#there was a certain point Thea realized she probably wasn't going to survive it

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How does Thea get along with her crewmembers? So who is she closest too, who does she have issues with, etc? Ik you mentioned her fighting with Miranda. Also feel free to ramble abt her and Kaidan if you wanna answer!!

I have no control so I'm putting it all under the cut

Thea is honestly a really approachable person, so much so that most people are surprised to find out she's The Commander Shepard, the literal war criminal but most of that surprise is probably due to her only being 5'4. She definitely gives off the vibe of someone who you can talk to and trust, hence literally everyone in the galaxy coming to her with their problems. But anyways, she goes out of her way to connect with all of her crew, so she gets along with all of them, and for most of them would consider them more like family than crew.

The only exception would be during the events of me2 when she was straight up not having a good time and everywhere she looked she was surrounded by Cerberus personnel. Although known of them were responsible for what happened on Akuze they were still part of the organization that was and that was enough for Thea in her mental state. She warmed to most of the crew by the end but it was rough at first. Especially in regard to Miranda and Jacob, Miranda more so. The most she did with Jacob was pull a gun on him when he came clean about Cerberus and tell her she didn't trust him, but otherwise she avoided him (she avoided him in gameplay too since pretty much every dialogue ended up being flirty so I legit talked to the guy once to get his loyalty missions ahjfgajkgj). But Miranda was a little harder to avoid and from the very start they were at each others throats. Miranda was loyal to Cerberus, Thea hated everything about the organization and Miranda was a good outlet for her anger so unfortunately she took the brunt of it. However, by the end of Me2 Miranda ended up being one of Thea's best friends. It just took a bit before Thea realized Miranda was just another tool of Cerberus and then she disobeyed TIM and then Thea and her were the best of friends.

She warmed up to Thane pretty quickly, since the two of them have a lot in common, both two people who are trapped in their past and their memories and have been way too lonely for too long so they became good friends and his death hit her hard but I'm not going to go into that.

Thea and Jack can't be more different but Thea grew to like Jack pretty quickly, largely in part because Jack hated Cerberus and in a den of lions Thea felt having someone who hated the lions was a good ally to have. So, she was willing to let the remarks of her being "too nice" and a pussy slide.

But out of all her crew members Thea is closest to the orginal Normandy crew. Garrus remains her best friend and one of the people she trusts more than anything. With all that being said she did not let him win their shooting contest, her reputation as a sniper was on the line after all and she has a bit of a competitive streak. Tali is like a sister to her and she is as protective of her as she was of her own sisters. She and Liara were close friends from the get go, but they did have a bit of strained relationship during me2 when Thea found out it was Liara who gave her body to Cerberus. Thea said a lot of unkind things along them being that she (thea) was better off dead and she wished she was. Thankfully, by the end of the Shadow Broker quest they had reconciled but it would be a long time before Thea didn't secretly wish she had never been brought to life.

Another honorable mention is Mordin, at first he and Thea didn't get along so well. She was very vocal about her disapproval of the Genophage and Mordin is... Mordin. But she grew to like him and when Mordin mentions that she keeps coming by because she is romantically interested in him (an actual scene in me2) it's probably the first time since her death she has actually laughed. His death also hit really hard.

I've rambled enough I think so I'll try to keep my ramblings about her and Kaiden short. In short, I love them. The universe has given Thea a lot of pain, served on a silver platter and Kaidan is probably the only good thing that came from it. It was tough at first for Thea, it was incredibly easy to talk to him, and that was kind of what was tough about it because its easy to ignore how lonely you are when you don't know what you're missing and suddenly she started developing feelings and wanting to be closer which is incredibly scary for her after she's lost so much. Facing down reapers and geth and whatever are easy for her, letting herself be vulnerable with someone? That's a lot harder. Me2 was hard for a variety of different reasons but one of the biggest one was that she didn't have Kaiden, and then after Horizon.... let's just say she had to adopt a lot of fish and a hamster to cope.