apparently you get a picture of tali’s real face if you romance her, but i didn’t, so i can keep on thinking she looked more like this

or at least that she had sideways slit pupils like goats

WHOOPS I PUT THIS ON THE WRONG BLOG….

wigmund said: They should just make it where Shepard can romance everyone on thr ship regardless of species or gender. Including EDI, Legion and any Volus, Hanar or Elcor recruits.

why can’t you take up all those krogan breeding requests after grunt’s loyalty mission

stoicsilence said: who did you romance? i did miranda because she was hitting on me, but i ended up longing for tali or samara.

my romantic life in mass effect is a sad tale of thickheadedness and missed opportunities.

in me1 i just wanted to learn about biotic implants. that’s all i wanted out of what i believed to be a completely professional relationship with kaidan. at no point did i think to myself, yes this is the character i want to bang, i just thought i was being nice. I THOUGHT WE WERE BROS. I THOUGHT WE WERE BROS RIGHT UP TO THE POINT IN THE ROMANCE SCENE WHERE HE AND SHEPARD START MACKING ON EACH OTHER. unfortunately i hadn’t saved in a while and didn’t want to redo the bit before that scene (i don’t remember what it was anymore) so i sucked it up and accepted it. there weren’t any better options anyway so i might as well stick with it.

then me2 and better options came along. but i’m… terminally monogamous. the prospect going after another character i liked better when i hadn’t REALLY broken up with kaidan would be… unfaithful. and rude. and would make me feel guilty. even if i the player thought kaidan was lackluster and i was lukewarm for him at the best of times, obviously commander shepard did not agree with me and i uh, didn’t want to damage anything more than it already had been. so i waffled my way through character interactions halfway hoping i would get a surprise romance scene with somebody i actually liked, but unwilling to overtly hit on anyone. i WAS angling for garrus, really hard for garrus (in the most wishy washy way possible), but i fucked it up because he asked me if i wanted to go down to the deserted lower hangar and engage in some friendly WRESTLIN and the implications went right over my head, so i unknowlingly friendzoned him. i also panicked with thane and shut him down by accident. THAT IS MY STORY

tbh if orientation hadn’t been a deciding factor in me2 i probably would have gone for miranda and not felt bad about it. she and paragon shepard might have made a good match?? i like garrus best out of all possible options but i think he would probably be better with a neutral or renegade shepard. though i actually didn’t know samara was an option! i thought she was celibate as part of her wandering space samurai vows/she was unwilling to have another relationship after her wife died and her daughters turned out to be ardat-yakshi.