Invictus

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Hi everyone. It's mythlover20 here.

I am afraid I owe you all a massive apology. When I uploaded Chapter Two, it was only a few days before Mass Effect 3 came out. Like you, I anticipated a wonderful conclusion to the story that in essence made me want to write again. I looked forward to the first bars of music, those first words of dialogue, that first kiss with my (Shepard's) lover, with an excitement I have never before felt for a video game.

And then it all came crashing down. Margurite was taken from her would-be husband, forced into the company of her ex-lover who just didn't know how to take no for an answer, with no option to break his fingers whenever he touched her, and when she finally found the love of her life again, he threw her aside.

Thane's romance in Mass Effect 3 was the most disgusting piece of crap I have ever come across as a reader, and as a gamer. Capcom writes better romances than the Thane romance in ME3. CAPCOM! And we all know what Capcom's writing is like. :vomit:

Since I played Margurite's playthrough until only just after Thane died, I went on to Margaret's playthrough. Seeing the work that went into Garrus's romance, it makes me sick to think they couldn't do the same thing for Thane.

I'm not even going to touch the debacle of the endings. Not here anyway.

Since I had finished ME3, I had lost all desire I had to continue writing Invictus. I had even considered scrapping it all together. But I didn't want to leave you hanging like that. And in the weeks since I've been back on the Thane Thread over on the BSN, and since I joined the Thane Fanbook Project as a contributor/editor, I have slowly been regaining the inspiration to continue writing.

So I will be continuing Thane and Margurite's tale. Since I started it long before ME3 came out, and it is based on the rumour of the Invictus mission Thane was supposed to have, you can safely assume that I am ignoring the entire ME3 romance. I promise I will do my best to make sure that what I come up with is a lot better than what Bioware did.

I'll try to get Chapter Three up as soon as possible. But with my work on the Thane Fanbook Project (h ttp :/ t han e- fanboo k. dev iant art. co m/ ) (minus the spaces), it may be a while. But rest assured, Kolyat is still poking his scaly blue fingers into my frontal lobe, and Margurite is still beating me over the head with her Stradivarius, so there WILL be another chapter.

Though Thane's silent, intensely disapproving stares are the worse than the other two.

If you know of someone, or are indeed someone, who has some Thane art they wish to contribute to the Fanbook, please go to the link above. All the details on submissions are there. Just make sure they are in before 30 April, please.

Thank you everyone for sticking with me. It means a lot. Really, it does.

Sharlene

aka mythlover20