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Cortez: yay time to fly the shuttle underwater Rae: :/
hello to one of my favorite James scenes in the entire game
James: I'm gonna be right here.
BJK Birthday Bash 2026 - June 5!
It's that time of year again, where I feel a little older. XD
My birthday is actually falling on my Friday stream day this year, and as usual I'll be doing a Jackbox hangout that day. At the end of the stream, I'll be giving away three Steam gift cards ($10, $15, and $25) to three people randomly selected from those who have come to hang out over the course of the stream. :D
You'll be able to catch me at http://www.twitch.tv/blackjack_kent from 9pm-12am US Central Time on June 5!
Would love to see y'all there to help me celebrate 37 years on this wild old planet. :D <3
Fiddled with dialogue to see what James says if he's the one talking to Shepard in the mech and alas, no "Lola," only "Whoa...Hey, Commander. Are you really serious about this plan?"
And no "I'll be fine" from Shepard because that's a romance thing but aw, Cortez did say, "Take care down there, Commander."
Fiddled some more and romanced/friend Liara both have the same first I'm-not-happy-about-this line, so I'm guessing that's the case for all the romances.
Ann was insistent about her let-the-artifact-control-me plan ("It's my call, not yours. You said I'm your last chance to find this thing"), and stuck to her guns despite Rae saying things like "We have no idea what will happen."
Ann: You're looking for something to fight the Reapers, Commander. I'm looking for the monster that murdered my father.
Rae was really not winning that argument and eventually gave up (except for asking Ann one more time if she was sure) but was not happy about it.
James was also not happy and said it was dangerous (correct!).
James was already in the lab when Rae and Ann came in and was all "Hey, Lola. Need a hand?"
Rae asked him what brought him to the lab (he just shows up! independently! without being asked!).
James: Saw what happened to Ann at the dig site. That ain't right.
Favorite James scene incoming!
Nobody comments on it, but I am amused that Ann's initial reaction to being told that Leviathan took control of her was "Leviathan itself? That's incredible." She and Liara should become scientist friends. XD
Oh, the conversation with Ann about her dad was not fun for Rae (whose own dad died when she was sixteen).
(Oddly enough, Kaidan has no dialogue about his dad afterwards; you'd think that'd be a painful reminder. Entirely possible that he's Not Thinking About It. Ash *does* have dialogue, but it's odd dialogue I choose to ignore because it doesn't mesh with her own dad having died, even if it was apparently some years ago.)
Ann was not picking up at Rae's attempts to explain that she has bad news - and busy speculating about Leviathan - until Rae finally got down in front of her at eye level.
Shepard: Ann, you need to listen to me, okay? Your father is dead. I'm sorry.
Ann: He's...what, dead? He can't be dead.
:(
I love how Shepard treats Ann, particularly if you go Paragon all the time. So many good bits.
Kneeling/crouching down (automatically!) to get on roughly eye level to tell her about her dad is a nice touch.
Saying "It's all right. I can come back" during the lab conversation when Ann's distraught and starting to leave and put off the whole Leviathan hunt in favor of giving Ann some time, yesss, and then asking her if she's sure she's up for this when Ann decides to help anyway.
Initially dismissing Ann's let-the-artifact-control-me plan as too dangerous and being visibly unhappy about it and asking her if she's sure about going through with it.
More automatic crouching in front of Ann and asking if she's all right, aw.
There's a couple of shoulder pats, too.
I am once again contemplating post-Leviathan headcanons because there's just all that open space between the shuttle scene and Shepard walking around the ship normally.
I understand why it is the way it is ingame (variables! money!) but every time I sit there and go "oh, in a romance or adventure novel you'd never get away with skipping over the fluffy bits after your protagonist really got clobbered like that."
Lunoct propaganda time: one of my frustrations with FFXV is that Noctis and Luna are 100% canonically in love, but the game absolutely sucks at telegraphing that sometimes. Sure, they haven’t seen each other since they were kids, but they’ve been writing each other ever since Noctis had to leave by sending a journal back and forth across enemy lines via a magical dog. That is STUPID romantic!! But the game severely undersells it by making the letter-writing a game mechanic and making Noctis only able to reply in single-sentence responses. The implication is not that they’ve been sending each other five-word sentences every three weeks for the past twelve years. That makes absolutely no sense for where their relationship is at in-game. But in simplifying it to make it playable, Square seriously shot themselves in the foot.
…but on the other hand, you can’t 100% blame it on the writers. Part of it is just Noctis’ personality. He’s an extremely reserved guy, especially about his emotions (even to Luna!!!), and because the marriage is arranged and he already resents his father, he feels like can’t act happy about it and give Regis the satisfaction. And as for his friends—I mean, think about it. He’s in his early twenties, he’s out on his own for the first time, and he is trying desperately hard to be cool. (Especially for Gladio and Ignis, who are older than him and have been his retainers for a very long time, and have seen him be supremely uncool on many an occasion.) Of course he’s not telling his bros that he’s been kicking his heels whilst writing at night to a girl in their magical shared diary. What is he, a loser
there's a spirit cat in the treviso canals. by seeing this post you have patted him on the head
I know there's a popular headcanon that Grace's crew died because of feeding tubes malfunction (based on the paperwork Grace was doing right before the explosion), but — in the book he specifically says that even after the accident he kept dealing with that same paperwork on minor Hail Mary issues, so I doubt that feeding tube problem was left unaddressed. May I offer instead:
Grace was put into coma by the people who cared about him. They (especially Yáo being Yáo) probably double-triple-quadruple checked everything. They watched him sleep for those first few days — I doubt they went into coma immediately after leaving Earth's orbit. They probably talked to him, assuring him that he'll be okay.
Ilyukhina's coma procedure was probably supervised by Yáo. He made sure that everything was in order, but — he is just one man and he is not a doctor. There was much more room for mistakes.
When Yáo went to sleep, he was alone. He had to rely on the technology completely.
We know that he died first.
Shame that Ash and Liara don't also get romance lines after the first Leviathan mission like Kaidan does ("Let's make sure that we never let time just slip by us, okay?") but at least one of the three ME1 LIs does.
After the mission where Ann gets rescued, Liara's lines about "rescuing scientists from dig sites that have been overrun by hostile forces" come across as oddly flirty if she's just a friend, but it's a such a fun bit if she's romanced that I don't really mind.
Cortez and James have fun banter after that mission.
Cortez: If another harvester keeps me from dropping you off in the target LZ, so help me.... James, cheerfully: Esteban, don't let those oversized roaches push you around. Cortez: Mr. Vega, taking on a sky full of worm-necks in a troop transport is like sending you against the Earth invasion armed with brass knuckles. James: What? You don't think I could do it?
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