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husband-steve-cortez · 10 months ago

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Zaeed's loyalty mission really would have been better if the mission was explicitly to take out Vido and we knew this beforehand, and freeing the hostages technically wasn't what Zaeed was being paid for here.

Then it's "do the mission to the letter, take out a really bad guy and get Zaeed's loyalty at a cost" as the renegade option and "fail the mission (and Zaeed) and save the hostages" as a paragon option.

Because even for a renegade Shep. Letting Zaeed go the fuck off, blow up a refinery, bitch at you, and leave a bunch of people to die just so Zaeed can get some revenge and feel good about himself and be more loyal is a lot to swallow.

Not impossible to justify by any means (I make Ezra do it and he's not even really a renegade lol), and not every renegade option needs to be super justifiable. But it is a lot. Some of that even being directly contradictory to how renegades are typically characterized (saying fuck you you're acting crazy to Zaeed is kind of renegade to me tbh).

Vido is a bad dude that needs taken out and Zaeed will claim killing him solves a lot of problems, and I don't doubt it, but it would've been better justified if Vido was on our radar beforehand and needing to explicitly take him out was what we were here to do (Zaeed can still not reveal his personal stake until we get there, that I like).

#not my original idea I saw a post like this once #Ezra's justification is along the lines of “we're in this exploding refinery and I don't want to be in it”#but he comes to really regret it to the point where I'm not sure if I should really be keeping it canon #because punching Zaeed's lights out and then pulling him close and going “we're saving these people”#and later going “I'm only helping you out if you do what the fuck I say” is very Ezra coded.#But also he's not super on it in the early days of me2 and I want him to have *some* fuckups and renegade points so #Also difficult to imagine most of the squad just being okay with it.#I've joked but I think Samara under normal circumstances *would* be obligated to kill Zaeed right there. No question.#it's not great either way but it's more justified if getting Vido was the mission and it puts Shepard in an interesting position #of how far to go for the mission (especially since didn't Saren do something similar)

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