yorkj86 wrote...
I want to hear what she thinks about the neural degeneration. I wonder if she's even aware. If she is, like you said, she probably doesn't care. She doesn't expect to live that long to suffer the effects of the neural degeneration. It'd be pretty heavy stuff if she were to talk with Shepard about it, though.
There is one glimmer of hope in all this - we know all biotics over time suffer from neural degeneration; no biotic is exempt from the effects, all "magic powers" come with a price in fiction, all that jazz. We don't really know how long Jack would or could expect to survive... if the neural degeneration slides in like an Alzheimer's-like effect, then it'd be a tragic slowburning doom that would leave her losing her cognative ability, or it could have effects like Parkinsons, or a dozen other degenerative brain disorders that exist in reality. This is still the future though... we can bring people back from the dead, remember... who knows what regular procedures are available for biotic users? Jack could always buy more time one way or another.
If she can't though, and she has a fuse burning on a death that isn't an on/off switch... I think Jack would be right back in little girl mode again; something she can't fight is going to finish her off, and not in a simple blitz of finality, but in a slow, cruel manner that will leave her all but dead without finishing the job. And after the fear has been dealt with... ohboy would she be angry... anyone in a Cerberus uniform would be fair game for the ol' turning inside-out treatment. She'd go superdestructive - on one hand to punish anyone even remotely responsible for it, and in another sense, hopefully give her a quick death.
There's another option, though... one that is much more poigniant and worthy of Jack; come on, the girl has been through enough in her life. Leaving her a vegetable would just be the final insult (and would just show the writers as utterly heartless). The universe might be big and uncaring, but the creatures that live in it do care. And if someone (stand up, Shepard!) cares for Jack... much like the old Marlowe-ending of Blade Runner, Shep doesn't know how long they'll have together, but they'll make it count. Jack might just want to risk such a dreadful end to finally experience a normal life. Compared to the life of misery and pain she's had, a few years of life the way it should be... that would be worth it. It would be sad, but it would be a really, really beautiful way to end her story... it'd mean she had the most awesome, tearjerking romance of the game - it would totally screw every last drop of impact out of every other romance; sod Tali's crap immune system, to hell with Liara's inability to let a dead man stay dead, not one person would walk out of the theatre with a dry eye, I tell you.
And hey, this is sci-fi, after all; it's a galaxy of deus-ex-machina out there... Jack might becomre powerful enough to exist without a functional body a'la Jack the Bodiless, or she might learn to pour her mind into another body like in Scanners, or someone might just come along and wave a wand and fix it, like death no longer puts a crimp on Shep's day
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