I can totally get why women would find him appealing, it's the Kirking I never understand. This is the guy who's so lacking in self-confidence that he throws himself into every suicide mission he can possibly find, engineer or manufacture. I wouldn't say he's outright shy, but he's not going to put himself forward so blatantly. He's one of those rare creatures that would actually get to know a woman first, you know? That's my romantic view of him, lol.

LFP...*sighs* It always reminds me how much I hate Simon/Narim/whatever.

'coz I can, I shall quote my favorite piece of ZPS literature:

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And just because it makes me feel better and more productive to rewrite the dialogue... Shep: "ZOMG, look at all the cool stuff my friends sent me!"

Laira-lite: "WE love you, too, dammit." Shep: "Er... yeah, whatever."
Laira-lite: "I've been stalking you. With my mind!"
Shep: "Er... new powers you didn't tell me about, h0r?"
Laira-lite: "Yes. Fear me."
Shep then makes the Eww Face, which KILLS me because seriously, Laira-lite needs to GET A CLUE. Upset that he's not that impressed by her Special Powers of Fangirlness, she adds, "I've been stalking you EVERYWHERE." Shep: "Dammit, why didn't you tell me. I needed a GPS unit out there!"
And then Laira-lite keeps talking. And Shep keeps checking out all the MREs because those are infinitely more interesting than Laira-lite.

Laira-lite, feeling ignored: "Sit with me."
Shep: "But... but... but... shiny Powerbars! Cool MREs! STUFF!"
Pooh: "LMFAO."
Shep eventually sits, but he just spent a whole day running, so he was exhausted, not because of anything Laira-lite said. *LALALA*

Then Laira-lite refuses to shut up, all "Ever since I was a wee babe, I knew I loved you before I met you/I think I dreamed you into life/I knew I loved you before I met you/I have been waiting all my life." God, don't think I don't want to punch Laira-lite in the head for making me quote Savage Garden.

Shep, thank god, looks sufficiently disturbed. Because seriously, who wants to be told that some girl saw your face in her vision when she was a little kid and knew she was going to have The Hot Sex with you? That's disgusting.
Laira-lite: "You are the One, Neo. I have spent my entire life looking for you." Then Neo Shep, who still looks pretty damn freaked, is all, "One what?"
Laira-lite: "Our Ascension Team Leader, duh." And then Shep says some things that make me CRY but because he's so pretty, I'll let it go. Besides, he's a hopeless romantic and if some h0r insinuated that you would be Her Fated One, you'd flail and eww a bit, but ultimately, you'd grab at the chance. Wouldn't you? Hell, if some guy came up to me and told me he's known without a doubt that I'd be his One, after I beat the crap out of him for being a sick pervert, my final thought would be 'Cool. I'm so lazy, now I don't actually have to LOOK for a guy myself.' But that could just be me.

Anyway, Laira-lite smiles, all pleased with this, and tells him that he's her density and her one and only lobster and... oh, whatever, I HATE THIS SCENE and this whole crapisode.

There's more talking, of which the only important thing to note is that Shep pretty much ix-nays the idea of him, you know, dying with these Stupid Hippies. God, this man's eyes are gorgeous. So I can't begrudge Laira-lite when she jumps him. Okay, I can, but I understand it at least. Also, I'm clinging to the fact that not only has Shep not considered her in that way for MONTHS, she still needed to drop a huge f**king anvil over his head and make the first move before he actually responded. And then Shep does that Face-Holding thing that makes me weak in the knees, and... thank god we don't get to see anything else so I can keep convincing myself that after a 10 hour run and being gone all day, he was way too tired to do anything more than a quick Alien-Earth cultural exchange of spit. So there.
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Hee, I LOVE THIS RECAP *dies laughing*