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[EpicBoot2daFace]

First, some background on my Shepard and how I role play the Commander. I try to give Shepard some much needed character progression since it's really lacking throughout all three games. To do this, I use a lot of head canon and try to give my Shepard motives for doing whatever it is he's doing.

My Shepard starts out as a pretty good guy. He doesn't hurt people on purpose and he tries to help when he can. He was born on Earth and won a medal defending Elysium. So, he's not a bad guy by any means. However, duriving the events of ME1 and the Council's refusal to help Shepard get to Ilos, he sort of does a 180 and realizes that he was a fool to trust the Council and that Ashley was right all along. The Council pays with their lives for this betrayal. From that point on he believes he is the only one who can actually stop the Reapers and will do anything to stop them from returning.

In ME2, things get even darker. He dies and is then brought back to life two years later. Working with Cerberus and TIM (a man he would have despised at the beginning of ME1 but has now come to admire) he feels he is now free to do whatever he wants. With unlimited funding and power from TIM, the rest of Cerberus backing him up, and the Alliance being just a memory, Shepard believes he has everything he needs to stop the Reaper threat and puruse other goals.

But he is betrayed by Cerberus at the end of ME2. Seeing history repeat itself once again (he believes the Council betrayed him in ME1) he is forced to be on his own again and refuses to trust anyone. He gets scooped up by the Alliance again after the Reapers attack Earth. He's more determined than ever to be rid of them (and Cerberus for their betrayal) by any means necessary.

This includes betraying Wrex, his friend, and the rest of the Krogan people to gain Salarian aid to help build the Crucible. He betrays Tali and the Quarian people in favor of those who were once his enemy, the Geth. He betrays Samara and kills her last daughter. He betrays and kills Mordin Solus. He gets his revenge and finally kills TIM. He betrays EDI and the Geth by using the Crucible to destroy all synthetics.

But in the end, he stops the Reapers and saves the galaxy.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 Paragon --> Paragon --> Renegade. Shepard cautiously accepts the role as a Spectre to go out and do some good.

He maintains that role after "Spectrehood," but comes recognize over time that executive action is must to do that good.

He's not an Anderson type. I think the best in-game comparison for my Shepard as a leader is Primarch Victus.

[Steelcan]

He becomes much more pragmatic and pro-human as the series goes.

[mumba]

Badass > Badass > Stupid mongoloid with a gun

Renegade in general, tbh.

[Mr.House]

Paragade throughout the whole series, though she does become more ruthless and less forgiving as the series goes.

[Cainhurst Crow]

I played a paragade who stuck to what he believed in and worked hard to be a selfless freak as much as possible. Within the stories, there were high points, and low points, but he always managed to pull himself back up and figure out what to do in the end.

Modifié par Darth Brotarian, 11 mai 2013 - 09:12 .

[Yougotcarved1]

Yeah definitely did a lot of headcanon character progression. My Shepard started out as a Paragon, standup selfless guy in ME and ME2 but by the time of ME3 he's beginning to mentally break down by the pressure constantly put upon him. He becomes much more Renegade after being confronted with the horrors of the full scale Reaper invasion and sees what its gonna take to win the war.

[GHNR]

For ME to ME2, my Shepard was a really huge dickwad to everyone but his closest friends. He was a sacrificing soldier, who generally did whatever it took to complete the mission. He may regret it, but he knows his duty.

However, in ME3, I sort of made him a nicer guy all around, though still keeping the classic Renegon charm. He would try to look for alternatives to putting his friends and men, would only do so if there were no other way, and was generally more sensitive all-around, due to Tali, and seeing how close he was becoming like the Illusive Man.

[-TC1989-]

My Shep was a renegade throughout the entire trilogy, but I also felt his perception of being a renegade changed through the series. I felt like in ME1, he was just a brash/aggressive young soldier, eager to fight the unknown threat; never really knowing exactly what he was up against, but was very loyal to the Alliance.

In ME2, he was kind of broken, and bitter about what happened to the Normandy, and his crew. He also felt like the Alliance left him to die, even though they simply didn't have the resources to do anything about him (or that is what I assumed to believe). He never trusted Cerberus, but he was more than willing to lend aid if it meant getting the colonists back from The Collectors. He also continued to be disgusted with the Council, and the Alliance for never listening to him, and never helping to take the fight to The Collectors.

In ME3, my Shepard was pretty much done listening to really anyone. He wanted to kill the Reapers at whatever cost. He kept his friends close, but I never felt like my Shep was doing it for the Alliance. He wasn't interested in being the galaxy's big hero, nor being an inspiration to all species. He was simply doing it to survive, and keeping humanity alive.

[Fixers0]

Shepard doesn't change.

[Hadeedak]

My Shepard started as a cold woman who shut down interaction and pretty much only had time for her job -- being a Spectre, protecting the civilians. She didn't chat much.

In ME2, she was cut adrift, and forced to cling to others to cope. She started being more friendly to her crew, though she was still a brusque, competent woman without too much time or patience for people messing around. Also, really, really didn't like Cerberus for sole survivor reasons.

In ME3, she was back to being the perfect Spectre as best I could, but a bit warmer to the people she depended on.

It was fun!

[EpicBoot2daFace]

Cthulhu42 wrote...

Of course he does; his clothes would get awfully smelly if he didn't.

*ba-dum tish*

I see what you did there.

Modifié par EpicBoot2daFace, 11 mai 2013 - 10:09 .

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Let's see.......

