This guide will explain how to romance Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect Legendary and how her loyalty mission plays a vital role in doing so.
Miranda Lawson’s loyalty mission revolves around her saving her sister Oriana Lawson from her oppressive father with the help of Niket. This guide will help you learn how to romance Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect 2.
Miranda Lawson is a romanceable character in Mass Effect 2 if you play as a male Shepherd. She is the second companion that you will travel with. How do you make her yours?
Who is Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect 2
Miranda Lawson was genetically engineered by her father who used his own genome. She is designed to be the perfect genetic human being. She was born in 2150.
Being drilled by her father to excel in everything she does, it has made her very insecure in everything she does. Her father demanded her to excel while she was unsure if she could meet his expectations.
Unable to deal with the pressure that was put on her by her father, she left him despite all of her achievements in the Alliance Military.
She and Jacob Taylor have history as she guided him through several missions before they ran into Commander Shepard.
How to do Miranda Lawson’s loyalty mission
As with any character in Mass Effect 2 who will join you on your mission, Miranda Lawson will have a loyalty mission. The loyalty mission is, as the word says, the pledge the character to both the mission and Shepard.
If you want the best ending then you make sure that you complete her loyalty mission as well as the loyalty missions of ALL the other members of your party before you go for the Suicide Mission.
The Suicide Mission means entering the Collector’s ship and stop them from creating a humanlike android who wants to take over the galaxy.
Miranda’s loyalty mission revolves around saving her sister, Oriana, from her obnoxious father who wants her back. In order to get through this you will travel alongside Miranda to Ilium.
And please note that you can only do this after you have completed the mission called Horizon. The loyalty mission is crucial if you want to romance Miranda Lawson at a later stage in the game so you will need to finish.
How to get to Ilium for Miranda Lawson’s loyalty Mission
You head to Ilium to trigger the mission to save Oriana from her father. Edi will be the one to inform you that you can find your contact, who is a really close friend of Miranda, at the Eternity Bar. Her contact’s name is Niket, the only person who Miranda trusts in the whole universe after Shepard asks Miranda if he can be trusted.
As it turns out Niket and Miranda have been exchanging intergalactic emails discussing Oriana and her father.
As you progress on the mission, you should be very mindful of your surroundings as Miranda remarks; there are a lot of Eclipse ships present and with that a lot of mercenaries are being dropped. The mercenaries attack the ship but an Eclipse engineer tells them to stop.
Shepard lands the ship in a secure location before making conversation with the engineer who just stopped the shooting. At the end of the conversation, however, the Eclipse engineer betrays Shepard and the team and says that his snipers have taken position in order to kill the team. And on top of that, you have arrived too late to save Oriana.
The captain of the mercenaries has closed in on Oriana while Niket will not help Miranda. Miranda is angry and calls Niket a liar. Meanwhile, Shepard will have the option for a Renegade interrupt. If you do chose to interrupt then Shepard will break the neck of the Engineer while Miranda gets ready for combat by pulling her gun out and shooting one of the mercs behind the Engineer.
Shepard will look up and see that they can shoot at a fuel container that is hanging in the air. He will shoot at it and it will fall down and explode and thus begins the fight.
Now, if you don’t make use of the Renegade option, the mercenaries that were firing at Shepard before will take aim at the team again and this time you will be fighting them out in the open. The adversaries consist of Eclipse Troopers and Vanguards and the Heavy gunners.
While you remain in cover, try to think of a strategy to push forward and be mindful of the heavies since they shoot rockets at you. While you move forward and take on the mercenaries, you look for a way up and take out more mercenaries. Use your biotics or a grenade to draw them out. Or be passive and wait until they stick their heads out for a well placed headshot.
A cutscene will start to play upon entering the elevator. Miranda will find a radio that belongs to the Eclipse and can now listen in on their communications.
Miranda also reveals a little more about her and her sister: Oriana is her genetic twin and she is not the only one out there but it is just that Miranda took away Oriana from their father when she was just a baby.
As said before, Miranda is not the first person who was created but one of the only ones her father kept around. Miranda goes on to tell that she left behind everything from her previous life under the thumb of her father. Everyone but Niket. Shepard will ask again about Niket’s integrity and trustworthiness but Miranda is adamant that Niket is a loyal friend.
How to get to the Cargo Conveyor belt
In the next area you will encounter a bunch of mech droids. The tricky part however are the moving objects that will block your view when you encounter more mercenaries. The containers however are quite volatile so you can just go ahead and time your shot so it will blow up in the faces of the mercenaries.
There is also a datapad that you can hack and it will get you 1500 credits, but look carefully. The container is not easy to see and and very easy to miss. The first encounter will take place when you reach the conveyor belt.
You will get flanked mostly from the left and you will have to take cover. Luckily there is an elevated platform for you to take cover behind and you can take control of the fight that way.
