What Happens If SHEPARD ROMANCES NOBODY? (All 3 Mass Effect Games) 

Can you do a Guide on how to romance (and avoid romances, and how to escape them)

Doesn't being single also trigger unique dialogue with Anderson at the end of ME3 where instead of the famous "I'm proud of you" dialogue, he asks Shepard if he/she has ever considered children, as he/she would make a great parent. I've seen a clip of it once so I know it exists, but I'm not sure how it's triggered but I would assume it's tied to being single.

I love how EDI stands up just before the photo

I think I missed it

RU-vid really needs to treat that word “incel” like a racial slur. It’s super offensive. No one calls someone who doesn’t have children a “childless one.” Because not everyone is meant to be a parent, let alone wants to be a parent. And just because we’re all born from a man and a woman it doesn’t mean that we’re all gonna desire to have either of them in our lives full time. The problem with the term “incel” is that it arrogantly assumes what goals and priorities a person must have in their life. It’s like if someone made fun of you or tried to insult you because you didn’t like to go out to eat at restaurants. Because the idea of strangers preparing your food creeps you out. None of us have an obligation to eat at restaurants. The same way we’re not obligated to have a boyfriend or girlfriend.

That vanguard rush tactic in insanity is of more importance than big blue tiddies

Weeb Shepard Confirmed.

The halal shepard

Queebs watching fleet and flotilla with their body pillows in an environment suit cover

​@@danielawesome36 Noooooooooooooooo! 😂

I sorta agree, I think it's important to the player that the romance option they choose gives them comfort

@@nolanschotanus2769 that’s a valid counterpoint. For role playing purposes comfort from the one you love in that situation makes sense. I suppose I just wish they had done more with their relationship. I can’t quite pinpoint the reason, but by the end I felt like they didn’t do enough with him; and that’s even with his little section from ME 2 in mind.

@@benjaminhoover8524 His appearance is also triggered if FemShep only romanced Thane. In case you haven't seen that Citadel DLC Ending, I'm not going to spoil what happens.

If you play as female shepherd, she says something to that fact about if she were interested in Joker. He basically Admits he’s too much of a bitch.

@@LordBloodraven what happened?

omg yes i forgot about that hahah i love mordin

Also happens with Male Shep hilariously enough

@@TheKlm213 I mean with asexuals its the same thing as with bisexuals. Just from the other side - they dont care about male or female because they are interested in neither.

THEN TRY ME, FROG BOYY

What a bro, haha

Right? its funny how manny people don´t see that.

Sometimes people playing romantic games too much

But Tali technically isn't his subordinate

@@gokublack8342 Tali was officially placed under his command in ME2 and ME3. That's makes her his subordinate.

@@silverblade357 Placed by who no one placed her there she chose to join you in 2(She actually informed Reegor that she was gonna go with you and not return to the fleet) in 3 she was an admiral so no one had authority over her she volunteered to help you and decided on her own to join you after Rannoch. Literally in both games she decides to join you on her own. She follows you out of respect not because of any actual obligation. Edit: If by subordinate you mean she follows him and defers to his judgement than yes but what you seem to be implying is chain of command which doesn't apply to her as she's technically not under his command if anything she technically outranks him in 3 her being Admiral technically means she's equivalent to Hackett or Anderson

That doesnt stop you from dating all the alliens. Only Kaiden, Ashley, maybe Jacob but thats it.

Fraternization is a serious matter in actual militaries. People can be court martialed, dishonorably discharged and in some cases even sent to prison for violating it. In fact, had the trilogy given me romance options that weren’t on your ship or part of your squad, such as say that cop on Noveria, that scientist on Feros, or someone on the Citadel, I’d have preferred that to someone whose life is mine to risk in combat.

@@brainconqueror8095 Well, Miranda is sort of that woman because she is not part of the alliance and for the most part she does her own thing after ME2 SM is over.

@@Dark_Voice but you have to initiate the romance while she is your XO in the second game. Granted, at this point you aren’t in an official military, but you still got way more than friendly with one of your subordinates. What if the Suicide Mission had a Virmire like moment where you had to assign a specialist to a task, but that specialist has to die in the process? Would you then not pick Miranda even though she may objectively be the best suited for the task, because you are romancing her? This is why rules forbidding fraternization exist.

