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[MrStoob]

fluffywalrus wrote...

1) I'd finished ME3, and was kind of in a grieving process I guess, and I made a few stops by here. Found people talking about a bunch of stuff, and I got scared away from the main board due to all the people talkng about Indoctrination Theory (which IMO would have been much worse than what happened in the game, if it was real and made any sense). Eventually found my way to the character threads, had some fun. People talked a little about fanfics, and I made some throwaway, thoughtless post about having written a bunch of stuff down for my Shep already. PMC65 sent me a message, said she'd be interested in reading up on another origin story, because there weren't so many at the time. I said sure, and gave it a go. I already had enough material.

This too (particularly IT bit hehe).

Edit: Hmm.  Top post eh?  I think I can find something... (just to say, there is no top post rule here, I just like to pop the odd tableau on if I've something spare)

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Zaeed sits on the Citadel wards. Waiting. He feels like he's been waiting an age, the suspense is killing him. The clerk advised it was a one way operation, kill or cure, but he had to try. He stands to pace, but returns to his chair after one circuit.


“Mister Massani?” a clerk calls.

“Yes?” he darts to the counter in anticipation.

“I'm sorry, Mister Massani. There was nothing we could do.”

Zaeed's head drops.

“From what you said, she certainly lived the wild life in her youth.”

“Yes. Yes, she did. I'll always remember that.”

“Good. That's... good. What would you like done with the...”

“Can I see her? Alone. If I may.” Zaeed interrupts.

“Um, I suppose that's not a problem.”

“Thank you.”

The clerk lifts a counter section to let Zaeed in and directs him to a back room. Zaeed enters the dark room, apart from the spot light over the table, a sheet covering his old friend. He lifts the sheet and gasps a little when he sees burnt wires and mechanics hanging out of the body. Zaeed places both his hands on the table's edge to steady himself. He breathes a deep breath in through his nose, then out through his mouth, but is unable to prevent weeping at his loss. It's over. He'd kept her all these years, hoping that one day that they could have their final mission together, but Jessie is no more.

Modifié par MrStoob, 26 mars 2013 - 09:20 .

[enayasoul]

Well, I'm happy to report that I resolved the issue with my ending for my latest chapter. "Second Chances." After several chapter ending rewrites and fleshing out the ideas a bit mroe. I think this works better. *crosses fingers* We'll see how the readers react... :-/ if they bother to post a review that is.

[Bebuse]

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Modifié par Bebuse, 26 mars 2013 - 10:37 .

[Bebuse]

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Modifié par Bebuse, 26 mars 2013 - 10:37 .

[Bebuse]

dpMeggers wrote...

Question 1: What inspired you to write your fanfic?

Question 2: Who is your Shepard and how did they come into being - did they pop into your head backstory fully formed, or did you develop that as you played? (If you have more than one - answer your canon/your fic Shep? If you don't have a canon Shep, pick your favourite? Or answer for them all!)

1. Like many people I was pretty distraught after ME3's ending, which is why I started reading... I suppose what inspired me to start writing, though, was getting burgled  

Somebody stole my gaming computer which was deeply upsetting, and on that evening, on a laptop I'd "borrowed" from work, I decided to try entertaining myself in a totally new way (I had never written for pleasure before!)... and sketched out a single scene that had been bubbling around my mind pretty much since I finished ME1, worked backwards from there, and my ME1 story was born 


2. Faith Shepard was born on Mindoir to a happy farming family, as the oldest of 3 sisters. Following the attack (parents killed, sisters abducted) she shut down emotionally, pressing herself to be the absolute best she could be.

She was (Lazarus changed this) a very weak biotic, but I haven't funnelled her into any specific "class" - in my headcanon, N7 training does not produce specialists but a soldier who can adapt to any situation, from assassination to infiltration to a frontal assault. Fights with extreme ferocity but never allows her feelings get in the way of efficiency. Her hatred against batarians, and her own reputation, was secured at Torfan... which was where her sisters were being held, leading to all manner of unpleasantness. 

