My mainshep is a colonist/ War hero and an inflitraitor . She is also a paragon turned paragade in ME2.
Neat story I did just for her to explain the transition *ahem*
When saved during Mindoir, instead of using that experience as a reason to be vengeful, my Shepard wanted to be just like those soldiers so she could save others and make a difference. They saw importance in her life even though she was just some colony kid that didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Shepard makes a point to never to forget the little people which explains why she gladly stops to help strangers all the time. It’s also why she argues so strongly with Garrus in the beginning because he spoke of bystanders as if they were just numbers to him. Despite this strong belief, something happened that challenged her most important philosophy during "Bring down the sky". Shepard promised herself that she wouldn't let what happened on Mindoir ever cloud her judgement, but Balak was the most evil baterian she had ever encountered and no doubt was responsible for lots of human enslavement and deaths.
In the moment she had to choose, she was filled with so much hate that his death was immediately more important than the life of those 3 scientists. She leaves him wounded for reinforcements but the result is horribly bittersweet, Shepard isn't the same afterwards as she can’t forgive herself for what she did.
After she is brought back, it's obvious that's she's a bit more vengeful and has a
lot more contempt for criminals than she originally did . It explains why she behaves so differently in ME2 (more likely to say and do renegade things) she seems to have “wised up” to how the most of the Galaxy works at that point, it’s not a nice place and you can’t be the nice guy all the time. ME2, for me, was all about my mainshep slowly regaining her past idealism, by stopping Garrus from killing Sidonis, stopping Miranda, Mordin etc. She has to live with horrible regret so she doesn’t want her team mates to do the same.
Ok I’ll stop now, sorry, I love inventing stories, it’s so much fun!
Modifié par Hyrule_Gal, 05 août 2010 - 08:44 .