[ SECRET POST #2559 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2559 ⌋

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Comments

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, the reason I like Synthesis is because it thematically fits with the rest of the series, if you're playing paragon anyway - overcoming the differences between organics and synthetics and uniting the galaxy? Yeah. It was never just about destroying the Reapers. Considering that the other two options have Shepard either killing billions or literally becoming the most powerful being in the galaxy, yeah I'll take weird Synthesis space magic.

Though to be honest I've never quite understood the bodily autonomy argument and why people zero in on Synthesis because ALL of the endings involve Shepard making a huge choice for the entire population of the galaxy. And making some changes at the molecular level is a lot less questionable to me than genocide, or essentially turning yourself into the galaxy's omnipotent "protector."

(I do think destroy is, unfortunately for me, the best-written ending, in that there is the least wrong with it from a storytelling perspective... but morally I still think it ranks below the other two.)

Sorry for snapping at you, it's a knee-jerk response at this point - synthesis fans get a lot of hate in the fandom, and destroy fans can be particularly obnoxious with their insistence that destroy is ~canon~ and anyone who can't see that is an idiot. Uuugh.

Re: SA

[darkmanifest]

Yeah, and to me, changing every living thing in the galaxy into a different lifeform is a form of genocide in and of itself - every species that ever was has been destroyed on a genetic level, replaced with something else entirely. At least the genocide of synthetics is limited and not even permanent - the geth and EDI can ostensibly be rebuilt in time - but nothing can escape a permanent galaxy-wide DNA swap. And their children and children's children are doomed to inherit that decision in their very blood, in a way they wouldn't inherit the destruction of the geth.

But, anyway, it's cool, we can totally agree to disagree on that angle. And damn sure agree that Destroy is neither canon nor flawless (especially considering the devs are obviously biased towards Synthesis, if anything - I mean, EDI's stunning "I am alive" speech? Please.)