There are a few windows of opportunities where the enemy won’t fire back and you will be able to take them down with either melee or a biotic ability or simply shoot them. But as said before: there are explosive containers in the area and while you can use it to your advantage, they can also be used against you. and it is a one shot if they do blow up in your face.
Moving on, there are a few med gels available and the best part of this is that there is an upgrade for your submachine gun. Either for yourself, depending on the class you play or for your companions.
A few Loki mechs are waiting around the corner so tread carefully and get to cover to avoid getting hurt while you shoot them. There is another money grab for you and you will have to find the locker on the other side of the room. It is easy to miss this one so don’t leave that area before you have picked up the money.
How to get to the Cargo Terminal
Move forward and you will get into a hallway where there are mechs waiting for you and another wave of mercenaries will come from the right. Jump up and you will get on the pick up truck.
Get to safety by getting into cover and this cover will provide you protection from the mercenaries that try to flank you from the left. After you kill all of them, get to the other side of the belt and look for the medi-gel upgrade from one of the mercs and get into the office for an additional 3000 credits.
If you have followed the guide so far you will have about 6000 credits plus two upgrades: medi-gel upgrade and the submachine upgrade. Also be careful when you leave the office: more enemies will spawn and one of them will have a rocket launcher so that will make things a bit more complicated.
Where to find Enyala
In the next area you will hear Enyala give orders via radio communications and will make your life difficult by sending the entire squad after your team. With the exception of her personal bodyguard. Enyala will continue her pursuit of Miranda’s bestie Niket.
Just keep going down the hallway and kill everything on sight. You will reach Dock 94 where the entire platoon of mercenaries is waiting for you.
The best strategy to take down that platoon is have suppressive fire
When you go down the hallway to the next area, you hear Enyala over the radio ordering her troops to send everything except her personal guard to stop Shepard and the squad while she goes after Niket. As you head down the hallway, there will be more resistance around the corner. At the last conveyor before you reach the elevator to Dock 94, you will face numerous Eclipse mercs.
The Eclipse Heavies are more likely to flank you than the other type of mercs but the latter will still attempt to flank you if you don’t force them to hide with suppressive fire. Use the elevated cover in the center for the best combat squad member, and place your squad members on either side of the cover.
The Eclipse will attack in several waves from the left, so do not proceed until the coast is clear. Move over to a dip in the conveyor line and Miranda will say that it’s a way across.
You can use this to flank enemies, however, it is not a recommended action because enemies will approach you on your left or from behind. Search the area for 3,000 credits on a security terminal and a crate of eezo.
There are also 3,000 credits, which you get after hacking the pad of a dead merc in one of the crates. It’s a great upgrade so you want to have it.
How to get to the Terminal Cargo
Upon entering this area EDI tells you that that mercenaries have disabled the elevator and that she will help you get it to work. Until then you will have to fend off several enemies that will come in two waves. So take them down and by the time you are done, EDI will have fixed the elevator. At the end of the fight, you will want to pick up the power cells and the medi-gel.
A cutscene will start when you enter the elevator. Enyala orders that her hostages will need to get on an Eclipse Transport. Miranda gets frustrated by the thought of Niket, who is supposed to be her best friend, is actually betraying her and starts hacking the elevator to get to the destination faster.
As the elevator goes up you reach Dock 94 for the final showdown.
How to get to Dock 94
Right after the cutscene, we see a confused and frustrated Niket looking at the Asari dockmaster because of a security issue. While the team are making their way through the terminal and because of that the dockmaster can’t let anyone out.
Enyala has a comment about how much of a waste of tiem it is but Niket tells her that Oriana is a secure package that needs to be delivered in one piece. Team Shepard exit the elevator while the dockmaster and crew try to make a run for it. Enyala is ruthless and shoots the dockmaster down with extreme prejudice. Meanwhile Miranda Lawson tries to confront her best friend Niket during a conversation.
Miranda draws out her gun at the end of the conversation and has the means to kill Niket. You can interrupt that for five Paragon points. If you decide to do so then Niket will apologize to Miranda but Enyala will shoot him instead. So either way Niket will die.
Miranda will use her biotics to throw Enyala accross the room and the final battle begins.
Enyala isn’t the shabbiest either with a Claymore and powerful biotics and there are lot of ways for Enyala to hide at the docks. Meanwhile waves of enemies will try to mow you down. The standard procedure here would be to treat this fight as the previous docks: use suppressive fire while aiming for Enyala and killing off the mercenaries.
After you kill Enyala, search the docks for medi-gel and get 3000 credits for the computer. Try to get a lost necklace for an asari because will need that for a sidemission. After all that is done it is time to go and exit the dock.
You will see Oriana one more time with her family but only from far away. Miranda is happy that her sister can live a normal life. Upon leaving try and convince Miranda to keep in touch with Oriana.
