Peebee (Official Thread)

Oct 18, 2016 11:40:00 GMT wright1978 said:

Oct 18, 2016 11:26:22 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

The reasoning can be whatever they want. They don't need a reason that meets your approval in order to choose to look the way they do. 
I would hope our companions are more respectful than that. 

They don't need my approval but they do need a reason that makes sense in the game universe.

I wouldn't consider it at all disrespectful for them to ask the question. I'd actually consider it pretty bizarre and uncaring if they didn't ask after spending time on the same team.

I should note that I do not believe we know how much something like scar removal can cost in the Mass Effect universe or what the treatment entail. I imaging a procedure to remove scars such as hers or Zaeed would be intense including in recovery especially since it concerns the face and a significant portion at that. Some might might not be able to afford the treatment, not want to undergo the *recovery process. In the case of the woman above and Zaeed, I think we would also be talking about reconstructive surgery.

Shepard, Garrus and Zaeed are three examples of people who have scars although annoyingly, Shepard loses that feature later on. It is left for the player to headcanon why Shepard have their scars and how they came by these scars. We know how Zaeed came by his and that he kept them despite the money he had but I do not recall us ever learning exactly why he kept them thus we can only speculate the likely reasons. We know how Garrus came by his and in the last game of the trilogy, he still has them and they are still very noticeable despite having faded a bit. We don't know whether or not they'll disappear completely or if he can, why Garrus did not have them removed. It is possible it is tied to a cultural thing but I think it would have been mentioned and I cannot recall that it has.

There are plenty of reasons why someone might keep their scars. To name four: there's indifference about them, a sense of pride in them, a lack of interest in removing them due to cost or treatment and sentimentality about them.

Note: *a frequently unmentioned thing about surgery is that the recovery proess can be a living hell even for a routine operation because of what happens to your body as a result of the procedures. It's not just physiological effects, it's psychological ones as well and can be terrible ones at that that can take even over a month to recover from.