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[DWH1982]

It's kinda tough for me to kill Ash on Virmire, since she always ends up my LI...

Actually, it's pretty sad how little I tend to deviate from my "canon" Shep. I'll experiment slightly with decisions the first few playthroughs, but when I've settled on what "fits" Edwin Shepard, it's what I stick with. Really, I should come up with a second Shepard or something, because there's so much I'm missing out on.

For me, though, it's like rewatching a favorite movie. Anything other than Edwin Shepard and "his" decisions seems off. I think the biggest change was when i switched from sole survivor to war hero, because I thought that background suits him a little better.

[FahRENheit06]

Tali is super cute. She and my infiltrator DudeShep get along swimmingly. I named my dog Tali because she's smart, loyal and sweet. Trying to resist getting a second dog and naming it Liara if it's also really sweet.

I've still never really found Kaidan terribly interesting. Raphael Sbarge is a little too stuttery and strange as Kaidan. But... If Ash were there Shep wouldn't have the heart to find anyone else.

scotiej wrote...

Same thing with DA:O, I can't help but romance Leliana. They're just my kind of women.

Leliana's my favorite in DA:O too. Writing a fic for her, too. Wish there was a bigger following for Leliana in general, but Isabela or Morrigan or the menfolk bogart all the attention.

- Ren

[scotiej]

FahRENheit06 wrote...

Leliana's my favorite in DA:O too. Writing a fic for her, too. Wish there was a bigger following for Leliana in general, but Isabela or Morrigan or the menfolk bogart all the attention.

- Ren

Yeah, I don't know why so many people like Morrigan. She's so mean.

[survivor_686]

scotiej wrote...

FahRENheit06 wrote...

Leliana's my favorite in DA:O too. Writing a fic for her, too. Wish there was a bigger following for Leliana in general, but Isabela or Morrigan or the menfolk bogart all the attention.

- Ren

Yeah, I don't know why so many people like Morrigan. She's so mean.

Could it be due to the fact that she's basically got strips of cloth barely covering her "assets"?

I know I do the character a great disservice, but you could to admit thats part of the draw.

[dahellraider]

scotiej wrote...

FahRENheit06 wrote...

Leliana's my favorite in DA:O too. Writing a fic for her, too. Wish there was a bigger following for Leliana in general, but Isabela or Morrigan or the menfolk bogart all the attention.

- Ren

Yeah, I don't know why so many people like Morrigan. She's so mean.

I love morrigan for two words (Claudia Black) the characters she plays in my fav shows Farsape and Stargate are just so awesome. Hell i prob love her charcter Aeryn Sun in Farscape way more then ash, sorry had to say it, she was first haha.

Modifié par dahellraider, 20 juillet 2012 - 02:40 .

[Time Laspe]

DWH1982 wrote...

It's kinda tough for me to kill Ash on Virmire, since she always ends up my LI...

Actually, it's pretty sad how little I tend to deviate from my "canon" Shep. I'll experiment slightly with decisions the first few playthroughs, but when I've settled on what "fits" Edwin Shepard, it's what I stick with. Really, I should come up with a second Shepard or something, because there's so much I'm missing out on.

For me, though, it's like rewatching a favorite movie. Anything other than Edwin Shepard and "his" decisions seems off. I think the biggest change was when i switched from sole survivor to war hero, because I thought that background suits him a little better.

I thought I was the only one who did this. I roleplay my Mass Effect characters hardcore. My Shep is a mix of Paragon and Renegade. Maybe like 80% Paragon and 20% Renegade. I just can't bring myself to play any other way or romance anyone other than Ashley. 

My Shep is Earthborn War Hero. It just feels so right. Romancing Ashley who has a huge family and here comes my Shep who has no one. Doesn't know his family. It's like playing a movie. 

[FahRENheit06]

@Time Laspe: Hehe, you're not the only one.

In my headcanon games, Ashley gets the Spacer/Hero/Paragon Shep who's a good patient boy scout to her harder edged snark. But he can dish it out, too. Tali gets the Colonist/Sole Survivor/Paragon with the tortured past to make all better with her kindness. Liara gets the bad boy since she's the only one who'd put up with that crap. Haven't done ME3 on my renegade FemShep yet, who threw in with Kaidan then dumped his ass for Thane. I'll probably just toss her at Traynor and call it a day.

@dahellraider: Claudia Black is pretty rad. She certainly made Admiral Daro'Xen a force to be reckoned with.

Morrigan and Miranda have similar characteristics, lack of trust but flaunting their sexuality. I flip flop between sympathizing and respecting their hard-to-get emotional side... and saying "forget it, you ****es don't deserve the rad Warden/Shepard I'm sporting."

- Ren

Modifié par FahRENheit06, 20 juillet 2012 - 03:01 .

[scotiej]

I almost always run Spacer/Survivor/Paragon for my Shepard. That's my character that I relate to the most and who I romance Ash with. Like I said before, I'm running a different version where I make more realistic choices instead of the always optimistic ones.

I befriended Morrigan and got to see where she was coming from but I still don't prefer her as a romantic choice. Too pragmatic for my taste.

[scotiej]

Ashley speaks about her family a great deal in ME1. Our first intro is Shepard overhearing Ash talking with her sister Sarah. Ash then talks about her sisters and her relationship with her father and later on her family history regarding Shanxi.

