[ SECRET POST #2041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2041 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 125 secrets from Secret Submission Post #292.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

When I watched the extended cut for Synthesis, there was a shot of some husks who stopped attacking and that's what really put me off ever choosing that ending. I (maybe mistakenly) took from it that the husks become "self aware" again and that just seemed like a really traumatic experience to put someone through. I felt pretty good about the Destroy ending though.

[darkmanifest]

I've seen a bit of discussion and pretty disturbing fanfiction about this, self-aware husks in agony and committing suicide and whatnot. Some of fandom finds Synthesis even creepier than Control. But I've also seen some fic that contends that they aren't conscious, just remote-controlled tools for the Reapers, so they only stopped attacking because the Reapers did. It'd be nice to have some definitive answers for that. I'm usually happy with ambiguity, but the way Synthesis was heavily implied to be the most positive of the endings (with EDI's whole "I am alive" monologue), I don't think we're supposed to wonder if it's actually some messed-up body horror tragedy.

[4thofeleven]

Just imagine the wacky consequences of the husk creatures made out of two or more bodies regaining their consciousness! He's a Batarian slaver, and he's an Alliance Marine! Can they learn to live together as a single hideous mockery of flesh and machine? The sit-com writes itself!

(I doubt that’s what Bioware intended – but then, I’m not convinced they put any thought into the consequences of any of their half-baked ending ideas…)