Oh, Jim. Jimmy, Jim, Jimmy, Jim, Jim... (
https://youtu.be/MTdxPvUhnVY?t=26s)
I'm starting to like you more and more. First you write two of my favorite characters in game (Bess and Embry), then perusing the thread I find you're a Tali man as well; she was my favorite within the ME series and I really agree that the Garrus/Tali thing kinda was out of nowhere in ME3, although I didn't find out about it except by watching someone else do a play through. I mean there was a little bit of development with their banter in ME1 and ME2, but everyone had pretty good banter as squaddies, and then whatever the hell they tried to do to her 'I need to show you' deal with the Citadel DLC. But never mind that; I'm rambling on from the point of the thread.
Mostly what I want to see with future Embry content would be the laundry list of HNNNG and diabetes that seems to be developing, most of which you see to already have on your radar from what you've been telling people. My specifics for it would really just be that I would like to see Omorii and all it has to offer story wise. I think you mentioned intending to do it a while ago, I guess my thing would be that Embry's general personality strikes me as that Steele would have to push her to return to sort things out; to talk to her parents and convince them what's done is done and was done for the best, obviously supporting her along the way. The only other thing I would want to see--with her parents being kinda conservative and Steele someday being able to put a ring on Embry--would be possibly some way to return to the parents one day and ask for permission to. It might be a difficult conversation, but one that could lead to a happy little bow being tied around the family drama to bring it to a close.
Aside from that, my suggestion for kinda combining Embry-Dates with helping her with writer's block/grow as a person would be to do micro-expansions in which we could take her off ship on the worlds we visit, like Tarkus, Meng'ha, etc. I mean, they're places Steele would have explored, could probably handle, and thus might be able to show her more about the galaxy at large without putting them highly dangerous situations, more for Embry's sake than anything else (so what if I want to baby her a little...actually, I might have a problem) It could also mean planning such outings to more of the future planets, further making having her leave the ship felt as a character in that after getting her pregnant, some of the outings wouldn't be possible or someone might even just miss being able to show her cool things and be with her in a familiar manner.
My last big bit would just about how we actually get her on the ship with us. Earlier it was discussed that we might whisk her off her feet like from one of her stories only to try to turn around and show her how more monotonous space faring life may be as kind of a joke to pull on her. While I like that setup and think it could be funny, having a couple of options would be nice. The setup I thought of would be to have a 'Long Goodbye' option in her menu on Myrellion in which Steele just kinda says they'll be leaving and don't know exactly when they'll be back this way, thus cutting to spending time with her before having her see you off to the launch and page breaking at the player pausing halfway up the cargo ramp/however we get into our ship, with the options to turn around and whisk her dramatically away, to walk back down the ramp and simply say 'come with me' and convince her there, or to simply turn and offer a parting smile and/or wave with an "I'll be back, I promise" called out. This could also give a little wiggle in the coding so that if crew member limitations get implemented later, you could have an automatic out where if your ship is full, you just default to the "I'll be back" choice.
Then, my little laundry list of things; the obvious HNNNNG moments that no-one has brought up that I want to see possibly addressed would be
if we get her knocked up when we get her knocked up, putting our heads on her belly and listening to the baby, helping her through hormonal stuff that comes with a developing kid--complicated by being on a cramped starship (I could see a scene similar to Bess' Breakdown; where we have to hold her, comfort her, and talk her through it, maybe that she kinda flips out in a 'what the hell am I doing' kinda way--that she ran away from home, left the only stable job she had, and is now roaming the galaxy, pregnant, with someone she's maybe known for a month on a ship filled with people who also clearly want to have sex with this person--maybe that we walk in on her trashing her room/our shared room and have to stop her), and maybe some jealously actually on Bess' part during the pregnancy (as I said, they're my two favorite characters, and if I remember correctly Bess' stated that she had mechanisms available to become pregnant, so I think it would be interesting to see how she would react to Steele getting someone else preggers but not her--immediately). Lastly, I liked the limited music component to Bess, and personally enjoy music quite a lot, so doing something like catching an Omorii Concert with Embry would be something I'd like to see. And, for some of us who got poor RandVar scores in the singing department character wise, a way to train our voices so that we might be able to sign lullabies to Embry/Embry-babies would be nice for massive diabetes.
So, in short, SWEET JESUS I'M SORRY FOR THE LONG POST, hope something constructive can be found from my ramblings idea wise, either by Jim or by others for things to ask of Jim, and I guess that's about it. Hell of a first post for a forum noob, huh?
