Hard edges, bad jokes, awkward silences, and calling Kaidan’s eyes ‘Brown… I think?’ one time, and Shepard was officially not a guy you called the romantic type. Hell, Kaidan half expected Shepard to pick up a scented electric candle at an off-duty goods store and give a demonstration on how to use it as a projectile explosive if Cerberus ever interrupted one of their dates.

You know that feeling you get when you’re standing in a high place… Sudden urge to jump?… I don’t have it. - Captain Jack Sparrow

There’s a lot of people back on earth dying while we gather our strengths. They’re wondering if we’re ever coming back; friends, family, parents and children. This isn’t their fight. But they are buying us time with their lives… - Commander Shepard