#*shakes fist at work*

[cracked-kyber-crystal]

//gonna work on replies after I sleep. The last 36ish hours have not involved much of that after all and I need it.

[fieryaxolotl]

Would your Shepard and Ryder get along? What kind of relationship do you imagine they’d have? (I mostly ask because I wonder if they’d bond over their Angaran lovers😉)

I think they would get along professionally but not really as close friends. Abigail is, or was, a commander. She’s used to be in charge, with her own missions and team. She tends to see Helen as a young, naive, idealist (a bit like Liara at the beginning of ME1). Also, Abby understands the role of the Pathfinder and its importance. She doesn’t want to cast any shadows on Helen’s role, because she’s “The Commander Shepard”, not to mention she’s supposed to be dead. And she’s mourning the loss of her crew, her world, everything. She’s not in a good head space to make friends.

Meanwhile, Helen would want to impress Abby. She remembers stories her father used to tell about Shepard, not to mention there was the whole Citadel saving, and the fact Shepard is the first human Spectre.

I headcanon Jaal and Evfra actually bonding over their human lovers, rather than the opposite. Then again, the girls would sometime join in their teasing of their Angaran lovers. Or pranks. Can’t let a good opportunity come to waste, right?