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Fozee

[MEA Spoilers] I think it's wrong to complain about Addison

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I was going to block off this entire post with a spoiler tag, but Reddit's formatting is goddamn terrible and it won't do it if I line break unless I put 11 separate spoiler tags in here and that would be a mess.

So the complaint is that Addison looks funny. She does, she looks ridiculous. A couple of her lines are terrible. She's not relatable in any way.

That's not Addison.

Look at her eyes. See that greenish eye color? Now go and look at the other human NPCs around the Nexus. Huh. There's that same green eye color. Sure, they could have fucked up and just given everyone the same eyes, and at this point I do not doubt that it's a serious possibility. But let's consider the evidence that something has happened and these are NOT the original inhabitants of the Nexus.

  • Our ship corrected course while we were asleep and arrived 14 months late

  • An accident happened and most of the leadership aboard the Nexus was killed

  • There was a "mutiny" aboard the Nexus

  • These leadership roles aboard the Nexus are now held partly by these green-eyed weirdos

  • Relations between the various races aboard the Nexus are weird at best

  • Addison speaks at times almost as though she is TRYING to tell us she's not Addison ("my face is tired")

  • The inhabitants of the Nexus are... not that excited to find out they're not actually stranded?

I believe that something much more sinister has happened aboard the Nexus. The leadership was killed off, the humans were replaced, and the ship has been taken over by some unknown alien power. Until this is disproven, I feel it's irresponsible to complain about Addison, because her shittiness would be intentional.

Posted Mar 18, 2017, 11:37 AM UTC

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Greenecat•

The Indoctrination Theory was more believable.

In the end the real explanation is just that Bioware fucked up. Nothing else.

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FozeeOP•

Alright, thanks for clearing it up, Great Seer. We are all honored, this day.

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Kyryck•

Hahahahahahaha. Ah, it's good to see people still have a sense of humor about this.

I'm all for jumping on this train. The "Sinister Happening Theory" has a new believer!

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SeltySturluson•

lizard people

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KadmeiaPull•

Definitely interesting, if a bit far-fetched.

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aj0413•

I'd be pretty stoked of that was the case :P

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