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Since I feel my paragon characters have no way to truly win and that she would not have accepted any of the choices including the refuse and commit suicide ending for your entire civilization thing they added.

Since they can't make an ending that fits the rest of the game I've decided to do a reinterpretation of Paragon Shepard's actions that makes it match the choices Bioware has given us.



Early Life
Shepard was a from a family of Alliance millitary. Early in life her parents taught her about duty even if it meant great sacrifices. As an only child, Hanna often told her she was special and destined for great things. One of these sacrifices was the family never being together. So Shepard threw herself into her studies and was a great student. Shepard was enthralled by Ancient Earth history, especially of the Greeks and their phillosophers. However it was her talents in electronics and engineering which became her chosen disciplines when she enrolled into the millitary like her parents before her.

War Hero
As a young officer, she saved the colony on Elysium from Batarian Slavers. Coming at such a young age, the star of Terra and the acolades and requests from the media for her photogenic visage went straight to her head. She became convinced of her special destiny in no small part because of the patronage of two senior officers Anderson and Hackett, who tried to temper her impatience with superiors.

Mass Effect
By this time, Shepard had become familiar with the politics of human expansion and the diplomacy required with the other races. Becoming the first human Spectre only reinforced the notion she was special and she relished taking up the power to protect the weak. She quickly learned to love the benefits of operating outside the regular law. Using her authority to rescue colonies and save kittens all over the galaxy. Worryingly as a Spectre she quickly became disillusioned with politics and appearances. Often she would cut short her conversations to the council or be curt with unfriendly reporters, prefering to let her heroic actions speak for her. During the final battle she dispatched Alliance ships guns blazing to save the council, as Napoleon had done for the Directory nearly four centuries earlier. She'd found her mission to save the galaxy from the reapers.

ME2
IIf her heroics hadn't convinced all the galaxy, her seeming death and resurrection made her a legend. She drank in the accolades, asking Chambers to collect all news reports about her own exploits, playing the clip of her making a fool of Al Jilani over and over again. She'd revel in the email she recieved from people she'd helped often responding with the obligatory platitudes about duty. She believed TIM to be corrupt and was against his goals, ultimately rejecting his authority over her mission. However it was her rejection at the hands of the council that was the final straw in her tolerance of politics. She became enamored with notions of Plato's Republic and Romantic Notions of Enlightened Despots bringing justice to an injust world. She once again let her actions speak for her. Worringly her actions became increasingly blunt, as she'd often summarily execute those she found guilty of opressing others.

The Reaper War
After being held for trial in what was essentially a political decision, Shepard became distrustful of the current galactic authorities and their ability to fight the coming threat. Citizens of the council races saw her as a great soldier. However during the war, the downtrodden races of the galaxy like the krogan, geth and quarians began to speak of her in messianic terms. After saving the council for a second time, she accepted the Shadow Broker's gift, knowing it would pass her messianic story down through the ages. Shepard believed her choices to be above reproach, her morals incorruptable and herself to be infallible.She was invincible having survived even death.

Upon victory, the galaxy would proclaim her the hero and give her absolute dominion over their political. She only had to ask the people for a mandate. And ask she would, for she no longer won great battles for the lawyers of the council. She longed for the power to fix the great injustices in the galaxy and begin the monumental rebuilding. It was time to rebuild the galaxy in the image of her morals.

So it was the the final choice and it hardly mattered, would she simply destroy the enemy at the cost of her geth allies? Create peace through creating a new form of life? Or would she abandon what she'd come to see as a degenerate civilization and let the reapers win? No, all those were incongruous with mission, She'd sworn to save the galaxy from the reapers and she was infallable after all.

And the Catalyst offered something not in conflict with her previous choices. He offered her what she would have received another way had their been victory. There were no downsides to taking absolute power for all eternity, it was just on a slightly larger mandate than she would have received from the people of the galaxy. Her incorruptable morals would of course escape the taint of even absolute power unlike all those weak-minded that had tried before her. Thus she chose to control the Reapers.


-End

There you are Bioware, a portrait of a 'hero' as empty, nihilistic and unfulfilling as the choices in your ending. I don't want more time to say goodbye to her, I want to quickly say good riddance to this narcisistic, megalomanical self-appointed Messiah.

Mercifully this is the end of her story and the end of the her universe.  With heroes like this, who needs villains?