Reyes Vidal - No longer A Mystery (Official Thread)

This post is my new favorite thing, ever.


Also. Somebody made something wonderful for me. Don't click on the fic linked in that post unless you're into pointless smut.

Huh, where is this odd sudden feeling of me invariably ruining the party in this thread coming from? ( )

That was entirely on purpose Someone should really make a scientific enquiry into assholeness levels, the lives of many people would be so certain and well defined we would be approaching the application of qun. Yep, true on that, it would need much more time to play out the way it did, but seems this is just a short piece. Otherwise getting people talking about what they care about, especially if you can show you sympathize is a pretty clever strategy... and what does revealing your cards to someone matter when that someone is certain to be dead soon?So he lets you go through this process and when you happen to realize you were not seeing the whole truth, hey, it was your inference... Neat.

Cats and dogs can like each other, no problem.




The strategy is good.
It doesn't matter to reveal it but it wasn't what I was referring to. I meant earlier, when it was said he strolled around obviously in love and so on. In my mind he wouldn't do that.

Oh btw, it was already heavily implied in the game that Sloane and Kaetus were together for a while. I started reading Nexus Uprising and there it is mentioned she was very close to him back in the Milky Way and there were rumours he followed her to Andromeda out of love.

Well, how would Ryder know about it, when he's keeping it hidden. I had him high up on the Charlatan suspect list but Ryder didn't ask for my opinion, her loss.

Good point, although I suspect Reyes has got to have contacts. If Vetra has contacts to the exiles, then Reyes absolutely has connections to Nexus. It’s also interesting that Reyes and Sloane are some of the few people with whom there are no comments on Alec at all.
 
Yeah, a bunny called Anubis.
lol Now you turned it into an endless nightmare, eroding Ryder's mind and soul.
Almost made me curious enough to pose a question to Frazier, but probably not important enough for that. Anyway, I prefer to think it’s an intended feature. Alas, having Ryder comment on Kallo and Gil’s stupid bickering killed the smile.


Most of the time, unapologetic smut is the best kind of fic.  Congrats on writing Reyes true to the character too (well, as I see him anyway). If only Ryder+Reyes got a date skinny dipping in the hot springs...
What’s that fiery glow beneath your Ryder’s feet?

I went to check on Reyes before heading out to meet Sloane to get an opinion, as was my wont, and only then, seeing that Reyes wasn't in his room, I started to suspect.

Thank you! And man, now I feel like I've been challenged. So maybe I need to write that. But for you, it'd have to be Scott and not Sara.





Fairy dust? Or sulfur, more like. It's all over everyone's feet whenever they're in Draullir. At least, on xbox, it is.

I just thought Evfra sent him a picture of Ryder. He clearly knows who he's looking for. That and information through the Collective. They have spies.


I don't know. I didn't, it's made pretty clear. That story he tells about meeting her on the Citadel might be true after all, despite his denial. She also knew Alec. She thought he is not to be underestimated and after a few meetings her thoughts were that he will not be easy to work with, at least not as easy as the AI council thinks.


It's a mess, really. Yes, Sloane meets the Kadara angara first, also angara in other settlements before, she says that. Reyes works with Evfra. He's not the Aya governor but has a lot of say. Evfra says he doesn't trust him but he needs him because it is easier for Reyes to get information from the MW aliens than it would be for an angara and the ones on Kadara are not keen on the Resistance. He trusts him enough for the prisoner, true, I think he doesn't have many contacts, seeing how he's so clueless when Reyes has to go into hiding.

This first contact was really just first contact for Aya with aliens. For most of the angara living there it was something new. The one who scans Ryder although has ties to Kadara and was already exposed to the newcomers. Kadara angarans are not viewed favourably by the ones on Aya. They abandoned Aya and don't help the Resistance. They'd rather live under/with the exiles than leave the planet. The angara don't like the exiles and how they run the Port and there's no collaboration. This still makes it important for the Nexus to establish good relations with the angaran government because before there is none. The angara realise Nexus and exiles are different groups.

