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[SaturnRing]

silverhammer08 wrote...

This brings us to a question that came up in the old thread (dunno if it was here already)
How much of yourself do you put into your Shepard.
You know, personality traits and stuff like that

I like to think that all the things she does mirror what i would do if i were in her shoes. It doesn't mean much considering that i don't even know how i would react facing what Shep has to put up with. I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.
 

@nitefyre: too many times i use ME2 as a launching platform for ME3 and i end up not playing it the way i want.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 15 avril 2012 - 08:00 .

[AtlasMickey]

SaturnRing wrote...
I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't more "survivor's guilt" in the series, and now that I relfect on the lack of it… wow, Shepard has a pretty hard personlity, doesn't she?

[nitefyre410]

AtlasMickey wrote...

SaturnRing wrote...
I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't more "survivor's guilt" in the series, and now that I relfect on the lack of it… wow, Shepard has a pretty hard personlity, doesn't she?

  

There should be, it one of the reason why I feel that Shepard comes off as one dimensional at times.  There should be more survivors guilt and truma from those experiences.


@SaturnRing:  yeah  I understand -  I find it hard to play  Shepard with the way the Bioware had the system with any kind of personality complexity at all.  

Modifié par nitefyre410, 15 avril 2012 - 08:30 .

[Captain Crash]

ELE08 wrote...

@sage.  Honest thanks for your post.  And everyone who followed up.  I knew there was a reason I'm still lurking about these parts 

Wouldnt be the same without you ele!   

I really need to dig a bit deeper into Amelia's past.  Im not great at creative writing so I just did a bit of her backstory in the form of a Cerberus Dossier.  Although not to any great degree.

http://social.biowar...661/blog/13259/ 

nitefyre410 wrote...

AtlasMickey wrote...

SaturnRing wrote...
I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't more "survivor's guilt" in the series, and now that I relfect on the lack of it… wow, Shepard has a pretty hard personlity, doesn't she?

   

There should be, it one of the reason why I feel that Shepard comes off as one dimensional at times.  There should be more survivors guilt and truma from those experiences. 

I agree, its one those hindsight things as there is so much other stuff going on in ME3. She really grew emotionally in the third instalment and Bioware did really well in conveying that.  Thing is with everything else going on this was far to late to anything like this in.  It  was something that was for ME1 and ME2.  Most notably the later.  As we know Bioware didnt really get Shepard's story right in the second, it was all about your team.   

[NM7]

I guess I could do a quick run down of my main Shepard too. I'll try to keep it brief.



Hrist wasn't my first Shepard, in fact she only came about because I decided my original femshep looked too much like default Jane. It only took about 5 mins of playing ME1 with her to know that I had found my Shepard though.

She's an Earthborn Sole Survivor and a Soldier, who is mostly paragon, but with a fair few renegade moments thrown in there were they suit her personality. She usully ends both ME1 and ME2 with a 70/30 split on alignment. Mass Effect 3 she had an almost full paragon bar, but not that much renegade. Maybe the lack of neutral dialogue options in ME3 is the reason for that, I don't know.

She always tries to do the right thing, but isn't someone who takes kindly to threats or bribes, and she despises criminals and those who use other people for their own gain. She will always give people a chance to do the right thing, but won't hesitate to use her gun when words fail, or there is no other option.

Even though she grew up in an orphanage on Earth, she didn't have the worst childhood, until she ended up on the streets at the age of eleven. Even that wasn't so bad though as she had a friend who was more like a brother to her, they were that close. When he was killed though she went off the rails in an attempted to avenge his death and became something she hated. Realising what she was doing though she joined the Alliance to make amends, and try and do something good with her life.

The one thing she has always wanted is a family, but the galaxy keeps taking them from her when she finds one. Her parents, her childhood friend, her squad on Akuze and lastly  her death robbed her of the Normandy crew. But even after all that she refuses to give up and stays true to who she is. She doesn't know if she'll ever get what she wants, but Liara and the thought of a quiet life together is enough to keep her going through even the darkest times.

Anyway I think I'll leave it there for now. There is more detail to her backstory but I don't want to write the whole thing in a thread post. Though one day I really should write all of it down.

