“The first thing is that just because this audio is present doesn’t necessarily mean the character was intended to have a same-sex romance,” says Ainsworth. While the dialogue exists for characters to certain degrees – some characters, like Kaidan and Ashley, have entire conversations recorded, others only snippets – modders will be able to cleverly splice it all together to create the fan-requested same-sex romances. The Gamer spoke with Ryan ‘Audemus’ Ainsworth, who manages the largest Mass Effect modding community in the world.
