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Could always ask friend/family to temp cover you. Or start a tumblr paypal donation pool. Seems a lot of people here want to help.

Realistic, but counter productive. If the ideals of looking out for only your own kind are encouraged, nobody will ever care about anybody besides their own family/race etc. Her views are poorly distorted while not entirely based on racial prejudice.

It's not based on prejudice at all, though - racial or otherwise.

By the time Mass Effect rolls around, racial identity is mostly obliterated because people are actually GETTING ALONG and intermixing and everything and the people of Earth have formed the Alliance after finding the Prothean Archives on Mars, in order to stand as a united front (wow we have a lot of work to do in the next 144 years). As a result, there's no more black or white or anything else - there's HUMANITY (if you're playing the Illusive Man drinking game, take a shot!).

She doesn't trust nonhumans, it's true, not because she doesn't like them or anything else, but because it really is human nature that people tend, more than anything, to look out for the best interests of themselves and the people they care about more than anything else. (Semi-offtopic: for another example, see "The Flaw in the Plan" from Order of the Phoenix - Dumbledore says something like 'what did I care if thousands of nameless, faceless people and creatures suffered, so long as the boy in front of me could be happy a little while longer?')

And while we may denounce this as being morally wrong - because it's certainly not the right thing to do - it really and truly is basic human nature. That's what we are. It's definitely not something we should encourage, but it is beyond any shadow of a doubt something that does exist in the real world. If I ask my mom if I can borrow $150 because I'm broke and bills and things are about to get cut off, she wouldn't bat an eye to help me out. Now let's think about how many people in any number of third world countries that could help out - housing, food, clothing, etc. But is that where that money goes? No.

And it's not even that Ash doesn't care about other races. She gladly goes off to help Kirrahe and comments on their skill and their tenacity when it comes to getting the job done on Virmire. She doesn't shoot Wrex because he's an alien, she does it because she sees what's happening and doesn't think that Shep is going to be able to talk the really angry krogan down when it comes to destroying the cure to his species' sterility plague that is slowly causing their extinction.

Wrex doesn't want to destroy the place because it is not in his species' best interests. You can talk him into it because the krogan there are mindless slaves, and he's a very proud guy, but otherwise...kapow.

She denounces Terra Firma and Cerberus for spreading anti-alien propaganda and being xenophobic bigots.

But being able to look at another species and expect them to act like any other human would? That's just treating them like any other person.

It may not be the way we SHOULD look at things - because we shouldn't have to! - but it is a realistic, albeit highly cynical, way of looking at how things are.

And all this because I romanced her when I loathed her. The same thing happened with Jack, actually. I shudder to think what would happen if I romanced Kaidan or Jacob because I reaaaaally don't like them...

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10. I kinda wish I'd been born in a different time, either because I romanticize the idea of living in a simpler time, or because I want to fucking explore space. Or because I have a deep-seated yearning to become a master thief a la Arsene Lupin (or Kasumi - see also Ocean's Eleven, etc).

9. When I play games for the first time, if there's any amount of class customization or choice involved, I will always choose the stealthy/rogue/thief/assassin route. There's just something about remaining entirely unnoticed and eliminating your target as silently/brutally as possible. The same holds true for playing multiplayer in FPS games or similar - I'm all about running up behind people and murdering them without them ever knowing I was there - ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN I PLAY HALO I LIVE FOR ASSASSINATIONS (disclaimer: I am not and do not ever intend to be a murderer irl)

8. I love writing. I love to create, to make people feel, to make MYSELF feel. I love to read, naturally - I'm a voracious reader and desperately in need of more shelf space - but there's just something about being the one who created something that gives people those feels.

7. When I was a teenager, I worked in this restaurant and the guys in the kitched (who were all Hispanic) nicknamed me 'oso' - bear. This may or may not be due to my towering temper after being woken up. Bears are some of my favorite animals (possibly as a result), but over time it's shifted a bit more and I'm more of a lion person now (due in part to GRYFFINDORRRRRRRRRR but also some really fucking awesome shirts I picked up, one of which is a lion wearing glasses and it's my favorite shirt and it just has this expression on its face that's SO ME).

6. I don't really give a damn about all this gender/race/orientation/religion/etc bullshit. Yeah, it's all bullshit to me. Live and let live, guys. Do whatever the fuck you want, so long as it's not hurting other people or infringing on their right to be happy. And no, telling a homosexual person that they are an abomination against God is NOT covered under your right to be happy, dickface. You can certainly tell them that, and I respect your right to say it, but I also respect their right to get fucking pissed about it (and I wouldn't blame them for punching you in the face because I'd probably do it, too). I don't care if you're a man, woman, banana, robot, or alien - if you wanna play games, fucking play games ffs.

5. I love romance. Yeah, I said it. Fucking romcoms are irresistible to me. I mean, I love comedy. I love romance. How am I not gonna like the combination? With that in mind, good writing is still important. That's why I get this defiant look in my eye when I tell people I watch New Girl and Gilmore Girls along with House and TWD and Game of Thrones and stuff - fuck you they're well-written, witty, and they genuinely make me happy. Shit I should BE so lucky as to find a Lorelei Gilmore of my own. AND I STILL AM TORN ABOUT WHO I WANT SCHMIDT TO PICK WHEN NEW GIRL COMES BACK

4. If I had a superpower, I would want to be able to either fly, or have super speed. I dunno which one I'd gravitate towards, though - it kinda changes based on my mood. They both really suit my fervent, burning need to get out and see things and travel and explore, though. Like, I seriously NEED it.

3. Relevant to number 5, yeah I like cute shit too. If you can seriously look me in the eye and tell me that Hanako, Tali, and Merrill aren't fucking adorable then I'm probably gonna tell you you're a soulless monster because SERIOUSLY THEY ARE HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS IS THIS BLOOD MAGIC. I could go on for a long time about why I love Tali so fucking much - and before anyone mentions her butt, let me just say that that has nothing to do with it - but I don't really talk about Merrill that much (and I think Aki is the only person I know that's played Katawa Shoujo so nobody probably knows who Hanako even is). The point, though, is that there are characters, and there are characters you just wanna hug really tight and tell that everything is gonna be okay and those are three of them. This cuteness also applies to a character in GoT whose name I still don't know because I've only seen her twice - Stannis' daughter. She's got some crazy dragonscale disease that I don't know shit about but *I* think it makes her look pretty fucking cool and she teaches Davos how to read and he asks her why there's a 'g' in 'night' and she's just like IDK THERE JUST IS SHRUG and I'm like whoa how are you this great at such a young age

2. I love Mass Effect, okay? I really do. And it's more than just flying around having space adventures and watching Tali blush and be fucking adorable at every goddamn moment - it's the scenery, the conversations...but most especially the people. It wasn't until recently that I realized part of what it is that draws me so much to Tali - she's a quarian (PLOT TWIST?). And what fucks me up is that I realized yeah, quarians are my favorite race (sorry turians and drell, but you came pretty dang close because you're GREAT, too), but the reason WHY is...well. Quarians are all about community, togetherness, family...those close-knit bonds. The Migrant Fleet really is just one big giant family. Everybody looking out for each other. Doing what's best for the fleet as a whole. And what kills me is that I realized the quarians are everything that I wished I had had in my life but never did. I never had a real family. I've had precious few people in my life that I really knew cared for me. No father. Mother always too busy for me (single parenting is hard). Sister who's a total bitch. A lonely, lonely existence, my formative years. And that's why I love the quarians - they're everything I ever wanted but could never, ever have. And that's why I fucking love Mass Effect so much, because no other game has really cut me so deeply to my core like that.

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