The future of Miranda Lawson and Oriana Lawson
If Miranda keeps in touch with Oriana you will get a few emails that you can read on your terminal back on your ship the Normandy.
From: Oriana (Lawson)
I hope this is the right Commander Shepard. I’m Oriana. My sister only told me a little, but I don’t think it occurred to her that I’m as smart as she is. I poked around a little and found an information broker who got me this address.
I got to thank her, but I never got to thank you for helping me. My parents don’t really understand it, but I know how much Miranda did, how many little things over the years were her looking out for me. I’m not going to tell them. I still want to go to school and get some degrees. But I wanted you to know that I know you saved me.
I had a guardian angel all these years. I don’t know if my sister has anybody. She said that she’s working for you, and it was pretty clear that you were doing something dangerous. Make sure she comes back alive, okay?
-Oriana
PS: Don’t tell her I sent you this. It would just make her angry.
PPS: Miranda, quit looking at Shepard’s messages. Oh, don’t act like you don’t. It’s what I’d do.
How to romance Miranda Lawson
Miranda Lawson is a romanceable character in Mass Effect 2. And if you play your cards right you may actually get to romance her for a long time. Even after Mass Effect 2.
Most of the time you treat her like nicely, so you agree with everything she says. In order to romance Miranda Lawson you will have to follow these steps and maybe at the end of the ride a romantic moment or two may appear.
First of all, you will need to complete Horizon in order to trigger Miranda’s loyalty mission. After you finish Horizon, which you can consider the most integral part of the Mass Effect 2 story because it is essential for any characters to progress.
Yeoman Kelly will tell you that both Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson will want to chat with you. You can also just go directly to their spaces on the Normandy. For Jacob you can go to the Armory while Miranda you can find on the crew deck in her own office.
If you want to romance her you will need to complete the loyalty mission called The Prodigal and make sure that Oriana has a safe place to stay. Anything before that does not count.
Perhaps maybe the dialogue option where Shepard says that it is nice to see Miranda smile. That you can consider to be the start of the romance but you won’t flesh it out until you do the loyalty mission.
Romancing Miranda means that you will generally have to be responsive, agreeable and stick up for her.
When you go to her on the crew deck you will have a chat with her about Oriana and the mission that just ended. There are no romantic options in there but it is the start of it all.
Go back as often as you can to her office and pick the “Can we talk?” option whenever you can. When you go back the first time, pick the Paragaon options up until she tells you that she can only take credit for are the mistakes she’s made while under the control of her father and later when she worked for Cerberus.
You can choose the following dialogue option: You are hard to compliment, Miranda will respond that she doesn’t mind Shepard admiring her body. And ofcourse, being the flirt that you are you choose: I am admiring it now. This is one of the markers that you will need in order to gain romantic momentum. There are other options that you can pick but so far this is the winning option.
The other option involves Shepard saying “You’re jealous” and this will erupt in the two of them teasing each other but it will also give Shepard the the option to kiss Miranda.
Remember that you can visit her office as much as you want. Whether it triggers a dialogue between the two depends on whether or not you have done a mission inbetween.
As long as you keep encouraging Miranda as well as challenge her , your chances to romance her will pay off.
At the end of all the flirting however Miranda will tell you that she needs to time to think over whether you are serious or not about the budding romance.
She will ask you straightforward if you want the romantic relationship for real or if it is just a one night stand. Tell her that you are there are for the whole nine yards. The other option is that you will break it off. But even then you can patch things up in later dialogues.
After you do Jack’s loyalty mission, you will be called over comms that both Jack and Miranda are fighting and that you will need to bring peace back to the Normandy.
Now this is a difficult moment in the game because if you pick Jack you will lose Miranda’s loyalty and worst of all, you will lose her romance for the rest of the game.
If you pick Miranda however over Jack, you will lose Jack’s loyalty and you won’t have ANY conversations at all anymore with her throughout the game. So pick whoever you want to romance and make it count.
The third option only goes if you have enough points in either Paragon or Renegade. With that option you get to keep the loyalty of both women and make sure that you still have that romance going.
If you have followed all these steps and you are ready to go to the final mission then Miranda will tell you that she has thought things over and that she is ready for the next step. Which will result you having sex with her in the Captain’s Cabin. If you manage to keep her alive during that last mission you can have a romantic relations with her more often but that cutscene will only play once.
In Mass Effect 3 you will reconnect with Miranda on The Citadel and she will tell you how much she has missed you and will ask if you are still into her.
She will also tell you that things have gone wrong with Oriana and that her father is most likely behind it. You can offer to help her but she will politely decline that because she knows that you have to fight off the Reapers. She promises him that she will wait for Shepard and so does he.
This is all you need to know on how to romance Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect 2. The story for this character specifically is the same in both the original game and the Mass Effect Legendary edition, but in the second one the visual fidelity is greatly improved. There are a few scenes that have been changed or more correctly to say “censured”, but oh well, we can live through that.
