Happy N7 Day

Hi friends.

What does N7 day mean to me?

Well, I'm a newbie to the Mass Effect fandom, so it means a lot of different things. I haven't been part of this fandom for very long, less than a year, in fact, so sometimes I feel almost like it shouldn't mean as much to me, that I shouldn't own merch yet, that I shouldn't fawn over N7 tattoos that people have. 

I played Mass Effect for the first time at the end of January and for the next three months the three games consumed me. Molly and I were living in a crappy basement suite, we were unhappy, and honestly the only light in my day was video games.

I got let go from my job shortly after I beat the first Mass Effect game, so 2 and 3 kinda...carried me through before we moved to our other place.

Mass Effect means a lot to me in the typical 'discovery/be brave/true to yourself' kinda way, but in another way it helped me...not how I expected.

When I was a kid I used to be terrified of alien movies. The 'grays' as it were, were the scariest things to me, and I would check around corners, in my closets, would lie awake afraid of aliens coming to get me in my room (or any room) at night.

Alien movies have never sat well with me, giving me nightmares, so I just didn't bother watching them at all knowing they'd trigger poor sleep or scary images for months to follow.

Knowing Bioware by now through Dragon Age, I trusted them to handle the alien situation and dove in head first. I'd heard by now that apparently Garrus was pretty cool. 

Three games later and I love Garrus (because who doesn't), and now I'm working on my Renegade playthrough where I'm pursuing Thane (and we all know how that ends up). Aliens may make me nervous in a real-world sense of 'what if they're really out there', because they very well could be, but I'm a little less terrified of them now and can sleep at night.

I can thank a certain video game series for that.