[ SECRET POST #2731 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2731 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's kind of the problem with both femShep/Kaidan and femShep/Garrus fics... Since the writers are usually female, they're often not writing about femShep and her love interest, they're writing about their world-saving self-insert alter ego and her perfect husbando. You don't see that as often with manShep fics because it's probably harder for a lot of female authors to turn a male character into their own self-insert, but with femShep they can make Shepard look just like themselves and even give her their same name. Is it any wonder that they write Kaidan as "Super Romance Novel Guy"? Heaven forbid their fantasy husband have any flaws! (Besides totally hot possessiveness of his girlfriend or the occasional brooding over his dark past, ala Edward Cullen.)

[(Anonymous)]

This smacks a bit of misogyny, especially since I know a lot of people who use Male Shepard as a self-insert and they're equally gross about the love interests worshipping his cock (granted, BW made it easy by making at least one of his romances explicitly the healing power of said cock).

I think that F!Shenko does tend to underplay Shepard in a way that other pairings don't, mainly in order to justify being OK with Kaidan's treatment of her on Horizon and in ME3, if she romanced someone else in ME2. But I think it's less a side effect of them being women and more a side effect of how BW presented the relationship. Namely, he has a massive crush on FemShep from the beginning, and he essentially controls the conversation in ME2. Then, in ME3, Shepard pretty much has to pander to his lingering paranoia and judgment in order to continue the romance. It's all kind of icky, especially compared to how much smoother the transition from friends to lovers is for Male Shep and Kaidan, and it gets perpetuated in fics about the relationship.

As for Shakarian, while I dislike most Shakarian fics because they lean too heavily on a flanderized fanon Garrus, I don't think those are self-insert Shepards, either. I think they're the same kind of power fantasy projections that pretty much 75% of male writers indulge in (only male writers get their own IP's and get paid for their shit).