![]() ![]() I'm a bit tired of the 'quirky little sister' template (Imoen, Tali, Merrill) but all of those characters have their moments. Jacob Taylor is boring, yeah, but his arc pays off in Mass Effect 3. I struggled with this one, because there aren't really any BioWare characters I truly don't like. If you bring her with you when you encounter the Terra Firma rally on the Citadel, she'll angrily condemn their leader for using political pragmatism to disguise the racist element of his party. ![]() As for the space racism: well, yeah, she says some unfortunate things. In a series largely defined by people that Shepard 'fixes', Ashley demands to be understood on her own terms. It's a sore spot, but also a point of pride. Her motivating crisis is a smear on her family name that she's had to struggle with to get where she is in the Alliance military, a struggle that she's already largely overcome by the time she meets Shepard. Ashley's background is defined by stable, positive relationships - with her sisters, her parents, her religion. She's a rare example of a love interest for a male protagonist that doesn't really need anything from him. I've heard every argument against Ash in the last couple of years - often the same argument, over and over - but she's still one of my favourite BioWare characters. Ashley who only survived Mass Effect 1 because she's not as boring as Kaidan. ![]()
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