Kaidan and Ashley are the butts of many jokes in the Mass Effect fanbase. In the first game, they serve the purpose of keeping things grounded as we're introduced to a ton of alien races. But by the time you've played through once, you know the lore well enough that their role is pretty redundant. Human companions in later games would have to be slightly more interesting than "duty-driven soldier" to stand out from the crowd.
However, for all of our talk, it turns out we actually love the plain
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