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[Iwakura-Lain]

Flies_by_Handles wrote...

@Iwakura-Lain: Sole Survivor is another great option. I like that it's neutral. I would rather my character become a hero at the end of ME1, not the beginning. The Sole Survivor background also provides a good explanation for my character's mental fortitude and difficulty in making lots of friends. Not to mention it gives Shepard a great reason to try her best in ensuring the survival of every teammate during the Suicide Mission.

Neutral? Interesting perspective. I chose 'Sole Survivor' exactly because it felt like the opposite to me. Being a sole survivor, I figured my Kira could empathize with people suffering; thusly propelled by own experiences towards bettering the universe. The 'Earthborn Hero' simply sounded too clean to me: top-of-her class, silver-spoon fed, as it were, never really having known loss, hence not knowing what it is to really fight for something. Naturally I'm not doing the Earthborner justice. So, maybe I'll try that one day. Sole Survivor just seemed so much more rewarding for me, RPG-wise.

[ozsras]

So I've been lurking and 'oohing and ahhing' all over everyone's awesome Shep's. I figured I could throw in my Shep as well, forgive the shoddy picture taking, I'm on the Xbox and had to take the pic with my iphone. (i really, really hope i do this right...)




Earthborn, warhero, Liara romance. Nona Shepard. Nona because she put No Name on the recruitment papers (like the sarcastic person she is) and the recruiter ran with it.

[sagefic]

Valagil wrote...
However, I'm not your typical female. I am a gamer. 

HA! yes. well said. 

Ashwraith wrote...

My question is... who, if anyone, inspired that particular personality (and appearance)? Why?

Hmmm...

Appearance: Me - as close as I could get given the character creator. they don't have a broken-looking nose.

Personality: 25% me, 30% tomboy friend who grew up on a farm and is now an artist, 10% friend who is polished, professional and joined the service, 10% bestest friend with a wild sense of humor and tendency to be icy, then loose temper or be icy, then snuggle attack her boyfriend, 25% what seemed to rationally fit with an adept colonist war hero (most specifically the delivery of the line "I don't care WHAT you say, I am not dealin' with terrorists. - if only it were true!)

that sort of resulted in 50% kara thrace from BSG

http://adaptiveblue....ra_thrace/small

(which i didn't intend, because thrace annoys the heck out of me, even as i totally find her sympathetic)

and 50% Yu Shu Lien



(which is basically just elinor dashwood + martial arts)

edited to put in those pics and wow, she even looks a little like a mix of those two women:



Kyrie says, "Oh stop. I've had enough with Cerberus trying to cobble me together. I'm just me, dammit."

Modifié par sagequeen, 12 octobre 2010 - 09:35 .

[adneate]

Flies_by_Handles wrote...
Well I've always been cynical of the Liara/femShep romance and I'm far from being a right-wing nutter:whistle:. If they really wanted to approach the topic of homosexuality and how that can affect the player, they would have also taken steps in including a male/male romance. Seems that the only risk they took was one that is found to be the more acceptable expression of homosexuality....and it just so happens to cater to young men. I still think the Liara/femShep romance a valid one; just not something I would use as an example of Bioware's open mindedness.

Well Dragon Age had both Female / Female romance and Male / Male romance both as casual encounters and as a full blown love interest. For reasons of CHUD Mass Effect lags behind, for whatever reason he has decided that FemShep can be gay or Bi but ManShep can't. To this day the issue has never been fully explained and in general the devs pretend there is no issue and just talk about how great and groundbreaking their game is.

Ashwraith wrote...
My question is... who, if anyone, inspired that particular personality (and appearance)? Why?

Personality is a hard one, If I had to pick one fictional character that is most present in my Shepard it would be Admiral Helena Cain from Battlestar Galactica. They have similar backgrounds Danielle lost everyone she ever knew during the raid on Mindoir and Cain's family was killed during the first Cylon War. Both can be very hard people, capable of doing things that are very morally questionable but they do it because they firmly believe in what they're doing. Yet as strong and as harsh as they are both still very human, with a softer unrational side rarely seen by anyone.



