Suvi Anwar (Official Thread)

Hi Suvi thread! I brought you a present~

I feel like Suvi is the kind of girl who is adept at unhooking a bra one-handed, so ... I drew it. >:3

Enjoyyyyyy this rough sketch ::runs away::

Actually, not quite never. They did it with EDI! NPC in ME2, squadmate in ME3 Good idea about the weapon. I wanted to use a beam Avenger myself, but sadly it was so bad that I couldn't justify it. Hope they patch that augmentation. Visually, a new weapon that crossed the Remnant and MW aesthetics would be pretty cool, too. Need to draw it.

Sure, let's have all the fangirling. Can't sustain this thread on my own!

...Or can I?

JadePrince

That's sweet  Great job! I will take inspiration from you. Thanks for stopping by with presents And Suvi is talented, ha. Everything's better with multitasking! Twice the fun.

I dunno, you can ask (as a flirt when she's introducing you to the bridge) if she's headed out with you on missions and her response is rather on the "God, no, I'm too scared of that to do it" ...and you might think "Wait what, did this guy really say that?" but that actually adds to her with me.

Anyway, it means that I can't see her as a squadmate. Definitely could be temporary, think... Ugh, Drack when you fight Kett at future-Prodromos, before setting the place up for real. He's not a squadmate but he's in that fight.

Also I'm not sure whether she'd be an Engie, can definitely imagine her having to go places to do stuff and you're simply covering her, but she has just armor, PDW (that's for Personal Defence Weapon, think something with punch but light, she's not there to fight, so Hurricane or the like) and, funnily enough, soldier abilities. She's a clever scientist, but Cora only trains her with weapons, and while she has Shield Boost, her main thing are Biotics, which Suvi doesn't have. So unless you have a Techie Sara who actually teaches her between games, Suvi only has weapons training. Weaker than the squad though, think Ryder's current strength -15-20 levels. Also hanging back, shooting at targets of opportunity.

She's not a combatant to me, just someone who is willing to do what's necessary.


We better be let. Perfect Woman, yeah.

It's too bad I took so long to finish the game; I missed all of the discussion about my favourite character So in order to generate discussion, let's talk about... music! (I'm going somewhere relevant with this, I promise )

The ME:A soundtrack was disappointing to me. Other than a few tracks (A Better Beginning - the main theme, A Trail of Hope - Basically the Tempest's theme, and Heleus, which is a remix of the original Uncharted Worlds), I didn't find a lot of it memorable, especially compared to the trilogy's OSTs, which makes it all the more disappointing. Why they didn't get any composers who worked on the OT to return is beyond me. I'm sure they were more than capable of making something Mass Effect-y yet still new. It would have sounded right, and judging from their work, been better. Or they could have at least hired Trevor Morris, since he's worked with Bioware recently.

Even worse than being bland, though, a lot of the time it's simply... absent. There's a general lack of music in the game. DA:I had the same problem in zones, but other than that it had a strong soundtrack that played appropriately. I'm a musical person (play piano, woo), and I value soundtracks and the impact they have on storytelling when used correctly. That means emotions. Amplifying them, even playing with them sometimes, setting the tone, etc. Good music can make up for sub-par dialogue, or vice versa of course. A lot of the movies and games I think of as classics have memorable soundtracks that got you into the scenes - making you sad, pumping you up. I feel life it's not insignificant, and the overall reaction to ME:A would have been slightly better if it had a better, more used, score. Imagine how much worse the Suicide Mission would be without, well, Suicide Mission playing in it. Conversely, imagine how awesome ME:A would have been if it had something like that.

And so I come to my point. For the first time in a Bioware game, I played a romance without any music. Because it simply didn't have any. There is no real romance theme in ME:A*, and it's really bizarre. Even though I wasn't a fan of DA:I's Thedas Love Theme (the only track I didn't like), at least it existed. And you have memorable ones from DA:O (Don't know about DA2), ME1, ME2, and of course the Gold Standard of I Was Lost Without You from ME3, and like everything else, it really added to the experience. Not having one in Suvi's culmination scene also adds to the feeling that there's still more to come, if you've played other Bioware romances. It would come on, and you'd think "This is it." But there isn't anything, so it's a little jarring.

Although I suppose I shouldn't say there is no music... the drowned-out bass of the Vortex lounge is audible during the scene  Which is totally counterproductive to emotion-setting, ha Well, unless you're the kind of person who plays music while you... you know. Hey, no judgements Sad thing is, even if you disable music in settings, it still plays (since it's not part of the soundtrack, but rather in-world music), so there's nothing you can do.

*Upon searching for the ME:A Expanded Soundtrack (all of the stuff that isn't in the official soundtrack for... reasons - don't know why they always leave stuff out ), I discovered that there is, in fact, a romance suite. It's... not much, though, ambient at best. Don't know why it wasn't used in Suvi's scene, though.

Anyway, after thinking about what a shame it is that there's no appropriate music in Suvi's scene, I did what Banshee often does. I said:


So I experimented with a few things in both the tea scene and culmination scene, with varying degrees of success. I saw that I Was Lost Without You was almost exactly the same length as the scene, so I tried putting it in, and it fit surprisingly well! A little sad - since, you know, ME3 - but even the timing in the track was great. If anyone's interested, I can upload the video.

My posts always turn out longer than I plan Thoughts on any of that, thread?

That's... beautiful.

I really like Suvi. I'm not sure what it is, but the way she says "hello" when Ryder returns to the Tempest is charming.

Maybe I just really love Katy Townsend's voice.

Most huggable character in MEA?

When is the shy hug refusal?

(Seriously, girl can be shy, too? Twist the blade more, BioWare. I dare you.)

And yes, Kallo greeting you is disappointing. I don't know why, but I swear that in the cockpit, there's a lot more women's voices than men's. Mostly because I don't really talk to Kallo nearly as much as Suvi, eh...

As Hanako said, on Meridian. Here's the scene.


No, Suvi, it's not even a tad embarrassing. And I'm like, the most awkward person ever. It wouldn't annoy me so much if she had other hugs. I've been spoiled by Cullen's romance, since it has plenty of them. And they're one of the best things in life!

If she won't even give you a hug when the people around aren't even paying attention to you, imagine how embarrassed she must have been when this happened!

Oops?

Although, it's sort of inconsistent. She's fine with flirting with you in front of Kallo, or cuddling during Movie Night while everyone's there. Maybe I'll just headcanon that Sara just goes ahead and hugs her instead of asking if she needs one

Oh, speaking of Suvi's voice, I forgot to post this in this thread as well:

OHMYGOD KATY TOWNSEND ACTUALLY RESPONDED TO ME

My stupid email didn't give me a notification! I thought I scared her off.

And I didn't completely creep her out, awesome! I made someone happy, mission accomplished! She seems so upbeat and cheerful. And that gif is so adorable! And that emote says "two women holding hands"


Whew. Awesome

Maybe Suvi is just more comfortable being affectionate with Ryder around the Tempest crew?

But, there should have been a narrative interrupt to hug her.