You can make Mass Effect's protagonist as promiscuous or as asexual as you like. But taking the most promiscuous route possible (because where's the fun in doing the opposite?), Shepard can engage in sterile, clinical space sex with every single crew member aboard his or her ship. In perhaps the world's only existing piece of evidence suggesting that sleeping with people in the workplace is absolutely fine and not-at-all awkward, Shepard can bed everyone and still keep them from killing each other with death stares, catty comments or raw jealousy. That's probably because Shepard never kisses-and-tells, making him or her one of the most composed casanovas in the universe. Shepard's sexual tastes are indiscriminate, and while you have to admire his progressive mindset in being able to sleep with people from disparate interstellar species, you'd think there'd be practical difficulties in doing the dirty with the visor-faced Tali'Zorah, or being on the receiving end of the hulking Turian, Garrus. Not for Shepard, it seems, whose open sexuality is fitting for someone whose job it is to unite disparate intergalactic races in a world-saving mission; what better way to do so than to sleep with them?
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I'm a writer-editor hybrid whose writings on video games, technology and movies can be found across the internet. I've even ventured into the realm of current affairs on occasion but, unable to face reality, have retreated into expatiating on things on screens instead.
