
Random Headcanon:
One of the reasons Hira takes Garrus’s last name is that she doesn’t like the hype about hers. She doesn’t like being in the public eye, because people expect celebrities to act a certain way and then she gets crap from Alliance PR for not playing nice and it distracts from her job. So she takes the surname Vakarian and disappears from the public eye and everyone’s left going “Where’s Shepard? Where’d our hero go?” and no one in the little tropical colony goes “Oh my gosh, my neighbor is THE Commander Shepard!”
I won’t lie, whenever I imagine Shepard marrying someone, I keep thinking she would be the man in the relationship....
Actually, I think hyphenation fits extra well with either dextro cross species romance, because they could choose to...
Or, you know, each Shepard could be different.
These are also good points - I agree that “this would be weird for my Shepard” =/= “this should never happen for any...
THIS.
It doesn’t matter if Shepard’s name is ‘iconic’. A person’s name is not what makes them great. Their actions, words and...
Bears repeating…
I am in complete agreement with you. My brother’s wife hyphenated her name because they both had Dr. on their name in...
In RL of course it’s completely up to the individual (although in my experience there is a certain expectation that the...
Yep. And I just happen to like my fiancee’s last name better than my own.. so why not? I figure my brother and his wife...
I agree with Rose there. I took my husband’s name true, but it wasn’t a bread winning situation. It was that I felt more...
This argument is silly. In this day and age women can chose to take their husband’s name, or choose to keep their own,...
I’m talking about a WOMAN doing what SHE wants with HER name. Anyways I’m done with this. If you can’t respect others...
(( I’m not even gonna bother to switch blogs to cheer this on (My emphasis added to Jess’s post). I’ll do that later....
COULD SOMEBODY PASS ME A BRAINBLEACH OH MY GOD I CAN’T
Adam, I get your point. I understand it. I’m a big feminist and I believe the whole origins of a woman taking a man’s...
I ship Wrex and Ashley, this confession has made me decide she’s going to change her name to Urdnot Ashley Williams,...