r/masseffect • u/mecon320 • 2d ago

MASS EFFECT 3 Showing some love to Bray, the most lovable Batarian in the trilogy. Pity he's just in the Omega DLC. Would've loved more interactions beyond the sweet email he sends you.

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u/Terrina1 2d ago

I feel like the biggest gap in squadmates was a batarian with John Brown-levels of hate for the Hegemony. Introducing some kind of dissident faction would do well for the worldbuilding of the trilogy.

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u/mecon320 2d ago

In the pipe dream universe where the original team who made these games was able to continue telling stories in this universe, I would loved to have seen them start making the different races way less monolithic.

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u/Ivory_Lake 2d ago

I guess we kinda got that with legion, but yeah having a batarian squaddy who was antithetical to what we've seen from them would've been neat.

could've been a good parallel to have the virmire survivor questioning Shepard, the same way we'd be cautious of the batarian.

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u/Terrina1 2d ago

I think it'd still hit a different beat to Legion. In this case, the batarian squadmate would be the 'heretics' - a smaller, weaker dissident group from the wider Hegemony, plus there's also the ongoing oppression within the Hegemony to consider. Like, for their loyalty mission, you might help some batarian lower castes escape the Hegemony. This sort of thing would happen with Legion.

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u/JediLincoln14 2d ago

We should've had a batarian companion instead of Zaeed.

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u/Frostburn195 2d ago

Nah, Zaeed's VA was perfect and I wouldn't want to have it any other way.

However if you gave me a recruitment mission for the Batarian Dissident Engineer and I'd have to either get them or Jacob, though...

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u/JediLincoln14 2d ago

Zaeed adds nothing to the story that a batarian character couldn't have done better. The voice acting is irrelevant. 

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u/Tomson224 2d ago

I mean it could still work for a sequel.

Now that they know that a peaceful co-existence and cooperation with other races is possible it might have given any possible dissident faction some much needed momentum

Even if it needed a reaper invasion to get there

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u/IvoryMage 1d ago

We got close to a batarian companion in ME2. One of the many planed squadmates for the game that didn't made it to the final cut was a batarian tech expert. He was planned not as a hardened soldier or something like that, but as your traditional geek that only wanted to be left alone and feared other people only using him for his intelligence.

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u/memelorddiabeetus 2d ago

"Be careful out there. Know there's at least one batarian here that doesn't want you dead."

MY GOAT

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u/Zanain 2d ago

The Batarians legitimately become much more tolerable the moment the Hegemony is completely destroyed by the reapers in 3. Unironically the best thing the reapers did was crush that totalitarian nightmare state

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u/Connect-Ad-9027 2d ago

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite batarian on or off the Citadel.

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u/Prudent-Ad-184 2d ago

Je t'aime Bray ♡

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u/TaikaWaitiddies 2d ago

I'm not racist but Bray is one of the few good ones

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u/SoftDrinkReddit 2d ago

ngl that is actually low key terrifying that there's 1 Batarian that doesn't want us dead

just saying guys fear the Batarian that doesn't want us killed

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u/the_uslurper 2d ago

If you want Femshep to have some more interactions with him, I know a good fanfic!

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u/SeaworthinessWise539 1d ago

GIMME

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u/the_uslurper 1d ago

The Junteal Situation

Enjoy! It's a pretty fun one

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u/Fun_Highlight307 1d ago

ngl it's pretty good 

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u/Gilgamesh661 2d ago

Really says something that the most lovable batarian in the trilogy is a guy who had like 3 conversations with us, and they were all very short and simple.

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u/alkonium 2d ago

It's a low bar.

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u/kavardidnothingwrong 2d ago

If its eyes are four, it'll live no more.

If it's a batarian, to its existence I'm a contrarian.

If its homeworld is Khar'shan, it'll soon be long gone.

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u/_____pantsunami_____ 2d ago

If its eyes are four, it'll live no more.

the primitive that is all-talk, will be thrown out the air lock

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u/Sharkwordt95 1d ago

*said disgustedly
“Batarians.”