Colonist/Ruthless ......
* Let's Wrex shoot Fist
* takes bribe from Helena Blake
* Hates Sparatus, talks nice to Tevos and Velarn.
* Likes Garrus, Ash, Tali, and of course Liara, sees Wrex as a bit of a loose cannon.
* Kills the Batarian at the mention of "slave grab"
* plays mumbly peg with Balak then turns him over to the Alliance.
* Lets the queen live, shoots Wrex, let's council live.
* "sounds like Vido has to die" -- what does she know about putting out refinery fires?
* "You're working too hard"
* defenestration
* kicks Conrad in the quad
* let's the Biotic God toss Wasea about like a rag doll
* forces Jack to shoot Aresh
* Garrus shoots Sidonis
* beats the living crap out of Elias Kelham & shoots Joram Kalid
* makes Miranda reunite with her sister
* destroys genophage cure and Mordin kills Maelon (Wreav now in charge)
* destroys Heretic base
* Thane dies on SM
* helped Liara (romanced through all three) on LotSB, and shot the hostage.
* shot Ashley
* fakes genophage cure. Mordin survives.
* sides with Quarians
* chooses Destroy.
* Survived

No. Didn't change that much. She killed a lot of people, but they were all bad.

Modifié par sH0tgUn jUliA, 11 mai 2013 - 10:24 .

[MegaSovereign]

My canon seemed to become increasingly more focused on ending the Reaper threat permanently. A paragon shell with a renegade core.

[Exile Isan]

Hmm, this is a little hard to explain,  but I'll try.

Prior to meeting Garrus and Tali my Shepard (Sara) didn't have any real friends and kept everyone at an arms length fear of being hurt again like she was when everyone she loved was killed on Mindior. Tali and Garrus cracked her shell so to speak, she opened up to them they became her friends and in Garrus' case even her lover. The others were her friends too of course, but Tali and Garrus were the closest.

After her death in ME2 and after walking through the Normandy's crash site she is finally able to put Mindior and Torfan behind her, and start on a new future. Realizing that she died once and these people had no idea how much she cared about them and she could die again with the same thing happening. So she tells Garrus how she feels about him (something she debated whether to do or not for a long long time), let's Tali know that she is like a sister to Shepard*.

In short I guess Sara became a little softer around the edges and to the people she cares about. She's still a snot to people who annoy her or waste her time and is completely ruthless in battle, though. She does have problems with her anger too though, especially when people try to kill the ones she cares about, like when the Admiralty board is using Tali to further there own goals, when Tarack shot Garrus with that rocket, when Han'Garrell fires on the dreadnaught, etc. Were all moments that I would not want to be in her path.

*There's a line in Tali's loyalty mission when Raan thanks you for representing one of their people. You have three option with which to respond: Don't got to war, Prepare for war, and a third line in the upper right hand that says "She's with me." I always choose the "She's with me." line, because Shepard says the following: "With all due respect Admirals I didn't represent one of your people. I represented one of mine."

Modifié par Exile Isan, 11 mai 2013 - 10:46 .

[MegaSovereign]

Cthulhu42 wrote...

Your Shepard sounds like a good woman.

Edit: That was directed at Julia.

My Shepard was a woman on his down time.

He's a complex character.

[ThinkSharp]

Shep is probably the one who didn't change that drastically, which is somewhat unique for me. The Warden as I played her, for instance, did a near complete reversal in DAO.

I don't know what it is about Shep, but a steady, unrelenting force against the odds seemed to be the most fitting personality.

[GreyLycanTrope]

Depends on the Shep, my canon is largely unchanged as time goes on, except she grow to start trusting the Geth along the way where she was initially distrustful of synthetics. She's much also less trusting of politicians than she was to begin with. The rest change quite a bit particularly my paragade and renegon.

[ThinkSharp]

Greylycantrope wrote...

Depends on the Shep, my canon is largely unchanged as time goes on, except she grow to start trusting the Geth along the way where she was initially distrustful of synthetics. She's much also less trusting of politicians than she was to begin with. The rest change quite a bit particularly my paragade and renegon.

Personally, I find that when I play someone balancing on the moral borderline, they tend to change more often than those who  start out as either a pure boy scout or complete badass. I don't know about you, but I also love them all the more for that.

Modifié par ThinkSharp, 11 mai 2013 - 11:17 .

[Minttymint]

She sort of does I guess... ME1 she was a Paragon who didn't have any time for romance, she rejected Kaidan and Liara because she believed it would get in the way of her job then ME2 rolled around and death slapped her in the face. It made her realize life is too short and she didn't want to spend hers alone. This was when she started turning more Paragade -yet still firmly on the paragon end of the spectrum though and her relationship with Garrus started. ME3 time and she was a full blown Paragade, fed up of taking everyone's sh!t and ready to destroy the reapers with Garrus at her side.

[BronzTrooper]

My Renegade Sheps see the Geth as enemies that need to be destroyed in ME1.

In ME2, they see the Geth as enemies who are all the same, regardless of their faction.

ME3, they slowly start to think that the Geth are misunderstood. The fully realize this after hitting the Geth server.

[Hazegurl]

ME1: Paragade. My Earthborn/Ruthless Shep was simply a guy who didn't take crap from anyone but overall he was a good guy.

ME2: He became increasingly a renegade. He hated working for Cerberus but he had enough of the Alliance's crap, he sort feels betrayed by them for simply assuming he is their enemy and for not getting him away from Cerberus and giving him what he needed to stop the Collectors.

ME3: Renevil Shep didn't care about anyone but Kaidan and killing the Reapers for good. Could have had a breakdown with those stupid dreams somewhere along the lines. Bitter that no one took his warnings seriously before it was too late and now he's stuck pulling everyone's butts out of the fire while they play politics.