#kaidan romance
Remembering when I pissed two older Mass Effect fans off because I put Kaidan on a pedestal (even though I was making a joke and observation about Garrus and Liara) and tbh, it just made me appreciate Kaidan more and put him on a higher pedestal.
He’s such a good man and is the only character who hasn’t pissed me off at least once. The most I’ve ever gotten with him was fustrated, but that’s not even his fault, it was Bioware’s because I wanted to see him more but Bioware didn’t let him rejoin the Normandy until waaay into game 3. The Horizon moment doesn’t make me mad, at the most, it just made me feel sad and work harder to get him back by putting a chastity belt on Shepard and rushing through game 2 so I could see him again.
I don’t see what’s not to like about him. There’s only complaints that he’s “boring” but he’s not boring. He’s human. He wears his heart on his sleeve, let’s you know exactly what’s up when he’s thinking about something, his emotional reactions when he sees blatant wrongdoing, how he felt as though he couldn’t trust the woman he loved because she did something that went against his strong morals and values and couldn’t just blindly follow her, but still couldn’t stop himself from loving her. He then learned to trust her again and waited for her, asking her if she’d still have him again, as a crew member and a lover, despite what happened, and told her he’d never doubt her again, seeing her in action again and seeing for himself that she never lost herself.
He’s just such a great man.
you know what my favorite thing is about kaidan and his story ark?
he undeniably follows shepard loyally through the first game no question. he admires her for her title and the medals she single-handedly won. he had no reason to doubt her authority.
another note is that you have missions pertaining to every one of the crew members, exceptkaidan. (or ashley if you so choose). wrex, with his family armor. garrus, with dr. saleon. tali, with the geth data. and even liara, on noveria.
mass effect 2 is about loyalty. earning the trust from your crew, even garrus and tali need a loyalty mission before they can perform their best on the mission.
what im trying to point out is, you don’t just go somewhere and fight someone or something for kaidan to think better of you after mass effect 2. you earnhis trust. through being exactly who he remembers you to be, through showing him that you still care by visiting him at the hospital after mars.
kaidan never neededanything from shepard. he just wanted to know that she was real. that her feelings for him, everything that happened between them was real.
and it was.
