It suits Thane, an atypical, soulful, and philosophical assassin. His son is there, having been set on the right path by Thane’s intervention in Mass Effect 2. You pray over his body, and he prays for you. Post-attack, you visit Thane in the hospital and are there for his last moments.

He’s able to slow Leng down, forcing him to retreat, but takes a mortal wound in the process. Nevertheless, when the Citadel is attacked, he springs to your defence against Kai Leng. In the third game, you meet Thane at the Citadel hospital, where his condition has deteriorated. We were never going to make it through Mass Effect 3 unscathed. Thane has a terminal disease, and the galaxy is on the brink of destruction. Mass Effect 3 is ultimately a game about loss, and death is part of that. But I’ve never been a straight FemShep, and since Garrus belongs with Tali and Jacob is… Jacob, that meant Thane. I’ve cheated on Liara with Trainor before too. My usual method is Liara in the first, flirt with Jack despite the fact she’s straight ( although she wasn’t meant to be) in the second game, Liara again in the third. Related: Mass Effect Modders Are Using Official Audio To Restore Gay Romances For Jack, Thane, Tali, And More You can romance Liara in all three games (with Mass Effect 2’s coming in the Shadow Broker DLC), while pseudo romances with Samara and Kelly Chambers fill out the roster, along with a fully fledged romance with Samantha Trainor in Mass Effect 3. A lesbian Shep, though, can get by just about okay, so long as you consider the monogendered but femme coded asari to be lesbian options. A gay male Shepard won’t get to score until the third game, when Esteban Cortez and a newly bisexual Kaidan Alenko are available - assuming Kaidan survived the first game. The queer options in Mass Effect were groundbreaking at the time, but limited by today’s standards. The game decided to kick my heart in the crotch for it.

When I finally got the chance to play it, I decided - against my better judgement - that I was going to play Shepard as straight.

I’d played all the DLC before, completed numerous Paragon and Renegade runs, and taken various squadmates on each mission to get the differing reactions. When Mass Effect: Legendary Edition was first revealed, I wondered what I could possibly do differently.

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