May 17, 2021
Pyjacks!
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Pyjacks!
Given the weird way asari reproduce, I’m pretty sure you only need one of them to start a population and maintain a healthy gene pool.
So... do any other critters from Thessia reproduce the same way? (I’m guessing yes, unless the Protheans did something rather odd.) Or do they have a lot of species that are straight-up parthenogenetic like those cute Mexican lizards, maybe with the occasional male thrown in to liven up the gene pool?
Because that could mean some pretty horrific invasive species...
I reckon asari need a cat-equivalent (for some reason my brain goes straight to “fluffy sabre-toothed rabbit-looking thing that hunts vermin using a lift field”). Cats are a bad enough invasive species when you need two of them! Cats that can clone themselves, or get pregnant by rubbing their face on your foot or by licking a tree... concerning!
Pyjaks are easy to tame, right, and make good pets if they’re raised appropriately? Maybe all those pyjaks, on all those random planets, are the feral descendants of unspayed Thessian pets. And the pets’ owners. And trees.
CONFESSION:
While driving the Mako back in ME1, I felt bad if I killed any Pyjaks, especially because the game gave me renegade points and everyone but Wrex criticized me. In ME2, I had fun shooting the thieving Pyjaks in the Tuchanka sidequest. Am I the only one who had this weird experience?
The monkey doesn't have the module.
Is Ash Christian?
Downsides of headcanoning Ash Williams as Christian:
Everyone and their dog does it, and a change would be nice.
"Everyone" includes a lot of people who hate both Ash and all versions of Christianity for stupid reasons. Also a lot of people who think everyone in the world is either a Christian or a culturally-Christian atheist, and who just can’t get it through their head that other Semitic-style monotheisms and other ways of thinking exist.
Me personally, I'm no expert on Christianity. I might have to do (gasp) research!(Then again, you can always claim it's a future!Christian sect that isn't quite like any sect currently existing...)
Upsides of headcanoning Ash Williams as Christian:
Can have her use "warrior angel" imagery to describe her love interest (assuming her love interest isn't Sam or Joker... wait, Joker uses an entire spaceship as a weapon... assuming her love interest isn't Sam). Obviously she's not Thane and she's not going to take it seriously, but I think she'd enjoy thinking it and probably saying it.
Most Semitic-style monotheisms have some kind of rules on what animals you can and can't eat. Most Christian religions are all "eat any animal you like, just kill it humanely," which is convenient when you feel like it's funny to have her do the space!equivalent of eating opossums. (The equivalent is pyjacks. Wrex tries to gross out the humans by talking about eating pyjacks, and winds up trading recipes with Ash. I declare this canon. Even if she's Jewish, she needs to be from some sect that gave up on kashrut in 2050, because Wrex and pyjacks.)
Someone's going to make inappropriate jokes about Shepard's resurrection. These work better with an actual Christian around.
Ash’s cooking
Logically, Ash Williams is a decent-to-great cook.
She grew up in some fairly backwoods areas, which would have been short on decent takeaway. Someone had to cook! And she was second-in-command of her family, starting pretty young. She would have been the obvious choice to make dinner, whenever her mother was busy/too tired.
She never actually mentions cooking or food in-game, so you could assume she thinks of cooking as an important chore rather than something fun and she’s more “adequate” than “great”. Or you could assume it didn’t come up.
(Between the rural background and the affinity for firearms, she’s probably also a skilled hunter. Did any of those colony planets have tasty wildlife?)
(Sudden mental image of Wrex trying to gross out the humans by talking about how tasty pyjacks are, and Ash agreeing with him and trying to swap recipes.)
Just in case any of you were curious
There's a mission in Mass Effect 1 where you go around chasing pyjacks and searching them to see if they stole your data. Don't even kill them just chase around little monkeys and catch them and let them go afterwards. Ridiculous. It's on planet Eletania in the Attican Beta cluster for those who are wondering.
The 2 pyjacks :P