[KateM]

Okay…introducing Dawn Shepard ( Colonist/ War Hero/ Vanguard/ Paragade)



Dawn was born on Mindoir into a farming family. She and her brother Ian were both in a group of free runners. She got her first tattoo at the age of 14, much to the annoyance of her parents.
Her life changed when Batarian slavers attacked the colony, killing her friends and family. It was pure luck that Dawn survived it. Since this day she blames herself because all she did was hide while her brother got killed trying to defend her. After she got rescued by the Alliance she was brought into a children’s home on earth. She didn’t have a lot of friends there because the other kids were somewhat afraid of her. During that time Dawn did some minor crimes and got most of her tattoos. 
At the age of 18 she had to leave the home because she was too old. Having no one to go to and no ideas what to do with herself she wandered the streets alone for some days until she stood in front of the Alliance HQ. She thought “they saved me once, maybe they can save me a second time” and so she enlisted to the Alliance.
She actually enjoyed her time there and could improve her biotic abilities so that she became one of their best recruits.
After completing her training she got a post on an Alliance frigate. While she was on shore leave on Elysium the Batarians attacked the colony. Dawn had no weapon with her so she had to rely on her biotics.Fueled with rage and hatred for the Batarians she was able to hold off and kill most of the enemies and saved a lot of lives for which she was honored with the Star of Terra.

10 Fun Facts about Dawn:

1.she has eight tattoos
2.dyes her hair and changes her armor after every major mission
2.sings in the shower (mostly off key), favorite song: Hit the road Jack by Ray Charles
3.favorite sleepwear: Blasto the Hanar Spectre PJ’s
4.has a minor crush on the Asari Councilor
5.still does some free running
6.plans to get more tattoos after the Reaper Invasion
7.is scared of dolls
8.doesn’t have a driver’s licence
9.was once so drunk that she had a deep philosophical conversation with a street lamp

Modifié par krayzi, 15 avril 2012 - 08:47 .

[CrazyRah]

silverhammer08 wrote...

This brings us to a question that came up in the old thread (dunno if it was here already)
How much of yourself do you put into your Shepard.
You know, personality traits and stuff like that

Sarah very much is her own person with a unique personality but it got some help with me taking some parts of my own personality and some of my traits. They were only there in the beginning and as she grew and developed i had problem saying that my traits were still there. Some of the stuff that she like is the same stuff that i like (alcohol) but we're similar and yet so very different.


"Hangover.. so bad."

[merylisk]

Just gonna chime in with everyone about how I'm seriously glad this thread exists. I'm still pretty new to it, but it really makes me happy that there are other people who are as passionate about their Shepards as I am about mine, and just as excited to share and read about each other's Shepards' stories. To me, the best part of Bioware games is actually roleplaying my character and making up a full backstory and character arc for her. I love seeing what you guys have come up with for your characters, and it's great to have a place to share all the stuff I've come up with about mine.

I also don't mind lots of screenshots, but I agree that it's better when they're actually accompanied by some sort of explanation. I know I'm guilty of this a bit, but I think it's just that we are all really enthusiastic about our Shepards and proud and excited to share them.

AtlasMickey wrote...

SaturnRing wrote...
I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't more "survivor's guilt" in the series, and now that I relfect on the lack of it… wow, Shepard has a pretty hard personlity, doesn't she?

I tried to RP my Anja Shepard as having a ton of survivor's guilt over this, compounded by her "death" on the first Normandy. She doesn't understand why she keeps getting second chances, but instead of dwelling on her guilt, decides to really make the most of the extra time she's been given and try to do as much real good as she can with it.

I've actually developed her backstory far beyond the overview I've posted of it here. When she was rescued from Mindoir, there was one soldier in the unit who saved her named Ron Thacker. After her rescue, he took it upon himself to take her under his wing. He became like a big brother to her over the next few years. With his help and friendship, she managed to pull herself out of her grief, get a scholarship to a good military high school, and find new purpose in her life. It was largely his influence and example that encouraged her to enlist at 18.

She quickly rose through the ranks, and they stayed close over the years. He was assigned to her squad on Akuze and, well, obviously you all know how that ended.

She's been pretty straight Paragon through all three games. Her favorite dessert is New York style cheesecake. She loves single malt scotch on the rocks, or neat with a splash of water. She basically just loves scotch. She is tall and graceful, but has a masculine strength to her movements. Kaidan always teases her by saying she could have been a runway model. She refuses to see herself this way. She can't dance for ****, but that doesn't stop her from trying.

I actually have a lot more to say about her relationship with Kaidan, but I'll save that for another post, cause this is already getting pretty long.

Here are a couple quick pics!









One of these days, I'll get around to doing some actual fanart of her.

Modifié par merylisk, 15 avril 2012 - 08:55 .

