In Defence Of Mass Effect's Kelly Chambers
When you ask Mass Effect fans for their least favourite character, you'll find Jacob's name comes up a lot. Mostly from me, screaming it at you. I find Jacob tiresome, a thin, trope-heavy character in a world of much richer, complex portraits. He's stubborn, stoic, and reserved by design, but making a dull character on purpose doesn't make him any less dull. The handful of Jacob fans have always had a few shields to protect their man with, however. Jacob's loyalty mission, I concede, is one of the best in the series, but he's barely involved in it, which highlights how inconsequential he is to Mass Effect's success. Jacob defenders are also keen to throw someone else to the wolves, someone no one would ever think to defend: Kelly Chambers. I'm here today to do exactly that - this is a defence of Kelly Chambers.
Kelly Chambers, if you've forgotten (as would be understandable), is your yeoman in Mass Effect 2, which basically means she stands by the map and tells you when you have emails. I'm not going to lie to you and say she's the game's best character, but I do think the odds have been unfairly stacked against her.
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Being a yeoman is not the most exciting job when we deal with thieves and assassins and mercenary warriors, but we do talk to her a lot. Or rather, we should. We have to go to Kelly for every mission, but she has very little dialogue of note and it's much harder to find out even the slightest of details about her, while other characters spill their guts after two or three conversations. She could be an interesting, grounded character amidst all of the carnage, like a younger Doctor Chakwas, but instead we get dull soundbites and
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