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[thompsmt]

Hmm. Lots of nice stuff over the last few days. I was at work a bit too much to take part, and thanks for what everyone said about my FemShep.

Garrus is definitely Renee's best friend on the group. Not only are they both excellent snipers, but she genuinely enjoys this off beat Turian. In some ways, he's the most in touch character. He's got his own code of morality, but has a hard time when it hits the brick wall of reality. I like the guy. There's a reason he has her back.

[meonlyred]

My own silly headcanon of the ending. Warning nsfw.

[Mazzorska]

@Gilsa & @Saturn - thanks for the welcome! I still think my ratio of lurking to posting may end up on the side of lurking, but let's see

I'm coming a little late to the Joker/Garrus party here, but:

What does your Shepard think about Joker?
I don't think either of my characters blame Joker for what happened at the beginning of ME2, though I totally see why some people might go there. I think both my Shepards respect him as a pilot and secretly like his 'insubordinate' ways - it breaks up the monotony and adds a bit of color to life on the ship. Also, I do always tend to choose the 'paragon' lines with all the crew - even when playing my (yet to be introduced) renegade Shep, so I do tend to encourage him

I discovered on my second play through of ME3 with my paragon, Jade, that there was a lot of dialog on the bridge with Joker that I'd missed - it really seemed to flesh out their friendship nicely, and I admit to getting a little choked up when he saluted her near the end…*tries not to 'go' there. happy thoughts. happy thoughts*

How do you feel about the development of the friendship between Shepard and Garrus?
I thought it was handled really well in ME3 - they acknowledged all they'd been through together and that just kind of cemented their friendship. I think RainyDayLover encapsulated my thoughts perfectly: the goodbye to Garrus hit me harder than saying bye to my LI, Liara. The scene was pitch perfect - as was the one above the Presidium. And, on the subject of the goodbye scenes --if slightly OT-- is it wrong to say I'm not entirely sure what the 'gift' from Liara really was? We were in a dark space, with some blue light…it was very lovely and all, but I was left wondering where the 'memories' were - I would love to be enlightened if anyone has an idea!

Since she made her first appearance a good few pages back, here's another shot of Jade (xbox + camera pointed at TV = bad combination, so I don't do it too often...)

[Mazzorska]

meonlyred wrote...

My own silly headcanon of the ending. Warning nsfw.

Lol. Love it!

[Elorin Silverblade]

meonlyred wrote...

My own silly headcanon of the ending. Warning nsfw.

Thats great lol

[raziel1980]

meonlyred wrote...

My own silly headcanon of the ending. Warning nsfw.

LMAO! I love it...and that would certainly work for a canon-ending for me as well.. 

[sagefic]

 nice one, Red. Speaking of headcanons. Both by magicalzebra:

I Came Back and



The Alenkos

and by ghostfire



(i didn't find anything thane or jacob flavored yet. anyone have some?)


^ THOSE are endings I like. 

(even though I think Kyrie would hyperventilate at the mere idea of having A child, much less 3)

Modifié par sagequeen, 17 avril 2012 - 02:02 .

[meonlyred]

Sigh, because reuniting with LI and having the main character who has went through so much pain and hell to have a ending with just a little bit of happiness is sooooooo unrealistic. Nope not bitter at all. Going to go eat some more ice cream and hope that Bioware will stop re-making the ending of Kotor over and over again.

[nitefyre410]

What no Shepard /Specialist Traynor ? *Sad panda face*

[Giggles_Manically]

meonlyred wrote...

Sigh, because reuniting with LI and having the main character who has went through so much pain and hell to have a ending with just a little bit of happiness is sooooooo unrealistic. Nope not bitter at all. Going to go eat some more ice cream and hope that Bioware will stop re-making the ending of Kotor over and over again.

But dont you know?
Mature adults only enjoy fiction that beats them over the head with sad and depressing themes about how much life sucks!

[sagefic]

Giggles_Manically wrote...

meonlyred wrote...

Sigh, because reuniting with LI and having the main character who has went through so much pain and hell to have a ending with just a little bit of happiness is sooooooo unrealistic. Nope not bitter at all. Going to go eat some more ice cream and hope that Bioware will stop re-making the ending of Kotor over and over again.

