Did anyone else try to subvert Bioware's "Daddy Issuses" trope?

Yes I consistently chose the responses that painted Alec's relationship with his kids positively and that they were a chip off the old block.

Where did you learn all that about Kaidan's father? I really do actually want to know. Anyway, it's just a feeling I got from a line of dialog when you first meet him in ME1. He says it made his father proud when he joined up. Eventually. And then quickly changes the subject. I think their might have been some friction between the two over Kaidan's military career.

When Sara asks Scott point blank if he could have anybody back who would it be, he answers without hesitation "mom". That's not to say they wouldn't want their father back too, but they seem to have been more attached to their mother. *shrug*





She only mentions her mother once or twice, but she mentions the fact that her dad left a lot. Especially, if you take her out with Drack (Sid and her father are what most of their conversations are about). But I think she's pretty much made peace with him leaving, which is why I said she kinda had daddy issues.  I think the fact that she doesn't know why he left is her big problem. She doesn't know if he abandoned them or if he died or what.

For variety's sake, I decided to have Ryder get along just fine with Alec. And playing Logical/Casual Ryder really does come off that way; immature, snot-nosed Alec Jr., total nerd and adrenaline junkie:lol:

If I want to see daddy issues done well, I'll go watch Avatar the Last Airbender again. Or Legend of Korra. "The worst father in the history of fathers" and all that. I'm kinda over BioWare's need to generate daddy issues as a source of conflict for the PC to "fix."

Yeah, I know Foundation was the comic that explored every character's background (and somehow tied Brooks into every character's background... I have words on that...), so at least the post-Jump Zero stuff is from that. So at least on the basis of that, we can say that Kaidan probably didn't have any more than the expected amount of issues with his father.

I like to RP a Ryder that revers their dad to the point that his sudden loss makes them go off the deep end and turns him/her into a very ruthless renegade(to the extent that one can be played in MEA), like if Alec were alive then Ryder would've been less inclined to blow up the Kett base/sacrifice the Angara on Vold but since he's gone as a result of the Kett, then s/he is determined to destroy as many as possible and doesn't give a hoot for any of the Angara caught in-between.

I totally did that, too (I also noticed this trend, not only with Bioware, but with society in general! Women are supported (women only programms at universities, affirmative action stuff - haven't heard of any of that applied to men, not even when they are suddenly the minority somewhere, like on college campuses in the US (and in most other developed western nations!), women's quotas (but not accross the board, no only for desireable jobs in the upper echelon of companies, but not in coal mines or on oil-rigs or as trash-workers who drive the garbage trucks etc. - fair, right? Especially if a company has 90% and more men working in production facilities (making cars for example) and who suddenly have to answer to a woman who never worked on the assembly floor herself, not even as a supervisor!)...women are worshipped (especially if they are mothers, despite the fact that any uneducated unemployed selfish and narcissistic whore can have a child because it's women's major biological function!) and men demonized (I know men who work in child-care, yes I know they might as well be unicorns (!) or the yeti, but they exist and are discriminated against! They aren't allowed to escort female children to the bathroom for example (even if they don't enter the stall itself!) because all of them are of course fucking pedophiles, right? Same for teachers: Female teachers are allowed into boys rooms on class trips while male teachers aren't allowed into girls rooms...hell, it starts earlier: In many boarding schools males aren't allowed into girls rooms, while girls are allowed into boys rooms (as if boys don't need a retreat, where girls can't be, right?))!)

Frankly?

I hate it, I hate all this gender-fighting etc. I hate (and don't support) any oppression and/or discrimination (note: same standards must be applied, but if a woman can handle it, then fucking let her join the Special Forces or serve on a fucking submarine or drive a tank etc. etc. and DON'T install special female quarters on basis or ships etc. etc. - have them bunk with the men! It's not like bullets in a war-zone discriminate between the genders, so why should the military as a whole do so?)! (I try to see people first and genders second which means that I don't discriminate between the sexes! If I have tasks to hand out or if I have to work with somebody, I expect both genders to do their work and not try to complain about something being "men's or women's work" (bullshit, with today's tech women can do most things men can, so that excuse does NOT fly!))

It detracts time and effort from the real dangers we, as a race, face! From islamic terrorism (which needs to be fought and erradicated - especially ISIS! IMHO boots on the ground are a must here!) to climate change, poverty, rising sea-levels, equal access to education (studying at university has to be free, otherwise the poor will be unable to afford and it's even less likely that they'll climb out of poverty...having education reserved for the well off propagates poverty IMHO!), healthcare (stop destroying Obamacare, Trump you buffoon with your dead weasel on your head! Only destroy it if you have something better in mind, which you DO NOT!...oh and stop trying to let the damned big pharma lobby control the drug prices! They are selling life-saving substances (which they often produce quite cheaply and then sell at a premium!) and that should be less of a "for profit" market and more of a "for humanity" market (it's not like they wouldn't make money if they sold the stuff at fair prices!)) etc.

greetings LAX
ps: I live in Germany (and I am not a US-Citizen either!), so Trump isn't as much a concern for me, but I used him as a main example because many people on here are Americans or at least know about the situation in the US!
pps: Could also open the can of worms about PC and censorship of unpopular ideas on college campuses (something only women could think up, despite the fact that universities should be places of knowledge, of discourse and discussion, of forward thinking and places that are absolutely in favor of freedom of speech without exceptions, even if it means that for example men's rights activists (and even Nazis!) are allowed to speak (without people pulling fire alarms on them and getting away because it's only men/nazis!)...if the other groups on society speak up, then Nazis will be drowned out and if men were still (at least!) half of enrolled stundents than freedom of speech would not be under threat - men can (in most cases!) deal with other people having different ideas (they love to debate the merrit of them - unless they haven't been taught how to have a civilized discussion - but they aren't hurt by other people not agreeing with them - women seem to be, they need "save spaces" (I could say they need their own ivory towers where only their POV is acceptable, BUT: THAT'S NOT WHAT A UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE SHOULD BE! Shame on all the deans etc. who cave to those stupid demands!))

NOTE: I am generalizing, I of course know that not all women are like that (especially girls raised by single fathers aren't like that at all in most cases...I've had some of those as fellow students while at school and I loved them because they had a more male approach to problems (DIY instead of "get the closest male available" if some heavy lifting was required!)), but many are and the ones who aren't aren't speaking up! Women don't like fighting much in most cases, so they let the loudmouths control the discussion (which leads to freedom of speech being threatened, men being harassed (especially at men's rights meetings!) etc.)

FINAL NOTE: Sorry for the long rant, but this topic always gets me fired up

Bioware gets a two-fer with their Daddy issues trope. They get fake drama, and they get to insert...part of their SJW beliefs.