As such, BioWare hasn’t been as kind to him when it came to official merchandise while characters like Liara T’Soni and Garrus Vakarian have been the subject of a lot of what BioWare has put on its own store. Not only was the man the subject of a years-long smear campaign by people who thought racism was preferable to relative emotional stability, but because the way his relationship was charted in the first game, the cards were dealt in a way where a majority of Mass Effect players didn’t see the man turn out to be one of the best-written characters across the trilogy. For the past 14 years, it’s been hard out there if you’re a Kaidan Alenko fan in the Mass Effect fandom.