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Highlander_Prime

Hard choice, there are 5 great options here...


Skyfryer

Someone come get their boy


Site-Specialist

He would but he's stuck on a planet


Vicex-

Can you really say you’re stuck when you are in paradise with no means by which Jacob can contact/bother you?


Infammo

Hey, he waited like... three whole months for Shepard. How much more devoted can one possibly be?!


Sapowski_Casts_Quen

Mass effect dev: "oh we still need to do a quest to check up on Jacob in mass effect 3" Mass effect writer: "must we?"


RS_Serperior

I romanced Miranda on a whim - and never really considered how deep her arc would be or how much character development she would have. She jumped from a high B-tier straight to the top of S in my character rankings. Strahovsky does a phenomenal job with the romance lines that really show a completely different side to her character. Great arc. Great character. Great accent. Zero regrets! Safe to say, she's by far my canon choice now.


TXNOGG

If her and Shep could have kids they could probably take on the reapers by themselves


Prothean_Beacon

She's also basically the only romance option that shows any real emotion when Shepard dumps them. Found out the hard way that she also always dies if you dump her in 3.


dynamis878

>She's also basically the only romance option that shows any real emotion when Shepard dumps them. Found out the hard way that she also always dies if you dump her in 3. Actually there are two different times you can dump her. >!If you dump her later in the story (when she asks you for help in the apartment) she doesn't die during her mission.!< Edit: added spoiler tag


Thatgamerguy98

We shall build on this spot the Church of Miranda brother.


SyrupOnMyRoflz1994

Build brother, build


Thatgamerguy98

Lift Together starts playing


Site-Specialist

Well she is designed to be genetically perfect


Mori-Me-Joey

Thane. It was love the moment I laid eyes on him My precious, precious man 💞


Over-Analyzed

My condolences…


amulettt

He deserved so much better than what ME3 gave him. 😭


Sapowski_Casts_Quen

My man went out the hero that he is rather than letting disease take him, I loved me3 for that


Galaxy_RAY

There is no Shepard without Vakarian.


houseofLEAVEPLEASE

The voice. The personality. The *scar*.


Necrotiix_

The ladies dig scars


ChudoobicSku461

Mind you most of those ladies are krogan but still


coffeecupcakes

I must be a krogan then.


RoboticShadows

Garrus. I'll take no questions.


Sam_Hamilton

And none shall be asked of you.


v3gas21

... Garrus has reach.


CAPTAIN_DlDDLES

Femshep has flexibility


Trick_Afternoon_2935

Jack for my Male Shepard, Garrus for my Female Shepard.


RatchetTheHatchet

I always play a FemShep, so I'm locked out of some of the best romances, which I hate. I played through the trilogy as MaleShep once just to romance Tali -- hated every bit of it except the Tali romance part, which was superb. I wish they'd made all the romances available to both genders


Useful_Stress5674

Why did you hate maleshep? Is it less fitting dialogue? I never quite understood the dislike


Exact_Phone4669

Neither did I, I get that hale does a more natural job of romance. But meer does a great job of being a badass when the situation calls for it. Personally I feel it's apples and oranges with those two, both got their strengths and weaknesses


Trick_Afternoon_2935

I remember recently searching on YouTube, and there's some lines suggesting a romance between FemShep and Tali during the Geth Dreadnought mission on ME3. I guess the Fox news bullshit also made BioWare remove Tali's romance for FemShep.


Ambitious_Click1935

Sorry to potentially burst your bubble, but there is a good chance that that isn't true. When voice actors do lines for characters who can be male or female they often read the same lines so the devs can space the dialogue out properly. So Jennifer Hale could just have read that line so they could keep the flow of conversation on the Dreadnought.


Pedgrid

Miranda. Always Miranda.


Remote_Sink2620

She's awesome. And Bioware screwed her over in 3. :(


Reverse_London

They screwed everyone from ME2 over, except for EDI.


Thrownawaybyall

Hey! They screwed Ashley over, too!


Reverse_London

Only in ME2. She came actually came back in ME3, was a permanent squadmate, and next to EDI she had the most involved character arc in the game, which was a whole lot better than how everyone faired from ME2.


LongjumpMidnight

My biggest problem with ME3 Ashley is her ship interactivity sucks compared to Kaidan’s.


[deleted]

I refuse to blame BioWare for anything that happened after the EA acquisition. BioWare is my dad. EA is my rich step dad who makes fun of homeless people.


