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To play a game. (That's my motivation)

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cuz he's a Bawsss...FBGM all day for him after the reapers

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For my canon femShep.  She grew up a spacer kid and always wanted to serve the Alliance.  She never gave up during the Blitz when she was taking her shore leave on Eylsium.  That's been her attitude never give up.  Duty comes before personal stuff.  

She always tries to find a way to save lives.  Even if it means letting the bad guy go(Balak).  Killing over 300,000 batarians was hard on her.  It was something she had to do, so she did it.  She wishes there was another way.  Shepard did try to contact the colony, but damn you Kenson.  

She saves the Council because she knows humanity needs to work with other races not try to dominate them.  And hopes when the war is over there is more cooperation between all the species.

All Shepard wants to do now, it to defeat the Reapers so she can move on with her life.  She is tired.  Tired of being ignored by the Council, tired of her friends like Kaidan not believing her.  Tired of dealing with Cerberus that she told TIM to stuff it.  She's tired of it all, but there is still one last job.  Defeat the Reapers.  

Once the war is over, she wants to settle down with Liara and leave the Alliance and stop being a Spectre.  All that is mute if the Reapers are not defeated.

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My canon Shepard is a colonist, after the raid on Mindoir destroyed everything she cared about she decided to repay the debt she owed to the Alliance for saving her life by signing up. She has a strong sense of duty but the attack on Mindoir left her jaded and cynical, she understands that sacrifices have to be made for the greater good. Shepard was strangely proud of her reputation as the Butcher of Torfan and used it to keep people at a distance. Shepard tries to avoid getting too close to people because she doesn't want the pain of losing anyone close again. But completely by accident she ends up falling for Liara. After feeling betrayed by the Alliance in ME2 Liara is Shepard's main reason for fighting.

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"People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish or cruel. But they're trying. And I'm going to make sure they have a chance."

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For my main Colonist/War Hero Paragade Femshep?

Because it's the right thing to do.

I mean I could write a few paragraphs about her motivations and justifications but that one sentence is what is boils down to. Sure sometimes it's hard and sacrifices are required. She screws up or has to work with people that she find morally objectionable but in the end Shep does her best to do the right thing.

Modifié par makenzieshepard, 11 septembre 2011 - 11:28 .


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Mindoir.

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elektrego wrote...

"People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish or cruel. But they're trying. And I'm going to make sure they have a chance."

I always really liked that line....Shep speaks well there.

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My cannon Shep is a Spacer with the War Hero background, and I always play as a Paragon. That being said, her personal motivation is to save the galaxy or die trying.
Cliche, I know, but I try to put myself in her shoes and do what I would do. Which, under the circumstances, would be try to help. Granted, I'd end up more or less like Connor, but hey, at least the guy tried!

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Golden Owl wrote...

elektrego wrote...

"People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish or cruel. But they're trying. And I'm going to make sure they have a chance."


I always really liked that line....Shep speaks well there.


I agree, I thought that was very well done.

Each of my Shepards has slightly different motivations based on their history and personality...one believes she has a personal mission, a "destiny" as it were, to save everyone she can...one is cocky enough to believe that she really is the only person in the galaxy who CAN do it...one is appreciative of and feels indebted to those than enabled her to rise from the streets to Spectre and wants to repay them by using her talents to the fullest...one only feels truly alive in the heat of battle against insurmountable odds.

But all of them, in one way or another, appreciate life - not just their own, but human life and life throughout the galaxy - and I don't think any of them could turn their back on that life in the face of such a threat.

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My cannon Shep is a colonist paragade.

She does what she does to atone. Whether she could have done anything or not, she's always felt a certain responsibility for what happened on Mindoir. If she had been strong enough she could have done something to stop her friends and family from dying in the raid. She feels that she carries a certain responsibility for the losses that she suffered, and is constantly driving herself to be better and stronger so that she can defend others. Some might call her feelings survivor's guilt, but she simply thinks of them as her cross to bear.

Shepard sees the Reaper threat, and the danger that it poses to the galaxy at large as her ultimate chance to atone for her percieved failings, and is determined to do whatever it takes to save as many lives as possible, to prevent others from having to go through what she went through. Sometimes she comes across as callous and harsh because she attempts to weigh her decisions and actions on what she believes will do the most good for the most people in the long run. She's willing to be percieved as a cold-hearted b*tch when it's required. She's not out to make friends, she's out to save the galaxy. In truth though, she's still trying to save the victims she left behind on Mindoir and later Akuze.