As for physical appearance it's a bit of a composite as well, to some extent her look is informed by Hale's delivery of Renegade FemShep's line. Just hearing them a certain image comes to my mind, Renegade Shep is a very firey character and I though bright red hair was a good way of visually portraying that aspect. As far as facial geometry she is informed by both previous work on faces in other games and other playthroughs of Mass Effect. Though without intending to do so she does kinda look like a red-headed green eyed Natalie Imbruglia circa 1997.

Modifié par adneate, 12 octobre 2010 - 09:34 .

[Chugster]

I think my Canon Shep (soldier) is a combo of Ellen Ripley, Mara Jade (hence the red hair/green eyes) and Sarah Conner

All strong women who never let their femininity get in their way but neither did they lose it

Modifié par Chugster, 12 octobre 2010 - 09:34 .

[Chugster]

^ shouldnt they have femsheps in?

[adneate]

Chugster wrote...

^ shouldnt they have femsheps in?

I think it has more to do with Sole Survivor is badass rather than FemShep.

[Jagged Orchid]

Ashwraith wrote...
My question is... who, if anyone, inspired that particular personality (and appearance)? Why?

For me, it was a pretty broad combination of characters and people I know. I'd say about 30% was inspired by myself. Originally, it was more but she has since taken on a personality of her own. She has a bit of Samantha Carter from SG1 in her, I'd say her sense of humor is based off my best friend. Her intensity and sense of duty comes from a character from a novel I read way back in the day. The rest is all her. She took what I gave her and more or less ran with it. Honestly the more I play her, the more she develops the more she becomes her own person. It's really the 1st time I've had a character posses a life so much their own. It's actually quite refreshing.

As far as physical. Honestly, I don't think there was too much inspiration. I went with the default and kept slightly tweaking until I found something I was happy with. Even now I'm continuing to make small tweaks. Although I'm pretty happy with where she is at now. Like every character I create, she has green eyes. It's just something, I've always done.

@adneate

I just want to say, I love your Face 7 Mafia sig. How many of us belong to that club?

Modifié par Valagil, 12 octobre 2010 - 09:48 .

[Chugster]

adneate wrote...

Chugster wrote...

^ shouldnt they have femsheps in?

I think it has more to do with Sole Survivor is badass rather than FemShep.

aah i see

Modifié par Chugster, 12 octobre 2010 - 09:47 .

[Mr.Vakarian]

Ashwraith wrote...

So guys.
I've been doing the 'OC influence meme' on DeviantArt, and it got me to thinking.
If you're like me, when you create a roleplaying (or story) character, chances are they're going to have some influences from either popular media, or people you know personally. You may not even be aware of this until you examine your character closely.

Now, looking back over the past few pages, I can see that you -and I- put some serious thought into 'your' Shepards: what makes them who they are, how they react, why they've made some of those in-game choices... all that jazz.
My question is... who, if anyone, inspired that particular personality (and appearance)? Why?

I'll post my own responses in a bit. Or I could just link you to the meme. Either way. >.>

That is a great question. 

My "canon" Shepard, Madeline is very much an extension of my own personality and the "things" that I am....but she tends to be more so the "things" I am not...Her strengths are my weaknesses so to speak.

Her "War Hero" background and actions there in are based on my Great-Grandfather, Cecil. He was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator (bomber) for the U.S. Army Air Corp. during the Second World War. In 1943 his squadron was attacked by a fleet of enemy fighters that destroyed almost his entire squadron (his plane being the only survivor). He had been wounded in the hip during the attack, but kept shooting till he was out of ammo. After the attack, he attempted to raise his fellow crew via intercom...but no one would respond. He went up forward to find them all dead and the aircraft severely wounded. Rather than ditch the plane in the sea, land it behind enemy lines and risk capture..he fought to keep her in the air, flew her back to base and "belly landed" her (because the hydraulics for the landing gears had been shot up) on the runway...all to bring his fallen fellow crewmen "home".

