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David, I\'m sorry, that makes no sense, and I don\'t think you\'ve listened to what I\'ve written. It is true that you can \
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David, I\\\'m sorry, that makes no sense, and I don\\\'t think you\\\'ve listened to what I\\\'ve written. It is true that you can \\\"tell\\\" Liara you aren\\\'t interested, however, if you do not (as in, you don\\\'t talk to her at all about romance), the game assumes you are in a relationship with her. That\\\'s not Shepard or the narrative agreeing to anything, the default state is the two are in a relationship, and you have to go out of your way to stop it (That\\\'s the trope). You\\\'ll have a romantic confrontation where you have to choose after defeating several of the story missions, and Shepard will say such things as \\\"I didn\\\'t mean for both of you to get hurt.\\\" That\\\'s the trope.
You\\\'ve actually admitted it in your previous post. You say the romance is perfectly justified because they go on adventures together, but Shepard also does this with Wrex and there\\\'s no romance between them. Doing something with another person doesn\\\'t mean you\\\'re in a relationship. There\\\'s no flirting, no gift-giving, no shared feelings, none of the stuff you\\\'d expect from normal relationships. You don\\\'t have to say one word to Liara after you bring her on the ship, and you\\\'re assumed to be in a relationship with her.
That\\\'s the trope. There\\\'s no backstory of a relationship between them, you play it out over the game, and no romantic things need to be said, and bam, instant relationship.
Stop telling us about an assumption of friendship: We\\\'re talking about the assumed relationship, which is a fact.
Unless you have something to stop that instance (The ME1 instance of instant assuming Liara is in a relationship with Shepard by the narrative) then the trope is in full force, and you\\\'re just edit-warring and offering no justification. All of the other parts (Aetheyta, hugging Liara in ME2, warm greetings in ME3) are part of it, but that\\\'s where the trope is in full effect.
You\\\'ve actually admitted it in your previous post. You say the romance is perfectly justified because they go on adventures together, but Shepard also does this with Wrex and there\\\'s no romance between them. Doing something with another person doesn\\\'t mean you\\\'re in a relationship. There\\\'s no flirting, no gift-giving, no shared feelings, none of the stuff you\\\'d expect from normal relationships. You don\\\'t have to say one word to Liara after you bring her on the ship, and you\\\'re assumed to be in a relationship with her.
That\\\'s the trope. There\\\'s no backstory of a relationship between them, you play it out over the game, and no romantic things need to be said, and bam, instant relationship.
Stop telling us about an assumption of friendship: We\\\'re talking about the assumed relationship, which is a fact.
Unless you have something to stop that instance (The ME1 instance of instant assuming Liara is in a relationship with Shepard by the narrative) then the trope is in full force, and you\\\'re just edit-warring and offering no justification. All of the other parts (Aetheyta, hugging Liara in ME2, warm greetings in ME3) are part of it, but that\\\'s where the trope is in full effect.
