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[Kappa Neko]

The very first Shepard I created.
She is how Shepard will look like to me forever, no matter how many different faces came afterwards. No matter how often BW shoves Sheploo in our faces. Shepard is female and paragon to me.
The first playthrough is the magical one. The one that I connect with the most emotionally.
I played ME1 the way I would have reacted, but I did not see femShep as my space clone (nor does she look like me). More like a friend with a similar attitude.
Because of the stupid points system I played pure paragon in ME2, even though I myself would have reacted differently in some situations (the neutral options are not bad actually).

[Jane Shepard]

My canon character is default FemShep. But not because I like her appearence or because of her backstory or something like this. She was my first Shepard and I realised that we have similar characters. I chose dialogue options just like if she was the real me and almost everytime she acted the same way.
Two other FemSheps I have are very different. One of them is pure Paragon and the other one is Renegon or even Renegade. But they are non canon Sheps for me.

[Thiev]

My canon Shepard is the one I had most fun with and that has grown on me to the point that I now have whole backstory envisioned for her. 
 
She's a redhead (and hothead ) Earthborn/Torfan Infiltrator, rather disillusioned with humanity in general but with a bit of naive respect / fascination for aliens. Walking diplomatic incident and constant headache for Udina. A paragade tinted red who does not believe in unnecessary killing, but what constitutes 'necessary' is a matter of preferrence and what deemed necessary is swiftly executed. Has a rather black sense of humour but tries to not scare civilians... too much. 
No LIs for that girl, she's hopelessly pining after Joker. 

[rozpocet1]

It's usually my first walkthrough Shepard. I'm a Paragon but I want the story also to be a bit tragic so in the case of ME I had to replay both games and make the outcomes a little bit more tragic myself. I want my Shepard to be marked be the events. I don't want it to be all sunshine and happiness in the end. It's not that black and white in the real world...

[Mims]

I'm incapable of playing a 'non-canon' Shepard. (or... Anything really.) I feel like playing an alternate version somehow kills the previous characterization. Which is pure insanity. I have made attempts to rectify this! I played about 10% of me1 renegade. I am so close.

The majority of my Sheps are paragon earthborn Femsheps who stay single in me1 and hook up with Garrus (oh, iPhone) in me2. Minor things like secondary backstory and name occasionally change. Sometimes I'll do one or two major choices differently. But otherwise I am like some sort of robot.

Modifié par Mims, 19 juin 2011 - 09:25 .

[mineralica]

S.A.K wrote...

Wtf? I couldn't see my last 2 posts when i came to the page. OMG triple post?

Either BSN is having problems with connection these days or signal gets messed while going to servers. Considering that I live nearly at the opposite side of the hemisphere from named BSN servers I can't really complain and only trying to wait and refresh or close/open thread and so on if I have doubts about if information was posted or not. For now - knock on wood - no double posts happened to me

[Ieldra]

ReallyRue wrote...
For me it's the most interesting story/likeable character. I have variations that will be extreme paragon or renegade, but my canon falls somewhere between the two, closer to renegade. It's the character with the appearance I like the most, with the background and abilties I like the most. And the LI (or lack of) that I like the most. Everything else are deviations to see different versions of the story. My favourite is the canon one because it's my favourite.

Close to that for me too.

My personal canon is the one...
(1) Whose decisions are most informed by my personal value system (transforms into neutral or Paragade)
(2) Whose appearance I like most
(3) Who makes decisions that make sense for me in the context of the story (this overrides (1) if in conflict).
(4) Who romances the LI I like most.
(5) Whose story I like best (this is affected by the outcomes of decisions rather than the decisions themselves)
(6) Whose background I like best

As a rule, I know which one will be my personal canon when I make him or her. For it's not so easy to get an appearance I like. I take the one whose appearance I like best and shape him or her to be my favorite. It will almost never be my first character, because I don't know how the story will go and which LI will be my favorite.

[kumquats]

ladyvader wrote...

Richard 060 wrote...

In other words, I've not really bothered with 'canonising' any particular Shepard, because there's no real 'right or 'wrong' outcome. ME's not like KotOR, where Revan is canonically male and a lightsider for example.

Revan was either male or female just like Shepard.

If you want to go by BioWare, there is no canon ending to ME3, because every Shepard is different, but that wan't my point of this thread. 

I know many here have more than one Shepard and I was wondering if one of those was their canon Shepard.  

Doesn't matter if you can play female Revan. There is a canon Revan who is lightside, male and romanced Bastila.

[Antivenger]

Kappa Neko wrote...

