Sloane Kelly (Official Thread)

Either way, Sloane is hot as hell. Please, Sloane, let Sara rebel with you against Jien Garson... it'll be you two against the world!

Hey, guys! I'm currently reading the first three chapters of the Nexus Uprising novel here, all legal and free, and I have to say I LOVE Sloane Kelly (and Jien Garson). The book features a third person-narration, but from her point of view (at least the initial chapters), and she's really great. I can totally emphasize with her and her thoughts and actions.

Random prediction: she will be fling/1-night stand for both Ryders. Why? Aria 2.0 vibes

ooooh, gonna read the nexus uprising preview STAT.

I noticed that! I was wondering if it was the rendering between seeing it in-game with my own eyes vs. on the streams. Didn't know they changed the face entirely. I like this one much better because it fits more with her character and experience.

I made sure to finish Nexus Uprising before I met her in-game, because I was already reading it and loved her character.

In the book, she's the one person who seems to actually give a damn, and reminded me a lot of the more upright (but against the grain) Alliance characters like Anderson. In the game, at least in the one conversation I've had with her, she's a punk rock thug who runs an extortion racket.

Was there a whole lot of miscommunication going on? I thought that the book was made in close collaboration with the game's writing team, especially given how they got Ryder to narrate it. Maybe there'll be some explanation in-game but so far I'm really disappointed by the character's 180 flip in maybe a couple of months at most of story time between the novel and her presence on Kadara.

The sad thing is, from reading the book, I was hoping there would be some kind of storyline where you boot Tann and put Sloane in his place. I suppose that could still conceivably happen but Director Kelly and Jabba Kelly seem to be very different people.

I read that portion. At 'worst' she seemed to be headed in the direction of an old-line Yakuza or Don Vito Corleone type, the definite boss of the area who enforces contracts (the line is about how people stealing supplies would be killed) but someone who looks out for the man on the street... not someone who sends jackboots to beat down civilians for nothing as she seems to be in the game.

I'm sure the game version was written first, so the blame is on the directions they gave the novelists. At some point they should have cut in and said 'this is not the same character', or changed the game character to fit with the book.

Her look is terrible as well. They look like some vorcha gang when, given the Exiles' training and backgrounds, they should almost be a less polished Cerberus (in aesthetic.)

I think Sloane Kelly would have been more interesting as the character from the book: a dogged idealist who hated the Initiative and everything it stood for while Reyes was a scumbag Michael Corleone gangster who just wanted to exploit the angara--but was willing to work with the Initiative. Admittedly, that would just be Harowmount versus Bhelen.



But that was an awesome choice.

There's a few characters with heterochromia in Andromeda. I'm curious if it's simply a coincidence, or because using gene therapy to give mismatched eyes has become fashionable in the future?

The lore says that the Alliance gives it's soldiers some degree of enhancements to make them healthier and Shepard was able to get several back-alley body modifications in ME2 to make them more tougher and resilient in combat, so who knows what other (frivolous) uses there are for the technology?

Haven't read the book yet, so can't really comment on how different her charactersation is there.

But we have to consider that spending a year in the sorts of awful conditions that the Nexus found itself in would be enough to change some people. They faced starvation, severe power shortages and an enemy aggressor that refused any attempt to communicate. Rather than the A-Team they'd been promised, their leaders were from the D-List because everyone else had been killed.

Wouldn't be hard for even someone who believed in Garson's idea to have become bitter and jaded after all that.

It's actually about a year according to the game. 

I haven't read the book, admittedly. Going to preface my opinion with that.

Also going to preface my opinion with this statement; I never liked Aria. I always felt Aria was someone's self insert fanfic character that made it to the final game. Was entirely too self-indulgent.

So, those things having been said, I liked Sloane more than I liked Aria - I felt this was a more flawed, realistic take on what a space pirate queen would be like. I'm honestly disappointed that there wasn't a line from someone, say Lexi, Vetra, or Drack, to the effect of "It's like she thinks she's some kind of Aria T'lok or something." I find the idea of this person who's trying to play this role and the story of what that's turning them into is more interesting than Aria just being this ultimate badass.

That being said, I still didn't like her too much.

As for her change in behavior from book to game, in game there's a minor quest on Elaaden, where a lot of the exiles have gone full Mad Max levels of depraved, that several of them are suffering from a sickness caused by cryosleep that's altered their brain chemistry and caused more violent, antisocial behavior. It's entirely possible that Sloane's suffering from that, though it's never directly suggested.