u/DocSoy

TW : Death of a parent

When I was 11 I lost my mom to cancer, it's a bit more complicated than that but that sums it up pretty much. At the time I was taken off school for a bit to be able to have space and time to grieve a bit, those weeks I spent playing Mass Effect 3, I used the little comic-book add-on to catch up on the previous games

I know I was most likely way too young to understand the game in depth but I really enjoyed it, and stupidly enough I got driven to romance Liara and it's one of the things that made me understand that I'm in fact a gay woman lmao

Years went by, I played the trilogy in full, got into the comics, watched the movies about Vega a couple times, got the novels, got so excited when LE released

And every time I am in a place in my life where I feel low, I replay the trilogy again

One of my favorite songs ever is even from the Citadel dlc funnily enough, its Bad choices ahah

Most of the time I make the exact same choices, do the exact same things, but it never feels boring or repetitive, it just soothe me, makes me feel better, because that game was here for me in moments where no one was

So I know darn well nobody from Bioware will see this and it's not the point but, that trilogy saved my life more than once, helped me evolve as a person, and I will be forever grateful for it <3

To add some context my grandmother is still alive but is cut off by my family for really good reasons, my gran-grandma that was a grandmother to me passed in 2022 and my mom passed in 2013