Canadian Delicacy - The Kaidan Alenko Thread

 I can imagine Kaidan taking Shep back to Canada & Kaidan's mum fussing over both of them

Just going through some of my old pics and found this  I had way too much time on my hands, and I've never read the book, honest.

what's the difference, and is that only for fem shep I take it?

Although I felt really frustrated for my Shep on Horizon I did feel that Kaidan was torn up emotionally, and possibly feeling that he had now lost her twice. Once thinking she was dead and now she was alive, but working with Cerberus. The woman he loved and knew would never have worked for them.
After reading the note from Kaidan , did anybody else’s Shep want to find out who this doctor was that he went out with? I was thinking in ME3 it might have been interesting to come across the doctor, maybe treating Kaidan on the Citadel? I always thought they might have had Rahna show up at some point to.

My Shep has always been loyal. She just stares at his pic in her room.

I've never met Kaidan angry side, I feel that his reaction in Horizon was very human and I can totally get the guy, damn I was like that the entire game as player thinking about the true intentions of Cerberus, and Kaidan/Ashely was right afterall. I can't conceive a unfaithful MShepard playthrough (mainly because Garrus and Thane don't want my flesh xD :insert sad face:), but I don't recall Kaidan calling Shepard a traitor, when does that happen?

I've found it quite acceptable to not romance anyone in ME2 and wait for Kaidan in ME3 (regardless of whether or not I modded in an existing romance for ME1).  Because dialogue on the Normandy seems less necessary to me for some reason I just get on with the missions and import into ME3 where I can meet my "True Love".  

Hmmm..I hate missing out on dialogue just cause I couldn't romance Kaidan in Mass Effect 1, but oh well...he's still got great content at least!

I think Kaidan seems less confrontational on friend path. In romance carry over from 1 it's a little more heated (or at least feels that way) but it's not like he's yelling and screaming slander. He's upset, confused and quite honestly I feel like it get's blown out of proportion -- like he's not allowed to be upset, or not allowed to question Shepard. He doesn't outright call you a traitor, but feels betrayed and says so. I was frustrated the first time because the dialogue options are so terrible. It's basically just 3 different ways to insensitively argue with Kaidan, when I actually agreed with what he was saying.

Romancing somebody in 2 is fun but there's something to be said for staying single; in the way it can make your Shep's story feel whether they were with someone in 1 or not and how that can carry into 3. And it's certainly special to wait for Kaidan in 3 as mShep.

Plus, when you stay single in 2 (and/or if you haven't locked in a romance yet), you get the dialogue with Mordin if you talk to him enough where he thinks you're interested in him.  I love it -- and also kinda wish...

Shepard was offered a choice to stay or go. It was before the Freedom Progress mission where you're being debriefed by TIM. Right after that Shepard choose to stay and work with them to stop the Collectors. I don't like it either but considering they already have Joker and Dr Chakwas on the same space station even before Shepard agreed to it, kinda clue the fact that TIM could just point a gun to their heads to make Shepard submit. And considering TIM knew that Freedom's Progress was just freshly attacked by Collectors, planted a bait for Kaidan on Horizon, created the false turian signal for the Collector Ship, aware of Reaper IFF and knowingly let his scientists get indoctrinated on the Derelict Reaper... Shepard was actively being manipulated by TIM but out of everything you just have to take his advice to sleep with one of your crew?

Twelve human colonies were attacked by the Collectors; each of them probably has around hundred thousand to millions of people occupying them. A lot are funded by the Systems Alliance like Fehl Prime (Vega) and Ferris Field (where Cortez lived with his husband). But Systems Alliance doesn't have the military capacity of the Turian Empire (especially after Battle of Citadel if you rescue the council) or politically suave as the Asari Republic (Ilium being a sandwich between the republic and Terminus system and Aria controlling Omega ) to actually start militarizing the Traverse and Terminus system. As humanity is now a council race, doing so is an act of war. Which is why Anderson send Kaidan alone on Horizon to investigate whether the disappearance is a terrorist act or something more.

Project Lazarus isn't exactly a common knowledge (Thank you Liara T'Soni), Kaidan himself doesn't know Shepard was brain dead until the end of the trilogy. On Horizon, he's starting to believe Cerberus propaganda that Shepard really did became a Cerberus Operative for two years and that the attack on the first Normandy was a ruse. He's emotionally compromised and was throwing his calm rational amicable demeanour through the roof. But he chooses to walk away and give Shepard an ultimatum; If you're still the woman I remember I know you'll find a way to stop these Collector attacks. But Cerberus is too dangerous to be trusted.

And he started his letter with an apology and half of ME3 was him grovelling. Was it expected that Kaidan would simply make himself feel sorry again and mope around feeling worthless because Her Horniness Shepard chose another guy to be in bed with? Or react like Ashley who simply get drunk or Liara who drown herself in work while standing to look extra busy with their own "I'm happy for you" lines? 

But no... F&^*^@*# KAIDEN!!

Because Harkin is a massive pig. That scene is horribly unpleasant with femshep. Does he hit on you with this mod-change? Because mShep is lucky that way.

--There actually are moments in the series where the game bugs and calls femShep "sir" (even Jacob).

There aren't any gendered phrases used in the Horozon scene with a romance import as far as I remember, so I think that it should be the same. Even Shepard's response are... the same with and without imported romance.

Playing through Mass Effect 3 atm just finished doing Eden Prime. Took Kaidan with me, of course



Do you guys usually wait to have Kaidan with you before doing Eden Prime or do you go before doing the Citadel attack?

I get Kaidan as soon as possible. That means as soon as I've cured the genophage and and (I think) one of the missions for Wrex/Wreav and Victus - usually I do the krogan mission prior so that I can get an extra mission with Kaidan (since the Victus mission turns into two missions). I also do whatever side quests will disappear post-coup to avoid losing the war assets. Eden Prime is done with Kaidan (or Ash if somehow I had her) because it brings back special memories. Even Shepard said it wouldn't have the same impact if Kaidan weren't there (or maybe that was a fanfic - but I think it was the game).