#relatedly. is liara a stupid annoying male fantasy. absolutely. but she was also 20 year old me’s fantasy girl too and I love her

[venndaai]

Mass effect for all its extreme flaws did something great when the series kind of accidentally created one of the most iconic women characters in video games just by giving fshep the same lines as mshep. ME1 was the first video game I really played and I remember how absolutely revelatory it felt just to be playing a stupid power fantasy space marine who got all the hot alien ladies… but *a woman*. BioWare never really understood the glory of what they had unintentionally created

#relatedly. is liara a stupid annoying male fantasy. absolutely. but she was also 20 year old me’s fantasy girl too and I love her #also the total death grip jennifer hale had on a generation of gay girl gamers…