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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:09 amSo it turns out that the whole 'Oliver and Olivia as siblings' thing really lodged itself in my head and will not go away.
In the case of protagonist!Olivia, this is fine; there aren't a whole lot of changes. She runs into Oliver on the Citadel during ME2 sometime after Horizon and they have a somewhat violent heart-to-heart (it starts with him biotically throwing her into a wall). Then he reminds her to call their mother. He can't join her then, because he's still Alliance and she's not. In ME3 he's finally a part of her crew.
When Oliver is the protagonist, however, things get different. They're both on the Normandy, and Nihlus is looking them both over for Spectreship. Oliver's the only one who gets it. He thinks his sister deserves it more, but - there's nothing he can do. Then in ME2 he wakes up from being dead only to find that he no longer has his biotics. (He also finds out that his sister quit the military and went off to be a vigilante with Garrus. Except that he only finds out that second part when trying to recruit Archangel.) At least for the ME3 ending it's not just him alone; Olivia is with him and they end up with some kind of weird dual-consciousness-Reaper-gestalt thing going on. (I'm still working it out.)
At least Oliver doesn't end up forever alone. He dates Liara in the first game but breaks up with her after learning she gave Cerberus his body. Even knowing why she did it, and the alternatives to it, it makes him way too uncomfortable. He later ends up with Tali. (Olivia, meanwhile, ends up with Garrus. :D)
In the case of protagonist!Olivia, this is fine; there aren't a whole lot of changes. She runs into Oliver on the Citadel during ME2 sometime after Horizon and they have a somewhat violent heart-to-heart (it starts with him biotically throwing her into a wall). Then he reminds her to call their mother. He can't join her then, because he's still Alliance and she's not. In ME3 he's finally a part of her crew.
When Oliver is the protagonist, however, things get different. They're both on the Normandy, and Nihlus is looking them both over for Spectreship. Oliver's the only one who gets it. He thinks his sister deserves it more, but - there's nothing he can do. Then in ME2 he wakes up from being dead only to find that he no longer has his biotics. (He also finds out that his sister quit the military and went off to be a vigilante with Garrus. Except that he only finds out that second part when trying to recruit Archangel.) At least for the ME3 ending it's not just him alone; Olivia is with him and they end up with some kind of weird dual-consciousness-Reaper-gestalt thing going on. (I'm still working it out.)
At least Oliver doesn't end up forever alone. He dates Liara in the first game but breaks up with her after learning she gave Cerberus his body. Even knowing why she did it, and the alternatives to it, it makes him way too uncomfortable. He later ends up with Tali. (Olivia, meanwhile, ends up with Garrus. :D)