The Little Things 2.0

I've always wondered what happened when you do that. To this day, I still can't see any difference.

I'd like to know myself.

Noveria is funny. It's like a microcosm of everything Mass Effect. The little Salarian dude manipulating and lording over people (and the manipulative Asari as well), the genetic BH dude, Synthetic insights and their big Green logo, the Krogan upstairs scrounging by as a merc trying to make a deal with the Hanar, etc..

Not that I want to read too much into it, but there's something to this. And I just wish I could bypass it sometimes. Parasini is probably my closest way to do it.

So that's what that button is for!

More meta observations:

For a western RPG, BioWare sure has fallen into the trope of having characters orphaned or nearly so. I thought about the ME cast and it was interesting.

Shepard--Most backgrounds have the parents dead. Spacer never ever mentions his/her father at any time.

Thane--No mention of his parents, but of course his kid is estranged with a dead mom.

Jack--Taken from her mother at birth, and given all the love of a lab rat. No mention of any father.

Miranda--No mother at all, eventually kills her father.

Jacob--Kills or imprisons his father. His mother is mentioned maybe...once?

Ashley--Dad is dead.

Wrex--One mention of his mother (when talking about Wreave) and he killed his father.

Liara--Didn't know her other parent until ME3 after possibly assisting in killing her own mother.

Tali--There is mentions of her mother, but never given a name. Dad was absent and was only shown after he was dead.

Grunt--His "father" died before Grunt was fully "born." Genetically created, so again, no mother at all.

Samara--No mention of what happened to her mate, and has to kill her own child.

Mornith--Helps kill her mother, no mention of her "father."

Vega--No real mention of mom and his father is estranged to put it mildly.

Kaidan--Loses his father in ME3.

Other than Garrus, no one has two parents that they are speaking to. Or if they were a parent, their spouse has to be dead or MIA. I love BW games despite their flaws, but geeze louise...

Samara is also confirmed to have a dead bondmate due to selling a memorial sphere.

Also, Heavy Reave can wipe out a fully shielded geth in one go on lower difficulties.

The memorial sphere is in Samara's dossier held by the Shadow Broker as part of the list of possessions Samara gave up.
It's funny; I wanted the increased protection in ME2 since health already regenerates and I wanted the health regeneration in ME3 with Reave. Either way, it was a really pretty ability with all those colors.

I kinda headcanoned that Morinth killed Samara's bondmate when she escaped.

Kinda make sense why Morinth became get a bit aggressive you try to talk to her about family and she taunted Samara with "Mother". Samara herself never talk much about her bondmate and seem awfully specific about the way Ardat-Yakshi kill their victims. 


Although, I kinda wish I knew how to get this ending slide

Apparently it's a non-loyal slide. I want it now

What else is needed besides messing up her personal mission?

I wouldn't mind doing that. Because at first, it always seems a little weird to kill someone's daughter. I could roleplay a Shep who's skeptical of the whole thing.

I wasn't even planning on recruiting her on this new run, but if I can get this, I would.

But yeah, that would've been cool if she made good on her promise. Better yet, if Morinth showed up to rescue Falere too. Both characters had more potential.

Just noticed...
This is my first run of ME3 where i didn't save Ashley on Virmire. A woman who looks an awful lot like her sister Sarah is still at the memorial wall on the Citadel. It's nice to see Sarah made it ok even without her big sis, but it makes me feel sad, poor girl's lost her hubby and her big sister...I miss Ash, and now Garrus wants to talk about her too. Thanks for that, G-man.