[ SECRET POST #3231 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3231 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[diet_poison]

I tend to go with a fix-it Destroy ending - i.e. Destroy that doesn't include genocide (because that was the goal all along, though adding in destruction of some/all of the mass relays or other technology could have still happened to make it more interesting), and I could do without the Catalyst just fine.

I also like to think of a happy ending where Shepard lives, just for fun, but I am ok with them dying in canon. That's not the part that bothered me, as I'm sure you'd guess. (And it's not like we haven't talked about this... xD)

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[elaminator]

So, so many times we've mentioned this, yes.

I don't think Shepard absolutely HAS to live, but that's my preferred ending. Sue me, I like happy endings. (Or at least the option for one.)

Destroy makes most sense to me but the genocide was brutal. I like to ignore that as well.

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[diet_poison]

Yeah. Geth. And EDI.

EDI, man. Oh man. I saw this image (fanart? screenshot? if it was fanart it was probably a manipulation of an existing scene. since I didn't choose Destroy I'm not sure if it was an actual scene) of Joker holding EDI's body in the bridge of the Normandy after Destroy, and you could see the pain in his very posture, and aaAAAARGH it was so sad ;________;

I wish I could find it to show you but since I'm at work right now I'm not going to look for it extensively.

But yeah, there is no way to justify picking Destroy honestly. If it was just EDI, I could maaaaaybe see it, though I'd be more comfortable with consulting her first (wow, even that feels really creepy, urgh). But killing an entire race of people? Destroy rationalizers annoy me. Like I get picking it for the tragic ending or whatever but actually trying to claim it was the best ending and that it was justified from the POV of a Paragon Shepard is messed up. You don't destroy an entire race of people to remove the opposing threat if another option exists.

Uh, I have feelings about this, clearly.

So if Destroy were more like, kill the Reapers, and destroy or damage stuff that contained Reaper tech (Mass Relays, Citadel etc.) then I could see it. That's a sacrifice that would make more sense. Let everyone work together to rebuild the lost technology. Honestly, I'd be really intrigued by an ending where everyone continued to live in their respective societies but were separated from other species until they were able to repair the relays, which might take several generations. What if one society had an isolationist political uprising it'd be the batarians and culture shifted so it became taboo to work on the relay, like parents told their kids that Bad Things would happen if it were ever built? What if aliens became just a legend and some believed they didn't even exist?...what if a couple races reunited and restarted the galactic government but it wasn't the same races as the original two/three? The asari would do it of course, being so long-lived, far-thinking, intelligent and having so much access to element zero. The salarians might do it just because Science. The krogan might have more difficulty; the turians are more susceptible to political influence, and of course humans are just fickle assholes, so who can say? xD; The quarians probably don't even have the resources, but the geth might make all the difference there.

WOW THAT WAS RAMBLY sorry!