I prefer the idea that the Reaper ships themselves are just hand puppets used by incomprehensible beings to interact with scum
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
the idea that the Reapers are their ship bodies and that once killed are irreplaceable really softened their menace
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also - this is the big one - I wanted biotic powers themselves to be part of the story and not just weird tech
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in the original planned ending the development of biotics is what triggers the cycle
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physical life starts breaking the laws of physics bc our own minds are crossing over to the realm of the gods
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idk I did feel the "organic/synthetic" dichotomy was a big retcon in ME2
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the big reveal in ME1 is that it's a red herring, Sovereign could give two shits about the distinction
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the big scary thing abt that ending was pulling the rug from under you that any existing political conflicts mattered
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the geth's grievances don't matter, they're just slaves now, Saren's personal drama doesn't matter either
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the chilling thing where you talk him back from the ledge to the Light Side and Sovereign just rolls his eyes and deletes him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
pulling back from that and saying that it does matter and the Reapers are an extension of the quarian story was a balk
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also my headcanon was that husks were geth tech, not Reaper tech, born of the geth's tragic Pinocchio Syndrome
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