The Finale: The Day
SSV Normandy
Now knowing what to exactly look for, EDI finds that there ARE a significant level of viruses present on the IFF, and starts the process of safely scrubbing it. And as she does, they find the time to make a few last stops. Though looking for it this entire time, TIM still has not found the Shadow Broker's location either.
Loyalty: Wavering Informant
As the end nears, Shield's one interest in the mission (asides from defeating the Collectors) has now become to bring Fantom to justice. He has placed a large amount of the blame on Requisitions Officer Daniel Fantom (also known as Broker Agent Revenant) for what happened on Fehl Prime. Had he not betrayed the team, the Normandy could have helped save them, or done something, anything, to prevent Jane's death. In addition, Shield has finally connected the dots, realizing Fantom had been the one to tip the Broker and Cadus off that Hagalaz had been compromised. And that Fantom's direct actions had led to Shield's abduction back in 2183 CE. TIM does not like disloyalty to Cerberus, so he has also been investing some resources into the matter too. Once his location is finally pinpointed on a seedy station, off they go.
Shepard and Shield haven't really had one on one time since her return. His reclusion and Shepard constantly being busy with other team members has not given them much time for talk. Though the main REAL reason is that Shepard's mainly put off by the whole Jane thing and Cerberus cloning her. And how close Shield thought he had been to her. This mission finally forces her to talk with him about her clone, and what exactly their relationship was. Shield confessed that Jane had developed feelings for him. It couldn't be more obvious (to several people) despite him constantly trying to distance himself from her.
However, in a dramatic heart-shattering reveal...he hadn't felt the same way. And that's where his mountain of guilt and self-pity came from. All his frustrations over Jane's personality and differences from Shepard hadn't been because she might let the galaxy burn. It was due to his own selfishness. If the mission succeeded, it shouldn't matter what Jane believed or how she acted. But the reason he went so hard on her despite knowing this (and the reason he ignored everyone else's advice) was because he wanted Jane to be like Shepard. To be Shepard. That was the only person he wanted to like him. It killed him knowing that it was entirely his fault that she was a different person too. But ultimately, Jane and Shepard had been two entirely different people in the end (and in every sense of the word). Their relationship, and his efforts to make it happen, had been hopeless from the start.
Shepard can only sit there silently after hearing his confession. Shield moves on as soon as they land, and the team follows, eventually cornering Fantom after a short chase through the station and taking down his hired guns. "We're friends, remember?" Fantom would say, as both him and Shield were pretty much alone in the garage for the entirety of AHR. They'd have a lot of conversations with one another reminiscing about their old adventures. Specifically to build up this specific plot point specifically. "Were." In the end, Shield executes him like he did Taskmaster after hearing out all of his excuses. Shepard remarks that the past years have really changed him. And that she doesn't really believe that this is actually him. Shield remarks that it's probably not, as the old Shield died on Aite. Maybe he was more Leonov than Shield at this point. And he shares that backstory with her too, realizing he had never had the opportunity. He technically died once too. Maybe they were both fictional entities Cerberus implanted into mindless corpses. Shepard doesn't find that funny with how plausible it is.
After giving each other space for a few days after, Shepard would come back down to the garage and explain why she was so hard to trust him back in 2183. Her reluctance to trust people (anyone really), and her intense anger over being betrayed were entirely due to what happened on Mindoir. Before the Raid, she had a pen pal named Eluam (first mentioned in AHM Ch 19 Bring Down the Bastards) who she used to write to daily. They had become such close friends in fact that they would even tell each other the most minute details of their daily lives almost every night. She remembers the last thing she told Eluam was answering his question about her colony's safety, and the Alliance's lack of presence in the colony. A batarian emoji was the last thing she received back. Then the raid on her colony happened the next day. Though she knows how ludicrous it sounds, she has always felt she was to blame for the attack. Shield remarks that it's hard to trust people. He's never faulted her for it.