[FahRENheit06]

Heya FF13!

Yes, there is more detail in ME1 about Ash's family.

Basics: she has 3 sisters (Abby, Lynn and Sarah was the one on the Citadel). Her father served the Alliance his whole life, though he died a few years before ME1. Her mom was a planetary geologist, still alive. Her grandfather, General Williams, fought in the First Contact War against the turians. Her family name was blacklisted from the Alliance after her grandfather surrendered a colony, so neither she nor her father ever had any hope of being promoted in the Alliance... Until she joined Shepard and helped him/her save the citadel.

So while Miranda was born into wealth and power but ran away, Ash was born into shame that she had to overcome.

- Ren

[Time Laspe]

FahRENheit06 wrote...

Heya FF13!

Yes, there is more detail in ME1 about Ash's family.

Basics: she has 3 sisters (Abby, Lynn and Sarah was the one on the Citadel). Her father served the Alliance his whole life, though he died a few years before ME1. Her mom was a planetary geologist, still alive. Her grandfather, General Williams, fought in the First Contact War against the turians. Her family name was blacklisted from the Alliance after her grandfather surrendered a colony, so neither she nor her father ever had any hope of being promoted in the Alliance... Until she joined Shepard and helped him/her save the citadel.

So while Miranda was born into wealth and power but ran away, Ash was born into shame that she had to overcome.

- Ren

[FahRENheit06]

@FF13: Ash is the oldest, the Abby, Lynn and Sarah is the youngest.

Shanxi was getting its ass kicked by turians, and the human cost of keeping the colony became too high for General Williams to bear, so he surrendered. Humans got the colony back after the war was over, but Williams was marked down in ME history as "the only human to surrender to an alien race."

She's never mentioned if her grandfather was dead or not, just that some vague attempts were made to exonerate his actions but nothing came of it. The ME Wiki says he retired in disgrace to work construction out in some distant human colony, so it's probably safe to say she wasn't close to her grandfather.

As far as I'm aware, her grandfather nor father's names are ever mentioned, nor her mother's.

- Ren

[Time Laspe]

Does anyone know how Ashley's father passed away? Was he sick?

Edit: @Ren - Thinking about all of this really makes me hate the timeline of the ME universe. 

Modifié par Time Laspe, 20 juillet 2012 - 04:05 .

[FahRENheit06]

@Time Lapse: I would assume so, since Ashley is only 25 years old at the start of ME1. That would put her dad in his late 40s, early 50s. The wiki says a lot of general genetic diseases had been eradicated, so it could've been maybe cancer or he was killed in the line of duty.

And I hate the timeline too for many many reasons.

@FF13: My pleasure. Holler if you wanna know anything else about Ash, we've got nerds aplenty to throw info at ya. I hope Miranda gets a long overdue DLC so she can actually shine in ME3.

- Ren

Modifié par FahRENheit06, 20 juillet 2012 - 04:13 .

[Time Laspe]

@Ren - I do remember Ashley saying that her father never made it passed Servicemen class or something. Don't quite remember. Anyways, she says the first thing he did was salute when Ashley got promoted to Gunnery Chief. So perhaps he was already retired and was sick with cancer.

[Td1984]

Time Laspe wrote...

@Ren - I do remember Ashley saying that her father never made it passed Servicemen class or something. Don't quite remember. Anyways, she says the first thing he did was salute when Ashley got promoted to Gunnery Chief. So perhaps he was already retired and was sick with cancer.

Cancer has been cured by this point.

I'm thinking military personnel have short lifespans. After all Admiral Grissom died at only 75. We don't know how old Ash's father actually was either. People by this time frequently wait until their 40s to have children (though considering he never got past Serviceman 3rd class, I doubt he waited until he was in his mid-60s to retire- if he did, talk about stubborn to keep going hoping to get promoted higher up).

[FahRENheit06]

Maybe, though Shepard told Liara humans were "lucky to make 150" versus now we're lucky to make 90-100 years old. Her dad very well might skew older, since her grandfather becoming a general would probably require at least a 35-50 year career to ascend those ranks.

Bluh, I'm getting a timeline migraine. Signing off this and the stupid ME wiki. Stay frosty, Ash fans.

- Ren

[Time Laspe]

Goodnight Ren!

[Gangsta914]

 Hey everyone. Haven't been on the forums in a long time but I wanted to post something really quick. 

I got tired of everyone calling Ash a racist and just generally hating on her so I decided to write a rant or I guess character explanation. Its the way I see her so you may not agree with everything I mention in this. Two places to read it:

1. social.bioware.com/2631652/blog/216291/


or 

2. paul914.tumblr.com/post/27547909680/ashley-williams

Feel free to comment and let me know what you think. 

[Spitfire017]

I just wanted to say you guys are fracking awesome!!! Ash is too.

goodnight.

[Dragon_Claw]

FahRENheit06 wrote...

Morrigan and Miranda have similar characteristics, lack of trust but flaunting their sexuality. I flip flop between sympathizing and respecting their hard-to-get emotional side... and saying "forget it, you ****es don't deserve the rad Warden/Shepard I'm sporting."

- Ren

When past & future collides.