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Hoo boy, this sort of question gets me into long winded stories.
Amara Shepard was a Mindoir colonist and would likely have stayed that way had events not steered her towards the Shepard she is now. Having all ties severed and with no better future options than the military, she lives with the knowledge that even if you do not want any part of the world, it does not mean that the world won't make you a part of it. At least, she thought, being in the Alliance would give her a chance to change things for the better and hopefully she may be able to prevent what happened to her for others like the squad that saved her. To be constantly aware that you serve a government that has control over where you go and what you do is one that makes her very touchy about the decisions made with people's lives. Akuze was a severe betrayal by her own race and Amara has subconciously developed a suspicion of her own race over the others. It has also made her very bitter when people try to tell her their way is better. Especially when their way involves letting people die for the "greater good".
As to why she's prone towards sending a criminal to prison instead of executing them on the spot, it's mainly due to the logic that you can always kill them later if needed, People kept alive tend to have more use than dead when you need information.
To transcend her pain I suppose is her motivation to keep going. She believes that sentient beings are reflections of each other, their actions impacting and shaping individuals until the collective whole becomes the sum of intent. Words can have impact if chosen right and cannot be taken back once the damage is done. Hence, her leaning towards a paragon personality.That does not mean one should hesitate to pull your weapon when talking's not getting anywhere. She IS in the military after all.
More on another post for my renegade....

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Kathy Shepard was raised right from the start in the military with a rather patriotic background. With no stable place to grow and have friends and her father's reputation looming always over her head, Kathy grew up a bit antisocial. The strict heirarchy and controlling atmosphere had given a pack mentality to her, either you did as ordered or you proved yourself strong enough to take down the one giving orders. For people who knew both Hannah Shepard and her, they often found it strange that Hannah's daughter was more cold and self-serving than her. Torfan was the culmination of her upbringing. Instead of seeking more efficient ways of fighting, of keeping her team alive, she took a Zap Brannigan approach and sent wave after wave of her men after the batarians to get the job done. To her, they were tools of the military; soldiers knew they would have to give their lives up for the sake of duty. So she had them do what they were enlisted for.
None of what she's done has won hearts, but then, she was always a believer in Machiavellian methods. Better to be feared than loved. If you're not strong-willed enough to stand your ground then get back in line and shut up.
With her interactions limited to Alliance ships and mainly humans, Kathy heavily favors her own race over the aliens for obvious reasons. She sees them as competition for resources and with no one else willing to take the necessary risks to establish humanity on top, Kathy feels an obligation to kick the weaklings into their rightful place. She also never lets a potential enemy live to pick up another gun and is quick to make sure everyone knows that. No one will take you seriously if you don't show that you're serious.
To get her own I suppose is her motivation. Kathy is always about grabbing what pleasures are there to be had when you live on a ship with limited luxuries. As a result, she's developed a hedonistic and promiscuous reputation with people she works with.
(No, this is not how I see renegades. This is an interpretation of a playthrough that went sociopathic)

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Chase Shepard....Earthborn/War Hero...Paragon.

Despite his Earthborn past Chase is as arrogent and c*ck sure as they come, a born natural...supremely confident in his own abilities and has no doubt in his own mind that he is the one who can get things done....he know's what's best and how best to achieve an outcome and does not hesitate in letting others know their own fallabilities....As such he views himself as the one person guarenteed to know how to conquer the Reapers....A one man show...a legend in his own mind....All the praise really isn't helping matters...<_<

Arrogence is not his sole motivation though...he is also, despite his hedonistic nature, a compassionate man and as such, his line to Liara fit Chase Shepard perfectly....

"People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish or cruel. But they're trying. And I'm going to make sure they have a chance."

Chase does love people and will fight for them.

Modifié par Golden Owl, 15 septembre 2011 - 07:35 .


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My Shepard is a 'pure renegade' (in the sense that all his major decisions have been the renegade option) and his primary goal is to simply save the galaxy (both humans and aliens) and stop the Reapers.

His seconday goal is to protect the interests of humanity.

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All major decisions are Renegade, he's usually "paragon" with companions but will become serious when leaving the ship or conflict occurs onboard, often ignoring his personal thoughts on things and using cold hard facts for his decisions. He's pro-human but not xenophobic.

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It's not about them, it's about me. I just can't live with knowledge I could save someone but failed to do that, - Alyson, main Paragon, Spacer / War Hero.
Alyson always believed it's simplier to risk your life than put others at risk - hence Vanguard specialisation. "Don't worry about me" is her trademark phrase, and for now "be selfless" way worked fine. However, it won't be changed if Shepard won't get reward for being martyr.

Motivation? I'm just doing my job, - Ingrid, main Renegade, Spacer / Ruthless.
Ingrid isn't the type which fights for something or, universe forbid, someone - after all, she thinks all people beside her are idiots. She considers fighting impossible odds as profession or even hobby, on par with her fascination with chess; and her own people are pawns in this game. Paranoid and illoyal to anyone but herself, Infiltrator always has a backup plan.

I fight for my friends, the only close people I have, - Angel, mostly Paragon, Colonist / War Hero.
Angel is famous for her talent to listen to people, understand them, help them and motivate them. She puts all her power in helping friends and always rewarded with extremely high performance of her squad.

Advancement of humanity at any cost, - Ashley, full Renegade, Earthborn / Ruthless.
After leaving Earth, Ashley upgraded herself to enchance intelligence, combat abilities, even looks. She considers herself as exampe of what humanity may achieve, and the parallel between facts that humans, newcomers to galactic society, outran aliens by many parameters, and simple girl from Earth became one of most famous SpeCTRes, confirmed her theory of human superiority.