@@brainconqueror8095 In that case, I would choose Jacob the Sacrificial idiot. Jokes aside, if there was no other way and it would be the best solution - yep, I definitely would and probably romance Liara in ME3. (BTW, I used Miranda for every fire team mission during SM, I also used my second favorite character, Kasumi Goto, as a tech expert, and third favorite, Samara, as the shield specialist => during suicide mission I literally risked my favorite characters BUT I look at it from the other POV - I would send there Miranda even as my girlfriend because I know I can trust and rely on her to get the job done no matter what)

I was wondering where that scene was. Huge missed opportunity

BigDan been slipping

Sounds like Big Dan needs to do another video-to the Dancave,Big Dan!

also if I remember correctly James can take Javik's place at the end of the party.

@@ColinRoxs you have to exclusively flirt with James and get him drunk. If you're choosing to be an flirt-less Shepard, it won't happen

Weird Why mine is just standing around?

He's saving his Thanix cannon for marriage, it's pre-Thermal Clip so it overheats

Asian Spacer Shepard calling his mom in the citadel dlc

they are too busy solving everybody else problems to have a love life lol

You can still get that with the Thane romance

@@isaacalexander5286 god the thane scene just hits deep when he shows up as a ghost. It's because of that scene that, for me, thane feels like the canon romance for femshep (at least my femshep anyhow) it makes her sacrifice and the end all worthwhile as she ends up with thane whilst saving everyone else.

@@ThePr0jection This. This is why ThaneShep's my headcanon.

@@ThePr0jection Thane's wife would throw a wrench in that afterlife reunion though... (No, not that Afterlife)

My Femshep in the first game was this Then along came the Garrus romance so I gave that up

@@beccal7133 It's ok you don't pay Garrus

Ace Fem Shep is hilarious to play in 3. Traynor gets VERY much the wrong idea when you hang out with her in the captain's quarters.

"Even though he is not technically Alliance really for most of the trilogy."

Kaiden and Ashley are the only romances that can be considered to be Shepherds subordinates even then that's not technically correct

More like Salarians are already volcels, lol.

@@nick7072 don't they have a limited amount of females and they have a better chance of mating with a higher pedigree per that mission where everyone picks the renegade option of throwing the guy out of the window? They are actually what incels imagine themselves to be.

Technically, it's just being a good commander who isn't taking advantage of his subordinates. So he's not an incel or volcel... I should go.

Or just an ace.

Ace/Aro Shep is a valid path

My goodness, so much yes! Happend to me in DAO as well, if the memory serves

Yes I've done that.

Same. I wanted to romance the space racist but was being nice to liara and all of a sudden she wanted to smash, so I rejected her. Fast forward to mass effect 2 and she forces a kiss on me.

This is especially a problem with Jack's romance in ME2. Her best character-development conversations are locked behind her romance having been initiated, and it isn't even obvious that you've initiated it.

@@CognizantCheddar That just happened on my most recent playthrough. Was trying to stay true to Liara and all of a sudden I m finding my shepard having talks of romance with Jack.😕

He had to escape from his own bathroom window.

This male Shepard wanted wrex. He’s an incel :(

Tell that to Katsumi. She wasnt on board at all :(

@@_MaZTeR_ The funny thing is there is at least one krogan in ME2 who wants to have sex with shepard after killing the thresher maw😂. I hope wrex taught shepard how to avoid krogan women.

@@emmanuel4989 Voice: "Urdnot Wrex!" Wrex: "Craaap!" F!Krogan: "Where is the Shepard! I've been pursuing him since the Thresher Maw! I knows he's somewhere on this wretched station but all these human soldiers look alike to me!" Wrex: "I, uh..." (looks at Shepard) Dialogue Wheel pops up "I'm Shepard." "Get me another drink." "Shepard's usually at his favorite store." Paragon: "Uh. He's Shepard." *(points at Conrad Verner)* Renegade: "Didn't you know? Wrex is the Shepard! The Council uses their influence to cover it all up."

I role-played it as mine being loyal to his wife and son who died before the first game, and the number of nightmares about the kid in ME3 being due to how much the boy reminded him of his own. And vice versa for my one FemShep playthrough.

i was thinking that too, when he woke up all by himself the music in the background kind of made the scene haunting

@CYB3R2K30 Each to their own.

