FireEye wrote...
FemShep Question:
What was your Shepard's crowning moment of failure, and what did she learn from it?
Failure and learning experience... You know, it's funny, I think it isn't her failures but her successes what shaped her personality, the most important ones being Torfan and the battle of the Citadel. She got in Mindoir the grim idea that life, particularly human life, was not worth much in the galaxy; it had a rather cheap trade value. And she continued to see that during her military career, and acting accordingly, and it worked. It always worked. So she grew more and more confident on this bleak vision of the galaxy and its people. It's hardy surprising that she's a vanguard: she prefered killing one more enemy instead of waiting behind cover, because what would happen if she died anyway? Nothing. Nothing would happen, the same way nothing happened after Mindoir, and nothing happened each time a member of her squad died in a mission.
The military knew all of this when they sent her to Torfan, and were not surprised by the results. Her victory was officially recognized, but her reputation within the military was then definitely established. That's who my Shepard is at the beginning of ME1.
But then, all she learned during the events of ME1, what it means to be a spectre, and the very real threat of complete annihilation, made her reconsider a few things. For the first time she actually joined paths with other people, instead of just walking through them... professionally and personally. Or maybe it's just because she and the rest of the galaxy had a common enemy, and that unifies people. The thing is that the galaxy now meant something to her, and she embraced this new view when she ordered the fleet to save the Destiny Ascension. And it worked.

She continues to be a vanguard though, but now it's because it's just too much fun.

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Shep thinking about all of this.
Modifié par Nyoka, 28 mai 2011 - 12:43 .