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soullesshusk:

livinginheadcanon:

soullesshusk:

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faeriefountain:

i guess screwing the ship itself doesn’t count.

I’d say don’t get me started, but judging by the fact that I’m typing it’s too late for that.

But boy howdy does this make me mad, and not because I don’t like synthetic/organic ships (hello, sam/edi shipper right here) or because I’m a shoker shipper. It’s because Joker’s treatment of EDI is so shitty I literally have to pretend their interactions in the third game don’t even exist. 

They literally turned Joker into this fourteen year old dudebro who’s acting like he got a damned blow-up doll. It’s so gross in so many different ways. For starters, EDI is a person with her own agency, and the skeevy sexual comments he makes about her are absolutely not okay.

Let’s think about that for a moment. EDI is a fairly new lifeform, relatively young, AI or not. On top of that, she’s also completely inexperienced with human relationship dynamics, whether they be sexual, romantic, platonic, etc. Creeping on her the way he was comes off as really…predatory. 

And that whole “I am right here, Jeff” line she gives him just sounded so uncomfortable. EDI did not seem flattered to me, or even curious. 

Departing from EDI here, I’m also really mad on Joker’s behalf, because he was a favorite character of mine, and it all just screams OOC to me. This is a guy who in the first two games was really guarded about his emotions. The sarcasm and snark weren’t from a funny-guy perspective, but coming from a man who kept people at a distance.

I won’t get into why it’s problematic to pair the only disabled character up with a computer (other people have done it better than I ever could), but I’ll mention that it is.

The only way I can even remotely reconcile his behavior is to read it as though it’s coming from a sense of fear. Like, this robot body nearly killed the VS, and he just doesn’t know how to react to it. 

Flawless. <3 

except it was completely in character if you forget about the fact joker is joker and pretend seth green got put in joker’s place.

aka I’m saying seth green was creeping on EDI from the get go and this performance was just seth green being seth green.
so yes it is out of character for Joker but not for seth green.

Isn’t the fact that Joker is unromanceable pretty much because Seth Green wanted EDI and Joker together?

Bah. Whatever. It’s another ticked box in the list of hopelessly sexist things in ME3. The way EDI is treated in general is a huge one. Like everyone has a comment about her ~hot sexy body~. UGH.

ding ding ding!!

yes you would be correct. seth green basically did not want his character romanced, so, no jokermance.

the same thing happened with Vega. Prinze Jr. was not willing to do romance dialogue. So you know..kinda hard to make a character romance when their VA is unwilling to do anything for it.

Hey, I’m glad I’m not the only one who found the whole “EDI has a female body now” creepy. And of course they gave the AI a female body. EDI is a female name, with a female voice, nevermind the fact that an artificial AI has no female biology and no social gender construct. Let’s just force this new lifeform into the role of a subservient female human and give her as a gift to the white dude who’s been using her as a prosthetic for years and can’t get a girl on his own. He says it’s because of the disability, but really, we all know it’s not. Look at how he treats EDI! If that’s how he treats the woman of his dreams, I am damn glad he never dreamt of Shepard. 

I think the game had a thing for subservient AIs. Depending on how it was resolved, it is entirely possible that the Geth live to serve the Quarians happily ever after. I think in the Mass Effect universe AIs as a - species? A subset of intelligent life - are protrayed as having no purpose apart from serving their creators, on pain of extermination. We see AIs separating from organics to form military structures, but not to form peaceful colonies who send diplomats to the Council. They don’t trade with the volus or ask asari philosophers existential questions or work on joint research projects with the salarians. The AIs have two settings: weapons of war or tools to be used. 

I’m not sure how the synthesis ending fits into this, seeing as how it’s a batch of technobabble written by someone painfully ignorant of both biology and computer science.  I don’t know what implications are for the future of the universe, apart from “happily ever after.”

Personal headcanon is that Joker is EDI’s first boyfriend. You know, that ex from high school, the one you shake your head at and go “what was I thinking? I’m glad I grew out of that. Wow, look at how much his life sucks years later! Look, he’s still single!” Not only will EDI live forever, she also learns at an exponentially faster rate than humans. She’s a few years old when put in that body, and she’s acting more like a precocious teen than a toddler. She’ll become an adult within a few months/years, and in a few decades she’ll relate better to an asari than a human. I can’t wait to see her and the geth meet properly. 

horrorpeach:

#this was the weird ship I had before it even happened #and then it happened #and that was weird for me #that doesn’t usually happen wat

These two are so adorable together!

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