a lion still has claws

Oh my feelings on Thane… 

Or lack thereof, I should say. 

I enjoy his character - the first time I saw him, I cooed and wheezed at the TV, because for a new character, who could ask for a more badass introduction? 

But he didn’t resonate with me - maybe that was because I was too busying swooning over big blue to notice that Thane was a romance option or something aside from a brooding father. 

It was this way, probably until my last playthrough, on my Renegade that I came to appreciate and love him, though he still remains in the lower tier of character appreciation (now play nice with Ashley, Grunt, Liara, and Jack). While to some he cries out at a “fix me!” character, to me, he seemed content in his misery, well, not misery… but you get the idea. 

But that’s what happens when you have to stare death down every time you take a breath, I imagine. For that, Thane is a strong character, a well developed one in such a short time, with an interesting story of a long lost father just trying to do good by his son and that pulled at my heart strings. He just seemed like way too much sadness in one package for me - there as no light hearted discussion or bonding with Ivi Shepard, but with Lenora (Rene), they commiserated about the fate and arrival of the Reapers. She went to talk to him because he didn’t want to talk all the time, and being older than her, he offered advice and sympathy whereas anyone on the ship aside from Samara just laughed her issues off. 

Thane is a very strange concept for me. I could do without him but I still want to know more about him. I guess I never really gave him much thought because my brain was thinking: Oh well, he’ll be dead or dying in ME3 so… NO ATTACHMENT 

However, that story about how he met his wife… Okay, major points with me there because that’s the biggest love-hint of Shakarian bliss ever. 

(Is it wrong that I ship Thane/Samara just a wee bit?)

I can totally see where the Thane!girls come from though, just not my slice of cake.

I’m not used to talking about this level of indifference.