#RIP kaidan

[the-cryptographer]

Am only an hour into ME and can already see why Ashley so hated. Aggro issues xenophobia woman with an annoying voice? Basically on the fandom kill-list for life. Fortunately or unfortunately I'm going to have to choose between her and slightly passive aggressive nice 🙂 guy, and since it's me choosing between someone who brings all the explosive interpersonal issues to the game and someone who brings very few, haha- I think we all know who's going to end up dead.

[bearforceone3]

virmire survivor duo doodle for n7 day

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

Sophie Shepard & Dominik Shepard (ME2)

Ft. Cmdr. Kaidan Alenko & Zaeed Massani MIRA'S MORE CANON ME2 "We both did the best we could do underneath the same moon- in different galaxies..." AKA: The aftermath of Lair of the Shadow Broker. Recruiting the Not-Dossier: Apollo. Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition (2021) + Bonus :)

[beckiboos]

Inigo- Thank the Gods, have you come to kill me? Please kill me quickly, I can bear the guilt no longer

Calliope- Sir you are extremely naked

Inigo- I do not deserve clothes for what I did to you! I killed you! Please! Kill me now! I can live in shame no longer!

Calliope- Look I don't know you, you really have the wrong person here. Please put on some clothes...

Inigo- I sold them! The guards took all my possessions when I paid them to put me in here. They did not believe I killed you! You must remember your wretched excuse for a friend Inigo?

Calliope- That's true, I'm not dead. I think you're confusing me with someone else-

Inigo- But you are the person I remember! Only you can help me atone for what I have done!

Lucien- This insane Khajiit is going to be leaving with us isn't he?

Taliesin- Surely she's got better taste than that

Kaidan- I'll go in and check

Calliope- Look I'm really not who you think I am but come with us. If you really think only I can help you make up for your past, come with us and help us fight dragons

Kaidan- Ughhhhh

Inigo- Really? I can come with you! Yes! I'll fight at your side or die defending you! Yes! Let us go!

Calliope- Clothed right? Here I think I have something for you...

Inigo- I look handsome yes?

Calliope- Very handsome Inigo. Welcome to the gang! I'm Calliope, This is Kaidan, in the hall there's Lucien-

Lucien- Told you so

Taliesin- Great another stray. At least this one can kill things

Lucien- HEY!

[xjunkriidx]

*Kaidan reading a letter the courier gave him while staying in Falkreath*

Kaidan: “Sorry dude, missed your letters. I assumed we’d meet at the tavern. Whatever, I don’t care.”

Kaidan: ‘Whatever, I don’t care?’ What the fuck is his problem?

Kaidan: *furiously scribbling*

*Inigo, chilling in Whiterun*

Inigo: “Do you even want to hang out?” Oh, that’s considerate.

Kaidan: “Like I said, whatever”? Fuck this guy! Talos, you—

Inigo: “… are fucking priceless.” Awww. You’re the one—

Kaidan: “… who’s fucking priceless”?! Oh, this motherfucker right here…

Kaidan: Mhmm. Okay. You wanna go—

Inigo: “…right now?” Huh. Guess I can do that.

Kaidan: “Okay, let’s go”?! He said ‘OKAY LET’S GO’?! ALRIGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU REALLY WANNA—

Inigo: “Do this right now?” Fuck yeah—

Kaidan: “LET’S DO IT”?! OH, YA FUCKING ASSHOLE!

Inigo: “First round’s mine”.

Kaidan: WE’RE GOING ROUNDS, ASSHOLE. IT’S GONNA BE A FUCKING STREET FIGHT.

[skullmoss]

you're gonna carry that weight.

[wrathbites]

A thought.

Rhys isn't all that fang bitey with a human partner, even if they like it, because he's been operating under the "if you bite a human you die" rule slapped on him for so many years (nothing about biting aliens though, I WONDER WHY). It just kinda. Sticks.

But then he turns Kaidan. Kaidan's no longer human. Kaidan's his partner. Kaidan also absolutely definitely enjoys being bitten, and doing the biting.

And it turns out either side of the fang scenario is really, really, really fucking good.

[wellthebardsdead]

Kaidan: *waiting outside henwens room in winking skeever* why are you going to this party anyway? We saved Esbern, got all the information we can out of those monsters. Why are you willingly going back in there?

Henwen: *from behind the door* to keep up appearances and to see what else I can squeeze out of them. I’ve turned down all of Ondolemars invitations if I do it any more he’ll start getting suspicious of me and my ‘helpless little prince’ act.

Kaidan: let him get suspicious then. *huffs* I don’t like how they look at you, and the idea of their hands on you makes me feel sick.

Henwen: I’ll be fine, love. *steps out wearing a floor length white robe hugging his figure in all the right places and looking particularly tight in the chest area* How do I look?

Kaidan: Yep nope you’re not going. *picks him up and carrys him back into the room closing and locking the door*

[transpathfinder]

just some guy.....

[dragonknightofsummerset]

My younger brother and I are going to start playing the Mass Effect trilogy simultaneously after we choose each other's class.

