#also. something something thane's first kill as a child (a clumsy affair where he barely escaped w his life) being a human

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maybe foundation explains this, my 1 p*rate site didn't have it and i cbf to shop around bc the art style is ugly but it baffles me that thane's first kill in 2158 was a human. you know for his training as part of the compact. right. so what human pissed off the hanar so badly (within A YEAR of first contact) that they wanted him dead. was he just a holdover from the war w/ the turians that no one knew what to do with. who was this guy. did he make it to kahje somehow or was thane carrying out interplanetary hits from day 1. so many questions

#this was 10 years after earth even discovered the mass relays lmao #humanity just had a KICK ME sign on its back right off the bat ig #also. something something thane's first kill as a child (a clumsy affair where he barely escaped w his life) being a human #something something he's a human culture buff who's read locke and the princess bride #and who takes his son to new mexico (home to roswell. come on) #something something kneeling in front of irikah & asking her to 'save him' & promptly rushing into a family life he wasn't equipped for #the very moment he caught on that freedom was an option #again idk if theres a timeline for all of this but i like to think he was VERY young when he and irikah got married & had kolyat like 20ish #(and anyway he can't have reasonably been much older can he. if he was even 25 then kolyat is 13 by the time of me2. #you look me in the eyes and tell me that is a 13 year old. there's no way) #but the reason i like it narratively is it's so like farcical and tragic like #the compact as a social construct stunted him so badly that the moment he saw an alternative he just went for it no holds barred #while being a traumatized adolescent killing machine w no marketable skills outside murder #leading to this batshit situation where he suddenly has a son he barely knows how to interact with #and then he has to fall back on the murder thing ANYWAY because he's no good at anything else #and kolyat age 10 gets to listen in while his father asks his mother's blessing to go shed some blood in order to put food on the table. #the fact that thane still talks abt the compact with pride in me2. when it set this batshit miserable tone for his life for NO REASON #massively effectual