[raziel1980]

sagequeen wrote...

What's your Shep's general alignment (paragon/renegade) and did it change significantly over the 3 games? Also, do you think that change reflects a change in character (your character significantly became kinder or tougher, or whatever) or was that just because bioware changed up the way they assigned points?

how 'about other sheps?

Well...I'm gonna re-post Allison's Pre-ME 1 back story as that is best way I can describer her before getting into her morality...
Her full name is Allison Gunn - Shepard, she was earthborn kid born in Vancouver, Canada...has no surviving family as she moved aroudn quite abit from orphanage to orphanage until she met one Mr. and Mrs. John Shepard. it seems they saw on the streets one day running around with the wrong crowds getting into fights with various other gangs and factions( some of them alien) and they saw woman who had the potential to become something more than what she learned or been taught through a life of only living on the streets. Her adopted parents the Shepards would take Allison into their home where she was taught what meant to be a part of family and in this moemnt it was first time in her life, Allison had ever felt loved or even wanted but it seemed as if Allison also had another secret for which noone knew about.
She would enter the Alliance at early age of 17, she was really smart in schooling... finished at the top of class graduating from High school at age 16. Her instructors always marveled at her above average combat ability but what really struck them as odd was above average biotic ability. The more strenous the training trainign she went through the stronger it seemed her powers became. She did however like the ability to use powers such as singularity n stasis and that combined with her strong combat know how and expert shooting ability at medium to close range with shotguns and assault rifles. She became one of the first true 'Vanguards' in the Alliance.       
Allison's life in the military was one with incrdeible highs as she would impress all of her superior officers and squadmates. The would marvel at her natural leadership ability and natural grit and guts as well that undeniable force of will she possesed. It was this same force that allowed her to survive the ambush at Akuze an event that would shape the rest of her history and life. She however also had grown abit of a mean-streak...her personality change could only be attributed to her guilt for being the only member of team to survive. It was also this mission that led into her introduction to the N7 program, a program where only the best of the best and toughest , strongest, most capable soldiers in the Alliance Military would survive. Allison proved herself to be an N7 and more...as she quickly rose in rank and at age 28, she became Commander Allison G. Shepard of the SSV.

That's the prologue of Allison's story...

ME 1 : She was essentially renegade for dialog but mostly paragon when it came to certain decisions, outside of killing the Zhu's hope colonists( something I always do), she pretty much made paragon decisions the rest of the way.

ME 2: She became paragade...in that again mostly paragon decisions - only destroyed Maelon's cure but she took every single Renegade interrupt possible and almost NONE of the paragon interrupts( particularily during LMs).

ME 3. Her morality or reputation meter was maxed by the time I got to Rannok( easy as hell in this game) and she was 70% paragon and 30% renegade by then...I essentially again took all the renegade interrupts and only a handful of the paragon ones...

@SR..well, stay tuned...I should finish Gianna by the end of the week and be able to get intoGabriella's (Gabby's) game full force next week...though I do wanna finish up the prologue with her first( will do that today).  Ohh and I'm gonna change Crystal's name to Denise...which would be Allison's middle name if she had one.

[2leggywillow]

nitefyre410 wrote...

AtlasMickey wrote...

SaturnRing wrote...
I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't more "survivor's guilt" in the series, and now that I relfect on the lack of it… wow, Shepard has a pretty hard personlity, doesn't she?

  

There should be, it one of the reason why I feel that Shepard comes off as one dimensional at times.  There should be more survivors guilt and truma from those experiences.

I'm actually glad there's not.  I really, really did love the way Bioware humanized Shepard in ME3 and gave her so many emotions, but adding an element of survivor's guilt for Akuze/Mindoir, for example, would pretty much canonize the emotions Shepard felt after it.  I think that kind of characterization from Shep's backstory should be left for the player to decide.  Part of the fun of making multiple Shepards (or for those who don't, I assume this is why they like to read about other people's Shepards) is exploring the different results of those backstories.

My Colonist/Ruthless, for example, did not have any survivor's guilt after Mindoir.  She had anger, and she wanted revenge.  My Earthborn/Sole Survivor doesn't have much in the way of survivor's guilt after Akuze either.  She had a rough upbringing on Earth and she learned that the important thing is to keep moving forward: guilt just makes it harder.  My Spacer/Sole Survivor, on the other hand, is a big old bundle of PTSD and survivor's guilt after losing her fiance on Akuze.