Vetra not saying anything is strange. She didn't meet the angara before either, she was stuck on the Nexus but her contacts certainly told her that they are out there. She also knows Kadara exists and so does Spender. Addison and Tann, I don't know. They don't say anything, everybody acts like it's unknown where the exiles left to. I think Kadara and exiles living there is mentioned in the news after you found Aya. Also everybody, like the guy and his wife from the first murder quest if exiled, ends up there. And if you're too bad for Kadara, there's always Elaaden, where exiles get exiled to.


True. All Ryder can do is ask Paaran Shie, hey why didn't you say anything before, afterwards. That they met MW aliens before can be an explanation why the translation works once they land on Aya. This was also strangely handled. Nobody wonders why suddenly they can have a conversation when two minutes earlier all they understood was gibberish. The first time around I thought SAM did it on the fly.

Yes, this might be. Or in this case it could be really only those two who know.
He is also clueless if Reyes is exposed. The whole of Heleus knows, except the people on Aya. I suggested earlier to give them access to HNS. They're clearly out of the loop.

Sometimes I wonder if the developers play their own games. Some things make you scratch your head immediately, not only once you think too much about it all.

What does she/he answer? (I swear I have actually completed the game once.)

Oh right, the glaringly obvious option. No wonder I didn't think of it.
You're absolutely right about how important Ryder establishing diplomatic relations is. However, I was more about the game’s promise of getting to be an explorer into the unknown and how the Pathfinder supposedly forges the way ahead for the others. "Welp, guess what Ryder, every single planet (apart from the ruined Habitat 7) is inhabited and half of them have Milky Way people doing business with the locals." Sloane making the first contact is absolutely “proper” in that context. This could work as deconstruction of the Pathfinder’s mythical aura, but as we know, there’s no content towards that.

Well, at least we got to find the Meridian as first species after the Kett.
What I said.^ Sloane has a connection, if strained, with Kadara’s unaffiliated angara, Reyes with the official Angaran rulers via Evfra. This mirrors how the Collective is willing to work with the official Milky Way ruling body, and Sloane merely tolerates one person [Ryder] if chosen.

As a result, the AI really does come across as incompetent. I wonder why they didn’t address this in the game, since the theme of the leaders’ ineptitude was already well established – devs not communicating with each other, like haolyn said, could indeed be the answer.
Yeah, they clearly wanted an Omega-lite planet and specific character types to interact with it, and sort of brute-forced it. Guess we can allow it, since Kadara is the best planet.

Any time Ryder mentions first contact, I just laugh since the exiles had been busy making first contact all over the place, while Ryder was still in stasis. 

Yes, that's just perfect, actually.


The Natanus' pods are all over the place. We meet Avitus on Havarl, there are pods on Elaaden (I think?). So maybe (totally conveniently) his crashed on some planet the exiles visited before Kadara. The way he talks suggests he arrived with the exiles on Kadara and fought the kett.


Evfra was looking for people who could be his eyes and ears, preferably MW aliens, after Sloane took over. Could be Reyes persuaded him (Shena, huh) or his representative that he could pull this off and would also be able to get them other things through his smuggler connections.


I just had an idea. Vetra keeps quiet about Kadara and angara because she doesn't want Ryder to get in trouble. She mentions on Kadara it's better for Ryder not to know who her contacts are because the business is kinda illegal. So she doesn't say anything because then there would be questions about how and where.


Psst, I'm still at the start of my 2nd as well.
She says she thought Ryder had been informed about Kadara Port and that they didn't know there was a difference between the exiles and the Nexus.

I recently got into Raleigh Ritchie and GODDAMN does this song give me Reyes/Ryder feels.

Helped with my writing process for sure.



(If you haven't heard of him or only know him through GOT, I suggest you check out his music. Can't recommend him enough!)