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Story Reward Follow-up Poll
🕑 Added 2020-01-13 21:34:34 +0000 UTCAlright, so the poll for this month's story finished with a pretty clear winner. Apparently, people liked the Mass Effect: The Final Error piece :-p! The $5+ patrons voted for it by a significant majority!
Now, unlike last month, this time it's going to go into the normal update pattern. That meaning that the next chapter will release for $5+ folks later this month...but it'll be an exclusive for them for a couple of months. Despite that, I'm going to open this follow-up poll to All Patrons so I can get as much feedback as possible. That won't always be the case. As with The Elven Maid (which always has a follow up poll), follow-ups are more likely to be exclusive to the $5+ tiers. However, in this specific case, the impact on the story is so fundamental that I want as many opinions as possible.
The question, in short form is this: Do you want to see a Male Commander Shepard or a Female Commander Shepard?
In somewhat longer form, for clarity's sake, this will likely affect the balance of heterosexual/lesbian encounters significantly. I intend Oriana to have at least some one-shot sexual encounters with Shepard(regardless of gender), with a significant chance that the 'final pairing' may be a Liara/Shepard/Oriana or Shiala/Shepard/Oriana threesome. I haven't actually settled on a 'final pairing' yet, as it happens. It's almost certainly going to be at least a trio, though.
Either way, my current plans were to have a Female Shepard. I always liked that idea more, possibly because Jennifer Hale did such an utterly amazing job voicing her :-). However, at this early point where Shepard hasn't appeared yet, I could flip a couple of pronouns and have a Male Shepard. That would inject more M/F sex into the story, but wouldn't have much additional effect. That said, there likely will be one or two M/F scenes even without Male Shepard...but it's unlikely that they would turn into a relationship. I find most of the male companions off-putting in the games, except for Wrex, who I wouldn't inflict the mental scarring on any of you by sexualizing -_-. Vega is fucking irritating, Jacob is bland, Garrus is...frankly both ugly and kinda emo, and Thane I can't actually see being interested no matter how hard I try.
So, again: Do you want to see a Male Commander Shepard or a Female Commander Shepard?
