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I knew coming into ME2 Kaidan was not going to be on my squad but that does not change the fact I miss having him around. His abilities saved me many times in ME1. And then I get this really sweet email from him about Horizon and it makes me miss him even more.

Part of me wants to rush to ME3 so I can have him back but I know I must take my time in ME2 for now so I can try and get the happiest ending with him as possible.

I’m replaying ME2 again and do we think that during Kaidan & Shepards separation that he hooked up with or dated other women? Apparently he accuses Shepard of cheating on him if you romance someone in ME2 (I haven’t done this, just seen a few posts about it) but he says in his email that his friends convinced him to go out for drinks with a doctor? 😠Did he not technically break up with Shepard on Horizon? Also why do you think he didn’t reach out to Shepard during her 6 month house arrest? I have so many questions about their “separation” I’m also way to invested in their relationship lol

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I needed to do something after finishing current playthrough.

No Kaidan was hurt in making of that video. I included only one moment when persuade chance dropped below 0, where you fail to convince Kaidan but I turned the game off to not see what will come.

I didn't inculde line where Kaidan doesn't tell anything at 0 or lower persuade chance after Udina telling Shepard is working with Cerberus. Another line for persuade chance at 0 or lower is "Pretty damning evidence, Commander." after showing evidence from Udina (so you are basically at -2 or -3).

Both interrupts increase persuade chance by 1. Final lines at 0 require 40% reputation bar.

Update about Mars only twice paragon responses near the husk provides +1, any other option gives 0.

Also added two moments when you fail or get line to convince Kaidan to join Normandy.

How many Shepards were used in video? Yes.

I’m not quite sure what the exact circumstances of this video are but Shepard is definitely supposed to be dead regardless. I don’t know if it’s between ME 1 and 2 or after 3.

I just like the idea of Kaidan being in distress about Shepard idk 😭

Reposted bc of tags

I love seeing Kaidan's photo in the Normandy's captain's quarters in ME2.

Obviously, not related to Kaidan specifically, but we all know he'd happily look at all our pet photos.

Cats, dogs, gerbils, snakes, tarantulas, you name it, we want to see it.

It's that time for me to share more videos of my favorite ME1 conversations! This one is up there. The ALMOST kiss <3 there's something about ME1 Shenko that is... so cute.

I think I saved this video in my computer as "joker being a cockblock.mp4" haha

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Do you leave him at the bomb site for that extra Shenko cutscene or do you send him with the Salarians to hear his voice over the comms throughout the mission?

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guess what i finished the other day after posting that last meme ✨

i’m so super bad about not finishing “big projects,” but i can say proudly that this one is done. honestly, i got the motivation to do so because of positive feedback here and on my tumblr in regards to my Kaidan stuff, so thank you all for that honestly!!!

i really like the concept album of EPIC, and “Would You Fall in Love with Me Again” is my favorite of the songs. the audio was a cover by @Evolite

anyway!!! enjoy!

Obviously, not related to Kaidan specifically, but we all know he'd happily look at all our pet photos.

Cats, dogs, gerbils, snakes, tarantulas, you name it, we want to see it.

i'm still on my Kaidan Alenko kick. trying to finish a mini animatic-type video for my tiktok, and i was struck with inspiration from iCarly for another meme...

i love the concept of Shepard actually being kind of weird and stupid (a failwife if you will), when not specifically in her super serious "i'm an Alliance soldier" mode

OG post here: [ x ]

I do not blame you guys if you’re not interested whatsoever, but I got overexcited and put way too much time into this. On that same note, I am wayyyy too embarrassed and self conscious to post it to TikTok or something so I thought I’d share it here instead. If you don’t like it, I hope you don’t HATE it at least if you bother to watch lol.

There was a mod called Back Off many years ago (I feel old) that was basically a total overhaul of the Kaidan romance. The mod creator took it down around the time LE was released.

Kind of a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone here might have the file for it saved somewhere.

Thank you for coming to my KAIDTalk.

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And how, if present for the final fight, Kaidan is sat buried under rubble for long enough, hopeless enough, that he's just certain Shepard's dead. The defeated wordless response, having to watch Anderson's face drop as the triumph of the victory comes crashing down. Was he calling out for Shepard, only for the silence to grow into something that bears only one conclusion? To lose something he only just let himself have, something that he avoided for so long. Too long.

And just as he turns his back, staggering out to leave with the burden of a new brutal grief in tow, there's footsteps and scrambling and somehow Shepard is standing there, atop the wreckage. And by some miracle, he can let the grief go almost as soon as he met it. Maybe they laugh about it afterwards, once wounds are healed, finding light in bouncing between extremes. Wouldn't it be crazy? If Shepard had died? A monumental victory stolen from Shepard's grasp, never getting to celebrate what they achieved, what they worked so hard for. Can you imagine?

And so they return to normality, cleaning up the dregs of Geth left behind, drudgery and routine that gives them time to work out what their future looks like, what their present does--what loving each other looks like now that things marginally are less desperate.

But they only get a month. And then Shepard dies, somewhere alone in the cold expanse of space. And there's no wreckage to climb out of this time, no second miracle, no laughing about it afterwards. Kaidan has to pick up the grief he only just put down, watching as the weeks and months pass him by, knowing he's spent more time with this unspeakable pain than he ever did with Shepard and now it's all he has left of them.

https://reddit.com/link/1ur22xc/video/n4irdymez1ch1/player

It's small - but it's cute!

Said personal debriefings involve remarkably little productivity, of course.

SPOILERS: For ME comics, ME trilogy, and the movie Paragon Lost. Literally this post is one entire spoiler and has been tagged as such. If you don't want to be spoilered, go baaaaaack, the darkness can't be breached.

