User blog comment:The Milkman/Alpha and Omega/@comment-2250460-20121129232300/@comment-1388547-20121130010555

Fanservice: Maybe, but more a matter of "OMG a female turian" than "OMG a female turian who was involved with Aria." And I'd actually amplify on what Lily said -- every single piece of the story would work equally well if Nyreen were male, so I'd say her gender wasn't significant, except in satisfying fan interest in seeing a female turian.

As for Nyreen & Aria's relationship, the specifics of it did strike me as ... maybe not cliched, but certainly fairly standard tropes. I did set myself a secondary objective of getting the two of them back together, since I thought it would make both of them happier and be good for Omega as a whole, but that didn't work out.