EnvyTB075 wrote...
Barquiel wrote...
I doubt it...but even if you're right. The reapers harvest a few million asari every day (aside from those people killed in fighting the Reapers). That is not exactly the same as some car accident.
As they do human, salarian, krogan, turian, drell, hanar, elcor, volus, so forgive us for not breaking down in tears for the poor poor Asari, because being reaperised is obviously only bad and sad when done to them, right? After they sat on their Prothean info dump right up until they realised "oh wait, the reapers don't care about our perfect democracy! They don't care that we're super duper peaceful! Shepard, help us! If you don't we'll blame you!"
What was that line? "Losing Thessia wasn't in the playbook"? What makes Thessia so more important than Palaven, Sur'Kesh, Rannoch, Dekunna, Earth or Irune? Why would my Shepard, who found the Asari an annoyance, care one iota about Jokers quip? As far as shes concerned they should have known this was coming and should've come clean earlier. Make some witty comeback, something to show that the player still matters in this story.
My Shepard is pissed at the asari for holding onto the beacon until the eleventh hour and expect him to magically fix EVERYTHING once he reaches it. The same group who had this beacon and then made it illegal for others to do the same thing, imposing heavy sanctions on anyone withholding prothean technology. The same group who, when the Reapers invaded didn't offer any help, just doubled up on defending their borders and refused to come to the bargaining table at the summit between the turians, salarians, and krogan. He's pissed, all right, but he's pissed at the asari, not Joker. And, yes, the Matriarchs are the most responsible, but the planet is a total democracy - even if they didn't know about the beacon, they were still the ones burying their heads in the sand and ignoring Shepard's efforts to fight the Reapers until the Citadel was attacked. And he knows that Thessia fell the moment the Reapers arrived - even if he'd made it offworld with Vendetta, he'd still have to have gotten to the Crucible with it, which means that Thessia would still have fallen.
And with the worlds that have fallen to the Reapers - you know, like EARTH, a planet with at least the possibility of having been Shepard's birthplace, so it makes sense to have attachment - my Shepard knows that he can't waste time taking the fall of a world personally, because if he did, he'd be crippled with self-doubt. Planets are by this point falling regularly. Why is Thessia so personally devestating for Shepard? Shepard wasn't like this for Earth. Or Palaven. And Thessia is not a world that I feel that connected to, so I'm not broken up about it because... okay, yes, it's a horrible thing to befall anyone, but it's happening all over the galaxy.
Likewise, listen to the delivery of Joker's comment. Remember that he's not just reeling from watching Thessia fall but the fact that his father and sister are missing without word and Anderson ordered him 'take care of Shepard' (which, really, dick move, Anderson, putting all that weight on Joker alone, particularly when the romance is Ashley or Kaidan, officers under your command). So when he makes that comment, all of that weight is on him. It's horrible jokes or JOKER is the one cracking under pressure, and they can't afford it.
And, yeah, I made jokes of that nature when I had to be a caregiver from my dying grandmother. You know why? I cope with bad situations with humor. It's black humor at its best, and the jokes are horrible because you're running on fumes and brain cells are only working about fifty/fifty at best. Meaning that you hit the wrong target, you say the wrong thing, and the people who you were trying to cheer up with a laugh instead get mad. It HAPPENS. And because I the player have been through that and understand where Joker's coming from, so does my Shepard. So under no circumstances do I intend to tear him a new one. But instead, I get no choice. I get 'be pissed at Joker' or 'be pissed at Joker' as choices. Just a simple 'not now, Joker' would work for me, because I GET IT. I get what Joker's going through and why he's saying it.
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