Loyalty: Archaeologist's Vision
After a harrowing soap opera ordeal, the Normandy's back to normal. Shield's a little more sociable again, and his interactions with the crew resume where they left off. Now, after many conversations, Shield has finally mentioned to Liara that he has picked up another prothean vision during his travels (see AHL Ch 13 Prothreesome). Eager to see it for herself, he gives her permission to read his mind (which he had always refused in AHM due to what else she might see, IE, his previous life before Mass Effective). He did also see the prothean vision like Shepard on Eden Prime. So everyone thought. The reason he allows this now is because currently, he just no longer cares. About anything really. Shield's traded his despondency for nihilism. Bummer. Hell, I mean say what you want about Cerberus' desires for human supremacy, at least it's an ethos. As soon as Liara does it though, she is immediately overwhelmed, the Gray Box having severely limited the asari's ability to meld with him. Apparently. The only thing she was able to glimpse was the Protheans becoming the Collectors.
After sharing this, she asks Shepard if they can go to Eden Prime. Cue loyalty mission. Putting two and two together, part of her recently translated research from the Thessian Beacon claimed the Collectors were allies of the Protheans. At first she thought this was nonsense. However, if the Collectors were the Protheans, maybe it wasn't. They were former allies. And I don't know, maybe knowing that help solves a riddle or some shit, I didn't really think this part out. Long story short, Liara translates some more text which refers to a coordinate on Eden Prime which is why they're there. They fight off some scavengers at the abandoned archaeological site thought by the galaxy already stripped, and Liara finds some prothean relics after digging where her research claims. A good find, especially since Shield thinks this is where Javik is located too. End quest.
Loyalty: Marine's Memorial
Or not. It makes too much sense not to, as Ash asks if they can attend the memorial at Eden Prime while they're there, what with the anniversary coming around and all. Shepard obliges her, not being back since the Hunt for Saren first started. Some of the Alliance crew is invited to join them on the planet (incognito) to pay their respects. After attending the ceremony, right as they turn to leave the planet for good, they're confronted by a group of MPs. Headed by Vamshi. Despite all his activities and actions, his reputation and political backers in the Alliance haven't actually moved to hamper his status within it. He's kosher, and it displays how the Alliance is becoming an ineffective government, just like the Council. Vamshi moves to arrest them on orders of the Alliance, and a chase ensues as everyone lacks weapons and the will to fight their fellow Alliance officers backing him. He nearly gets some pfficers killed as they're ordered into a dangerous position to cut off Shepard's escape. Though several members of the Normandy crew are apprehended in the arrest, all the important ones are able to get off-world with the help of some colonists regardless. They remember who the true hero is. Poor Pressly is one of the ones brought back to Arcturus Station to sing like a canary. And once again, it becomes clear that while Vamshi is a skilled tactician, he cares nothing about sacrificing the lives of his soldiers to get the job done. Heavily contrasting with Shepard.
Omega
EDI confirming her, Legion, and Tali's work on the IFF is almost done, the Normandy prepares for a potential last trip through the Omega-4 Relay. They dock at Omega for last minute prep and supplies. And the crew is given one last shore leave. This would be a slice of life chapter, and give a glimpse at what everyone does before the suicide mission. There'd be a gathering at Afterlife, where Shepard would have her first real talk with Aria. Normandy crewmen would party hardy and also pour one out for the half dozen arrested back on Eden Prime. Mordin would check in on his clinic. Samara would visit Morinth's apartment. Garrus checks on his team. Grunt picks some fights. Jack does some red sand. Shepard would hook up with Jacob, still upset about Kaidan. Etc etc. Though Kelly invites him out with the other crew members, Shield deigns to stay on the ship, as he doesn't feel like it. The only others who do this are Rasa and Liara.
Liara would hang out with Shield back on the ship, and reminisce one last time about their adventures together. Though she'd like to party, she's concerned about Shield. She tries to cheer him up but he's not having it. Rasa eventually joins in, taunting Shield about his moping. Despite knowing Ash longer, Shield is the closest thing Rasa has to a friend. Almost the only thing. She herself recognizes him as an important figure, as he's the only one who talks with her about her past (which he's brought up before back when they used to get into arguments in Acts 1 and 2). Not even Shepard has been able to get that far with her since joining. Shield's always turned the other cheek when it came to Rasa's snide insinuations and coldness too, allowing him to tolerate her unlike everyone else. Good place to mention that while Shepard has obviously become the leader, and commands respect from her entire team, Shield has always been its heart (at least before Part 4). Doing a better job than Kelly in insinuating himself into people's affairs and helping them talk through their feelings, and being an overall friendly individual.
