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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I'm not entirely sure what was wrong with the old Ashley, to be honest.
Personally, I love the new textures and looks. Then again, I see your point. Ashley's gone from a good old 'grunt' to some kind of sex symbol, hasn't she? And I don't even like how sex is creeping into everything these days, so I shouldn't like what they did with her. But I do for some odd reason.
But I can somewhat understand them changing it - time has passed, etc. I'm not really annoyed when it comes down to it, I just don't understand the reason for changing it when everyone (as far as I can tell the majority of Ashley's fanbase, at least) liked the previous version.
What did you think about Ashley as a Spectre? Perhaps they wanted the new look to go with her new status to show her as some kind of super woman rather than just an Alliance soldier?
Purely as an observation, I was surprised with her jumping four ranks from a non-commissioned officer, Gunnery Chief, to a commissioned officer, Lieutenant-Commander, in the course of about seven months. I was surprised they bothered to put that into the story since her Spectre status outweighs her Alliance rank. Same with Kaidan, but his jump was less in that he was already a commissioned officer. His jump was only two ranks from the first game to the second game (two years), then one more from the second to the (seven to eight months) third.
The only reason for the promotion in either case (Ashley or Kaidan), as far as I can tell, is to make them into a sort of icon, or symbol suggesting capability. But I would have thought making them into a Spectre would have done that automatically.
But that's meta-gaming. Shepard wouldn't have known about Ashley or Kaidan becoming a Spectre until they notify him/her about it. As far as Shepard knows, the Vermire Survivor is whatever rank they are when they at the start of the game.
I liked the shiny new armour (this one we're looking at), but the casual appearance (here) just didn't look right. Not for Ashley, at least. Though I can't say I'm upset or annoyed about it, just a bit jarring from two previous games to see her wearing anything but Alliance fatigues or heavy armour. I'm still not entirely sure what to make of her casual outfit, but I do like this one