User blog comment:Damac1214/Why Shooters Need Good Stories/@comment-4814368-20130513155911/@comment-20063916-20130514214534

I made that decision pretty quickly... Ashley was xenophobic eye-candy, while Kaiden had a pretty cool backstory, with his "accidental" exposure to eezo in the womb, his malfunctioning L2 implants, and him protecting his friend from the xenophobic turian at the biotic school.

Long story short, Ashley went boom.