Faith has come a long way from the emotional coldness she started with, but in a way that is a double edged blade. She feels more compassion now, but also has a lot of deeply buried hatred that can bubble up when it isn't wanted.

I must admit I developed her pretty much as I went along at first, which perhaps has a few of her early moments being a little inconsistent, but I feel I now have a much stronger grasp on her as a character. 

[MrStoob]

alleyd wrote...

 What got me interested in writing in ME was I wanted to try educating myself to get over a long term literacy problem. I left education over 30 years ago, and I was considered illiterate academically. I managed to educate myself over the years, but lost my way in my 30's when I had a mental breakdown, the cause of this was a lifelong battle with undiagnosed manic depression.

I was on high dosage lithium treatment and this had a side effect which impacted on my ability to read and write and my memory and concentration. My career was destroyed and I was in a form of hellish limbo for years, my psychological issues with my illness and the side effects stopped me from even begining to interact through social media of any type.

That was prior to March 2012, then I bought a game called Mass Effect 3. I had enjoyed the previous two games but the third left me confused and bewildered in some areas. And very disappointed with the story,  I felt if the professionals could "mess up", it left the playing field open for me to try some DIY fiction.

So I started playing around with my own ideas, and posting on the forum. Most people who I have corresponded with where extremely helpful and supportive, even when my motivation was unknown. I started to develop an enjoyable little pastime which had a very profound influence on my life, and that is thanks in part to Bioware for not meeting my expectiations, but more importantly to the BSN community. 

So thank you Bioware for creating such an engaging universe and for saying its OK to use my own imagination, and more importantly thank you BSN for the friendly support

That's a good point about Bioware being so open to fan creations.  I pm'd Chris Priestly once to make sure it was okay to do a twitter thing to support a fic.  He said that as long as you don't say that you're from Bioware/EA/etc, then anything goes really.  Nice that they're not precious about their universe, there's some serious deviations out there in the fan 'art' world and I'm not talking about deviantArt... hehe.

Modifié par MrStoob, 26 mars 2013 - 12:39 .

[MrStoob]

I see a familiar pattern of stages forming though as to why people are writing, similar to bereavement...

[Obsidian Gryphon]

MrStoob wrote...

Question 1: What inspired you to write your fanfic?

Dissatisfaction with the bludy ME 3 conclusion, even EC was not that good. I threw out everything after they made it to London, so the Catalyst and everything in the DLCs do not exist in my fic which is focused on the years beyond the war.

Question 2: Who is your Shepard and how did they come into being - did they pop into your head backstory fully formed, or did you develop that as you played? (If you have more than one - answer your canon/your fic Shep? If you don't have a canon Shep, pick your favourite? Or answer for them all!)

I thought Shepard [F] might be close to some fictional female protaganists in fantasy/SF novels that I like. Namely, Honor Harrington from D. Weber's HH series, Paksenarion from E.Moon's Sheep Farmer's Daughter, Kylara from Vatta's War series, Herris Serano series (all from E. Moon), but she didn't quite turn out the way I thought in the games. In fact, how they wrote the char in the games is not even on par with what I have in mind. In the end, I have to create her in the fic. I modelled her after the three chars I named.

Modifié par Obsidian Gryphon, 26 mars 2013 - 02:11 .

[nrobbiec]

Seracen wrote...
Oooh, that reminds me: Who is the best match for Kaidan, if not FemShep?

My current list, if I do it, is...

1) Miranda
2) Gianna Parasini
3) Shiala
4) Kasumi (specifically after Kaidan wins the pushup contest)

Not Tali b/c Garrus, not Jack b/c CRAAZY (only mellows if w/ Shep), not Samara b/c...well...Samara, lol...

ManShep. Haha sorry.

If Kaidan is straight or bi...Gianna or Shiala would work best, they'd share the defending people/justice kind of thing.

[Seracen]

nrobbiec wrote...

Seracen wrote...
Oooh, that reminds me: Who is the best match for Kaidan, if not FemShep?

My current list, if I do it, is...