But dont you know?
Mature adults only enjoy fiction that beats them over the head with sad and depressing themes about how much life sucks!

God knows I do!

Er... wait.

Actually, I think the one thing I do love about Mass Effect is that the games have never been sunshiney happy. not by a LONG shot. Even if everyone made it to the end of the battle, you're going to have MASSIVE survivors' guilt for a lot of people, Earth is mostly gone, heck, there IS no 'we turned the Reapers into ice-cream sundaes' ending no matter what the penny arcade guys teased.

i think a lot of it would have to do with the tone of the ending - the music, the final shots, etc. to demonstrate the scale of the loss that comes alongside the triumph. even the 'best case' scenario is going to be pretty grim.

[Verly]

oh yeah, there was one question in the past few pages I missed. no, I do not have any femsheps with my name and none of them look anything like me or really act like me either. I wouldn't be able to put myself in the place of shep saving the world.

now Dragon age origins..I made the little dwarf seen <-------------- to look like me, but she acts nothing like me either.

and me


(if pix of myself and dwarfy self are not wanted in femshep thread I will delete if asked)

[Cyansomnia]

Thane and Shepard in the after life:


mappeli

Wish Bioware could have at least given me that.  Jerks.  I just found this piece particularly beautiful.

[TheMarshal]

meonlyred wrote...

Sigh, because reuniting with LI and having the main character who has went through so much pain and hell to have a ending with just a little bit of happiness is sooooooo unrealistic. Nope not bitter at all. Going to go eat some more ice cream and hope that Bioware will stop re-making the ending of Kotor over and over again.

Nope.  Only grimdark endings have any real meaning.  Pfft...  Conformist!

[meonlyred]

Talking to Ottemis this morning about wanting to play ME3 with Dakota. She looked so good when I had her in the Demo. But she would have almost the exact play through as Zody since they are both Paragons and there are now no neutral options and no Thanemance. So there is nothing unique about playing my other Shepards. Oh wait there is! Dakota gets to wake alone and with no LI that tells her that everything is going to be alright.

@TheMarshal,
But if all endings are grim/dark then the happy not suck endings are the new hipster!!

Modifié par meonlyred, 17 avril 2012 - 02:57 .

[sagefic]

Aislinn Trista wrote...

Thane and Shepard in the after life:


mappeli

Wish Bioware could have at least given me that.  Jerks.  I just found this piece particularly beautiful.

this deserves a quoting.

also



Hipster Shepard by calimari-san

"Pfft. I was into happy endings before they got shot to heck by StarChild."

(Actually, for a laugh, try checking the google images for 'hipster shepard' tis pretty funny, though most are sheploo pics)

[ELE08]

sagequeen wrote...

nice one, Red. Speaking of headcanons. Both by magicalzebra:

snip

snip
The Alenkos

and by ghostfire

snip

(i didn't find anything thane or jacob flavored yet. anyone have some?)

^ THOSE are endings I like. 

(even though I think Kyrie would hyperventilate at the mere idea of having A child, much less 3)

Those are all lovely.

The Kaidan one <3<3<3 and then :o:o 3 kids!

As for Thane and Jacob fanart.  Les sigh.  The first is dead.  The second is making babies with another woman.  Not exactly prime candidates for post-game fan-art, imagined or otherwise.  I think a lot of people who are fans of these characters are not exactly feeling positive enough to start churning out fanwork yet.  I has a sad.


http://a-stric.devia...path=/#/d47oaul 

Unfinished.  Much like their romance.

[Hadeedak]

So... continuing the Esperanza saga, as it stood in ME1, she was a isolated, cold perfect soldier with a heavy side order of thug.

When she was chosen to be a Spectre, she approached it like everything else she'd ever come into in her life -- with singleminded determination to be the best at it. From the first, she made use of Garrus and Tali in her missions. This wasn't out of any particular fondness for them so much as a blatant publicity stunt. Reports of a human Spectre's activities, she figured, would sound better with a turian and quarian backing her up.

