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[pearwaldorf]

I don't know what to do with my afternoon/early evening. I guess I could play Mass Effect, but I'm at a point in the game where I have to make a choice I don't really want to make, or I've made the choice already but I'm not ready to go through it yet. Since Cody Virmire'd Kaidan in his playthroughs, I figured I would sacrifice Ashley to see how that would play out. BUT IT IS SO HARD GUYZ. I WANT TO GIVE HER A CHANCE TO HAVE MORE NON-CRAP ASSIGNMENTS IN SPACE. SHE TOLD ME ABOUT HER SISTERS AND HER DAD. /o\

Intellectually, I know that 
1. She is not real and thus does not care one way or the other whether I sacrifice her on Virmire
2. The games will proceed more or less the same way whether she or Kaidan dies

but I still feel totally terrible having to make a choice and carry it out. GDI Ashley, why couldn't you have been more like Carver Hawke so I would gleefully send you to your death and feel totally fine about it?

Also I am having issues clearing out Geth hordes and I keep dying a lot. Maybe I'll just write fic about how this picture came to be and how dude!Shep deals with celebrity, fanart, and unauthorized VIs of himself.

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[thissugarcane]

Oh Carver.

Ashley - I've actually never saved her, because her bigoted approach in her first conversation meant I actually never spoke to her again, nor took her on any missions whatsoever. Which made it easier to abandon her ass, for true.

[pearwaldorf]

Oh Carver indeed. I understand he's more tolerable if you play an asshole pro-Templar Hawke, and that makes him so much more odious.

Re: Ashley - her pro-human stance is definitely off-putting, but because I talk to EVERYBODY in Bioware games (although I got nowhere with Sten), it becomes slightly more understandable, but not exactly excusable.

[thissugarcane]

Carver - he didn't stick around long enough for me to feel sorry for him, so whoohoo! ...actually thinking about it, I didn't feel all that sorry for most characters in DAII. Myself, maybe, playing as Hawke. Bethany. That might have been it. DA does seem to make their characters a little less likeable (but no less awesome) don't they?

[pearwaldorf]

I always felt bad for Bethany. Like, her options are to be Warden'ed or kidnapped by the Templars. That really sucks.

Everybody in DA is broken/traumatized in some way, even more so in DA2. And it's really interesting how you see them band together to not just be badass but to form their own sort of created family. Hawke always reminds me a bit of the Doctor, where people keep leaving but in the end s/he has this amazing crew that will back him up. idk, maybe I'm just drawn to weird snarky loners.