@@evanboll4651 Fuck that loyalty shit. I'm passing myself around

Celebrate shepherd definitely hits different it makes the character feel much more sad and lonely. It is so much lonelier because despite having a big crew full of trusted comrades they still go to bed alone and awaken alone with nobody to share the burden with.

I fucking hate that so much. There is no neutral option. It's either yes or no and he gets pissy at you over that.

Luckily it was "only" Anders really, they made him dirty in DA2 anyways. He was such a cool character in Awakening.

@@astralaris8712 To be honest in Awakening he was just discount Allister.

@@spartanq7781 True as well, though, id take a discount Alistair over Anders anyday. (Though i think ANders was like that mostly due to Justice) I mena, between Cullen and Anders, id still take Cullen.

Being straight is always an option in the game. However how canonically bisexual characters react to being rejected is on them as people. If Anders wants to be an entitled little shit, then he can be. It doesn't mean that you as a player has to gentle him through that rejection.

Have you seen the one where FemShep romances Thane, stays true to him, and then has a conversation with his ghost right there? Total tearjerker moment.

That or they found out.

@@Mysticgamer well one of them was an Asari so....

Wait illusive man is Shepard's uncle?

@@mangavf2525 No, 'megalomaniac uncle with blue eyes' is a nickname for the Illusive Man, given by me.

@@Arijit_Das_ though to be honest,he`d make a great uncle.

I think because is physiologically impossibile for human to make sex with krogans. I mean, they surely have big PP.

Because Shepard has a chance of dying in that suicide mission

@@alessandrogarofalo9951 Wrex would bottom for Shepard

@Kisa Vorobianinov why would you do that lol

Well... you can, just not the kind of "BANG" you're thinking of.

Jack: "Kasumi, I will find you and I will hurt you badly." Kasumi and her cloaking is hilarious at the party.

That killed me last time I played. Probably one of funniest lines in the series.

@@Jedi_Spartan Yeah, Kasumi's cloaking prank is one of the best.

I've played like this, i thought that my Shepard would start a relation with tali when all the reaper shit was solved, imagine my regrets with the ending of ME3.

I played it as Shepard being loyal to his wife who died before ME1, and vice versa for my FemShep playthrough.

@@evanboll4651 That might give Sole Survivor and butcher of torfan a new meaning... Imagine your soldier-wife/husband died on akuze, or civilian-wife/husband cause of batarian raid.

ironic considering big dan's appearance

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Except that it sidelined the ME1 characters completly: two of them got relegated to a cameo apperance and the third one didn't even counted for the trophy/achievement. It would have been neat if they had expanded the role of A/K in ME2 beyond a simple cameo in the Legendary Edition, as the ME VA regulary work with Modders, so as to have more than one scene type in ME3 rather than just their bull rushed development.

@@luisemoralesfalcon4716 yeah its stupid that ME2 removes all 3 ME1 romances as squad members.

@@robertharris6092 Liara is very prominently as she gets her OWN excellent DLC, but the Virmire Survivor just gets sidelined, a mission after the Collector Base where we bumped into them getting out of Horizon would have been great if we blew up the Collector Base while if we saved it we ran into them as they were on a ship back into Alliance Space.

Yes. This embarassing scene there male Shepard is forced to choose Ash or Liara. It's so teenagers wet dream.

@Rettznom Very true, and worse I think LE made it even easier to give Kaiden the wrong idea. I spoke to him once then took him out of the party and never spoke to him again except when Ash died. And at the end he still asked if he could keep me company. I learned his romance wasn't worth it in ME2 so pass.

The chaos with a Commander Catarina Claes lol and in true Catarina style, it'd be possible to get Harbinger to fall in love with you and then be totally oblivious to it lol

I agree to me Joker is a brother to Shepard

when a joker (or a Joker) stops joking...it hits you

Cuz he's the homie. The GOAT.

What dlc was that

@@enochb3939 shadow broker

@@felipe0102031 Did u have to romance Lira in ME1 an then Kelly in ME2 to tigger it or something?

I'm playing a Shep like this right now 😁 I think you can also start a new romance with Ash in ME3?