1) Miranda
2) Gianna Parasini
3) Shiala
4) Kasumi (specifically after Kaidan wins the pushup contest)

Not Tali b/c Garrus, not Jack b/c CRAAZY (only mellows if w/ Shep), not Samara b/c...well...Samara, lol...

ManShep. Haha sorry.

If Kaidan is straight or bi...Gianna or Shiala would work best, they'd share the defending people/justice kind of thing.

S'okay.  I had this discussion with y'all a few months ago, about how there just wasn't a proper and fitting romantic match for so many of the characters, sans Shepard.

I beleive, at the time, I used this as an excuse to support the Garrus/Tali pairing.  I suppose I could also use the same logic to support Ash/Vega...but meh...I can't bring myself to be excited enough for either character seperately, much less together.

PS: I think, if you hack the gamesave, the BroShep romance w/ Kaidan is voiced, much like how the FemShep romance with Ash was voiced in ME1 (and most of the Miranda FemShep in ME2).

BroShep would be out of the question in that particular fic....as he'd never have existed...unless they made a Male Clone of Femshep...OOH...

The Citadel DLC could have had it so that Mark Meer's Shep and Jennifer Hale's Shep faced off, and one of them was the clone that got only half the original genes (hence the gender change)...or something.  I think that could have been amusing.

Since BW has no prob with such things, now I'll have to see if hacking a gamesave can result in this...hmm...

Modifié par Seracen, 26 mars 2013 - 05:57 .

[Seracen]

MrStoob wrote...

Question 1: What inspired you to write your fanfic?

Par for the course...that crappy ending.  Although, to be fair, I got my catharsis after finishing the ME3 Alt Ending Story I did.  However, I realized that I didn't want to leave it at that, so I started a project where I fleshed out all the discarded ideas from BW into full stories.

Then I realized I didn't care for this angle, so I decided to incorporate it into my own proposed ME4 story.  This, incidentally, is why I inadverdently had a lot of my plot beats supported by the DLC's, even though I'd started writing before the DLC's were ever out.

Now the cat's out of the bag, and it's anyone's guess who long I'll continue with this madness, lol!

MrStoob wrote...
Question 2: Who is your Shepard and how did they come into being - did they pop into your head backstory fully formed, or did you develop that as you played? (If you have more than one - answer your canon/your fic Shep? If you don't have a canon Shep, pick your favourite? Or answer for them all!)

Well, my original Shepards (I headcanon both Fem and Bro versions, alt realities etc) pretty much came into being via the games.  I didn't do so much backstory work, as BW did all the heavy lifting in that regard.

I suppose a back history could be interesting, but I have no less desire to see a prequel or interquel.  Alt realities and possible future stories intrigue me more.

I always play BroShep more Paragon (Renegade Streak), having romanced Jack by the end.  FemShep is a bit more Renegade (though still no less than 60% Paragon), having romanced Liara by the end of it.

[Ignis Mors]

Seracen wrote...

nrobbiec wrote...

Seracen wrote...
Oooh, that reminds me: Who is the best match for Kaidan, if not FemShep?

My current list, if I do it, is...

1) Miranda
2) Gianna Parasini
3) Shiala
4) Kasumi (specifically after Kaidan wins the pushup contest)

Not Tali b/c Garrus, not Jack b/c CRAAZY (only mellows if w/ Shep), not Samara b/c...well...Samara, lol...

ManShep. Haha sorry.

If Kaidan is straight or bi...Gianna or Shiala would work best, they'd share the defending people/justice kind of thing.

S'okay.  I had this discussion with y'all a few months ago, about how there just wasn't a proper and fitting romantic match for so many of the characters, sans Shepard.

I beleive, at the time, I used this as an excuse to support the Garrus/Tali pairing.  I suppose I could also use the same logic to support Ash/Vega...but meh...I can't bring myself to be excited enough for either character seperately, much less together.

PS: I think, if you hack the gamesave, the BroShep romance w/ Kaidan is voiced, much like how the FemShep romance with Ash was voiced in ME1 (and most of the Miranda FemShep in ME2).

