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Til I Change Your Mind (Mass Effect Krogan SI)

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SilverBlade said:
Did this turn into crack at some point when I wasn't looking?
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Yes. Specifically Councilor Valern's Home-made, Extra Crunchy.

Edit: Yeah, some of the humor's there, especially new people constantly needing to be 'enlightened' and some others playing in...but massive chunks of other people being dumb/stubborn enough to just not accept reality is probably pushing it. Krell's exasperation could be more believably induced by the afore-mentioned repetition of having to explain he's not Shepard to different people rather then the same ones.

Except for the Batarians. Slaver/terrorists are stupid and deserve mocking on top of them having an understandable reason to not be rational and reach for any means of lashing out.

Edit 2: That, and I think the 'We're all Nakmor Krell' thing might be a bit overmuch just on it's own? Krell is a big name for the movers and shakers of the galaxy, Krogans, Quarians/Geth (prophet of doom and salvation), and Humans (because he's THE alien). For everyone else (which is most of the galaxy and definitely most of the Citadel polities) he's quite a bit less important unless he specifically intersected in someone's field of expertise somehow. And, uh, the majority of the Citadel's actual citizens? Are not historians, Mass Effect researchers, caught up in Normandy Shenanigans (mostly done in the Terminus), or privy to extremely classified/panic-inducing information regarding the Reapers.

So everybody jumping on the Nakmor train so readily is weird - even though Krell really has been that important to their lives, 'people' aren't particularly good at keeping things not directly relevant to their normal lives in mind, not unless the relevance was recently brought up and clearly attributed.
 
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The dumb level is getting a hair too high for me TBH. Depending on what happens next chapter I might be out.

That being said, I enjoyed the story up until about… three updates ago? Thank you very much for writing this! I may re-read in the future!
 
I can't tell if Bailey is serious or if he and most of the citadel are messing with Krell.
It would be karma for his centuries of taking the galaxy for a ride.
 
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Gotta agree with Tithed_Verse. The story is fun, and the shenanigans of Krell are entertaining. But the insistence by literally everyone that he has to be Shepard is kinda dragging me away from the fun of 'Krell is an eccentric, unapologetic fucker with meta-knowledge and had far too much time on his hands.'
 
I kept expecting him to wake up commenting on having such a weird fever dream. It's got that sort of unreal vibe to it.
 
The only way Krell could possibly dig himself out of this hole at this point... is by dancing. Everyone knows Shepard is an infamously bad dancer.

... Unless he's just as bad at dancing as Shepard, of course. :V
 
Stratagemini said:
Is it the continuation of the spartacus joke? I wasn't certain whether that would push it a little too far or not.
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You could get away with the "So are we all" If its just a Hanar or two I think. They probably think he's basically Krogan Jesus or something. And him just not bothering to track what the religion forming around him is doing would be on brand.

The lackadaisic response could also be played off as people panicking, then finding out its HIM being shot at, and them all much more calmly getting away. Because he's been a weirdo for Millinia. It's kinda ingrained in the psyche of most beings in citadel space.
 
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Being honest, I liked the MC BADLY, REPEATEDLY, faking his death, no one believing it, and not playing along(beyond clearly joking). More than I like this. Cuz... yeah. Just not a fan of whatever this is. Collective stupidity that is strangely reminding me of people today. Like, I can actually see people being this dumb. After everything that has been going down the last 4 years.
 
The "everyone seems to think he's Shepard" thing is... a bit worn out at this point, personally, yeah. I considered it to be an amusing gag at first, and then it kept going.

It might work better at this length if it was smaller in the scope of who was fooled and/or had a bit more of an explanation for why so many people are going along with it this much and in that way than it does now, maybe? The occasional person being fooled (or 'fooled', to mess with him) would be a lot less jarring than everyone somehow being fooled or going along with it for what seems like - as far as I can tell - no reason that we can see.
 
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I mean, the other possibility is that literally everyone on the Citadel knows damn well it's Nakmor Krell after his multiple clumsy attempts to fake his death in the past, and is just fucking with him at this point, except for a handful of idiots like these Batarians.

But that requires too many people to be in on it and also quite intelligent, because given that this is the Citadel, they really aren't all that smart. :p
 
meme culture literally requires mass knowledge of in-jokes.
If you know Hot Fuzz and hear the mention of "The Greater Good" you'll SOMETIMES reply back in kind...
But if Simon Pegg drops it into a conversation at a convention...

Nakmor Krell in this setting is a cultural icon who accidentally made his own running gag a meme. Which the Salarians weaponised against him.

It's the funniest kind of hell, one of your own devising.
 
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Poncho said:
meme culture literally requires mass knowledge of in-jokes.
If you know Hot Fuzz and hear the mention of "The Greater Good" you'll SOMETIMES reply back in kind...
But if Simon Pegg drops it into a conversation at a convention...

Nakmor Krell in this setting is a cultural icon who accidentally made his own running gag a meme. Which the Salarians weaponised against him.

It's the funniest kind of hell, one of your own devising.
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Hm, a fair point IF we imagine that it's become a meme and that most Citadel residents are terminally plugged into Citadel space's meme culture, as seems likely given its status as the heavily urbanized center of galactic culture.
 
So, there have been edits to the last chapter because the joke wasn't landing right.
 
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