Apparently I was shipping Javik before it was cool. Or there was a Javik.
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And oldie but a goodie. Behold the drunken-sleep-deprived-fist typing style.
If there is a prothean in ME3, and it is a love interest, I totally called it.
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Half serious, half kidding, all something I've actually thought about. I now it isn't going to happen, but just humor me.
Love em, hate em, pity them, you got to admit that the Protheans are rather, well, boring. Being the last, twisted survivors of a long dead race
who's culture has been forgotten is, well, again, boring. All that's left is the bodies, without identity.
But, while ME2 never really focused on this, Prothean culture isn't lost forever: it's still alive in the Cypher, in the minds of Shepard and Shiala. Arguably the last two 'Protheans' in existence. But no bodies.
We have bodies without culture. Cutlures without bodies. And, at the end of ME2, a whole lot of dead bodies.
But... what if weren't so final? What, in those last free seconds of no Reaper control, the Collectors had jettisoned their cloning pods with, for
lack of a better term, children in them? A last chance to avoid total destruction in the base.
Sure, most those not-yet-developed Collector kiddios die. Crash into debris, hurt by the explosion. But we only need one: one to survive, one to be recovered by Cerberus salvage teams. And let's assume it's a female.
It's an opportunity. A research project on the Collectors and their cybernetics. A reclamation. A possible boon to humanity, even. Cerberus takes in that under-developed Collector and tries to make use of it. For Humanity, Cerberus tries to return the Protheans, in some form and fashion.
A lot of elements can come together. We have, of course, the tabula rose Collector. We have Cerberus, which can try and provide the social
support and cybernetics to let it functional, and even the 'bring back
from the dead' principals to work with as well. We have Shiala, or maybe
some hand-wave contribution from Shepard, to hold the Cypher. We have
Okeer/Grunt's tank/Rana Thanopolis's means to 'teach' the otherwise
mindless Collector/Prothean about the cypher... and whatever else
Cerberus wanted it to know.
It isn't perfect. It isn't complete. It would take bringing forth a female prothean (unless the survivor was a female) and a number of generations of 'natural' breeding, with gene therapy based on actual prothean DNA records, to reverse the Reaper rewriting/cloning effects.
But, for the first time in 50,000 years, a Prothean is reborn. Physically collector, increasingly prothean, just dawning in its intelligence. To help humanity, nominally. To fight against the Reapers. To help Shepard.
And so we have our Prothean/Collector hybrid teammate in ME3. The last, and first, of her race. Barely knowing what it means to be alive, let alone human (or Prothean) except by what the Cypher and tank memories say. Connected to Shepard (and, to a lesser extent, Shiala) by virtue of being the only other person in the galaxy to know
Prothean, what it is to be Prothean. A tabula rose, a monster, a new
hope for her species. The question of how much she is as an individual,
how much she is of her race, how much she is what Cerberus wants her to be: if she does a Renegade action, is it because Cerberus made
her? Because that is what a general prothean would do? Is it just her?
Am I just a bit too delerious due to lack of sleep, or would this be interesting?
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