After he found out his father died and suddenly he found himself pointing a gun to someone he loves. And months later, he watched his home being destroyed by the reapers and choose to save her instead despite the fact that he was abandoning his parents and his friends in the process. And if romanced, he spent years thinking his girlfriend died horribly (thank you, Liara!) and he got blamed again for being angry at her for joining up with terrorists instead of coming home to him. Kaidan was a teenage freak who could kill people with his mind and he got implanted with a faulty tech that give him constant migraine and everyone accuse him for being too whiny when he simply talk briefly about it. It was something Shepard and Kaidan shared together and it colored their history with a lot of unspoken depth that no ME2 recruit/loyalty mission could replicate. Ashley only feel sad for Jenkins only once in ME1 whereas Kaidan still grief even in ME3. Then he and Shepard met with Ashley and in turn subsequently they lose her as well. Whereas for Kaidan in the trilogy, he lost Jenkins on Eden Prime and from Chakwas herself, Kaidan and Jenkins are friends. She survived everything and it ate her up and rather than embracing the fact that she should live and fight for the future which people had died for, she wallow up with repressed guilt over the things that happened years before and not for the things that happen in the present. ![]() In the end, she fall back into the shadows and everything that happened to her are skimmed lightly and there's greater emphasis on her emotional trauma and fragility, especially when romanced. The way Ashley-alive occupy in the trilogy was her survival is a gift because she is special for the player to save her. Her sacrifice haunted both Shepard and Kaidan and both of them tried harder to do what is right for everyone they care about and they try to not to take their sacrifices for granted. She have the potential to do more and to be more but so was the rest of the faceless deaths. If I save Kaidan at the bomb site, I'll only hear her death from the comm instead of watching her being badass killing swarms of geth alone.įor me, Ashley's death represented all the deaths in the trilogy : All the soldiers who sacrificed themselves against the Geth, against the Collectors, against Cerberus, against the Reapers. It drew a parallel to the moment when you met her and she was swarmed by Geth and it fits for her last moments. I prefer having her defending the bomb because she have a deep grudge against the Geth for massacring her entire unit and this doesn't change in ME3. ![]() Sending her with the Salarian, when she herself is inexperienced that she make casual remark about how she couldn't differentiate aliens and animals, is a PR disaster. (Remember the guy who drilled the soldiers about physics at Citadel, he's a Gunnery Chief too.) However, Ashley have no history or experience handling military operations with non-humans. Ashley is a Gunnery Chief who and she should be technically qualified to arm a nuclear bomb as Kaidan. Both of them are qualified for each assignment.
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