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Both VS get a lot of hate for being "shortsighted" on Horizon and missing the point. At the same time the Alliance keeps getting accused by the fandom for "doing nothing" during ME2. However, this is wildly contradicted by the ME canon, mostly within the movie Paragon Lost and the comics! Inside the games, we have a very narrow view as Shepard, of course, so Shepard does not know about the intel the Alliance and Kaidan have.

So I decided to do a deep dive in canon to disprove that Kaidan is being unreasonable on Horizon, and also to prove that the Alliance is doing everything in their power to protect the human colonies. Cerberus is, in fact, working with the Collectors and Kaidan and the Alliance are 100% right. This is the literal plot of the movie "Paragon Lost" and it is further supported by the comics.

• Aria is most likely the first one to discover the Collectors' interest in humans: This is shown in the ME comics. She found out the Collectors were on Omega, buying human slaves. A big gunfight ensued and every Collector and Blue Suns slaver died. She then found a human datapad with exact human population numbers per colony on dead Collectors. These are the exact colonies that get attacked during ME2 and Paragon Lost. Aria holds the data pad and says "humanity has greater enemies than they think" and the next panel shows TIM with full, glowing indoctrination eyes, suggesting he is the source of the datapad, and that Cerberus is giving the Collectors intel on the colonies.
• The timeline of the comic suggests that TIM might know that Alchera is coming: Shepard isn't part of this comic at all, and yet the fight timeline is set as "one month before Alchera". But if TIM is shown to be colluding with the Collectors and the timeline is specifically set to be before Alchera even happened, it is possible that he already knows about their interest in Shepard and this is why he is so insistent at the start of ME2 not to "lose" them**.** Otherwise it is quite weird to sink billions into a research project aiming to save Shepard. It makes more sense to assume he knew that Shepard would be targeted and this is why he has Miranda start the project.
• ME2 and Paragon Lost suggest that TIM is only doing this to study the Collectors and steal their tech in preparation for the Reaper War. For TIM this is a "necessary evil" - in his mind he is not betraying humanity but trying to save it. TIM's betrayal of the Collectors actually comes when he steals Shepard's body from them. Betrayal has always been his endgame. However, TIM has been indoctrinated since Shanxi, many years before ME1 even happened, as per the comics. He may think he is acting on humanity's best interests but all he does is serve Reaper interests throughout the trilogy's timeline. His arc mirrors Saren's indoctrination. They both start off thinking they are serving the galaxy/humanity and end up fully under Reaper control by the end.
• After discovering the Collector threat, the Alliance started the "outreach programme": This was the only way that they could arm the colonies in the Traverse and Terminus systems without causing a war, since they weren't technically allowed to send whole fleets in. ME1 establishes that the Alliance isn't allowed in the Terminus systems or any contested parts of the Traverse. This arming programme is the entire plot of Paragon Lost. James from ME3 is stationed on Fehl Prime to install the guns and protect the colony.
• Arming the colonies goes against Cerberus plans to study the Collectors. So Cerberus sends an agent to dismantle the guns on Fehl Prime. Horizon isn't their first time using a colony as bait. TIM wanted to test his theory of the Collectors having ties to the Reapers by choosing a colony with reaper artifacts and crippling it. The moment the guns went down due to Cerberus sabotage, the Collectors showed up, confirming his theory. This is why TIM confidently tells you that Cerberus intel says the Collectors are working with the Reapers. It is most likely that Cerberus is the reason why the guns on Horizon aren't working either, and why Kaidan is there to fix them as part of the same "outreach programme".
• The Alliance was developing collector antivenom on Fehl Prime before Shepard/Mordin did. This is canon and shown in the movie Paragon Lost. It is unclear what happened to that serum, it is possible it got lost during the Collector attack because the colony was completely destroyed. Otherwise, Kaidan would have it on Horizon (or maybe he did and this is why he wasn't taken)
• The conversation you have with James in ME3 while you "dance" about him "choosing the intel" is directly referencing the Fehl Prime colony attack. James is the one of only two survivors, he is the one who debriefs Hackett and Anderson on the lost colony and Cerberus' betrayal. This is why he is immediately chosen to accompany Shepard as a bodyguard in ME3. James was selected by Hackett and Anderson to be part of Shepard's team from the moment he debriefed them. This happens shortly after Shepard has "woken up" in ME2.
• Since Hackett and Anderson know about the events of Fehl Prime, it is probable that Kaidan also knows. He literally says Alliance intel supports that Cerberus is working with the Collectors but we can't ask him about it. In all probability, he is referring to the intel on Cerberus sabotage of Fehl Prime, that same intel Hackett/Anderson got from James.
• The Alliance was also low key evacuating small colonies at the time. This is confirmed by Hackett during ME2 Arrival.
• When TIM says the Alliance is doing nothing, he is 100% lying to you. The Alliance is making antivenom, arming colonies, and secretly evacuating them. Cerberus is literally sabotaging colonies and letting the Collectors in. It is not a coincidence that comms and guns are down on Horizon before the attack. TIM is literally the reason why the colonies are getting attacked and the Alliance is doing more than Cerberus to save them.
• When TIM says he doesn't know where Kaidan is, he is also lying. He is pulling strings to get him on Horizon. If you go directly to Anderson, right after your first conversation with TIM, Anderson will tell you Kaidan is already on mission. If you go back to Anderson after Horizon, and ask him about Kaidan again, his dialogue confirms that when you went to him at the start of ME2, Kaidan was already on Horizon. So if TIM pulled strings specifically to get him stationed there, he must have known where he was. He just chose not to tell you, till the time he pulled the trigger on the Horizon attack.