The three discuss Jane one last time, and Rasa admits that she missed the girl too. Shield and Rasa had practically been her family, like older siblings, maybe even parents, guiding her through her daily life. Liara wishes she had met her. After seeing Shield at peace, Liara would go to join the rest of the crew on station, leaving just Shield and Rasa alone, and they'd end up spending the night together too. That's when the ruckus would return, as the station is suddenly announced to go under Aria's martial law. In the middle of the revelry an incredibly infectious disease has spread through the station like crazy (in like...a day), devastating its populace. The only people not affected are, you guessed it, humans. Though Cerberus seems like a likely culprit with Aria immediately suspecting them, it's of course the Collectors' work. The Suicide Mission begins early as the Normandy's scientific duo start coming up with a cure, the Lazarus Cell works together with Aria and Cerberus to take down the culprits spreading the disease on the station, and they all also fight off the Reaper agents the Collectors have unleashed on them: the Adjutants (from ME:Invasion and the Omega DLC). ME3 did work overtime in including ME side material.
Assignment: The War
In my head canon, the Adjutants are like the Protheans and Keepers. An old race the Reapers couldn't reaperfy, and so in turn, twisted them into useful tools. Not only do they basically act as alien zombies, turning other aliens into Adjutants, but they also act as portable harvesters. Unlike with husks, the DNA inside the host can still be used by the Reapers (Dragon's Teeth serve the same purpose). The combo of Adjutants and the newly engineered plague (now known as the Collector Virus) are an overwhelming combo for the inhabitants of the station. A Black Ark appears nearby, supervising the chaos on the station, and send Collectors to join the fray. With the Normandy so close to striking them, they are apparently risking it all, go big or go home they'd say. This would be a precursor to the Suicide Mission, as Shepard gives specific objectives to each teammate based on their ability. Thane and Legion assassinating the main plague bearers on Omega, Grunt and Zaeed providing support to rioting zones or defeating Collector assaults on key areas. Kasumi stealing vital station codes from gangs unwilling to cooperate. Samara and Jack using their biotics to fend off Seeker Swarms and Adjutant hit and runs on Afterlife. Miranda and Ash taking charge of directing citizens to safe zones. It's a whirlwind of action. Petrovsky arrives with Cerberus' private army to help protect it as well (or the human population in particular). Shield and Petrovsky catch up a bit, as the old man admits to partially lying to Shield back in Flux. He was with Cerberus after-all. Surprise surprise.
While Cerberus helps Aria, Broker would be giving help to the Collectors, with Vamshi leading assaults on important areas, Vasir sabotaging even more things on the station, and Tazzik intercepting Lazarus' team members going solo. Shield takes it upon himself to defeat Captain Alliance, and have him expand upon what he was saying on Thessia. After one last skirmish in hand to hand combat, as that's the only way to bypass half of Captain Alliance's defenses, Vamshi shares that he is only helping the Broker who is only helping the Collectors to ultimately beat the Reapers. He's pragmatic, sacrificing a few humans to save trillions. When he believed the Reapers existed, he asked the only person who knew everything, the Broker, for information about them. The Broker brought him into his fold and explained his grand plan. Learning the Reaper's secrets and using it against them. It was the only way they could beat them. Shield convinces Vamshi that if he is not indoctrinated, he's stupid. That is not the Broker's plan. The Broker is too selfish, and likely, already too indoctrinated to do that in any sense. After using it on Vamshi himself, Shield tosses him an IDK, telling him to discover the truth for himself. Vamshi is conflicted by Shield as he's convincing, and agrees to validate Shield's suspicions, leaving the fight.
The whole conflict ends up lasting several days, and eventually ends when Cerberus is able to quarantine several safe zones with their force fields and protect them with their mobile mech army. With the adjutants held back and some semblance of order restored, they finish the job. The cure produced by Mordin, Okeer, and Cerberus scientists is administered through the station's vents, where access is only gained in a final assault on the Collector staging point within the mines. There, Tela Vasir does battle one last time with Shepard, and as the Spectres clash, Vasir explains her motives. The Broker has helped her before with a dirty job, and so, has dirt on her if she doesn't work for him in return. And after seeing evidence of the Reapers and their vast resources, Vasir has given up all hope of escaping the Broker's blackmail. There's no point, as she would only die several years later to their invasion instead. She wants to live her last days in comfort, which the Broker will only allow if she kills them. Shepard's iron clad resolve and conviction convince Vasir that she's a disgrace, basically just Saren, and after being out-bioticed by Shepard, she commits honorable sepukku. Not before mentioning with her last breath however that they'd find the Broker past the Omega-4 Relay.
