#mass effect kaidan

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Just remembered that I promised to post free for personal use art of Kaidan

It’s available in full resolution by the link below

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1DiLCVuGfKO-qt2ah11p13mXPQJ0IR-WG

Enjoy!

Also, if u don’t like the letters, feel free to erase them!❤️

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Shepard and Alenko, sitting in a tree…

So does Clone!Shep say something similar to Ashley about how she would’ve picked Kaidan instead or does she only say she would’ve picked Ashley because of Ashley’s *cough* questionable and less then favorable *cough* comments about the aliens on the ship and how it sorta kinda almost aligns with Clone!Shep’s “We need to help humans, not aliens !” Ideology ?

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.

it’s going to hurt figuring out how kaidan took/handled shepard’s death again. the way he talks about the thought of losing her and the way his voice runs low and sad when he talks about it. he really can’t lose her again and i really hope bioware puts that kind of content in the next mass effect. if they don’t continue shepard’s story at least. it’s hard to imagine kaidan just moving on when they were finally together and they finally had things where they wanted them to be.

“i can’t bury what i feel for you anymore”, that scene on the citadel is one of the most tender moments between them because to them, in that moment, they’re the only people that exist. they love each other so much. they’vefinally moved past the complications of the past, shepard came back to the alliance, kaidan re-interpreted her reasons behind joint cerberus. rather than it being a betrayal. the council simply just wouldn’t provide the authorization of a mission so uncertain because they’re keen on looking an enemy dead in the eye before taking the shot. shepard had to do what she had to do.

they quite literally deserveto have a happily ever after. as unfair as the real world is, the galaxy is much more unfair. they deserve better. they deserve peace.