BroShep would be out of the question in that particular fic....as he'd never have existed...unless they made a Male Clone of Femshep...OOH...

The Citadel DLC could have had it so that Mark Meer's Shep and Jennifer Hale's Shep faced off, and one of them was the clone that got only half the original genes (hence the gender change)...or something.  I think that could have been amusing.

Since BW has no prob with such things, now I'll have to see if hacking a gamesave can result in this...hmm...

It doesn't. I tried to hack my femshep who romanced Miri into a maleshep to get the Citadel Miri romance, but I didn't. And, it had a male clown. 

[Ignis Mors]

Seracen wrote...

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's the weird thing about the death scene in ME2. it was a great moment, really memorable, and set up a nice little credits slideshow thing, and gave the player a nice segue into the game.
....
There are some good bits of it, but nothing powerful. Nothing that needed a death.

Thus, even though i am a ways away from my ME2 arc, i've been slowly working on a more...cohesive way to begin that part of the timeline. if I can keep the death...I will. I think it can be worthwhile, if challenging. I can't help but fear I'll end up having to make changes that will ****** a lot of people off...

Honestly, I always thought they could have had him in a coma, almost brain dead, but not completely gone.  The "lasting repurcussions" could have been the same cyborg body.

Add a few scenes with Shep coming to grips with it (like looking at his hands, seeing gears, and thinking he's more like the Geth/whatever)...very little change needed IMO.  I liked how it was presented, and I certianly like the 2 lines (one in ME2, one in ME3) that we got, I just felt it was a wasted character piece.

Ignis Mors wrote...

 Do you think it would be possible for a thresher maw to talk, without it being a giant WTF? moment?

Honestly, I think you can couch it thusly: Kalross doesn't speak through a mouth, but more like...say...the GraveMind in Halo, the Thorian in ME, or the Rachni Queen in ME.

Basically, mind speak...minor telepathic ability, whether directly to the head, or via a nearby corpse.

The Reasoning: a Maw as old as Kalross is extremely rare, and nobody ever bothered studying/was able to study the Maws as such...

I totally did not think of that. Thanks Seracen. With that, I could use it to put a little culture into the threshers, rather than the one that grabbed shep just doing what it was 'programmed' to. Thanks. 

[nrobbiec]

Seracen wrote...

I think, if you hack the gamesave, the BroShep romance w/ Kaidan is voiced, much like how the FemShep romance with Ash was voiced in ME1 (and most of the Miranda FemShep in ME2).

Don't know about the others but manshep/kaidan is almost fullly voiced and rendered if you use the console command trick. It also unlocks manshep telling Harkin not to call him princess (fully voiced scene). ME3 even has scenes acknowledging ME1 manshep/Kaidan romance if you're faithful. Also, male Shepard saves Kaidan from the beacon on Eden Prime.

Modifié par nrobbiec, 26 mars 2013 - 07:13 .

[Ignis Mors]

Not much to say here, but I just thought of an excuse to have Shepard ride Kalros without it being too silly! Yes! Now, to go back to writing so I can get Shepard riding a thresher maw like a really, really big horse. 

[Seracen]

Ignis Mors wrote...

Not much to say here, but I just thought of an excuse to have Shepard ride Kalros without it being too silly! Yes! Now, to go back to writing so I can get Shepard riding a thresher maw like a really, really big horse. 

Glad I was able to help!

Also, it amuses me how the relationship the Krogan have with the Maws is akin to an Egyptian deity system, mixed with what I can only explain as a Viking death cult.

All I can think of after hearing this though...

"THE SPICE MUST FLOW!!!"

Can't imagine what Vega will have to say about this, lol.  Remember that fake story he tells Garrus about the Harvester?  Ah man, fun stuff...

Grunt will be in total awe of his Battlemaster!  I wonder how many breeding requests will result from this, haha!

Modifié par Seracen, 26 mars 2013 - 08:44 .

