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gynoidgearhead · 9 months ago

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[image caption: two books, one very thick and one very thin. the first is "the plot of mass effect 1" and the second is "the plot of mass effect 1 if the n7 armour had a helmetcam". end caption]

my mass effect hot take ((fuck the council))

#i literally started a rpg campaign with the premise that basically the council actually believed shepard at the end of me1 #and the alliance somehow discovered the crucible plans and started building it right away instead of much later in 2195 #and shepard showed up at the alpha relay not to destroy it but to fire the now completed crucible at all the reapers arriving #(somehow they cut the catalyst out of the loop idk. probably because all the reapers were there in one place & it was simpler)#and then the premise of the campaign was ''okay now you have a galaxy full of people who still don't trust each other''#''they didn't have their unifying trauma and they never learned to cooperate as a result of it. there is factionalism and shit.''#shepard was basically backed into a corner by being made the human councillor & was a non player character #that game ended up falling apart because someone in my group tried to basically pothole the game into being about murdering salarians #(they were playing a member of a headcanon secret krogan clan that basically kind of made the other krogan irrelevant/redundant?)#(like there were so many things in the setting they effectively had to break in order to make these plot beats work)#(incl like. the entire narrative complexity of the rest of the krogan)#and it just got fucking exhausting to fight them on every single thing (which is what they basically demanded)#this person also systematically demolished my mental health and my confidence in my ability to be competent at anything though #by making me extremely dependent on them while claiming they wanted to help me become independent #and leveraging their psych degree to be ableist as fuck to me #so like. i'm probably saltier than i should be about their creative contributions. idk i'm not gonna feel bad for it though #op and prev i'm sorry about the ramble in the tags #mass effect #personal

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