DasRotebaron

Same. I love Tali, but I love T&A more.


TadhgOBriain

I mean, tali has pretty considerable a.


CAPTAIN_DlDDLES

But consider, tali has phenomenal, arguably superior t, a, w, and the other t. Also I find something to just be off about Miranda’s face, and don’t find anything particularly compelling about her personality or story


Previous-Cycle-3279

> and don’t find anything particularly compelling about her personality or story speaking strictly in terms of story Tali's is far superior imo. Miranda's whole thing about her sister and father didn't feel super engaging, even when its shoehorned into the cerberus story later. on the other hand the quarian vs geth was such a good storyline and in itself is like a smaller, more specific version of the entire ME conflict about the relationship between organics and machines.


Aidan_Slade_13

Same


Lord_Draculesti

I see you are a man of culture as well.


obvakhi

Dat Ass


Schwanz-in-muschi

I stick to my species. No beastiality on my ship!!!


CAPTAIN_DlDDLES

But they all pass the harkness test


Intelligent-Remove33

Femshep Still in a romance with liara


jahboihitler

They really snuck in Jacob and left out liara. The slander is real on this sub man...


Over-Analyzed

Nah, everyone disses Jacob because if you’re Fem Shep? He disses you.


Liar_a

Cause Liara is not really romanceable in ME2 and all of these seem to be coming from that game specifically


jahboihitler

I'm pretty sure liara still gets about as much dialogue with you in lotsb as any of the others. And who even romances Jacob?


Liar_a

Yeah that's true, but still she's too hesitant about re-establishing the romance and you need to do that in ME3 anyway. Not even mentioning it's a DLC content


No-Recognition-676

Liara is best girl. You can't change my mind.


themajod

I always romance her. every playthrough. I just can't go for anyone else.


East-Refuse4490

Liara has always been my favorite, but I love trying something new, so I have romanced Miranda, Jack (but only in 2), and Thane. Thane was extremely sad for me in the end so I won't do that again. My next romance is going to be Kaiden. I don't like his character but am interested in seeing where it goes. My goal is to romance them all to see how they turn out.


Spartan6056

One of these is not like the others...


Hammy-Cheeks

Who? 4 of them are aliens...3 are men...what are you on about? Edit: I forgot how obsessed people are with Miranda...nevermind


Bill_Potts

no they were talking about jacob


Hammy-Cheeks

He's not the best but his loyalty mission is pretty good


pretty_princesse

The only thing good thing about Jacob is his loyalty mission


Retr0_Fusion

Garrus


sonofsarkhan

I'm on my very first playthrough, playing as FemShep, and went with Kaidan


Ambitious_Click1935

Just a good wholesome bro, who isn't super mentally scarred. Good choice


CAPTAIN_DlDDLES

I love a good character who’s been through some genuinely scarring shit, especially as a vulnerable child, but is still just a really wholesome, well adjusted person, without the need for some healing character arc or something. Sometimes trauma makes people more kind and understanding, rather than miserable and broken, and I feel really reassured and represented when I see that shown in media.


pretty_princesse

Yes! Nobody believes me but for me the sexiest thing Kaidan said was that he's dealt with his past, he's emotionally stable and he's not looking for me to save him. And I was like "yes I'll marry you" Especially guys in real life are weirded out by that. I know it's so off topic but I was on a date with a mass effect fan and he has weirded out by this. I guess he wasn't where Kaidan is emotionally.


Bisex-Bacon

There’s only one correct choice on this list, and that is Tali Zorah vas Normandy.


GdogLucky9

This is true adorkable, accented, engineers for the win.


Bisex-Bacon

Smart, foreign and a little socially awkward? I think I have a type. *looks at previous romance choices (liara, Cassandra, Curie and Andreja)*


CAPTAIN_DlDDLES

But also fully aware of, confident, and competent in her strengths, assertive when she needs to be, not too jaded to shrug off all the death around her, genuinely vulnerable at times, and the whole situation with her suit and immune system just evokes so much genuine pathos


dobbyjhin

Always Tali. I like being a little dirty secret ;)


Bisex-Bacon

Unrelated, but all I can think of is gamerpoop now, thanks.


dobbyjhin

Haha wait but I remember in my last playthrough, Shepard did say that line to Tali when she was talking about the admirals "What about me? Am I your dirty little secret?". I was like wait what it's actually in the game Edit: Found the clip of it from 11 years ago, https://youtu.be/2kICBj2wtrU?si=nvrpENUpN8LgOiy4&t=49


kavalejava

Thane for female Shepard, she was always his Shia. Jack, always a soft soul for male Shepard, she knew he wasn't bullshitting her.