She started to become fond of the dextro duo. Everyone else was getting paid for this (or in Liara's case, hiding behind the big guns of the Normandy), but they were doing this because they thought it needed doing. Slowly, Esperanza began to open up to her crew. Not very much, though.

She spent most of ME1 being a bit of a hardass, with mostly paragon, good Spectre choices. Every time I could pull a Spectre card, I sure did. She was never, ever anything but respectful to the Council. because Esperanza's a soldier, not someone who gives the big orders. She snapped at a lot of people and mostly took neutral answers to her crew. Her biggest blowup was when Liara hit on her. For one thing, the asari was way too young and... vulnerable. For another, there's regs for a reason! One side effect of the mostly nuetral approach to the crew is that she never seemed very much like she was teaching Garrus, which I liked.

Anyway, blah blah blah... By the end of ME1, Esperanza had started to think maybe she could care about people and call them friends. Maybe. And Garrus, Esperanza and Tali had slammed facefirst into trouble all over the galaxy.

Harder than it looks without charge. Doing the appropriate levels of vanguard melee was tricky in one.

[Mestesso]

ELE08 wrote...

Drawing the N7 hoodie before it was cool.  You filthy hipster.

[ELE08]

Mestesso wrote...

ELE08 wrote...
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Drawing the N7 hoodie before it was cool.  You filthy hipster.

[Zandilar]

Re: shep/Thane piccy posted up thread. I am not a fan of the pairing (or any male squaddie/ fem!shep pairing, really), but that picture is gorgeous! The use of colours and light is astonishing.

[Hadeedak]

The expressions on the Jacob picture are fabulous. Always liked that couple. Granted, I'm fond of ... well, every femShep pairing except ME1 Liara.

[TheMarshal]

Just had Alice try a change of clothes for her "date" on the Presidium. Gawd do I miss the Kasumi dress...

[ELE08]

Hadeedak wrote...

The expressions on the Jacob picture are fabulous. Always liked that couple. Granted, I'm fond of ... well, every femShep pairing except ME1 Liara.

Thanks.

They had such potential with Jacob...missed the mark a bit in ME2.  Totally lost opportunity in ME3 to go somewhere great.

I understand the gripes with his character.  Truly.  Because I have the same ones.  I really want to love the guy, because there is the foundation for something great there.

And that's kind of what I wanted to convey there.  A sense of ease between two people.

He's just a dude.  A soldier (let's ignore the fact he has biotics, I don't think it really fit.  They gave everyone in ME2 biotics.)  And I think that leant his romance arc with femShep a sense of normalcy.  Like, here's two people who have similar backgrounds, who can relate to each other, and just want to have a good time.  Not every relationship has to be truelove! seriousbizzness, or start out that way.  

Drea was my most paragon of Shepards.  Spacer.  Was too by-the-book to hook up with Alenko in ME1, besides he was not really her type.  He made a great professional acquaintance.  Friends are good! Not everyone needs to try and get in Shep's pants thx.  War Hero.  She had about zero issues.  She did what she did because she was just born that way, full of conviction and ideals.  So I liked her with Jacob.  She just wanted a normal guy she could flirt with and get to know.  Like in real life.  If it became something from there, great.

Are there issues with the VA? Yes.  It's a bit of a minefield to be honest, and took a few re-loads before I got the flow that I wanted.  Looking beyond that, there are some great gems of dialogue.  Specifically, when he asks Shepard how she's dealing with everything.  It was one of the most humanizing moments in ME2 (or at least I found it to be, with the dialogue options I took.)

And this is another case where I see them taking a bit of the character away from the player and making a static version of Bioware's Shepard.  Jacob calls her out, saying the Normandy is her true love.  Well. Okay.  I think for Drea the Normandy is just...a ship.

But that ship has sailed.  To continue the theme.

I'm still not sure how I figure the entire thing...or how I'm going to play her through ME3.  Do I work with what they've presented, or work around it mentally.  Maybe I just send Jacob to the vents.

*sigh*

Modifié par ELE08, 17 avril 2012 - 05:08 .

[ELE08]

nitefyre410 wrote...

What no Shepard /Specialist Traynor ? *Sad panda face*