The Next Mass Effect Game Should Let Us Romance The Geth
My romantic choices in Mass Effect are fairly regular, despite what some of you may have assumed from the headline. My canon choice is the incredibly basic Fem Shep x Liara, while I've also cheated on Liara in Mass Effect 3 as Fem Shep with Trainor, and abstained the first Mass Effect before hooking up with Thane in Mass Effect 2 and saying a tragic goodbye to him in Mass Effect 3. I have even, while cursing Fox News, played as Bro Shep and romanced Ashley in the first game (I hit it and quit it by leaving her on Virmire), before finding my one true love, Jack, in the two sequels.
These are all fairly regular choices. The only ones not human are Liara and Thane, probably the two most humanoid aliens on the Normandy. Garrus is a bit much with his sharp mandibles, and I don't see the allure of the unknown with Tali. If I could get with Miranda as Fem Shep then I would have definitely cuddled up with the Corporate Mommy, but that only cements how basic my Mass Effect romance choices have always been. The desire for a geth romance doesn't come from, well, desire, but from an intellectual curiosity. Honest officer, I swear.
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The geth are a sexless race, quite literally. They identify as a collective unit (we are Legion, for we are many), and share a hivemind. We occasionally see glimpses of individuality however, such as in the flashbacks to the start of the geth uprising in Tali's quest for her homeworld, and in the iconic question "does this unit have a soul?". It's this individuality that a romance could explore.
When Legion asks "does this unit have a soul?", what it means is 'am I more than a machine?'. We see Legion act heroically, ready to sacrifice itself for
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