[SaturnRing]

nitefyre410 wrote...

AtlasMickey wrote...

SaturnRing wrote...
I don't know how surviving Mindoir or Akuze would change me.

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't more "survivor's guilt" in the series, and now that I relfect on the lack of it… wow, Shepard has a pretty hard personlity, doesn't she?

  

There should be, it one of the reason why I feel that Shepard comes off as one dimensional at times.  There should be more survivors guilt and truma from those experiences.


@SaturnRing:  yeah  I understand -  I find it hard to play  Shepard with the way the Bioware had the system with any kind of personality complexity at all.  

She briefly mentioned it while talking to Ashley on the Normandy right after Eden Prime in ME1; that's pretty much it. I was hoping we would be able to explore more of that side of her in ME 3 - i would have love that instead of dreams featuring the kid. Edited. I guess developing that aspect by ourselves in the bios will have to do.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 15 avril 2012 - 09:21 .

[SaturnRing]

@2leggywillow and @merylisk : i see the danger of that making surviving Akuze more personal could bring. I never really considered that approach.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 15 avril 2012 - 09:16 .

[Hadeedak]

Oh boy, here I go again. So I don't have any 1 or 2 pictures, since I just got fraps, and Esperanza's the only Shepard I've done a trilogy run on -- the old ones are on my boytoy's xbox.

Esperanza grew up in New York. She went from petty crime to more serious theft. In her teens, she was starting to make a name as a strongman, and she won the bantam weight boxing tourney for her district two years running. When she was seventeen, she had her first arrest, and ran a steady string of jail time, including possession and assault. One officer took interest in her case. There was no denying Esperanza Shepard was heading for a body bag or a long time in the pen.

It looked like it'd hit sooner. She and several members of her gang were arrested suddenly, by unfamiliar faces. It was treated far more seriously than any scuffle with the law she'd had before. Eventually she found out a visiting asari dignitary had been murdered, and she was a suspect. It was then she was given a choice -- take the fall or join the alliance and get out of the streets.

At first resentful, Esperanza soon discovered the Alliance fit her like a glove. Being an enforcer for the military wasn't that different. She was even told she had some biotic potential and given an implant. As it turns out, Esperanza never learned to use biotics as gracefully as most, and can't handle much at a distance, but she's quite good at channeling it along her fists and body. The boxer grew up into a soldier.

And then Akuze happened. She was pulled off that world missing significant portions of her face and legs. She spent months in surgery, and was shocked to see how many scars she carried afterwards. She was never very social, but after Akuze, walls slammed up in her head around herself. She became more insular and colder. She was actually less aggressive, simply because she had no interest in engaging. And most things became superficial. She went through the motions of life and being a good soldier, with no interest beyond the next big fight.

[Hadeedak]

Hah, I always love reading about Allison. And seeing that one shot... She looks rugged, in an awesome way.

[Mazzorska]

Loooong time lurker (longer than I dare to admit, but let's just say well back into the old ME2 thread). Delurking to say this has always been a great place for discussion, sharing and general femshep love - and it's been sad to see things fracturing a little since the ME3 launch. The posts of the last few pages have been really encouraging to read - and, well darn it, have even prompted me to come out of the shadows. Long may the femshep thread continue with its amazing community of talented members.

As for me and my Sheps, well, I have two, one paragon, one renegade. Only the paragon has made it into ME3 so far.

Here is Jade Shepard: spacer, war hero, adept and loyal Liaramancer all the way from ME1. Not great quality, but I'm on an Xbox so have to use my camera:


Alignment is around 80-20 paragon in all three games. Never really considered her whole back story or character arc, but am always impressed by the thought and detail that goes into those posted here by others.

Modifié par Mazzorska, 15 avril 2012 - 09:14 .

[Chugster]

Shep and the boys

scars starting to show again

touchdown on Tuchanka

cool pose

[2leggywillow]

merylisk wrote...


I've actually developed her backstory far beyond the overview I've posted of it here. When she was rescued from Mindoir, there was one soldier in the unit who saved her named Ron Thacker. After her rescue, he took it upon himself to take her under his wing. He became like a big brother to her over the next few years. With his help and friendship, she managed to pull herself out of her grief, get a scholarship to a good military high school, and find new purpose in her life. It was largely his influence and example that encouraged her to enlist at 18.

