if you’re experiencing any of the following, you may have played Mass Effect 3

This list is by no means comprehensive, but it is incredibly spoilerific and you shouldn’t read it until you beat the game.

  • gross sobbing at the word “seashells”
  • gross sobbing at Drell prayers
  • gross sobbing at the phrase “keelah se’lai”
  • gross sobbing at being called “child”
  • uncontrollable urge to rip Kai Leng a new one
  • intense satisfaction at having done so
  • gross sobbing when you talk to your LI
  • gross sobbing when you talk to someone OTHER than your LI
  • gross sobbing when you hear other characters talking
  • even NPCs
  • especially when you hear: “to my Blue Rose of Illium….”
  • or PTSD Asari
  • or anything really
  • uncontrollable laughter when you talk to Conrad Verner
  • until he almost dies
  • no wait he didn’t die trololol
  • unless he did
  • in which case how dare you kill Conrad Verner you heartless person you
  • gross sobbing when you see that one news report saying that Kal’Reegar died protecting turian troops unless you got him killed in ME2 you heartless person you
  • gross sobbing when you didn’t spare Maelon’s data and got Eve killed you heartless person you
  • gross sobbing when you messed up the Quarian-Geth conflict and Tali killed herself you heartless person you
  • gross sobbing when you realized that you messed something up in ME1-2 and you’d have to go allllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to do things perfectly
  • gross sobbing when you realized that you couldn’t romance Ashley as FemShep
  • gross sobbing when you realized that your romance with Thane/Jacob wouldn’t count towards the Paramour achievement
  • gross sobbing when Lonely Gay Shepard finally got laid
  • gross sobbing at every stage of your chosen romance
  • gross sobbing when you hear the saddest piano in the galaxy
  • gross sobbing when you hear Gilbert and Sullivan
  • booty shaking when you hear the Purgatory music
  • uncontrollable giggles at “emergency induction port”
  • ….emeerrrrrrrrrrrgency induction port
  • strange desire to hug every character
  • even Udina
  • at least until you found out he was a traitor at which point the hugs just stopped
  • what the shit I was starting to like you but no you HAD to side with Cerberus didn’t you
  • but everyone else man they were just so cool and you didn’t know you loved them but now you DO
  • spontaneous cries of “No. No! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
  • surprise as your voice hits new high pitches as you wail in agony
  • fierce badass determination when Shep and your token squad go out to kick ass and take names
  • or at least until
  • THE ATRIUM.
  • THE REAPER ON RANNOCH.
  • BANSHEES + REAPER TROOPS + REAPER BEAM.
  • at which point it’s more like THROWING DOWN YOUR CONTROLLER IN RAGE
  • newfound fear of foghorns
  • newfound fear of screaming
  • newfound fear of spiders
  • newfound fear of the dark
  • dawning realization at the fact that the elevator shaft in the Monastery rather succinctly hits up most of your phobias oh god
  • newfound fear of doing something too late and then everyone’s going to die oh god
  • gross sobbing when you think someone’s going to die
  • gross sobbing when it turns out they didn’t die
  • you’re just crying at everything now aren’t you
  • it’s okay there’s no shame in that
  • gross sobbing during the squadmates farewell
  • gross sobbing during the endgame
  • gross sobbing as you realize that you probably didn’t keep your promise to your LI
  • and even if you get the Shep Lives bonus they’re kind of stuck on some planet that’s not Earth
  • INEXPLICABLY
  • SINCE THEY WERE PROBABLY IN YOUR FINAL PARTY
  • BUT EVEN IF THEY WEREN’T
  • TIME TO HEADCANON THAT SHIT
  • gross sobbing even after the game is over
  • gross sobbing three days after you finished the game and someone said something that sounded kind of like something that happened in Mass Effect 3 and you just remember
  • gross sobbing three days after you finished the game and nobody even did anything to make you think of Mass Effect 3 but you did anyway and now you’re crying again
  • intense denial, for whatever reason
  • uncontrollable urge to read fanfiction
  • uncontrollable urge to write fanfiction
  • uncontrollable urge to curl up in a ball and never stop crying
  • general PTSD-like symptoms


TL;DR:

  • FEELS
  • but at least you had a VI to feed your fish
  • even if you couldn’t find your space hamster
  • but then you find out that the space hamster is downstairs in Jack’s quarters!
  • YOU JUST HAVE TO CATCH HIM AGAIN
  • and then you decide to start the vicious cycle of feels again so you can catch a fucking hamster
  • *GROSS SOBBING*

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