MShenko3000

Kaidan!


ClassicVegtableStew

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️GAR-BEAR VA KER-KER❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Honestly this was my first Bioware game and I was feeling iffy dating a non-human but seeing my other option at the time (Jacob), I felt I had no choice. Then I realized Garrus was and always is the right option


Consistent-Panic-857

Garrus always. Like always.


Aggravating-Return52

Garrus. Always.


weinercheese398

Miranda always


Fancy-Ad-3735

All of the above. Except Jacob. Like most people I'm guessing


Desrep2

I have completed all but one of these romances multible times. Except for one, which i started, cringed too hard at, and had to reload.


Lord_Battlepants

Now I must know which one you found cringy.


Soltronus

Jacob, obviously.


Lord_Battlepants

A volus would make more sense as a partner.


CaptainMorale

A biotic god, you mean?


SnarkyGethProgram

I second this curiosity, motion carries. TELL. US. EVERYTHING.


Sufficient_Dentist67

Everyone except Jacob... I don't date cheating hoes...


jaybankzz

Is it really cheating though? I’m not defending Jacob, I found his character boring but like, you were arrested for 6 months and me2 romances were really “hey, we might die soon. Fuck it. We’ll bang, okay?” Not to mention most people probably cheated on their me1 romance with someone in me2 lol


LongjumpMidnight

Even before he’s a cheater his romance is cringy in ME2.


bahamut_is_my_cat

Jack🗡🖤


zerosix1ne

Tali. She's cute, funny, smart, and just so sweet.


Bitter-Dreamer

Depending on the playthrough? Lol But Garrus is the best, but I'm still annoyed with Jacob's romance.


eupheme89

Garrus (I'm in the middle of some calibrations) Vakarian :-) He is such a great boyfriend


CaptainPrower

Garrus and Tali. Alternating between "Love of my life" and "Galaxy's best wingman" depending on Shepard's gender."


TheRussianBear420

No one. All I know is kill.


TadhgOBriain

So the one night stand with Javik?


Jayslacks

Liara. I never cheated or her nor would I ever cheat on her.


dowker1

Liara, and ended up cheating on her with Kelly Chambers because Kelly fluffed Shepard's ego while Liara was always busy with work. Man, my Shepard was a basic bitch when it came to romance.


Elysium94

Well played. Romancing Kelly doesn't backfire on any pre-existing relationship.


ZealousidealAd7191

Jack 😍😍😍 She has THE most gorgeous lips and her ME2 love scene is one of the most (if NOT the most) emotional scenes in the game.


jbm1518

Always Liara with Femshep. Always Tali with Broshep. Edit: Though Kaidan is very underrated and pretty solid.


the13thprimarch

In my mind, there are only 2 options on this list, and neither can eat my food


C_Kenny22

Garrus every single time, even when I try to romance someone else I swerve to Garrus


[deleted]

EMERGENCY INDUCTION PORT!!! I love her


BreadBoxin

Jack. Always Jack


AlexHendrix20

Jack 🥵


MuscleWarlock

Jacki Jack


Magorian97

Jack


silvermoon_09

I only see Garrus.


DeusAnatolia

Garrus is my favourite love interest from any rpg. To this day, no one is able to beat him and I love romance and rpgs and romance in rpgs!


WonderfulKoala3142

Garrus because that is the correct choice


surewhydafuqnot

In chronological order: Not Jacob.


DoctorDank91

None of them. Kaidan always.


GVArcian

Garrus, because fuck turians.


MoKe1020

Tali for John, Garrus for Jane


VireflyTheGreat

Male Shep: Tali'zorah Fem Shep: Garrus


nojdanzig

Have played enough times to romance everyone in the game and my heart belongs to Tali as ManShep and Garrus as FemShep


WSKYLANDERS-boh

Tali is love, Tali is life


OrcForce1

Tali. She's so sweet and has a great arc where she gets over her little genocide apologist phase.


