Glad that I finally read this. And somehow not, but such is the nature of the Premisverse I guess. Wondering who Shepard's sister is, of course. I hope that'll be revealed at some point, though I can't guess how that's gonna end.

wait wait wait. Two daughters? Shepard has a sister? Is this in the main story and I somehow missed it? And Rachel is the epitome of a bitch. Jesus Christ.

I envy GoT fans who has such happy and optimistic books to read. I wonder what that would be like..

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Sister? Sara has a sister? Must be older, no way they have another kid after eezo exposure. That also means non-biotic. Wait, don’t tell me... Rasa?

Damn...just, damn.

That paints a picture.

That was horrible, but good backstory for Shepard. I really appreciate that you stick to your guns when coming up with this stuff. Pull no punches and all that.
Every plot hole must be expunged!

Eh this is just weird torture porn ala Requiem for a Dream. Not a fan.

A very well done and interesting collection. I really hope this continues.

This...paints EDI and Ahern's relationship into an entirely different light. And also almost makes me want to see Ahern live for a little while longer. Almost. Guy is still an asshole.

Cool shit, also dark as hell. I like Pel, I think he's a good character.

Regarding Tiny there it seems he's dead whereas I'm sure I read elsewhere he was in a wheelchair.

It's nice to see some of Okeer praised wisdom. At last we see his vaunted intelligence in work even if purpose is let's say morally suspect. Sadly, I suspect his return will be somewhat derailed; neither Shepard nor Wrex would tolerate him being alive I think.

... see, it's this sort of fuckedupness that leaves me wondering why I keep reading your stories. And then I remember that you make damned good stories.

Honestly, though, why use Amanda as EDI's neural template? It makes literally no sense. They didn't know the scientist guy would pair her with Ahern, I'm totally confused as to why they kept Amanda's corpse around to begin with, and the only possible explanation is that you just want to make everything as fucked up as possible. There's NO reasonable Watsonian explanation. The Doylist explanation, as I mentioned, seems to only be to show us that the High Lords deserve to burn with literally every other government in this universe. Which we already knew. There comes a point where it's like, "Dude, really? Another 'For the EVULZ!' moment? We got it the first dozen times you showed off that the 'Refusal' ending of ME3 is too good for this universe."

In all seriousness, though, I sincerely hope there's a reason behind this reveal and the "Grunt is Urv" one in the previous chapter beyond just trying to tie EDI and Grunt into character-defining backstory deaths.

Going by the pattern here, I fully expect Legion to actually be a copy of the mind of that sibling Shepard doesn't know she has that got sold into slavery, and then Jaavik is actually a 'flesh-puppet' Vigil makes when he goes Norman Bates, and the Illusive Man is actually a time-traveling Anderson with a skinjob, and Shepard goes back in time and creates the Reapers. Oh, and then ...

But I'm getting off topic. My point is, WTF, dude?!

OOOOOOOOOH, I've got a request for a story.

Can we get the truth about Shepard's parents and how much of her childhood was the fault of Cerberus?

Tali appears so arrogant that I'm still siding with her dad here.

This is some dark shit.

Chapter 1 was just morbid.

Chapter 2, I've seen it coming from a mile away but I think that just made it worse. Awesome writing. God knows what he would do if he ever figures it out.

Chapter 3 just made me hate rael more. Jealous hypocrite.

Chapter 4 was incredible, how you built pel up and then mercilessly cut him down. All the feels.