Ah! So much missed awesome discussion!
Awesome artworks, as always.

And I am slightly ashamed to say I always did the 'Renegade' dialogues with Garrus in the first game, he was just too easy to agree with. So I never got the "going back to C-Sec" speech- he seemed to want to just pal around with me some more because I got stuff done! Meaning I was confused as to why he wouldn't have been on the Normandy when it asploded when I first played ME2.
(I did keep him from killing Saleon at first in one playthrough and he got real pissed off at me...)
Sialater- wowee do we have a lot of support for an LI confrontation. >

It's the whole reason that my next ME1 playthrough is going to be sans Kaidan. I may even leave him behind on Virmire. I'm a stone cold biatch like that. Then I can pretend whatever I want about subtext between Shep and Garrus.
As far as going to Omega, I'm on board with the "they're disrespecting my homie Shepard so screw them" camp. Also, as FemShep, the "I must leave, everything here reminds me of her, I need to go avenge her death on countless of bad guys who had nothing to do with it!!!!11!!!"