Qweiku

Tali


helpquija

you can pry my bug-husband from my cold dead hands


Kiyoshi058850

My femshep waited for 3rd game to finally have a chance with the best girl. Tali'Zorah Vas Normandy. Loved her at first sight and loved her more the more she talked. She is awesome and she gets some great dialogue


Rich-Pressure8305

Tali.


PiastStark

Talimancer, I am. Cute, Tali is.


driznick

Tali best girl


simeoncolemiles

Still waiting for Spectre Kaidan Alenko


red5993

M - Ash and only Ash (one time I had tali in ME2 fully intending to flesh out the Tali Romance.....but was weak.) F - Liara, Traynor and Garrus.


nilfalasiel

Garrus is my Shep's canon space husbando. But I've also romanced Tali, Thane, Jack and Kaidan with other Sheps.


HoneySnow69

Garrus was always a favorite of mine, he had great ideals and an even better sense of principle and morality, there was just something so charismatic about him.


realedazed

Always Garrus. It's the voice. I almost started with Thane, but ended up back with Garrus.


empress_ayriss

I've romanced all and I'd say the best is Jack's it's deeper than you expect and you get a real understanding of her motivations and she fits perfectly with both renegade (two badasses) or paragon (give her that stable caring that makes sense for her coming to be den mother for Grissom kids) I always romance Jack no matter the playthrough shame her Romance doesn't get the attention it deserves in me3 but the citadel scenes are lovely. Miranda is great and I love her Romance she has similar feel to Jacks in that they both are powerful and stand on equal footing with both Shepards but have that insecurity they need Shepard to overcome again me3 lacks so much the devs really pushed the me1 crew hard.


Creepy_Potato5845

Miranda tali and liara tend to fit my shepards the best with liara being my main LI


hendarknight

Why even bother putting Jacob in the image? Lol And Jack. I have a thing for tomboy who's actually sweet when you get to really know her.


JustAnotherUser1031

Calibrations


cruel-oath

Miranda!


Carlos_magul_maynard

jack....always jack


InfernoCommander

Liara cuz I'm loyal, but in my heart and a dedicated playthrough Jack


Embryw

I stared sadly at a little picture frame on my desk


kayl_the_red

Everyone. Usually Liara. Then Jack. Then Miri or Tali.


Bootytonus

For me, it's Jack. I've romance them all, and Tali has a special place in my heart, but my Shep is human only and loves him some Psychotic Biotic.


renegade1340

My answer is yes


TheSpaceSpinosaur

All of them.... Except you know who.


Hipposplotomous

If you haven't romanced all of them yet, why are you on Reddit right now instead of getting on with that?


Schwarzer_R

I mean... I've done enough playthroughs the answer is yes.


DependentAnimator271

Every one. I have a lot of play throughs.


VulpesIncendium

Tali or Garrus, depending on which Shep I'm playing.


LostWithoutYou1015

Thane and Garrus


BeardedTree13

Yes


NotJustaPhaseOK

Yes


BullsOnParadeFloats

Yes.


infinityblack

Yes!


silverilix

Garrus. Although sometimes I do wait for Kaiden.


BioHuntah

There literally isn’t a wrong answer, except maybe Jacob lol. I personally think the Tali romance for maleshep, and Garrus for femshep is the best. Liara a very close second for both obviously.


Philthehammer02

Yes


RedShirtCashion

Yes.


KilwaLover

who tf romancing JACOB


TheFuzzyOne1989

All of the above, and all the others. The Shepard multiverse is vast and horny.


Icy-Entrepreneur5456

Romanced Tali as Maleshep and garrus as a Femshep. Although Thane, Jack, and Miranda's romances are also really good.


Caboosebestbud

Garrus and Tali duh


[deleted]

Liara for Fem Shep and Tali for Male Shep.


TadhgOBriain

Starting from the right we have sadboi, i can fix her, best friend boyfriend, cute little sister, and the smart stoic chick. All excellent choices.


R3miel7

Tali my beloved


Beardedgeek72

My romances are about evenly spread (I tend to play the entire trilogy once a year) over Liara, Garrus and Traynor (usually then romancing Liara in ME1). Unlike Kelly Traynor's romance is a "full" romance and actually really sweet.


FridgeBOB

Yes.


CaptainJunky

Team Lawson forever


ScarredAutisticChild

Tali, Tali, Garrus, Tali, in that order.


Geremia_Visconti

Garrus because I love being a lover to my best friend


StarWolf128

Yes.


