Gordon: Gordon accepted a long time ago that he was going to die. Not at some point in the nebulous future, but right then and there, in Black Mesa, while he was trying to put right everything that his experiment had put so horribly wrong. And again, when he made it to the teleporter to Xen in Lambda Complex and was basically told 'yeah, you're not coming back'. He didn't actually die to protect anybody those two times, but I think accepting that he was about to probably counts... these days he would probably just say Alyx and his family and leave it at that, but between Black Mesa and the Combine Overworld missions he's already come within a hairsbreadth of dying to protect quite a lot of people several times.
Adrian doesn't count the same way. Gordon's incidents were basically Gordon agreeing to die because it would accomplish at least some degree of protecting or saving somebody. Adrian's incidents basically involved doing a risk-vs-reward calculus and saying 'okay, good chance I might die, but I don't think I'm gonna' and going ahead. That's not the same as consenting to your death even if it does involve jumping down an alien worm monster's throat in order to get at its voolnerables, because he expected to come out alive and would've greeted death with "Well, shit." That being said, he'd probably be willing to lay down his life for the folks at the Greenbrier or in Rowlesburg, although again, it wouldn't be so much consenting to a certain death as 'yeah, I think I can do this, and if I'm wrong then I die'. Probably Voodoo, too, although if he did he'd insist with his dying breath that "SUCK IT, FROGBOY" or some other statement about the Marines stepping in where the Navy couldn't be put on his tombstone.
Varric: mmph. He'd take a lot of injuries for Hawke but I don't know about dying just yet. Possibly for his brother, although with the way canon goes that may change.
Mordin: To protect someone? No. To- well, let's just say that there is something he would willingly die to accomplish and leave it at that because SPOILERS.
Medic: Do you mean die die, or die-on-the-job die? Because respawners kind of change things.
Ray: Romana, Ecto, the guys, probably Janine assuming Egon didn't get there first. And his sister's kids.
Santo: Risk his life, yes; we saw him do that at the end of Santo Vs. the Martian Invasion. I don't know him well enough yet to say accepting a certain death is on his dance card for anybody.
Ellen: Voodoo, for the reasons given above, but she's also already done the Gordon thing at the end of her main canon story arc; she knowingly walked into a lethally irradiated area to prevent an explosion that would have killed everyone on site and probably quite a lot of other people as well. She was very surprised when she woke up after that; people who pass out on the site of their radiation exposure generally don't live longer than about 48 hours. If that.
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Adrian doesn't count the same way. Gordon's incidents were basically Gordon agreeing to die because it would accomplish at least some degree of protecting or saving somebody. Adrian's incidents basically involved doing a risk-vs-reward calculus and saying 'okay, good chance I might die, but I don't think I'm gonna' and going ahead. That's not the same as consenting to your death even if it does involve jumping down an alien worm monster's throat in order to get at its voolnerables, because he expected to come out alive and would've greeted death with "Well, shit." That being said, he'd probably be willing to lay down his life for the folks at the Greenbrier or in Rowlesburg, although again, it wouldn't be so much consenting to a certain death as 'yeah, I think I can do this, and if I'm wrong then I die'. Probably Voodoo, too, although if he did he'd insist with his dying breath that "SUCK IT, FROGBOY" or some other statement about the Marines stepping in where the Navy couldn't be put on his tombstone.
Varric: mmph. He'd take a lot of injuries for Hawke but I don't know about dying just yet. Possibly for his brother, although with the way canon goes that may change.
Mordin: To protect someone? No. To- well, let's just say that there is something he would willingly die to accomplish and leave it at that because SPOILERS.
Medic: Do you mean die die, or die-on-the-job die? Because respawners kind of change things.
Ray: Romana, Ecto, the guys, probably Janine assuming Egon didn't get there first. And his sister's kids.
Santo: Risk his life, yes; we saw him do that at the end of Santo Vs. the Martian Invasion. I don't know him well enough yet to say accepting a certain death is on his dance card for anybody.
Ellen: Voodoo, for the reasons given above, but she's also already done the Gordon thing at the end of her main canon story arc; she knowingly walked into a lethally irradiated area to prevent an explosion that would have killed everyone on site and probably quite a lot of other people as well. She was very surprised when she woke up after that; people who pass out on the site of their radiation exposure generally don't live longer than about 48 hours. If that.