Aller au contenu

How would death change a person? Developing Shepard post ME1.


  • Veuillez vous connecter pour répondre
8 réponses à ce sujet

#1
Guest_simfamUP_*

Guest_simfamUP_*
  • Guests
It's more ME2 related than 3, but it's still Shepard related.

I love roleplaying in this series, and though 3 significantly handicaps my ability to do so, 1 and 2 are still rather open. The process of creating a character is simple: I think of a personality, a few traits unique to the character and perhaps some dogma he's bound to, or something simple I could develop later on, for example, a hatred for aliens.

However, ME2 brings about character death, and I wonder. How would it change my character? How does a paragon go to a renegade? I can do so in ME3, it's simpler, the odds are on you, you're stressed, defeat seems inevitable... yet ME2? Things build up, you progress, there are no two steps forward and one step back on every turn.

So how does a Shepard develop? I'd like to know for my next playthrough. I enjoy making characters as deep as possible, so I avoid going full paragon or renegade in any playthrough. Still, the character in question is still a W.I.P, so any placeholder or example you can give would be appreciated.

Would Shepard become more reckless? More careful? More dangerous or angry? Will he question his existence? Will he turn to a higher power? Who knows? Certainly not me xD

Modifié par simfamSP, 06 octobre 2013 - 08:20 .


#2
AlexMBrennan

AlexMBrennan
  • Members
  • 7 002 messages

Will he turn to a higher power

Ah yes, good old-fashioned (post-)deathbed conversion because there's no such thing as too clichéd.

On a more serious note, that depends on your Shepard - rational people who know about the problems with arguments from personal experience and hypothesis suggested by the data (aka Texas sharpshooter fallacy) would be a lot less likely to start believing in fairy tales than others.

The answer also depends on what you think death actually means - brain death? Irreversible brain death? Something less based in reality like souls?

Only you know about your character, so only you will be able to answer those questions.

#3
thehomeworld

thehomeworld
  • Members
  • 1 562 messages
I would say trauma would be first when shep wakes up not only the fact he's alive but also the fact he was reanimated by a man with unknown technology then being made to save people.

I would also say rejection, hurt, loss, betrayal, abandonment, and so many more negative emotions he would be battling with the fact his friends left him, his love left him because keep in mind to him it wasn't but yesterday he had these people, loved this person, got drinks with this crewmate, shared a joke with this person and he wakes up and its all gone, hes working for Cerberus who could be a possible enemy in his eyes or responsible for one of the worst moments of his entire life before dying that is, to him he got knocked out woke up and nothing was the same not even himself.

The upgrades...what upgrades did he notice? What did they do to him a normal non brick shep would want to know demand to know how much of him is human too many issues he didn't elect to have his body tampered with. There would be feelings of violation maybe even feelings that his body isn't even his like his mind is trapped in someone else's skin there could be some real mental issues here.

Him having to grapple with the physical change, the new pressures of saving people, and the issue of returning friends I'd imagine if you changed so drastically you'd feel weird around your former friends as time has not only past in such a gap for them you're living two years behind every one else. Just imagine trying to talk to that someone saying, " Hey remember that time..." and they go, " Yeah that was two years ago." socially its a constant readjustment, psychologically, and physically.

Notice the new tech that came into the world in two years? New gun types with bullets you have to relearn this, shopping isn't the same, maybe money isn't, maybe transport isn't, they had new security at the citadel really lots of things to bring on the culture shock.

His temperment could also change a para might go ren or a ren might go para having such a thing occur.

Phantom pains, nightmares, and possible night terrors could also result after all shep died in space and Tim thought it would be a joke to have that huge skylight looking into it that has got to do some terrible things to his mental state constantly being reminded of where he died.

I'd also imagine it would take shep's ego and bravado down you know the old saying of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger but then what happens if it does kill you? Shep could feel weaker, not so capable, or he could go and over compensate by fighting more, being more out of control and Jack like it would depend on the character pre-death.

Not to mention he now has to fight the guys who killed him that's gotta not help his mental recovery either.

Modifié par thehomeworld, 07 octobre 2013 - 06:00 .


#4
wright1978

wright1978
  • Members
  • 8 116 messages
My Shep returns from death with a newfound appreciation of life & a determination to hang on to it and make the most out of it. The scales fell from his eyes and saw the world through a less naive manner too & it further convinced there is no higher power.

#5
Kataphrut94

Kataphrut94
  • Members
  • 2 136 messages
The good thing about that is that you can make your Shepard an entirely new person, physically and emotionally, and just assume that something went wrong with Project Lazarus. I mean, it was developed by a guy who thought it would be a smart idea to blow up the first ever cure for death with mechs, so they clearly weren't running a smooth operation.

If you're thinking specifically in terms of going Paragon to Renegade, that isn't that hard. It's easy to assume the trauma of death combined with the abandonment of several friends and the change of environment from spick-and-span military officer to shady dealings with mercenaries and criminals would harden him up. It's harder to imagine how a Shepard who was Renegade in ME1 would become Paragon in ME2; maybe he saw hell and realised he'd be headed there if he didn't tidy up his act.

#6
Guest_StreetMagic_*

Guest_StreetMagic_*
  • Guests
I think some of the cheeky lines Shepard has in a Jack romance describes how I'd take it..

"Are you nuts?"

"I'm also technically undead. So do your worst." /smirk


He doesn't sound like he dwells on it much. Pretty sure he devotes more time to killing other people. Not thinking about his own death.

Modifié par StreetMagic, 07 octobre 2013 - 01:33 .


#7
Guest_simfamUP_*

Guest_simfamUP_*
  • Guests
Thanks for the replies :-)

Taking notes down xD (I take my RP seriously lol)

#8
Dio Demon

Dio Demon
  • Members
  • 5 495 messages
From paragon to renegade I would say after the Virmire fiasco Shepard becomes more determined to stop the Reapers at all cost and the Council's inaction forces him/her to go the Cerberus route. Also Shepard becomes more guarded and hostile to anyone who gets close to him/her.

#9
Kenshen

Kenshen
  • Members
  • 2 107 messages
Back in July as I was being rushed to the hospital I was sure I was going to die. Now I didn't, not even for a little bit of time but I know when I woke up after surgery I viewed the world and my life in a different light. At first I was very happy and thankful but after just a few days I started to be more angry and resentful.

After going through all of that I don't fully agree with how Shep acts after being woke up but then again no one was trying to kill me and my surgery wasn't done by an evil terrorist group I have fought in the past. Shep doesn't seem to dwell on the death thing at all when it was the only thing I could think about for days after my accident. I suppose each of us would deal with it differently.