The very first Shepard I created.
She is how Shepard will look like to me forever, no matter how many different faces came afterwards. No matter how often BW shoves Sheploo in our faces. Shepard is female and paragon to me.
The first playthrough is the magical one. The one that I connect with the most emotionally.
I played ME1 the way I would have reacted, but I did not see femShep as my space clone (nor does she look like me). More like a friend with a similar attitude.
Because of the stupid points system I played pure paragon in ME2, even though I myself would have reacted differently in some situations (the neutral options are not bad actually).

The very first Shepard I made was a Sentinel.

Horrible, horrible, mistake.

[Raizo]

My canon Shepard is the only Shepard that I managed to complete ME1 on the 360 with. He's a Spacer/War Hero with Paragon alignment since I feel that Paragon dialogue choices suit my personality better the Renegade ones.

[Kappa Neko]

Antivenger wrote...

Kappa Neko wrote...

The very first Shepard I created.
She is how Shepard will look like to me forever, no matter how many different faces came afterwards. No matter how often BW shoves Sheploo in our faces. Shepard is female and paragon to me.
The first playthrough is the magical one. The one that I connect with the most emotionally.
I played ME1 the way I would have reacted, but I did not see femShep as my space clone (nor does she look like me). More like a friend with a similar attitude.
Because of the stupid points system I played pure paragon in ME2, even though I myself would have reacted differently in some situations (the neutral options are not bad actually).

The very first Shepard I made was a Sentinel.

Horrible, horrible, mistake.

Hehe, my canon Shep was a Vanguard in ME1.  Which was fine, but I switched to Soldier in ME2 because I was told Vanguard plays differently now, and I didn't like the implications. I really hope we will be allowed to switch again. I don't particularily like Soldier.
I like Sentinel. What's wrong with that class?
Should have made my canon Shep an Infiltrator, though....turned out to be my favourite class.

[Mresa]

My canon is my first Shepard. Paragon female, redheaded soldier. I've played her more often than my other Sheps, also I find paragon choices to suit me much better than neutral and renegade.

[Antivenger]

Kappa Neko wrote...

Hehe, my canon Shep was a Vanguard in ME1.  Which was fine, but I switched to Soldier in ME2 because I was told Vanguard plays differently now, and I didn't like the implications. I really hope we will be allowed to switch again. I don't particularily like Soldier.
I like Sentinel. What's wrong with that class?
Should have made my canon Shep an Infiltrator, though....turned out to be my favourite class.

^^Exactly what I did.

Well, for one thing at first I thought having both tech and biotic abilities would be cool. Half a minute into the first firefight changed my mind, though. A sniper rifle is much more effective than trying to spam 'Throw'.

[Haventh]

I don't have a canon Shepard, cause i don't think i could possibly choose one over the other, they are all great. 

Modifié par Haventh, 19 juin 2011 - 11:46 .

[Conquerthecity]

My original canon was a paragon colonist war hero. Like many others, he was the first one I ever made. He romanced Ashley and she is by far my favorite romance out of all my games. Said romance made him my canon.

However, my original canon Shep was not much of a looker. Call me shallow if you want, but the angles of his face were all wrong looking and he just wasn't very pleasing to stare at. I was prepared to carry him through the third game (and probably still will, anyway) but recently I made a new Shep totally on whim. This one was as attractive as a ManShep can get, romanced Ashley, and of course made the same decisions. By the time I had finished ME1, I knew I preferred him over the first.

Modifié par Mungolian_, 19 juin 2011 - 12:07 .

[BTG_01]

My canon Shep is first one I made and the only one I got to level 60 in ME1 and the only one I use for multiple playthroughs. I now have trouble picturing that voice coming out of anyone else.

[robtheguru]

My canon Shepard is my first playthrough. In terms of personality i'd say firm but fair...unless you your a bit of a ****** lol

[Clonedzero]

i only ever have one shepard at a time, i delete old ones. so the current one is my "canon"
i suspect ill do a full ME1&ME2 playthrough from fresh characters just before ME3 comes out and carry that forward.

though, i generally play as paragade you could say. i base each choice on the actual choices themselves, not metagaming nonsense. i use default shepard face because i have yet to create a good looking face with the creator and i dont wanna use someone elses face. but now i compeltely associate shepards voice with sheploos face, playing anything else would look weird to me.

[fenix8081]

My canon Shepard is the first one I created and the first one I do playthroughs with. As someone mentioned above, that's the only way to avoid metagaming. To me that's how the experience should be with your canon Shepard. Shepard is put into crazy situations that are sometimes morally ambiguous. If I were actually in the situation, some of the decisions would be really hard to make, just like they are for Shepard.