As Ashwraith mentioned "If you're like me, when you create a roleplaying (or story) character, chances are they're going to have some influences from either popular media, or people you know personally"..I also see my "canon" as a mix of Ellen Ripley, James T. Kirk, Linda Hamilton's "Sarah Connor", "Ellen" from "The Quick and the Dead" and a dash of Martin Riggs and Harry Callahan for good messure.

As for appearence...I just tried to get her as close to as she appeared in my mind, but I believe there were some influences from classic Hollywood actresses of the past....I believe Natelie Wood was one of them.

[sagefic]

Valagil wrote...
I just want to say, I love your Face 7 Mafia sig. How many of us belong to that club?

I am also impressed with that sig - that's awesome.

i am not part of that club, but i like seeing screenies of the sheps that are

[adneate]

Flies_by_Handles wrote...

Please don't tell me my earlier remarks were the inspiration of that Face 7 sig.....

Not directly I mentioned just as a joke that there was some sort of "Face 7 Mafia" of which my Shep is a member. Sable and Sage both picked up on the phrase and I decided to run with it an make a little sig stamp for myself.

[Iwakura-Lain]

Chugster wrote...

^ shouldnt they have femsheps in?

Probably so. But man, what a visionary power that artist has!

[sagefic]

random screenie:



"Come on, kids! Let's CRASH this pajama party!" 

[scampermax]

Lucy (aka XenaShep) is just about tired of Ms. al-Jilani's disingenuous assertions.

[sagefic]

ozsras wrote...



Earthborn, warhero, Liara romance. Nona Shepard. Nona because she put No Name on the recruitment papers (like the sarcastic person she is) and the recruiter ran with it.

btw, i REALLY like this shep. she's very unique.

[Jagged Orchid]

sagequeen wrote...

random screenie:



"Come on, kids! Let's CRASH this pajama party!" 

Love the matching armor;)

[ozsras]

sagequeen wrote...

ozsras wrote...



Earthborn, warhero, Liara romance. Nona Shepard. Nona because she put No Name on the recruitment papers (like the sarcastic person she is) and the recruiter ran with it.

btw, i REALLY like this shep. she's very unique.

thank you! I've seen your Shep she's amazing so - thanks!

I'll never be able to replicate her face again. I suck so bad at creating faces and this is the only Shep I've ever thought was interesting. I just wanted strong features - I mean the woman headbutts a Krogan, she's gonna need a strong nose for that.

[JamieCOTC]

Backgrounds

UJ, my canon Shep, is a Colonist/Sole Survivor as I wanted her to be as mentally f*cked up as possible.  At least that is the idea I had in the beginning.  Although she could easily be damaged goods or total psycho-**** I like to play her (mostly) as paragon, a person who has risen above her pain.  These days, I look at her just a little bit differently.  While she’s still mostly paragon UJ is a person who has looked into the abyss of her own soul and decided that was not the person she wanted to become.  To that end her decisions in the game tend to be based upon logic that is tempered w/ compassion and backed up w/ raw determination.  She strives to be the real deal, a person who will strive to make the world a better place, a genuine hero, but she has a dark side that lurks beneath.   The oddest thing about her character, and something that came as a total surprise to me (I didn’t plan it), is that she’s a bit scared of the new relationship she has w/ Liara.  Before she could play the white knight and save a faceless galaxy.  Now the galaxy has a face and she has something to lose. Of course it’s completely understandable. For so long people she has loved or cared about have died or abandoned her. Now that’s all changed. 

Ashwraith wrote...
My question is... who, if anyone, inspired that particular personality (and appearance)? Why?

Unfortunately, I can’t answer that question w/out a little self promotion.   UJ’s appearance is 100% derived from my own character, Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan from my own webcomic, Clan of the Cats.  In the beginning, her personality came from Chelsea as well, but UJ has become her own person.  And, w/ a few notable exceptions, I’m proud to say she is nothing like me in the slightest. 


Chelsea


Urania Jane "UJ"

[Fraevar]

@sagequeen: Once again, Kaidan's eyeline belies the nature underneath all that shy schoolboy charm