If the frustration choice is chosen, Shepard will opine that not even their closest friends believe them about the seriousness of the Reaper threat, with Liara giving her condolences for how ugly the situation between Shepard and Ashley/Kaidan went on Horizon.Even more striking is that this is not a Paragade choice but strictly based on how Shepard truly feels. The way Meer and Hale deliver these lines is heartbreaking because it truly shows that even Shepard, under that cool commanding persona, can be just as frightened as the everyone else about the threat or frustrated that everything they are doing to stop the Reapers is in vain. The options are either cautiously hopeful, frustrated, or truly scared.

When Liara visits she asks Shep to tell her how they truly feel. The Lair Of The Shadow Broker DLC finally shows Shepard letting everything out.Thinking about the connotations of the track, even just the name, gives one chills.

The reunion scene uses 'Vigil' from the first game.

The payoff is that if you remain loyal to your Mass Effect 1 romance, before the Suicide Mission, Shepard picks up a photograph of their loved one and looks at it with a small smile.

Like with Ashley and Kaidan, it's the whole concept of waking up one day to find that two years have gone by, and the person you loved has moved on without you. and then you start to realize how much Liara's changed because of interim events. For Shepard, it was only weeks, maybe days ago that they were together.

The reunion with a romanced Liara isn't much better.

The fact that you're with terrorists can truly be considered a betrayal, in their eyes. Even without being with Cerberus, they've been severely emotionally damaged by what happened. Then it hits you: You've been gone for two years: Ash/Kaidan had to cope with that for two years, a death so traumatic Kaidan equates it to losing a limb, and then you just drop out of the sky when they've tried to move on with their lives.

But they don't sound happy, and then they flip out. They chew out an ungrateful dockhand who's nasty to Shepard, and then, when Shepard is alone with Ashley/Kaidan, they walk over to you, smile, and shake your hand (or hug if you romanced).

Even more sad is how they react just before meeting you.

Seeing your former girlfriend/boyfriend/best friend completely disown you.

Ashley's/Kaidan's rejection of you on Horizon.

If you send a traumatized Veetor to Cerberus instead of letting Tali take him, he'll show up later in her loyalty mission, even more of a nervous wreck and unable to travel without a doctor.

Even knowing it gets replaced by the SR-2 doesn't do much to take the edge off when it happens.

The first scene, where you see your beloved Normandy go down.

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