Nightwriter wrote...
Actually, I thought Thane was better in this regard.
Odd. Never use Thane. Garrus can do everything he can, and he never appeals to my FemSheps. This "Hi. Will be dead in a year. Did I mention my dead wife enough yet? Let's have a doomed-to-fail relationship then, shall we?" turns them off a bit.
Despite the fact he might die, we're given a much clearer reason for why he is here on the mission. Jack, not so much. Even if we can sit around and think of a reason, the reason isn't actually addressed in-game.
Jack pretty much tells you, actually. She's there to find out what Cerberus knows about her, and then "cut loose". She's only on the mission because she made a deal. In the game reality, she only sticks around for the mission because you evince an interest in her, and gain her trust. Jack doesn't really give a damn whether she lives or dies until
after that process begins (
you see that if she gets killed at the door on the Collector base) - and she sure as hell couldn't give a crap about colonies or reapers, either - until you show her the bigger picture. I always got the impression (
and no, I can't point to any one thing and say why) that she was looking for
something to give her a reason to give a damn - about anything.
In addition, you are able to pursue a friendship path with Thane if you don't romance him, and not so with Jack. A Shepard who did not romance Jack has cause to wonder why she would stick around.
Why? There's a point pre-romance where she tells Shepard she owes him. Jack doesn't like owing anyone anything. Once she finds out about Teltin, I can't see her having a whole lot of direction in her immediate future
without Shepard, romanced or not.
A romanced Jack has a future that's hopefully a little brighter, even if the battle against the reapers ends in a massive failure, she's doing it beside the man she loves and it's the biggest, baddest and
best fight there ever was - for her warrior soul, what could be better?
An unromanced Jack has shed about a thousand pounds of manacles on her, thanks to you, and she knows a little compassion costs nothing (
although I don't think Jack is a stranger to it, or to displaying it, by any means), and that maybe, just maybe, there
are things worth fighting for - even if you don't "score" anything immediately tangible. Life isn't quite so bleak, after all.
Hell, who knows? Maybe past-Shepard, unromanced, Jack stays behind in the Terminus, recruits some of those free-floating past biotic 'terrorists' and keeps an eye on 'her people'. No more orphans, no more victims. Even a renegade path could lead her this way, although her motives might not be quite as noble.
It's not impossible. You didn't romance her, but you
did have an effect.
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