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kaidan spending the night. you, waking up to the smell of breakfast cooking downstairs. watching kaidan, eyes bright and curls loose, moving around the kitchen like it's his own. fresh juice and coffee on the counter. an aspirin if you need it. maybe he'll give you a peck on the lips if you come a little closer :)

while he's not all that knowledgeable on alien cultures, especially in the first game, kaidan does try to be respectful. he has some awkward lines with liara concerning asari biology, and a funny scene about how he wanted to tell tali she's a good egg but held off in case that translated to some sort of quarian insult. he gets better about it the more time he spends with the alien members of the crew, picking up cues and learning tidbits and realising that they're not so alien after all. when kaidan's transferred back to the normandy by the third game, he's more or less clued up, but he isn't immune to making the occasional faux pas.

everyone say well done to me for submitting my assignments and finishing my exam prep! expect some new things here over the next couple of days 😈

something something the parallel of kaidan killing vyrnnus to protect rahna and kaidan killing udina to protect the other councillors (and shepard and co by extension)

kaidan had the potential to be an incredibly talented human adept, but he turned down the alliance's offer to continue with his training after brain camp was terminated. i feel like kaidan, back on earth and having to carry the weight of vrynnus' death and rahna's rejection, did resent the alliance for subjecting him and the other children to all they'd endured. it would be valid for him to be sceptical of any new programs the alliance was pushing him to join. there's a few years where he's bounced between several unfulfilling jobs before he enlists, only partially as a means to impress his father. he chooses to focus his training on tech and field medicine. he found he preferred the look on people's faces when he was healing them rather than hurting them.

am i really going to replay 20 hrs worth of me3 so kaidan doesn't friendzone my mshep during their presidium dinner? yes

ignoring how the game determines who shepard pushes out of the way of the prothean beacon on eden prime, i'm inclined to say that kaidan approaching the beacon makes more sense character-wise. he's curious about the beacon in the sense that they've come all this way to discover it, and i feel like since ashley had just watched her squad slaughtered in front of her, she'd be more cautious about getting too close to unknown alien tech.