#i was just tryna say that i'm afraid that he's gonna lose his red lines just bc he doesn't kill everyone he meets!!!!!! jesus fuckin christ

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the worst thing about playing Mass Effect 2 is that Adrian Shepard definitely has those livid red marks on his face, the ones that get worse the more Renegade choices you make. but outside of gameplay rules, those marks are just part of him, to me -- evidence of what sort of creation he now is, no longer just a scrappy lad from the homeworld but an engineered weapon, Cerberus's hound, something that isn't even allowed to die without permission from his human overlords. he looks in the mirror every day and he sees the marks and he thinks, this is a mask. a poorly fitted mask. and he waits to find out what happens when it cracks--

bloody hell ANYWAY that's not the point, the point is that despite my best efforts to play him like the Renegade he is, I'm almost at full Paragon status because Bioware doesn't seem to understand that meathead ass hoorah shit isn't what makes Adrian a Renegade, what makes him a Renegade is being repulsed by human supremacy rhetoric, being emotionally driven instead of callously duty-bound, and threatening Mordin Solus with grievous bodily harm if he tells anyone even tangentially related to Cerberus about the fact that Adrian still has wet dreams about being flayed open by Harbinger,