Fenix Shepard is a colonist/sole survivor infiltrator. He romanced Liara in ME1 but always had a thing for Tali, which he pursued in ME2 and maintained despite LOTSB. He kind of has a soft spot for Jack though, since the tortured soul past resonates with his own. He's mostly a paragon, but depending on the situation will do renegade actions when they seem morally right, if not practical.

My second character, Lena, is Earthborn/ruthless. I originally created her to be a pure renegade, but again there are situations where she sways paragon when she sees it as morally right. She romanced Kaidan, but was taken in by Garrus in ME2. She was really into Jack, but the powers that be made that option not possibly in this playthrough.

The Shepard I'm playing right now is Laila. She's a spacer/war hero adept, which I'll probably switch up to an engineer in ME2. She's quickly becoming my canon femshep because I connect with her more than my other femshep. She is romancing Liara in ME1, but will be holding out for Jack in ME3, so hopefully she's a s/s option. Otherwise she'll probably just snub crazy Liara in ME2 and maybe take her back in ME3.

[shumworld]

chibievil wrote...

my cannon shepard is 1 that looks like me and does options i think suit her, not a paragon or renegade. a bit of both. And who i think she should romance

Same here.

As many playthroughs I've done. My Canon Shepard will always be a Asian male Earthbound/Sole Survivor Soldier who romanced Tali.

Modifié par shumworld, 19 juin 2011 - 03:37 .

[BatmanPWNS]

I don't believe my Shepard to be the canon Shepard. I believe that John Shepard is the canon but it's too bad I have no idea what his personality is. lol

[SupidSeep]

Though a guy, my canon Shepard is my femShep Paragon Colonist War Hero (Vanguard).  I always like the way Sha'ira interprets the Colonist background: "... pain and loss, but it drives you, makes you strong."  She had suffered, but she did not became bitter.  Her loss brought forth the strength that lets her shield others from experiencing the same loss.

I picture her as a girl among the ruins of the devastated colony of Mindor, sobbing over her dying mother who had shielded her from the slavers' shots.

And then I see her as a green officer, rallying her platoon in the desperate struggle to hold out on Elysium when the fortifications gave way, the slavers broke through, and panic routed civilians and soldiers alike.

And she would have ran, or started to, when she passed by a wounded colonist who called to her, who begged her to carry her little girl away so the slavers would not get their paws on her.

She refused.  She had lost her own mother - she refused to let the little girl know the same loss.  So she stopped running and faced the onrushing slavers.  They would get the young mother and the girl over her dead body.

They got nothing.  The assault broke against her determined stand.  Fleeing soldiers rallied around her and they pushed back.  Reinforcements arrived, the slavers fled, there was joy and tears.

There was a ceremony. People cheered as she went up to receive some award - or whatever.  She smiled as she picked out the young woman among the spectators, her girl sitting on her shoulders waving back at her, but there remained sadness behind her own eyes.

She wished her mother was still with her. She would give everything to be back on Mindor, her hand in her mother's as they lived peacefully in the thriving colony.  That was forever lost to her, so she chose to live a life fighting against those who took it from her.  So other little girls can live the life she no longer had.

Modifié par SupidSeep, 19 juin 2011 - 04:48 .

[Kappa Neko]

Mungolian_ wrote...
However, my original canon Shep was not much of a looker. Call me shallow if you want, but the angles of his face were all wrong looking and he just wasn't very pleasing to stare at. I was prepared to carry him through the third game (and probably still will, anyway) but recently I made a new Shep totally on whim. This one was as attractive as a ManShep can get, romanced Ashley, and of course made the same decisions. By the time I had finished ME1, I knew I preferred him over the first.

Attractive manShep? I want proof ! <_<
The only manShep I ever created whom I would consider kind of attractive is my only renegade, and I realy hate that guy

I was lucky there. Created my first femShep in a hurry because I just wanted to start playing. So I simply changed a few things to make her more appealing to me. (I think it was only the nose, mouth, eye color, skin tone and hair color)
But I ended up really liking her looks. Still do. Wouldn't change a thing about her.

[Blze001]

Well, my canon Shep is the one I first tried to develop a backstory for. Then I used that backstory to justify certain decisions. She's actually the second Shep I made it through ME1 with, the 3rd to make it through ME2 and the second to go through both games. The first few were more exploring the game for the sake of exploring the game.

Oddly enough, my first Shep was a self insert into the ME world, and yet he isn't my canon. Strange, eh?

Modifié par Blze001, 19 juin 2011 - 05:39 .