He is choosing infiltrator for me, and I'm choosing adept for him, rip to us both

[queen-scribbles]

Pieces by Red is on my Shenko playlist 👀

It's on one of my SWtOR ship playlists, but yes, that does make an excellent Shenko song 👀👀👀

[solstheimtxt]

Who was gonna mention the sky high trophy is hilarious with Lash bc i spend half of the time going yoink or weeee

Like got that 1.5 second recharge time baybeyyy

[libartz]

Keeping Zeb as a vampire or possibly turning him into a werewolf but definitely not making him a regular elf again, not for angst reasons but because curing him would ruin the allegory I accidentally made. I came up with a possible instory reason for a cure not working (or rather he can get cured but it would kill him)

but it’s not for manpain it’s the *themes*

The feeling inherently ‘wrong’ and undeserving of love. Loneliness, feeling different and not belonging. Worry about hurting people. Going through a tough time that would be manageable if only you weren’t alone but no-one else understands. Being excluded, having to hide yourself to fit in but it’s never enough because They Might Find Out What You Really Are. Isolating yourself for survival even when you desperately don’t want to and it just makes everything harder. The struggle to find people who accept you for who you are.

It could be allegory for a bunch of stuff but getting rid of the thing would undermine the message

[powderandclay]

Obsessed with playing Mass Effect over and over again like this story will literally never end in anything but tragedy. Shepard might be an asshole or a saint, a caring friend or a hardened soldier, a complex enigma or an open book, and any combination or in between thereof.

And it doesn't matter because Jenkins always dies. And Ash dies, or Kaidan dies. And Shepard dies. And Shepard lives. And your crew dies. And the little boy is shot down. And Palaven burns. And Illium falls. And earth is ripped apart. And Shepard dies.

You can't save them. Nearly a dozen playthroughs of hard work, an endless uphill climb, and even if you get it picture perfect, take every quest, save every hostage and gun down every bad guy, your reward is the ugly choice, the mirror of war: how many lives will you sacrifice to take one more breath? Will you kill the geth you just painstakingly saved for a single inhale on the charred remains of an exploded station? Or will you let the narrative go the way it's meant to and just let Shepard die?

So Shepard lives, or Shepard dies, and the story always ends the same goddamn way. And you queue up Mass Effect 1 again because you have to.

Keep trying. Maybe it'll turn out this time.

[skullmoss]

i got that mass effect brainrot

kaidan is just never going to make it out of a ME1 playthrough alive unless i play as male shepard (which i won't......)

because like.

the Plot of having shepard flirt with him and having them skirt around a romantic relationship only for him to die on virmire is /fistclench/

it's too good. sorry man i use you as angst fodder for my shepard. i'm saving her for hot alien ass in ME2.

[that-wildwolf]

Blown away by the pre-service history being an almost even split. Just... Wow. Now that is a fandom.

 Well everyone, the results are in as promised. The poll received 361 entries. Thanks to everyone who participated!

For the romances, I decided to make a transcript so that it’s easier to read because Google form had a really confusing way of presenting them.

Who did Shepard romance in Mass Effect 1? 

Kaidan Alenko 42.9% (155 votes)

Nobody 35.7% (129 votes) 

Liara T’soni 21.9% (79 votes) 

Ashley Williams 1.9% (7 votes)

Other entries included, and I quote: 

I usually pick Kaidan on Virmire so I can romance him completely in ME3

Kaidan if mod available, otherwise none

Waited for Kaidan since mShep

Sha'ira

Tali & Garrus

Well…. Since I make the rules. Garrus romance starts here.

Who did Shepard romance in Mass Effect 2? 

Garrus Vakarian 42.4% (153 votes)

Nobody 31.3% (113 votes)

Liara T’soni 13.9% (50 votes)

Thane Krios 9.7% (35 votes) 

Tali Zorah 4.2% (15 votes) 

Kelly Chambers 1.9% (7 votes) 

Samara 1.7% (6 votes)

Jack 1.4% (5 votes)

Miranda Lawson 0.8% (3 votes)

Morinth 0.6% (2 votes)

Jacob Taylor 0.3% (1 vote)

Other entries included, and I quote: 

I always play my shep as holding a torch for Joker Moreau, but of course… we were robbed. So my shep flirted with both thane and garrus!

love wins i am in a polycule

But in my headcanon it’s a Shepard/Garrus/Tali triad

Stayed loyal to Kaidan :)

Waited for Kaidan

he was still gay for kaidan the whole time the poor bastard

wistful glance at Kaidan’s picture

wanted to break up with Liara but the game wouldn’t let me lol

Who did Shepard romance in Mass Effect 3? 

Garrus Vakarian 41% (148 votes)

Kaidan Alenko 34.3% (124 votes)

Liara T’soni 16.3% (59 votes) 

Thane Krios 6.6% (24 votes) 

Samantha Traynor 4.2% (15 votes) 

Tali Zorah 3.3% (12 votes) 

Nobody 1.7% (6 votes) 

Ashley Williams 1.4% (5 votes) 

Jack and Samata 0.8% each (3 votes each) 

Miranda Lawson, Kelly Chambers and Javik 0.6% each (2 votes each)

Steve Cortez and James Vega 0.3% each (1 vote each)

Diana Allers 0% (0 votes) 

Other entries included, and I quote: 

love wins i am in a polycule 2: electric boogaloo. my canon romance in in both me2 & me3 was garrus though

But in my headcanon it’s a Shepard/Garrus/Tali triad

TBD! Not sure yet! probably Kaidan or Garrus!

I will be uploeading the decisions for each specific game during the week! Thanks again to everyone who partcipated <3