My momma. What, jokes are forbidden? - Max, mostly Paragon, Spacer / Sole Survivor.
Calm, nice and "domestic", Max definitely isn't the person you picture performing headshots from Widow at moving target. However, he's the best sniper of Alliance, and his flegmatic attitude helps when he's laying in ambush for hours waiting for possibility to shoot - but makes determination of his motives complicated.

Sorry, Miranda got me distracted. What's your question? - Mark, true neutral, Colonist / War Hero.
People tend to not have common opinion on Mark. For ones, he's  the brilliant tactician who will find a way out of any situation. For anothers, he cares only about public attention. For ones, he's exemplar of listening. For anothers, he spends more time watching assets than listening.

I fight for ones who can't protect themselves - Mona, full Paragon, Earthborn / War Hero.
"As reserved as any biotic", Mona hardly ever talks about her motives except the situations when it's morale rising speech for crew. The only phrase which was pulled off her about this was "I fight for those who are just numbers of statistics for the rest".

We fight or we die, that's the plan, - John, worst import, Earthborn / Sole Survivor.
John never cared what he fights for - too busy with actual fight to think what will happen next.

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my shepard is a "mindless killing machine" type rengade-so to speak but he was not always that way
something happend that made him snap...

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I think it's fairly simple.

Shepard's motivation is to save the galaxy.

Shepard, no matter where he comes from, is effectively dumped in a military position of near-unlimited authority and zero oversight minutes after either a highly traumatic experience (Torfan, Azuze) or a big ass battle he's barely had time to process. 

He's forced to watch Earth's biggest colony nearly wiped out by Saren only to get stonewalled and a bunch of people with oddball skills more or less invite themselves onto his starship (Wrex and Garrus sort of do it without your leave, at least Tali is polite enough to)

From there, you have Shep scouring the galaxy for a year until he finds out Saren is building a massive armada and even if he wasn't, he's got Space Cthulhu behind him.

So, you save the universe and DIE.

Shep spends the next part of the year in Hell (or Purgatory) only to end up coming back at the hands of his worst enemies after the Reapers and having to make a deal for "the greater good."

That's going to sour anyone's attitude.

So, he makes the hard choice and makes an even HARDER choice during Arrival.

Now everyone hates him.

I swear, it's enough to turn Renegade®.

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Willowhugger wrote...

I think it's fairly simple.

Shepard's motivation is to save the galaxy.

Shepard, no matter where he comes from, is effectively dumped in a military position of near-unlimited authority and zero oversight minutes after either a highly traumatic experience (Torfan, Azuze) or a big ass battle he's barely had time to process. 

He's forced to watch Earth's biggest colony nearly wiped out by Saren only to get stonewalled and a bunch of people with oddball skills more or less invite themselves onto his starship (Wrex and Garrus sort of do it without your leave, at least Tali is polite enough to)

From there, you have Shep scouring the galaxy for a year until he finds out Saren is building a massive armada and even if he wasn't, he's got Space Cthulhu behind him.

So, you save the universe and DIE.

Shep spends the next part of the year in Hell (or Purgatory) only to end up coming back at the hands of his worst enemies after the Reapers and having to make a deal for "the greater good."

That's going to sour anyone's attitude.


So, he makes the hard choice and makes an even HARDER choice during Arrival.

Now everyone hates him.

I swear, it's enough to turn Renegade
®.

Speaking of which...I have been thinking about how that's changed Shep...my Shep is a Paragon in both ME1 and ME2, but I do feel that if he had a repeat 'Bring Down the Sky' incident in ME2 (maybe possible in ME3)....he would kill Balak over saving the hostages...but will always save the hostages in ME1.....Something changed in him.

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My main, Sid, is Spacer/Ruthless, Renegade leaning (though my score usually ends up roughly 60/40). She's fighting to save the Galaxy because that's where Liara, Joker, Garrus, Mordin, Grunt, Tali, Wrex, Kasumi, Samara, Jack, Zaeed, Chakwas and her Mom and Dad are, though she isn't really looking forward to the conversation with her Mom and Dad after the battle.

"Yeah, Mom, Dad. You remember how you always said you couldn't wait until I settled down and had kids? Well, I'm getting married. She's an Asari, and I'm kinda robbing the cradle, but the good news is, you've already got a grandkid. I adopted. He's um... Well, his name is Grunt. He's a genetically engineered super-Krogan, but you'll love him. He's really cuddly. Mom, what was that noise? Oh? Does dad faint a lot, or is this new?"

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I hope the reapers win TBH

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DRUNK_CANADIAN wrote...

I hope the reapers win TBH

Soooo....Your Sheps Motivation is he wants to be a Reaper Smoothie?...:blink:

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Easy really. He became an Alliance soldier to help prevent another Mindoir from occurring again.

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Well there's not much to choose you know...as players we are simply introduced to a war,which we have to stop..so yeah i will agree with ppl saying just for the play :)

Although as much as I played ME I always can't keep myself from being paragon...wanting to play as a bad ass,but have failed so far lol !