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Major Kaidan Alenko is one of your crewmates and party members in the Mass Effect Trilogy.

A lot of people call Kaiden boring, but I think people just don't want to bother getting to know him. I think he's quite a fun character and and it's always funny to see his reaction to things. I love him to bits.

In Mass Effect 1 he's not as fleshed out as I think he ought to be at some points, but if you keep him with you throughout ME3 that's when you really get a good sense of his personality. He's often very intospective and often thinks deeply about his actions and the consequences he will have, while also just saying whatever comes to mind before really thinking about it, even if it makes him sound silly.

"But sometimes the way things go down does matter, Shepard. Later, when you have to live with yourself. Knowing that you acted with integrity- then it matters."

(a little ramble here but-) One thing that I really like about Kaiden's romance route is how in the first game he worries a lot about the chain of command if you try to romance him. It's something that I was always interested in while I was watching Star Trek: Voyager.
TLDR: in Voyager, a entire ship with it's crew get lost in space, and it will take them almost a lifetime to return to Earth. There are quite a few episodes where the Captian, Kathryn Janeway, comes to terms with the fact she might never see her husband ever again and that she should move on. However, becuase she is the captian, she feels she needs to be above that weakness for romance and she refuses to muddy the chain of command by dating anyone on the ship and eventually due to lonliness, she resorts to having romances on the holodeck with artificial holographic men (basically a VR room.).

In Mass Effect 1, Kaidan doesn't like the idea of making Shepard's job (and his own) more difficult by dating for the first half of the game. It's a very interesting conflict to me in Sci-Fi romances, becuase, what do you do when you're stuck for months on a space ship and the only people around you are your co-workers? There's no way you'd be able to go out and find someone to date easily, so you either be alone, quit your job, or date someone around you. And if you happen to be the commander of the ship, what do you do then?
The conflict of two people of different rank being stuck in a confined space together, far from home for a long time who then end up liking each other, but not being allowed to date due to the muddying of the chain of command can make for a very interesting dynamic if it's pulled off well.

However in Mass Effect 1 as soon as you lock his romance in he throws those concerns to the wayside. This is obviously a forced thing due to how romances work in games, but it's something I wish had had a little more depth added to it before the end of the game.

"Mom was right! I should've brought a sweater."

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