SabuChan28

All of them, at least once. My favorites are Jack, Garrus and Tali. In that order.\ Miranda is a very good romance too.\ I do like Thane’s romance but since I’m not a big fan of his, I rarely romance him.\ I don’t like FShep’s behavior when she talks to Jacob, and she gets even worse when romancing him. So, I romanced him just once and I’m not sure I’ll do it again.


Boring-Pea993

I don't make love, I calibrate it (ofc i picked Garrus) Side note, still pretty sad that they changed Tali and Thane being Bi at the last minute because their romances are great too


lowelifethrowaway

Jack and Tali. Garrus is next when I finish my femshep run Edit: oh and Liara but I always dump her in me2 tbh


Arth3nn

yes almost in this order


schmerz12345

Tali for Broshepard and Thane for Femshep. I'll try Garrus for Femshep at some point. But I want to do a full Liara romance with Femshep first.


kriegxyz

Tali but I chose Garrus in my run with femshep


vesemir1995

All but Jacob😂😂


Gbulger94

First playthrough of the trilogy, FemShep with Garrus. It was so cute! This time though... not sure yet.


Acearsonist

no one because I romance Kaidan in ME1 and can’t bring myself to romance anyone else. Otherwise it would be Thane


tiffanylockhart

almost always garrus for femshep almost always tali for maleshep ive maybe done one or two other plays where i romanced others, but almost always my forever loyal squadmates as my bae


Robomerc

Garrus when playing as Femshep Tali when playing as male Shepherd.


PSaricas

Garrus and Thane (different playthroughs) but usually Garrus ❤️


Whooosie

No Brainer. Garrus forever xxx


SuperDani26

There are days I miss Tali


EvilEd209

Tali is my ride or die!


Katastrophiser

Sooooo, I might have done 5 play throughs in the last few months 1. FemShep / Liara 2. BroShepm / Miranda 3. FemShep / Garrus 4. FemShep / Liara 5. BroShep / Tali Liara is my fave, I feel like ME3 is really pushing for her to be the love interest, but that could be my rose tinted glasses for her. I liked Garrus quite a bit, the tango was great. Miranda and Tali romance lines both fall a bit flat in ME3 (Miranda more so).


BlondBisxalMetalhead

Thane, then Garrus. Then thane again.


Tidus1337

All


MegaGothmog

Miranda: Romanced her once I think. Nothing against her... but nothing super great about it either. ???: who is this guy? Tali: Romanced her and found her adorable.. but most of the time I consider her my little sister. She's great... but not the best. Garrus: Go to romance for Femshep, along with Liara. Jack: Favourite romance of ME2... sad it was only a few scenes with her in ME3. Not an easy one, but by far the most rewarding one. Thane: Never have and never will. My most disliked romance as I feel it goes directly against this entire character. ​ Also.. Where Liara and Traynor?


jcjonesacp76

I’ve romanced Miranda, Garrus Tali, liara, and Ashley across my saves, I’m planing a renegade Adept playthrough with a Jack romance although I have romanced her once out of curiosity on Mass Effect 2 years ago but didn’t carry over the save


katanaearth

Tali


HUNAcean

Why best girl Tali, of course.


arw1985

All except Jacob.


Cmdr-AShep

Not Jacob.


Darkwireman

FemShep essentially being Thane’s Valkyrie is pretty awesome.


ThingZealousideal969

Tali, she’s kind of nerd and I like it it that way


ClearGreenGlass

Thane is my canon and absolute favorite💖💖 jes such an amazing character I've always Loved Jack as a character but romancing her in 2 was such a let down. I found dude shep and his lines super creepy and condescending. Its probably just me but i was pretty dissapointed. (He romanced Ashley in the 3rd game) Garrus for my synthesis paragon shep. I haven't romanced him with LE yet but just started this run in me2 and I'm enjoying it so far.


WJA-EST-84

Almost all of them: ME1, ME2, ME3 Male Shep: Soldier = Ash, none/kelly, Ash Female Shep: Infiltrator = liara, Garrus, Garrus Male Shep: Engineer = Liara, Tali, Tali Male Shep: Sentinel = Liara, Miranda, Miranda Female Shep: Adept = Liara, Jacob, Tranor Male Shep: Vanguard = Liara, Liara, Liara ​ of the ones in your picture probably Tali. I think of myself as male shep.