If you play female Shepard in the first game, Kaiden is one of your two romantic options -- I haven't seen the whole thing, but vector played it that way on her first go through, and apparently it was pretty sketchy on the power dynamic issues. I *think* the Alliance discouraged that kind of thing, but not terribly strongly.
You choose which of the humans will die on Virmire, when you play it; they're on different teams and the mission goes badly, and you only have the time to save one of them. So you could save the one you were dating if you wanted to. ^^;
If I had to guess why they set the defaults the way they did, my guess would be that they set it up so you had a relationship with the human option in the first game (instead of Liara, the other choice), and then your paramour dies, because otherwise there is post-relationship weirdness when you run into him on the colony world -- it's a really specifically "we had a thing together" scene, and my guess is that they decided it would work better to have you run into a comrade than a former lover.
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Date: 2010-08-30 01:58 pm (UTC)From:You choose which of the humans will die on Virmire, when you play it; they're on different teams and the mission goes badly, and you only have the time to save one of them. So you could save the one you were dating if you wanted to. ^^;
If I had to guess why they set the defaults the way they did, my guess would be that they set it up so you had a relationship with the human option in the first game (instead of Liara, the other choice), and then your paramour dies, because otherwise there is post-relationship weirdness when you run into him on the colony world -- it's a really specifically "we had a thing together" scene, and my guess is that they decided it would work better to have you run into a comrade than a former lover.