Talk:Shep/@comment-32712781-20191231214125/@comment-31509668-20191231230341

A lot more happened to them than just "growing apart". I never saw the relationship between Sadie and Lars that shippers insist was there but whatever that relationship was it wasn't going to survive everything those two would eventually go through.

Lars was taken to Homeworld and stranded there. It was where he died and was resurrected into a new alien form. He learned things about himself he never knew were there as he and the Off Colors escaped Homeworld in a series of stolen spaceships. The affirmation he sought from the Cool Kids he found with the Off Colors. His adventures a space captain taught him who he was and what he was truly capable of. He didn't need the Cool Kids anymore. He was far cooler than any of them.

Sadie was so emotionally dependent on Lars' for attention that she would go to extreme lengths to get it. With Lars lost in another galaxy she had to come to terms with a life without Lars. She then learned that there were plenty of people in the world willing to give her the attention and affirmation she was trying to force out of Lars. She and her new friends formed a band and were successful at it. Having experienced genuine friendship and a real romantic relationship Sadie finally realized the truth behind her attraction to Lars and outgrew it. Sadie's well on her way to true maturity.

There is no future for these two as a couple. Not even friendship. Lars no longer has a place on Earth or among humans. For Lars staying on Earth means watching everyone he knows age and die while he remains unchanged. For Sadie Lars is a reminder of a time in her life she has grown past and things she has done that she is not proud of.