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What kinds of friendships do you favour?.
PREMIUM The alien Garrus Vakarian (extreme left), a vigilante and military adviser, is a steadfast friend to Commander Shepard (centre) in the videogame Mass Effect...
This is the kind of friendship that can play with boundaries in a way that is only possible, for most, for a fleeting few years in ones youth..
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022): Friendships may atrophy and decay, but perhaps none as dramatically as in the plot of this metaphorical film, starring Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell as Colm and Padraic, lifelong friends in a remote island off the coast of Ireland..
A rather wholesome example is Mass Effect, in which the protagonist, Commander Shepard, fights mercenaries and sentient machines to save the world from extinction, with the help of his steadfast friend Garrus Vakarian from the alien Turian species..