[dpMeggers]

Huh. Sort of seems like I'm the only one who started writing my fic in anticipation of ME3 rather than out of dissapointment with ME3. Meh, more fics for me to read!

Seracen wrote...

nrobbiec wrote...

Seracen wrote...
Oooh, that reminds me: Who is the best match for Kaidan, if not FemShep?

My current list, if I do it, is...

1) Miranda
2) Gianna Parasini
3) Shiala
4) Kasumi (specifically after Kaidan wins the pushup contest)

Not Tali b/c Garrus, not Jack b/c CRAAZY (only mellows if w/ Shep), not Samara b/c...well...Samara, lol...

ManShep. Haha sorry.

If Kaidan is straight or bi...Gianna or Shiala would work best, they'd share the defending people/justice kind of thing.

S'okay.  I had this discussion with y'all a few months ago, about how there just wasn't a proper and fitting romantic match for so many of the characters, sans Shepard.

I beleive, at the time, I used this as an excuse to support the Garrus/Tali pairing.  I suppose I could also use the same logic to support Ash/Vega...but meh...I can't bring myself to be excited enough for either character seperately, much less together.

Jumping because Kaidan and shipping in general:

1) Cortez. No idea why I like this particular pairing, but I do. If Cortez can move on and fall in love with Shep anything's possible I guess?
2) Kasumi would be kinda funny. I think this would only work if you convince her to wipe the greybox though. And a Spectre hooking up with a master thief might be iffy. (But fun!)
3) I could actually see him and Liara having a thing if Liara wasn't so Shep/Broker focused.

I totally support Ash/Vega, partly because I think they entertain each other and partly because I get a kick out of squadmates hooking up. (Also because I have a soft spot for Vega.) And none of my Sheps can really crack down on fraternization due to the massive hypocricy such a crackdown would entail...

[nrobbiec]

On the topic of shipping, I think in my playthrough where Kaidan romances ManShep, Cortez and obviously Ashley are dead, I support Liara/Feron because it just makes sense to me and also James/Jack, he likes her and I think they'd make an interesting couple - she'd clearly be the dominant one which is funny considering Vega's size.

[hot_heart]

Hmm, since I prompted a QOTD about why we started writing our fics, I suppose I should elaborate on my initial post.

Without going into personal issues, April/March of last year left me in a pretty low place and ME3's ending did not help matters.

I'd always wanted to be a writer, but had never fully thrown myself into it (and now it's too late), so never really got anywhere. Writing literature seemed like the 'easiest' way of seeing a piece of work to completion, but I know I couldn't just throw myself into a full novel or even short stories (still, a little 'short' on ideas). Figured I might as well start with a universe I love and a character I find fascinating, and work from there.

Essentially, as stated on the intro in my first chapter, this fic is practice. It's taken far longer than I expected, but it's grown to be much larger than I expected; plus, I'm still enjoying it in patches. Still, I think it'll be a while before I'm capable of anything truly original...

Modifié par hot_heart, 27 mars 2013 - 12:23 .

[MrStoob]

It's cold. I'm bored. So...

Who is the author behind the avatar?


Not the most flattering pic, I appear to be pulling some kind of dozy face but at least you can't see the terrible state of my teeth ha! There are so few pics of me in existence, this is from a couple of years ago meeting my sis in Liverpool.

Not everyone's cup of tea to expose their face on t'internet, I appreciate, but anyone else?

[MrStoob]

Still bored.

Had a read of the first few pages of the thread for nostalgia. It's funny, there's quite a few of us on those first few pages stating our 'newness' to writing, seeking advice, trepidation, etc, and the Literary Lurker helping us all, hehe. Now we're all pretty confident in our writing and helping others. How things have changed, eh?

Modifié par MrStoob, 27 mars 2013 - 11:04 .

[nrobbiec]

Mid-performance in Birmingham, was a good excuse to wear my jacket.

Modifié par nrobbiec, 22 avril 2013 - 04:03 .

[MrStoob]

Performing what?

[nrobbiec]

This was at a storytelling thing, I was doing a tale about the sun and the moon.