The plague is cured with the medicine, and Omega, though devastated, is safe...for the moment.
Despite the fatigue, Shepard knows there's no more time to wait. With the station stabilized, and the Collectors retreating, now was the time to strike.
Assignment: The Mission
EDI soon announces the IFF is safely installed, having completed its scrub during the Battle on Omega. And so, the team all loyalty'ed up, ship fully upgraded, all loose ends taken care of, head through the Omega-4 Relay. They jump through and Joker does his thang. They destroy the Oculi drones that ruin Shield and Liara's room. And the Normandy destroys the Black Ark that comes out to challenge them. Normandy: 3, Black Arks: 0. Taking direct damage however has them crash land into the Collector Base's hangar.
They then go through the typical Suicide Mission Run from there with their 18 strong team of bad-asses. Legion in the vents, with Garrus leading the diversionary team. Jack and Samara fending off the Seeker Swarms, while Ash leads the other fire team. They save some colonists from Horizon, Okeer and Kasumi lead them back. They then come upon a severely wounded Vamshi who warns them of an upcoming trap. He gives them a layout of the base to help them succeed, as Shield was right, the Broker was too far gone. Though suspecting a ruse, Shield vouches for him. Trusting his judgement, Shepard sends Mordin and Rasa to escort the injured man back to the ship, while the rest of the team uses the base's blueprints to avoid the ambush, Tali opening the way forward by hacking various consoles. Shield suddenly catches Cadus over the hill, and immediately pursues the turian. Shepard curses, letting Thane and Garrus go to assist him. Though he ran off on his own, she knows that the Broker can't continue to further the Reapers' agenda and escape, and his location was not where they were headed.
While Shepard leads Lazarus right up to the place of their final stand, Shield reaches where he thought he saw Cadus run off to. Which is the Broker's location. Hundreds of network devices surround him, and his monitors flit with countless operations. Shield and the Shadow Broker have their big confrontation, finally meeting face to face, with Garrus and Thane voicing their desires for revenge as well, having caught up. Shield asks where the hell Cadus is, as he still has to pay him back. The Broker responds that Cadus died in the events at Alingon. His corpse was long dead by the time they retrieved it. Despite calling him a liar, Shield searches his feelings, knowing it to be true. He's the only one who's seen Cadus over this entire mission. Shield's nightmares and hallucinations have apparently reached their all-time high. He's a crazy person. Laughing, the Broker then spouts some indoctrinated spiel about being allowed to live after paying his due. He will be allowed to leave the Milky Way due to his contributions before the Reapers start their war. He's the one funding those Arks to Andromeda that Shield keeps hearing about after all. They respond that he won't be on the ride out. Cue the boss battle, with Tazzik personally showing up as the Broker's left hand. As long as there are credits, the hit man doesn't care what he does for the Broker.
Thane and Tazzik, master assassins, square off. Shield personally takes on mac daddy Broker himself. And Garrus provides support for both while also fighting off the Collectors joining in. Learning from his fights with Vamshi, Shield goes omni-shield to omni-shield with the Broker, easily outpacing him in the fight. Tazzik is taken down by Thane's signature head snap after assistance from Garrus, and then all three focus their efforts on the Yahg. Shield finishes him with off with his patented omni-blade slash. Right as the Shadow Broker is about to be possessed by Harbinger, not even realizing his Collector-based armor had installed Reaper implants within himself, Shield does him in with Sweetness. Shield takes his Revenant as a prize right as the last stand team lead by Jacob calls for assistance, apparently becoming overrun. Though he desperately wants to access the Broker's Network for information, there's no time. Shield's team immediately continues onward to where Vamshi suspects the Collector General resides, as they'd never make it back in time.
They soon reach and confront the alien, and despite the General fighting back, they take it out. Right after Shield says, "Collect This." And of course, right as it slices off Shield's left hand with one of its super sharp appendages middle of battle. It whispers one ominous line asking what he is before it dies, and Shield cauterizes his severed hand with his omni-blade. Ow. And with it dead, the Collectors lose their direction. Seeing their window, Grunt and Zaeed take the opportunity to bull rush them, routing the entire line with their ferocity. The attack has been staved off. Situation now resolved, Shield uses the Collector console to contact Shepard at the core. His holo joins in right as she is about to destroy it along with Miranda and Liara. TIM is ordering Miranda to intervene, but after seeing what she's seen, Miranda's come around to Shepard's line of thinking. Every member of the Normandy is loyal to Shepard after all. To all their shocks, Shield then speaks up, agreeing with TIM that the Base can't be destroyed.