@@KaizokuOujo it's true you can still have a encounter with kelly in me3 in the citadel and then dump then all to romance Ashley

Then everyone dies without having either.

this never happened to me on any of my playthroughs EXCEPT for the one where i was intentionally getting everyone killed, where traynor, one of the guaranteed survivors, tried to escape the photo.

Yeah. i domt tbink any one person could play through every possiblr choice without doing it like a job.

Ah, gaming before these 'work in progress' games with 'future content coming.. maybe' were the norm. I've played ME1 when it came out, gave up during boring mako expedition 58 or something. Then ME2 was about to come out and looked amazing so i forced myself to replay ME1. I completely fell in love with the series then. I still hate the mako bits with a passion and find the ending of me3 a let down. But despite the (ample) faults it's the most expansive and engaging trilogy i've ever played.

@@robertharris6092 exactly!! You wouldn't safely be able to skip any of the dialog in case of accidentally making a choice you didn't mean to make...

Wow! That's a new headcannon for me. Never heard that one before. Interesting. :)

Shepard was the one that Shepard has been waiting for all of their life.

This reminds me of Fallout 4.

bruuuuuuh

Your poor Shep can’t catch a break

I actually did this trying to see if I could romance both ash and liara, i romanced ash first then sacrificed her at vermire then had a chat with liara.

It turns out there is one thing primitives are good at

Yeah that is pretty messed up!

Definitely. Shepard having romance makes more sense to me.

"Maybe when I'm done helping the people of Zhu's Hope, and you're done doing...whatever it is you're doing...maybe..."

That's NOT incel. He was VOLUNTARILY not having romantic/sexual relations.

@@newbiegain117 He was also jacked and tan and not sitting in his bedroom all day complaining on Reddit.

Wait. You what?

@@mingQWERTY yeah I know, why would anyone ever romance Jacob, I’d never romanced him before so thought I’d try something different.

Garrus: That's nasty!😐

Worst decision they made for Citadel DLC. Ok, one of them.

@@christineherrmann205 Considering how few players choose to romance no one, and then do all the things to get this scene, it was a funny easter egg at most.

Incel has lost all meeting like simp

Only women can truly be an incel.

@@jordandennis6794 It really has. Nowadays it tends to be used as a derogatory term, as if a man who doesn't have sex is somehow less of a man.

@@Not_Always Millennials are the worst. Could say the same for lonely zoomers that instigate shit.

Shepard loves everyone too much to just love someone. That's why he will save us all. Smart kid.

@@magicalmanfromwonderland That's now how love works lol

Disown your kid

@@cheefqueef6494 My son says that Shepard's true love is the military. Can't fault him on that...

Clint Mansell is fantastic. Check out his soundtrack to the movie The Fountain,. And of course there is Lux Eterna made famous in the trailer for The Two Towers.

Guilty as charged.

the Fox News segment only featured her after all

Yeah I did not. I loved Tali right away. This was before I knew ME2 was going to exist.

@@Rith9789 u cant romance Tali in mass effect 1 tho

Actually when I played original Mass Effect for the first time, I had no idea that you even had an option to romance your crewmates, then in Mass Effect 2 I realised romancing is an option and I went with Miranda.

Yeah

I still wonder why they always wake up with all their clothes/armor on. Like how did Shep get busy with anyone and you still wake up fully clothed? Lmao

They all do. It's ridiculous. Hell, can they at least be in their underwear!?

@Gi Gi Let's see... She was professional with James(Didn't allow him to call her "Lola") and Javik both. She was in a romance with Thane, and remained loyal till he died, and after, romancing and flirting with no one else up till she died in the Synthesis ending.

I think the whole crew loves him, if you treat them right, just not in a romantic way... the ending of the trilogy is just enough proof of it... still sad

Love comes in many forms, sexual attraction (and the desire to act upon them) is only one of those forms. This Shep could be ACE and happy as a clam that everyone around them respects that.

Maybe he just isn't interested

@@thatlonelygiraffeinc.6989 I don't know if that's the case he might be interested but it might be more or less maybe he's too focused on the mission if that were to be the case but honestly if I was playing Shepherd or if I were Shepherd there's no way in hell I'm going to go into a suicide mission without finding somebody