Mass Effect relationship questions: 5, 29 and 40!
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5. Who’s Shepard’s best friend? (Friendships)
She’d probably find it hard to say who was her “best” friend. She finds different things in each of them. She’s definitely closest to her crew from the SR-1.
In the early days it was Ashley and Kaidan. They bonded quickly, they were her go-to ground team and they hung out off-duty a lot. Losing Ash broke her pretty badly and being suddenly without either of them through ME2 was very hard.
Tali’s like a little sister. Rani starts off feeling very responsible for her, and ends up so proud of who she becomes. Tali’s one of the few people she feels happy to be a bit more girly around- though Tali is sworn to utter deadly secrecy regarding the fact.
Garrus is her solid right-hand turian. She can always rely on him to back her up no matter what. He’s largely the reason she gets through any of their time with Cerberus.
29. What was their first impression of each other? (Romance)
The very first time they met they were a good 8 years younger, and Kaidan pulled Rani out of a fist-fight with another serviceman that was about to turn very bad. He thought she was a belligerent little shit who was probably overdue a discharge, she thought he was a self-righteous prick who should mind his own goddamn business. But neither of them particularly recalls it, or recognises the other in the memory.
The second time they met he was sent to meet her off her shuttle before reporting to the Normandy. He gave her an electric shock when they shook hands and their biotic fields earthed. So one of the first thing she said to him was “damn lieutenant, how high do you spike?!” while she tried to massage life back into her hand.
She found him a little stuffy to start with: Straight-laced, by-the-book, reserved, nice but not much fun. He’d heard all sorts of things about her and wasn’t sure how much to believe or expect from serving with her. He took a while to figure her out, but he knew fairly quickly that she wasn’t quite the humourless hard-ass he’d imagined.
40. Is there someone in the squad of ME/ME2/ME3 Shepard dislikes? Why? (Random)
There’s no-one she outright despises. If there were they’d be off her ship in a heartbeat. There are people she finds hard work to start with but grows more tolerant of, and even fond of, as she gets to know and understand them better.
She doesn’t get on with Miranda at all to the start with, and there are things that will always be between them, but she begins to understand to her a little better when she realises how little Miranda thinks of herself and they’re able to move on from there.
Zaeed brings out the worst in Rani. His company makes it very easy to slip into bad old habits. She’d doesn’t exactly dislike him, but she doesn’t like who he makes her.
She finds Javik unpleasant company, but she gives him his space and tolerates him. She figures she’d be pretty unpleasant in his place too, probably more so.