Assignment: The Finale
The Broker's Network is aboard the base. Think of what they could do with his resources after all the Yahg did to impede them. How much they could learn and accomplish with the technology aboard. Shield already has the command center in his possession. The IDK would let them know if they were becoming indoctrinated. There was no reason to destroy it. They had to use everything in their power to beat the Reapers. Vendetta was destroyed on Thessia. They were almost killed on Omega. There was no telling what else could go different (and WRONG!) if they didn't try to do everything in their power to win. They couldn't let their morality get in the way of what needed to be done. Shepard remarks that Shield has changed. But for the worse, to his shock. Somewhere down the line, Shield had forgotten what made them human, what exactly set them apart from the Reapers. The secrets they might learn was not worth the cost of their souls.
In the thick of the debate, Shield cites Torfan, and the lives she sacrificed to achieve victory there, and how this was exactly the same. And that pushes Shepard past her limit. She didn't order her soldiers to charge that pirate fortress and get slaughtered. She had attempted to charge the batarian base herself in a heated rage. The rest had just followed her lead. The Butcher of Torfan was a pejorative title, and was one she wore because she felt she deserved it, after getting all her fellow soldiers killed due to her lack of control. Shepard admits that there would be sacrifice in the upcoming war, she was certain, but they'd win due to their own efforts, not trampling on the dead to do so. The Commander had a code, and Shield is aghast, because after all his efforts to model Jane after her, the man now realizes that he never truly knew Shepard at all from his time spent with her in AHM. He never had the full picture to begin with.
His headaches, his nightmares, Cadus, he realized then that they all stemmed from his fear of failing. Constantly forcing himself to make choices that he didn't want to make. To correct the mistakes he's made. Because he thought that Shepard would have. He didn't think he could be a hero. But Shepard was. Emulating her would be the only way he could ever come close to one. But she saved the Council. From his time with her in 2183, he would have never predicted that. He pictured her as renegade. He thought she would make those kinds of calls, like saving the Collector Base, despite she herself even telling him right to his face that she'd rather see it destroyed. Maybe viewing people as renegade or paragons, pigeon-holing them in blacks and whites, wasn't the best way to determine someone's moral character after-all. In the end, he wasn't Shepard. Liara had told him that once. And Jane had constantly reminded him of it too. Now he really knew. He was Shield.
Rasa then appears behind Shield, stunning Thane and Garrus with an overload on contact. She had trailed his team from the time she was dismissed, abandoning her mission from the get-go. TIM had given her the order to start the EMP, and as someone entirely loyal to Cerberus, she'd comply. Shield stops her just short of activating the radiation purge from the console, confusing her as she had just overheard him wanting to start it a second ago. She threatens him, citing that humanity wouldn't survive with Shepard's naive sentiments. Shield finds actual Shepard being considered naive funny. He then tells her straight up that she's not actually a racist. Or speciest, or whatever. She only joined Cerberus because she just wanted a place where she feels like she belonged. To be a part of something great. TIM and Cerberus will never give her that feeling. But the Normandy could. She's already a part of its team. Right before she apologizes and attempts to shoot him, the Reaper Larvae comes back up and starts spewing fire balls. The actions throttle the entire base, and Shield begins to grapple with Rasa. Liara finishes activating the detonator as Shepard and Miranda take down the Reaper baby. With it falling, the roof starts caving in, and Shields saves Rasa from being flattened. Shocked, she realizes he's trapped underneath the rubble, and grimaces before leaving him for dead now that there's no way to stop the oncoming explosion.
He's saved by Thane and Garrus coming back to, and they immediately follow the lead of everyone else, running like hell to escape. On the way out, they find Rasa on the ground. Only knocked out of course, and against his better judgement, Shield picks her up, as that's what Shield would do. Leave no man (or women) behind. The four make it to the Normandy a little after the Last Stand team, though Shepard and her squad's still missing. With seconds left to spare, they finally appear, outrunning an army of Collectors. Shield and Ash help them all aboard the Normandy, and Joker punches it, taking off. Suicide Mission Sui-denied. With Rasa and Vamshi in the brig and every crew member now loyal to Shepard, they give her free reign on what to do next. She deigns that their next stop was to let everyone off before the Normandy docks at Arcturus. Shepard had a report to give to Command. Whether they believed it or not was up to them.