I have a similar backstory for Sadie, my Colonist War Hero, except that it was Ernesto Zabaleta who helped her.  Spacer Shepards may remember him from this quest in ME1.  He was the veteran Spacer Shep's mother knew, who had big-time PTSD and guilt from not being able to help anyone on Mindoir.  I like to think that in this Colonist version of the ME universe, he didn't turn to alcohol.  Finding and helping Shepard gave him a way to get past what he saw on Mindoir.

He was her main inspiration for joining the Alliance, and Shepard continues to exchange the occasional email and birthday card with him.

Modifié par 2leggywillow, 15 avril 2012 - 09:16 .

[Hyper_gateway]

 @Sage
I said it on Twitter and I will say it again, thank you for bringing all this up back to the surface. You are probably the right person to do it imo.

I agree on most of what you guys said, the feeling 'back to business' about femshep emerge once again. Whatever happened is in the past, the community should move on to another level.

So here is my canon - Ming Shepard



Colonist, Sole Survivor (mixed alignments) 
I hardly share her biography because she is myself in ME universe, all her(my) decisions are very personal, emotional touch of how I deal with things when I am in that situation. I leave the role playing part with my other two femsheps - Velina and Colly.

Here's the only piece I can tell about her background:
It was rough, overwhelming lost on Mindor, the only thing that is keeping her to survive is the strong will that she has developed in her young age. Being an optimistic also helps her to recover. As a result, even her whole crew were lost on Akuze, that is a tragedy again but lesser worst than what have happened if comparing it with Mindor. She join The Alliance to play her part to serve humanity and since there's no one else is related with her, she feels that KIA would be the best 'ending' of her life. That explains why she has never engage in any relationship during ME1 and ME2 (no sure about ME3 yet) She understand and accept if her faith is mean to be a loner, so be it.

It is different from role playing a character you create and seeing the decision you made between your character and yourself. Despite the cracks of story, plothole and such, it was really a great experience to 'live' in ME as yourself. Sadly, the pleasure has been and will be dramatically decrease in ME3 due to the lack of options on how we can response. (My canon is still in ME2.....)

Since my canon is actually myself, I find it would not be that interesting to discuss her on here because I am not an interesting person at all. So lets skip this boring one and give the road to others :happy:

Modifié par Hyper_gateway, 15 avril 2012 - 09:48 .

[Hadeedak]

Well, that's actually interesting to me. How many people have a Yournamehere Shepard? How well did you do with the creator and choices? Any hiccups?

[merylisk]

Hadeedak wrote...

Well, that's actually interesting to me. How many people have a Yournamehere Shepard? How well did you do with the creator and choices? Any hiccups?

I've actually always been tempted to just try to make a Shepard that looks as much like me as possible, haha. Maybe I'll try this tonight just for giggles.

[raziel1980]

Hadeedak wrote...

Well, that's actually interesting to me. How many people have a Yournamehere Shepard? How well did you do with the creator and choices? Any hiccups?

My male canon is that way...

Allison meanwhile is her own person...though they could easily date each other! 

[merylisk]

I wish the Maleshep thread was more active, because I really like the character/face/personality/backstory I made for my dude Shep that I just started, and wish I had a place to share it.

[SaturnRing]

Bruce Shepard was a pilot in the 260th SOAR. His job consisted in covertly inserting special operations teams in areas of operations. That's how he met Ryan Nagitanka (Great Spirit) who was a combat controller at the time. After a few tours together they became good friends. Ryan eventually introduced Bruce to his sister Helen Wiwasteka (Beautiful) - although they share the same parents, they have different last name - who was a biologist. He also agree to chaperon them on their first date. He spent most of the evening starring at the table candle light while Bruce and Helen argued over the effect of a front mounted mass-accelerator canon over Rannoch flora. He gave up playing referee when they touched on the effects that a field generator could have on a Krogan organ redundancy. They were married 3 months later. Bruce retired from the Alliance in 2153. They then moved to Mindoir. Deirdre Ohitika (Brave) was born a year later.
                                                           
                                                             

The occupation of Shanxi forced Bruce out of retirement in 2157. He went on to serve an additional 4yrs before retirering a 2nd time in 2161. Deirdre was 7 yrs old.

I still have to correct some of the details to better fit with game...
I will post more later about the raid.



Edit: I really enjoyed reading about Eperanza, Allison, Hrist, Dawn and Anja. 

Modifié par SaturnRing, 15 avril 2012 - 11:04 .

[Chugster]

a chance to make history...and change the future

trying to avoid being Kalros' new chew toy

the loss of an old friend....

....his legacy....

...and mourning the friend you never got to have...