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Gavin Archer's actions in the Overlord DLC, torturing his brother like that, are so egregious that Shepard pistol-whipping him IS A PARAGON INTERRUPT.

Dread playing this mission every time but am obnoxiously completionist.

(In my Shepard's case, she lost her sister on Mindoir, so i'm pretty sure if there had been a Renegade 'beat him to death with her bare hands' interrupt she'd have taken it.)

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Because I felt this and wanted others to feel it as well.

Not Mine. Thought to Share.

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Nothing in any Mass Effect game will ever be as disturbing to me as Project Overlord.

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As an autistic person I take a special pleasure in pistol whipping Gavin Fucking Archer.

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Project Overlord

Man every time I play this DLC I love it for many reasons (gameplay, soundtrack, story in particular, which is what this post is about) and then get even more angry at Gavin Archer than I did the time before and I’m reminded of why science is guided by ethics, it’s so that shit like “disabled person susceptible to manipulation being voluntold to interface with incredibly intelligent matrix of individually sentient and unique programs thus causing the Mother Of All Sensory Overload Based Meltdowns” doesn’t fucking happen in real life. Which, considering how many historical atrocities we had before we collectively decided we needed to have strict codes defining what ethical research actually was, is hardly something that isn’t unrealistic given the advancement of technology as it is and where it could quite possibly be going. Through the DLC, you get to hear David begging for quiet, for you to “please make it stop” - which is made all the more heartrending when you know that’s what he’s saying on your second/third/twentieth playthrough. He just wants to escape, and like any traumatised person, he’s lashing out to get away from the perceived threat. You also get reminders of the fact that Gavin never really saw his brother as human enough to give a fuck about his feelings in the first place, completely ignoring David’s emotional state, his vulnerability, often dismissing him unless it’s beneficial to the work and only seeing him as actually valuable once he has a way to contribute to the research instead of seeing his worth as the human being he is. We see instances of David overwhelmed and rocking back and forth whilst reciting his comfort phrase, instances of him trying to connect to Gavin and I think the only reason he agreed was maybe it was the only time his brother ever gave him more than a minute’s attention; other than that, we see David either entirely ignorant of David’s presence, or, occasionally, even annoyed by him.

But that isn’t the same as seeing him as worthy as a human being. He saw him as a tool, as an object, a means to an end. Throughought the DLC we see Gavin distancing himself from fault. We also see him trying to dehumanise David, frequently calling him “the VI” rather than “my brother”. David’s not the villain of Project Overlord, not by a longshot, but Gavin would like you to think that. He’d like you to think that he’s gone rogue and wants to take over the galaxy, when all he wants is to find a quiet place so the noise will stop. There are probably BILLIONS of programs on the geth network, all communicating (hell, there are 1183 on Legion alone!) and all talking. For any brain, that would be a lot to handle. For an autistic brain? That would be hell. But Gavin didn’t think about the effect it could have on his brother’s emotional wellbeing because he never saw his brother’s emotional wellbeing as important. He never saw him as human enough to care about that. He just saw him as a walking calculator. Gavin only saw David as a human being with emotions, and in great emotional distress, once he was so utterly fucking broken by his ordeal that he had to be taken away from the Project so that Gavin couldn’t hurt him again.

Gavin’s justification? That it all seemed harmless. It seemed harmless to manipulate a person who ultimately lacks agency and capacity to do something as risky as what David was essentially manipulated into. And people treat disabled people like this in real life. They exploit those vulnerable to exploitation as they don’t see them as human enough to not exploit them. I guess this is why the story is so good, because it’s not based on aliens being monsters, or planets blowing up, or anything like that. It’s about the monsters that live among us, it’s about people doing bad things to people. It reminds us that People Are Terrible. I just wish we got the option to fucking shoot Gavin at the end of it all. I would have loved that. I love the storytelling. I love that they went, in the midst of a series that’s about stopping a race of sentient machines from dark space from mauling all sentient life into extinction, with a story about human evilness.

I’ve always thought stories where the monsters were humans were the most frightening.

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People Mass Effect should have been way harder on:

Gavin Archer

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So I played Project Overlord for the first time

Archer Log 906.01 : I’ve been thinking recently that… that you know, maybe, um, allowing a giant pro-human terrorist organization to exploit the neurochemical drama of our brother to control the geth, for profit… You know, maybe that was, uh… a bad call by us.

Maybe… maybe the… merging of AI with a human … as a means to control the Geth that benefits nobody, except for, um, you know, a handful of bug-eyed salarians at Cronos Station… Maybe that as a… as a way of life forever… maybe that’s, um, not good.

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