The last scene would be Shield's private conversation with TIM. TIM lambastes them for being fools and giving everything up just because it felt like the right thing. He expected more from Shepard. And from Shield. Two of Cerberus' greatest achievements. Shield says Project Backdoor was a failure, and that nothing he's achieved is due to it's efforts. Shield has learned that even TIM doesn't know what happened to him after Project Backdoor. Shield then tells him off further, calling TIM a shit human being, and finally revealing everything in his hand. Knowing Jack Harper's true name, his experience with the Arca Monolith, what led to Cerberus' formation, along with all of Cerberus' failed AND upcoming projects. Shield goads him, saying he'll be one step ahead of him the entire way in 2186. And he adds that this will make sure it happens, revealing Glyph, who he downloaded from the Broker's computer before leaving. TIM admits he had underestimated Shield, thinking the benefits of having Shield in Lazarus outweighed his own curiosity about his sources. TIM promises he won't make that mistake again. Shield then reprimands TIM for continuously calling him Alexei Leonov the entire story. His name was Marauder Shield. And that was the name that would go down in history for preventing Shepard from experiencing that shitty ending in 2186. Believe it.
Cue Mass Effect 2 OST - Suicide Run
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Afterword
So the Cadus thing was kind of a half-baked idea, as I did want him dead after Shield's last encounter with him, but at the same time, I wanted it to have actual weight instead of just being mentioned passing. So Shield losing it would be the compromise for that. Was originally going to have Shield see him on Fehl Prime, pursue him, and Jane die trying to save him. But I thought that would put too much angst and impetus on Shield. I did want Jane to have her own moment in the story. So I ended up dropping that thread, and giving the clone her own spotlight in the end, having her make her own choice on Fehl Prime like James did in Paragon Lost. Save the colonists, or save the mission. She was a good kid right until the end. Though I didn't really go into it, losing his only goals one by one like activating Vigil or killing Cadus would also bring Shield deeper into his slump. A slump that I decided only the real Shepard could get him out of. Hopefully that whole character epiphany in the end, and Shield being a sad boi for half the story wasn't too gag me with a spoon.
And after this story, though I didn't mention it too heavily, it would become apparent that I am shipping Shenko, Shiara, and Garri. The one night stand with Jacob would essentially be kindling for even more drama between Shepard and Kaidan (who were on a break), and would delay their inevitable romance despite how strongly they feel for one another. He kind of broke Shepard's heart on Horizon. Jacob and her both understood it was a one-time fling. Unfortunately at this point, Shield has accepted Shepard doesn't feel the same way about him. And I really like Maya Brooks' character. She is tragic, and I guess that's the main reason why I do, as I just feel sorry for her. And she is HEAVILY involved with Lazarus. Besides the clone, the comic ME:Foundations has her go through the dossiers for the team herself, nearly interacting with every single one, which would also have been addressed by the squad-mates upon realizing, as she ditches the Khali disguise. And though Shield tries to help her in the end, Rasa's kind of unable to see anything else past herself due to looking out for number one for so long.
So Liara and Shield's steadily growing camaraderie will eventually turn into its own thing after Rasa makes a break with the Normandy team. Shield was crushing on Liara back in AHM when they first met actually, as Shield was an absolute dork around her, and in ME3:TH, that will come full circle. Garrus and Tali is just my favorite pairing in the series, they're basically a couple in this story, I also had hints of them liking each other in AHM, so that's happening, don't at me.
And Shield kind of becoming the new Broker was his natural progression I think. Stealing Liara's role was kind of mean, but then again, I hate how Liara turned into her own edgelord character after ME1. I want revenge, I know how to flay people with my mind, I'm an action girl now. She's literally just a different character. It's insane. The only reason even explaining it is that the guy who betrayed her several times was captured. With how much she cares about Feron, you'd actually almost think it'd be Liara's most popular romance after Shepard and Javik. Anyway, this wraps up AHR and the pairings that everyone was looking forward to the most in-story. Next up is the series finale, The Hero.
