#i think any LI is frantic in their own way which like valiiiid

[dutyworn]

The highest grade of training, N6, provides actual combat experience in conflict zones throughout the galaxy. From day one, invitees are given basic gear, then separated and stranded on an asteroid with no nav data. The test ends when the last person runs out of oxygen. The first few are out of the program. If the trainee survives these scenarios in "admirable and effective fashion," they finally receive the coveted N7 designation.

I've been meaning to discuss this! How like. Shepard, literally, has experienced the panic of running out of oxygen in her training (I know it's not fully stated as such but for Wren at least? I take that as a type of a training mission where they were not told how the test would end. They let you suffocate to the point of losing consciousness but no permanent harm to see how you handle that kind of a situation, it's a part of it. You don't know you're not literally about to die - like yes sure you know it's a test, it's training, but in the moment, in the panic, you don't know-know) and suffocating to the point of losing consciousness, which is where the test ends and she's fetched to safety.

This is to say that when Wren is spaced and suffocates to death in ME2 prologue... she already knows that panic. Except this time she dies.

And yes she PTSD over a lack of oxygen, why do you ask-

And then in the fucking Leviathan DLC in ME3 she just yeets herself into the bottom of the fucking ocean on Despoina in a mech like she's used to spacesuits and no oxygen in the atmosphere but THE OCEAN. IN A MECH. Ma'am the way you hide your fear-

#; war has learned to fear her ❪ about. ❫ #honestly taking your love interest on despoina and them going nEVER DO THAT aGAIN at shepard is a valid fucking sentiment #is that just garrus #i think any LI is frantic in their own way which like valiiiid #suffocation cw