Two years dead and everyone arounds you act as if it was your fault, as if you coming back to life disrupted their mourning.
And I get i, I get it. But to Shepard, it was only a few weeks. They were lost in space in anguish from the pain of choking as their lungs burned. The vacuum of space sucking whatever life left out of their beating heart as their final moment before their eyes closed.
Then they open them and find themselves on a medical bed. Two years passed in a blink, a second to them. Their body is the same, except for a few missing scars. Everything about them is the exact same as if they were plucked out of space during that moment and thrown two years ahead into the future.
But everyone else has changed, moved on. And no one wants to explain themselves, close friends treating them like strangers, news mentioning their name as one of the past legends, left to collect dust in the history books and memorials.
Like crashing their own funeral just when everyone else was done crying, and people feel upset at you for somehow beating the odds and surviving. Then it's Immediately back to duty, you don't even get to announce the fact you're alive again publicly. It gets spread in rumours and witness accounts.
And no one acknowledge how lonely it must have been to die surrounded by friends, knowing at least you died for them to survive. Only to wake up alone and remain alone, for everyone you've known died, or changed beyond recognition.
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When your characters just start revealing lore you didn't know about them, as you're writing them
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the original girl boss of gaming; commander shepard everyone.
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Grunt really respects Shepard and looks up to you.
Could you imagine being the subject of such rare affection from a krogan? A lab built one designed for blood and war only to end up finding a guardian within you? A teacher and a protector who leads by example and treats him with the respect and autonomy he deserves?
Everything in him was not designed for love and yet he loves you much like a lonely neglected kid loves the teacher who inspires them to do better, you were the person to step up and look after him, you took him to his rite and you killed by his side for his sake.
All the time and effort you've put into someone you don't even know, Grunt is really lucky to have found a semblance of guidance in his situation. He could've very easily fallen into a darker path rather than get accepted by the krogans.
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