTW, after what we saw on Mars, didn't you at least have a bit of sespect Ceberus was starting to work with the reapers? Or doing something to their soldiers with using reaper technology (which they did)? Ashley's suspicion turned correct. So you can't say she was being irrational about it.
There is a point where one's actions should speak louder than another's suspicions, and Ash and Kaidan both go to the extreme, well past that point. Since I don't play ME 2 as a Cerberus Boot Licker, I turn over the intel from one of the missions to the Alliance. She's got clearance enough to know that. She is standing right there when you talk to both Anderson and Hackett, and yet questions their orders. So does she think that Shepard's indoctrinated them? Is this where she's getting her "mistrust" of Shepard? Or, is she just being pigheaded, and resentful that she didn't get command of the Normandy? Because frankly, yes, she does come across as just that petty all through Mars, and the only reason it doesn't carry on early is because she's in the hospital, incapable of pursuing her "suspicions".
How do you know she got clearance? How do you know Ashley even looked at anything more than the base information about what Shepard did during that time? And how exactly do you connect commandership of the Normandy to mistrust in Shepard? A person can be sincere about his mistrust without anything behind it. In fact, I didn't see anything about Kaidan or Ashley on Mars more than concern for Shepard and doubt about who's Shepard loyalty is to.
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Because she doesn't get on the floor, lick Shepards boots and treat him/her like a God C) Seriously if this was RL, people would act more like Ashley is doing rather than like everyone else treats Shepard joining Cerberus.
